Show tour in the country HISTORIAN OFFICE G S L city feb 12 1855 EDITOR OF THE NEWS we left this city on saturday the bolh at 3 pm arrived at mount pleasant at 6 and called on elder lewis wight who immediately gave notice of our arrival within half au all bo hour u r all the inhabitants met in the schoolhouse school house where we addressed them for about two hours the schoolhouse school house bouse is a hewed log ioor building 23 by 17 feet is well finished and w was s erected in eleven days in december 1854 eleazer hickcox is teaching a school of 25 scholars the fort is lai laid out 25 rods square a very good wall 3 feet by 6 is commenced around it and 60 rods rod are completed the soll soil is well adapted to the making of earth wall tile the fort contains eleven families who are organized in a branch of the church in conne connection ebion with the deo at ai azra roi MAI ruder the tha preer deney or of elder eider james kilfoyle who informed us ua hat peace and the good spirit reign predominant dominant in his hid branch we slept at brother lwi ats wind blue severely in the night we we arrived at herriman on sunday at 10 am our appointment having previously been given out for that hour at half past 11 the people assembled aud we addressed the saints at considerable length on the necessity of obedience to the counsels of the presidency and union among themselves A vote be being 1 i called whether the people would sustain E elder ade r blumas thomas butterfield as their president aut 27 voted for and 11 a against i ast and W some did not vote either way elder butterfield then tendered his resignation tion which was accepted and elder mcgee harris was unanimously chosen as president and william kidd and thomas whittle his bis counselors this place contains 23 fa families the schoolhouse school house was built of logs in 1853 and is 22 feet by 18 elder robert C petty has kept ept a school in it ten weeks this win berand has recently rec antly been succeeded by a female teacher about 1600 bushels of grain amin have been raised by this rett ement lement on land irrigated by a small stream from the west ast mountains several large flocks of sheep are kept here 1 1 we left herriman at iya 1 pm and arrived at jordan mill schoolhouse school house at 3 where we found a congregation waiting to h hear e ar us pre preach ilch we addressed 1 them for two hours and ana ahall a half on the first principles of the gospel and tile the necessity of continuing to listen to the voice of the go good oct shepherd this schoolhouse school house is 27 hy by 20 26 feet and was buit built december last of logs sawed I 1 in i I 1 I 1 two and is lined with plank and well fini finished slie CL A balod good se school 1 i 0 0 1 of 26 scholars is kept by elder royal oy J cutler C t i t le r immediately after the meeting we started stalled for taylorsville Taylors ville passi passing 1 g by brother daunts woollen factory which b be e informed us was producing yards of cloth in each week this looks e encouraging for deseret manufacture at 7 pm we arrived at taylorsville Taylors ville and found the adebie schoolhouse school house a building 30 by 20 feet crowded with people we preached one ho hour ur each on the building up of the stakes of zion and the he necessity of educating our children properly and were listened to with perfect attention A school of 30 scholars is taught by mr JK cannon bishop joseph harker has attended this school duri g tile last five weeks we slept at brother harkers barkers Har kers arrived iu in this city today to day at 12 stock on the range look rem bably well aud and every ev r flock of sheep was interspersed with a consie considerable r number of lambs which were all thriving thi iving finely on the luxuriant grass of 0 the plains west ol 01 jordan the saints listened to our instructions and admonitions with anxious countenances nud and grateful hearts and as we took leave abu abundantly adan fly showered blessings upon us for which we return to them our grateful acknowledgments 1 GEO A SMITH EZRA T BENS BENSON ON |