Show roe eoe SP SPRINGS rings co i june 25 1869 1809 edit or deseret xe bews yews president dent joseph young and myself on our way to tooele thoele City were highly gratified to see some of nis bis op keslers keilers Kes lers wheat harvested the earliest we believe in this county the present season I 1 am credibly informed that a raft of bf one thousand railroad ties has been successfully dc cess fully taken from the point of the mountain around the beah of salt lake to farmington twenty miles milos designed for the utah central railroad rall Eail road to be followed follow ed by many other rafts the grain at E T city never looked better the corn stands five feet high and the wheat is good for fifty bushels per acre some of which will be fit for the sickle next week on saturday and sunday we had bad good and full meetings in tooele thoele city the new meeting house hours is nearly ready for n meetings which with the woollen fac to rynear E T city has been delayed during the past year on account of the people being mccu occupied led oil on the UP BR RR bishop Row Bow beris borry berry berrs tells me that a set of brass instruments will soon arrive from the east for the formation of a band in toofie city he also states that the crops throughout the county were weye never better and the fruit prospect is very good on our way to salt lake city we held a meeting at E T having had an interesting trip returning on monday dinst EDWARD STEVENSON 0 PAYSON CITY UTAH co U T june juno 28 1869 editor evening the pond town irrigation ditch is at last completed and is a decided success and a great agricultural achievement it has been two years and a half in construction and owes its final completion to the untiring perseverance and unwearied diligence of the directors of the company of which bro lyman curtis of pondtown Pond town is foreman tile the ditch is eight miles long from the dam at the mouth of spanish fork canon cannon to its western terminus it is designed to irrigate a survey of sixteen hundred acres of land in the vicinity of pondtown Pond town though this season there are but three hundred acres sown the land is of the best quality and particularly adapted to corn sugar cane and roots loots A thriving town is growing up on the old site 0 of what is known as pondtown Pond town but its inhabitants have re baptized it with the more pretentious though still humble name of salem A new school and d meetinghouse meeting house has been erected there ther e and the general watchword seems to bo be improvement crops of all kinds in this thia vicinity look splendid never better if the locusts will but keep aloof for a few short weeks longer we hope to reap such a harvest as was never known before in payson fayson a greater breadth of land bein being in in cultivation than has ever been sown sow n any previous year the health of the people keople is excellent very few deaths have ave oc cured occurred among us for the past six bix months with the exception of a few lazy loafers Joa fers who may be seen sunning themselves on the corners of the streeta streets str eota everybody is at work either in the field shop or canon carion and this being the case case of course everybody is happy except the the few aforesaid loafers active measures are being taken by the leading men of the county to develop the natural and abundant resources of the country and we are looking forward to the time in the near future when we shall all be rich in the good things of this life as in faith and good works I 1 wishing you peace and prosperity I 1 remain your friend and brother ISAIAH M COOMBS 2 |