| Show CEDAR CITY improvements and industries in a bouthern town A correspondent at cedar city writes as follows over the signature of your subscriber and under date dale of june our city fathers have lately finished 8 praiseworthy labor by enlarging our cemetery and surround surrounding ing it on three sides by a good rock wall laid up in lime mortar this wall is 18 inches thick at the bottom 12 inches thick at the top and 4 feet high with a good coping of 9 inches on the top lop the fourth olde ide is fenced with lumber lamber pickets taso so that should the cemetery r fid to be enlarged the fence can be easily removed it is the intention to beautify it by iD planting lanting in it a variety of trees shrubs and roses and some of the beautiful evergreens ever greens of the headwaters of the rio bio virgin THESE evergreens EVER GREENS are not easily transplanted transplant eil and it can only be safely done in the following manner dig a trench one foot deep around the tree pack the ball of earth firmly around it so as not to disturb the roots for a tree say three teet feet high the ball of earths earth should be 18 inches in diameter and other sizes in ia proportion fencing the cemetery and beautifying it has been needed here for a long time and now BOW that it is accomplished shed all who have been engaged in the labor feel pleased our settlement is Imp improving loving in a temporal point ol oi view and is growing notwithstanding the dull times and the scarcity of money several good brick dwellings have been erected the past bat season and 0 our r new tabernacle Es is so far advanced that we hold meetings in it but much r mains to be done to complete it when this building is finished it wilt will bp be a credit to our town our aur cattle and horses are on the increase and nearly one third of our families have moved to the mountains south southeast easL of our city for the purpose of dairying large quantities of BUTTER AND CHEESE are produced and find a market at the washington and beaver woollen factories where homemade home made clothing is obtained in exchange this industry is blessing to our people here our operative cooperative co sheep herd is increasing it numbers now head of good sheep with an increase this year of lambs and aad about pounds pound of wool besides this large herd we have also two small herds that are doing well should all the wool produced by these herds be manufactured here into cloth it would give employment to many of our young people and furnish us with an abundance of clothing we have also an ample supply of mutton which is very te our operative cooperative co mercantile institution is doing considerable BUSINESS not only obly with our citizens but many from our neighboring settlements find it to their interest to come here to trade this institution has a tannery in good running order which supplies a sh shoe shop and also a harness shop all of which are are doing well our flour mill which turns out a good quality of flour is also a great benefit benefit to the place and is managed well by the mercantile institution which has also a steam sawmill on the r mountain which will supply the set with lumber |
