Show A voice from arizona ari Arl zona br ST joines joints apache county arizona oct 1881 editor deveret mews mems A few days after writing to your paper from zuni T ar I 1 started to st george utah where I 1 arrived after atter hf ter 19 days travel at my old oid home and was greeted k adly by many old friends at present there seems to be no improvement in bt st george in the building line many buildings baand ing wl without thou occupants rants pants and no sale saie fon for forral real estate I 1 my property for one fourth of cost but looked for a buyer in vain and therefore locked the door doors and started on mv return to this place hoping times of of good business will revive in st george for the people there certainly deserve to be blessed for their past faithfulness in settling that desert land since leaving here there has been great excitement in regard to indians in this country but I 1 think more excitement than actual danger since the beginning of july last there ther has been some sixteen small houses built here on the new town plot aa as well as considerable improvements prove ments menth in the tho old blex mexican ican town notably mr solomon barth earth has built bulit built quite a large house and store combined and now keeps heeps a large assortment of merchandize merchandise dize on hand there are at present our stores tores in st john including glieco the co op which w does a fair business bi bishop shop D K udall is at presen III in st louls louis purchasing goods for the arina anina arizona coop co op situated at holbrook from which establishment all the coops co ops in eastern arizona are expected to buy all their merchandize merchandise dize it is hoped this store will prove a blessing to this section of the coun try very fewox the families who were called to come here last spring have as yet arrived though their presence is much needed to assist in building up the place quite a large meeting house has recently been commenced d ho boroni roni hopes ho are entertained of its eari earl early y completion as the weather wail soon sogn be cool and we have only a bowery to meet in the ma mails malls I 1 I 1 j ar are e more regular than formerly forai foral erly though on account of ofin in diang and waters they have been irregular col mckenzie and two or three companies arri arrived ved qed here today to day and intend moving on to wing wingate U te to morrow they report that moat of the tho indians have returned to the reservation 1 and think the cruel war is ended 1 the death of president garfield created a profound prof und cund feeling ot sorrow inbur little community the death of apostle orson piatt caused an expression of sorrow borrow on every overy countenance he will be one of those whose place will be hard bard io to nill fill peace be to his ashes he haldone ha has bas adone a noble dorband wor kand band his name ia is known wherever the gospel has been heard there has been an unusual amount of rain 1 llera liere I ere this season and it is raining now heavily as I 1 write still the health of the people is good this thia appears like a very healthy country amram |