Show ej 0 PH eam Sem emm r 42 ISLING ton TOy LIVERPOOL july 1868 elder gcorge george Q cannon beloved brother your two letters reached me safely As you are not the only one of my friends whom I 1 may seem to have neglected by not writing if you deem this or a part of it worthy of a place in the NEWS perhaps it might serve serves a general purpose for others who would like to hear from me the sainta saints an n this mission are aregust just now sharing with the saints in zion those mournful reflections which attend upon the departure 04 0 one of earths carth s greatest and best men from their midst we cannot think of Pre president Adent kimball as dead only absent but this is sufficiently saddening when we re reflect fl ec t how much degraded earth needs more rather than less of such saviors upon mount zion sf my last visit with him has ever since seemed invaluable but more especially since the news new s of his decease has reached us what numbers in zion will remember his administrations to them in the holy place and how well may all seek to obey his counsels and to imitate his virtues till we see him again last year the saints had for their absorbing topics the gathering of the poor fighting the locusts and making some defence against tle the tie In indians diang we wo are thankful to hear bear so little lately of the hostility of the red man and to learn by various means that the locusts are ilot riot so bad but that by re planting and varying the crops a sufficiency lency is likely to be realized for all necessary purposes and now that the emigrations emig rations started from these shores perhaps your readers would like to know how ebeo som eom 0 of their contributions have been applied the number of this seasons emigrants em i ats ais is three thou thousand hand tand and two hundred who went out in the following vessels 1 I I 1 john june jane 4 carrying saints emrald emerald isle isie 20 46 constitution 21 1144 minnesota zoi zoo 50 63 mi 1 I 1 colorado july 11 goo 1 ow jt ya 87 I 1 t the remaining number humber sufficient to make up the total went on different vessels as the peculiarity of their circumstances required of this number about one hundred intended to stop in the states the balance started for utah the total is made up from the following named countries england 1845 1 wales scotland ireland 16 cha eha channel n nel nei isles jersey 24 isle isie isle isie of man do 0 denmark sweden norway 0 63 north germany 3 switzerland 41 italy ital 8 bavaria 2 france 1 netherlands isy S returning missionaries missionaries are not included in the foregoing they number 40 my first atte attention ution was given to those who were prepaid and ordered out by the president all those if belonging to the church have been sent out or the reasons returned to the president why they did not go of this elass class there were about four hundred then the numerous instances where parties had received drafts which in many mapy cases put with what they had deposited in the fund or with what they could obtain by disposing of their emmi effi effects acts enabled a considerable number to get away when I 1 caffie came to choosing I 1 found some who had been thirty one years in the church herband here and faithful of this number I 1 believe all were helped out that I 1 could learn of except one who Is united to an unbelieving eving husband and therefore could not go many who could date their standing from thirty down to twenty years and had bad almost enough but not quite have been assisted to complete their required amounts 1 and thus the funds have been extended to and become a means of dellver deliver deliverance anc ano tor to a considerable number who could not otherwise have got away while there are many of this class remaining who who having a good part a few pounds would help them out and and though J had great joy in assisting so many yet set et I 1 could but feel grieved when cheni 1 I was obliged to cease rendering tendering the desired assis assistance fance to worthy saints and some too whose adverse circumstances reri reil rendered it apeci specially ally aily desirable that they should have aid X e i hundreds of the remaining saints imm have already some bome pait part of tion lion money deposited in the office and will toil on adding their drops to 6 gake lake make the necessary necess arv bucket full and hoping that the aid of friends fin lin in utah will come by draft or by prepayment and order through the president to complete the amounts necessary for their deliverance next year the tho peculiarities attending the present seas seis seasons onys operations here have required much of the assist assistance olnee vince of the spirit ly fi of f bod god to get along with it as ifill arwe as we have but the moat most annoy ana mischievous of it all has been the letters that have come here in about albe je following terms finlow now I 1 john I 1 oyve ve donated so much to help yoland you sou and N J your ur famil family y out burward our ward has raised 56 many thousand dollars and I 1 heard e of the twelve or presidency say the lamerl lAmeri 0 american can cap elders would all be called thome and the mission closed up 1 now you sell up as quick aa as possible and 1 write up toBro to Bro Franklin at liverpool and tell him you are all ready and want to go on tha arst ship the result lof such counsel freely extended through the has been to leave a considerable number who could by no possible means getaway get away destitute of home and out of work compelling them to withdraw their deposits in order to avold avoid absolute su frering suffering sunne ring beside adding scorn acorn and reproach from the world to their already hard enough condition my repeated admonitions on this subject in the star have availed only in part I 1 many branches throughout the mission misi I 1 havet have been disorganized and so far as practicable attached to neighboring branches as have also several of the conferences 50 so that the effects of the emigration this year are distinctly felt in all parts of the british conferences thet thel missionaries are mostly young but are generally diligent and devoted fo to their thein labor and we have hope that soon boon soon a good work of additions by baptism will be reported I 1 J intend what time I 1 can among the conferences ce band sand Baud aud and by the help of the lord 1 assist to strengthen their hands by any ab y and all means in my power I 1 think of starting tonight to night for zurich to attend conference there next sunday if the lord will the health of the elders is generally good and so far as I 1 know each is endeavoring deavo savoring eav oring ring to do his part well the heat aud and drouth are much greater this summer bummer than I 1 ever before experienced in england the EVENING EvENI ING NEWS and juvenile instructor arrive quite regularly and are very interesting to us I 1 send the star regularly to you with love to you and the brethren with you in which my assistants asi stants stauts join tam lam your brother in the gospel F D RICHARDS ial a ent eft ST THOMAS arlzo arizo ARIZONA fa f r if 0 july 19 1868 1 1 I editor E deseret newe news your esteemed paper has for some time not mot come to raper gaper hand haud and regularly via st george on account of too heavy mails though the more circuitous route via Parah nagat has hab brought the NEWS news more speedily and regularly to st joseph than we receive it at the best beat of times through st george our reinforcements sent to us from sait salt lake last fall full have mostly de camped again and are on a visit to the city leaving our ranks pretty well thinned we hope for their timely return as their is work enough laid out for all to do we have had tine summer weather here lately the thermometer ranging from 90 at sunrise to 1120 at noon iu in the shade 1550 in the sun 1000 loo at midnight and the water in the town ditch reached gop 90 frequently in your issue Is sue of july just come t hand I 1 notice a communication of mr bertrand tooele thoele of called forth by my hastily sketched hints on grape growing on the benches around salt lake in the preceding paper which I 1 should pass by unnoticed but for the request of friends frienda who have noticed hla hia strange prognostication that southern utah and arizona can never produce wines in the least degree approaching the famous burgundy because our locality is too warm 11 were were this assertion sustained by truth I 1 should receive idaa it to valuable but attan not uoti 00 facts and the whole of the ti tio tic world is under the same mistaken notion asi aslam am that the warmer countries of our world excel the colder onele onea iu in the th quality equality of their wines and indeed mr B himself tells us in tb the same letter that the south of france produces from the muscat grapes the hobt sugary wines of the world and that very bu tu perlor wines were grown in sun sunny dy africa also that the same grape so peerless in the south of france would not ripen around paris his prediction comes cornea a little too late for we have already made wines here that will compare favorably with any that it ever was my fortune to taste in the famous crape grape regions of the rhine and the upper rhone as well as the noble land of france fran eran CP H W E R dodge has wine made of the as abella isabella grape and the isabella has innumerable nd merable merabie superiors as a wine grape is pronounced a superior article by corpe competent tent judges and from t the h corn acom mon mission grapo there was a wine made at Tok orville last season which in win alcoholic strength and saccharine properties ti Cs 9 surpasses sur a ases the bt best st burgundy ever analyze analyzed and lacked nothing but aroma of being a perfect wine win e this lack is not in the climate almate but in the variety of the grape and this we are now ing ve we have now nil all the prominent varieties of the european wine grape which are cultivated in the theline wine wino districts s of europe even to the eirean the Black burgundy the madeira wine grape aad the Tr amnier of the rhine as ats well its as the tells of spain and the fiber and of hungary each true tommme to name and character reproducing with us the excellencies for which they have been esteemed from age to age in their own hindls lands As to seedlings wo we have during the space of seven years of experiment arrived at the tha conclusion that they might gol go goi to glory and the grubbing hoogas disposed of the bulk of them many of our cultivators have raised them by thousands and discarded them they are very tedious and uncertain thin and out of of them when they at last bear there are seldom beldom two of any account still new and rare varieties may thus in process of time be originated and tind it is quite probable that mr B m may ay or originate some varieties well adapted adante d t to 0 t the regions of utah excellent as well as hardy when s speaking of the frontignano of europe 1 meant the varieties which pass by that name in the standard works on fruit culture downing hyatt etc they belong to the mus muscat at family and are tender but being early and if planted as strong yearling plants and not irrigated will mature a sufficient amount of wood to furnish the bearing buds for the coming season though the extremities may be frost killed the fiber is hardier and matures its frulein fruit in 1 at 47 in hungary I 1 have made as good a light wine of it at santa clara as is made from the golden chasselas on the banks of the lakes of geneva and neuchatel Neu chatel the adaptation of a district for grape growing is determined by the mean temperature of the growing season more than by the mean annual temperature and a careful comparison of the mean temperature of sall bale lake valley for june july august and september with that of european locations will show a closer resemblance with that experienced perien ced in the south of france than the mean annual temperature would exhibit mr B is correct in his assertion that an excellent wine is made in a colder region than salt bait lake yet there is no advantage in the low degree of tempera ture of that country but the success of thaL region is mainly due to the extreme artistic culture which the vine arid and its product receive which if applied in more southern regions would produce results still more excellent the mean heat of the cycle of vegetation of the vine must bo be at least 59 fah fab and that of the summer from co to any locality whose temperature falls below these figures can have no good vineyards it is indispensable that at the period following the stoning process there should be a month whose mean temperature does docs not dot fall below 66 fah also that at the period of bf ripening 91 at which time the process of sugar form ing is go going ng on in the grape there should a temperature prevail tending to develop a large amount which will be exactly guided by the heat and arid as in the process of fermentation the sugar is partly converted into alcohol the thre strength of the vine produced will be precisely in pro portion to the heat received during the last jast stage of matura maturation tiou it is 0 on n t this thib h is account that early ripening varieties are the bet be t for cultivation in all thoe local atles where the heat of september Septet Aber shon falls below the mean of 65 which is undoubtedly the tho case gitil with the region of salt bait lake those places which enjoy a summer mean of 73 a hot month mouth of seventy five degrees and a september of 65 will mature the catawba though late in september they will also mature the chasselas the white frontignan and the fiber about the last week of august their glowing season corresponds to a mean of 72 and an aggregate of of heat those places which bask under a glowing summer of 74 a hot month of 75 degrees or more and a september of 75 as los angeles in Californi athe muddy valley and the environs of st at george will ripen the kenderest ten derest of european wine grapes to perfection upon the perfect maturity of the grape d depends ends the amount of sa charitie charltie and alcohol co yoi and the tartaric acid gives tho the wine wino its keeping qualities in the wines of burgundy these ingredients are happily blended in due proportion as is also the case with the famous rhine aa and swiss wines and as in renowned localities I 1 excellent vintages n ard aref abw always ay kep kept over until they have acquired all they can ran by age and as only sueh such wines are exported aa wj will help to maintain the reputation 1 it t is not difficult to establish the belief among men thal that they cannot bo be excel excelled letl or equalled equal led the wines of warm countries have commonly an excess of alcohol beyond the normal standard and a small portion of tartaric acid but when the same care carets is bestowed upon them as the vintage of central france receives and they are kept in cellars in which a temperature can be maintained that will not vary more than ten degrees throughout the year the result is a 11 wine that finds no rival in a cooler clime the ehe Tener liTe the madeira the sherry the lae Lac cristi of naples Naple sali sail sull all ail grow in a climate where the temperature of july rises and the highest heat beat occurs in augusti augusta and where the heat ia is intensified by surrounding debert desert hills or volcanoes the same as ag it is in our dixie are celebrated the world over and claim the reputation or the the flavor of ot wines depending upon variety of grape and not upon locality will mill of couise course course guide the choice of many to a decided preference for some kinds not otherwise superior by ingredients I 1 regret that time and space do nt mot permit ermit enlarging upon the subject but I 1 fearl fear I 1 have already trespassed upon your space my 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