Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-09-17
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could raise crop--that they have been
constantly infested and begged or stolen
from by the Indians whose game thev Kill
ed or scared away, and who feel that thew
have a right to live here so long as there
are cattle or CROPS to live on---that these
valleys are lofty, narrow, and parched by
intense drouth from May TO November
that implements and seeds are scarcely to
be obtained short Of a three months Jour
ney. and then at an enormous cost-that
they have had one year Of virtual and cost
ly hOstilities with the Federal Government,
Ia which very little could be done. and inn
provement was out Of the questoh--and
am amazed that so much has been well done
here in the way of building, fitting. fencing,
planting trees, &c. OF course this city Is
far ahead of any rival, being the spiritual
metropolis and the earliest settled: hut /
am assured that the valley of Utah Lake
is better cultivated than this though Pro-
vo its county seat, is far behind this city,
which, with its broad, regular streets re-
freshed by rivulets Of bright, sparkling,
dancing water, and shaded by rows Of
young but thrifty trees mainly Locust and
Bitter Cottonwood, is already more attract
i've to the eye than an average city Of like
size in the States. The houses (of adobe
or merely sun-dried brick) are uniformly
low and generally too small; bat there is
seldom more than one family to dwelling,
and rarely but one dwelling on a lot Of an
acre and quarter The gardens are well
filed with Peach Apple and other fruit
trees, whereof the Peach already hears pro-
fusely, and the Others begin TO follow the
example. Apricots and Grapes are grown,
though not yet abundant; so of Strawher-
ries. Plums are in profusion, the Noun
tain Currants are large, abundant and very
good. Many of the lots are fenced with
cobbe-stones laid in clay mortar, which
seems to stand very we'll That Of Brig
Nam Youhg's garden and grounds is nine
or ten feet high, three feet thick at the
base, and cost some $50 per rod Undoubt-
edly this people are steadily increasing in
wealth and comfort.
Still, the average life in Utah is hard
one. Many more days faithful labor are
required to support family here than in
is severe and capricious-now intensely hot
and dry; in Winter cold and stormy; and
though cattle are usually allowed to shirk
for themselves in the valleys, they are apt
to resent the insult by dying. Crickets
and grasshoppers swarm 10 myriads, and
often devour all before them. Wood is
scare and poor. Irrigation is laborious
and expensive; as yet, it has not been found
practicable to irrigate one-fourth of the
arabic landat all Ultimately, the valleys
will be generally irrigated; bnt this viii re-
quire very costly dams and canals. Frost
is very destructive here; Indian Corn rarely
escapes it wholly, and wheat often suffers
from it. Wheat, Oats, Corn, Barley, Rye,
are grown at about equal cost per bushel---
50 may be taken as their average price /;
Wheat is usually heavy, though this year
it threatens to be relatively light. / esti-
mate that one hundred and fifty days faith
full labor in Kansas will produce as large
an aggregate of the necessaries of life
Food, Clothing, Fuel-as three hundred
just such days work in Utah. Hence, the
adults here generally wear a toiI-woFn,
anxious look, and many of them are older
in frame than in years. / ardently hope
it may not always be thus.