Show correspondence ON xue THE wax WAY TO saw SAK JUAN NEPHI juab county april gab 1885 editor deseret meus news saturday the uit we left your fine city and drove eight miles to BIG cottonwood COTTOy wOOD where we were entertained in a right royal manner by sister harriet brinton widow of the late david brinton and her sons until monday morning doctor seymour B young and wife wile elder john A groesbeck and wife and sister elizabeth joined us oil on saturday evening and remained with us until sunday evening we spent a very enjoyable time together I 1 met quite a f few ew old friends here whom I 1 had not met for thirty five years I 1 lived here in 1819 on monday the uit we bade farewell to our friends on the cottonwood and journeyed to lehl lehi utah county we passed throng through h a continuous chain of settlements beautiful beautia ul orchards well tilled fields and ninel fine cosy farm houses the lucern was always ways s in sight and to it ina lna in a great measure I 1 attribute the thriving condition of most of f our settlements on the line of travel we ire are pursuing farms on the little cottonwood that a f few sew evv vears years ago would not produce enough to justify justly cultivation are now yielding yield ins good paying crops I 1 find the settlements crowded up to their utmost ca capacity lacity land and water all appropriates appropriated and our young people as they marry off have no place to settle settie near home hence I 1 would ifould say not exactly as horace greely young man GO SOUTH into san juan county utah I 1 am going there and like company I 1 dont want to go even to heaven alone I 1 would not have you infer by tills this that san juan is heaven or even a paradise at present but we propose to make it such in time as the saints have made their pleasant homes in these sterile valleys by stent and unremitting toil aall and now the devil covets the results of our labors or rather his pious emissaries of the clerical persuasion and government carpet do and they think it awful f ul that we dont quietly move out and give them possession but then I 1 do not leel teel to complain because of their treatment t towards wards us for it is doing us as a people great good I 1 perceive as I 1 travel among and mingle with the people that there Is a better feeling f eeling prevailing among the saints than I 1 I 1 nave have witnessed for years past more determined feeling to maintain their faith in god and in his work as now bein being es babli tabli shed through the labors of of his holy priesthood even unto death and aut thus will the lord turn the efforts and labors of the devil and his aids for the advancement of his cause and the establishment of his kingdom u upon on for the earth and no power of the devil or man can prevent it now mr editor I 1 do not wish our friends the clergy or our federal officials any harm f for or about forty years ago I 1 was in the same school of sectarian folly without hope or any definite idea of god but having found the truth I 1 can afford to be generous the city or county of salt lake should fix up some of the BRIDGES CROSSING THE CANALS n the southern part of the county below sandy and north of the point of mountain they need side rails and one anich spans a deep gulley galley might be widened about two inches as it is only about eight feet in width barely wide enough for a sober united states marshal to drive safely over and I 1 should dislike very much if any of those gentlemen should come to grief through any neglect of our city or county officials there is also a very bad piece of road south from the point of the mountain and north ot of lehi deep narrow gullies washed out th through rough the melting of snow I 1 jud judge from the near foothills there is a in mile mlle I 1 ea or two of this land lind of road where every few rods you sou you have to throw on the brake and come to a dead halt or run the risk of breaking an axletree axle tree or jerking your false teeth out either case would be a sad affair to a poor pilgrim bound for a country where such things thins could nov net well replaced un n the eveni event evening n g of the we arrived at lehi which is a pretty little city well governed and quite prosperous but like most of our towns overpopulated for the resources of the people are about exhausted unless they go into manufacturing on tuesday the alst aist I 1 we passed on south through american fork and battle creek and over the great provo bench to the RENOWNED CITY OP OF PROVO with its great woolen mill grist mills banks fine stores filled with merchandise from every land and drug stores with drugs from every land enough if carefully use used d to kill all the saints in the land and a few of the U S marshals here I 1 e enjoyed the hospital itly of my old and dear friend president A AO 0 smoot judge dusenberry also showed me through the magnificent edifice built for the accommodation of the unfortunate of our race the lunatics here it seems to me that every thin thing that can in anyway any way contribute to the pleasure happiness comfort and convenience of its inmates has been calef carefully ully ally studied and provided for the bidge informed orrand rne tue me rue that the entire cost ip up to date had only reached 80 OW I 1 certainly feel that the money lias has been WISELY EXPENDED ind and the taxpayers tax payers have need nedd to be ot of the result the committee oo 00 who have had this subject ID in hana hand band baud deserve great credit tor for the praise worthy manner in which they have discharged their trusts if it the institution iad lad about 40 acres more land to add to its ts grounds it would be a great bless ing ng balso I 1 also aiso called upon ero Fro professor fessor maeser at the B Y academy who showed me through all the departments of learning over which he is presiding with which I 1 was highly 11 gratified the good people of this stake have almost completed a most magnificent building for a STAKE tabernacle which when completed will be oneff the finest places of worship in the territory utah county Is a rich district and signs of wealth and prosperity ro are displayed on every haar hand continuing in my journey to the beautiful c city t 1 wo of Spring springville ville I 1 again bialt halted e l for location I 1 I 1 know of none that I 1 consider superior to Spring springville ville except satt salt lake here liere we were entertained in a sumptuous manner by in my sister in law ann Bring bringhurst hur st widow of the late bishop win wm brin bringhurst 11 in the evening the brass ba band ed came around and gave us a sweet seron enade the lat of april we pursued our journey to spanish fork here we were entertained by my brother in law carl and wife this town has also grown to be a tine fine place filled with enterprising citizens the following day we continued on to santaquin San passing through pond town and payson and pu put up at widow Holl widow of the 1 lite ite david holladay bisho bishop of santaquin San here I 1 met with some old oid friends whom I 1 had not seen tor for 34 years and spent the afternoon and evening with brothers john M holladay and henry gr boyle like oid old old oid soldiers figh ligh lichtin fighting tin our battles over again B brother rother boyl boyle e while preaching to save others nearly all his bis days has not been able to save himself temporally he ile is in a crippled condition havins lost the cie use entirely of one hand band and has a large family and ana little or no income ile he has spent his bis best days in preaching the gospel and hering the people to this land and gt fathering Sa deserves to be better situated the prospects for fruit and crops generally arg are exceedingly good through all our settlements and the present fine rains are making the farmers to 0 o rejoice on saturday the eth we left santa quin and proceeded to Nephi 1 13 miles passing through mona a nice little vilia villa village ge where everything seemed neat and orderly at this place I 1 overtook my teams and found triem them nicely provided f for or I 1 was entertained by brother henry goldsbrough in old fashioned Mor mormon styleano sty style leand and spent the evening in a most pleasant manner brother goldsbrough being an old timer had many nine dine fine bits of experience to relate almost equal to brother woodruffs woodruff Is chapter of accidents while in nephi I 1 attended the SABBATH SCHOOL in a very nice hall where the ward meetings are held I 1 was much pleased with the good order and large attendance there were over pupils enrolled bes besl idesa desa large primary school linthe in the vestry I 1 noticed many of the pupils were middle aged me men men of experience I 1 was told by the superintendent brother IV H warner that th they vye sye were r e mostly seventies I 1 noticed djos those h having abing charge of the sae Sar sacrament when they blessed bread knelt cnown an and 1 l as as the bread was b blessed ased arising the water was blessed also this I 1 think is to save time as priests who serve the water waver can up those serving the bread and exercises of the school soon be to proceed I 1 also attended the ward w was as called upon to address the bf by prest chas sperry I 1 saw 0 old oid d familiar faces among others of Brothe brother john rJohn borrowman a member of the famous mormon bartall battalion 0 whom I 1 had not seen since the cpr sprine ln of 1849 nermi is a very enterprising town filled with a go ahead sort of ot people judging fi from r om their works and if they had a nice t e stream of the line water from 0 osden valley flowing through their ton town I 1 think it would be a very desirably desi rabla place lace to live in there is but one well here ere which I 1 am informed is some feet deep and supplies water hence the people are depe dependent upon the water from ohp creek for domestic use which at this time I 1 think would be good for making adobes acobes as it would require but very little mud to mako make it the required consistency avo about ut 6 p in brothers ilar liar mon bellnap and messervy fram adam idam 1 from Vi Ei verdale over overtook too me ill iii all ail well they had remained one day at santa quin in consequence of horses ha having v got cot poisoned on some hay obtained A at payson they will proceed by way of sanpete San pete and join me at salina from your traveling friend and brother P 3 A rammond right eight hen hon john nash present at torney general for ireland has been appointed appointed lord chancellor of ireland t to ill nil the place made vacant bv by the death of sir edward buluran od on the irl Iri instant stant |