They have also twenty-one vineyards bordering on their city and 1000
vines to each vineyard, some of them 60 years of age, all kept per-
fectly clean and loaded with the finest of fruit, and as heavy a crop
as I ever saw in St. Geotrge, and the vines stand from two to four feet
in height and, in the fall of the year, each vine has a mound of
earth formed around it, until it is covered out of sight. In the
spring it is covered and the earth leveled. This is an immense
work. They have also many apple, pear and peach orchards, all ripe
as well as the grapes. Islatus is only occupied by the Nephites
themselves. No Mexicans or white men. The houses generally are
made of adobie, dcement or concrete, and plastered, the outside walls
as white as snow, and the floors made of mortar or plaster, very
smooth and many of them very neatly carpeted, and we saw some as
handsome women and girls as could be found in America, with the ex-
ception of color. There is one practice that exceeds any civilized
city on the bglobe that I ever heard of; there is no man, woman or
child allowed to sweep a particle of dirt or dust from their floors
into the door yards or streets, under the penalty of a fine. It all
has to be gathered in cloths or baskets and carried to mounds which
are located in different parts of the city. The room we occupied
was in the center of the town and the mound formed from the sweepings
of the floors in that part of the town measured 150 yards at the base
and some thirty feet high, which had probably been 100 years in col-
lecting, for they did not appear to cart it waway. I found in Is-
latus and in other villages of the Nephites the same kind of crockery
and stone ware painted in all its brilliant colors that we find the
remnants of in their ancient cities or ruins of the ancient inhab-
itants. All of their water jugs and main crockery are of this mat-

They have also twenty-one vineyards bordering on their city and 1000 vines to each vineyard, some of them 60 years of age, all kept perfectly clean and loaded with the finest of fruit, and as heavy a crop as I ever saw in St. George, and the vines stand from two to four feet in height and, in the fall of the year, each vine has a mound of earth formed around it, until it is covered out of sight. In the spring it is covered and the earth leveled. This is an immense work. They have also many apple, pear and peach orchards, all ripe as well as the grapes. Islatus is only occupied by the Nephites themselves. No Mexicans or white men. The houses generally are made of adobie,cement or concrete, and plastered, the outside walls as white as snow, and the floors made of mortar or plaster, very smooth and many of them very neatly carpeted, and we saw some as handsome women and girls as could be found in America, with the exception of color. There is one practice that exceeds any civilized city on theglobe that I ever heard of; there is no man, woman or child allowed to sweep a particle of dirt or dust from their floors into the door yards or streets, under the penalty of a fine. It all has to be gathered in cloths or baskets and carried to mounds which are located in different parts of the city. The room we occupied was in the center of the town and the mound formed from the sweepings of the floors in that part of the town measured 150 yards at the base and some thirty feet high, which had probably been 100 years in collecting, for they did not appear to cart itaway. I found in Islatus and in other villages of the Nephites the same kind of crockery and stone ware painted in all its brilliant colors that we find the remnants of in their ancient cities or ruins of the ancient inhabitants. All of their water jugs and main crockery are of this mat-