Show Edit onil hot of a trip souta southward vard to the new derado cahim the city W 0 o T tt ti bright morning in the latter part or amny ma etli as lay eay a q im ty 1 I pie ir al 1 1 in abe pr par nit of lax or c we bade to old 1 cb 03 and fi friends lenIs for a lengthy flip through we he Snut kont licin settlements to the new mires i in meadow valley for some time erne prior to our departure tb the city lud had been beciri i ife fu inith of the exceeding richness of the southern country in a mineral cral point of view with a id sir 1 e t aseel tn abo facts in ill tile the c cise iso and I 1 present lo 10 the iio people of utah and clae abere v here hi ough li the columns of the accurate information of tile tho of the hie reports refer referred to and the extent ot the new nil mineral re giovas giosi a well as ab to v mt i it our southern vee elves appo t t thit eunity n y cour hunick noted to impart some of tile gleaned if not a tithe of the pleasure enjoyed dm duding ing our month s tour bour our arst evening ras by the unwonted 11 ell curn tance of a beavy biln m aich continued I 1 through the night and theat dav giving new life and vigor igor to the cio chop and most delightfully liying the dust alon along our ay we anny add here tint thit at time duricr llie tm iff onty only four hours we were favol col ar eacle 1 I ty for ten day m ith tit a thunder shower of greater L or less severity which at this season ear i a doniev somewhat bat unusual diction stance in utah these rains aie e found extended de d throughout phout the territory even down to the realms of dixie the fir famed campa cotton country our road was the main highway from the cecily city to cedar city c lly tron county pasing through the iho settlements thickly strewn iong along if I 1 at atan an average average tf of six s V miles I 1 apart IN we e can commend the roid as one of the best natural roads on the continent requa requiting ing but little labor on any t ot of it the settle ments south as far as cadir all nit seemed to be chri ing the he crops promising abend int hars bars lets ind and the genial rw raina rv invigorating the whole face of nature at i aery point whole nonn tain streams stream burst from the canons and flow thronie nIi the oth otherwise ernise P bh plains a town village or hamlet ia located and well directed industry extorts a chop 1 I 8 i I 1 irom cp ae thu arid earth without ia I 1 I 1 gation care t f i f fully fally directed and the wat e r wisely iely bathe ed alie ireat bi abtin in of utah is nought hut a desert yet the people by nid aid of r ous ais ld itches hale haie built up lip A at t short bort distances ing towns and erected comfortable I 1 lum beside each gibbing gu shinar stream these settlements all bear a stil striking king resemblance blance to each other find and were oi originally binally built as fol foiter ti surrounded b h ligh mud walls walli as ar pi ill election against indians 1 most of them have hofei however or colic p own their former narrow and extend over tho the rounding siu plain water being the ilic essen thil ingredient not alone in their prosperity but in ia their very very existence elisten eel I 1 the be mountain brieann bit are trained through di ditches telles or sees and course through e fali ell on thron through gli tile adjoining farming lots thase obese latter a re rounded mir by a e fence far ont into the plain and are arc held and AN worked to some extent tent in common each vach settler batin bat mg bi ahra 3 three forror four or six eix acres aar es i to wily nm fr for and improvement emen t the water is the common pro the a or of the greit great field and is ia distributed under tinder wic and well mell understood regulations at a little distance these settle nent present a chii chinning ining appearance trees of and m willow mow lining the streets street ond and casting a delightful shade over cottage u und ad I 1 garden arden we navan miya wen troll siy here abit the crops au all ho way v y to dixie present the most favorable appearance appear anco ancl and the girvest this year gilds fair to exceed that of any former period the high prise or of heat during tile the past year immediate demand for it at home and in the adjacent Hos seem tI jave induced the people to ww laidely of ON acci cal and they all H no reap a I 1 rich ell award ijjas been null aad whilo much more land las baa beva been culli bauld at f T at the v 3 beia I 1 to thecie thu juacile cie wot bink will be larger than iver ever before we wei info nned th thit it in in st george orge and washingto 11 glon i n tit tho extreme settlements settlement whither list last veir ve yc ir flour and in ft heat beat had bad to tic ile cat cairies I 1 led fi aiom om the tho north for forborne home ft m ints wheat iq i being i ii ed not only for their oin own n consumption but lit I 1 so somi me 01 on en for transfer to tin not noi ill hi atton may wheat domn there is t regarded legar regarded ded as it at least his primo minister and a 1 little of that staple is a pretty good thins thing to 11 awe v onlin a while in ili a i wo moa d no n 0 were rejo rejoiced ced to fin ind d the anthe ent people south in 0 so o prosperous perow a condition ng r regards L ards the he appi 0 telling harvest for rive five deais ill the daimer has unable to obtain for his hh wheat and produce but little more than the actual cost of raisins it and birely sufficient to support himself and large family in ill the mot minner rn inner tins this acar cir tho the gilces cfall of all kinds of produce wheat 1 hirley ir oits oats corn butter cheese etc havo have inci ea eased ej conr folmand bold id there iq ii sonic somo incentive to labor and industry E every ery firmer ind and evidences q in his own condition that utah has hag advanced adv meed aneed mith iiii inrid ill ti ides duding Iiii ing the past twelve months and the individual il condition cond itron of every inhabitant h his i been materially wonderfully improved ks As each family idies uses to independence ina in a worldly point of liew from want above othe the pinching 3 of abject poverty with prolific fic fields fieldi abundant harvest and inci incie cabins alne mir lets the commonwealth itself iteld bises in importance in independence co in fi fic edom and her ber people as a whole will stand lip the world in all the dignity of true manhood what constitutes a sat not high nied battlement nor guarded tiar ded mound thick wall or gate no i men high r minded men who know their ahta I 1 1 bic and know mg dare maintain p n S 11 I 1 abe fhe Const itale a state inn ina goneril in ali bidual pro property q penty we ree rec donizo the advancement of the m hole community and we kiy add that hat no community abo ahne c individual membris are prosperous and I 1 abobo want can long fail fiill to become moie glistened glit ened more free freehand and lesi abject to any Iz of ofa slavery lavery political poli lical or otherwise we m artill ill not p giue ime hero here to ex eximina the auses c of this chango change rn in trie the apparent condition condit fon of the le real people of utah nor contract their pi bent with thit of foi mer s alere j is sufficient intelligence abom among them w we know losee 0 sec think and appreciate te events dul daily around us and in our ofir midst ari are so 0 o palpable pil pable that I 1 he be 1 who ho runs may i lead ead and the wayfaring min man though thoi igli a fool understand i we hav bai a exit mated our space tod to d daiy diy ay and must defer to a future number a of out notes |