Show trip to the fishery on jordan we left this city on friday pm insl had bad a pleasant ride to kanyon creek and tarried for the night m at br feramorz littles on the morning of 0 the visited a portion of the surrounding country and were pleased with the spirit of enterprise and improvement everywhere manifest the parched benches which to one unacquainted with what has been dons done in these mountains would be at once forbidding as regards all farming purposes are becoming fruitful fields under the hands of the industrious cultivator there seems to be no obstacle however horev er great which the indomitable perseverance of 0 the people does not surmount and the question naturally suggests itself that if a people can make farms build mills and good houses where the soil is apparently barren where iron is scarce e and hi high g priced ed where the timber is on hl high h mountains and in kenyons naturally almost in inaccessible what would not such a people ac c com ish I sh in a fertile country having the at natural advantages afford by many portions of the united states excuse digresS digression lod iOD but the reflection was irresistible of the amount of labor necessary to complete the cottonwood canal we had tion before I 1 was informed by br charles decker that there was a cut to be made on tho the north side ride of kanyon creek some 53 feet deep and of considerable length which aich in his ion could not be finished within two years with all the force that could be employed upon it this cut it was hoped could be avoided by carrying the canal along the side of the bank but thit that project is deemed inadequate snugly b stowed in our airy conveyance this evening evening at 6 gam pm we resumed our journey and arrived at the hot springs about nine finding very comfortable quarters with cousin evan AT greene visited br robert Wlm wim wimmers merls fishery on jordan river near the outlet of utah lake by the courtesy of br wimmer we were conducted dl to the point fixed upon by president young from whence the water of jordan river is to be taken for the west jordan canal the scenery at this point is very romantic tiie the bluffs are about feet high t perpendicular several brethren have contracted to complete portions or bons I 1 of this canal and made a beginning 0 91 it tut but they got tired soon or were called t to o something thin more import important want lant ap a the iha whole work is now at a standstill br wimmer said that president young had told him to stick to if it till etwas it was lone done and he was det determined erminet to do so deserves notice it will be necessary we were told to entirely change chango the channel of the river ilver near the contemplated junction with the canal and about abent one half of the water has been turned into the new channel lie lle across this channel br wimmer has haa made a dam immediately below the dam he has constructed a platform of lath work so formed that every living thing of any considerable sid erable size that runs over the dam is effectually secured ile he has caught upwards up varda of of fish here in a day butche average is is about 1500 to per er week weak it is cheaper to buy fish here a at 6 c acts 9 per ib lb than to spend time fnning fishing he has a claim of about acres on the ahe bottom near the fishery where he has sown wheat and various kinia kinda of garden seeds ile he says that he raised there last year as fine melons ac as be he ever saw does br wimmer manufacture oil from tho fish heads beads ed an indian squaw maslett wa glett giett there by herband her band according to the their ir custom to die br winn wino mer tools took look her to his house washed her and administered to her peradventure she rea re cover but after lingering a few days she died and was buried on the hill bill side having ascending the steep and tedious declivity to the dugway dug way we returned pleased and profited by our visit the incidents of our homeward journey are omit omitted tea teo suffice mice lice it to bry bly that we returned with revived health and spirits ak PAULOS UL 0 S |