Show 10 ALMA A LMA TERRACE thomas town merthyr merthyn tydfil south wales september 1870 1810 waltor deseret jevas dear brathen brother the unabated interest manifested in the spread and defense of truth at horre and abroad by the news and its worthy supporters has inspired me with courage to ask a modest share in the liberal courtesies extended to your numerous correspondent correspondents by placing before your readers a few brief notes on incidents of travel observations on the moral social and religious condition of society and the progress of the work of god in vales wales it will vill be recollected by the readers of the thenis theDis rc sEBEr lr L r NEWS that I 1 left my ray home in salt Balt Lae lake city on the ath day of sune june basti in company with three other brethren who like myself were on a mission to europe my cogitations and emotions on bidding adieu to home family and friends would be difficult to describe suffice it to bay eay I 1 ws too fall full for utterance and nothing but an honest conviction of the divinity of the work in which I 1 am engaged and an unwavering confidence in the priesthood of the son soa of god by which I 1 was called could have induced me to leave then them as I 1 did the trip to rew new york was performed io in the usual time no accidents or other unpleasant contingencies occur ingi ink everything moved smoothly along the great trans continental railroad was waa ia in excellent condition all things considered and the deportment of officials and employed emp loyes on the tha line so far as my observations extended was wag unexceptionably good on arriving arriving at new york we ve visited elder W a St staines alnes alues and were instructed by hirn him how to spend our onn time and money te to the best beat advantage we acted on his advice without regret I 1 spent a day or two with a brother of mine who resides at williamsburg very agreeably the steamship Nc nebraska braska on which we secured our berths steamed out of nelv sew hew york harbor on the of june and arrived at liverpool on the making the trip ia 12 dayland day sand although it was not the ithe speed speediest ediest edlest list last passage on record it ift was admitted by a number of experienced seamen and voyagers that I 1 an smooth one the great waters of the tha atlantic were viere aa as unni nn rippled pled pied I 1 as a mill so gently did the he breezes blow on the oc oceans esias eslas placid bosom ii that some who were over anxious to reach an eastern bhore shore were vote heard to exclaim in hibernian vernacular I 1 we have no weather at all I 1 our good fortune to have on board as cabin passengers a few of the honorable men of the earth who by their gentlemanly bearing and liberality of sentiment fully established their claims to the distinguished title having learned that we were missionaries from salt lake city they sought interviews with us which of course they readily obtained among them were gentlemen of high education and judicial standing from frova cincinnati phila phils delphis delp deir bla hla new york and other places in ia the united states several of our conversations were cond conducted contacted acted in a catechetical ehe che mauner manner among tao too number principles which vre wedis dis coursed upon and the one which they seemed to be the most deeply interested in was plural in marriage arriage this subject was waa pretty thoroughly ventilated it passed through a scriptural moral physiological philosophical sud and polita oai eal investigation and with the tho aid of a of or the won aon HOD W V H R hoopers s plea for Helig ious lous liberty with remonstrance attached we were vere credited with having def der defended ended endea this cst car of our falt bin hin a avery very able MI manner Luner kuner on arriving at liverpool I 1 1 learned ehat that it was intended that I 1 should la ia bor in the sheffield conference whither I 1 repaired after a few days rest a at t the loftice 1 I traveled in ia yorkshire a little over a month in company with elder P F By detho conference president who with all the saints treated me very kindly aly bly beaith health however became considerably impaired and it was therefore fo redeemed deemed prudent for me to change my nay location and on the ad of august 1 I returned to liverpool and stayed with mith president eldredge at the office I 1 was made welcome by him to anything I 1 thought would do me good under the favorable conditions of rest and change of air together with good treatment I 1 gradually improved and oa cm the of the month I 1 accompanied brother and sister slater EI eldredge dredge on oa a trip to the south of wales walea my ny native country and ana former field of missionary labor oa on band sunday ay the according to previous arrangements a conference was held in aberdare aberdale Aber dare temperance hall a large and commodious building well suited for the occasion there were three meetings held during the day each of which was well attended by the saints from the towns and villages for over a distance of twenty miles around and a number of strangers who were residents of tho the place there were veto nino nine odthe brethren from zion present some of whom had been laboring ing nero here for two and three years yeara past and others othera who mho lahe iny loy myself seif self had bad but rece recently atis atly arrived the spirit of the conference was rood good roo goo the addresses of the brethren wera were lort short diversified and instructive the co congregations r were spoken to in fri both 0 the e english and N welsh languages the tho choral exercises of the day added much to the interest of the meetings which were performed by the merthyr and mountain ash chairs daring dating the ensuing week meetings were held at M jibbo abbo vale abersychan and cardi Cardl ff 1 which we have every reason to believe will result in great good among the numerous scenes of interest witnessed while visiting the saints in wales were veto the Cy fartha and iron works the latter being it is said the largest in the world we mere were conducted through the Cy fartha works wita with a permit from robert Craw shay les JES its weal veal wealthy thy proprietor we had ex explained pined to us I 1 the several processes through which I 1 the he iron ore passes from its crude state until it is made innie into railroad and other merchantable iron which was very instructive to ay a V ong one desirous of knowing how iron is made an approximate idea of the extent of these works may be formed franx from the fai fal following lowIng statistic ilisco thero obero wre svere employed atthe at the Oy fartha works from men I 1 and the at a rough average nutty may be said eaid to taj tai support port souls soula there are eleven furlia furnaces ces ees seven mirle mille pits feht ight eight coal pits pita and the leid beld is 1000 tons of coal a foot thick per acre the steam and water power used is equal to amro more than horses and the works in fall force can produce 1300 tons of pig iron and 1000 to 1100 tons of finished finis lints hed bed bars I 1 and railroad iron per month Is works which are about one mile distant from the cofar tha won wor works lis are still more extensive in 1816 IS 18 16 15 these works employed per eions song the smelling smelting sm eiting elting and rolling mill cover an rea area of many acres on the surface and mining works extend some miles under ground the consumption of coal in earry carry carrying ioe loR on oa their work sis sia 1200 tons weekly naces maces make nearly 1600 tons of iron weekly meekly or an ark anual produce of tons being an average of more than eighty tons per weah weak for one furnace tae quantity of finished iron manufactured monthly was equal to 1800 tons of cf railroad iron and 1800 tons tone of bar iron and one rolling mill alone in lix tons of ralls rails in ia one wk week the iron company are the greatest carriers of iron on the taff vaie vale ballway rall hail way the ave ade average is about 70 1 0 oco tons per arunm this company paid in one cearto to the taff vale company the tha handsome little sum suna of for transporting their iron iran to cardiff a distante distance of only billy 24 miles it was computed that when these works were in uil uli all fall operation if th tide life 6 eb chillers illers lifers employed had llad worked one continuous beam ream of oai coal oal for twenty four hours houra half an acre would have been cleared producing loo 1 tons of coal and that the produce brodu e of f miners and colliers was tons of f iron ore and tons of coal the fhe eighteen furnaces were worked by seven powerful steam engines the steam power in id operation was equal to 2000 horses besides twenty water balances for raising coal to the surface and locomotive engines with to goo horses in constant employment the tram roads below and above ground if it placed in one continuous line would extend a length of 2000 miles the foregoing statistics I 1 have bave a ve gle gie gleaned abed from orom wilkins history of the iron and coal trade and they will no doubt be inter interesting eAting esting to the mineralogist and metallurgist if to no one else in utah on sunday of august a conference was held at swansea pursuant to appointment during which much good instruction was imparted by president eldredge Eldr edge edgo and others of the brethren who were present A calm and hopeful spirit prevailed among the saints and the only regret I 1 heard expressed by any tiny of our people was the smallness of this years emigration and their inability to bo be among the number but they express a desire to hope on and trust that god in his infinite mercy will open up the way before them that they may gather to zion the burden of our instructions to the saints has haa been on the necessity of faith in god our eternal father and in jesus christ his son as the redeemer Ee deemer of the world and in the holy ghost as our unerring guide into all truth and that obedience to the truth of heaven heave n revealed through the gospel is the only means of salvation to man monday brother and sister eldredge took their departure for liverpool having spent eight days in visiting three of the conferences of the churek church in the principality of wales I 1 trust that the visit may be the precursor of several more in respect to the moral social and religious condition of society much could bo be said that would be profitable to relate but I 1 will content myself for the present with saying little as I 1 do not wish to trespass too inconsiderately upon your valuable space in reference to the work of god in wales it affords me pleasure to learn that it is steadily progressing the saints are growing in a knowledge of the truth and are gaining a better understanding der of the manner in which god is building up his kingdom on earth in fulfillment fulfilment of ancient and modern prophecy A few are being added to the church by baptism from time to time and as a general thing are a very good class of people the growing faine fame and strength of zion is sen sibly felt here and liberal minded men acknowledge frankly that we are doing a great and good work in the far west in bome some olour of our branches our halls of meeting are encouragingly filled with attentive listeners and prospects are fair for new additions to our number in this locality with kind thanks for the NEWS which I 1 regularly receive and highly appreciate and love to yourself and all who favor zion I 1 conclude GEORGE georgi G BYWATER october 1870 isto editor evening news after washington and the gallant heroes of the revolution had retired from the contest with laurels of victory and some difference between the new states had bad been adjusted before the garment dyed in blood had passed away which had ransomed rans omed a glorious freedom ac this land from sea to sea was made free for the settlement of people from every C clime lime ilme regardless of their political or religious they were guaranteed the right of self government under a liberal federal constitution from the iron yoke of intolerance in realms where thorns and briars choked the pathway to happiness myriads of people fled to a land which by poets and writers was compared with an elysium if for the sake of local harmony lec fec c a baptist community should desire to live together they could freely select a locality on the vast public domain and have the privilege of rear rearing ng their own cities townships chure churches h es schools ac and become entitled t to 0 have men of their own choice to govern them any other denomination society or nationality could do similarly and if a penn rodger williams daniel boone or a brigham young was accepted by any peo pie ai as counselor in any or all the affairs of ilfe life nobody would say why do you thus it must be treason ac years and had periods passed in happiness and great prosperity but now it is to our vision as faded beauty and departed glory the demon of the dark ages Is again asserting its sway away as usual inspiring men under the cloak of law and religion to inaugurate new now crusades against their fellow men whose opinions may be at variance with theirs must we now renounce our allegiance not only to our former sovereigns so but ta to our god and our consciences to become citizens of this republic and avoid being crushed to the earth hasa has a new inquisition already been ushered in the dark pages of the annals of history marked with usurpation and wanton cruelty exercised by men in power were were analogous to what we now behold history herein repeats itself during a period of sixteen years I 1 was a subject of an absolute monarchy whose institutions I 1 have studied three kings reigned in succession during that period who were righteous men it was wab in my early days when I 1 dreamed fondly of a better land the united states whose sun of liberty should never set above whose escutcheon stood a guardian angel I 1 have honored the constitution of the united states for fourteen years in every respert t as my brethren in the faith have done because of our unpopular faith we are offered oppression and bondage and insult is added to injury by men mea who ought to be guardians of liberty in this republic Liber lA bertas bertao tam taw ago kom Kon ianus tanus though I 1 am opposed to absolute monarchies one is more secure under a righteous dynasty of such than under an extensive republican pub licin rome seme parts of which dictatorial powers are granted to irresponsible governors and judges where will iiii it end the effects of such precedents will spread as a contagion in the once happy land of columbia respectfully BLUE BALTIC provo C CITY october 1870 70 editor news 1 1 was pleased to read reads in in the NEWS of the loth instant your article in relation to the proposed trip east of win wm D roberts for bees and imported stock as I 1 regard bregard the introduction of the italian bee as a matter of much value to the people of utah the black bee so eo far has done well in this countr country yi but the italian bee is certainly much superior and our in motto otto is always have the best the latter ought to be generally introduced while the comparatively few black bees in the country may be e readily Italiani zed the italian is an active and diligent worker and does well in this country last liast april I 1 got one colony of them from brother roberts in a quinby movable comb hive which he had just brought from the yeast east easi it then had lotmore not more than eight pounds of honey in it during the summer we got from it forty pounds of surplus honey and then the hive being full fall and the colony strong we divided them and now have two hives each weighing ninety pounds your suggestion in relation to organizing gan izing a bee keepers association is good as many advantages can thereby be obtained in this country we nind find it very viry |