Show lre ire moroni nna and nd spring own town cooperation operation co ephraim creditable I 1 meetinghouse meeting house store storo and other improvements fantt courthouse ana and other improvements I 1 RICHFIELD sevier bevier Sevi bevi erCo co jan 13 1874 editor deseret be seret news I 1 on saturday evening last the peo plo of moroni moron sanpete county 3 turned out almost en masso masse to witness ten nights in a bar room boom by adm matic matie company from the beig neighboring h b orin g settlement of foun tain Green T the he school house was metamorphosed anto a miniature theatre for the occasion and the building was literally jammed with people of all ail ages A peculiar feature noticeable among a portion of the younger folk folks in the auditorium was a decided disposition to laugh with excy excluding heartiness at the more or pathetic portions of the play while hile hiie some of the more ludicrous passages caused their faces to overspread bb be with a serious express if the most part of the audien audience ct appreciative with re regail 1 aid to the playing we may say that considering the meagre advantages es of the company it was quite cr creditable di table tabie the aplous actors needing but little assistance from the prompter there was one young man however who apparently had had but little experience in the matter of imbibing bad whisky or who may have havn been somewhat deficient in the imitative faculty which was manifest in the unnatural manner in which he lie stampeded around the stage supposed to be hin tin representation of intoxication the the incorrect delineation however may have been more a credit to him than otherwise an admirable principle has been apen adopted by ta the ae people of spring city in conducting the operative cooperative co stoie store of that place the wise policy of sharing the dividends with the consumers or patrons of tho store has been carried out for some time and with admirable effect the buyer has a pass book in which the clerk inserts the amount of each purchase at the end of each half year stock is taken and when the amount of dividend is known ic is is divided by two one half going to the stockholders and the other to the purchasers this system appears to greatly benefit the people and isan is an inducement for all to do their burcl purchasing at the store and the consequence has been beep that a lively trade has been done Eph ephrann raint is really a fine settlement and population considered the public improvements there aie are second to those of no other place in utah for substantiality the large new meeting house is probably not behind any other completed building in the territory this will be at once seen when it is stated that the walls ar are id of solid white sandstone and are aro three feet thick a of the rock rea reaching 1 ehing clear through the whole of this thickness es s and the building is 18 erected on an unexceptionable foundation the base of the spire which surmounts surmounts the front of the thel building Is is completed but the steeple which is is not yet erect edwill rise forty feet ab above oab this base the I 1 interior n terio r is not yet finished but is in a sufficiently advanced condition to admit of meetings being held in it the ga gallery alery supported by suitable pillars al s and surrounding it tho the interior is is in course of exec erection tion rivery livery everything thing about the building has an air ot of solidity that thal reminds one oneff of soine some of those massive ancient structures the remains of which can still be seen in various parts odthe of the count coun aloo if f fim fia 11 11 ti bifi 11 A noy now W operative cooperative co store a niso also 10 lo of I 1 white rock 65 by 30 feet and anuno two stories high has just been earn completed private improvements have hava also been plentiful bishop peterson himself leading tho the way in every good work we remail remained ed to him that the ine inc meeting eting house must have 4 cost a iare largo amount of means well yes 1 said sald lie he laboi labor 11 it is really surprising what 1 a 1 united people call can do when they undertake to use the elements around them even when but little money boney is florein floating 2 g around among them manti mantl is the county seat scat of S san an y pete ete and possesses many excellent facilities for becoming a power in the land the people there are arc also aiso of the tile energetic sort as indicated by the many surrounding evidell evidences c cs 1 in n the form of private enterprise in that city so extensive have been the improvements rn prove provo ments that yo your ur cor correspondent nd scarcely recognized manti mantl as the place that he entered on a bleak winter day on horseback just seven years ago time and space would not admit of detailed mention of the improvements alluded to which are principally of the character of substantial residences stores etc nearly all built of the most beautiful white sandstone which abounds in sanpete San Sau pete iii in tho settlement now alluded to it is at the very doors of the people being at the north entrance and we believe within the corporate limits of the city mention s should not be omitted of a new court house which is a very creditable building J N plenty of land kand timber eish fish and gamo gome more hore good settlers Sett lers lera wan wanted wonted seh sel schools S sch meetings and 6 civili civilization za 11 HILLSDALE iron co utah january january 1874 editor deseret mcw new 8 ourtown our town is located on thelast the east cast bank of the sevier river about eight miles above pang witch and is a healthy location with plenty of facilities for a large settlement we have plenty of farming and meadow land sawing awing and fencing timber and firewood in abundance also plenty offish and game the to help to develop the reso Teso ot of the country county we have a good day daya 1 and sunday school in successful operation h ere also an evening 1 school all ali all ali of which are well attended our little meeting house is also well filled when meeting time arrives the holidays passed off well herrall he reali reail seeming to e enjoy 0 y themselves very much we tad had no drunks nor fights as modern civilization has not a as yet reached us to as great an ex extent as it has some of our settlements in the we are in no hurry to haveit havelt have havo it come to us but it seems from the appearance of thing things sin in the east that our friends who take so much interest in our welfare are deter determined mined that we shall the getting up of bills and the introducing of them into congress will accomplish it getil jonnson JOHNSON |