Dear Sir,
The people throughout this Territory are enjoying good health so far as we can learn:
there have been a few cases of small pox on Big Cottonwood,
but nothing serious.
On the morning of the 31st ult. [last month] a fire broke out in the
Public Blacksmith's shop, but was extinguished without
doing much damage.
On the 10th inst. we moved into our new office, opposite
the President's and Governor's offices; it is a very pleasant
location, and the building is much more suitably adapted
for the purpose of compiling history than the one we have
previously occupied
I took a trip to the Sugar Works, on the evening
of the 11th and preached to the Saints on the necessity
of encouraging Home Manufactures.
Elder Preston Thomas arrived in this City from Texas on the evening of the 12th inst. in advance of his
company which arrived on the 16th.
During the night of the 19th Brother Lufkin's cabinet
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shop was destoyed by fire: the amount of damage was estimated
at $15000.
A large company of Danes led by Brother Peterson
arrived on the 20th.
At 9 A.M. of the 26th Presidents Young and Kimball,
with the Brass Band, a attachment of the Lancers, and a
very large number of the citizens started to meet the 1st
and 2nd companies of hand carts, under Elders Edmund
Elsworth, and Daniel D. McArthur. They travelled to
the foot of the little mountain, where they met the companies
and escorted them into the City, where they arrived about
5 1/2 P.M. The feelings of the brethren when they met
them cannot be described; their hearts overflowed with
gratitude to their heavenly Father that the lives of those faith-
ful brethren and sisters had been preserved throughout their
toilsome journey. There has been less sickness and death
in these companies, than in any ^other^ company that ever crossed
the plains, there being only 7 deaths out of 486 souls.
The only complaints we have heard them make is that
they were detained by a few ox teams in their company;
if it had not been for these, they say they would have
been in some few days sooner, as they had to wait several
hours daily, for these teams to reach their camp.
Great preparations are making for the Deseret State Fair
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which is to come of in this City on the 2nd 3rd and 4th
of October. The committee are very busily engaged receiving
articles for exhibition: We anticipate it will be a splendid
affair, and in a measure, develope the talent of Utah's
citizans.