On the 26th Ulto. the hand cart company's of Elders Edmund
Ellsworth and D. D. McArthur arrived with about 100 hand carts and 486
souls. The kindly welcome and benevolent reception these Pioneer hand cart
companies received exceeded greatly that of any other company since our ar-
rival in the mountains.
On 20th Sep. Ulto Elder Peterson's company of Danes arrived.
Elder Preston Thomas arrived from Texas on the evening of
12th inst. in advance of his company which arrived on the 16th
The health of the people generally is firstrate.
The Weather has been very fine this last month, which has been
very favorable for public improvements.
The Deseret State Fair closes to day. This has been a
display of talent genius and industry which does honor to our citizens,
indeed we feel proud of our associations with a people, who altho' hem-
med in by mountains living on desert plains, accounted unworthy the
abode of civilization, have made mother earth team luxuriantly with
the comforts—the bounties—yea the luxuries of life, and we can indorse
the sentiment of the Prophet, when he declared the desert should
blossom as the rose [Isaiah 35:1], and the barren waste should be converted into
a fruitful field [Isaiah 32:15].
On the 10th Ulto we moved into the new Historian office
On the 26th Ulto. the hand cart company's of Elders Edmund
Ellsworth and D. D. McArthur arrived with about 100 hand carts and 486
souls. The kindly welcome and benevolent reception these Pioneer hand cart
companies received exceeded greatly that of any other company since our arrival in the mountains.
On 20th Sep. Ulto Elder Peterson's company of Danes arrived.
Elder Preston Thomas arrived from Texas on the evening of
12th inst. in advance of his company which arrived on the 16th
The health of the people generally is firstrate.
The Weather has been very fine this last month, which has been
very favorable for public improvements.
The Deseret State Fair closes to day. This has been a
display of talent genius and industry which does honor to our citizens,
indeed we feel proud of our associations with a people, who altho' hemmed in by mountains living on desert plains, accounted unworthy the
abode of civilization, have made mother earth team luxuriantly with
the comforts—the bounties—yea the luxuries of life, and we can indorse
the sentiment of the Prophet, when he declared the desert should
blossom as the rose Isaiah 35:1, and the barren waste should be converted into
a fruitful field Isaiah 32:15.
On the 10th Ulto we moved into the new Historian office
"Letter to the Editor of the Western Standard, 4 October 1856," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 6, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/0AwX