Your family are all well.
The have regular
weekly meetings, and are exerting their powers to being out the talent,
skill, and ingenuity of our to be exhibited at their fair in
the fall. We anticipate a splendid display of Home Manufactures;
Prest. is sanguine in the anticipation of a cattle show equal to
those held in the East. The Ladies are manifesting a commendable
spirit and believe that in their department this exhibition will not
be behind. I understand the Leather Manufacturers are calculating
on supplying the States with the valley tan, if we may judge from
their late representations.
You will receive a Programme for the 4th July from the Post
Office; there are to be great doings.
The barley harvest has commenced, and the wheat in some places
will be cut in a day or two, but not before it is wanted.
The weather is very dry, and crops in places suffering for lack of
moisture. Bror. was in the a day or two since
and reported that the grasshooppers had eaten up all the wheat for
three miles round in Box Elder County.
We are taking the large tobacco worms from our potatoe vines in
this city by bushels, and feeding them to the pigs and chickens; I
never saw anything like it for quantity.
A portion of Jordan Bridge gave way on the 7th inst, and letting
in 13 head of cattle.
Brothers , , Hawkins, , and Song
desire to be kindly remembered to you; they are all well.
for Wilford Woodruff
Thomas Bullock Clerk
Your family are all well.
The Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society have regular
weekly meetings, and are exerting their powers to being out the talent,
skill, and ingenuity of our to be exhibited at their fair in
the fall. We anticipate a splendid display of Home Manufactures;
Prest. is sanguine in the anticipation of a cattle show equal to
those held in the East. The Ladies are manifesting a commendable
spirit and believe that in their department this exhibition will not
be behind. I understand the Leather Manufacturers are calculating
on supplying the States with the valley tan, if we may judge from
their late representations.
You will receive a Programme for the 4th July from the Post
Office; there are to be great doings.
The barley harvest has commenced, and the wheat in some places
will be cut in a day or two, but not before it is wanted.
The weather is very dry, and crops in places suffering for lack of
moisture. Bror. was in the a day or two since
and reported that the grasshooppers had eaten up all the wheat for
three miles round Fort Brigham in .
We are taking the large tobacco worms from our potatoe vines in
this city by bushels, and feeding them to the pigs and chickens; I
never saw anything like it for quantity.
A portion of Jordan Bridge gave way on the 7th inst, and letting
in 13 head of cattle.
Brothers , , Hawkins, , and Song
desire to be kindly remembered to you; they are all well.
for Wilford Woodruff
Thomas Bullock Clerk