| Show correspondences i I 1 co op herd ground 15 ailed 1 west of st Cb charles charies arles aries bear lake co june 2 1877 editor deseret news we have an excellent stock t t 4 here hero an abundance of mead kow now land in fact every facility afforded in this northern coun county to make a good ranch our horned stock consisting of or head are thriving finely having done without being fed the principal part of the tho winter and kept fat thu be st charle charlea 7 1 coop co op herd aground ground about three miles further up the river has similar advantages to thia this place with stock doing weli well under the charge charge chargo of brother L laker a eed kei i about equidistant equi distant between these two ranches ia li a good ranch ranchi 6 owned wn b by brother brothel george horace I 1 it t is on the opposite side aide of the river the range extends froin the river back into the mountains mounia ins giving the stock a sufficiently extensive pasturage and the grass is of the finest and best pest quality the scenery Is interesting in the tee main the mountains in some instances pres ending enting to the tile mind i a particularly X romantic appearance there are bina jnnny ilna py antelope adjacent to the ranches at a distance having some what whit the appearance ppe arance of a herd of donl doni domestic estic animals land and water i for agricultural sturl purposes are rea plentiful but the late and early frost places adraw a drawback ack on the cultivation of the soil ho however w beseem it seems s to be the intent lori iori ori to give the raising of oats and barj djey grey ley a fair trial i I 1 had bad forgotten to mention the i cooperative operative co sheep herd under the supervision of geo osmond 0 they require no herding nor not corralling 3 keeping in sight of the ranche during the day and reposing contiguous to the hoube house at night I 1 can see nothing to hinder a good profit being made on this ranchel ranche idith with proper and wise manage maent elsh bish fish are almost as abundant in bear river at this point as lubemir lake I 1 bave have seen them 1 caught hught weighing eight jp pounds though generally much smaller than that respectfully E N WILSON 1 l i co Coope radou in daml Dami baptisms ems sms HULL may 1877 editor deseret news calling at morley near leeds needs during one of our tours through the th conference we w recel received ved a kind in invitation from elder elijah iwho js Is in the employ of the co operative institution there theres to visit their store of which we readily availed ourselves elder spray took great greit pains to sho shoy W us through the establishment and to explain their system of conducting the bu sines siness and as the morley co opera tive store is a model in its ita way of the local tores stores generally through gout england we thought a I 1 description would be interesting inter esting eating to some of your readers t the business pf af this store is divided into fly biye p dsipa departments viz ione lone one for grocery and provisions one for fon millinery ione sone for drapery and outwitting outfitting out fitting one for boots and und shoes 0 and one butchers butcher hop ishop the is three stories ligh high exclusive of the cellar celiar the latter iatter is divided into juto four tour compartments one of which is devoted exclusively exel kusiv ely to the curing of pork which thuy they i purchase alive and kill thumel themselves ves they hang jiang dams hams and sides of bacon inthe in the othen other compartments ants in which they also store rough crockery ware candles soap aud and such other articles as the damp will not injure the principal object of interest inythe cellar hov hoN however is the engine which occupies the space of about four by six teet feet including apace space required for a water cloteria eis cis teril terri the contents of which are used to prevent the beat of the engine from affecting anything near it this is done by having a double case to the cylinder between which ont th jhb water runs thus ahus obviating one great objection to the use of steam power the engine is of four horse horbe power run by tho the explosion of common gas and can be started i when cold to full speed in ond one minute doing all the work require v y ed of or it at the trilling trifling expense of ten shillings liuga per month the eu i gine is used to run a sausage cutter they work all the beef and pork port not bold sold into sausages a machine for clea clem cleaning ning currants which are both in tu cellar collar an and aad d other ma raa chinery which we will mili hereafter de describe zerl be the first floor is used by tb the reveral departments for foit sales gales rooms that part of the second floor over the grocery department cont bont contains ains machinery for hoisting purposes purposed hy by means of which are raised flour grain puncheons luncheons ons of molasses and other articles requiring a dryad dry atmosphere mo sphere all of which are stored there it also contains machinery for chopping sugar which comes in large cones weighing twenty seven pounds each into ordin ary aty sized lumps a cofie grinder and a ma chine for foe crushing oats malt etc all of which are run by the same engine the sugar as chopped drops into a tube by means of which it is conveyed to the counter below ready for the retail salesman therun the pun chenons of molasses are emptied in to a cistern capable of holding pounds and it is conveyed through tubes to the room below where it can be drawn as required by a shut off tap which fits so closely that not a drop can escape they have four spouts each conveying a separate quality of flour to bins below belot capable of holding lbs ibs each also a spout and bin each for every kind of grain sold the secretary office is als ais also aiso over the grocery compartment p on U this floor loor the compartment over jhb boot and shoe alive department is used as a workshop for the shoemakers of whom they employ div nive five be besides ides ldes the manager those compartments over the millinery department are deed for the work of that business the third floor is used for a read ingroum In ng groom kroom room library and lecture hall aith the exception of biweekly bi bl weekly ec tures given under the auspices of the society the lecture liali liall can be hird hired for lecturing on any allowable subject the library and reading room are for the use of members exclusively the capital is invested in 1 shares no member is entitled to hold bold office who has less han than five shares and no one is allowed to hold more than every person purchasing at this store is given a check representing the amount he lie purchases at the end of the quarter after deducting the shareholders dividend which is by rule of the society never allowed to exceed the rate ratib ot of nive five perce percent bt per annum and necessary funds for contingent expenses the balance cels ceis is divided pro rata among the holders bolders of checks the nonmember receiving one half balf of the value of their checks A person parson desirous of becoming a member can do so by depositing as low as a shilling and three shillings and eight pence quarterly until he has a full shiL share deposited in lip the interim he is entitled to all the benefits to xo which a person holding one share is entitled A member can on fourteen days notice withdraw from he society during the last quarter ending march they returned members two shillings and ahr ee iii in the pound sterling which amounted to 1067 iss ad and to non members la Is id in the pound amounting to xa 6 as id the total eales bales of tue the quarter were 1149 aa 64 the local operative cooperative co stores storey 1 in their turn receive from the wholesale store in which they are all interested a percentage according to the profits realized upon all they purchase last quarter they received from it 54 oa Os 41 they are also aiso interested in cooperative operative co flour societies from their purchase in which they received last quarter 1303 I 1 lid iid ad morley contains only about inhabitants and out of this number 1400 are aro members of the cooperative society A word on cooperative operative co wholesale business in england until lately it has been confined to tb strictly mercantile transactions not incorporating po in any shape the tiie principle of cooperative operative co production but the error of thus limiting the system tefa i is s apparent to many aho who vho realize that success may only be said to be gained when the working producer actually manages and directs his own labor practically therefore cooperation operation co here is resolving itself now into a mode of production and distribution by which the profits of labor and capital are being returned to the producer and consumer in evidence of the rapid growth of co cooperation operation in england engla nd last year to one wholesale society as there are several wholesale societies here were added sixty four new now local societies the capital turned over by these new societies was nearly nine million pounds and the profits af thereon n three fourths of a million coo cooperative operative co p e ra fa farming riu rou I 1 n g house P building soap ina making US coi col liery pY inting printing leather manufacture and bluer industries aru are being added yearly of one une whole wholesale zie department alone the following will serve to give some bome idea in 1861 1864 there were 18 7 shareholders with tu capital of 02 2456 belling goods to the amount of from which it realized a net profit of 1267 in 1870 1670 there idere were shareholders with a capital of selling belling goods to the thy value of realizing a h net profit of in 1876 there were shareholders with a capital of li elling selling goods to the value of from which they realized a net profit of shipbuilding ship luil iuli guilding ding and commerce are ulso forming a part of wholesale ca cooperation here and ab at no distant day thisBy stern will extend itself until ilits its power will be felt fell felitto to the benefit of the class for whom it wab was originally designed viz the working men of britain will be pleased bobear to hear llla that lt weare adding to our numbers by baptism on saturday eve evening last we baptized several beveral in the p public u swimming baths of bradford and tomorrow to morrow evening shall administer baptism to several of hull the work Is steadily progressing the saints feel alive to the duties devolving upon them arid numbers will leave this conference for zion during the summer elder 0 D evans evana has obtained h a hall for le lecturing c in halifax through the kind influence of a co cousin usim of bishop david james jame of f salt lake city and we wa feel 1 that shat through the blessing of the lord more will yet be added to the church in that town shortly your brethren in the gospel C 0 D EVANS IV IV taylor i travels hi e country ana nuil the i people rock HOCK Sp SPRINGS rimas niNas G ga a june 1877 editor deseret we news rio bio jas jag T lisonbee and myself left the saints in the vicinity of rome borne some three weeks since and started out on a trip through the mountain mountains s of north norih ing pe perchance chance to find some of the blood of israel in oar our oun travels the brethren where w we 8 have been laboring fer soine boine some bome time are in good spirits generally gene rilly and are arih making every enn eff effort ort to emigrate the coining cowing cfall at their earnest solicitation liel tation we have concluded to remain in the south during the summer to assist them in their efforts to gather out of babylon travelling Tra yellin velling about over the country deac teaching ag preaching and observing the condition of aff affairs lairs generally furnishes much food for reflection and thought asme As we pass pasa along the public highways fields stretch out on either band hand with all the variegated colors of jacobs jacobus historical catt lea len lea leu streak of yellow supporting a stunted growth of pine a streak of red generally bare sometimes a growth of dew dewberries dew gew berries a few buches bun bea hea of c edge bedge grass and div divers rs deeply washed hollows tore to 1 ev the monotony noton ay iy of the perspective the crop bek bet between I 1 M een the two of a dun coler color F sometimes some pome times timea ornamented with dyet dyel a yellowish sickly growth of corn standing some flye to saen seven fee feet t apart duo due one stalk in a till bill struggling for existence in the midst of hard bard knotty gnarled clodi i that let it rain ever 86 BO hard retain their original size shape alid and thorough dr dry ness nesa down dawn in the hollow beyond a delicate drawn of black la Is ind indicated bated by the i additional growth of corn over its less fortunate fellow stalks one of the natives dryly tells us that it has all become bottom land landtr i 0 that the he soil has washed off and left only the various colors above narrated many formerly nine fine plantations have been thrown out to the tho common and allowed to run up in pine bushes or sedge grass the lanes are narrow of ten wit with h r scarcely room for two vehicles to pass each other lined on either side by a string of zigzag zig zag fence that creeps monotonously up hill and down dale across hollows broken at intervals by deep washes that are bridged by long pine poles that partially resist the inroads of the poorest soran niest lot of hogs and cattle it bas has ever been my lot to examine long nosed sharp backed grunt grunter erb erg that will clear an ordinary fence with almost as much dexterity as a deer while the bovine boving trib tribe elare are principally pally head and hoofs while to set thib this oss off the proprietor of the tho acres cres aforesaid d ily liv alyea esin in a a log houe boue daubed with elay clay I 1 red or seilo yel sel lowas was the case may be the stoop and aud portico slowly rotting routing away the glass replaced by ari arlaus various arl JUS articles of wearing apparel too numerous numerous to mention men tiou tion the front fe fence u 66 patched and propped the vines vinea that formerly clung to supports lie trailing on PEL the ground trees untrimmed and uncultivated tiva ted are gradually dwindling away while a general air of desolation and woe abe hegan began avi widowhood 1 seems seem 16 hang over everything y tb in g entin the wide Pas passage sailo way between the two rooms and get et into coave con ron r bation with the ibe man of the he house nig hig inn cob pipe begore before the war he had a better one he will tell you that it seems seema as though a curs curse ewas was devouring louring the earth his ilia wheat wheal wont head bead out his oats dati wont grow high enough to cut his coin does not produce anything his fruit is blasted and the earth refuses to tb yield its in increase c r ekse eise when you ask him why this Is as it is he has a vague notion that there Is som gom something ething wrong that the people are not right that god is displeased with them and that there is something terr terrible liae ilAe coming but bul 1 what it is and how it is lie he cannot linder finder understand stand once in lu a while there is ij a log school house benches without t backs a greatly greasy blackboard and no stove while at the closs eross cross roads a church stands generally baptist or methodist simply a shell of a building without any ceiling on sides or overhead devoid of paint and destitute of any means of warming the attendants th their p ir revivals are held a as soon as the co corn rn as a laid baso as not to interfere with the wor vor work kand and at the same time secure a comfortable season of the year to serve the lord in the tae ministers nini uini who hold bold forth at these houses almost lu invariably variably warn their members of the sin sla and wickedness of going to hear a mormon elder not |
