Show MT PLEASANT CITY 1 march 12 1868 J J editor deseret mews news the progressive is ai a feature of this new fledged cit city in the agricultural mecha mechanical an and spiritual an important area of land is about to be taken up west and south of the cily city which will give to our marriageable young men land so as to lay the foundation of a home for them and the help meets they may choose the yellow fever of the sweetwater or of mary vale is not strikingly maui maul manifest fest here because became the land movement has forestalled it bona fide homes are better than thail the miners camp mechanically we are progressing your ester eiter enterprising agent agert nas has now a splendid shingle and saw mill lath and picket are to be added and soon our town will have a decent array of fencing nor is he satisfied but has resolved sol boi vedon on a woolen mill to which we say gay ay li arrah for our town other solid improvements are going on and we must not omit to mention a famous brass brdas band of fifteen instruments which is a feature of this young town spiritually we are alive As an evidence we have raised for the emigration and we are not yet broke althou although gli we have been heavily taxed in various ways in common with the rest of sanpete San Ban pete last sunday our bishop sent out some of our yo young un elders two and two to preach in ehg the e several wards of this city and success has marked the project they are brought to a proper bearing the people are arc benefit bene fitted tea and tauaa thua a spiritual good is accomplished A great scope of country coughtry will be put under ander cultivation for ourselves and the poor for whom we have subscribed and foras for as many more if they will Vill only come As we believe more folks more trades more independence and more grain pre preserved served in our town an eight feet vein of coal of excellent quality has been developed at fairview fair view four miles from town regular coal this will open the spanish hinish fork canon canlon road to a certainty the he dincov ebers are practical colliers and intend to sell cheap utah country couf itry can rejoice for the abundance is great and the erice price will be small ah sir if we only had ad a railroad down the canion cannon to goshen depot then we would hustle the coal to your city at such figures for the blacksmith and others as would make them nil nii ali all rejoice As asa a city we are interested in our near neighbor neighbors ls welfare as we are bound to prosper in i their thein prosperity ro y A sunday I 1 t ay mool kool school grows in importance an ce and so do our tive five day schools the demand for a high school is beginning to loom up and also for the at appliances 11 needed maps charts globes grote and a thorough teacher nor must I 1 forget to mention that the NEWS has taken takena a new now start since you took the chair 1 I don dont t call it the I 1 easy chair I 1 and when the opening sp spring ring opens t the e granary doors and the tens of millions millio a of promised grasshoppers shall ha have e been the undeveloped and the sun shines that will thaw out the frozen feeling or dread of famine then the liberal hearted will respond to your call for help broad acres will be sown sonn and strong belief in the promise of the rainbow will be evidenced god will givens give us seed time and nd harvest harvests for behave we have helped marvellously as a people to gather the poor and we sow not for ourselves alone but for him and his people and his insect tribes to him rim we look for the promised blessing of the former and latter rains in these days of I 1 must not omit to mention the superiority of the tho mount Plea piea pleasant sant saut floering flouring flou ring mill now thoroughly renovated with lm improved roved I 1 machinery and the finest bolting cloth the enterprising owners mean your typos shall test tile the quality nor can we pass our four fine blacksmith shops among whom G Q fa farnworth as a stands A A no 3 1 D CANDLAND ND flemington FA EMINGTON march 14 1868 editor deseret wems news dear sir knowing the interest you feel in the education of our youth I 1 have thought it might inight afford you as well as all other friends of education some pleasure to kno know the condition of the sunday school here we commenced our labors in this department about two years ago under rather discouraging circumstances many manx believed bellei ed that the enterprise r i lo would fail as g others had done donabe before fo r e 10 but through gothe the blessing of heaven on the labors of a few faithful brie breth th ren jen and sisters it has been kept alive ever over oder over since of ai late a more inbae decided tu iii terest teres thas has been manifested by many of our leading citizen sand steps have been taken to encourage parents to send their children where their minds may be stored stared with those principles that will insure them a life of happiness and usefulness ful ness and an eternal exaltation in the life to come many of dur our young men are now as anxious to engage in the study of the scriptures as in the common amusements and recreations of the day we have two large classes of young men engaged in the careful reading of the bible under the able tuition of bros J T smith and H D haight using as auxiliaries in their studies the church catechism and bro franklin D richards compendium our efm eff lelent efficient judge haight has an interesting class of young isles lales engaged in a like course of studies we have also classes in the new testament book of mormon doctrine and covenants ac A very general interest is manifested in every department of moral intellectual and religious culture our school now has three superintendents nine male and five feml female teachers and one hundred and fifty scholars which willston will soon be swelled to two huu hud hundred fred dred praying that your labors and all others othera that tend to build up the kingdom of god may be crowned with success I 1 remain your friend and worker coworker co in the cause of truth JAMES Bi brooks |