Show condition niia and prospects Joi jol iNSO jan 17 1875 editor deseret mems mews it has been raining almost steadily evening about ten which makes it soft under foot and the prospects are that it will continue for some time will hilll make it very disagreeable getting around but w we are willing to put up with that for a while in consideration of the benefit in time to come in our farming facilities our settlement is thriving as well be expected under the circumstance circumstances eum cum stances stance and considering the number of families there being only six and nine able bodied men until last year yean there was nothing done at farming of any account our main business be bein vhf iff g stock raising v about the of march 1874 brothers levi lovi stuart J it young and others came and organized the united order the members then went to work and finished fencing the field that was partly fenced previous on the west fide side of the valley the front string being about two miles and a quarter long nature baure iid ild lad lid fenced the back and ends fr vi losing a good many hundred acles neles of good farming and meadow land with water the land that was cropped yielding from twenty five to thirty bushels to the acro aero without irrl irrigation atlon wheat barley corn potatoes and all kinds of vegetables vere were raised in abundance without water with the tile exception orl ori of storms on the east side of the valley there is about abou t two miles of fencing up making about four miles and a quarter done in about a year our fetock is doing splendid the there re being thousands of acres aeres S res of splendid range and considerable sid erable green grass gnass starting among the sage sagebrush brush which is uncommon for this time of year ia E W JOHNSON jonnson |