| Show youw MORGAN CITY june 25 1870 editor deseret mews news dear sir I 1 regret that I 1 have again to revert to the subject of the smallpox small pox in morgan county and do hope your next informant will be better posted than the one to whom you refer in wednesdays issue of the weekly I 1 am also sorry borry that any portion of my letter should have been so understood aa as to be considered a confirmation of said report in injustice j us to the inhabitants of this city I 1 wish here to state that quarantine regulations were establish established ei in morgan city immediately after it was positively known that such a disease existed the young lady who was waa the first to take the infection had bad accompanied her father and brother prominent members of the morgan ward brass band to a festivity got up by the inhabitants of milton in honor of bishop petersons return from his eastern mis mission ston slon baa having with him a lady convert who it appears took the infection from a fel low traveler while on the cars there the result sult of this visit to milton was the introduction tro of smallpox small pox into morgan city the young girl and her brother both falling victims to it some days elapsed ere the nature of the disease was known and inasmuch as the girl had been poisoned last year with a weed known as the ivy which produces a result on the surface of the body similar to smallpox small pox when the attack is light her case was wasso so judged by a medical man in the vicinity but some dubiety on the matter was entertained about this time the disease broke out in weber settlement I 1 and the known contact of the parties at the festival lef left t no doubt on the minds of the authorities ties here and with promptness under the direction of bishop G W smith and at the suggestion of col little a hospital was erected at a convenient distance from the city and in twelve hours three comfortable compartments part ments were finished well floored on 0 jolce joice o iee lee the city forthwith placed under ien fen quarantine tine regulations and the same placarded pla carded on both sides of the river in the most conspicuous places of business which your informant might have read for weeks past for nearly two months we have had neither meetings schools nor gatherings of any description and every precaution used to keep in check the disease true there has been considerable ingress and egress the railroad runs directly through t the e city on the north side of the river the only station for the county is here the vast lumber business now being done in the hardscrabble canons produces much teaming au all of which had to pass through the city across the bridge to the depot the city council looking at these circumstances cum came stances and realizing the difficulties liable to accrue by enforcing quran tine rules on all the ti trains ains before passing the tho bounds prescribed by law together with canon team sand knowing that but two cases existed we deemed ib it most prudent to take the parties afflicted with their entire households which consisted in one instance of father mother and four small children in the other of grandfather grandmother who was then in ill III health two daughters and a visiting boband place them in the hospital taking care again to lo pr prudently dently divide them them thus ridding tile the elty city entirely of the dreadful malady for F or several days we experienced much difficulty U in procuring a hospital steward finally the services of a brother winslow was obtained who I 1 understand has done his duty I 1 notice that a similar course was adopted last year at 04 alville with many more cases in the ha hospital spital resulting in good may tb the e game success attend the efforts of all concerned this year I 1 would add that we shall not permit theia mates of the hospital to leave un stu lul thoroughly cured and their homes well weil fumigated aled and cleansed together with their clothing they shall abstain crena visiting salt sait antlake lake city for a considerable era ble bie time at le astas the infection may i still be held to some extent by the the two families have patiently and respectfully submitted to every necessary restraint and I 1 am sure will do so mar far public safety we cannot but sympathize with them it was an unfortunate occurrence though unavoidable A poor requital for a labor of kindness on their r par tand I 1 hope their efficiency in sst the band will not be marred by discouragement allow me most respectfully to ask has morgan city been more negligent or less prompt than its neigh bors and consequently deserving des rarig of public censure the authorities have diligently kept the sickness out of the settlements while they have nursed it in the little boy had it BO light that it was scarcely precept ible the young man brought here from ogden ig is doing wel wei welland weiland fand faud we have no further indications of new cases at present I 1 have yet to bo be convinced that either county or city officers lacked in duty and trust that this will be sufficiently explicit but can give further particulars if yand that your valuable time will no longer be occupied in perusing the contents of letters upon this subject or have to listen to irresponsible tales persons should be very careful how they impart information for the press especially local and know that it is reliable in haste yours truly war EDDINGTON mayor SALT LAKE CITY june editor ia in saturdays issue you draw attention to the fact that several hundred hides have been sent cent out of this territory and ask the question Is there not something radically wrong about this question whence when we take into consideration that 91 several hundred hides twice told have already been sent out of this territory and thal that every hide from the meat market is contracted for to go east or west and still further farther that all the canneries tanneries tann eries have nearly suspended business while numbers of men are walking about in search of employ employment mert their families in anything but comfortable circumstances we must come to the conclusion that there is something radically wrong but where is the evil and what the remedy those hides are certain certainly y gone and nothing but the money will bring them back in any shape whatever the parties who have disposed of those hides may justify them themselves selve seive 3 in taking such a course by saying that it is but a business transaction still it Is bad policy to send seno those hides out the territory you say if every hide bide prod pred produced in this territory were tanned here there would still be a necessity for importing leather to supply our wants that is even so but there is something else to be considered under the present circumstances where la ia there a market for the little leather there ien iff made lie lle bere here re it may appear strange Bt range but allow me to inform you that as far as I 1 can learn the market is stocked with leather nearly all the time so that the demand for our homemade home made leather is but very limited the prejudice which once existed against our valley tan tau is fast wearing away good judges of leather from east and west pronounce our homemade home made leather with some few exceptions to compare favorably with the imported article and that our style of manufacture with our present faaili ties tits cannot be surpassed in the east you still further farther ask I 1 have we not a sufficient number of tanneries canneries tann eries to make those hides into leather I 1 presume there are tanneries canneries tann eries enough in this city alone with vats vata and building capacity to turn out oat sides of leather a year and were I 1 to express an opinion I 1 I 1 should say there is not one fourth of that amount made and yet thousands of hides have been sent out of this territory not because there is not tanning material enough in the country for the present at least to tan those hides into leather not because we lack men or skill to convert those hides into leather and I 1 may add not because the leather is not needed in the territory but because there is so much imported shall I 1 be far wrong in saying the evil may in a great measure be traced to this fact I 1 am well aware that certain arguments will be brought up in favor of importation such as 1 ai I can demand money for harness or saddles made of imported leather gilm imported sole leather commands a readier sale than valley tan the canneries tanneries tann eries here have not always on hand the right kind or a sufficient clent supply to meet demands in answer to these I 1 have only to say they are poor arga arguments ments to be used by anyone having the welfare of this community at heart to remedy the evil and close the door which has now been opened will require more judgment than I 1 have at my command but I 1 would suggest that our manufacturers and others make an efm eff effort ort not to undervalue our home productions duct ions but to put a proper and due appreciation on leather cloth and all other goods made or manufactured in this territory I 1 venture to assert the same pay that brings leather from east or west would in a very short time prove a stimulant among our own 0 wn mechanics and stir up aj al spirit of emulation to vio vi with bac each other in producing just aa as good an article as can be imported and if we could not entirely fill the i bili bill bill we might come up considerably nearer the mark than we do at present respectfully R BB B SALT isake LAKE CITY june 1870 editor deseret mews news this morning at about 10 presidents young and wells elders john taylor aylor W woodruff jos joe A young P phineas phiness ineas and levi richards richardb judge ellas elias smith marshal J D T mcallister and several other gentlemen in company with the city fathers proceeded in carriages from the city hall to the asylum located about four miles E S east from the point of starting on the bench bencil between emigration and Parleys cai cal canons callons lons ions on a very elevated and pleasant site we found the a ascent reent over the benches considerable the road rather crooked somewhat rough and very dusty with a strong south wind prevailing X soon after the company ar arrived rived rivea they assembled sang a hymn knelt in prayer and dedicated the grounds the drayer building and appurtenances to god for the purposes for which they were designed president young being mouth after prayer the company partook of refreshments provided by the superintendent hon theo mckean they then proceeded about three quarters of a mile further east to the quarantine hospital a building I 1 should judge 16 x 48 divided by two partitions into three rooms 15 x 16 each here elder jonn taylor offered the dedicatory prayer in the usual manner from here after visiting the spring a quarter of a mile east of the hospital president young and a portion of the company returned to the city by way of his making only a short stay in the vicinity of worms returning sols hois rays reminded us forcibly of the furnace into which the three hebrews were cast without the cooling presence of the angel the asylum is a very neat substantial commodious well finished and well arranged building containing I 1 believe 12 rooms costing with the hospital in the neighborhood of but the the facts relative to its dimensions exact cost and other particulars I 1 will leave for the architect who is better posted to state there is a small farm surrounded by cedar posts ready for the wire which is on the ground to B it two rows of shade trees encircle th the e front of the building with a carriage drive between from f nive five ive lve to eight acres are under cultivation crops looking well but somewhat thinned by the late ravages of the hoppers A large number of fruit trees have been set out but they are all badly damaged and most of them ruined by the locusts A large enclosure is being made w where ere the unfortunates can have outdo outdoor out do doon door r exercise without the necessity of guarding everything seems well planned and thorough with a view to the comfort and weal of the occupant occupants i great credit is 18 due to the city fathers and while we feel grateful for their liberality and enterprise in this direction we may hope that as hitherto there may be comparative comparatively 17 little necessity for their charity yours truly jos F SMITH SALT LAKE CITY june 1870 editor deseret news dear deaf sir I 1 in 11 reading the wonders of compound interest in your paper of the lith instant I 1 found that professor klinger of hannum commercial school wished to show the world that ne hab had had gone to the trouble of calculating the sum which one cent supposed to be out at compound interest from the birth of christ to 1870 would reach and that said sum contained forty six consecutive figures in dollars commencing with 2 and ending with and 38 cents the latter shows that he means to say I 1 I 1 the figures are exact now then as only a few of the worlds inhabitants at a glance of this statement can comprehend what a great undertaking the professor has had I 1 feel it a pleasure to give some statement that will give at le least a a little justice to the work in proving the figures I 1 find that professor klinger h has as made the amount for 1870 years that is to 1871 not to 1870 aa as it reads in the paper also for one ye beark ark log k representing the theone one cent or dollar for two year sk 1062 1063 log 1062 sk k for four year sk log 1064 rb k for 32 year bearak ye arak sk lOG 31 and and for 1870 year sk 6 losk k times forty eight consecutive whole figures and consecutive decimals which make the total sum of dollars to be forty six consecutive whole and consecutive decimals to reach thia this total by simp simple I 1 e multiplication the only way by which this calculation can be called troublesome requires the writing figures no difference has been made for 0 as may be involved in the calculation neither has there been any deel deci nals put away which only can be done with justice for a few of the last hundred years and if the calculator writes 50 figures on each square inch he has had to use square feet of paper and as the total line has bas 34 87 consecutive figures sas bas say sy figures to the length of one foot that line would be 31 J feet in length in such a calculation as this can hardly more than ten corrected figures be produced in one minute and if the calculator was able to continue eight hours everyday every day it would take him 1211 laboring days or something lue ike like four years yeats in using logarithm logarithms us with 11 decimals the whole trouble is the work of a few minutes and sod gives if we divide this sum S with we get cubic feet of gold and if this quotient be divided with as many cubic feet as our globe globe contains we shall find how muc mue much of or how many globes it would be p S globes 1 1 3 4 0 yours most respectfully D ericson A southern paper anus 5 e epitomizes lynch law four in jail for murdering a neighbor had a surprise I 1 prise party from a hundred or two citizens the other night last words ready aud ani aul have had time to bay say them if they had all leave fa families milles 11 |
