| Show I 1 FROM JUAREZ MEXICO grief for a great man prosperity of the colony juarez mexico june 14 aw editor deseret news the sad news of apostle erastus erastas snows death reached here by last mail aud and universal regret and heart felt sorrow pervade the hearts of the keople people here at the receipt of the painful u I 1 intelligence in letters received from him dated may 21 he said he expected to visit us about the of the present month his new house bouse recently erected here being ready to receive him the people have been living in fond anticipations of again receiving his wise and fatherly counsels and aad instructions from which they have profited so much in the past but our Heaven heavenly lE father has ordained otherwise and we feel to te say thy wal will be done may god bless brother snows family and comfort them in their sore bereavement and great loss the writer has for more than ahan twenty years labored under the direction of ef pres bears resident ide a t sn snow ow both in ia the sterile dixie of southern utah and in the f faraway araway far ar away land of mexico even when his powers began to fail brother snow made bard trips into the sierra madre mountains looking for tim timber beT etc eiding riding on horseback much of his time tim and we never heard beard him murmur having always an encouraging cou raging word ter for others and surmounting difficulties that would have caused other men to fail to tail fail in the hour of wal trial was a term unknown to the great organizer and fron nand his bis example was strength to all around him truly a good and aad treat great man has gone to his rest and reward but so ion long as life and memory hold sway his name will be spoken i ir with love and affection by those thos e who truly know his bis great worth and appreciate preci ate the goodness of bis great and noble heart JUAREZ IS IMPROVING rapidly considering the circumstances more rapidly than any frontier town we dave bave ever lived in quite a number of neat cottages built of with shingle roots roofs I 1 have recently been erected fences and water ditches have been greatly improved and shade trees adorn most of the principal streets president E B snows home is quite an ornament to the town being two stories high with goehle root roof and dormer windows it stands in IL a central position and can be seen from all points of ef tue toe compass our schoolhouse is nearly ready tor for the roof it is feet in size and has eighteen inch anoble walls with three large windows in each side bide and when completed will be a very nice alce comfortable building the gardens and fields are looking well and promises a rich return lor for the labor bestowed upon them and as a rule the people feel much encouraged and the success of our colonists here is assured there is still room here for quita a number more good latter day da dalati lats such a thing as profaning the name of deity up to the present time to unknown in juarez and we leave oar doors doers wide open nights n aghta as we used mood to do in toe the early days in salt lake are I 1 NONE TO MODEST I 1 us QT or make us afraid there are no saloons ong oar meetings sunday schools and societies are wen well attended an and d a fendral good feeling prevails and hoagh I 1 we are ne without many manyol of the in 1 of life still we thinly think our p av 1 11 ff is es preferable to profanity g ng houses homes and the presence of the I 1 pleasant ever present t dep uty S marshal who ho says you are under arrest res sir air A shon short time ago the tee jete politico oft of the from paso del delnorte norte pai qa a visit and expressed surprise at the great amount or of work done and at the r made as it is only A little over a year since we dovw onto our oar present townsite he fd a desire to render us all the 1 power tor for which we felt id tw p good feelings prevail be j and a all of our neighbors H ads of fruit trees and grapevines hav bave abeen been planted AMRAM |
