Show SANTAQUIN may S 1868 editor deseret evening news we are in the enjoyment of good health we attended meetings at the 3rd ard ward provo and at payson yesterday and to day at this place where we were accompanied by bishop john fairbanks his ward comprising payson pondtown Pond town and santaquin San the wheat crops throughout the county are looking excellent but very little damage having baving as yet been done by the hoppers they in some I 1 localities and too small to fly some fields are protected from them b by water ditches which seem effectual in keeping them some patches that have been eaten ohthave come up anew since the late rains the bishops tell me there is plenty of bread in the wards to last till harvest bishop fairbanks has secured his supply for the immigration and other bishops report favorably there I 1 is 8 being considerable corn and other late crops planted there are six schools now in in operation in this ward and some of the best schoolhouses school houses hous s in the county with sunday schools in each branch elders jos F smith A K thurber W B pace and myself expect to hold meeting at nephi this evening yours truly GEO A SMITH NEPHI may ath jtb 1868 editor evening news when payson was first settled it was found impossible to water sufficiently acres of land with Peteet neet creek the water has however increased and a number of springs have broken out and farm has been added to farm and field to field up till the present time and a reservoir has been made on the south side of the town to contain the water to be used in times of scarcity after the spring floods are passed in 1850 a petition was made to bring the waters of summit creek to that bohnson place ince lace this not being granted B F Jo hinson tinson esq made a settlement at summit creek in 1851 supposing there would be water enough for a farm in 1853 it had grown to a considerable village when it was vacated on account of indian difficulties ferney tindall was killed by the indians at this place and 0 C roberts li and J W berry were wounded while carrying an express abel butterfield saved his life and that of several others by running toward the indians calling for others to follow follo W although no others were near hati havi having na arms late in the fall the indians burned the village and next day came into and sued for peace in 1854 the settlement was renewed but for several beveral years the crops were destroyed by crickets and grasshoppers until the people got discouraged with farming and many left the place the beamut beauty of its situation attracted others and zo t the waters ba have ve increased until it has become a tb thriving riving agricultural district producing mady many choice fruits A city site has been surveyed on olover glover creek which bears the name of mona several log logi and adobe houses have been erected within the last year gardens have been fenced and fluit fruit tr trees e es planted some of which are in lit blossom As an evidence of thrift br john kay hay has built bulit a goad frame barn which is well finished and in this country where lumber and other building materials are so scarce it is 14 quite an UD uncommon COMMOn thing in so new a town bros andrew loye love and john A wolf settled on this stream in 1852 put land under cultivation and built houses houss but butt vacated the place in 1853 on account of indian hostilities A band of indians attacked their corral at night which contained a herd of cattle in the charge ol 01 br burns and kept firing for several hours the corral was defended by burns and eleven herdsmen the indians afterwards reported that five of their number died of their wounds and one had bad both arms broken who recovered isaac duffin was wounded in the knee and several cattle were wounded and a few killed hoppers are reported numerous and a iid ild are doing some damage at nephi crops are looking exceedingly well a large part being fall grain GEO A SMITH malakoff Mala maia kofi of the new iliew york tims times in a letter dated paris march 27 gives some statistics as to the number of deaths by accident and suicide the price of land the cost of public improvement ac in that city he says the population population is and that paris has as now reached the alarming figure of two suicides per day the great majority of those who commit self murder are men and unmarried men in 1867 there were suicides a fraction within two per day of whom were single men and 79 married men 39 unmarried women and 38 married women 22 were widowers and 24 widows men whose civil condition was unascertained 70 to 3 women of the same class there were also persons who made unsuccessful attempts at suicide of whom were unmarried men this is a somewhat fearful state of things in a city which is considered ahead of all other cities in the world in fashion and refinement and is a fearful endorsement by the men of paris at least of the saying that it is not good for man to be alone in great britain the month of november has long been notorious as the month in which the greatest number of suicides takes place but malakoff says that in paris pans the greatest number occur in april the total number of accidents that happened in paris in 1867 as well as the he number which terminated fatally is is also given in the course of the year there were accidents of which resulted in death the accidents by carriages numbered 1488 and cost the lives of persons 79 men 16 women and 14 children the accidents from other causes were 2355 of which resulted in death men 77 women and children the number of wounded wasl waal of which 1350 were men women and children speaking of the value of land in that city malakoff says the most valuable corner lot in paris has just been confiscated to the ogre public improvement 11 the entire block of which this lot formed a part has been purchased by the government for the purpose of widening the streets I 1 etc the price awarded by a jury for this the corner lot 25 27 feet wide by 75 long was 2300 francs about in gold in audition aAdi addition tion to this more in gold were paid to the occupants of the upper and lower stories of two shops for their loss of lease and change of location for another lot on the corner opposite to the above and covering less ground the government paid moret more than ban in gold the total amount paid by the government for the right of way through one block about feet long and wide was francs about in gold much of thib this enormous outlay the government will receive again from the sale of small bits of the ground and the increased taxation to be imposed on the houses and stores about to be built which are to be the finest in paris the average returns from the rents of houses in paris is said to be 7 per cent on their cost or 6 per cent in the poor quarters of the city and 8 per cent in the rich john I 1 john get up I 1 the the day ai is breaking very well let iet it break I 1 he owes us nothing interval arval of twenty I 1 minutes john john I 1 here is I 1 a up hes right hes got further to go than we have |