Show SAN PETZ PETS COUNTY written up for tho the journal by edward stevenson EDITOR JOURNAL the roads are arc considerably muddy at this place and considerable hay is darn damaged aed A small rain just before our arr arrival 0 ival to day one pretty heavy rain yesterday and frequent chewers since july ath ath this appears to be a rainy belt as it is up in the mountains anything like rain storms in july and aug t is rather newsy in utah when there is not too much of it this morning when we nearly stuck in the mud in mt plesant we thought there was too much water in that place and BO there ewas was just one week ago edward clift had lie he believes nearly one half million loads of mud washed onto onta his lot from the mountains others aro are served similarly aalt at mt plesant Ilee ant the mud in many places is over two and a half feel feet derp deop and is now gettino getting crusted over so as to bear you up tip in in some places on the sidewalks aud and streets in trying 1 to I 1 be began bean an to fear at one time I 1 was going glinc to 0 the botton bottomless le pi pit but 1 I pulled out with rat rather er stick sticky y boots and I 1 went around tile block another way it is not so bad in mt plesant only in the course of the cloud burst considerable in injury ury has been becu done to aonie poor peoples lots and property indianola indianola is chiefly an indian settled settlement they hold 13 quarter sections of pat tented land and aro arc farming some one of the indians by the name of nephi lehi raised last year bushels of grain MO mostly atly wheat this year the indians will raise raise pretty good crops as there has ha bien been con considerable sid erable rai ra for water i is s scarce in this valley but there is abundance of hay raised sonic some potatoes and vegetables grown here the indians own several mowers and tools as well as wa wagons ons and teams and some of them work well especially in haying and harvest time bp peter peterson speaks encourage 0 angly of his little flock most of whom hom are church members they have a meeting house and hold sunday schools and meetings it is slow work to civilize them but it can be done with patience and care in mt plesant we gave an illustrated lecture the at being 19 about and only two present had ever seen the prophet josiph joseph smith they being C 11 II wheelock clock and myself i we made an appointment to hold one hero the next night a 2nd v when lien evening 0 came so did the people some coming a distance of four miles some of the indians talk and read english and many of them understand better than they can talk it was amusing to see them hold bold up their hands when a vote of thanks was tendered they saying paying they felt fell good to heir hear about the book of morcom the history of their fathers who crossed over the greit gre it waters GOO years before chri christ st in big boats the paintings 0 also interested them ver very much 1 I came here in c carriage arriage via utah jual juab and san pete couri counties ties 1 and held two meetings sunday at moroni and one in the evening at mt plesant the san pete K R R will complete their road to E ephriam by the 1st ast of sept and on to manti by oct then their will bo be to through lines from salt lake city to manti temple city crops arc rather light all the round trip so far EDWARD sox INDIANOLA san pete co utah |