| Show PRESIDENT YOUNGS VISIT SOUTH from notes furnished us by elderwood elder eider woodruff we ve have selected the following a items in relation to the late trip of president young and party to and through the southern counties oa wednesday may alay 15 preside president nt young i and company consisting of prest D H 11 wells elders wilford woodruff john taylor george A smith and joseph young buhot hunter mayor A A 0 smoot gen G D grant professor carrington surveyor J general fox commissioner mckoan sheriff barton button and several other citizens of dis left great salt lake city at am and drove to american fork for where they arrived at 2 pm As notice had been circulated that the meetinghouse meeting 11 house at that place would be dedicated by president youn young 1 l many of the saints from alpine lehl lehi dattle dattie creek and provo had bad assembled to the number of four tour times as many as could be con convened inside of the building velch is about 35 fett feet by 50 and a substantial hell heil eli eil ell finished house after bishop harringto harrington n had opened the dabora and as many people as aa the building could loid lold had llad crowded in with little apprent apparent diminution of the concourse outside president youn young 0 went out of doors and standing b in a wagon preached to the large assembly followed by presidents D H wells and joseph young t at t the tae close of the meeting meeting the president Te d the elders bishops and presiding a officers present to convene inside and in a few fow mom moments enta the house bouse was again filled to tolls toils its utmost capacity president young toung then made a f few ew remarks and offered a dedicatory prayer the he company left american fork on the morning mornin of the loth and passing through provo prove reached Spring springville ville at 1230 1930 pm at which ph ce president dent yo ing preached at considerable sli oil sid sll erable len ien lenth length tb in the afternoon the company proceeded to payson where the people conr convened ened iq in the evening 0 at about ei eight 0 bt and were addressed by prest young and elder eidi john taylor on friday the company proceeded to nephi and held a meeting at five pm which was addressed by crests D 11 II veits welts and joseph and brigham 0 young and elder woodruff george IV bryan was ordained a lk bishop hop lop I 1 the thet company having a been considerably increased creased in numbers in passing through 0 utah and juab counties when it left nephi con s bisted isted of 64 souls including 43 men 14 women and two children with 23 carriages ii 21 horses and 42 mules the company drove to round valley millard county on the and held a meeting there in the evening elder john taylor preached that is a n ngy v settlement con of only nine families la milies t leaving round valley sunday morning g the company proceeded to and nd in the afternoon held a meeting at which crests B young and D 11 wells preached and were followed by elder john taylor and bishops A AO Smoot E ED D woolley Wool wooi leyland and edward 11 hunter ter A portion of prest youngs address was on the resurrection 0 of the dead at fillmore on the morning of the tho president joseph young left to return home the rest of the company proceeding to cove creek a distance of thirty five miles which they made by pm and encamped I 1 there is at that ranch a corral corrai dorral two houses one du dugout dug out and three g five meo men who had bad sown nine acres of grain an rance range surrounds the ranch atto ma thela theis to an 44 abundance of sulphur in the vicin tr r rif tile lie next the company proceeded to 9 dug dag VS creck ulm samual whito whit BT eral othora were commencing a settlement and from thence continued on to beaven e I 1 where a meeting was held at 4 rpm pm derit dent B young pre preached achell followed by elder grant president wells and elders G D watland watt Wat tand ald and john taylor and bishop E D ley on on wednesday the the company proceeded to Parow darowin Pa rowan rowin tn arriving at 3 pm 1 A me meeting maetina etina was heid held in the tabernacle at 6 k in the evening pr president C aident D young ca preached followed by elders john tay taylor tailor lor and aud IV woodruff and bishop E hunter leaving Par parowan carowan oivan on thursday mornin morning pa they proceeded to cedar city where they arrived at noon the saints assembled at 4 pm in the social hall and were addressed by president young followed by president wells and elders IV woodruff and john tay lor or t in the evening bishop ey by and eders edens IV woodruff ami and george gearge goddard preached inthe in the sawn baug baui place from cedar city on friday the komp company hily ariy went to pinto ranch twenty eight miles south sooth west of that place there were six elx families including ten men with eight tight houses the country at pinto is well weli adapted to grazing and bome some good dairies are kept thre there also abbat eight hundred sheen cheep and goats are pastured there at 6 p in an express arrived with letters paper papers etc from this the DESERET NEWS EXTRA of the uit the saints met at br robinsons where le re president young preached j on saturday the company traveled trou brou through h the mountain meadows and az passing ssang ising over the rim of the basin camped a short distance below gunlock gun lock fort travelis tra traveling velim 0 abo about ut thirty five miles i passin passing down the santa clara and ing up through jacobs twist the company arrived at santa clare fort at noon of the jtb distant from G S I 1 L city three hundred and thirty niles two meetings were held at that place at which president B young elder G A smith president wells welts elder john taylor and bishop I 1 E hunter preached 1 at santa clara there are several fine young peach orchards it Js is estimated that one thousand bushels of peaches will be pro produced there this season jacob hamblin has one hundred bearing trees mr ir IV E dodge las bag a fine young a orchard and vineyard consisting of apples peaches apricots necta rines plums pears quinces almonds gigs figs gs english a walnuts gooseberries goose berries currants 11 and catawba isabella and california grapes allin ailin a thriftily thrift ly and promising in condition the cotton crop looked very well weil but hut was not as aa forward as usual and crops in general were backma bac kwad d il on monday the the company went to 0 o Tona quint situated at the junction of the santa clara with the rio virgen about eight miles southeasterly south easterly from santa clara fort and the most south southern bouthern ern settlement JQ the territory A meeting was held at 10 am elders Wood woodruff taylor stewart 1 bishop Hun hunter terp tery and presidents wells and young preached the company then proceeded to washington and hela a meeting 0 at 4 pm which was addressed by president young a and bishops smoot woolley and sharp washington is the county seat of washington county and is situated near the rio virgen some ten miles east of santa cla cia clara ciara a the company proceeded to toquerville the next neit day eighteen miles where the saints I 1 were ware addressed by president young 0 dr S L sprague t 1 and elders george goddard and G jag JAL A smith at alt this place as at some others in in that vicinity the citizens use isinglass tor for windows said to be a very good go 0 d substitute for glass on wednesday passing a over a very rough country through yarrow defiles they went to gio Pocket ville or virgen ehi efi city eight 0 miles and held a short meeting wili where e president ident jdant young addressed dhe dho saints 1 they then thin proceeded to grafton sailes bailes crossing 0 the tha virgen which is the there a beautiful stream four times A meeting 0 was wag held there chere which was addressed by president wells well elders woodruff and laylor and president young they returned to 4 boquer oguer vill vile efrom from grafton that evenin evening g the company arrived armei at fort harmony on an theli their way homeward hoin boin eward on the mth aoth and held meeting lt at 5 lym lim p cr presidents Pre young and wells addressed the sainta the dext next day alt iho khe company returns to Cedar city where yh ird lri the whole party parly partook ofa a sumptuous 9 public cd chinner inner dinner prepared i ed b by y the th citizens and a meeting wad wag wa held at 5 pm at which elder eider john taylor and president wells preached another express express from G 8 L city arrived late in the evi evening bing hing the next day Satu saturday june they came camb to parowan carowan and oh kih sunday sanday the ad the saints faints there were addressed in the forenoon by resi rest young 11 and alder ider lder layf 0 r and in the hc afternoon atter noon by prest frest wells elder wood ruff and prest young on monday the ad prest young and most of the company took the road to thirty feve eive miles distant from Par olvan ulvan in a northwesterly north westerly direction the road was found to be very rough they arrived at mine at 3 pm and held a meeting 0 in the evening enlie presidents wells and young addressed the congre congregation a tion on tues bues tuesday bagy the party visited the lead mines mints some tour four miles from minersville Miners ville and then went to beaver fl eaver baver where the balance of the company ivere were met and all sat down to a sumptuous dinner prepared for them by the citizens after dinner they came to indian creeds creels sax miles from beaver and encamped there for the night on the 51 ath b they dined at 61 coan creek and camped at meadow creek eight miles beyond fillmore that evening arriving at fillmore next hext morning they took breakfast there and then came to round valley where they halted baited for about an hour A short distance this side of round found valley t the th e express which left this city the evenin evening t detoe letoe waa met mei aith at the sealers Sev lers they passed some bome twenty lodges of yampa tapa ute indians were encamped near the bri broge e having a a lar iare large lare t e number of horses chicken creek was the cam of the that having traveled fifty miles that day they came to payson next day and dined then to spanish ish fork where elder jphn jqhn taylor preached the distance from spanish fork to chicken creek is fifty miles on saturday ath the company breakfast breakfasted cd 0 amUn dat American Fork i at noon and arrived at home bome at 6 pm traveling some sixty miles most roost of the way in the rain which was considered an agreeable change as there bad been no falling weather in the southern counties for a long time and they had traveled the entire distance out and back as far as spanish fork through oh the dust greatly agitated by the wind which had blown almost constantly all the time they were tr traveling avelin tha the tha president and party enjoyed excellent health durin during their absence from the city with ith some few exceptions and aside from the dust bad a very pleasant trip |
