| Show IN N SOUTHERN UTAH panguitch Pan gultch utah aug 25 1897 very few of our people stop to think of the endless wealth of our fair state of course the privileges of travel are not accorded to many and but few of I 1 those who do travel observe them the hi merits of a country and grasp grandeur and its varied marks value we come and go w we p it suits us and we find fault t if it ifal suited to our comfort having heard so much dero berof of st george I 1 had formed an i arable opinion imagining of c that all the people who lived in were living martyrs to the cabil cause humanity contrasts enable us tb prec predate tate and to look into other tries even though our tui are limite dand enable us to look favorably on our own surround while in texas last winter the 9 was struck with the many inte reea features observed in the city of 81 antonio situated well to the aas and west it partook largely of t tropical zone though in the dead d winter with us the temperature vm so moderate and the W mo sphere so balmy that people could live out doors to see the beautiful ua a feol and endless variety evergreens ever greens would imagine he was in our fajr fair in the beautiful month of may amany the markets could be seen green v ables and other products wj which a h n make you believe it was summer 1 er than february hundreds ot of ir del people flock to this genial climate avoid the radical weather of the noa and seek a health resort if pa henoll to judge in the mater our coming san antonio we have commenced as yet to half app our sunny south but the day come as is the case with that sew of country when hundreds will OS st george and that vicinity for fora benefit of their health and the forts of a more genial climate doubt winter houses will be 0 by these who can afford it where disposed not only will they be pel ally benefited but can do work tv temple for their sacred dead ping down all of a sudden we weare are H temperature of and in otha othe aspects as mild and moderate as the southern borders of the atess or the california slope and in instep paying out hundreds of dollars tol thousands of miles a distance few hundred will bring us in j favorable favo rabe conditions on either side and at every 7 t tl the road as we enter st george seen the beautiful vineyards tei with grapes of many varieties a moment one would imagine 1 self in the holy land and coff co preci predate ate the often made inde expression of the comfortable bandman where he could sit aft der his own vine and fig tree we arrived figs were just ripe could imagine our pleasure in 1 l the luscious fruit from the tree it yet sparkled with its a alpene 3 S and beamed full of its juicy alft here and there could be seen SA 1 pomegranate and other fruits of kind only seen in these genial 4 mates only a short distance fratea farolan cities are the cotton fields pro as fine a grade as any known ta cotton producing districts of southern states all through south this season there is an at a ant harvest trees are fairly brok the ground under the burden of ticul and luscious fruit notwithstanding the abundant ti of fruit not surpassed by that T deuced in any country we may 1 fall in our city and country t imported dried and evaporate ivator marked to sell at from 12 to per pound while our utah pr saved at all brings from 3 to or WN sibly 7 cents while vist washington woolen and cot Cotto tl we met brother thomas J dent of the state board 0 of ture who in taking a lively att wt sot only in drying and otherwise cur tee ins fealte ats but in trying to disseminate ft a knowledge of improved methods among the people that we may pro au dace as marketable an article as our states we were shown lana ami indeed bought pounds of as dalee halce dried apricots and peaches as california showing r come from plainly the practicability of producing rateb article of dried fruit in hagh grade oar state A treatise on these im waved methods is set forth by the horticultural society and I 1 may ven diw to 0 say secretary J A wright of would be pleased to forward to fedr address ss of any citizen one of these respectfully ANDREW KIMBALL |
