Show interesting correspondence PANACA nev au aug I 1 editor deseret we aarein are in nevada just a short distance from the washington county comaty line utah and many ot of the utah people le look u upon von us as being rather weak cormons mormons Mor mons I 1 because we remain in the sagebrush state where but few of the it the e saints reside it may not be out of place therefore to give your paper a few items of news f from this section 1 our farming interests in the valley where panaca is situated are not very i extensive as yet the main drabb drawback ack is a scarcity of water however the grain just being harvested here aromi ties an excellent yield per acre and our experience during tue toe past two years proves to us that by preparing the soil in the fall of the year and planting our grain very early in the spring in order for it to have the full benefit of early showers with a few reservoirs to so board enough water tor for two irrigations thie the crop will mature well our or valley will then be capable of producing many thousands of bushels of grain annually since times have changed with us ua and mining interests have proved unprofitable failing to secure remunerative employment for ourselves and teams teama we are forced to look for support to TUB THE NATURAL ifal RESOURCES around us these resources are very go good if only developed for years after I 1 the ploce pioneers ers canie came to this valley this locality was ty by many to be ot of range for kukli rieal of 0 cattle and so our czatle were driven to fuciu lilies for the summer season but bat at this date there must be near a head es d of horned animals up and down the valley to a distance disi anee ot 01 45 miles these thene stock are owned principally by our outside neighbors who would be glad to sell a drove of any kind of animals a purchaser might wish persons desiring to make purchases of stock would do well to come this way where they will be met with reasonable prices As aa election time approaches ar all good loyall citizens are prepared to vote tor for their choice la in olli officers cers but when we presented oura ourselves olves before the registration officer he proposed administering a severe dosu dose in the shape ot of a test oath the registration officer however had no BO part in arranging the form of this oath the state stale le legislature bals at their last session took the matter into consideration and realizing as we suppose that great g r e a t political lit tica I 1 parties par t les are otten cor r p t e gd resort to unfair measures for party part rt purposes the assembly to all appearance thought 11 1 proper and necessary to lift us from the slimy mass and place us upon a higher plane it was as much as to say you are too good a people to be contaminated ted with our evil edif practices and the deception that we delight in therefore we will make you spectators and as son non participants you can gaze upon tile the surging masses at the coming election although we are DEPRIVED OF representatives yet we are held for just as heavy taxation as our state law makers the readers of the NEWS are familiar with the infamous test forced upon our people in idaho but let me say that our nevada legislature can malle make the idaho conspirators ashamed of themselves when it comes to severity in a test oath you must swear that you are nobody and never expect to be to become entitled to vote As a free born citizen of the american nation I 1 hold bold that the man who subscribes to this wicked oath voluntarily surrenders his rights which our fathers say one cannot be deprived pr v ed of legally in a free country a and d by refusing to subscribe to this measure he is deprived of his bis rights as a free man certainly our legislature are not fully apprised of the rightful duties and limits of their are arc rather to declare and secure only our natural rights and aad duties not to take some of them from us it our eur great government can allow burdens to be belaik laid upon some sode of her citizens and exempt others dispensed dispense benefits to some and exclude others it is only a question of time when our free lost institutions will cease to live and when despotic power will usurp the place consecrated to liberty the majority of our citizens jew an and d gentile as well as mormons cormons Mor mons declare this test oath bath to be an ah outrage upon the voters of nevada and it is to be hoped that men who would form weapons to detroy destroy I 1 free government will be left on t the he outside of the balls ball s of the nevada legislature next winter signed ONE OF THOSE MORMONS |