Show me meeting eftink houses in me roost t oi of the cities towns and villages of deseret at an early day after their commencement men cement organization or t ett lement lemeni ar ai for building one or more meeting houses or public balls for the public assemblages of the people in religious and other capacities hase have been inaugurated but of all the improvements that have been commenced of as much importance to the prosperity comfort and convenience of a well weli organized and civilly constituted community as a good substantial commodious meeting house or hall where public meetings can be held when occasion requires none ave seemingly L been attended with so many difficulties and hindrances as the erection ol of the fhe buildings build designed for those purposes ilow how many of those commenced years ago are yet in an unfinished oate vate we know not but so far as our knowledge extends some half dozen of those commenced before the utah war as the military expedition sent hither by the late administration is ia generally called have not progressed very rapidly since that threaten ling ing Fe cession storm passed over and are not rot yet finished and the indications are that more than one of them will not be the present season the work on the meetinghouse meeting 7 house at bounri felas fd as commonly called in davis dayis county which has been in building several years is ig as reported being pushed forward w T th grat rapidity and wiil will 1 s sc on be gais Cais bed it is is represented as ag being ome one of the most 1 06 ous dvir tty substantially j built bulit edi edl edifices fires in the he state and although its ils comple completion ion lon has beien so BO ion lon long iong 9 delayed it will hereafter represent the thrift and I 1 perseverance of the be citizens of the place and ani be a monument of the patience and endurance of those who hava bava superintended super intended the work and aided most in its construction at farmington the county seat of davis davig county a meetinghouse meeting houge house is beim being built of stone a more suitable material for such buch buildings than which are arc generally I 1 used in these valleys in the absence of rock brick and other substances I 1 iss alss ss ct to decay when w hen exposed to the action of water w ater to I 1 which notwithstanding g the dryness of the I 1 c ch amate mate bui bul dinga in this country are greatly j exposed especially when such storms occur t i as have visited every part of the state within the last six months the foundation of the i house was laid last season and the walls wails I 1 reared and it is understood that ahat it a the in to push the work forward to comple j tion in the course of the coming summer which bich will doubtless bl be done as we ability of the people so far as means is ia con concerned concer cernel cernei nei i is not problematical lemat ical and they would n t like to be considered considered wanting c la in energy la in matters of public c improvement improve men t and of interest to giai and bud callec chec dively the people of kaysville Kays kass ville so called the most northern settlement in davig navis county of any c considerable importance commenced like those of other obber I 1 laces to build a for public worship many years ago but before the walls were entirely completed they were levelled bevelled level led to the ground by one of those hurr hurt hurricanes of common occurrence in the theia thesa 0 mountains since which no great efforts have been made to recommence the work and move it forward as they are certainly able to do for the citizens of are depue 1 at iet ier ie a some of them to be amog amog the most wealthy inthe in the state the foundation rf cf the bull buli building ding is is fl firm rm and substantial and if rhe ehe people will wil I 1 rise up and say let us build they can soon reconstruct recon the walls of tre the contemplated edifice and finish it in the most superb style and u hen done be sure to prize it more highly than they do do now their flocks and add herds which would na no pro probably baby bably be dimin shed shea by the operation in city box elder county a arbelle house hoube wa soon after a settlement was formed there of extensive dl at mentions mena lons loas and after t e wals walls were put pat up I 1 and tind the work of fi faish ish n na I 1 y sd v d batted it was much damaged in the fall of NO loy by the hornad which a ept over the northern counties that the walls wails had to be taken taen down and rebuilt which was doe doo in a more substantial manerd manerl roa rna ner and the h huse sad to be second in size to but 0 one r 0 or 0 r two in lri the state is reported I 1 ina lna da fair way to be completed at an early day thae ast st settlers of box el der county were not wealthy and hs be in rease QC of their earthly substance bince since then has been great but lt by diligence perseverance cc and they have with their meetinghouse meeting house and other improvements more rapidly than some others more favorably situated in most of the wards in this c 1 ty particularly in the more populous and wealthy houses for meeting or congregating pur poses of larger size and more substantial and s suitable sli bil 1 table tabie structure than the ward schoolhouses have ion lon long iong been in contemplation bos boy bul bui in on ony y two wards the thirteenth and fourteenth i have halls balls of cf that lind kind been built as I 1 Y yet et and one of those is not a very substantial building and wu wili have to be partially rebuilt before it will be of sufficient strength astren th for durability A commencement was made last summer to build a fleetin meeting or ward house in the seventh ward but not munh progress c was made fur ther than d digging ou out t the he foundation and hauling the rock for the basement story it is understood however that the work will be vigorously 0 this seabon season and it if no unlooked for obstacle acle acie be presented to cause a hindrance its completion may be expected bea bearre re next christmas toe people popie of several other wards are talking in c about bu iding iding similar institutions but wb whether eaher anything f further urther will be bedane done than to discuss preliminaries we are not prepared to state i I 1 the dwellers in provo P oyo ovo the second city in the state in 0 of population commenced I 1 I 1 to build a place for wo ship such as was required for their use by their position and circumstances cum stances many years since bur bui for rea bons BOSS that lual an ittie explained the walls walis at 0 thi tha t 1 building build D are not yet read reads ready r for the roof and i for two or three years previous to last summer t in er the concern remained in statu quo the thea basement at ry only ha having ing been constructed at nephi juab county a large lar a meeting bleating h house ouse was comme commenced aced last sea season beason son and from i information r mation matlon recently received rece hed it glies gives pleasure su re to a that every possible arrangement ran gement has been made to complete the Luil bull building ding as quickly as the work can te be performer former 1 the materials having been provided and mostly on the finishing 1 it in ingcoy gcoy style with the superintendent superintendents T B foote eia we have been long iong intimately acquainted and ald if obstacles be presented which he cannot oyer overcome come their magnitude may ie be considered greater thant hse comm interposed to retard the progress of works of a public nature which in no country are more numerous than they are in this and often of that kind which require more than ordinary diligence energy and perseverance to surmount or overcome the building luil tull ding of lUe meeting eting house or the making of improvements of a public nature is not so impoverish impo veris hin ic an operation as many seem to sup suppose pos and when nothing of the kind occurs in passing thra thia tigh a city or village oe at any considerable size there is not hai bai that bat thrift to bi be seen in any department of business bu einess siness as is manifest in places where such improvements aro are not wholly con |