| Show I 1 from prom the tho mormon from our correspondent at washington washington feby to the editor of oatlie the mor Mormon morn dear sir I 1 take advantage ot of lue tiie llie present opportunity of 0 dropping youra line before belore the itsue of your first number as I 1 learnt it is soon to be oum out with a lew few items hems from the tle capital and shall continue to forward such news from time to tini e as I 1 shall dt deem tn of interest for your disposal and if value to keep our friends post d ap nf dorng in the capital through the columns ot til atie e bl mormon ormon there is is quite an amount of important busi ness now belore congress in which the country at lare iare is interested with which they get aling very slowly although ali all hough there were many hlll hill s passed 1 I both hoti hotl houdes houses es previous to my arrival in this city 0 which I 1 have not yet had time lime to gather up the llie details but will fo rivard forward you a liht lint at the earliest opportunity some time last week a bill passi fassl pas sl the house providing for tor the llie establish establishment ment of a surveyor Gene ralle office in the territory of utah the bill gave two townships lAwns hips hipa efland of land for a university and every sixteenth and thirty sixth sention section for purposes the bill iii in its ot dil pinal form proposed to donate lne one ine quarter section of c land to actual settlers in the territory during the discussion munh excitement pre yail d and although many members expressed their willingness willin eness that utah should enjoy all the privileges lages of other territories there were yet many who manifested the bit bil bitterest terest lerest feelings towards the mormons cormons Mor mons the bill was su so amended as to strikeout strike out the section donating lands to actual settlers and in this shape was sent to the senate congress can laws donating lands t to 0 ett settlers sett etl lers in oregon and new mexico but those a f utah utan are refused and yet yel the settlement set sel lement of utah was attended by far more hardships labor privations sufferings erines and dancer danler than either of them the tiie difficulties to be surmounted in planting settlements there and in bringing a naturally dry aid bid add and barren soil into cultivation were greater than ever attended lle ile the lie settlement ct any il territory errit ory of the union the beauty of the farm and end the is of the soil cf of fair which is the admiration of every travel er and a them thema for the tiie pe pen n of every it idler ater writer fro from T those secluded valleys are the result resale 4 of the intelligence skill shill and industry of the mor mier mons that coi cwi comery begore before gore fore the went there was but little removed froin I 1 roin a desert a as s is now the case in valleys where there loiero are no settlements ett lemens the soil naturally hard and dry seldom or never ri ining riming but bilt a lew showers in the spring and fall seasons is made productive canals or fir ditches constructed to convey the water that flows down from the lofty wasatch range upon it during the irrig irrigating aling season and I 1 will venture to say had not the mormons cormons settled that country it would have remained a bar |
