Show io I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 c t A Farn bams boardinghouse boarding house the undersigned undersigner under signed takes great pleasure in tendering his best regards to mrs and mr F for the kind treatment which lie he received from them ladies and gentlemen traveling to california will find mr F s house an excellent house to stop and recruit and also to get bething ain s ethin good to eat as mrs F knows know how to serve up too bood d in good style andi and last ast though I 1 not least another inducement those who board at mr F s C B and M are kind and very obliging to emigrants G 1 for the deseret news MR EDITOR SIR permit one who has been surprised and mortified at the ignorance ignorance of some and the cupidity of others in rel relation aaion to the inhabitants of your valley I 1 reside in the he state of ohio and am on my wa way to california upon starting from home notwithstanding the misrepresentations and endeavors to dissuade me from doing so of many who professed a knowledge of the mormon character I 1 had determined to pa pass s through your city at almost every point upon the route through the states and beyond the junction of your road these endeavors were repeated in oi 01 der to prevent any of the emigrants from passing this way we were told that tolls toils tithes and exactions ot of the mor mons for passing through their territory would amount to 0 o the enormous sum of more than one hundred anti and fifty dollars per besides the great danger the emigrant would be subject to of having what little their exactions left stolen from him all these and many more similar tales were industriously circulated at every point by men too who looked like gentlemen and who certainly knew them hem to be false now sir my mv whole outlay in in the mormon territory lias has been I 1 paid 3 for ferrying my and 25 acts a head for my horses over green river which is the only expense I 1 I 1 have itic incurred erred in M your our territory the cheapest ferry by th the by I 1 have had on the road and as to the treatment I 1 have received I 1 have no cause of complaint indeed I 1 never traveled where the people appeared more disposed to attend to their own business and le let other peoples business alone than since I 1 have come among you nor have I 1 ever received more courteous treatment in all the dealin dealing 11 I 1 have had with them than I 1 have experienced experience d amongst the mormons cormons Mor mons this as those who know me will believe is not intended as flattery but a simple act of justice to a much abused and slandered people whether governor young or any other mormon has sixteen or sixteen hundred wives I 1 know not and care less I 1 suppose he be has no more than he makes tolerable provision farl for a tiling amsy of at his bis I 1 slanderers slander ers do not do notwithstanding the shamefully outrageous conduct of the general government in in refusing to pry pay him his salary and dishonoring his paper yet I 1 do know that to all outward appearances at least a more orderly and decent pet peaple le I 1 have never seen and during the few w days day T I 1 have remained in yo byoir ty city I 1 have had frequent cause to elfish at the contrast presented between the pious so called people of the states and the wicked mormon would to god many of the emigrants as they pass through would learn some lessons of decency and propriety from a people despised of all nations either through 0 I 1 I 1 11 ll i ignorance or wickedness I 1 GEO C aug 2 1852 of st mays malys oain TO THE EDITOR edion or OF THE tae news we arrived july the from st joseph mo I 1 in in 67 days davs 7 and 40 pe person rions a small flurry with the pawnees Paw nees reported I 1 ahead ahe td at ft KeaY keapney Ke ainey ney and some 1000 more had passed on the ne opposite or north side of the platte only 2 deaths in our little train moore and baij some sickness flux and mountain fever to the lake W we passed graves many from mo head bead of dea dead d el stock damage broken down wag gons arith it ith lots of other all well on our arriva in in the beautiful and well I 1 laid out city far in in the west we have tw e resided within in their midst nearly five days and more than kindly treat treated by all the citizens for which we can only hope they hey may mav live long and continue to grow glow i in 11 wisdom and wealth until their name with the c city shall stand like the mountains that surround them high el is in the nations history for generations to come 11 CLARK aco on their way to california july 17 1852 comm unica ted J G S L city july 31 1852 I 1 I 1 do hereby certify to au all my acquaintances in in iowa missouri ohio virginia new york and in pennsylvania that that in traveling through to california in 1850 I 1 encamped near this city nine nine days davs and now in 1 have been here five fiefe days boarded with the inhabitants and have visited many of their houses I 1 have seen nothing like stealing or taking any undue advantage vantage dd of emigrants or hostility towards them or polygamy as has been represented of them thern in the states but on the contrary I 1 have found them to be the most hospitable and beril benevolent people and a people of the best order and arrange arrangement meat in then their religious and temporal matters that I 1 have ever travel ed eiLa among inong and I 1 have ti avelee in some 16 or 18 jda the jie states canada california guatemala Gua tamala fee I 1 have every reason to believe that all who treat this this people railed called mormons cormons well will be well treated it if you yon have no money they will fred feed you I 1 am no mormon I 1 arri arrived veI it at this place july and leave august ad in good health for california JOHN UDELL 1 1 l of davis co iowa MR MB EDITOR sir sin you will please discontinue my advertisement in in your our paper offering cash for lumber and shingles lif if when the bro brethren thron are handling their thousands and in various ways advancing their individual interests they can rest unmindful of 0 the public works and not contribute some available means vy whereby hereby they can be prosecuted with vigor 1 I know of no good reason why the authorities of the a church should in involve themselves in debt to sustain and carry them on I 1 the works will most probably be suspended until such times a as the brethren can feel and understand that men cannot live without eagins if emigration does fill the streets nor labor be performed without men or r the means to pay others with wei a there are many men engaged with us that W would 10 41 ai prefer to devote themselves to the works if the brethren will bring in leather cloth 3 hats and shoes to clo cloth th e ethe the men meen and glass Nails Paints b oils dils lumber LAmber timber shingles iron steel steely tools for workmen meat butter cheese groceries and vegetables for them to eat ad every other othar article necessary for the support the ibe men and the prosecution of the works then will he be needed and them can be sustained hoping that the brethren wil consider these things thin and consi consider dex themselves selves equally interested in the t prosecution of the public works and d the buildt building W up of the kingdom of our god I 1 remain very auly truly your friend and laborer in the works of the last days I 1 D H WELLS S P W G S L city july 29 ia 1852 I 1 k |