Show correspondence schools tiie tile dramn braina young mons mens last itil leil te spring ivory lelli lelii utah march 1871 editor deservi desera we have llave been blest with a season of intellectual and gorahm moral improvement pro in every department or of this community the interests of sabbath schools in this city in the last six months have been altogether remarkable for progress and development the brethren and sisters seem to be alive to the important duty of training up the child in the way it should go three hundred and fifty pupils aro are in regular attendance who with teachers and transients cuts included make an a aggregate t re ate of nearly four hundred ello eilo engaged a ged in the glorious work twelve months ago scarcely on one e hundred and fifty were registered in our catalogue of pupils the contrast between betge en the pre present ent state of amm aff mairs affairs and that of which I 1 speak is highly commendatory of the efforts of those whose perseverance has wrong wrought lit the change the day schools also are flourishing as well a as s cc could ul d be expected considering the present financial distress three schools were in operation during the winter with an average t attendance of three hundred and twenty five pupils competent teachers with few exceptions were employed and satisfaction generally was given so far as the knowledge of your correspondent extends our principal amusements aurill during the winter have been theatrical eia entertainments given by the lehi dramatic association the manager is a man well calculated to succeed in the business being himself a natural actor A great many moral lessons and sidesplitting side splitting performances form for auces manees have been presented in th the e I 1 last at s f few e w me months n t lis ils and a full house almost invariably rewarded the efforts of the troupe but the s season ea 8 on is getting 0 so far advanced that the members member swill mill probably resume their original characters until the melancholy days again again 0 are come As another means of intellectual im improvement r orem ent the young mens int institute itule recently established is not the least important it has already acquired a degree of importance unexpected by even its most ardent constituents the chief object in view is proficiency in oratory and general information As a necessary consequence of which design lectures on religious moral and scientific subjects constitute the principal features in tile the pro gramme of the young aspirants rhe the rho institute will probably continue during t the summer months the busi busl business ness of the season has fairly commenced and farmers are beginning C to have that rustic appearance pe arance which reminds one that bread is made by the sweat of the brow SAMUEL samull THURMAN congress nna clah egal editor deseret news the present session of con Cou congress coutress gress presents an anomaly in legislation the introduction of several bills for the tile same ostensible object indicates disunion auf afu ami 11 weakness accompanied by a feverish anxiety unbecoming a deliberative body representing the wisdom and interests of a great nation there is apparent in the projectors of these bills a consciousness of being engaged in a bad cause and of consequent ol 01 nse quent inability to handle bandle the ai mormon lormon Al question froe from their standpoint although evi evl evidently aware of treading on dangerous ground incentives to evil preponderate should hould special legislation for I 1 tal tah become an accod dished fact a precedent would be established for vindictive legislation against any religious sect or political party which II a dominant majority might deem it for their interest to suppress tills this would naturally result in violent revolutions which would spread mourning ani ana ani desolation around the hearthstones hearth stones ofa ora of a nation which had proved itself unworthy the blessings of freedom hy by un sh eating the tile sword for its destruction oppressive legislation on the par part L or of t the 11 e g general e ner nor a I 1 government would doubt doubtless lem iem entail some suffering and loss on the part of tile the latter day saints but deliverance would come in united energetic action and in the end their trouble in might firlit be measurably forgotten in view of the tiie woes boes of our common country there is a class of reckless adventurers who prefer any kind hind of greatness to none at all this aching void vold the result of a corrupt ambition when accompanied by empty packets is too much their slight tincture of honesty and if they can replenish their fin finances ances by attaining oven even a criminal notoriety they gratify two leading propensities of their nature it is unfortunate that su sueh such ch ilu liu human man weeds should be able to vegetate on tilo tile soil of utah it is equally unfortunate that a class of men have found their way into our national legislature whose only claim to states i maushi pis their accidental position and that this fact should be mani tested in it a willingness to crush a people whose virtues are alc a standing rebuke to their vices history will do justice to aggressors on constitutional right rights R if the chief executive or of the nation is using the influence of his high position to assist the tile effort to crush an innocent people the act contrasted with his many victories in it favor of free institutions and human emancipation will make tho the contrasts in ills his character glaring and significant to all this low intriguing of mission officials with washington authorities ties this wire working this threatening without being able to perform this snapping na ping at the sip sap mormon probie problem as though they fancied they could gobble it up there theare is doubtless a motive power behind the scenes which may be aptly designated as the praise god element of modern sectarianism with but little charity and still less gospel with more professions of sanctity than sancti lying c principles with a hypocritical e cant int tnt more becoming the members of the long parliament than the advocates of modern piety and american freedom they are ever read ready rendy y to raise their hands in holy horror at any innovation which comes in contact with their vices and preconceived notions JAMES A LITTLE bittle lucern alfalfa at present as tile the cattle ared are dying on the range by the hundred the stock raisers and others have the blues and people have got nothing with which to feed their starving stock it seems to be the proper time to remind all who are interested of procuring winter fodder for their animals in the future it should be remembered that by a natural consequence to winter stock on the wild range will vill in our settled valleys within a few years belong to the past therefore if wo we want to be stock raisers or at t least keep heep the necessary cows for our households we must provide food for them at home through M the winter this side the rim of the basin tile the localities are few who where re even sheep sheep can be wintered on the wild range rane ran e it is cruel to say the least lewt of it it the way in which our sheep generally are wintered now it is a reason reasonable atle ablo excuse that it hitherto has been a necessity operative cooperative co opera tive farming will be likely to improve and develop our wool rais rals raising ingi the operative cooperative co farms being able to winter our sheep to avoid a repe repetition of the present great losses and sufferings of stock on account of the hard and prolonged winter let every householder this spring sow at least one acre of lucern for each cow horse hone etc lie he calculates to yia ipa keep anybody leoper who is not a farmer but wishes to winter stock stoel of any kind bind kind should ask ills his neighbor farmer how to in the Iti lucern cern that it may not be a failure does not pro prosper prosperen speron on bottom toi u land but on warm bench land where there is a good supply of i water for irrl arri irrigation atlon TV it takes from 10 to 15 lbs ibs to the acre for seed it should not be covered over half an inch deep and irrigated once a week through the warm season it is not to be cut until it is in blossom it yields three full grown crops every season this side the rim of the basin and lind probably in all the valleys 0 utah in an altitude not over feet above the level of thelea the sea it will yield from six to twelve tons of hay bay per acre every year in dixie the crops of this remunerative fodder plant are still heavier from there thero probably the best seed could be obtained if not it can bedad elsewhere thele is generally plenty of it on sale in salt lake city the writer of this article recommends lucern in preference to any other fodder plant for this climate it will yield twice as much as red clover and timothy it should be top every winter it is cured like red clover when f nally finally stacked to avoid avold injury from flom heating it should be salted with from five to ten ibs lbs of well p salt to the ton tan of hay C A M notes from utah territory one of the most pitiable characteristics te of the american people especially the commercial and and fashionable is to strive to visit foreign lands and to s spend P end their time and money in england and on the continent while utterly ignorant of their own country many wany millions of money are thus spent each year and by thousands of our people who have no more idea of the western portion of the united states than it if they had llad been born ip europe colorado with its gorgeous mountains and fertile valleys utah with its bubli sublime 0 and beautiful scenery callior california nia with its genial climate its valleys fat with corn its hills covered with ten thousand flocks are to myriads of our traveled citizens all teera terra inco incognita 9 and if these fashionable wanderers were interrogated about their own country try they would blush to acknowledge ledge that they were utterly ignorant of its beauties its wealth its climate and its wonders not so with the farmers of our land thank god the hard fisted yeomanry who have at last awoke to their own duties and power are now marching to the front to retake their just position to seize upon the government and drive out of its temples the thieves and scoundrels who in the cabinet and Congress have plundered its coffers stolen its treasures and turned the halls halis of congress and the government into a den of robbers that great class of honest and pure men to whom raz ral speaks each mattei mattel so f interest to them desire to know ere they visit foreign lands all about their own country its resources agricultural commercial mineral manufacturing and like a band of brothers are now striving to strike down corruption and political dishonesty wherever where er they can hit it upon the head in olden times ere the great conflagration ot of chicago I 1 used to aid you af mr r editor in trying to furnish them with mental food and now here in this beautiful valley underneath tile the shadow of these grand old mountains where the american sage brush desert lias has been made to bloom and blossom as the rose I 1 propose to renew my friend friendship sh ap with the western eural rural and its readers and tell them of if all the mineral commercial agricultural and manufacturing interests of utah and the true history of this J wonderful people the cormons mormons Mor mong mons and their leader and prophet brigham young and in doing this while I 1 shall set down naught in malice I 1 shall nothing extenuate but speak right on what I 1 do know the territory of utah lies between the and parallels of north latitude and and degrees of longitude west from washington and is therefore miles long and wide the climate compared with the same parallels the mountains mountain is very mild the tile thermometer here scarcely ever falling to 30 degrees degree z above zero and even in the hottest hotz summer rising not above 80 degrees 0 while the nights are always cool and delightful within its boundaries all products are raised cotton in the south from all ali the coarse thread is made edthe M the finest wool flax hemp fruit flower sand all agricultural products and I 1 be bein begin in now by simply stating C for the information of your readers the products of the year 1872 and 1873 that you may see what a thrifty industrious people cau eau do even in a desert to 2 z 0 0 it f ns samme s S e 8 ts caro emra emai 5 CT tie tib rO N t w s cor amr n soi eem lem 8 0 5 fi ai u e sa c S 5 SS maam s S earis t oa 2 4 oscos C F 6 19 5 rz K meo mem 0 o S at rha rao aig alg Z 3 rt a yao ates at es a aimo dime fi MO V 0 f S 01 t f 4 3 I 1 IS a an tv a Q 6 i t acee pone 0 1 t r 4 gl ft 8 g ga 23 ma aa onca zeak meae 3 5 ell eko elo 1 3 w inose c SS o r 7 E emm cm S ni aa a o oa 01 S ca t cwm c sa S a ei 4 M ft a hi 0 0 a U oi I 1 0 SL t 0 t b 1 CS iiii alq ais d 6 ii 0 az N Q ea 0 C 6 85 0 p 8 S sy jo tile the de decrease deerea crea erea e is mainly due tu to the laet fact of a very backward spring in in 1873 followed by continued dry weather during summer months Fortunate fortunately 3 a much larger area of land was planted in 1873 than 1872 1870 rr or the discrepancy would have be been en much greaten creater in san pete county the yield fell short about thirty three per cent and tooele thoele county about seventeen per cent at spanish 1 ish fork there was diminution and in cache county the tile products were a little over twenty per cent more in 1873 than in 1872 the crop of hay was tons in excess erot crot but ut the fall in price from 16 to 14 per ton precluded much increase in the total value barley oats and indian corn it will also be observed commanded less prices price it is worthy of note that cacho cache cou con county nty is destined to become a great wheat growing browin country no ko less than bushels were produced in 1873 18 13 nearly half of which was exported to california the grain is of a very superior quality and eminently adapted fr shipment to foreign countries it is in contemplation PI atlon to raise at least double the quantity during 0 the present year 1874 in 1873 the value of the fruit fruits of the earth in cereals was and in miscellaneous products 14 making to which which we may add the export of bullion and ore making a total or this is for a population of only people or a product of 60 for each man woman and child in this territory all this has been done while the federal government here has done all in its power to harass and vex this people to eat eal out their substance and so deprive them of the right of self government a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only 21 within the limits of utah are two of the largest and finest woolen factories in lri the west where the wool is worked up erected solely by mormon hands and mormon capital one hundred miles of broad gauge railroad constructed without one dollar of money or an acre acte of of land stolen from the united states and miles of narrow gau gauge ge railway and over 1000 miles of telegraph all the work of brigham yol yoi young ng and his brethren and not a congressional thief has been able thereby to steal a penny from the treasury but enough for tod to d vy uy in my next I 1 will show you the wonders of this happy valley western eural rural 0 o HOODLUMS reno just at this time is infested with an excess ot of the hoodlum element and it is dally daily becoming t more and more apparent that the citizens will be forced lorcey to adopt strong measures to re cepres pres it the daily or rather nightly itly outrages perpetrated by these dregs of society are a disgrace no not t only to lo the perpetrators but to the community that permits them daily and nightly drunken indians male and female disturb the public peace and 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