Show trip la atah county 0 GS S L lacity LC city ity nov 23 1854 mr editor city oft saturday I 1 alth ith instant the theady day being jold cold and uncomfortable ble I 1 arrived at 1 lehi chilled visited the wall and tithing fodse which are slowly progressing vp 0 sunday at ten I 1 preached one hour and three thre e quarters tarsi then proceeded to i pleas pleasant nt grove giba and preached in the even tins ial on monday I 1 went to provo and I 1 fo found und m my family y in good health and very busy with grandmothers piano weaving I 1 flannel for the neighbors preached on tues bues day evening in ii seminary on wednesday Wed wednesday nesda ident I 1 went to payson parson visiting on my route th the voit port saint luke at the mouth month of ek kanyon vre there are 16 houses ine oure ot 0 erection enclosing a square about by fedj feet cepe gene I 1 rally with a story and nd a half buildings T A is a good commencement and will do honor honor I 1 1 to the energy energy of it its but builders ders it will be ne lessary ces oes sary however toy top them thein to enclose around their fort labooth 15 or 20 acres with a wall 8 feet thick taie k and 15 high to secure their stock as they are located so near the be mouth of the kan yoji they hey will be liable to 0 be troubled t with carau marau dang parties of bf horse and cattle thieves who could easily retreat up the kanyon out 0 reach of pursuit pur suit i but fro fr 0 in the th well known energy of I 1 the of this fort foit it is nt at all likely that the outer wall will he bie neglected but a very abort time it being a light job compared the advantages resulting arrived at payson in the even fag abd the school houte thursday I 1 returned to palmyra preach ed etl there at two aud and again itt in I 1 them evening I 1 some bre brethren 1 there t thinking thil that ray my family might mIgU need aeed s some e bready b re r e donated and sent awk to jw the paavo tithing office for ay benefit 33 boliek of wheat h eat J and 16 bus bushels liels of potatoes Thel bishop f palmyra had orr arr hand band ir in the tithing office j bitis hels of wheat wheatland and a bad bein been paid the bishop hadi had not sufficient wient storage to receive au all as yet on 4 friday bridat 1 visited the nit fort built for the defence 0 of gristmill grist mill on spring areek it is ig quita a beginning but would b 3 better to so be inore aed in thickness thick ness anti and wight I 1 in I 1 listened to interesting discourses from eldera aaro Aaron n J Jarr arx and john L 8 smith with in the provo sedi seminary on tithing I 1 1 1 i I 1 I 1 saturday visited the provo prove city w wall 11 the alusic Music hall a ne new building 58 bya feet built by pace and oa CO to accommodate cotillon parti parties es it is enclosed and wll will be ee completed ted in in a bevi weeks Sever Se alof ba the brethren are afe engaged in enclosing loliar bells bein hall ford for a meeting too room I 1 preached to io the elders ay even ev h ing in the seminary sunday tha being fine I 1 preached in the open air air tik als there was no room in town sufficient to hold bold tn people e I 1 I 1 1 I 1 went to springville Spring ville an and preached r each edin in the about tWo hours monday 4 1 visited the springville Spring naville ville wall about 50 roda ot which was built 12 feet high and about 40 rods 6 feet high which so falas fal far as it has progressed is one of the vest beat in thoc tho c county 0 u nty a number of nan lawe Is were reat it work upon it i on moad eiveri benin inz I 1 again addres d the filhe the seminary at provo showed thew tae draft that president young had i two ago fora meetinghouse in in provo read therill the bill of materia maderias mat erias a and advised the brethren to get 0 C et the rock and lumber lamber on onAbe the ground this wint winter erthe the brethren were pleased with aba advice the work of higby and Smiths mill is completed horace roberts roberta has erected quite a large ia d welling house also thomas ivie a I 1 number of others are in progress L i 2 1 I 1 I 1 on tuesday evening eveking I 1 preached at lake city and on wednesday evening at union foit fort in this county several persons per sons were here very sick with witha n fever the wall of their fortis fort is progressing rapidly they have a com fordable meeting house and have built many good dwellings I 1 arrived in this city this forenoon foreio on j s the gene generah raI health of them the people of utah is good dd very lew fes asi eases of sickness 1 came under my observation the indians were 1 mostly absent on a hunt A house bouse is in pro gr gress gressom essof of erection at palmyra for old pe teet neet and several cabins babins to accommodate High Forehead and the indian inhabitants in 1 naville ng ville I 1 the citizens of proto need their ene r stirred an the thes subject abject of schools although a town of 2500 inhabitants its school faaili tie sara behind any other in th the e territory Teni toiv shat shafe has come under my knowledge if some bouhe re regents 1 0 ne ants of the university would I 1 make them a visit it would no doubt be attended with beneficial result sto the caupe of education I 1 had the spirit of preaching and each time from fro m one bone and a half to two and a quarter hours every preaching placer place was crowded la and n d the attention given I 1 addressed the saints on the subjects presented to the bishops by the president at conference also a so upon the law of tithing showing its connection with the ordinances for the dead also on the necessity of carefully educating their and it seems as aa though I 1 I 1 had only to stand up and it run out of my mouth month as though f was a fountain of preach preace the seventies in utah county have organized in such a manner as to send some of their 1 body to every place in that cou county y to pr eich ach on sabbath days which haia aka good result in aaning up thi the saints aad bri brightening g ahten inn the 06 the elders i tha harvest has generally been plentiful and it a great portion the grain is is naw in the bin weather has been remark ully flue fine for making prep preparations orations for the 66 winter tte the progress in in walling in the towns has been slow owing to the amount of time required ie in the fall to secure the crops and in some places from fi om a want of energy bushels of wheat had been paid p tid in the provo tithing office and was being forwarded bythe bishop to this city nany many were waking up on the subject ot of tithing 1 I and making efforts to settle their arrearages arrea rages in the smaller towns a much greater observance of tafe th e la law w of tithing I 1 was manifest as can easily be seen by bom comparing the town of provo with P it r 11 1 which co contains about pa ina 65 5 families I 1 A tithing 1 at 11 store house is ia being in built at palmyra and also at lake city and lehi m mostly v for the preservation of beget vegetables a bl 0 A council room is beinar bein g finished by private subscription in the upper part or of the tithing office at lake city A number of good dwelling houses bouses are going up at lehi and the other towns in utah county of a far more mom comfortable and better class than have hitherto hither to been built ma maor jor charlee is building a good grust grist payson which will be in operation at christias the bishops in utah county are exerting th then erris elveR to carryout carr carry out the instructions of the presidency GEO A SMITH 1 |