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Show K Without Help. fj Uuting tlio visit to this City by some ffi of the delegates of the 1 1 ligation Con- WM gross, ono was lieaid to reinaik, "Tlie HP people in this locality amount to a Kfp gieat deal In my estimation, tor I do HJf.' not know of a colony that has done Hf moie and been hcljH'd less than the HJp Monnons. Facts will bear out this H statement." Hfe, ' Tills remark iin pi essed sonic or the Hjgi hcaicisns being ti tic fioin the fact HNF tliat thcj'weic, in a position to know He. by nasi exuoilenee what some of the HE, people had to enduio In early dais. HHk The construction of the lir.st canals in HJE tills county wasdone under hardships, HHv people weie poor, many of tlmm hav- HHEl log nothing moie than bread and but- I IK.' tor to live upon; and from .sun-up to I K sun-down wits the usual homs or a I IK day's work. Indians were also trouble- Hk some, homes had to be guaidcd at HRJ night by men who were constantly HJea working through the day time. HEa Nor was labor performed only on the HKy- water ditches. All of the toads into HJba the mountains were built mostly by HHJV' contribution. The grade for the Utah K' Noithcrn railway was built fiom Og- HK den to Franklin in piactlcally the HHI same way. When the completion of HK the above enterprises aie contemplate mjfc cd, with the numeious school and HbL meeting houses, Including the niagni- HRe ticlcnt temple on the Ii 1 11, we. conclude Hff that our visiting delegate was about Blfrl right when he lemarked that the HE. Mormon colony had done much and K received but little aid in a financial WM way. The present goneiatlon which mat U enjoying pleasant suuoundlngs to- K (lay will never know what It cost to BHj change the country fiom its pihneval mB. state into a veritable gaidcn. One WM souico of gieat satisfaction Is that at Hi least some of the eaily labor-fof the Hw ploneeis aie not toigotten, and wo be- WM liee the) areappieclated by many. I |