| Show AN OASIS IN THE DESERT HINCKLEY millard co utah april aar i I 1 ard 3rd 1896 it is seldom that I 1 find anything in ID the NEWS io in regard to the hinckley Hl nokley word ward it is located on OB the desert close to the sink gink of the sevier river about five miles irom from the railway station at ai kasip and aad notwithstanding the many the people have had hadbo to encounter cou uter they are in a fair way to pros temporally as well as spirl spiritually tu 1 I ay for or we have a good people here the majority of whom moved from our 0 ur dixie country in the south within the lat last three to eight years and are scattered over the desert about four miles bast and west by about eight miles north and south including a branch known as abraham so BO named abe I 1 be 1 eve by president wilford toe people few to in number have had bad many difficulties to overcome in their heir settlement of the same but they b have ave succeeded in building a neat sub stan bial district schoolhouse eighteen by hitty iet inside measurement under the management of their school trustees neus neils Bore Boree BOo soD david orison nl nj woo W w D van noy assisted by tb their ir president 0 M fulmer and all ingv later edlea ald abid un on sunday march is a ward meeting was hold held there under the direction of our cur worthy bishop win B H pratt and the bodee was medicated for the purpose tor for which li it was built by patriarch Ps john ashman 01 fillmore and ritia W reeve who has been nere here laboring among the people about three weeks their labors labor will surely result in good if the people listen to the counsels given thona them good were given by the speak ors era elders nells neils burgeson borgeson thomae oinas davis patriarch john ashman bishop wm H pratt and elder 0 M fulmar and ana it wits was a time of rejoicing lung ionic to be remembered there is IN oleaty of room for more settlers in thle this part pan of the it bard work for a time I 1 but good comfortable homes can bo be made here and plenty will crown the efforts of thesel thoa who will the be lord is surely blessing 11 1 lands that they are are pro atun danae of f the dt df I 1 those who labor for mi ian tt have as aa goad drinking water found oo on earth from art from an average deatti 0 11 your brother iu in the |
