| Show p J ia I 1 I 1 09 1 I fune fine luns t P 2 1 k J 2 Q I 1 I 1 mr editor having an invitation from elder edward stevenson to accompany big cotton er he had bad for foy forwarded warded an appointment to preach I 1 gladly accepted the invitation on our way thither we saw aw many fi elds fields of barley and wheat headed out and in a a couple of w weeks weeds farmers told us bar vest would begin which bids fair to be one of the most abundant abundant ever enjoyed by salt lake county farmers 04 2 jOu iou our host bishop brinton of big cot Ct onwood whose ward summered suffered so severely by the grasshoppers grasa hoppers the past two years informed us that the wheat he 1 harvested last year had supplied his family with breads bre ad tunis tufia until within a few days the bishops orchard has suffered much damage perhaps full fall one half of his oldest apple trees having died but bot undismayed he has this year added an acre more to his orchard in which he has planted many grape vines an example M e which I 1 hope will be followed ex tien extensively by his ward which will render much of the poor light soil there abundantly profitable by grape culture bro lewis kindly invited us to luxuriate in his strawberry patch which invitation vi we willingly accepted his im imported arted varieties were mostly gone but athe the wild strawberry as cultivated by him is a creat great success his specimens of the victoria were the largest and most luscious we ever ate in utah brother lewis makes the culture of the strawberry a specialty and he gives it his personal attention ic it is to be hoped that the agricultural prospects which are before us in this COU county nty aty will lii ill be fully realized that the hearts of all may be made glad in seeing the gra granaries narles of our farmers filled to overflowing brotherly yours ROBT L CAMPBELL SALT LAKE CITY june irth 1869 editor deseret evening evenin 9 news mews sir it appears a great many persons I 1 residing in the city of salt lake are in the habit hubit daily of turning theli their cows consi mules and sometimes their horses but more particular p their cow sinto the pub lie streets of the city to graze unmindful or of the law in relation to such matters or of the annoyance to their neighbors stich such as biting the twigs firof off of young trees or others they can reach treading in and breaking 9 down the banks of the water sects filling up the same committing their nuisance sa 11 ce on the sidewalk before ones door or in the door yard if the gate happ happens ens ons to be left open a few minutes either by children or indians and into the garden they go among the truc truck knipping nipping and alid biting at this tramping down that and destroying months of labor in a few minutes no person wishing to do unto others as they would be done by will certainly turn their cattle to graze in the streets to annoy the citi citizens zensi but will turn them into the herd every morning and have them taken out 01 of the city there is a strict law against cattle cattie etc running nanning in the streets and it might be a public benefit ifsits if its provisions were enforced hoping hop 1 ing a word to the wise in season iason s for their benefit will be appreciated 1 I am etc CIT CITIZEN IkEN BOUNTIFUL FUL DAVIS co june 1 edcor editor evening mem eem yew dear sir bir A mos mog e was wag corm corn bitted upon my myself seif self and three other cit 1 eizens one A a lady hiu tri on dur way home from your elty city last evening we were I 1 returning in an ordinary chicago wa wai 1 gon loaded with goods and had proceeded to within about three miles of bountiful when in an un noticed by us as we were in conversa dign together to ether one of wells largo farko co a sta stages 0 es drawn by six horses and having an empty stage attached approached 6 us from behind going at their usual spee dand without the least provocation he the driver deliberately ran the tho first age te i into n to us k nock ip r our wheels smashing our wagon tongue bria breaking aking oui OUE hounds and ana the tongue af pf the vile hind ka stage a e and doing therl damage at the peril of our lives thi this taits destruction property oi or of this jeopardizing of life ilfe no di mure renea mir mif there is of our burat at tempting to atay the ebbing and the flowing of the tide aide there thero wag waa room enough for a dozen stages to pass where thib this gross outrage was committed and why yby such du outrages trages should be tolerated we cannot tell teil we must have sustained great injury andoor and our wagon have been bjolsen to pieces had ap the tongue of the hind stage snap pectin in two this stage would have locked wheels heels tave with us and the results would have been dou doubtless ad ead in the extreme no apology WaS waa offered fon foe this a and ud no attempt at reparation s lut but abuse abuso only was bestowed yours truly i WILLIAM thurgood ita itt i TT mee wms we are aia afa indebted in deli ted to the courtesy co ur tasy of I 1 I 1 president e nt neg A Smith for the following letter UNION 17 U T jpe e ai st I 1 1809 president geo A saji r dear DM brother among other topics for foi our advancement van cement I 1 am pleased to see that the dairy business ia is conning into notice the importance to us as a people of adopting energetic measures in this direction is obvious if we ever become a sustaining self seif people and a start in the right direction is equally important nineteen years ago when the range in this vicinity was fresh and good we milked six cows that I 1 brought across the plains the previous year while they were fresh we made about one pound of butter or two pounds of che ehe cheese ese per day to each cow so that by october we had made more than pounds to the cow and had paid 70 pounds tithing but that time is ehst and now three dozen cows on the same range would not produce as much and if we were to go to the additional expense of shoeing and furnishing cows with green spectacles the butter and cheese would be lacking then to accomplish the desired object a right start seems to be necessary on th this thib s point point I 1 will confine my remarks more directly to salt lake county though they may be applicable to some extent to other localities if the long talked of canals on either side of the jorda jordan n were brought to bear on the thousands of acres of bench land it would produce red zed clover or clover and timothy making luxuriant pastures from which butter and cheese of the best quality could be made an improvement pro in the breed of cows would also be necessary forty good cows and forty acres of good clover and timothy pasture aa sture divided into two or more lots for roc lor alternate use would be a pretty little start for one man or even one small neighborhood or ward Iam lam I 1 am making a move in this direction and next summer I 1 hope to eat butter and cheese from cows running on clover pasture and I 1 want ant to advance in this way vay as fast as ai I 1 can in my orb orchard hard bard where the trees are so large and so close together that the sunshine can scarcely strike the ground clover and timothy grow from 2 to 3 feet high on gravelly bench land and may be cut twice a year and fed green 0 or made plade into hay I 1 consider clover less injurious to fruit trees than any other grass and for pasture it is goo good nine month months in the year or whenever the ground is 19 not nok frozen or covered with snow for winter teed feed corn sown thickly broad cast cut or in drills produces abundantly the anost fodder which together with the various kinds of or roots suitable and calyes may also be produced oll on this po por pon r bench land laid in 1 abundance so that thai tha every evay inan man by a little exertion may at at least nourish fali fill a gow biow cow and two sheep in in a con condition to be worth something and aud 1 asame ame clover pasture asure I 1 ia s prep preparing rin gIll ha I 1 land ud I 1 for I 1 good wheat crops while additional pastures may b ba prepared pre pareO and so an alternately and anki the tho manure of of tle the an emals als ais is all saved raved in t the b e fields or oran I 1 a the yards ap and d stables A sufficiency y 0 of f p pasture being prepared for the cows calves and borkan work animals animal and the hundreds or perhaps thousands of thosa those animals called horses hoisea banished from front ole dle country count rythe the ont dut ariga might buit bult sustain ain aln 1000 sheep sleep through the my grazing season these sheep should be so imp roved that they produce mor than floor ar treb pounds 0 of wooi wool ca to tho th animal I 1 andee ibale kind of winter f feed deed a alluded dp to for thea t hi cows would woula 6 0 f t them hem also buethe tiie tife ddn rin obstacle W 6 1 in the e minds minda b bi r same 6 4 be bonfe 1 iti a 1 V variety 41 1 I e t X 0 of ays WR hwa aya A lff ff 0 ora v e t 4 0 rp wild plum bl bv and abil loll on e ordah n I 1 swerve INN 9 t that 4 a fit git fit can biri bd bei veldeania bel deania lerla lerta ji jl aply apay in many esby cutting ditches for the surplus water but it is I 1 probable ro babie bable that a more durable sub substance stange may be constructed ted of wire and bedar posts at a moderate expense with this hasty sketch of some of my views on thib this subject I 1 ama am a well wisher i for fon fo your prosperity and advancement a and spur brother in the gospel of truth f S COALVILLE UTAH TERRITORY t june 1869 1860 editor evena evening ng news DW dear sir As you were pleased to print the communication ni I 1 sent a few days since I 1 take the liberty of sending again As I 1 am passing through your country and gathering up the wonders of gods god gor glorious and beautiful world I 1 may occasionally jot down a few lines that may prove interesting to some minds among your various readers in riding along I 1 sometimes become weary in holding the head so long up gazing on these mountains upon mountains and trying and ever vainly trying to take them in how childish the idea of this region as gathered from maps of the latest edition there they the rocky mountains are all marked out does not every one know all about them can they not be seen but bat when you come to the rocky mountains you will find your latest edition maps need 4 le ie constructing 11 from the time you strike the medicine bow Mountains the eastern range of the rocky mountains until you leave the great bear mountains the western range of the rocky mountains you have upwards of four hundred miles in width of mountains these ranges run in every possible direction and as you climb to the highest summit it is but to behold a vast area extending to the horizon covered with peaks and occasionally sio nally a loftier range upon whose sides the snows yet linger fire and water are the prominent agencies whose effects are everywhere visible here As a whole these mountains cannot be described bed we must confine ourselves to some particular localities and only make a rude sketch of these in one place formales for miles they look as if some vast ocean had bad rolled its long ground swells and just as they were ready to crest creste create I 1 had stood still in stone in the back ground is the long graceful curve then the crest standing out in perpendicular rocks several hundreds of feet in high highland tand from their base again commences the beautiful curve thus flowing and breaking for miles and miles until the mind involuntarily falls back into contemplating the forces that have acted upon or the immense I 1 periods of time that have passed in the formation of these stupendous exhibitions exhibition a and it is when standing on the edges of these crests and looking down u upon p on he the ruins below that we become deeply d e e p impressed with with the forces producing the geological geol logical changes now no altering the features olour of our planet the immense rocks scattered all over the plain at their bases show the agencies of water frost air ice and gravitation and the vast caverns worn into their sides hu hundreds n of feet up show the action of the winds and water waters some of these are as smooth as if polished by the most skillful and careful hand band descending from these heights we shall be none the less astonished though perhaps in a different manner the rivers for many days are generally so muddy that a glass full of the water neater can scarcely be i seen through the w waters a under undermine m 1 ele lle the lowest edge of the banks and then th e a they cleave off and settle perpendicularly down to be again worn 0 off X and again settle down andio and so on until that cleavage ia is washed away then it commences another I 1 have hate een seen some bome places where noless no jess than three of these theve clearings cleav ings were going on at the same time so that the three great steps were carpeted with green greo n and the risings painted in the reddish colored soil this explains to us the reason of these canons having their walls so rio perpendicular and in many places abrupt also the difficulty I 1 ty of forming bridges and roads in this section I 1 turning the eye from these scenes and letting it rest on the th evales vales evalea which sk skirt t he the rivers brink it dwells upon a lux luz odiousness as vast asit as ly beautiful the wild flowers are sean seemingly in ly without wito t limit ei el theras to quantity oc pr color in some places they y are in massed beds what brilliancy and variety of ozior how many ages must t ahe abe lie lle work of disintegration ha have vb been going on to prepare stife ithe mold for thib sustenance of df buch such covely do vely velv mines and mid iwald through chamber after chamber bhosee made shin ing carbon brid arid hee jaee that hundreds of feet of rok ro roi k are above oswe try co 6 figure to our m in ds ine tin vast areas of sea weed or of forest that bave have grown up flourished and decayed to form these dark strat strata aund annd and the mind is again led into calculations that lead it up to an eternity past as absolute to 18 our finite comprehension elision as aaflie the eternity which lies before us thanking god for thi privilege of abiona the wonders of his bra power and goo goodness duess as displayed in your 1 territory I subscribe e myself truly erdl su a lover of df the 1 di 1 AND wa WONDERFUL VL |
