Show i ves vel 4 1 ie indea indebted ted to president george A smith for a letter from elder george fe 0 O abdale dated liverpool oct from hrom which we present the following extract the tile elders generally are enjoying good health it maybe interesting to you to hear where they are laboring richard E enn ean presides over the bir mingham Cop con ference terence which is consid ered the best conference of the mission and my fellow traveler across the plains II 11 B clemons demons labors under ids ius directs directions ba platte lyman presides ever aver the london lendon conference having to assist him john F hardie and bf M F farnsworth alonzo E hyde presides oyer leeds conference having orson 0 holbrooke for traveling elder H 0 jacobs presides over manchester conference Ion ference antl and Jos josiah lahM AI ferrin labors amder ander his direction wm win if homer presides pre sides aidea over leicester C conference L presides over nottingham Gm conference ference and 0 B shaw is traveling elder joseph lawson presides over norwich vieh conference henry Woodman woodmansee seo presides preside over southampton conference i i and alyd earn edmund und and eldridge another of my companions on the p plains pins ins travels under his liis directions henry J mccullough presides pre aides over reading conference jank frank H hyde hyda presides over sheffield and joseph glossop travels under his directions nathan B baldwin presides over StaFord staffordshire shire conference edward L butterfield presides over warwick adire conference and H F smith is traveling elder abiah ablah W brown presides over bristol conference and fl J jones is traveling elder joseph S richards presides over Bedford shire conference josiah F gibbs preside presides s over cheltenham conference edward G dward A nobie noble presides over durham and newcastle conferences and J T W lee is iii traveling elder john R clawson presides over essex robert dye presides over herefordshire Hereford shire james need itam hum presides over kent and james W fisher Is traveling elder 31 ensign presides over liverpool and IV farr is tr traveling avelin g elder ireland the isle of aan nan aam a and nd preston are included in this conference bro W howard and wife are well he has a roving commission and is about to visit irela ireland nd lellas evas morris presides over the welsh wels h Al district strict james sharp presides over edinburgh in IhL john E pace presides over glasgow conference and isaac grover graveris Gro veris Is traveling elder nephi pratt presides oyer glamorgan wm win cr thomas over ater carmarthen Car marthen levi IV richards over Monmouth shire conference thomas P green over north wales conference and john yohn B S lewis over swansea jesse M 3 smith presides over the scandinavian van mission ion lon kari karl G maeser presides ov erthe r the swiss and german mission assisted by heber young willard B Ria richards hards and lewis M grant another of my companions on the plains mar cam holling presides over the holland mission and octave ursenbach presides over belgium I 1 have ha ve received let im from heber young lewis M grant and ad james sharp they were all well and are beelin feeling first rate there where is to 1 be e a general election next manth month and there seems to be a likelihood of some disturbances 0 SALT nake LAKE CITY 1 nov 1868 edithp deseret dejerez jews last night ate e lith dinst I 1 delivered my fifth lec ec bore tore in ane ath ward meeting house ache the roads roada were muddy and the evening ing dark still we had bad a comfor comfortable tab le Aba aha amenably embly of eager listeners although had the evening been more propitious the bishop assured me that the house would have been crowded tilaia doubtless a good wool producing in Z country but it is no use concealing the fact that wool has not been raised profitably in utah owing more particularly 1 I I 1 y to the want of facilities for wintering r provender for sheep cannot t be produced cheap enough to make wool growing pay expenses in consequence of e the scarcity of hay lands and the expensive system of irrigation which our farmers are compelled to follow if a careful calculation is made I 1 think it will be found that utah has not produced wool enough to make stockings euffe elent clent for the men to say nothing of the women aomen and children A wether two yearb years of age well cared for may make Ms elbs of wool wooi in that time and the carcase weigh ibb ibs and it has cost not less than two dollars to winter him and a dollar to herd him in the summer well from this loo luo jb of carcass we have made 6 lbs ibs of textile material one hundred pounds of silk bilk worms will give 2 00 0 which in 42 d day a s with proper propel at t dence will give vly 7 1 lbs ibs b 8 of reeled silk the wool ia is worth 50 cents per pe rIb ab and the silk from flom 5 to 1000 it does not require a shrewd calculation to see where the advantage in profit lies it will I 1 think be much to our advantage to produce silk tt V exchange for wool the silk worm requires neither hay oats nor roots and produces a ma material t erial th that a will purchase for us any commodity we need from the outside world the migratory system of herding sheep may however give us woo lofa a better quality and in greater abundance wo we shall see after the lecture speeches were made by E rushton bishop and others on motion it was unanimously agreed to organize in the ath and oth wards a operative cooperative co silk producing society bishop was elected president james thompson secretary and ralph thomson treasurer G D wart WATT SALT LAKE CITY nov 9 1863 editor deseret nebbs last evening sunday esth dinst I 1 delivered my thir third d lecture in the ward assembly rooms the evenin evening t was cold and wet under foot yet there was a good atte attendance n dance to deliver dellver a lecture on the lords day as it is called on the culture of the mulberry tree for the production of silk may shock the religious propriety of religious religions professors abroad but the mind by sectarian prejudices will understand that it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day as on all other days true vue religion has to do with ties as well as with spiritualities and while the man servant and maid servant their ox and their ass rest still it is a temporal labor to worship god on that day by repenting of all our wrong doings by praying for forgiveness and by meekly listening to the salutary corrections ions of moral ae lectures from the lips of ministers of peace it may be asked what has the production of ok silk to do with morality and religion much every way it is morality and religion to provide food to subsist upon and it is a work of humanity and religion on all days to teach the ignorant how to do this it i is s equally so in reference to clothing the body the mormon formon people have for years given their wealth of labor to strangers to supply covering 0 for the body and thereby have impoverished themselves and have thrown into jeopardy their political and religious liberty then is it not right to strive even oven on the sabbath day to remedy these wrongs by lecturing upon a species of culture that will clothe our people and make them partially if not perfectly in dependant of foreign production and foreign labor I 1 was listened to with great interest during the lecture I 1 exhibited cocoons and explained the operation of silk reeling showing them a beautiful bank hank of reeled silk produced and reeled by bister sister barrows of the ath ward I 1 also exhibited a hank bank of spun silk spun from cocoons from which the miller or moths had emerged at the same time producing a cocoon prepared for spinning drawing it out with my fingers into an impure thread oread showing how easily it can be spun and made into cloth I 1 am enthusiastic on the culture of the mulberry tree and the production of silk in our mountain valleys my enthusiasm has been born and has grown with the practical demonstrations which I 1 have produced proving the feasibility of thia this business for no country in the world excels this in healthfulness to the silkworm silk worm at the close of the lecture bishop hoagland nominated his two coun counselors to assist him in the presidency of the silk producing operative cooperative co society of the lith ward and donated nive five aeres acres of land to the society to be devoted to the growth of oe the mulberry tree I 1 shall deliver my ath lecture in the lith ward meeting house bishop me raes on tuesday evening 10 instant it 7 pm the lord willing G D WATT the following extract of a letter re leiven this morning from a chicago gentleman Jent tent leman lemau we publish as giving the diews of an intelligent man not con with our church on a matter that has recently been claiming considerable public attention on reaching home I 1 found a few of the latest members of the NEWS on my desk the others to my regret had been borrowed never to be returned and on reading them find that as a people you are determined to be still more seif self sul sup porting than before although many may condemn the action of your church as a selfish one I 1 consider it avise and just your people have made that valley w what hat it is and it is right that you should reap the benefit it is the use of the luxuries of life which keeps heeps most men with their noses to the grindstone so long and if people will only learn that they are actually better off healthier in body and in mind by living naturally they will do so I 1 look back to my visit to your beautiful city with great pleasure without exception every one was kind to me and I 1 remember them all with gratitude SALT LAKE CITY nov 7 ios jos editor deseret evening weeva after meeting ine yme eting and the kind entertainment of president t ballantyne Ballar tyne and after four miles travel south bouth I 1 arrived at huntsville and filled an appointment we had a good meeting although president hammond of this place 30 and nd a large share of the men are on the western portion of the ra railroad bod kod vod about half of a crop has his been raised here some of which has gone over a pas passable sable sabie road across the rhoun mountain tain to the weber railroad seven miles distant A number of L hewed ewed log buildings are built baill i here and tiie the stone meeting house is quite comfortable and creditable for the age of the place timber is abundant and range excellent but snow sometimes falls three feet deep in winter A new but not very substantial mill starts running a again ain aln today tomay to day which if successful will save hauling grista griets to 0 oden ogden den fourteen miles down a rather rough canlon cation ogden river is formed by three forks north south and middle the north leads a short distance north of eden city in some low timbered mountains the middle only a few miles northeast between eden and huntsville to 1 the tire east the south and main fork from the east running south of huntsville to the west forming a small but beautiful valley up in these chambers the air is very bracing and healthy scarcely any sickness is known here wednesday the ath passing down ogden river from huntsville and one ml mile mlle ble bie down the canon carion we passed over a bridge just above a mill the river form ing inga a part of the dam it was delightful to see scores of speckled trout as the bright sunshine sun shone so brilliantly on the surface of the clear water one of which lay jay flopping on the bridge fished out by the hook of a skilful lad this bridge is known by the name of shangyi bridge it is a high and unfinished affair in crossing it there being some snow on the track a yoke loaded with lath fell down the wagon began to run lacu lack back baek the danger was fearful no railing orn ori the bridge and the poor dumb brutes brutts seemed to understand der stand their peril perli and upon their knees succeeded in taking their load av over er safely about bix aix or severt seven seren miles further traveling brought us to the D factory of Iress rs randall bandall co bro randall was there with his coat off attending the saw and shingle machine and seeing to the factory which he took pleasure in showing us through it was doing a driving business we strolled U up stairs into the carding and spin ning ning department E everything looked clean and orderly one young man attending to the spindles and it was ee easy tsy to contrast threads so accurately y drawn out with a woman wisman drawing iu out one thread and often breaking it several revolutions were made and no not one thread broke I 1 asked the tender dr how often he had to stop to mend his threads ho he informed me they made 30 revo revolutions revolution lutio ns sometimes passing the weaving department where the linsey fluer claths cloths not hot omitting the useful lievy havy blankets which are now in so much demand among the railroad workers uie are mae mac made ie we met bp west hunting UP 50 airs eirden J taylor tay lor and others wil wll who 0 tave eave have havo not already been supplied I 1 feel that cold snowy weather is at hand andall demand blankets one old oid gentleman and two sons who crossed the plains in my company hoped the time was at hand when they could also work the he silk grown in our valleys this thib fae fac tory ory commenced work june 27 I 1 1868 and I 1 was pleased to hear from br bandall that ibs lbs of wool was nearly all worked up in useful fabrics he hoped jhb brethren would raise and fetch on their wool so that he would not have to purchase from other parts he has already been obliged to purchase two lots from oregon ad arid lbs ibs t the h e last lot a at t cents per ib and I 1 was pleased to learn that in making the purchase he was able to exchange lbs ibs of salt at 40 10 per tun or 2 0 cents per ib lb the building has already been de ascribed scribed as a substantial building scarcely search ajar can be felt thursday I 1 attended fast meeting with the brethren at union one mile this side of weber riv the ri river v er is isa easily forded corded at this thi time and the bridge partly finished awaits the return of the railroad hands to ninish finish it before the high waters come rolling down so furiously as it does at this point I 1 returned to this city after an absence of 7 days just in time to escape the late heavy storm during daring this time I 1 held 0 meetings gd with good wishes to your successful paper that finds and comforts the homes of thousands of Deseret ians lana lausI remain as ever the friend of that liberty which has made us free in our moun tain home edvard EDWAED STEVENSON steveson SALT lari larff CITY hov ROV OV 11 1868 E aitor deseret news newl last night the loth dinst I 1 delivered my fourtly fourth lecture on the cultivation of mulberry trees 11 anyeth production of slik by means of the silkworm exhibiting specimens which caused m much 1 uch interest in the subject wm win A mcmaster will manufacture a hank bank of spun silk w which bich bieh bleh I 1 let him have into fishl fishI fishing DF line the ro reduction of silk by fhe the latter day 8 ailts in utah should be made a speciality for it stands at the head of every other industry in po point 1 int of ease of production and profit and it is the only export we have that will ivill command a steady and reliable market abroad the world is our market and it never can with silk such as utah can produce I 1 have often been met with the saying 61 everybody cannot go into the ba business 8 iness ot of raising silk true I 1 am not ignorant of the fact that our people will in time become more fully organized and industries of all kinds will be classified but I 1 contend that the production of silk should receive our earliest cartiest notice for it finds a light and profitable employment for tens of thousands of persons who are now non pro dubers drawing their support 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