| Show correspondence FROM NORTH CAROLINA fairview FAiR buncombe co N C nov 1886 editor deseret news thinking perhaps a brief synopsis ot of our labors and experience in these parts would not be uninteresting to the me many readers of your valuable paper I 1 here append a few lines Mys myself elfand and others having been set apart for the southern states mission on the of april laix we took our departure over tho thi D E R G railway railia fromwalt from salt lake city on the lith aust on the evening of this date I 1 passed t rough my native place springville Spring ville where many of my friends and relatives bad gathered to wish me god speed and success but was called before half of them were shaken by the hand a nod was taken from the balance as their good wishes and I 1 was on my way at a rapid rate at dusk of the second day we reached pueblo where we met Ives ident john morgan here we were parted from the beldt rs going to tile the northern states and took the I 1 cars over the atchison lopeka santa fe route and in passing through kansas traveled at the rate of 60 miles pr per hour reached chattanooga tenn in due time and after viewing the sights at this place for one day we were assigned signed our fields of labor myself to come to this place and elders livsey and taylor to go to roan mountain carter county tenn elder merrill who had been laboring in mississippi had been released to come here and gather genealogies of his bis people and after finishing his work in that respect was making preparations to go home when he was impressed to remain mention was made of th the e fact to president morgan and he was instructed so to do until an elder could reach there I 1 reached this vicinity on the of april and we labored together until he be had shown me through the field during that time we held three meetings we also found seyen seten saints who had been baptized some years before and the southern mission had bad no account of them until the arrival here of elder merrill some of the saints had emigrated to the northern patt part of utah and had subsequently returned becoming dissatisfied ay as they said for various reasons but some of them now say it would have been better if they had bad been too poor to have returned and one says he BO will soon go bark back to ito utah elder merrill left me on the alth of ma may I 1 was joined by elder Cr crouther oather of ache cache county Lo logan gau on the and zealously we pushed our labors which were located in the southeastern part of buncombe buncom be and the northeastern part of Heu henderson derson counties we have a allayed alay e d much uc poeju prejudice cean and made many friends ri e ud s but have made no 0 converts we h have abeal always tried to impress the n necessity ec etsity 0 of prayer on the minds of those who 0 are re seeking for truth and have succeeded eded in a great measure in sucu getting gettiner the til people in the southern part of our field to take our advice in this matter and seed seek the lord for a testimony of the divine mission of joseph smith one night not long since a lady who ho who was determined to know for herself sincerely prayed to the lord to know whether these mor mons wert were right this was in the th e evening and during the night she had bad a peculiar dream the interpretation of which was promised in two years it was concluded at our Gon conference ference to divide our field so on our return to this office on the loth of this month we received word letter that three E iders elders wm win W willis of arizona wm H gorey boorey of cedar city utah and anthony hamer of morgan county had arrived in this field on the evening of the we had the pleasure of greeting them and on the elder gibbs also arrived at a mr julius jenkins who is exceedingly kind to us with his family subsequently ly some of mr jenkins jenkin sa s1 fa family m ily had occasion to go to a vacant hous housa af of his and on so doing found wrapped I 1 in a piece of a baptist newspaper an envelope delope e enclosing this singular but very suggestive notice STATIC STATE OF N 0 C buncombe co aug elder luciae D crandall and associates 0 you are hereby notified kindly to leave our country and stop your false doctrines now gentlemen a hint to the wise is sufficient andee and we hope will d du u to the otherwise you cala caa take a hint from this if you do not com comrey we refer you to little buck cr creek A south carolina or the Mo mountain meadow massacre by a number of citizens 7 f on the outside of the envelope is rudely drawn a gallows with a roan man hanging in the agonies of death the law abiding citizens here say to take no notice of it as it is thought that not net more than two are engaged in it and that we need not apprehend any danger I 1 am quite of that opinion maseli as we ve in every instance have avoided giving the slightest offense to any individual our labors for the most anost part have been around the fireside A more kind hospitable people I 1 was never among those who entertain us make us just as much at home as one of their own family one marked feature of the homes in this vicinity is the number of beds they have to accommodate guests we sometimes see not less than eight or ten in one house it has been a very dry and unproductive season herband here and in many instances it will be a hard struggle for the farmer to have sufficient food until next harvest barvest in many instances in hendersen county people borrowed money in the spring and pay a large interest from 25 to 60 00 per cent per annum adnum relying on their crops for returns to make payments but bat through the very wet spring they had and the dry summer their crops will barely pay back the seed sown or planted your paper is a welcome visitor and highly appreciated ever praying for zion and the spread of truth I 1 remain yours LUCIAN D CRANDALL Af ITEMS SHOW low APACHE to co arizona nov 1886 editor deseret news after being a resident of arizona for two years vears and being t somewhat acquainted quain ted with the near nar neighboring settlements I 1 will end endeavor eivor first to write from hearsay I 1 was told when I 1 first came into this country two years ago that the principle part pait or a great many tf bf the people had bad farms in the forest and I 1 was wab told also that their crops lin in general were sure not wanti ncr nir to live 14 or 15 miles from my farm like many were doing I 1 proceeded to the show low ward which is situated in the edge of the great rest forest in this place I 1 learned that whosoever planted in the season theiron reaped in the season thereof farms in this neighborhood are mostly moistly dry farms I 1 I 1 made a home and fenced a farm which was afterwards in the drnest part art of the season utterly destroyed rin by fire then I 1 bought a good geed farm of 25 or 30 80 acres situ situated aled on the maj main n road and in the show low ward A large rough lumber house being upon the place which makes a good comfortable home for a the landaas land was rendered Are treeless eless with the exception of a dozen trees one of which I 1 cut down measuring feet long four feet in diameter and bordering on years of age according to my knowledge and belief farming can be made a greater success in tile the future than it has been in the past in this place faith faith without works is dead deada and work without faith is nearly dead A man of narrow contracted mind or faith will fence a half acre and potter around all summer and grumble all winter on account of not having plenty of provisions a man of noble mind or great faith will fence 30 0 or 40 acres plant all he can take care of it 0 our 1 settlement today to day is in ia a scattered scatter ter condition and ever has been from ite early settlement out we are happy to say that we were visited by the mhd president of the stake jesse N smith and brother W miller on nov 14 from whom we received many good instructions and we yvere were counseled to move together as much ks as possible and make a settlement that would characterize the latter day saints and on monday the loth a townsite was located b by prest jesse N smith on a beautiful flat situated one ind and a half miles east of the 0 old I 1 show low fort the waters of the saw bloew low can be taken out and distributed over the entire flat abere are hundreds of acres of good farming land unoccupied in this forest and a large town u can be made upon the above mentioned place the best time lime to come to this country from utah is early in the fall so as to reach here about the middle of november then one can have time to select a farm and have it well fenced by the time spring opens find and be ready to plant sud by b so doing adiong you sou do apt lose a summer li like ia e many w who ho leave utah in the spring come in the fall and make ready to plant in the spring thousands of people will yet inhabit tem teis forest imd aad this vast range will wih be dotted wita towns and cities the country is white with snow four in inches chesin in depth which fell oh the and on the night of the the thermometer stood 10 degrees below zero the coldest night this season your brother in the gospel P 0 WOOD |
