Show MUSICAL TOUR G S L city aug sath 1855 IW MK MR EDITOR SIR with the at of pre president brigham young a concert band was w as organized early this month whose hose object was to visit the northern settlements at of this Terri too giving concerts of vocal ocal brassy bra aud and orchestral music in the various arious school houses bouses and bower ies les the company consisted of john K M jones leader leadir jonathan grimshaw clerk myron hirron brewer brew er treasurer chaplain and general phil ap p margetts henry Mar margetts getts gelts geo wardle wardie ft erdle irdle johua joshua midgley henry W bakir baker who joined us at Bing ginghams hams lorty forty fort and alfred B lamb gony sony son sun teamster and doorkeeper all but the teamster amiter te being members of the Is nauvoo brass briss band we started on the morning of monday the inot and staid for the night at sister Ba bakers kers kerE fort having made our business busness knorn known n as much as its possible on our way intending to perform on our return we had bad a recommendation from bishop hunter to the bishop bishops north of this city on tuesday the dinst we arrived at box elder and were kindly rec received elved and entertained by president Pre silent lorenzo snow and bishop pierce these gentlemen advised us to postpone our conceit until the next evening and they would ouid take steps that evening and the next text day to circulate the news new s accordingly on wednesday evening evering we had bad the school room pretty w m ell crowded and I 1 am happy to say the people were much interested with the performance and all expressed themselves as being highly gratified this remark applies equally to the whole of the concerts w e gave on the trip I 1 am sorry to say that just previous to our arrival at box eler eier the grasshoppers had made a terrible des descel celt t on the corn com and late crops and aud had done incalculable damage the wheat crop cro cup p was ail all cut and ana the people busy hauling it to their stacks some had suffered severely beverely not BO so much from the grasshoppers gras grat shoppers as from the extreme drouth while on some of the wet bottom lands the crops it d turned out first rate alering 45 bushels to the acres acrel acre A large band ol 01 0 indians from the neighborhood of fort hall under the pretence predence pre tence of gleaning are committing great depredations on the n heat still in the fields on Thurs thursday daf day the leth dinst we proceeded to willow creek where sister hubbard in the absence of the bishope bash p her husband did her best to make us comfortable and was wa very ery anxious we should stay and give a concert that evening three of the resident brethren therefore kindly formed themselves into a commIt committee teeg and went round to obtain subscribers 2 making arrangements for the concert to come eds off in the tha bo bowery dowery B ery err towards evening we me werd extremely gladdened ty the arrival of elder parley P pratts pratt en route roue for tor this city we immediately presented him N ith tick tickets etsy f for fon or which he thanked us in spanish ile he honored us by opening the concert with a few remarks and prayer and we had bad a good time the concert being numero sly itly attended bebop bashop hubbard hublard was busy most of the day hauling wheat in consequence of one of his hands bands being richi but was waa released towards evening and presided over the assembly ile he has raised about a thousand thou fand burlia burlis of wheat this season and hia hla brethren generally have done well alt ait although hough bough they would have done dione better belter but for tor me tte carcity scarcity i of water bro fondal hondal and others exerted themselves to entertain us to lbs tha best of thein their ability on tha the nth w a arrived at ogden hole holt and ver were hott hospitably ably and nobly entertained by bishop thomas dunn dunny and nd bis bit krother brother rother andell rn dell deil dunn we gave a concert mon ton cert tn in the school bouso in t the e evening to t a very respectable and somewhat numerous nume cume rous rout audience this is a ting fine and pros berous erous settlement although their wheat crops this year are considerably below the average on saturday the w we e proceeded to binz Bing ginghams hams fort but owing to a tl tt under storm in the evening and the indifference of 0 the bishop who Is unquestionably a good man but b t somewhat ebbat in years we vre had bad a very poor turnout tie the I 1 U t to the c concert next day flay being sunday we went en on to ogden city and found bishop browning quite up to the us to his house and hospitable biard board and exerting himself to make us comfortable we attended the meeting at the school house in the afternoon it having been adjourned I 1 from the towery lowery in consequence of the rain atthe close of the me meeting biting the bishop announced our concert for the next evening request requesting ln the people to make it as g generally er sn known as possible on monday aftem afternoon oon we s serenaded re the the city with our brass braes music as indeed we had done at other places and andin la the evening ahad a crow ded house the people evincing great with our efforts to please them president Ident loren farr wag from I 1 home during the day but strayed arrived in time to attend na the concert expressed himself in public as highly delighted with the performance and invited five of the brethren to te Us his house for the night where he be caie cade c ade aie de them truly w etyeme welcome fo to good beds and breakfast on tuesday the we arrived at kays Kay eay wardy award where bishop ani kay anticipating our arrival bad killed a sheep and a hog and during our stay there we were mos most sumptuously entertained by him and his hit first counselor elder edward phillips pe the being seasoned agreeably by a hearty welcome this tills being a bire sire and scattering ward we were counseled by the bishop to stay until next day and to give a ball in the and concert in fhe the evening to which we acceded A few however how every gathered anthe on the first evening expecting the concert to come oary off and in order to make their disappoint ment as light as pos po sible sibley we organized a dang dand for ifor a short timey time and the people departed with good feelings giving gh ing in their name names fr fir next day we arranged to sive give out family tickets to the ball and con concert cert at one ona dollar each and a disposed of fifty two such tickets previous to our arrival the bishop had bad appointed elder john bair baly as ilar liar shaf shat for the occasion who magnified his office most praise worthily lyp preserving the strictest arder and attending to the comfort of bf the people who made quite a hol bol golliday liday of the affair bringing out ont their wagon sheets and enclosing the bowery on all side sides it being large enough to admit of twelve cotillions cot illions dancing at the same time the treat went olt off to the satisfaction of all concerned the wheat crops in this neighborhood have buffered tre men doudy from the drouth and the want of water for irrigation the bishop himself has only realized 00 bushels when be he expected a thousand and another person who was expecting ta to realize from eight hundred to a thousand has managed to harvest one hundred and seventy five bushels this thia Is a fair sample of the rest of the wheat crops there they anticipate how however every everi by another season to bring the w aters waters of the weber into use ube on their farm tarm and the brethren at the bea beai 1 of a company wilch alich is organized for that purpose pur posey wisely took advantage of the gathering at our concert and olita clita obtained ined on the spot amounting to upward ards of two hundred dollars next day we hitched up and apt went on to calling by the way at mrs hector d Haig halg hils whose husband Is on a mission to england she politely invited us to stay and take pinner dinner dl but our time would not admit of it we therefore played two tunes leore her door and passed on we had of excellent cheese which her son ordia ordin had bald gald paid tor for his family ticket the day previous arriving at bishop hess kindly entertained us to dinner and aud was as far as he was concerned desirous of a concert but aj a for his people their crops had bad been cut off by the that they did not average above fifteen bushels of wheat w heat to a family in the whole t hole settlement which w made them feel very poor indeed much more so he be said salui than they really are and he was wa afraid there would w ouid b be a very poor turnout turn out under these circumstances cum stances we w e concluded jt it best not to htay sta tta yand and after the bishop a tune we passed on As we had already spent more time on the trip than we had anticipated we did not feel like staying at sessions settlement especially as s itis ills it Is veny very scatter trigg and it was too late in the day to notly notify the people we ive therefore after halting baiting the hirsen at elder dan wood proceeded home where here we arrived a little after dark elder wood stated the little wheat he had lad raised this thi seasons beason season about 6 or bush bushek ch was remarkably good weighing 61 lbs its to the buhel buhei the greatest regret expressed by the bishops on our route was the want of suitable houses for such occasions but r nearly early all stated that arrangements bad already been entered into to supply the deficiency this fall the amount of our admissions for the entire series eries Is and our entire expenses including candless cand candle candie lesy groceries and concert bills only amounted to 24 60 thanks to the liberality of the bishops and their brethren this being the first experiment of the kind in this territory we consider it on the whole to be successful and in la improving the taste of the people dor for fine music highly beneficial at least it was so expressed by the various presidents and riis bishops hops en n the route tours yours faithfully JONATHAN clerk |