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Show HYRUM NOTES. (From our regular correspondent.) CAME HOME TO DIE. John Christensen, a single man, aged thirty-three years, came home about two weeks ago from Portneuf canyon, where he had been at work on the Oregon Short Line. He was brought home by Robert H. Bradshaw. He was sick, continued to grow worse and died at 11 a. m. Thursday, May 25, and was buried on Saturday last. John Christensen came to Utah when a young man, and was very industrious and frugal. His first thoughts and labors were for the gathering of his stepfather, mother and four children. This he accomplished. He had several hundred dollars besides some real estate, which will now become the property of his mother. R. R. TALK. It is reported here upon very good authority, that within one week the U. & W. R. R. engineers will cross section the road in Blacksmith Fork canyon, and will be prepared to let contracts. How much truth there is in this report I cannot say. Should the road come, they must bring laborers along too, as there are but few in these parts. RAIN NEEDED. Unless there is more rain soon a large amount of grain will never come up. Our grangers have been plowing and sowing since spring opened, and if the rain don't come they may keep on plowing. The pluck of the Utah farmer knows no bounds, and he deserves to be rewarded. Eastern grangers would have given it up as a bad job, had they been in Utah this spring. But our farmers keep a pitching in, and will have good crops. The all important question is: Do you think we shall have rain? Many study the phases of the moon. With the exception of a ring now and then the queen of night gives but little consolation to the disciples of Sir Isaac Newton. "But then we shall have a good rain at the full of the moon, eh, John?" "Yes, I dare say?" TOURISTS AND VISITORS. In last week's Salt Lake Herald, the editor, with his usual generosity, asked the tourist and visitor to extend their visits further than Salt Lake and Ogden. He recommends them to see Cache Valley before leaving Utah. Now, Mr. Leader, let your mighty pen picture the beauties of Logan and its surroundings, but don't fall into the same error that others have done, viz. supposing that Logan is Cache county. There are more than twenty towns and villages in our fertile valley, any one of which [unreadable] pay for their time and money expended in visiting them. Yes, by all means let the visitors come and see Cache valley, that, twenty-six years ago, was the home of the red man. Come and see the labors of a quarter of a century. Those who have grown up with the country hardly realize what they have accomplished. Perhaps in telling the stranger that these cities and towns farms, canyon roads and miles of canals have been made in this short space of time, he may see that there has been a power other than mortal man; and will be led to give praise to Him who has been our friend and is keeping His promises, viz: "I will make thee an external excellency and a glory in all the earth." Should the visitors take the Herald's advice our folks in the country must make preparation to receive them. At present there is but little hotel accommodation in our country towns. Logan has good hotel accommodation, and we must also be ready or how shall we say, "you were strangers and we took you in?" C. C. S. |