Show for the deseret new news southern tour tow of lyman and rich on the esth of november at 11 we left on our visit to southern utah our conveyance was furnished by our generous friend br lott smith As we left there were wore some indications of stormy weather but we had no storm to trouble us on the evening of the loth we arrived at nephi and on the day following follow rim ng cr crossed d the mount ians by the bloody pass nat into asente san pete passing through the young but thriving settlement of moroni at nightie nig night htwe ve arrived at ephraim and attended meeting on the following mornin after holding public me meeting we then traveled to manti mantis where we remained until the afternoon of sunday the when we left lef t in company with major snow and ten men who traveled and camped with us at the warm springs near the sevier river and twenty miles from the bridge on monday morning morning we parted with our friends and reached fiti FiTl more at ni night ht continuing our journey south as far as fort port clara we found the saints sainta generally pleased with our visit and disposed to listen with apparent interest to our instructions we organized lower beaver ward and ordained d br jas H rollins bishop and president the people of the south report their grain and cotton crops as better than formerly their nein yield of molasses from the cane was also good although inferior in quantity from the imperfect quality of their mills which were of wood the sale of molasses and also cotton for grain and other produce is more or less difficult on account of the very great disparity between the respective amoun amounts t s realized from the cultivation of the land as for instance I 1 the man who raises wheat will realize from thirty to sixty dollars for the products of one acre of land estimating his wheat at two dollars per bushel when from the same quantity of land from one to two hundred gallons of molasses are produced which being held at 3 er gallon alving giving the producer from for or the cultivation of his land a very considerable amount for every acre so cultivated above ahat what can be realized by the producer of wheat the above is approximately correct such relative chane than change thane e in the price of cotton and nd molasses as would tend to give greater equality to the proceeds of a given quantity of land could not fail to benefit the country and the people generally we had good weather and good roads until our return to salt creek settlement we were out thirty days traveled some eight hundred miles and held twenty nine meetings s AMASA LYDIAN LYMAN C CHAS HAS C RICH we may have something to say on the subject of prices hereafter |