Show pros prospects acts in addition to the drouth and destruction by insects last season to the severity of the past winter and consequent heavy loss of stock and to the destitution we are still suffering the long continued dry weather the scant supply of water at command for irrigation the entire destruction of crops by grasshoppers in cache cach county andlee lik lilt destruction in portions of box elder and utah counties the general ravages of tobacco and other worms upon pota poth potatoes toe and corn and the parching of whole fields of t grain rain before the heads are filled are far from promising a surplus of food for the saints now here and the thousands already on their way to the mountains strong faith in the wisdom of the provi dences of the almighty 0 great skill strict obedience to the commandments of the lord and the counsels of his servants the most rigid economy and untiring untiring vel well directed industry may enable us to escape starvation until a harvest in 1857 but those who have not the above named essential qualifications and who do not intend to strive for them will be apt to have hav their feelings sorely chafed chafee and their stomachs severely pinched ere plenty again gladdens our quiet homes and until the elapse of at least another year emigrants and others will fail in their dependence upon utah for sustenance and will run great risk of starving unless they bring their supplies with them and that too not in gold silver and merchandize merchandise dize with a view to exchange advantageously t but in such an amount of provisions as they may need until august 1857 and for how much longer we are not informed |