| Show STEVENSON IN IH IDAHO SALT daicz CITY april 23 1896 on the morning of tuesday april 21 st at county idaho idabo the lille beautiful sun smiled lovely sending its ita bright rays raye over the waters of donacion s springs apri oge which soon oon empty their never ceasing clear cool stream into snake river so ao essential and Dec necessary essary in this desert country so very attractive this morning is r that for the past six alx days day which I 1 have spent in idano the weather has baa been cloudy cold and wind windy yand anil to make a va variety biety of light snowstorm nearly every morning yesterday however the usual morning snowstorm broke away about noonday so BO that latter jailer part of our thirty mile ride from blackfoot became more pleasant to the butov er at flats fists where we held celd a meeting last evening in private rooms horse men rallied the scattering settlers settler fl who are located on homestead V and dd desert claims of from to acres of land throughout this part of the country it certainly was rather as an to sea a crowded house gathered together in so BO short a time atter attar our arrival and abill more satisfactory to eee the happy greetings gretl nga of those who thus gathered the little tolke folks were especially pleaded to look on the pictures plo turea of Cumo hill which contained the bidden and long jost history of two nations whose ruined cities temples and thousands of ancient relies have been and are constantly being brou brought glit to light expresses in terms their existence so ae well as reveals from whence came the numerous nations or tribet of wild indians discovered in 1492 by corleto pher columbus Colum bue the stream I 1 have spoken of runs rune close by the door where we held our meat meeting log and aad in high water aimeb backs up from the croaked snake river and flab are often caught almost from the door of the family residence toe the neb fish are mountain trout herring mullet etc there are tens of thousands of acres efland in this vicinity considerable of which to is yet to be taken up A very v ry large and long bidal to is nearly read ready y to bring the pater down into this country the be adgate is just below blackfoot Black foor bingham county idaho the canal is to be 60 feet wide a and ad it je Is expected that the water will be brought 24 miles by may of this year we traveled up from professor cluff s the terminus ter mIDUS of the canal as far as aa more land a now new town under the canal taking a view of this mammoth and commendable enterprise it is as yet and in most parts pane only one half of its sixty leet feet Is taken out the other half hair will be taken out in the future however where there are heavy fills the sixty feet in width Is made so that pressure is provided for some borne rocky points have bravely been forced to give way to really comprehend the vastness of this great mormon undertaking one only has to ride up to its bed bad wilen completed it will extend forty amilee and for twenty four miles it will be sixty feet wide and about four feet deep in lateia river of itself all the way from grover flats fiats there are broad acres of tinge sage brush to give way for fields and farms farm where we left the canal at moreland the water was wae coming gently into the great fill to soak up and test the new works there will have to be A great push to see the water at the lower end of the great canal by may we held meetings first at jona ions eight miles northeast of eagle basle rock bock on we evening of the last saturday batur day evening at shelley Bb elley sixteen miles southwest of lona iona anu on sunday at 2 and pm in blackfoot court house bouse rooms room where only a tow few years ago in the great gnat courts chair the judge judgeson sentenced fenced mormons cormons to prison and where in this same court bouse fifty indictments were found in one bolt bait day now there was the mormon preacher tes teaching ebing mormon doctrin esto crowded meetings the mormons cormons appreciate pre preci clate ate great change wb which lob bag baa followed in a low lew years not only here but bat elsewhere after our thirty mile ride viewing we good prospects we hold held our sixth meeting at oreland moreland the superintendent of the canal worker who is the be bishop of this new ward suon called his little flock back together and being joined by the bishop of riverside and some of we bis little flock as well as the bishop of blackfoot Black fOrt made a very r re audience in which we all enjoyed a hearty welcome bishop huns hans B P 0 address is i bryon bloxham county idaho and blebby george B cintel wintel 18 is riverside P 0 W while cje bishop Wat sona la is ai at blackfoot thanks to counselor B S F adams of riverside Biver aide for conveyance to grover flatte after our meeting at moreland nJ I 1 took the pm train at blackfoot arriving at ac salt lake am april 22 1896 EDWARD STEVENSON |
