Show foumtain FOUNTAIN GREEN sanpete co 2 january 3rd ard 1872 I 1 we have spent the holidays very agreeably in this place and to all ap every one enjoyed himself very well last monday morning ne new years yearb at ten the people me met he cording according to the Instruct instructions ions iong of bishop B R ii johnson and the subject introduced was the emigration of af the poor from europe to utah the people donated six hundred and two dollars on the occasion there was not a person in the meeting that did not contribute som bom something ething I 1 need not tell you the circumstances cum stances of the people and what we have had bad to contend with in the shape of indiana indians and grasshoppers inyeard in yeara a goleby gone by they fre freely e ily gave what they had at bix six p m we hd hid a concert t and the crowded hous house e was wag well entertained by the brasa brass and add string bands the music was choice and well render zender ed and nud credit t is due to professor hostler for his able management samuel Jewkes esq and his choir were vere there well tuned and the glees and other pieces which they 1 mug eang were C holee choice and most admirably rendered after the concert the company retired to the ball bail room and enjoyed themselves u until the small email hours of the morning X T believe that theal the people of fountain u nt n green are good earnest people s and desire desi debi reto to do right i J yours youra respectfully A REES B ST GEORGE utah dec 1871 editor news if y you op can oan an spare a corner of your moat most interesting paper to an olden time friend of the NEWS and a personal friend of your editorial corps for items from southern utah I 1 shall endeavor to keep you semi bemi posted in events transpiring in and if the bame same shall not appear more dry than our barren rocks and hillsides hill sides J X shall be glad we have here a peaceful quiet rural city of some 2000 0 or inhabitants which for its ae age and population is thi the s most improved and most beautiful of any in our extended territory and yet commercially we are very small small compared comp sred with your flourishing city whose bustling streets remind one of broadway N Y still in mining parlance we have a prospect which promises ere long to make st george a thing of beauty business and life already we have several buildings 0 of f no mean order and we much doubt if there be a finer building in the mountains thail than ou our r new n ev tabernacle the walls of which are afe now completed and the building nearly en on closed built bulit of heuff locks rocks of a rosy huer hue and when completed will probably be sufficiently capacious to seat it ia Is to have a tower belfrey and spire seventy feet above ethe the roof oar court house is of brick and stone two stories above basement and sills very capacious with a beautiful dome arid annd outline richly finished 0 out 1 at side fresl Freal president dent denv snowful mansion Is a very large and toomy structure handsomely finished and ornamented with veran verandas dason on both sides aides the st george hall hail Is of good size built of led red sandstone and finished with considerable taste there are be sides sid es these many dwellings built with much taste and outlay A etring co corps of workmen are now excavating ati ng daiev daily dally y for the basement of a temple to be built in this city whose damena dimani ons in round numbers are tire about by feet and nd whose walls if we forget not are to be bg ninety feet high to oe ve built of kook took and rea reared with all dib dis dispatch patch fatch iu numbers lumbers berb bers of masons are ready h breand t waiting walting to begin the wor wa within ehg in a of mil mii miles ia arp around lin ald eld st giorge george we have in perspective and aud in fact several rich mini mining Dg camps amps where all we can produce nn lindsa su ready market at agreeable prices our climate and soil are adopted to the growing of a great variety 0 of f the nest finest fruits nuts vegetables and grain and raisins and wines as delicious as those of spain and ana france fiance our winters are tire so mild that wo we enjoy great advantages for stock la in the vicinity when little snow or frost trost falls falis in the winter today to day the tho workmen on the new tabernacle placed the last stone upon the tower ot of that building amid great rejoicing jo icing singing firing of cah caf cannon inon ac mie the stong stone workmen are to be given a festival party at the hall hail tb night weather is damp raining raining s little warm and no ho frost or snow enow vineyards are being pruned antwork and anO work done in the gard gardens eup on christmas I 1 observed in bud and ind broom out mut of doors and unprotected yer ver verbenah verbenas verbe benas aas ass man golds stocks wallflower wallflowers wall wail flowers a and other varieties and that lucerne in warm situations was growing out verdant verdantly y truly youre you caloir CA lorr i i n u co considerate Ec onor the mii ail con cor published in another place concerning retrenchment in legislative expenses will e tho mind of the reader ox as doing exceedingly considerate in micro more than ione jone particular it ia Is an old oid superstition that the gift of bf a koife knife is unlucky as it Is apt to cut the friendship existing be between the giyer giver and receiver at Is very kind of mr comptroller tayler taylor to think of this old superstition and to interpret the desire of the federal government kopro mote amicable relations with utah by withholding the usual legislative penknives lest the silken cords of federal and territorial friendship should thero thereby be bov SOT severed ored ered what a happy though tl As ai to the wit withholding holding of newspapers from the members if we were viciously disposed we might comment severely upon such economy in this age of enlightenment and progress the permission for tho the legislature to print certain documents and pay the printer also will be duly appreciated in this thia free countr country |