| Show lupow I 1 t r H er ST sr tho THOMAS abuzo ARIZONA t july 1800 1860 chile our northern brethren live in the midst of the busy scenes seanes ofa of a railroad trave traversed reed country and enjoying the B s consequent here bent upon the recent great chan gewe here in the valley of the Mudd muddy yare are going along at the common pre pace of newly formed places which struggle for the tho chances of subsistence and toil toll to subjugate the desolation of a a barren wilder wilderness ness nees to the use of civilized man our spirits harmonize with the great progressive movements movement of the age but our physical powers are engage engaged d in bat aling with the difficulties op bf bothe the desert debert 1 i aud and our labors javors are devoted I 1 tion of homes which we expect to be i enlivened at some future time tim e by the commerce of the great colorado and the extension of fhe he tal tai tali lail central to the naulga navigable b ia waters of this great greaf western affluent a aupp our ineat leat clops crops were h harvested some soma w weeks eks doand were beloy belda the average C caused ed lbs V scarcity of water emch we have be been een compelled to remedy by I 1 aresti wresting ug another stream of water voter from a swamp which it il was heretofore lost our settlements are as healthy as can be pound found in similar clim climes as in any country the work known here la is a periodical migratory fever nver which causes the people annually to travel north about gout as soon as the summer commences commence sor son or as soon as they get at their wheat blacked clacked u upp to re return turn some few late in the fall th this is malady is our greatest trouble as every man has enough work word to do it Is lavery very phat plain lain iain that twenty five men cannot do what w was planned for seventy five and the progress of the whole is seriously impeded it is thought here that some odthe pali and aud mas mab of the ahe sick might apply a healing balm and help heip a little in turning back the tide of the deserters it is very true that there are dis r courage ments presented here that require faithful spirits tato to face e especially c lai lal the locality of st joseph w apere re m a dry bench of drift sand has been een attempted to be made into a town and to which the people have to draw the water with teams as it j refuses to run there in a ditch on account of the of the bottom and the perpetual traveling of the banks of the ditch before every breeze the peo people p 10 w who ho have stayed there have manifested manifee t a d a persevering obstinacy worthy of a better chance and anet it is hoped that ere long the difficulty will be overcome in one way or other otner either by locating on m more ore oze favora favorable hiel blei ground orby or by controlling the present one wiach which seems very dinni coit colt C ull GIL this valley has pro produced ilpo its first settlement fourbears four jears years ai tago iago got its awn bread more to 0 o the aera acra 4 here than the average of the fertile states of the northwest can bilow show fruits will thrive luxuriantly with reasonable care sweet potatoes m melons aldu squashes beets beeta carrots and many other vegetables prosper well as S they doln doin dp in any country all they need peed is the tho labor labo r and is bestowed upon them in mississippi or je orgia irrigation extra but men can cau cannot not spend three or four months out of the growing season beason in the north and produce these thesel things here at the same time where the thermometer rises to 1100 iio in the shade for a month each day as it does here sometimes to lie ile a patch af pf vegetables or a lot of f vines and trees will not live unattended and bring profI profit lor tOr or satisfaction to the owner four hundred bundred and eighty miles efti this district of country possesses greater facilities than did the region S round around st george settled eight years ago and has kar ar greater chances of becoming self supporting having tried both I 1 can speak advisedly on the subject there is no great likelihood of gentiles desiring this country any MO more re than they desired salt sait lake valley twenty years ago but there can cau be homes made here by industrious saints that will yield ogreater amount and a wider widen range of comforts than any north of the rim of the basin I 1 and where a greater number of people can subsist ou a given space than in any northern clime the first pioneering is over there is a commencement made which will ease future operations and assist the beginners considerably the indians have been so som maha wha tiresome this season in pilfering wheat eap but the hand of the lord is attending to ther their case deaths have been beert very frequent among them for some weeks and we expect from it ift salutary effects on the that rest k and are certain of a good abood effect on those who went to the better hunting gT grounds yours respect respectfully fully rully etc J coa loille august 7 1869 editor deseret qs dear bro biro in the las tissue of the tho weekly DESERET appears an editorial beaded sickness at coalville Co alville which pont contains ains some items that your informant t was in error in and should be corrected the young man who is sup bup supposed ased c to have introduced the small pox fu into to this vicinity has never bein bean been lo 10 to carinne Cb rinne the yaun young woman W who ho is reported to have visited ted the tho faill family that 0 read fur far was there days bea before ore she sho was taken ta kera kell sick siek sie sic and before mhd nature af pf the da ae was I 1 waiting and attending upon them theauthor the tho author 0 of f the atory about ai a certain person perdon heing being in a ai store shaking u g hands an d s with his hii acquaintances i atances and at the ibe be same time lima informing them WAS WA 5 going to have th the a sma small I 1 r pox drew draw largely large y from his imagination 1 correctly given the story is this bro S taylor had been to echo city on duties pertaining to his Ms office as sheriff on his re home he felt unwell when passing through bro brigham young jr and myself rily tily self seif were standing opposite the store and we started to go to him he motioned us back and abid told us not to come near him as h he a though thought t he jie had symptoms of the small pox he also refus refused ed an invitation to supper from another party for the same reasons he withdrew from us he went towards home and the next day was taken bloe side the introduction and spread of this fearful contagion in this city as near as can be ascertained is as foilb follows the dep Sheri sheriff fr in connection wit with VL others therb have been on police duty at echo city ety since early last winter about six weeks since he was taken sick while on duty there i he came from echo city to the hous house e of his sister in this city where he usually made hia hla hame he was bick sick for several days a few eruptions appeared 0 on n his bis face which soon died away and be recovered dl directly afterwards two of his sisters bisters children were tak taken engick iok lok ick and in a few days small pustules pus tules broke out but over their bodiee bodies supposed to be the measles men who bad had had the small pox ate are were ete sent to 8 see the children and they reported it to M be the black measles and not the small pox as b ad beep reported th e children were waited upon by bya a young woman wll wil who 0 went with her father to attend the general muster of the thia this county commencing ori oli on the da day dax of july last she wa was taken siek sick and n brought home hom a by judge hinkley the following day she shia broke out and the tha symptoms were those known as peculiar to the smallpox small pol pox Poc As soon as the nature and character of the be disease were known the city council cilmet met and nud and aud adopted measures to tot try r to prevent its further farther spread they haban had an hospital prepared in a bul eul suitable table tabie place about two miles up chalk creek j and had the street where the disease was strictly ly guarded to prevent travel until the preparations were completed for the removal of the afflicted judge hinkley was next taken with the disease bebas he was removed to the hospital others were soon taken down most of whom had slept with theder the dep Sherlf sheriff wat fat at the general muster every precaution has been taken both by the city and county authorities when any persons are taken sick with the disease they are immediately removed to the hospital and are attended upon by persons who do not come into the city provisions medicines escare et care regularly sent to them the county court has his placed the city under quarantine persons who have been exp eap aped to the contagion are not allowed to leave the city and all citizens are prohibited from leaving unless they have u pass there have been thirteen cases up to this date oate two of which have proved fatal the rest are progressing favorably we sincerely regret legra that the brethren who were sent to examine the first cases were mistaken in the dis disease ease edse twelve of the thirteen cases were exposed before the nature of the was wa known p by th the bi blessings assin s of or the almighty aty hope g e t to 0 b bring r I 1 gt this b 1 8 fearful disease to davoy favorable ab a termination L t ign yours respectfully etc WM wil W CLUFF bleds are not nob the only creatures who alea arem aree laves hinves of habit babit A writer forthe for the bos rod states that having moved bis his barbs barbb some bome distance from J tro trough u wil wll where treche had formerly drank ir gnk ank d a considerable stream of wate durilin dur irig ilij a freshet flowed between barn and the old oid watering place uhe une uhl j turning turning the gattle cattle out the first morning aaen baan jawer janer freshet several of larger i ones ofies pas passed sed over ber the stream to drink drank w I 1 lei though mhd he wa natewa tewa oaties bhat V R ey lo 10 ibn ilal lidd Q wim wlm I 1 9 I 1 I 1 I 1 ifil |
