Show I 1 tiie the justice and khe ibe editor beaver U T march 1878 editors debere deseret N eu aa As the public va well as some public journals aro are not ly misled by reports of proceedings in the justices court of this city by an unreliable newspaper known as the square dealer I 1 beg that from its incipient birth apt one report of such proceedings has bas been authorized or been entitled to public credit if any have been correct and full it baa haa been by dint of accident why an editor to I 1 do du not deign to speak should be so discourteous or should pretend to report proceedings of the court over which I 1 have havo the honor to preside I 1 can only account for on the ground of ignorance and effrontery fron tery trusting you will be so kind as to publish this statement that the public mind may be dis abused I 1 L armost am most respectfully DANIEL the first lucern I ngern blang larz LAKE VILLA march 1878 editors deseret mews if not too late to af rise and ex exi 1 plain please let in a claim as the pioneer oflus ern in utah bythe by the first U 8 9 mail brought to salt lake city cly in 1850 1 received from a friend in washington a package of lucern seed then called Chi loulan clover which I 1 planted at santaquin Sau San iu lu 51 1 I was called in to the sandwich island mission the place was broken up 1 in 11 53 by the walker war and on my return in 65 1 found my in lucern lucera cern baill growing on dry land not hav jag I 1 been irrigated for two jears years and its progeny is still spreading in this county yours you ra etc B F JOHNSON how hew foru FORK march 1878 brother prother F D Bichard 8 DEAR DEAP SIR sim we arrived here on the ath of last december and built cabins to winter in and on the gih of january 1878 1 balled a ige ibe meeting eting at my house for fog the purpose 0 o of appointing p someone some bome one to preside over the SaIn saints tsIn in this place according to brother taylors request by the motion of brother enoch burn I 1 was una unanimously ul appointed to act as presiding elder in this vicinity brother P F G williams was appointed cherkof clerk elerk of the branch and I 1 choose him to act as counselor for me we appointed our meetings at one sunday and have kept them up tip ever since at that hour there la Is about the bam samo number of gentiles in this country as there is mormons cormons Mor mons we antic anticipate laate a large emigration to this part the coming season we hope they thoy will be latter litter day saints I 1 am well pleased with the country and climate will know more about it after I 1 have r ed nere here I 1 think this Is as good a Laou country aa as any tiny I 1 know of in ju utah that oat Is nol not settled where whore there Is a chance for poor men to make comfortable for table homes it seems at present to be an out of the way place but we vee hope and trust that it will be different in a few years our stock that we brought out in Decem december bei bel were generally poor but they are in good condition now running on the range and our teams that we have had to work more or less lees are in better condition than they were last fall and have bad nothing but what they have picked on the range this is a well watered country bome seme timber in the valleys along the streams and plenty of cedar on the tho hills bills and rod large forests of pine in the mountains very handy hand y to get at and a very good qu quality a lity there is gypsum ock rock and petroleum rock very rich with oil saltpetre Salt petre and alum and aspdal turn the streams abound w with fth ith fish and the hills and mountains abound with wild wilt game the climate is mild and even very little snow or rain or wind we had two weeks of the coldest weather ever known by the oldest settlers commencing about the of decem ber the thermometer was as low as 15 degrees helow below zeros zero the balance of the winter has been very light the people have been plowing and planting gardens ever since the last of february we yve have located a townsite about one mile from green river of acres containing 60 lots lota and atad one public square if it any should wish to write to me address THOMAS binal BiNaI binghan BINGHAM raif lAif ashleys fork via green river city the ramm ramp at pueblo PUEBLO colorado march 18 1878 editors deseret mews news on the morning of the ath I 1 left lull salt lake city for a to the southern states stalest at ogden met melc brother A W V babin sabin of and in hi his coni company pany proceeded east 1 by the union pacific to cheyenne where we turned south toward denver over the denver pacific the weather was remarkably mild during the trip across the mountains but we had eca scarcely reely reached denver when a furious storm broke over the entire mountain country reaching from green river biver to the platte fardown farrown far down in nebraska but fortunately we kept one train ahead of the storm and arrived at our present destination without detention where we found the saints in the enjoyment of good health without an exception we held a meeting on the following sabbath after our arrival at which the entire company with the exception cp sidn of parts of two fa miliea milleo who were unavoidably detained away were present and endeavored to get an expression of their feelings which was unal unai unanimous almous to continue the journey they had started out but conj on as soon as the way opened fortham for them to accomplish it t the saints here have had bad many things ito itu contend against during the winter that has tried some bome of them borely sorely but we find a good spirit among them thera and a determination to hoid hold on to the faith they were entirely unacquainted with the country its manner mauner dr or customs which was an obstacle of DO no small magnitude to overcome they bad had no elder to advise them and were left to their own resources to obtain food land and raiment but they tell me they have had plenty to eat and bearno one has suffered sune redi redl another difficulty was they were thrown into very intimate relation iun lun with each other in their winter quarters and the natural weaknesses and frailties of human nature would of course prominently develop themselves differences would naturally arise and inexperience would make blunders iu in short it was tho the 01 old oid d story t hat that saints sainta recognize as the elpe experience rie nce of the sifting process that ail all sooner or later have to go through in the midst of 0 this there came camo into their camp a man w who ho had bad turned from the truth and endeavored to causel causal cause dis dissection sention bention the result was that a close cloce Berut scrutiny iny only showed more clearly the counterfeit sought tto to be palmed oft off on them and I 1 have yet to find the first person who was in t he the least annl affected acted from this cause the saints were poor and could not see their way clearly out of the difficulties surrounding them but they trusted in the god of israel and he haa has brought them through BO sa far safely there are twelve families here and the major part of them will ba able to continuo continue their journey as soon as corive conveyance yance can be procured from the end of the track to their des destination ti nation which we trust will wil I 1 not be long on last sabbath brother sabin and myself blessed blese blesi ed eight children and again on yesterday one more there have been two births during the winter and if tho iho he way opens before us to get to our settling point we have the nucleus for quite a colony in time while the saints here are receiving many letters from friends in the far onn south making anxious inquiries after them and the faith they have escous espoused 0 the prospects are good for quite an emigration from the southern i states in this diorec direction tion asking an interest in the prayers erlof of the saints very truly codr brother in the gospel J MOR 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