Deseret Evening News | 1900-06-16 | Page 30 | Austin, Texas, Conference

Austin Texas Sn San Sala Co CoTo CoTo To the Editor EItor I traveling In the central am part of Tn Texas In the Austin TexI Texas confer enC cue This on the banks of the BI river and amid runs across the State SIte wet west comprising a strip of le country four counties In width Ten ago 0 this was O the cattle belt of Texas where the Ion long I horne horned Texas steers rame roamed In fr free freedom dom on the plains But the country ha his bien strong with wire fences Il its pea pas pasture ture tune destroyed and now you ou le see In instead stead of waving prairies and fat cattle cotton fields where hundreds of woo wo women men and girls are toiling In the torrid sun lun Th The runs young TUA Texas cowboy has hal laid ule aside his hll lal lasso for the ho ho Te The people nrc al 5 a rule ioor Thre Three fourth ot of them at are renters the lM being mostly held 1 by main Who ho lve live In I the he eU The ha his been an unusual amount ot of ofrain rin rain In part rr year amI high highwater water is II the mitch suffering Cr Crops are very por poor and mt moat or of the wheat II In rine ruined In en account of the rains the work of t the hI Lord Ird I is progressing Vr very In this Ihl pert ot of tt the IJ land Th the Elders ar are wel well treated although they t meet Im som Te The NI News I is ever ver I a wom vil tor with u us It Is II dolf doing much good In inthe tb the mission Ion fields Idl g W We have just It hd had the ot of persons One sIster la has 1 been a cripple for tor Ime some time and JOW now testifies that she hl is III tul fully restored which cu r Your u us brother to rejoice HENRY D HOLT