Show AN EXCELLENT conference CITY wasatch co utah mays may 1896 we have just closed an excellent con ference at this place at 4 pm on sunday or of this lovely day of the fr fragrant month of may it massaid by one woo ought to know because be had bad the audience counted as they passed out that it numbered just juat a thousand per persons soDe and that only on one previous occa occasion siou bad be seen the church bomell no well filled there were more reasons than one for thin turn out our one was the balmy just juet such as may can afford to bestow lo in one of the many circle valleys valley this little valley in ie capable of sue bull ta ining as it now does souls it to Is isolated in the tops ot of the everlasting hills spoken of by we patriarchs and fathers jacob and moser of olden times of jacob we read in genesis chapter and jacob called his sons and said gather yourselves together that I 1 may tell you yon that which shall befall you in the last days gather yourselves together and hear ye sons of jacob and hearken unto israel your lather father there is something so attractive in t abe h 0 life and history of this his great man of god with blessings and promises so lie cullar and interesting lu iu which all of us now living are de deeply ply interested ed that I 1 will digress a little by looking up original history hiu hii tory story bf tw ginning with his bis subtlety in supplanting his brother esau beau in genesis 26 h and we read and his father lease isaac said unto him jacob come near now and kiss me my son god give thee of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth and L plenty of corn and wine let peopled N serve thee and natio nations nabow bow downto down to thi be lord over thy brethren and let I 1 mothers sons bow down to thee cu cortesi cur za teSI to be every one that burseth thee an blessed be he that blessett bles seth thee thy brother came in with subtlety and hath taken away thy Esau Esa ulal sl blessing and have blessed him yea and he shall be blessed in the chapter eb apter and isaac called jacob and blessed him t and god almighty blow bleu thee and make thee fruitful aruid aud and multiply thee that thai thou maleat may eat be a multitude 4 of people and give thee blessings of abraham to thee and to thy seed reed with thee that thou inherit the land irl wherein thou arta art a stranger blessings of thy father jacob have availed above the blessings of my m Y pr P genitors geni tors abraham and isaac unto tn the utmost bound of the everlasting hi hills us the rocky bocky mountains they shall toe be upon the head of joseph and on we the head of him that was separate from his hf brethren jacob the tattler father of joseph to whom gou god gave the inheritance of anis s laud of america aud and blessed bIms aIthA tr lee geo 49 22 f joseph is ia a faithful bough even a falth Y ful fill bough by a well whose branoff child children reDl run over the wall ocean moses mose just before his deth death left his bis bet sing with joseph as found in dat 58 33 13 which plainly describes ameri oa as the jaud add that jacob bestowed up ali on joseph and of joseph he said blessed of the lie lord be his land for the precious things of heaven g and fox foi the precious fruits brought forth by the sun and to the precious things put forth by abs moon and for the chief things of the ancient mountains and lor for the precious things of the lasting hills I 1 I 1 I 1 az only twelve miles from this valley billiy iare well developed wide and the treasures of the everlasting hills hillst these theme mountains mountain are yielding millio wf of treasures pressures ires and the fruits fruite of the lanh ji indicate that it ii is a choice land we were kindly entertained ajr president abraham hatch and bu good housewife bouse wife who live liva in a mode dodo mansion built of red sand salad stone atone w iw layers uniform and brick lining alb air chambers he said only one momi moa wall with stir air on oti amber and very little fire would keep summer beat up the report of the coi col forence WAI W that no debts were hanging over their public buildings or city rod county scarcely any law suits occur in id their isolated valley of pence peace health and aid general ue prosperity a our return by carriage by the kind nies of elder eider william mcdonald Mo Donald W wa by way of the ontario drain to tan ael three miles long we were shown into the tunnel by candle light the trail Is R six feet feel above the rail track under which to is the water flow of five feet by twenty one ancher and not only will this chia three mile tunnel drain the he on tarlo mine but water bodies were vun f UTI l making a flow varying fro from to gallons per cloate 1 flipi flip i fall below the mouth of the tunnel Is feet wil be eventual utilized lor for electric bic then non I 1 it will flow into the provo river to be used for irrigation and other purposes this Is a great undertaking u oder taking tunneling aling into the mountain three miles and 1500 feet below no 2 shaft of the im ontario mine the tunnel is feet at the bottom and four feet on y six bix feet high in clear all timbered costing about this tun il to la to be exten extended about one mile aber on to the daly mine where volume of water will be increased ji ji very important to the drainage of foth of these boes woes EDWARD STEVENSON |