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trump of Clod shall call the nations but beautifully situated) on toward is claimed. There is no chance to
Correspondence,
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Cheney; The entire routa (some 13 get good land without getting re-
up. 1 C’or. xv. 52.-
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Dear brother, sister, nephewsand I miles) with the exception of about mote from timber. A. great deal is
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nieces, your loved remembrance* three miles was •* scale land,” I. e, held illegally for speculation, and
W EATH ERF()RD, T EX AS,
will remain while life shall last rocky and destitute of grass or many rights are being contested.
June 15, 1882.
Hardy fruits and vegetables and
Daniel Stewart, Walia Walla, W. T.: with me and my family. I will vegetation, yet it is not altogether
plivtft bv flaking ,V(H1 to write soon. waste land from the fact that it is smalljj oils gruw. in abundance, but ..... ~
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1 dropped
apples, a peaches, tomatoes and
I J’timbered;
postal to you, on my arrival at love to all.
I was surprised in Unding melons are quite Uncertain, though ‘
Your brother,
homy, 1 then thought
of writing C5
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W. II. S tewart .- Cheney, though only one year and apples have not been fully fisted
immediately, but have delayed two
six months old, so alive with busi More anon.
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weeks, I now comply with my pro
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ness. Here mechanics and laboring
mise.
tuen find employment. It consists
Leaving Bro..McClure’s,*I jour-
1 left on the 18th of May, the
Annual Meeting.
next morning found myself at Port- TieyeTonToward’ Spangle, passing
; of 800 inhabitants, three mercantile
, land, 0r., but did not leave there Garfield, a small-pl ice just starting. I
Scio, O r ., June 25, 1882.
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stores,
two
hardware
stores,
three
until the 20th, G o'clock a m . I up in the midst of the richest part I
lira. Stanley,
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drug
stores, two printing offices,
saw Bro. T. F: Campbell at Port- of the Palouse-country. The sur-|
Enclosed please find and publish
one agademy, three churches, three through-youn i m^o nr rnost v al ua ble-— -—
___ land,heard, hi in gi ve a splendid roundingCountry lies to good ad-
hotels, tTiree boarding houses, two
lecture, and bilked over old times, vantage and is nearly all susceptible
paper the H erald , the proceed
furniture
stores,
tWofcabrnvt-shops,
and enjoyed myself very much with of cultivation. As yet compara-
ings
w of our meeting.
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one fine Homing mill, one baker
.tively
little
has
been
plowed?
'Idle
him and Ute. Bruce Wolverton, who
The.-meeting Was called to order
rich s^rti)- f°ur blacksmith shops, two l»y Bro. J. E. Roberts
surface is covered with a i._„
is a minister of fine abilities.
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liyery
stables,
ami,
to
cap
the
< >n motion, J. W. Propst was
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1 took passage on the. ¿‘fate of growth of bunch-grass , and weeds
climax,
four
doggeries.
California, had a pleasa'nt passage with multitudinous varieties of I Cheney is one of.the haqdsomest chosen Secretary, /w ten^
__ to San Francisco in 49 hours; wild flowers, which, altogether, ’ ' : towns in the upper .country. ■ There
On motion, Bro Martin Miller
stavetbone day there, then took the affords hiding places for numerous.!
Was appointed marshal for the oc _
’ j is .said to be a fine farming country
train for home, had quite an enjoyL praiiiecbickeji-;, snipes and cllrlîiox. i
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beyond Cheney. My time being casion.
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»able trip, and arrived safely the following up the flats rTOTt hw ariLl I ,
(>n motion, a Preachers' Commit-
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J rmti+wl Leonid not look anv farther.
came
within
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Many, in .coining kT look ntthis -tee uas‘appoinled ^eonsistthg of the
Butte, of which 1 shall have some
Found all well at home. ’
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part, getglisgustcd before they sec foihnving named—brethren : John
In T exas I found much, of. the- thing to say in a subsequent article.
Shore, —Coffey and A. G. Marshall.
the beauties of this much talked ol
wheat crop harvested, threshed, The country in tins section prese'nts
A- committee on Finance was
upper c untry, and, returning to
ground, made info flour and sent to a fine appearance ; to the right as
by the chair as follows:
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their friends, carry a bad repert, ap|whinted
Bros.
H.
C.,
Powell,
John
Hiiston
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St. Louis and Chicago. I saw in far as the Cour* d’ Alene. and.
having, in their haste, seen nothing
traveling 280(1 miles, all along to Pen 1)’ < > rille mountains and ns fir
in its true light. I must confess 4 an I J. II. Moon1.
.... Walla AYi3]a.. AV.. T., that fortune to the left as the eye could reach,,
Adjoin m*d ’
my anticipations of this country in
and
northward
far
beyond
Cneney,
smiled on those .who roll up their
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both its beauty.. fertility, state' of -—June 19th, meeting called to
and
southwaid
as
far
as
Colfax,
is
sleeves, and put their shoulders fi>
order l»v J. E. Roberts, chairman
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society ami the many conveniences
the wheel that propels them on to a section of country that ’will defy
The minutes of last years’ meet-
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fell far short of wlrat it is in reality.
wealth, prosperity ami happiness.
the world.ill both beauty IJid fel-
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Reluming from Cheney several ing was read and approved.
Texas, as other portions of tlm tilityT^l’he hills are I »w with few ;
On motion, Bros. I. N. Mulkey.
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shots were filed in the advance to
earth suffers occasionally from the gulches. The streams contain cold, j
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my right, and, not knowing but and J. M. Whitney were permitted
.want of seasonable rains; but pure water; sowings are in alum
there was danger ahead, I looked to participate in the business exer- ' p’
droughts do not occur as frequent dance, and finding water by dig
Bro. A.
Vernon was
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forward, and saw two ladies, each cises.
nor with the same severity as-fin ging is nearly an absolute certainty, .
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aimed with a shotgun and a bird elected permanent chairman and R.
and
a
great
deal.of
it
is
contiguous
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Kansas and other north-western
dog, I suppose in the pursuit of F. Ashby secretary.
States. We always raise enough to timber. Thus we sce-it po.-sesses ;
After reports of, all special com- .
game. Being surprised and amused-
for home consumption. Whe .t and nearly all the advantages one can
I applied the birch to my animal mittces, a standing Committee, con
other small grain are made before ■ ask. The summers are cool, and
and soon got bey ond the reach of sisting of Bros. A. C. Chrisman, J.
the dry weather sets in,"so “Ft does" the winters are not so-cobIasTnThe |
bird shot. Stopping ’over night W; Propst and John Huston was
less injury to the farmer heie. Eastern States. The snows usually )
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with Bro. Sanders 1 had another appointed.
Texas is a bountiful country, fertile fall to considerable depth, ami the
The report of the County Evan
op, ortunity of enjoying the presence
-.soil, and a salubrious climate; but frost*, sometime’s, come late ini
Ofc
of *Bro. Cannon, who was on his “ gelizing Board was read and re-
spring
and
early
in
fall,
but
s
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lorn
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the excellency of Texas is in stock'
ceived.
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way from his Farmington meeting
raising, of all kinds. But you, my interfere with grain raisWig. The
Xihe tpiestion of continuing the__ j__ I
to another appointment.
brother, have the most abundant soil is a black loam and very pro- | Leaving Spangle I journeyed to ~wbrk~ of Evangelization was then
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country fur all classes that 1 ever ductive of the cereals, small fruits,! ward Farmington, where the de considered and discussed at some
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was in, and 1 enjoyed myself very and nearly all kinds of garden bate is to commence on the morn length, after which the same com
much, and feel myself paid for time vegetables.
ing of the 25tb, to continue five mittee or l*oard was reappointed:
and trouble, tor you are all the , Around Spangle the face of the days: faking a southeast dircc A. C. Vernon, chairman, R. F. Ash •L«
brother I have left; you feel very i country is smoothe and level, not so tion I came over to Hangyian by, secretary, and John Huston,
dear to me, now, especially now, undulating as farther south, re? I creek, where I passed many fiiie treasurer.
when I think of father, mother, minding one of the country around I faints with good gardens, which
After mature jcflcction on the
brothers and sisters —the dead ones, McMinnville, Or., or Kansas and look as forward as 100 miles south. work of Evangelization and a vote
so dear,.who thronged with us the Nebraska. Passing Rosalia, con Springs are nearly everywhere for consideration of the cofitinua-
ancient health, you,’one sister ami sisting of one general stor<q,onc along this st icam, and the grafm tion of the present plan of Evangel
myself, three eight -dead, sleeping machine store, and one blacksmith
looks qintC qu-omising.' There is no izing, which rcsultuL hi the alnd-
in the grave, w&iting the »resurrec-7 tsht»p,-4-iawnJouiid- myself • journey- vacant land in this section, jioi ishing of that aforesaid plan, and
tion morn, when the sonnd^iif the ing from Spangle ¿a sfrytfP town iftbput Spangle, the whole country authorizing- the chairman to ap-
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