Show EPHRAIM mar afar 7 1867 EDITOR DESERET NEWS v DEAR BROTHER having just re te turned to this place from my late trip to the sevier settlements and from fillmore I 1 take this early opportunity of informing you concerning my late mission I 1 left this place two weeks a ago ao o tomorrow and spoke twice to the peo peg people at manti mantl and urged upon them the importance imp of a general reformation not nop only in their daily lives but also urged upon them the importance of completing their fort and forthwith putting themselves in an attitude of successful defence my words appeared to find listening ears and willing hearts on saturday following I 1 proceeded to gunnison where I 1 arrived not in time to hold meeting that evening but on the sunday following to them twice with good I 1 liberty berty I 1 and received good grood attention ex exhorting h orting them to repair their fort and t to 0 put themselves in as good a state of de defence fence as they could in the least possible time monday morning following I 1 left gunnison with bishop kearnes accompanied danied also by an escort of twelve men from ro the sevier settlements we ar at glennwood about 3 in the afternoon to the people of that place in the evening and likewise in the morning all the presiding officers in that region we represent were present and continued with me during my Iab lab orsin those settlements read redd to them the President presidents lir letter and left with them a copy of the same likewise left a copy of it with each one of the three settlements glennwood will be removed from their present location on to the open plain much nearer the river much anxiety was manifest and good attention given tuesday noon left for alma where wa we found the people towards evening busily engaged in prosecuting their iau lau bors bora b upon on their air new rock fort which is b being ing rapidly completed to them in n tha the evening also on wednesday mor ning lhing and in the afternoon of the day proceeded to richfield and to the people at length and in the evening we danced a little and talked consider considerable akle aLle and dismissed the assembly at 13 12 k in speaking to the people of these settlements tle der ments I 1 never had better libe ilbe liberty ty in iny my life nor did I 1 ever receive betar better attention 4 the saints appeared to feel aw well vell bli and were satish satisfied led to remain and do dd the best they could I 1 thursday morning morning we left richfield elch Eich nield field with an escort of six bix men to crossover cross over oven the mountains to round bound valley the s roads up and down the sevier were mostly dry and dusty and smooth as in burn suin gulmer mer but in passing over the summit wo we found mud and mire snow and water in liberal quantities we arrived at SO scipio to at about 9 in the evening distance Ti stance distance 45 miles from richfield hel hei held heid a meeting in the latter place on friday morning and proceeded on to cedar springs and held meeting there iq 14 the ev evening erting at this place one of my horses took sick and we had to leave him procured another and went on to fillmore when we spoke to the people on sunday morning and evening and ahe tho the people being very anxious for us to remain longer r we held another meeting on monday morning in that place we enjoyed the company of ishop bishop ballis ter and bro amasa lyman the health 0 of f the latter was somewhat improved yet he was still feeble after dinner we left on our return for cedar springs accompanied by bishop callister wife and son when we arrived at the springs the sick horse was dead bishop callister being of the whole order said I 1 should not return without going in as good condition as when I 1 came into his diocese and laid the matter before the tho saints who ih about five minutes raised 70 dollars at our meeting in that place tuesday we proceeded to round bound valley with the borrowed horse and held meeting in the afternoon and cv ening evening bishop callister spoke in the afternoon with much force and eloquence followed by bishop kearnes whose re marks were excellent I 1 spoke in the evening and at the close of my address bishop callister named to the people my misfortune whereupon they raised bome some some bome sixty dollars more towards the purchase of a horsed livorse there were but two twi horses in the place that would match mine these belonged to br james ivie and they were a matched span ile he said lie lle them a few days before and paid five live hundred dollar f for or them but ut I 1 should have my choice of them for two hundred dollars we paid to br ivie what means we had raised and bishop callister said he would make out the balance on his return to fillmore iso so I 1 took the horse and left round bound valley by way of sevier bridge for sanpete San pete and arrived in Gunn isona isZa little before sundown where we held a most excellent meeting in all my travels and preaching for the last thirty five years I 1 never saw the saints so eager to hear preaching as on this my last mission and never did I 1 have better liberty in speaking to them they turned out in mass hardly a man or woman left at home and in no settlement was greater anxiety manifested than in round valley in this I 1 was most happily disappointed every settlement seemed to have a most excellent choir and they sang as though they meant it indicating great improvement in the science of music f T feel satisfied with my trip and I 1 thank the lord and our good brethren of millard county that I 1 returned with a better team than when I 1 started I 1 hear many rumors about andion depredation to be committed upon us this spring that when the snow is gone he the indians are all going to get mad east west and south though it is said tabby is all right but a portion of his young men are bent on mischief in san pete and its neighborhood it looks very much to me that tabby will stay at home under the profession of friendship but secretly instigate his young I 1 men nen to go forth and plunder and shed blood but in this I 1 hope I 1 am mistaken I 1 should think that if the superintendent in of indian affairs would visit the reservation in winter he might change their design or with a moderate force of united states troops require those bad indians to be g given i ven up pp or make them pay the penalty of their evil intentions I 1 saw it intimated in some of the late dispatches that it was bacom mended to the government that they should convince us that they were our friends and that we were a part of the united states if the Government should determine in favor of this policy there is is a small door open in uintah for them to begin to prove this fact last year we kept from three to five f ve hundred men constantly on duty to operate against the indians at our own expense and charges this was a heavy tax upon our settlements yet we have borne it and murmured not besides the year bafo before re we had some two hundred on similar duty most of the season in all we have killed about one hundred of them and they about sixty of us and now if the united states government wish to prove to us that they are our friends they have a most fao favorable rable rabie opportunity port unity of doing so we intend to do our best to defend ourselves and protect our property leaving the issue with an overruling providence I 1 remain very respectfully your brother in the gospel orson OKSON HYDE nephi JUAB juan co march 1 EDITOR DESERET NEWS roads good or bad mud or no mud the tho southern mail company brings our mails in sched schedule lule Rile time and the NEWS ever welcome comes regularly to hand every item sermons editorials communications clippings from other journals friendly or otherwise are all rend rad wilh with interest for in times like these when outsiders talk of swallowing our utah our mountain home to receive the NEWS and telegraph regularly is a treat here in juab we are all getting along in about the usual way eda enjoying ayi C ourselves the best we can leaving our destiny in the hands of god from former experience we have proved that he is our friend and that we are his people and that if we obey his laws and the instructions given by his servants all will be well during the past winter influenza affections of the lungs and bad colds have prevailed to some extent delicate and aged people have suffered much and some few deaths have occurred last week we were called to part with our beloved and much respected sister thurza wife of edwin harley over four hundred persons attended her funeral sister cazier wife of our respected patriarch and several other aged sisters are very sick and little hopes are entertained of their recovery elders hyde lyman and E snow on their way homa from the legislative assembly held meetings berei here giving the saints much valuable and timely instruction elder snow on the lith of feb accompanied compa nied by bishop C H cbryan HB brsan bryan ryan judge jacob G bigler presidents of seventies S J and T S hoyt royt hoyland and other elders visited the saints at chicken creek two good meetings were held and a branch of the church organized there E elder eider ider lder abraham palmer was appointed presiding teacher and elders J wilson and W morgan his assistants elder snow gave the saints of this branch much choice and fatherly teaching which if observed will enable them to have good meetings and peace and union in their families and settlement he instructed the bishop and president of seventies at nephi to visit them and send elders often to hold meetings with the saints at chicken creek also with those who reside at mona ilona willow creek the and quorums of seventies meet together once a week and have good meetings our somjai hall has been often occupied during the winter with balls social parties dramatic representations and concerts the juab dramatic association have had two excellent social parties performing the golden farmer and deaf as a post which with dancing made a fine evenings entertainment tain ment during the coming week bernard snow will appear in the characters of rolla and theS trauger professor concert went off well and was a treat to all who love good singing more anon respectfully SAMUEL CE CEDAR DAR CITY iros IRON county feb 27 EDITOR DESERET NEWS we have enjoyed a very pleasant and mild winter very little snow until within the past two weeks in which we have had three severe storms with high winds the mountains now look promising for a good supply of water when irrigation tion time comes we have completed an excellent and substantial new bridge over coal goal creek this winter in place of the one washed away by the big flood in 1855 1865 considerable de rable rabie public work has agen done during the tho winter and several new brick houses erected I 1 have lately returned from a preaching mission through all the southern settlements in company with bishop gardner and sever several at other brethren we found the saints generally happy prosperous and well contented with their mission to dixie 11 so much sa that I 1 heard several say that that they would be sorry if they were asked to move bac bae baek back knorth north the lord is truly blessing his saints and the earth for their sakes and causing it in that desert count country ry through their faithful labors and his blessing to be fruitful and blossom as the rose we have been highly entertained during the winter by a series of concerts given by the cedar choir under the leadership and management of bro john al macfarlane with kind regards to yourself and the brethren in the office I 1 remain your brother in the covenant of peace HENRY luat lunt VINE COTTAGE tooele thoele city march 13 EDITOR DESERET NEWS that utah is capable of producing the finest of fruits usually grown in temperate climates in the greatest profusion sion slon and of unsurpassed quality is no longer disputed this being the fact it follows that the raising of fruit drying i and otherwise p preparing re paring it for markets more 0 r 0 or less distant will form one of am the ae leading a chig branches of our foreign pd and ard domestic trade TO create and sustain a commercial latue for our own dried fruits we must of necessity provide means for producing an article of uniform excellence in quality the divine promise of the former and the latter rains has been and doubtless will be fulfilled to the people of this territory the latter rains however beneficial they may be in all other cases are peculiarly inconvenient to the adist while drying his fruit one thorough wetting when fruit is partially arti artl ally aily dried will lessen its value one half after the second or third wetting it is only fit for the pios piga or to be distilled into brandy our traders should hereafter make distinctions in the price paid for dried fruit based upon quality qualify and d guage their scale of prices by the of injured specimens with the lessons of 1864 and 1865 before me I 1 set myself to devising a plan for drying my fruit so that I 1 could on very short notice protect it from idi ini injury ry r wet weather while in the drying pro 1 jess less and as I 1 was completely success ul I 1 write this for the information of all ill who may wish to do likewise in the spring of 1866 1 purchased of square edged red pine lumber one roe inch thick thoroughly sea sen seasoned sonea it and then telen worked it up into forms forma twelve teet leet long by four feet wide fastened together by three battens one inch by six inches letting the battens project ro two inches beyond each side aide men uen I 1 then nailed a strip of inch lumber three inches wide along each side and nailed a strip two inches wide across each end thus forming a rave two inches high around eacil each form to every eight of these forms I 1 made a tight cap or cover thirteen feet long by five feet wide I 1 then fitted up a permanent scaffolding facing the sun at a proper angle to secure the greatest amount of heat 37 my longest range of scaT beat scaffolding is fee feet at the west end I 1 placed stout timbers near the ground upon which to pile up eight forms one upon the other the battens forming rests for each and leaving open spaces for ventilation being careful to give a sufficient incline to let the water run off freely I 1 then reared a scaffolding long enough for eight forms then another piling place and so on upon the approach of a shower I 1 pi nid mid up my forms put on the caps and took qui quiet it satisfaction in watching the falling rain I 1 have uncovered and spread out my forms after a rain of eighteen hours duration and found the fruit dry and in good condition to show how complete is this mode of protection I 1 will state that with the a assistance of two boys and one man I 1 have covered up and secured four hundred bushels of fruit in forty minutes each of those forms will hold four bushels of peaches or two and a half bushels of currants with my present experience I 1 would recommend others not to make their forms so large nor to make them of red pine ine lne as weight is an important consideration lra Kra de ration tion especially when they have to be piled up an and d spread out from once to twice each day for a week together as was the case last season cash is scarce produce is cheap uncle samuels internal revenue collector is after one a part of what every man eats and nearly all that ho he wedis wears just now smells strongly of war prices and reckless expenditure the weather is made up of cold coia and a little warm and a little littlemore more cold snow rain and then a little more sno snow the bottoms bottoms of the roads are from two to six feet under the surface the whole country is afloat or very mellow the irrepressible grasshopper is in prospect and times are aro dull 9 generally ene rally raily one needs two dollars for fon everyone i in lis his its possession and I 1 hava havu been |