| Show THE BUCKEYE COUNTRY MA arizona march 25 I 1 have received a great many letters letter ot of inquiry about the buckeye country disco my lat last letter to the NEWS dated march jtb so 0 o many in fact was mat it has ha been impossible for or ms to answer all ot of them now with your permission perm liea I 1 wish to may bay in answer to many W gions that I 1 am no land agent I 1 nave 1 10 ou o scheme echeme up to make money out of our brethren brei hren this the only motive I 1 have in view to that I 1 want a home la in was that section myself but bat do not want to take vay my family away from the whose we could not have without a lettle settlement MODI of our people we have bays DO law aw timber in this thie valley have bare plenty of good fire wood or fence post poets on OD or near me land toe the canal has baa been built and there to la plenty of water to in the drnest season ol of the he year and the company will give us the use of water diee fr for two years we to keep the assessments up on the water ater we use and it may be bought right out cheap and ana on easy terms building lumber costs from 25 to 85 per thousand good horses cost coat from 60 to 4 head common horbes from 10 to 40 a bead cows about 25 a head bead two crops a crop of wheat or barley and a coop of corn may be raised on the aasc land to in one year and as ae high as ae six ix crops of al lalla falls we bays bare a fair market for all of our produce As AB to the climate I 1 do not believe that there Is IB any other place la in the abe united states that you can find as ae many deligh delightful Stul days to in a year as aa we have here it is IB true that we have three months of hot weather but it le ie not so 10 hot out what we w uric ork every day farmers do not think of stopping here on account of 0 the hot weather there Is no better poor mans country to he be found than we have and it IS ie 18 very healthy hundreds of people come here every year for their health the buckeye la Is within on one daa das 99 drive of mesa city of the marl copa stake a large and prosperous settlement elt lement of our people we have four schools running there there is 18 government land enough for one hundred bundred families to have from thirty to forty acres each we do not want any land grabbers but want all to have all the land they can use we will give no assistance to jand grabbers now lot let me say aay in conclusion COD elusion if you have good homes sad ad good health be satisfied tb OD stay with them but to those who are not so BO happily situated bereis a good place we have people from all parts part of utah and idaho idabo and they bey are all satisfied with their homes eldr elder bilks SKim ball of the southern states slates mission was waa here on a visit a snort nort time ago and be said ald that thie finest vailey be ever saw in all ol of him hia travels we have just bad a visit from elders smith and grant of the apostles Ap ostlee and such a spiritual toss least it has baa not been nay may privilege to enjoy since noe I 1 have been in the church their wards ol of counsel were timely and their testimonies were given with power they preached one ODO evening while here in the city of phoenix where they had a large congregation and it if their meet log jug could have been beau better advertised there would have been no house home in phoenix that would have held bold the congregation IL I spent spen tall all the next day in and there was but two expressions expression one of regret for not knowing ot of the meeting and the other was of pleasure lor for having baying heard board the apostles there news to be a feeling of perfect peace and good stir between us aud and our neighbors and a more united people ure are not to be round found than the people are bore we have no schisms to divide us OIL fight eight of our young men are leaving this week for the southern states mission and many others are ready to respond when the she call to is made J M cony COBBY |
