| Show prosperous CITY jan 21 1895 for some borne weeks past we have had bad just jua such rains as aa makes the farmer nappy some are still sowing grain while the earliest sown aown la Is already knee high and I 1 am told that in places lacerd is even now large enough to out cut winter so ao far has baa been like a pleasant spring time roses and other flowers are yet blooming with potatoes tomatoes tomato ea and other vines vinea still atall areen reed the citrus family of fruits are here proving a success beyond our hopes honea salt bait river oranges iu io color excellence and early ripening are boond to none and while the scarcity of money in ie the skeleton eleton Bk in the closet of all business firms yet energy is not dead deada and the assurance aae urance of a grand future for great country grows grow more certain the railroad from ahw phenix nix through mesa and other towns to connect with the mexican to guaymas la in assured antwork and work by the hudson reservoir canal company to construct colot coloe sal al dams dame to make an inland ses sufficient to irrigate the millions of 0 acres of desert lands in this immense valley to which salt lake valley Is but small in comparison has baa now commenced I 1 it is here a general time of health witia with prosperity perhaps fully to ou on good works in which we hope to increase through a better union with our le leaders auers in the construction of a needed flouting flou ring mill stake house anu ana other to this thin end all are becoming more alive and united with a desire through the new year fir f ir progress and reform A lew few of 0 the job johnson noon tribe or family living in mesa mass and vicinity to the number of not less than gathered in reunion at the nepal ward house on jaya jan the anniversary of the birth marriage and death of ezekiel Ezek teJ johnson Job whose family received the gospel in 1831 at chil f taufua now new york since bince then hen they have participated in all the vicissitudes and evolutions that has made mormon history up to the present and from a 8 late estimate there is now not lose less than 2000 oi their kindred in blood but unfortunately among them all no great ones have ever come to the surface BUi sui face not one has been smart enough to accept the beauties of cf infidelity to apostatize and not one of them has bus had energy or sand enough to get convicted if cf any crime but plural marriage and no one of proper age is living or nae has died outside of the church and beside all this they are still fast increasing not less legs than two hundred of cf this family mob gathered at the same time around sumptuous tables while many others came later to the evening entertainment and dance aad bad a good time generally I 1 UNCLE BEN |
