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Show From St. Thomas, Nev. St. Thomas, Nev. March 21. Dear Editor: Not with a fooling of complaining aud fault finding do I forward you this Inquiry; but merely for Information. Knowing that tbo whole world ia in a stago of unrost and subjeot to change physically nnd otherwise, I assumo therefore you have mado many alterations nt bomo that I am not aware of; so writo you enquiringly if you have mado n obango In the Issuance of your pnpor and mado in monthly or Eonil monthly. I want to bo abreast uf tho times and propnred for any groat obnugo that Hnlley'a comet may bring, as trndi-tlon trndi-tlon tells uh it is stiro to. Now if It Ih a fact that I am Ignorant of nuy current change in Cedar, It Is boouuso you havu not eont mo tbo Reoord reg ularly. No doubt it is duo to tbo poor mnii aurvice wo havo bad Blnco tbo washout that tor weeks I would unt get a paper and again would get throe tbo same night. Find tho coubo for I ueed tbo Reoord for my advancement. ad-vancement. If It Ib not unconstitutional for ono to indulge la an illusion, I will vonturo this one: If you had, dear Editor, one of Wright's host biplanes nnd going at tbe speed of tbo earth on its orbit, you could efter froezlng and chilling from one of those ploru-Ing ploru-Ing blasts from Kanarra, be planted right clown here where the aun always shines; where everything la deooratod and adorned in naturo'a greatest 1 ivory; iv-ory; where you could inhnlo tho aweot-Boonted frngranoo from tho bios samB on tbo treos nnd tho alfalfa fields. Vou would fool llko shedding moit of your winter clothing nnd bask iu tbo radiant rays of nature's great boat generator. You would nlso havo, wbilo on your travola, tho opportunity opportun-ity cf brushing up on your geography by having demonstrated to you tho Rreurotferit9-ot-'locat;ioiitT",oh"d-,,5r5 vatlon." 1 am porfoctly tnkon up with tho present appenrnuco and allmnte of tho vnlley. I nm informed by some of tho old aettlors that it is just in a stago of reenperaton or recovering from tho blow it rpcuived from tho exodus of tho sulfite, when they abandoned their homos and wont buck to U tab. Boforo this timo it yih a thriving littlo vHlloy wth about 1800 inhabitants, nil having uocd fauna tiudt-r cultivation and on tlio high rnnd to wraith nnd plenty. But whon tho Hud nowo cr.uio to them aftor tho Rpvernrnont curvoy, Unit Ihoy were iu Nevada nnd not within tho limits of gnod old Utah's boundary, also they wero, uh deoreed by the courts cf No vads, under obligation to nay five ycura buck ta.xcb which had been estimated es-timated hy tho fitato to bo $10,000, and which they had been paying to Utah all along. This was morn than tbo poor old worn-out, despised Mor-mouR Mor-mouR aould stand. So ono bright spring day in February a mnss iunot- ing was called at Overton to dUcuso whether tbny should stay and pay this enormous tax or wander buck to Utah. Tbo question was brought beforo them, voted and carried with only ono dissenting vote that they should abandon ovorytblng. And ns tho story goes that very nftornoon after af-ter the meeting, a train of teams woro Been winding their wonry way homo-ward. homo-ward. Thoy bad fulfilled their flvo years mission that thoy werq called upon to fill nnd now left thoir farmt, prain, nnd hogs to their onemios. Tho grain was nenring harvesting timn when thoeo unfortunates loft, but was oagnrly cared for by men who had open ovos for sunh groat opportunities oppor-tunities that wero left for them to pounao upon. Thoy aot rnnohines to out nnd thresh tho grnln that was loft and at tbia littlo hamlet which uow has only twenty families, wnshntvest-ea wnshntvest-ea thirty-six thousand bushels of grain, whiob amount exceeds many times tho crop it raises at tbo proseut time. Their hogs and ohiokens thoy left In thoir farm ynrds and it has heen said thut tbny responded to the "call of tbe wild" au' led a freo and easy lifo among tbe mosquiteB and Tulley swamps. This was indoed a great blow to the volley, just reclaiming now the land overgrown with mosquito and brush, wbiob was yielding and pro-dnoiug pro-dnoiug heavy crops for tbo saints. We feel wo aro safe In saying that 1(1 tho Saints had been permitted to have lived undisturbed, there would not have boen a valley more renowned In the west for the products that it produces. pro-duces. It Is now shipping asparagus to tho Eastern markets whiob arowil-Hug arowil-Hug to haudlo all It can Bhip. It'nlso shipped ouo hundred and sixty oar loads of tho famous Rookyford cautn-loupes cautn-loupes to Salt Lake aud Eastern mar-kotB mar-kotB last summer. 1 have alven you n little history and n few fncta which you, with your ready flow of languago, might wenvo into a romnnco worthy of tho nttnn tlon of anyone. May you onjoy tho health aud clcaeuro I hat 1 am experiencing. Vour Fellow Woraor, HERBERT HAIGUT. (Wo might weavo tho above luto a rBiunuco, but profor to publish as written, hollering it will give better satisfaction to our renders. ED. ) |