Show Swym Uw CEDAR CITY iron county april 6 EDITOR DESERET NEWS most of last week was a very stormy time in this part of the country snow fell to the depth of about two feet but soo BOO soon thawed ond off making the soil too muddy to plough so we improved the time in laboring on ou public works and repairing and cleaning out the water sects in the city and fields this week since the weather has been finer a large number f fruit trees have been beell planted out I 1 planted out an orchard of one hundred and four apple trees of choice varieties the tho apple promises to do well here and some excellent fruit was raised last season considerable attention is being paid to sheep and wool raising our sheep are fast increasing in numbers but much improvement might be made in the breed good care with a change of range are the main things with all breeds we have bulit built three large cor alls ails the past winter in different places with a rock house for the herdsmen we have a good summer herd ground on the east mountain with a couple of large corales and a house samuel leigh and co are building a machine shop h 0 to run by water power which ini twi will wiil ay soon be in operation cutting laths baths and shingle shingles 4 wood turning ac the health of the people is good and the he indians a are re peaceable your brother in the gospel HENRY LUNT |