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Show measure took our coffins with us. The wliolo delegation came out in the spring fnt and hnppy, while three doctors hustled day and night to keep the death rate among the natives within a respectable limit. We wt !; go to St. George again for the v.ju r if we could. Springvillo Independent. WE LIKED IT. The St. George Union iR still offered for sale. Some enterprising enterpris-ing news-paper man, who is not afraid of the climate and the natives, nati-ves, should look over the field. Brother Gibson, of the Springville Independent, spent a winter in St. George. How did you like it, Gib? St. George is all right, Brother Howard, and th people are not to be feared. The appreciate a good thing and want a square deal. St. George would prove a good field for a professional newspaper j man. He would never lay up wealth down there, but then wealthy weal-thy country printers are not so numerous in Utah that a poor man need feel lonely among" them. One objection we had to St. George was the bad water. There are times when the drinking water there is both food and drink. St.-George St.-George City water has more kinds of wigglers per quart than a'barrel of Springville ditch water. The inhabitants in-habitants of Dixie make the water palatable by adulterating it with grape juice turned it into wine, Ro to speak. Dixie water when heated sufficiently to kill the wig-glers wig-glers becomes an elegant consomme. consom-me. We recall to mind vividly an experience our bicycle had with Dixie water one day. Wo hail gone over to Santa Clara for a little ride. Santa Clara is a Swiss-Dutch Swiss-Dutch settlement along the banks of a creek of the same nnme and has a population of about 250 tfhieh is industrious in the treading tread-ing of the wine-press, and in the partaking of the juice thereof. It is a nice wealthy little community, however. On this occasion we met an acquaintance who soon invited in-vited us over to his cellar to inspect in-spect a couple of barrels of turnips. While we wrero gone the bicycle imbibed freely of ditch water, and was soon in a frightful condition. We started home with it, but the machine shied at lava beds, brush fences and sand beds. We walked walk-ed home, and led the machine. It was a long six miles, and we never went to Santa Clara again. The winter climate of Dixie is fine for northerners. Last winter Tom Beesley of Provo, and ourself, together with a delegation of consumptives, con-sumptives, went to St. George to winter, and as a precautionary |
