| Show A TRIP TO MORGAN MORGAN CITY morgan co utah ma mry may y 18 1896 apostle J H amito and I 1 left jolt sall lake olty city ou on the 0 P train at 7 a in in the midst of a rain storm and in IB fifty minutes we were in ogden city thirty eight miles north of suit salt lake re we changed oara cars for morgan city east and up the weber river passing through devils devai Is gateway in the be midst of towering rooke rook and ele bateu peaks dotted here bore and there with cedars and plus pine trees but capped with SHOW indeed the be pan oramio feenery was sublime and as the irum from the flat fiat level country parses through those mount mountain aln gorges all is excitement eager eyes turn toward the grand scenery Doubt doubtless leso god gods Is anger was kindled when his only besotted begot teD don was waa ignominiously murdered no wonder it if the solid rooks rocks were rent in twain mountains cast up and the fischof nature carriages were prepared on the arrival of the train in the broad fields where the mountains opened up for a lovely valley and the city of morgan we were conveyed to a meeting bouse where about souls were waiting for spiritual food jesus said aid to bis bin ancient apostles and why not to his modern disciples if you love me feed my sheep feed my lambs the morning services were occupied by speaking comforting words and instructions and by reports from the various wards of this stake of alon located in the tops of the be mountains in the afternoon sacrament Bao services took place with the outpour g of the he holy ghost eighteen pieces of silver sacramental Bao service glittering in their burnished beauty was presented to the be church by the YOU dg ladles mutual Improve improvement menS society land and was graciously received with a vote of thanks the cost of the service who was 80 apostle smith and visitors were the first to sip from the cup the emblems of the split spilt blood of a crucified redeemer two beautiful chandeliers had bad also been presented by the relief belief societies lor for the benefit of the suffice edifice these were procured by the sisters by nickel subscription what cannot the sisters do when they take it into their heir boadt rhe fhe original price of the three chandeliers was over five most meet ings ingo in all were held bold mondays meet ingo inga were crowded and a happy time was enjoyed there is a useful industry started up near this city which proves prove a blessing bles to many it is a creamery milk it is bought even in small quantities and token taken ayom the doors of widows and we the poor and credit Is given to each party larty on the factory books A store in kept by the company from which cre ditore diters may draw their groceries and necessaries fight eight hundred dol lars lara was wai paid out in money and goods goode for the past month this amount scattered am aenk ng the people monthly relieves many wants wanta A widow may keep a cow or two especially just juat out aldu the city father blob one mile and a halt half out milks his hia cows cow and loth leto them ut oo on the sides aides of the mountains to feed and they return home generally in the evening 1 I met father martin hiner at the conference who crossed the plains in my company in the year 1859 then hs bis family amily numbered only 10 coulp souls now including his bis grand an am i great they number juul and most ot of theoa them are to in this county STEVENSON |
