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Show TEMPLE AND TftBLRNftGLE,. j The Canadian colonizing is to be stopped. The church entered into a I contract to complete a certain amount of work on a mammoth canal in Alberta, Al-berta, receiving land in return, and with the last call made for 250 men to settle there, the work can be finished. President Snow says there is plenty of room at home and is not in favor of an outpouring of Saints toother countries. President Snow says that no action will be taken in regard to the stories concerning the mobbing of missionaries, missiona-ries, until the officials were advised by the head of the southern missions that it was absolutely necessary. "The matter," he said, '-has been left entirely entire-ly in the hands of Ben E. Rich, president presi-dent of the southern states mission, and the latest advices received from him are of a very encouraging nature. Elder Rich states 'there is absolutely no truth in the statements published concerning rewards offered for the arrest ar-rest of the mobocrats.'" That there has been a phenomenal increase in the tithing rolls since the recent temple priesthood meeting and the prior and subsequent agitation of the doctrine of tithes throughout the state, was implied by President Snow in his remarks at Logan recently. He said that the receipts for July, 1S99, were $34,000 in advance of the same month for 1893. The annual tithing income for 1S98 is as follows: Cash, 8300,000; produce, S600,000; total, S900,-000. S900,-000. The estimated tithing income for 1899 is: Cash, $700,000; produce, SS00,-000; SS00,-000; total, 81,500,000. Increase for 1S99, $600,000. Ben E. Rich, president of the southern south-ern states mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with headquarters in Chattanooga, called on Governor Candler of Georgia, on the 7th inst., in regard to the recent mobbing mob-bing of Mormon elders in Jasper county. President Rich was closeted with the governor for some time, but did not ask for protection or an official investigation at present, contenting himself with explaining the mission of the Mormons in Georgia and giving the doctrine of the church, While talking the matter over with the governor, President Rich said that there was much feeling against the members and teachers of the Mormon church because the people did not understand the mission mis-sion of the elders and did not conceive of the great work that lay before them. Three years ago the Mormon churcn purchased three ranches in White River valley and one ranch in Steptoe valley, near Ely, Nevada, comprising in all about 4,000 acres of land capable of being be-ing irrigated, besides several thousands of acres of grazing land. When these ranches were purchased they supported perhaps a dozen white people and as many Indians, except in haying time, when the number was somewhat greater. At the present time there are three towns well started on these ranches with a total population of about 325 souls divided as follows: Lund, 150; Preston, 75 and Georgetown, 100. These people are all from Utah, where a few of them yet remain to close up their affairs before moving to their new homes. Though most of the people did not arrive till this spring, about fifteen gubstantial and comfortable houses have already been built at Lund and half as many at Preston, while the material is on the ground for several more. The first hay crop is already up and a good-sized stack stands near each house. Each settler has a good garden in which is to be found nearly every variety of vegetables known to this climate. Shade and fruit trees are being set out and it will be a matter of only a short time when these towns will be the most attractive in the county. At Lund a brick kiln will soon be started to burn SO, 000 brick for a large building to serve as a church, school and public hall, while at Preston Pres-ton foundations have been laid for a flour mill. At Georgetown conditions are similar simi-lar to those at Lund and Preston, and it likewise promises to become a prosperous pros-perous community. While the season is a little more backward, its nearness to Ely only two miles affords its people a better market and better opportunities op-portunities to secure work than those of its sister towns in White Kiver. The farms taken up by these settlers average from twenty-five to forty acres with water rights. The land is sold them at a low price, and they have five i years in which to pay for it. About 2,100 acres have been contracted for thus far, about half of the total which can be irrigated. The land is watered by never-failing springs, whose flow does not vary summer or winter. To the business ability of Bishop Thomas Judd, formerly of St. George, Utah, great credit is due for the success thus far attained. Elder Piatt D. Lyman, president of the European mission, last week cabled President Snow of the death of Elder Joseph Hogan, Jr., of South Bountiful, Davis county, who left on a mission mis-sion to the Netherlands on April 23, 1587. Elder Hogan was drowned in the river Ehine, but no particulars were given. Deceased was the son of Joseph Hogan, the well-known sod of Joseph Hogan. of South Bountiful, and was about 24 years of age. He was engaged en-gaged to be married on his return home to Miss Florence Melt wen of Salt Lake. At the conference of the Cache |