Show wellsville j the journal man takes in and tells aleut about Ca caches loties first tow wellsville Wells viila was the first settlement in cache county in the utter latter pirt part of the fifties and like all lother I 1 other new places wellsville was I 1 I 1 only a fort when I 1 first saw the place in 1865 it WAS i in n A ity city for form but in its swaddling straddling clothes was I 1 glad to come to this tox ton n well if you had bad been tielve days it in end coming ning through two feet from aalt alt lake city a and nd two days in get getting tinn I 1 through the mountains w with ith snow in in dry lake valley up 1 to the arm pits and nearly neaily froen to death hating haing lust had a seven save n I 1 months trip from england to zion as a preface to this journey you wo would uld no doubt have been as well jell pleased as I 1 was to react reach wellsville and sit by a great fire on the he hearth arthas as it crackled and roared up the chimney my gracious what nhat music t there here was in it then their the warm warin supper furnished by brother an and al sister littlewood Little nood made us forget all our sorrows and wellsville with its low log cabins with six and nine light win window dovic appeared a city of palaces cut but that wellsville is gone and alad many of its pioneers have gone eone also but only just over the beautiful river the bishop wm II 11 1 maughan still remains and the new wellsville shows the necessity ofalloN of allowing sing a man mail to finish his nork as a leader and city builder the town is full of beautiful lu H homes substantial out buildings fd farms lin laige ge and glorious farms all out doors in fact I 1 which ever way you look outside of the city it is one fine cultivated fields thrift is seen everywhere aery where the hurch church is a commodious building nicely painted and most of th the is frame residences hav hai e been newly painted making everything look 1 fh and neat the public square e has a substantial picket fence the school houses are lery good and the furnishings in modern eg the grammar giammar school taught by prof E R owen has 75 15 pupils and the course of stu study d y it here ere is collegiate I 1 mr owen has the name throughout the county of being a first class teacher and his visiting roll c chows a that quite a lai ge number of teachers come to see this model school th e re were other schools i in a session session but I 1 did not have time to visit them wellsville proper has but few orchards the condition of the dry dead quicksand quick sand beneath the su bunace face is death to the trees many any of the outside lots have quite a number of trees especially near the canyon I 1 mr ilir garrett the itte enter bu butcher teber has haq one of the anest Circh orchards ards in the county I 1 am ol of the opinion that all may 1 gro grow good fruit heie bete if the they y placed I 1 a fl flat t rock at the bottom of the hole I 1 nhen he n planting to arnt the tap root from going down into this lifeless quicksand and hard dead clay in th the e last ten years vears no toi tonn n in this county has taken such strides in in mental and coial culture culqui e as has as wellsville Wels ville good schools the young peoples oi 01 aud and sanda sunday v schools all hav edone much ito to bung bring about this grand change the progress resi manifest ever everywhere jhc shows ws the master hand of an intelli intelligent gert leader in former days the staple trade of wellsville Well sille was freighting most of the young men were nvere constantly on the road between hero here and montana and the real road and mining campas far as dollars were concerned were no doubt profitable but as to how far such a life tended to mental and modal culture everyone must form his own opinion I 1 hae baie mine and it is nut not now dow nor e ever arbas has been in favor of the road tae tie or mining camp mr hanon hanion has a fine cheese factory but I 1 was wag a few moments late in seeing him or I 1 would have given the amount and lind kind of work done heie bete but I 1 mchall lea leave e this to be continued in our next Well wellsville sille needs a new co coop 0 op P store building bui luing and badly too the present cresent structure is squatty the eling celins low and it roust must be nery ery unhealthy to labor therein thet ein tein c especially ally during the hot summer months the whole place it ib not in keeping with the balance of the tonn I 1 found nothing out of the way with their immense stock but every thing in the way the counters were ere piled up pell mell and an J order appeared to have gone out of town I 1 it would pay to keep one lady clerk to fold and replace tile the goods on the shelves and do nothing else but keep the place pi ace tidy the large business done will not gai ghe IS the afie present t I 1 resent force of clerks time to rea re arane a range the goods ab a they should be andio and to the stranger this apparent confusion looks bad the wellsville coop is is a great institution and its if manager joseph howe I 1 I 1 has made it IN what hat it is this institution 1 not only takes cash grain grai n etc but buys everything all the I 1 we way y from a sucking sticking pig to an elephant also hay bay and heaven alone knows what else eke while I 1 stood there the store was f full it 11 esch eich time besides their own people I 1 saw customers from menion mendon bollt college ge Sterl sterling and baxt baxter e r I 1 0 o no ile wonder coder they need an orderly as well at as a new building I 1 wellsville pen people ae own this h 13 6 tore etore and from the be best t inform information aaion I 1 have the stole stoie returns ment talking of 0 compliment a wellsville v merchant paid tue THE JOURNAL JOI the neatest one I 1 have heard for 6 some in time oh you are out for are you yes sir well let me teu tell you I 1 have parcels come from many places if in tire the state sand often in no unpacking pacing g I 1 find country papers but there then sk are Is none of them than equal THE JOUR journal NiL may alay 1895 C a 0 S |