| Show SETTLERS FOB FOR THE MUDDY the prospect is 13 that what has been known as our dixie will ere long become one of the most inviting portions of the territory the removal of aw so many sturdy energetic young men from this city and neighborhood to the southern portion of the territory will have an excellent effect the infusion of this young blood will give agrest impulse to business of every kind and the country will bo be rapidly developed f from rom brother joseph birch who has just arrived from st george we learn there are great numbers of wagons on the road leading south filled with the YOU young ng people who are in oving moving down they have been favored in traveling with exceedingly pleasant weather in visiting st george for the first time we were struck with the number of old familiar faces which we saw people we in of this city st george seemed to be almost entirely peopled by former old residents of this city the departure of so many young men from this city to the muddy will give the settlements there a similar appearance in in I 1 this respect to st george these young men as a general thing are members of the best families we have in the community and are certainly a very select company the larger portion of them were born either when their parents were on the road to this valley or after their arrival here and nearly all have had the best examples they could have in the labor of forming settlements and building cities with such a training we shall be disappointed if they do not make a i wonderful change in affairs airs ains where they go it must be a novel sight to other people to witness our method of forming settlements in this country we h have a ve needed cotton and other staples for ou consumption in the territory which could only be successfully raised near our southern limits on the outside of the rim of the basin it was necessary therefore that settlements should be formed there among other places the muddy river was wah as pitched upon as a suitable location some few families settled there but they were not str strong enough to be safe at one of our recent conferences volunteers were called for to go and strengthen those settlements but this call did not meet with any response the whole community if called would move without any hesitation to any point that might be designated but they have a feeling amounting almost to an aversion against volunteering there were none who volunteered at this last conference a dif dlf different lerent course was taken A number of young men were called by name to go as its missionaries to the south whis whis this was a call that no man professing any faith in his re ligion could disregard the conference had bad scarcely ended before many of those who had been cald cand called were fitted up for their mission and ready to move and this too without their having received any previous warning there was no debating as to whether the climate or country would suit them but without demur they stepped forward to 1111 fill the mission assigned them by Is aaili a li meads means aa these one of the most moat forbidding t look looking ing edg sections to be fou found d on the continent has been and will still further be I 1 settled experience will prove to them t hat that the country is much better than it looks under the influence of their faith and united efforts the land will change as if by magic the barren desert will become fruitful and in the stead of the terrible solitude and desolation which in many places now prevail there will be heard the bus busy hum of industry and all the sound sounds 0 of civilized life there is something glorious in a religion that will prompt men to such deeds as these men may sneer at it but certainly the results wrought out by its agency can not be despised we hear considerable of late respecting ing the anxiety of the leading merchants merchant ofsan of san francisco to establish a line of steamers on the colorado river and to create a trade there they have subscribed liber ilber liberally aily ally for this purpose but who is doing the most to create trade in that country the utah people eople of california or the tc people of utah california subscribes seri serl Es money but utah sends population men with strong arms stout hearts and fruitful brains who are not afraid to grapple with the difficulties incident to a new anew country and who have shown themselves capable of founding an empire |
