| Show BRIGHAM ity CITY august gih 1879 editors deseret news la in company with prest 0 G snow scow patriarch vm box and bishop H L tings ting your correspondent had the pleasure recently of visiting the tho wards west of this city belonging to this 55 mile miles north of west from br brigham g giai ia is located curlew valley wilch a few fuw years agor ago was waa known duly only as ag a herd ground but by the arky energy of effew A favo inspired by the perseverance per of bishop A G tho the leading mind of 0 that ward a canal nine miles in in length with a is dam at its head bead h has haa as llen lien constructed and an abundance of water for bich which this valley is 13 noted hai had een cen turned from its natural Lia tural channel ch unel anul anil will be made nia d use af efto convert erd erf the offic otherwise gwist dry plain into fruitful fields elds and pless pleas anc homes bomes hornet A suitable place ha has hwn selected and Bur buu surveyed geed for u city and the blaho not allowing to inn JAD behind hib hla five flock tu to drive but always ahead piloting the way has haa erected a ver very cul cum us elj aud substantial dwell dwelling 70 ilig irig on in the city ground I 1 covered with a good shingle roof IC make mention of the shingle roof in view view of the tact fact mat the shingles were hauled about 60 milea miles likewise most must bet jet of the lumber the present population opu lation of ibis valley is about 45 families amii amil tes ies which number is fast aug ilk lik tented owing to 0 o kfaft ir pomes for for the tiller lifler of ane soil i fact but a few years yeara will elapse defore that thab valey valley will bo be filled up atti maints 1 I hope aboul 28 miles southwest south bouth west from snowville Snow ville thenamae the name of the new city nes hes relton kelton kel ton tou the depot which receives the dairy products and produce of this valley five nie nit meetings kIngs wim win heili behl at sno sao snowville Snow ville and a complete comelete organization of that ward was effected A good udit bishop and joeeph robbins bobbins and aud H J hanl Hans banson hanson son sou counselors 0 u a number of priests and teachers were ordained and set about 42 milea southwest from snowville Snow ville uia via lC kelton keiton elton elfon lies park valley a lovely little valley whose only drawback appeared to be a dabagia supply of water this valley unlike curlew run zuni east and west bounded on the alth by a it range of mountains from which the wier purposes flows and limber it Is baid eaid to build up the place at ab the base bhe ol 01 mountains are located a number of excellent farms where in time and I 1 may say elegant homes will remade te made from this elevated locality we vre havon haah a beautiful view of ebe the entire valley and also of the northwest end of salt lake at the end und of which and 14 park viley valley liem liea kelton the residents of this valley on the strength of a temporary seif self aion alon bulit built the best school hoube house west of bear biver river city and don conducted conduct ducted eed fed a sabbath school of 30 thirty six aix students were enrolled in the cummon last fast winter park valloy ward was d with eim erm elastus Eia atus D mi charn chain bishop and CJ UJ buhner bohner and win Q G dired couls couns alOie A of priests aud and teachers appointed to labor in the ward in their respective place ints valley was ursi urai settled in 69 09 by th thop thoe oe dunn durin W C I 1 howa bows adam larsen and a few othis othi 8 ity pre ire present ent eni eat population is 21 families and a fifty two miles over a road in heady eady harb hare eshoo form brought ua us QI grouse creek which L think les lea nearly west of park valley and IL view of uninviting biting appearance of gro grouse use creek valley was ta a resident t I 1 should favor the con cou truc tion of a rond rund direct between the two places over a low in the Moun taing taino which would wohld make muke the dis only twenty flo or thirty miles between the two valleys hud aud thus enable each to visit the othe other r and lend a helping band baud if only by way of eu encouragement coura ement samly urouse creek is euti entitled tied to une the tho latter there is some tome good land on this thid creek ercek but the water which used to bo be plentiful ia Is an entire failure this i reabon season and some tami lies I 1 noticed have to haul thil thit article for several miles for house bouse use and tho the crops of course have to wako make without with out water or go unmade the people are chiefly p poor i 1 having just juat moved in from jno ino europe r 0 pe and other places and their present condition is hot very encouraging but if our old times of 11 4 14 al plenty of water return to us the tho saints will yet make comfortable homes herm here the first forst settlers came here h ere in 76 among whom were E P F hubbard adl Ibl arshal marshal grover B F cooke henry merrill merriu and W 0 thomas 41 44 families makeup make up the present population it Is if estimated tuat that in ordinary sea sons there is s sufficient water to irrigate acres of land this ward waS waa completed in its organization on with hamuel samuel H L kimball lia bishop ON aud and B F cooke cooko and phil ask at counselors counsel orso priests and teachers were ordain ordained edi and aud ana appointed to labor in the ward at each of onese these su places wet thee presiding officers and as many of the tho saints as could make ia convenient were le baptized and upon the whole whose i a general lwood good feeling prevailed d and oven even those of our pr urel orel ethren hren and sisters who had bad the least encouragement seemed fall of hope that a brighter day was wail at hand fiand having nearly reached the corner htone stone of utah idaho and nevada we were quite willing to return again to the thu city of brigham where dear ones anxiously watch td i tor for oc our return and where the greetings ot of welcome are melody in thu tho heart which honbo sweet home P F ISI MADSON ADsoN osden ogden election OGDEN CITY U T august 4 1879 editors deseret vi news aws our el election here today to day has been one of the quietest kno knoon waln in this place for many years past nottie not the least exel excitement bement at the polls no rush no stamped stampeding hig after voters there was only one the peoples ticket in the field and of course if IC was elected there were nota great many people out iid lid and very few votes cast east in all ali in this city As far as L can learn the like peace and good order prevailed d and like results were attained in the settlements throughout the country one reason so few were out at ebe the polls is it is a very busy time juht now with many who are engaged in the fields securing their crops but it is nevertheless a fact that when wo w have no opposition great numbers of our people become apathetic and neglect the important duties of using their franchise to elect proper men to fill import L E hr hot hoo wiil will riot pot be caught napping at the time they should be wide awake sma semper ER judneal blunders beaver aug editors deseret jewsh I 1 have given what attention ill III health and a press of business busi burs inear nusa nesa j would allow to the legal proceeds proceed ings lugs the trustee in trust of the church of jesus jebus christ of lat ter ler day kiy uly oly saints and the executors of the tho estate ot of the late president brigham young and do not hesitate to pronounce the whole affair an outrage that would not i be tole rated la an other lother community tty As to what grounds the attorn attorneys ess eya for the take I 1 am not fully posted but the idea of a re receiver celver or rec receiver eiveri with mere nominal bonds and abd tho thee e receivers virtually pan yan transient p py raone being appointed to take posse possession ision of properly property already wyli i and securely bonded in sumi sums to guarantee the tho proper peo wco ueland and holding of such property is nul aul a u assumption of power too palpable to lo le entertained by a two year old baek back backwoods woods justlee justice of the peace much less lesa a dit district strict judge appointed by the best beat government on earth peon personally aily ally I 1 nave have nothing against jude judge boreman but much of lis his judicial proceeded proceedings edin edID 98 gs 98 from first to last has hah been a chapter i of prejudice and judicial blu biu blunders nde rs I 1 must i gay ay fray however of the other judges deigned to harass jand nd an nuy the leaders of bf the so called mormon church the sharpest deed they ever di iid lid d in the territory was to select boreman bureman to do the job tha that t he should have retired at the tho expiration of his first term no iane ane who has dot not allax an ax to grind will deny he did not in my view i id la however no fault of the goter gover government ament the appointing po power depends le mainly upon the of others his second appointment I 1 understand was the result of a recommendation from tho united bar ef of chis his city whilst I 1 have no wish to impugn the motives of the honorable actor jeys joys I 1 mask must musk gay that in recommending aman of BO so small calibre tili till filled d ith alth with known brij prejudice udice against the s religion iou lou and people of the community and upon the judicial bench declaring a large and respectable spec tabie table portion 0 of their to be like heathen and wild beas toy tol had bad there been nothing mor more a should have caused them to reflect and aon pon consider sider whether the community for whom they expected to do business wanted a man of that kind we were re a petition circulated for a new appointee p poff itee I 1 am satisfied that outside of the abused settlers who have made the country a very large ma bority of 0 the inhabitants would sign it E might refer to many of his hia ju judicial di blunders blun bluD derbin derain lir lif this district one I 1 mentioned some years ago was r a month mo more to or less and surely burel surel not much ae lesa g an humble citizen of beaver is b arly ariy gone with heart disease was accused by who every circumstance went to show attempted to put up a job on certain parties boreman held an iau examination which w to have occupied oi or at most to hiye have exceeded two days at the close of the period above the slowly but burely surely dying man who would ly have hava dropped dead before traveling half the m distance to where the mati man was killed was held and died under bonds to answer the grave charge of of murder that his deat death was wag wa hastened i by bk this ylie tile persecution I 1 is a well understood thod to be the fact by those who had ch charge a rge of the sick bick man A few hours before he lie breathed his last aften after b informed that his hib de mise was yas was at hand he said eaid asi 1 I die with a void of of rence tence towards god and man mau the deb des went scat cost free I 1 need not repeat the full fall history of the case nor follow through the case at bar striving to wrench the property from its bonded security and placing i ngit it in other hands with comparatively no security is of itself sufficient an apparent attempt to Isol mormon problem problems by gobbling up the church as well as estate property persons unacquainted quain ted with the judges bias and dodges would almost be led to query whether he was not seriously thinking of garnishing varnishing garni shing the late presidents grave or worshiping his bis memory perhaps I 1 should bavei have said money instead of memory yet on reflection I 1 think it looks more that way it is to be hoped honed that at no distant day the debond judicial alaxia Dl dial elza aXiA ta will wili be favored with an intelligent unbiased jurist to ait alt upon the bench benth how refreshing the though thoughts tj damien DAMIEL TYLER pertinent queries SALT LAKE CITY ti aug 1 12 J 11 9 editors deseret jevec i 1 the good ellar cliar acier acler er of a nau man oi or p people lis has always been bien looked apoi d as of more value vallie than gold jold online orline or line 6 jewels something that should iii joe guarded and preserved at tit ards in a financial sense the good character of the merchant is of as as much value to him as his bla bankah count ebis ibis is also true of society at large communities people and ha nations require a character for solid worth buto bufo before bufore i r they can make the theiu their ir influence feli felt A government that thai cannot or will not nol t protect its ita subjects from insult while abroad aldu j obes oses cas to a and a d in men en cease to respect it Where whereas vs lt its efforts to protect ita citizens under all nil circumstances are recognized as au an eilden dilden evidence ce of the stability of tha thu that cha ao government vei r dent the latter day alnis asalati alais havo have much to do dd with people from abroad who visit us ana and bug buc men aidt aint and VIDI eiders elders blatting and raveling in dimm diff lerent larent parts of iba world are called upon to come fil fit m contact with wilh classes and gleat varl vari canety I 1 ety i of people who to a extent zt et are compelled their opinions of u irom from popular report and it seems a moat most important ife item that we ula ulu uee like our utmost 1 endeavors to jalace lace before the world at large the th e situation in our midst and add main maln L tain our character as ii a for probity justice and fair I 1 allow me to ask in all hil candor how bow we can expect to accomplish the khe foregoing objects while harg here iii fri our own doors are aie a clas class s of men whose entire time ia la spent in a syb ays tem tern of traducing and od lying that has baa never been paralleled paralleled in the civilized world men who subsist upon the bounty of the mormon people at that for iwho who could doubt for or one moment thad that thatis if the latter day saints should vacate these theise i valleye valle yi they would dot not return n to their wilderness state stat ef amr amt again become the home of the indians abd wild animals yet ye tim en tab abroad road is widely influenced by thesa these very men letters to ib tb the press abroad are written teeming with slander and accepted by thel tha anasi of the people as trub true because written ritten from salt lake city yet these thebe men walk our streets and ask favors at our hands to illustrate this point a few weeks 11 ago 0 a delegation of visitors from the easi stopped s over sunday and nd attended the tabernacle service alee alce three elders in succession addressed sid tid dressed the audience A prominent federal onu off official iclal seated near some of the visitor in n detail slandered the thu characters of these three elders and embittered the minds mines of his bis liste listeners nem nep against the whole mormon people yet this man is one due of theme thell theil nen uen ii wt wo have to look to protection under the aw mw of theland noland A terrible murder of one of our M most ost promising young men but recently occurred in the state of georgia we asa lasa people have felt to execrate the men who committed the foul deed but are they the on ly guilty partie parties 4 it has been a leading question for some days will theu Meers of that estate punish the but let jet ns us bring the question nearer jieme home how bow about the men who instigated the murder for they are here in utah far what about these men shall we allow them to continue their debilt deviltry ry and not raise a hands eail cair on officials abroad to punish vanish their culprits I 1 am credibly informed that the articles written by a gentile school teacher and would be presbyterian by terian terlan preacher defaming the character of the mormon people and the elders sent abroad was circulated through the 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