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Show Will build town. A correspondent of the Deserot News has the following from Chestor, A movement is to be inaugurated in the early spring looking to the laying out of a town in Chester, Sanpete county. A company of enterprising yonug men will purchaso the farm lying on the comity road from Chester to Spring City and Moroni to Manti, and cut up the ftrui into acre lots (ono acre of water to each) and dispose of ihe same on mutual and adyautagtous terms. Then the Allred recreation hall will be the nucleus around which will gravitate one of our chief needs, a gootJ general store, our daily mail will have a desirable building for post-office, a proposed produce market housa wilL other adjuncts to the demand and wish to buy at home instead of the several miles we travel to purchase our daily needs, are assured. The limited water, supply for the town lota would eem at first flush to be an insuperable barrier; bat the supplementing of the three re arvnlnnni UYwtinir in iho hurl nf the canal ereek is only a question' of concessions con-cessions from the reservoir company seme bone, sinew, time and a little capital and it is an accomplished fact. Three tasty frame buildings have been added this year and should this contemplated town be eartied to a successful suc-cessful cempletion we may yet see our central berg a monument of the push and vim ef the promoters, The Moroni-Chester creamery on onr border line is among the advantages of onr location. I am informed by a prominent pro-minent shareholder that the needed element of success, a good butter maker will be imported if nesd be, to give tone and character to so desirable an enterprise, Succeed success. I am pleased to note that the unseemly unseem-ly squabble on onr district school house question is to Cud a solution in the early spring by a completed school house. A little adverse criticism is sometimes of material benefit. Were there ever a desire to have a permanent centre for onr quarterly conferences this place, with an incorporated town, would present claims beyond all competition. com-petition. True, the mode of having our conferences in four of the principal towns is a pleasing itinerary, and very convenient to many aged and other persons per-sons who conld not attend at a center. "But the world does move." Most of our meeting houses are too small for these precions and delightful gatherings. gather-ings. Manti, I believe, is adeqnato to the emergency, and of approved hospitality hospi-tality to the stranger within her gates. From the long layiag of the snow and the storm clouds in the mountains we argue another bountiful harvest. "Paul may plant, Appolios may water, but God gives the increase." Chester, Sanpete county, Feb. 1. |
