Show NEWS FROM THE SOUTH sights and reflections from a correspondent en route southward editor deseret perhaps comparatively few of your northern readers are visitants tants of southern or even central utah dis luces are great and fraere is but a light dight inter communication intercommunication co in m uni cation of travel between the extreme parts ot of our territory Siring vIlle is often the terminal point southward where the little giant leaving its ita older and more mare staid companion line whirls the tourist into the laws of spanish fork cifton and BOOP as by magic the panorama of a A mormon lormon ulley gives place to the most dreary desert waste to be found this side ol of shemoon the moon the central train with fe few w Ms eDgers dive divers to the southwest utah vee valley as is well known resembles in le fertility and general appearance pe rance the salt lake valley there me ll 11 the same mh majestic jestic rock ribbed gigantic on the east and at their base a continuous stretch of fertile fergle fields sprinkled with towns em in lorea ii of orchard and on hie west a similar expanse of blue we waters everywhere are evidences of thrift and enterprise the luxuriant ving corn the abundant shocks of min still in the fieldsend field sand and the kids md laden with abe t be apple and other evidence plenty it payson an elegant central school wins stands stand d us as A PLEASING MONUMENT is t the educational enterprise of the town iowa with a lofty chopla and sita cited td in the centre of the village it was the uie much needed need id structure to make presentable beyond payson patches of sage e brush and greasewood alter we w th cultivated fields wild bardl birds 43 vt up from their native covert where nere there are no springs spring nor tit streams reams awe we are no fields in places here 1 I there by scattering residences liver att up a few tall cottonwood trees V sentinels to guard nard the domain of ovation the mountains on either TO ol of the valley begin to close to illier it nebo till still far to the south be to rear aloft with heavenward lations wat ions his lutt lustrous rous crown for we enow approaching juab county the golnot of this geologic titan puff T and a slower rate of motion ow we are ascending the divide con ng of a low ridge clad in i burnt burat sd sagebrush abrush loin in janaq u in a narrow valley from eto to five miles in width stretches to nephi A few mau hwing settlements have been wilted in the sa abrush along the te otte mona beinke inthe be largest but all X the water supply s ll 11 aply to la limited and low were ere will th the e soil retain enough mature for dry farming this region atvea well to wh what a t in gene 41 the mormon I 1 pioneers pioneer s of utah 11 ny orte years ago go had to cope copa with uie the sterility oe of the soil the stub bUr jeaa baess ne aa of tile the elements the general adding aspect of the totty here her e the sagebrush flage brosh yet benges e every v er y inch of the cultivated lad w whirlwinds whirl hIrl winds of dust suggest still 1 the wild elements in kneir native levels jig advantages OF the toils and trials incident to kin nt of a new and coy antry as utah once was are g without special advantages out of evil mav ma y come forth adi and certain it is that hard licks labs i have developed in our people we a distinguishing patience and industry and economy I 1 firmness and self command charac te which only soch sach may develop and which are arc weh weft cal to make them a great people the dear school of experience must therefore eventually prove of greater value than thad the cost costa your correspondent upon entering nepal for or a 9 moment con templates tem plated toe the thought a fascinating one at first of ascending mount nebo and ot of writing 1 it 4 u up 11 for or the NEWS in the morning before before breakfast the matter mater was laid over indefinitely however in learning that the hoary pea was waa at least a halt half score of miles distant and so a description of 0 the tar far famed monarch of thedas the wasatch together with reminiscences of the efte indian war will have to remain ever for the next correspondence and in this you will be content with the town of 1 ON nephi with a population of about is s a stirring agricultural town at the base of mount nebo and before the entrance of salt creek caliga the town boasts the central location locati oa of the territory two railroads and with certain drawbacks possesses natural advantages perhaps unknown to exist elsewhere in ID the mountains east odthe town are unlimited deposits ot of rock salt and gypsum of the best mality while the low range ot mountains to the west ward coptain several strate strata of 0 white marble of flae grain and susceptible of a these resources are begal k I 1 ng to receive due attention atte from h huipe ioe and outside capit capitalists ai abts alit salt is 18 being ship shipped lor for sheep men and mining and mil bulling ing purposes while an organized company compan including he hague ue hyde hi bre and others are developing Tev developing eloping the gypsum industry and canvassing canvas aing the TerrI territory toty for a suitable market toe supply or of the article arti oldis is inexhaustible there bein being several veins or strata one of which is isla feet thick thic W in the manufacture of commercial gypsum which is used ased lor for moul dings cornices cornicks cor nices calcimining calci mining and ornamental art purposes the crude rock is first crushed cru abed then ground fine as flour after which it is roasted to make A it free from water when it to is ready tor for use at tae coming fair in salt like lake city toe merits of the article will be brought more fully before the public nephi will sow soon have completed one ot of the most commodious and elegant court houses in the territory it is 18 75 it ft in dimen dimensions blons and is built of brick and finished with mantl manti tempie temple rock A new schoolhouse is in course of erection the people are alive to educational interests and have employed a cornell university graduate to take charge of the public schools which open in full force sept 3rd ard besides these marks of corn com enterprise a flourishing bank a representative newspaper and an area of eleven thousand acres of ef lend land under cultivation are marks of advancing civilization in ia a once arld arid desert JAY baruj aug 13 1888 |