Show K now Utah Uta h t 1 By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS 0 I IThe t The Journal of or the Bennion family has Just been Issued the tho old document having baying been rewritten by Harden of ot the state board of at agriculture He cites the fact that In October 1864 carrying out the well known doctrine of ot support sell and home in industry th- th so earnestly and consistently put forth by President Pres- Pres id dent ident nt Brigham young Youn John Bennion amon among others wa was called to go into Utah's Dixie land and engage in n the raising of cotton But the call provided that iu u lieu of going himself he might outfit and send a substitute which alternative e he chose sc sending William William Wil Wil- liam haiTi Jones The expedition located on the Virgin river In Washington count county but after a year cal or 01 two of expensive xi experimentation was found to be c and was as aba abandoned S r S Taking n It retrospective e view on January 1865 Mr writes The past year has been a time of prosperity with the Latter day Saints in these val- val lej's cys Crops on the whole have lave been better than any season eason since the Ule family settled the country The Increase of population in this tills and neighboring and the words wor of inspired men have awakened the farmers to a sense of oC duty duh to take care of ot the grain and lay It up In store that Israel may lave have bread when famine Is wasting tho the Gentile na- na lons Some few not of oC our faith are arc already casing casting cast cast- lug ing ng their lot among us for or peace sako sake and many more nore are arc tired of at war and trouble in the states S S C In lii 1868 according to the Journal journ I John BennIon received a 8 missionary call caU to go again to Dixie for forthe forthe the he purpose of oC aiding In the strengthening of oC the Muddy luddy settlements then located In ill the county of Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln COin Nev Nw He left on November 11 with his family and for five years ears he lie gave best years jears of oC his life to elo de develop the countr country At the end of oc five years he was released and returned to the family home in the Jordan district S S C CIt It was a move of or great responsibility as they left eft hc Jordan h home me at the beginning of winter inter and the thc he Journey was one of five hundred miles and he had never ne before handled a a. horse four team It was wasa as asa a satisfaction to know that that part of oC his family remaining at home having practiced ll industrious and like business habits would get along well ell providing prodding they hey retained healt health Mr then details the trip and refers to tobe be country traversed by saying Juab Iron and Millard might extend In wool wooi growing and make it ita ita a source of at wealth the mountains on the thc east and he the desert on the west being very Inviting to this busin business In Piute county he says all the stocka stock stocka a man wants Is Is' what he hc can tie tic up and feed In a table He was infatuated with St. St George and says it It qt i. i Is a nice city to be built up b by the country around and nd with means from the north C C CLong C'S S Long alley valley was the second h home of the thc ex dl tion Ion and it was settled specially for h herding purposes He le estimated that in clearing the land putting II In crops and gardens and vineyards and fruit trees building fences and a public corral the cost would b bd about bout I r I could see no way of people sustaining themselves than by extensive e fruit truit growing and marketing mar mar- keUng on the thc Mudd Muddy and at the mines Whoever un un- un this would need an income of per pr r year for or a family of oC six It would be bc a life of exile among the he Flutes |