Show REMARKS REGARDING RE THE MESA COUNTRY GO GONE nut BUT UT NOT FORGOTTEN MESA maricono Mari Marl copo co arizona april 23 1 editor deseret news may day will soon be here and in anticipation thereof the sunday school children are preparing for a musical and literary entertainment twelve months ago the late lamented sister bush organized the may day festivity inthis in this stake of Zio nand it is not flattery It tery to sa say y that tha tit it would be hard to tind and a superior luperi 0 r to the deceased sister in the au executive t I 1 arrangements rr ments of such excellent entertainments laith a tine fine literary taste more than passing niesi musical a thorough training in the drama and a mind well well weil stored stored with all that was useful toward the development of the rising young sister jennie bush is and will ion lon long iong be regretted in this village the hi high h water fever is over for the season the dry term tenn having j just list set in many years ha hav hai e passed since arizona was visited with such copious draughts of water and it may be that many years will again pass by before the floods of the past season are repeated it is evident however to many of us of eight or ten years residence in this territory and set down as a solid fact by that well known character cliar cilar acter the oldest inhabitant that the rainy seasons are becoming 0 LONGER AND wetter vetter which leads to the belief that the country iry i is s undergoing a slow but sure climatic t i 0 change for the better with all the floods and high 11 waters but very little damage was done to thevan the the van valley vailey e Y and if we except the melancholy loss s 0 of 1 four or five flye human beins beings bein s tile tiie balance of the casualties in lossu loss 01 animals and damages to canals leaving out the serious drawback trade would not am amount aunt to over ten thousand dollars As an offset to this however the season has insured to the tillers of the 7 soil repayment a hundredfold through 3 a most acost promising harvest here on the mesa niesa thanks to the untiring irin g exhortations of our president and many of the elders we can claim havin having between four and five hundred acres of wheat soon ready for the reaper this is however ONLY THE next summer will I 1 hope see in four or five thousand acres when ohen when this Is accomplished it may truly be said that the brethren in this stake of zion will be beyond the need of help ili in the shape of labor from outsiders this is a consummation be wished for and one easily accomplished Is it c d provided we only have unity within ourselves unfortunately the first great principle towards self nence lence has not that hold among the brethren n it ought although preached with and tin kin in earnestness by our president and elders still the main portion of us do not recognize that lofty lofty principle of UNIT JEto ACTION in matters pertaining to our welfare in that high and holy light vve tye ve ought worldly fears ears and interest appear to sway too many of us wither the wind listed and I 1 fear unless we harken barken more to the advice of our priesthood in this thi all important matter a just chastisement will again be inflicted upon u before we are aware of ourselves aag aad we wig be surged into obedience bahat by hat almighty power rower who holds dominion over the ilu living and the dead let us then in all ali humility be guided by our priesthood in this as in every other sacred duty for we must surely surely know and have that living faith within us of which st paul so eloquently exhorts and which every true latter patter day saint should possess that in in all matters pertaining to our welfare here and aud our eternal salvation priesthood but voice the inspirations of the holy ghost which rests within and on them this worldly and selfish strub struggle de for personal personal gain and privileges is but t the 1 tl e spirit of eyll etli for have not the gentiles the same shall shail it be said that any stake of zion contains communicant saints who cannot raise above the vain bubbles of the world the devil and the phe he flesh the three mighty engines which are ever tr trying i to prevent us from the liv living n f faith falth established for the last tim time e upon this the footstool away with such a thought better for us to bobear bear poverty and hardships the sum summers bumbiers wiers biers scorching suns the winters raining blasts than thili live a life of luxuriance and ease obtained through ueail disobedience of and utter disregard for the teachings of our ordained pastors eor wor this end came clinto the world were the words of our savior to his apostles and disciples for what end to do the will of my father and your father to build buildup up an inheritance of eternal glory not of human splendors to walk in humility virtue and honor before the eternal father even though it led to poverty poverty tf persecution and as it d did dla to christ and many of his followers since THE HEATED TERM Is now coming upon us and as a a consequence the grain fields will soon ripen our young meu men are reserving their energies and strength to tackle the long lono harvest day now close at hand band when old rd and young who can stand the heat and toil ton of a ion lon long iong days labor can find of work if th they wish it there is a loud talk here 0 of el A RAILROAD soon to be built between maricola maricopa Mari copa and phoenix nix 1 the county seat of this county A number of san francisco solid men have organized themselves into a corporation for this purpose and it does actually look as if they meant business this time if this is so then mesa Illes awill will also soon be spanned with an iron track mesa is taking the lead of the salt river eiver valley in fruit raising this season unless our fruit is in s some ome manner preserved or turned into wine the stranger within our gate can have all the fruit wanted for the asking skins I 1 have no hesitation however in saying that the summer of 1885 will see a small cannery established here and I 1 am not drawing the ion lon longbow long iong p bow bowl in saying that before a half decade rolls by b a better investment or better spot olland of land on the pacific slope for norvle sup supplying ying such an establishment cannot be hunted up outside of salt river valley in general and mesa in particular the fairest spot of land on this bank of time B R y |