Show NOTES NOTtS F FROM KAMAS KAMAS KAnses Summit Co Aug 10 1894 This Thill is i a lovely lovly Jovel morning The rhe Th cool breeze reeze of earl early arly morn indicates the C fact that ware weare we are high up in the moan moun- tai moun-tai tales I We slept well under a pair of quilts 8 last night and were read ready for an extra covering before morning And ADd Uil this is l a little south lOuth of east act from Salt Bait Lake L ke City W Wye Ue penning panning these few lines ere era the tb son a musical bumming humming bird 19 to our ur window with sweet wt au looking after the th sweets of the theo th o flowers awn growing crowing and twining snugly oud the window of our sleeping room mom I could but admire the tb beauty of f the tha little littia musical bird comparing it the tha countless thousands thousand of its Ita and plumed family from the seven toot foot Ostrich down to this the nIest midget mi cat of a bird Now arises a thought In the tha pawing passing vision of finite Il mind Dd dna how hew great Is li the ha Master Creator who 0 could d dev ev se so o grand a variety In inthis this one line lioa alone alona of ot his bli great crea- crea creation U orea-U lion tion I For Vox who can while bUe looking over the be majestic mallo variety of birds bird gathered together er In la the ba various museums In old Id England America and all aU over lver this this- grand paDd little world 1 without ex ex- ex exi i Great Is la God the Creator of heaven ran D earth and all aU things thing therein list A del deist the hide bide his hie lace face it Id shame ame when ba he shall ball utter there it Ia toi Gad for far th the fool hath bath said laid aid la in his bit there thaw I is no God altitude Je 0 of alle valley is 18 i 1 feet teet f t above aboTe Utah county at Provo ProTO Tile be surrounding mountain tops tope are loW lew and aDd I think the county I li is well mimed for far w e are up r In m the summit Just Jua east aut ea t of this broad valley is i where be l Provo Preva Pro river riTer heads head I The Weber river Bear Bar river and aad the Duchesne aU all allf four r ot of theoe these rivers riven head had at Reeds Pk Peak ak and 4 all aU of ot them tham In iD a radius five miles lee The Tha Weber river running ao north rth b emptying into the Great BaIt Lake Fake ke that hat I is what ia is left of it after the irrigating ditches of man many villages towns toD and aDd counties have bave been bean supplied with the glorious and useful element w without bout which bleMing blessing Utah would be ba abandoned and left a wear weary rt rt surrounded b by capped snow inow mountains taini The Tha Provo river after supplying ro wants want finds its iti wa way into Utah lake Jake thence bence through Salt Lake 8 fi county in the Jordan river into the Great BaIt Salt Lake Bear river finds its way through Cache Cace Cao ie county Box Elder county county and aDd Its iti last lait resting reiting place is II also alio in In the Great BaIt Skit Lak Lake while the Duchesne river passes east through the Uintah reservation and finally into loto Green river Other smaller mailer streams rise riBe up here bere in the summit but It Is singular that all 11 those four streams tream should bould bead so 0 o closely together run run- running run run-ning ning in those reverse reverIe directions Some Bome years yean since it was wai thought bought by many teat grain could not be grown in beautiful valley and stock raising was wax carried on but ai as In many mallY other frigid valleys i in n Utah GoJ Goa has bas tempered the atmosphere now wheat oats barley some iome vegetable vegetables and small fruits are successfully raised with hay in great abundance Much tame bay red top and timothy grow very lux lux- luxuriantly luxuriantly and the best belt q quality aUty of ot po po- potatoes po and when it comes comes to milk and butter it la is i luscious Although the people are plain livers liven they appear very happy and healthy in all aU those mou mountain settlements Bishop Bub op Samuel Atwood has bas ha a large space apace pace of ot open valley at Kamas Kama and soon collected a large meeting fo for this busy y season for the people are in in the midst of baying haying time The people of this place appreciated an illustrated lecture last la and the evenin before tb the Peoa Peon meeting bell called II a avery very good audience together to listen to a lecture Elder Nathan Tanner added his testimony stating that not long before the demi demise demile of David Whit Whitmer mer he be met him at his home bome In Rich Rich- Richmond Richmond Bi mond b-mond mond Ray Bay county M Mp Mg It was wai with some lome ome difficulty that be he obtained an In- In interview in interview with him At first rath he appeared very feeble but when warmed up he be bore a powerful testimony He said Bald that in open open day he be law saw the gold plates and aDd tb the tha angel augel and aDd heard hi his voice and before God these words worde are true public Lecture Lectures were given Kiven free frae to tb the pub pub- lic at Oakley where about two thirds of the audience were not Dot ot Mormons Mormon On Monda Monday evening the people of Wan Wan- ships turned out well la in a nice Dice meeting houe hOUa e to li U listen ten to an aa illustrated lecture Thi place I is subject to froat frost but from 40 to 60 QU bushels of wheat is il railed raised per pr acre Oat Oats and aad potatoes grow excellently excel excel- excellently We have be held beld 11 six ix lectures lecture during doring the pat past ft flee five Ye d days dayn and much enjoyed tb the cool mountain air E |