Show SALINA balina sevier bevier co january 1 editor deseret news A happy new now year to yourself and patrona patrons and to all with welcome blessings to every honest soul on earth and peace and good to n all ali men this is a lovely but rather a cold day but when we consider the altitude of this valley away upon the bevier sevier biver river feeland teet feet tand and learn that four boys have raised bushels of small grain this season and that another farmer at aurora on the opposite bide side of the sevier ra biver niver ver and a few miles bout south has with his two sons raised bushels of wheat oats and barley and when we look at future prospects these only serve to strengthen our confidence and aud faith in our 0 chator Co ator cator who has modified the elem ants and caused springs to burat buret forth and pools to abound in all of ma growing settlements through 0 r this entire territory forty fonty five fige miles southeast of this valley up in the mountains are babbit and grass valley settlements they too are flourishing at the vast elevation of feet salina balina derives its name from the vast amount of saline matter in its vicinity I 1 visited a rude manufactory of salt where five hundred pounds can be made in one day of ten hours on account ott oft of he the falt salt being mixed with dust and earth it it has is to be reduced by water in a boiler boller heated for the purpose then set bet tied and drawn ot off into the second course of boilers and finished in the third set and a beautiful fine table sais eals balt salt is the result there are bev sev eral era of those establishments in this place and in gunnison furnishing famis hing hiag salt both for the northe northern mand and southern settlements after actor writing you from gunnison december 24 bishop madgen madsen and ana myself visited salina fifteen miles bouth couth of that place passing through Gunni gunnison zon zou fields sloping to the south about five miles tho the stubble fields show straight rows rowa with trenches from two to three feet apart they are caused by a roller with two attachments following two shovel plows that are adjustable making the furrows deep or shallow as the cabe case may require the roller levels the ground and the two projecting parts on the roller smooth the two furrows made by the plow this economizes water very much and leaves the ground in a far hotter condition for the growing grain at salina we met president spencer of sevein stake who arranged r a meeting for this place at 7 p pm m and also arranged arran arraD ged for meetings at glenwood enwood GI etc the house was crowded in the evening after meeting the seventies elders and local priesthood remained and we had a real good time and visit the bishop says there is room land and water for several families to make good homes in his ward A good school ii being taught by mr noble son sou of our old and well known brother noble of bountiful on thursday uit we parsed passed the sevier fifteen miles mies to glenwood in a beautiful little cove on our way passing vermilion lloD which is named after the red hium bluffs a that are piled up in horizontal tiers tiera forming with their variegated vari gated colors a picturesque scene vermilion Is scattered nearly all the way between glenwood enwood GI and salina we had bad an excellent meeting in a hall over the coop co op store that institution carries about in stock there are two nine fine grist mills doing an excellent business and as the stream that runs them is warm freelin freezing 9 weather does not stop them farming land Is scarce there being only three or four hundred acres in this cove EDWARD STEVENSON STEvENs wf miss mies maggie sloan of the eighteenth ward has received the award for the herald prize essay on how to keep beep a cow we congratulate the young lady on her success elk are said to be unusually plentiful on the west fork of bear river and an around the head of ch chalk alk aik creek bucit but it Is in indirect direct violation 0 of flauto law to slaughter them at this season semon of the year lwe liwe were pleased to observe that p president resident I 1 angus M cannon had eo so far recovered from his late illness as to be in attendance at the conference which closed last night mr B S A mills and wife came in this week from trog montpelier idaho mr mills milli reports the town as improving rapidly as will appear to the reader from the fact that it cost him at the rate of 70 per month for bourd and room for himself and wife evaston chieftain |