Show ESTIC zo Z K 11 z I 1 brell 27 1853 triflis editor of the news at te jai ja time of heak health in this settlement no As f conse consequence ri during the winter and we no deate tb thelast thit six months A good spirit it prevails among I 1 the he saints ard and there seems to be a willingness to give need bem to the counsel avd ai d instruction of those who are placed to rule lule and ewt gueli rh tile the affairs tot bf this alli sa s1 arit wt have two day schools ich dining during the winter and evening schools where writing gra grat Rimar umar t lunette ail other branc branchy hs have been di have been well attended and several have t bean vie baptized 6 zw into the church th there erp haseeb ha has bee heavy fall fiilds of snow during the th i vinta nd ot atthe the titue our bench land lias has b I 1 eon cavey thordis there is yet seat great depths of bf snow ir in 11 1 ekr p p ja which wha lias has militated greatly against rafig operation i our stock have wintered welt universally many of our cattle were driven virdah h ith ae states last season and have J all A ip p flesh in the lanfre and I 1 do not know of the A first rs t head bad being lpt apt bethink we think our valley is not surpassed idi for ran gein these mountains I 1 1 of grain produced basl season in this au ou bounty nty I 1 know sulfice suffice it to say tile crops were good brother james brooks came here k f it atti A th epst with the governors machine and of oe hiir wheat in double doable quick lima r about twenty seven hundred bushels weave we have i grist mill now in operation which does the entire attention of the brethren 4 p tarp in their crops the wheat town lon last gaii treasonably well 1 T indians appear very friend friendly ly at present the jve d right in our midst ne nearly irly or quite equals the white population it animates them yew j reuh 0 aspe o flour made in this place as well ti as rt it aar does ourselves I 1 I 1 I 1 would say that some few of cf the brethren have 7 leth e yort aad built upon their city lots and many imra wag 04 F are re mv preparing abin g to build on their lots the pre present sent ach gaso N I 1 ait I rein a ii yours yours is as ever in the bonds of the covenant r I 1 ANSON CALL N 1 t great salt lak cit city Y A april 1 I 20 1853 5 dear sir permit me to give you a few items byom lj yoogle boele grantville observation taken while on I 1 a 0 lore Th chalich alich at grantville is presided over by liro thomas clark wild seems to be a good and faith ad with hs hi s councillors juds walker and martindale through b whose influence the branch sesma seems tobe to be in a healthy condition and to enjoy tho the blessings of the spirit with its attendant blessings of tongues ac ac as ae promised by the savior president dark clark has recently organized the young nen men of said branch into the r a quorum in which place they seem to mangni fy their calling and t the e g general N pl 1 I spiritual u al health as aa we well 11 as temporal is 18 1 t there t jome pome or 30 families in in grant willi ingot q last falls emigration P who will be awed hahmed 01 of inclosing this season 2500 bres F ll ancl their soil timber griss grass and other conveniences is not excelled in the mountains with MA lie exception of their exposed situation to the va 46 adiv of indians on oil the western we batern range of the waja wasatch alj indians we believe should at very prudently indeed and to which F we would call your attention fhe theao beey of tile lie presidency in tile the ninth generas in regard to the gift of tongues has 9 aw I 1 in said branch for bro walker and and lee ift odthe utah tongue and has df while 1 was there to the indians in their own lp agie an and d to the conviction of all pres enof their knowledge of what was I 1 said to them athe groi influence that is created from time to liine amongst the indians who reside in grant viar bilte ij pore more or less by the visit from the C om weber waters waters a and nd other places as well aarm the insert desert on marys river ava a the mst annoying thing to the brethren at grantville is abi ability ii ity of the indians to obtain such bupha Y nt of lead pov powder der shot caps and guns gunk as they do which is a source of great annoyance ano yance and in in anae to the settlement and which ab nb n 0 dt doubt bc stopped if the Super indent of 1 indian at af 4 airs kiv of this fact I 1 0 ak I 1 the ruins on the town cite of grant 7 i pai r kil write n when lipri I 1 have more le lei iture bure and fly of the route to california through f and tile fine fie valle valleys s that lay dire directly etly west rf 2 R t i 11 and noar r ily by four f friend i id and bruthe ithe new covenants M BLAIR |