| Show OGDEN WEATHER CITY utah feb 12 1898 we are just now experiencing the heaviest part of the winter up to and during the month of january the weather was waa mild and indeed some times very warm so BO much so ao that the streets of ogden were dry and dusty but within four weeks past the atmospheric changes have been various and fremut freau nt now mild and then milder anon warm cold and then colder until some of the ancient settlers here said it was waa the driest coldest long snap of weather they had experienced since they first came to this country at that time all thought the prospect for water for the coming summer was very gloomy A change has come over the spirit of their dream and they have now discovered that there was more of the beautiful in the upper deep than they had dreamed of this winter during the last two weeks we have been visited with several deep snow falls they felt fell to the depth of from twelve to fifteen inches yesterday we had another fall of the white flakes and today it has stormed the whole of the day but this time it being much of it sleet a great deal of it melted as fast as it fell made the roads very slushy and rendered it difficult for pedestrians to navigate the snow is now said to be piled up deep and solid I 1 in the mountains which cheers the hearts of the cultivators of the soil for the prospects for plenty of irrigating liquid next summer are good but these frequent weather changes have brought inconveniences and a great deal of sickness to the people there to is more disease prevalent here now than there has been at any former period except at the time of epidemics deaths are more frequent tre both among the young and the old people than they were in former years among the speakers at the tabernacle today was elder andrew jenson he gave an excellent discourse on temples and the objects for which they have been built and the special and deep interest they have for the latter day burnts since our last quarterly stake conference which was hold held on the and alt elder bidet jenson has visited every ward of this stake outside of this city examining church records and instructing the scribes in the importance of and the manner in ih which the records record li of the various ward institutions should be kept he has collected all the historical data or inter est in the places he has visited and will soon be prepared to write them up As far as his labors have been prosecuted he has been and he is pleased with the result he very appreciatively of the an assistance istance that has baa been rendered him by the authorities and other leading citizens of 0 the places he has visited it et was his intention to commence at his labors in the city wards but he has been called away suddenly to salt lake city lacity on business of special importance and so further ward visiting here has to be deferred tor for several weeks yours truly JOSEPH HALL |
