Show ay y y MALAD walters and from elfr having keen nothing from part of the country in your valuable paper for a long time past perhaps it rould be a curiosity to some of our neighbors to hear a word or two from us in order to know of our whereabouts in the woster tt wilds of america As usual no atre nil striving to establish and righteousness among ourselves arid all us aur talk and excitement have awn causel by alie scarcity of water for irrigating purposes and flour as ft moons whereby to lafot in speaking of tho scarcity of vater perhaps it would not be wrong in that had all the land in the valley that is generally under cultivation been cultivated this season we would very likely have biad quite a number of pugilistic duro ing the irrigating season but as it is our farmers have been very friendly each but little disturbance tur bance has taken place in that way hundreds of of land that al this tl irti twelve months ago were adorned with the silver colored grain that filled the granaries of the majority of our fi inners to overflowing may be seen today to day growing beautiful beds of whilo hundreds of acres that wore put in and attended to arc thickly covered with shocks of wheat and oats are now being hauled to the stacks to await the day of thresh ik gamam n little village seven miles southwest of has an average crop of small grain in of flour it is not for the want of grain with which to make it but it is for the enormous quantity of water that it takes to ruu our mill our hay crop has proved to bo about one third this season of that of other the of the people tills summer is exceedingly good with tho exception of our worthy bishop daniel daniels alio has been sick for sometime past with the infirmities of old age but who is now improving slowly our Sib bath school is being well attended by the youth of this place who are being taught in tha principles of alie Go spreading fand the general exercises needed by them by bupt supt edward assisted by james P II arrison and others A day school we are too generous to afford or we need none or something president win morgan of elkhorn is creating quite a religious feeling among the members of the organized reorganized re church of jesus christ josephites and lias made some inducements to get them to build a large and commodious tabernacle respectfully DANIEL MALA DAug 1879 |