Show VISIT TO prest TAYLOR and dud company who left the city on tuesday the 1 lith iest lest in st to attend the quarterly conference of the sanpete stake of Z ion lon reached Eph ralmon iday the delightful indian bum sura mer weather with which they were tavoi favored lavoi ed an on the day any of starting Bt arne ceased cawed vory sory very unexpectedly the bame same night f while the party was as resting at I 1 il Nep hl the sudden change had bad the happy eff off act of awaking for the m moment t he the slumbering muse of Preat Taylor which thus thua described th we outlook of the following icorn ing S h riia rila tha elia storm kins kinz kin sits on tho tha tha the high hh 1 and the dari dart clous clouds roll on ou the murky eky sky and the ilyina snow anew and the sleet and rain i proclaim that winter has come coma again at moroni the following party was divided in order to take v la in the whole of the settlements hottle Lettle menta ments in r the valley preat taylor and elder pratt fratt and wives accorn accompanied by bister sister and brother Brothe raud faud and sister slater may of jephy making ranking their way to mount pleas aul and ana baring city olty lity and from there passing through ephraim to manti which wab waa reached on friday afternoon while eiders elders brig erig ham young Youn gand and george gaorge teasdale mua and bian blan op andrewa A mado made for fairview to meet with the other division div islon of the party at manti mantl the company were wore met by eiders elders petersen beal maiben malben and folsom the first three joining president taylor and the latter elder young 3 meeting was held at all the places besides Nephi Neph land and fountain Fountai ln green on oa saturday morning the temple grounds were visited all of the company were most agreeably i surprised surp i risea aa as they i surprised surp i risea aa as they looked upon the walls walla of the building not because at 0 the rapid pro gresa greas that had been mada made bince since the he cornerstones corner stones were laid but bat rather at the beautiful appearance they presented the rock being white and dressed dr eseed ested and consisting of choice blocks and indeed no one appeared to be moro moio pleased with the labor accomplished than president pres Fres ident taylor himself he ex pressed himself to brothers folsom and earry as being satisfied with the appearance of the wark and forward to the time when a really hand haud handsome some structure would overlook the beautiful valley of sanpete San pete main walls are only seven feet from the surface of the ground but then it must be remembered that yards of roc kand debris have been excavated and moved ino ved away in preparing the foundation and that the four terrace wails walls each of which ia Is seventeen bevente 0 a feet high from the surface of the ground and 1000 feet long contain 2400 cords of rock and besides this two wing walls each feet at base to form the background fencing in the hill have been commenced and are already carried to a considerable height eight this thia preparatory work of converting a mountain mato tato suitable sul bul table tabie temple grounds involving as it does immense expense will be fully compensated pen pon bated sated when the temple tempie shall be completed for a more fitting place for foz the house hoube of the lord could hardly be conceived con delved of standing alone and towering to as that edifice will abo labo the works of man around the sand used on the building is ground on the premises from a pure band sand formation obtained from a quarry in close proximity and makes a first firs claes cement the power that grinds it forces water from below to the temple tempie bite and also runis runa a boring machino machine which is used in making log piping to convey ver vey clean water to supply pie plo the tho will be brought from froni a spring situated inthe in then mountain side about a mile and a quarter east and will have anali a fail fall of 79 feet into a reservoir and feet from the reservoir to the building which will be sufficient to boryea serves 11 purposes the height of the templo temple being 82 feet the tho supply wili will bo be sufficient also to water the shade and ornamental trees grabs grass flow ers etc th atwill doubtless be planted plaited to adorn the terrace walks and to help to beautify the thee sacred acred place th the party then drove down to ephraim in time to attend the afternoon meeting of the conference which had bad commended at 10 am that day and met there elder J F smith and bishop sheets who left this city clay on the inet the ephraim tabernacle which la Is a large commodious building buildings haying baying a gallery all round was none nonia too big to accommodate ac the people and had winter not set in eo suddenly it doubtless would have been far to small the people here and throughout the settlements listened attentively to the preaching of the brethren breth nin and manifested nol not only a deep interest in the counsel and instruction imparted to them but bui alcoa marked appreciation of the presence of 0 rao so many of our leading elders reports presented to the conference was one from the female relief belief society of thistle valley which is composed of white and indian sisters in about equal numbers besides other donations made to the temple from this society was waa a neatly matched patch quilt the handiwork of the sisters and 10 the pro of the sales of their sunday eggs and it was reported in private conversation by bro spencer spence r who has charge of the indians in thistle valley that the Larna nito sisters as well as the brethren con tribute in their small way as freely tand and willingly as the white people as the white people the great benefits derived from the t he labors of our sisters associated with the female belief relief societies ara are being realized in sanpete as we well weil 1 aa elsewhere the th a manti mantl manniso society presided over by sister wareham commenced a small business in home made articles about three years ago with a capital of about the home products they added in a small way a stock of general merchandise they now boware are a corporate body and the bubi bufi iness represents 2400 they have pu purchased about four rods frontage on the main street and are now finish a etwo story rock building the upper story la Is a hall to be used for society V purposes me the lower story has baa two rooms one to be used for the sto store ie the other for a millinery swo sho chop p A peculiarity of the homans womans w store is the absente of loafers a in mantl there ia Is no liquor traffic not even for medicinal purposes this ia Is due to the labors of the slaters sisters the way they mccorn accomplished it ift was this they talked the matter matten in atter atten over privately and prayed a good deal about it for as they bay say they needed hilp and aa as they met with a stout opposition from certain quarters they thought they would go to the lord and after a good deal of bf timid da do after a good deal of bf timid da do liberation they concluded to get up a petition to the city council and have it circulated on every block of tile the city eity at the same hour because said they if we give them time to it we may get beaten the result was they got about soo signatures which they presented to the council and aud their prayer was gran grau granted ted the th party returned to the tho city last evening averting much pleased with their trip south |