| Show out our editor deseret janews at a meeting held at farmington last saturday thu the at ath at which were present bishops hess e a mith smith and stoker and about thi thirty t of the leading men and principal citizens of davis davia county to take into consideration sundry means for improving our facilities to raise pure seed of the grain cane and vegetables which we grow and also to arrange several other matters of general interest in the county with john IV hess chairman mani mans and arthur stayner secretary the following resolution was unanimously adopted that bishop ayton layton Ii bishop smith bros thomas S smith and P G sessions be and are hereby appointed a committee to put themselves into communication with the inhabitants of weber county or a committee appointed appoint dd by them for that purpose to make arrangements with weber county for general drives mutually beneficial to both counties some considerable sid erable trouble and loss have already accrued through mi sunders misunderstanding banding between the two counties in driving stock and horses as the stock of both counties commingle on the range and ind are driven from one county to the other the meeting took into consideration the matter master of raising pure sugar I 1 cane seed and preventing is being mixed with broom corn coffee corn cor n ac and as a result of their deliberations there emanated the following resolutions that we discard and use our influence to discard the use of any other sugar cane than the early red im phee and theold the old oid sorghum also that we sustain the means already set on foot by bishop stoker to raise I 1 pure cane seed beed in the mouth of north gallon and by bishop layton in appointing bros john ellison and gran dason raymond to raise it on the bench east of kaysville Kays ville til they ey also took into consideration the fea feasibility 9 b ity of eradicating from the fenc feno fences es hedges roads fields flold sand and meadows such noxious weeds as mustard so 1 sunflower parsnip cuckie burr ac and to forward that tw end made a resolution ti to 0 have a committee formed in each ward waro to assist a the bishops amongst other interesting topics thai that of establishing a monthly market at farmington will be introduced Introduce dat at the next meeting may 2nd aad lve we vve have tried to kill grasshoppers with brush drags but gave up in disgust they would not nob be killed that way but this morning farmington turne turned out en masse with spades shovels and and caught the enemy from one to four inches thick under the ahel shelter of weeds benumbed by the cold air of the night and slaughtered some millions we think this thia and burning with straw the ibe only efficient lelent efm eff ways of diminishing their numbers yesterday we were privileged with the company of bros orson pratt and A al musser in the forenoon and bros john taylor and samuel smith in the afternoon and to listen to their inspiriting instructions was a rich treat ARTHUR artrur STAYNER farmington may 11 1868 MOUNT PLEASANT sanpete San pete may loth 1868 editor lesem lesea deser et news our OUT meeting oil oli on friday evening at the nephi meeting house was well weli we 11 attended the audience giving strict attention and the singing excellent four addresses were delivered elders pace face and thurber spoke on the measures necessary for the prevention of a recurrence of indian hostilities elder joseph F smith and myself on the benefits resulting from a proper classification of labor and nd kindred subjects recommended aft at thelast the last conference saturday morning we turned to the eastward stward da our way leading through the far famed salt creek canon cahon the thickets of brush and the immense number of secret lurking places along the road render it one of the most dangerous passes in times of indian hostilities ferous in the mountains A traveler has but little opportunity to escape an ambuscade in any part of it and the eastern ern portion may u not ot inappropriately be galled balled bloody pass in 1853 four of the brethren were killed by the utah I 1 indians indiana nean neaz nean tha gs their I 1 bodies bein being horribly mutilated and left till an armed party came in search of them who saw the indiana nearby on the hill bill taunting them and daring them to up approach the indiana having taken a position for defence 1 1 1 1 in 1858 another tragedy resulted in i 1 the destruction of a family bytho by the sali san 4 pitches who bred upon the unarmed and unsuspecting travelers froida con ceal ment in the bushes and an ox harr har ai hessed up and hitched to the shaves of p v a cart ran away in fright to nephi where his appearance lead to the thedis disa dis a covery of the bodies it is a historical t fact that every indian engaged in this ox affair died of a loathsome disease reo re rep o dembling sem bling consumption 1 ir in 1867 one man was killed another wounded and a herd of cattle driven off by the utah indians in the samei locality the tha horrible scenes that s have occurred along this route must 3 stir up the soul boul to earnest prayer that the descendants descendant of lehi lehl may cease M their savage customs and live with witch god at home at least that this pie pic plent nt tur esque canon eanon may never again be i stained with human I 1 gore I 1 I 1 i crossing the divide we encountered a S severe rain storm we held meetings at fountain green and moroni yester a day and today to day at north Bendan bendandi bend andul dJ mount pleasant each one of the party mccu occupying ing a portion of time address addressing Ingi inva invariably py ria ay full and attentive audiences the hoppers are not so numerous t in this as in utah valley they have not as yet done any harm hanm j crops looky excellent I 1 I 1 I 1 1 iw i i GEO A ai SMITH i en 0 J I 1 I 1 aie nit n 1 t 1 wv logan may iii ili 11 1868 ITI arl ai i evening news mews 1 have rei re rey 1 i turned from a trip through several beveral of I 1 our oun northern settlements the people peoble are rejoicing in the prospects of good crops the late rains have made the crops look very well although the nights are cool mid and somewhat frosty yet the grasshoppers are doing some damage amage abage to the crops in the south end of this valley but we do not anticipate a general attack by them such as we had last year the bishops are all alive in getting the teams ac ready to send for the poor the indians as a general thing seem friendly but it is strongly suspected that P ap pp ko tellas band stole br dr G W Thurs Thur stona fons child some som e of the friend friendly lr indians have gone in search of iti as 1 su that they will bring it backai baek back if it be among any of their tribes PETER MAuG ITAN |
