| Show remarkable PHENOMENA the day that the pioneers entered the valley of the cicat Silt Lake the hand of provide providence ice has been visibly manifest to all who have had bad eyes to scein see in the growth and progress of the people who have made their home hume in these mountains and in the material development of the country tho the favorable changes that have taken place in the climate I 1 the tho lengthening of tile the summers and the shortening hort ening of the wit winter item the banishment of late spring and early autumn frosts the modification of the howling hurricane hurricanes the adaptability of the soil for the raising of crops naturally uncongenial to this altitude the increase in the rainfall the conversion of worthless wastes to fertile acress the frustration of deep laid plots for the peoples peopled overthrow the discomfiture of cunning and powerful political judicial clerical and unprincipled enemies the of our leaders from villainous ilou tiou s traps and snares the connection of this isolated region with the great world by railroad and telegraph 0 the uncovering of the hidden treasures ot of the everlasting hills the fulfillment fulfilment of numerous predictions the thousand the and one marvellous marcellous marv ellous and unexpected provi denees deuces in the peoples peopled behalf all point to the hand of the omnipotent stretched out in benion benton over the territory and its inhabitants but none node of the beneficial and wonderful interpositions inter futer positions of divine power ib is more clearly manifest than the increase of the th water supply not nov ot only have the tiny streamlets stream luts lets which trickled down from the heights like silver threads in the heat beat of the waning summer enlarged into rolling swelling streams but ephings have started up in parched and thirsty places and pools have formed in the midst of once dr dry y and dreary deserts there are now BOW large and thrifty settlements adorned with orchards and gardens and surrounded with extensive ve farm where golden grain bends bonds heavily to the breeze and tasseled tasse led corn nods gaily to the prospered husbandman and rich grasses and succulent vegetables t how a hue and magnitude that abundant water can alone impart where a few years ago two or three families could only by the strictest economy and fair division of the irrigating fluid keep alive their growing crops there are spots in the north and in the south where creeks rush headlong from the mountains to moisten large areas where not long since singe there was insufficient water to afford drink for fora forn a horse andin and in our dixie dule numerous springs and ponds now gladden the eye of the traveler and make pos possible sible sibie and profitable the cultivation of the soil where aforetime the solitudes were given up to dry alkali and shift shifting I 1 ug sand sands thee aqueous changes are truly remarkable and they are of such a character that they cannot be fully accounted for by those ordinary causes which produce climatic and physical modifications the presence of b human uman and animal life ohe the spreading out upon the surface of the thu of the small mountain streams the planting of shade and fruit treet the smoke of household and fires the aud and operation of railroads and tele graphs and other disturb disturbing ing log causes incident to the tho sett settling ling ilog of a new country all have an undoubted effect upon ukon the atmosphere and bring alterations of the climate but we maintain that the marked transformations exhibited during the past years in this territory are unexplainable by the theory of common natural tran and we give god the glory he win wio framed the universe universo and who led the people to this wilderness haa baa interposed his miraculous power for their support and increase and prosperity not that we would uso use jho the word miraculous as generally under understood wo wd do not believe in miracles as violations of the laws of nature they are gods laws and he is con sistena with himself every so called miracle is 18 an efrece of natural but bul there are many laws and princ prine principled les ios pertaining orta ining to the worlds that aro are aa as yet bidd n from front the knowledge of mortals and only those who can discern spiritual things have eyes to see the workings of omnipotence I 1 but as acknowledge the theland hand of god in all things we recognize his providence in the general operations of the universe as well as in phenomena he works by natural laws and hla hia power is manifest alikin alfkin alike in the bringing forth of plants from as in the augmenting of the fluid necessary emary to bleir growth the increase 1 and apparently spontaneous production of water in various parts of this territory are of so sc a character that the actual facts and in relation to them ought to be placed on record ve we therefore invite an and d solicit from our friends throughout the territory a narration of such authentic incidents connected with this subject as have comp come under their personal observation that demonstration may be given of the fulfillment fulfilment of the words of the lord through the prophet 1 I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the valle valie valleye I 1 will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry dr land springs of water I 1 1 I will plant in wilderness the the cedar the tree and the myrtle and the oil tree I 1 will set in the desert the fir tree and aud the pine and the box tree together that they may see and know and consider and under understand together that the hand of the boid loid hath bath done this and the holy one on of israel hath bath created it isaiah 41 chap 1820 18 1 20 10 vs |
