Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-20
Letter from LOvejOy.
CoR1UNE. Utah. Auo. 3. I


EDS. HERALD: This valley of the
Great Salt Lake is claimed to be the
richest spot on this continent. While
vieing with California in all fruit and
grain growing wealth, it's bordering
mountains are taking the lead il the
untold millions laid up for the miner.
The farmer here finds home market
equal, if not better, than even the east
ern States. While the large popula-
ton crowding into'.the sterile noun
tain mining regions will make this
valley most favorable spot for the
farmer to locate.
Government land can be entered
within mile of this town, at two dol
lars and fifty cents an acre, and eighty
acres added for homestead.
1t is said that last season a farmer
cleared the price of his farm and all
his expenses, and this season will have
enough to put up comfortable build
ings. One great draw back is the want
of water It rarely rains during the
summer and the ground must be irri-
gated from the mountain streams
Seventy-five thousand acres to the
north and west of this town are avail
able for irrigation from Bear river and
its tributary mountain streams This
irrigating prevents drought, and from
early Spring the ground is never too
wet to plow. Some kinds of grain and
vegetables require more moisture than
others, and the farmer here gives his
growing crop water as regularly as his
horse.
The great hindrancc to progress is
the Norman influence, which is half
civilized heathenism, keeping its sub
jects in ignorance and in poverty.
Brigham and his apostles have been
preaching a doctrine which they call
the Omitted order of Enoch." 1t is,
that all the property in the realm be-
longs, and of right, ought to belong
to the Church, and that men every
where should deed their lands to Brig
ham Young and be his agents in farm
ing them. That merchants and all
tradesmen should act as his agents or
the agent of the Church, to which all
the property of right belongs. They
have succeeded in getting large num-
Der to sell themselves into perpetual
slavery; but many of the more wealthy
and intelligent among them have re-
fused, thus making trouble in the
camp. Some of the leaders have call
ed upon the Gentle population for
help, and are making common cause
against Brigham and pollgamy.
This town, Coriune, is the only
purely Gentle town in the Terri
tory. 1t was built upon the trade to
the mining interest of Montana, when
the railroad first came over the noun
tains. This was, and still is, the prin-
cipal station on the road for supplies
to Montana. The town is located at
the west end of the lake, while. Salt
Lake City is sixty five miles across
the lake and twenty miles beyond, to
the south.
The schools and Churches of the
place are good. There is the Metho-
dist, Presbyterian and Episcopalian
churches, while former theatre is
now used for school purposes.
The women vote here, and that with
out any seeming impropriety. Yet I
am sorry to say, the liquor stores and
saloons do not thereby seem any the
less. The liquor question has not
been under consideration yet, all the
moral strength being turned against
the Mormon influence and the disre
gard of the Sabbath.
Mrs. Stenhouse delivered q lecture
here a few evenings since upon the
evils of polygamy, and Mrs. Eliza
Young was greeted with a popular re-
cept;on on her return from the East.
So that freedom of speech is granted
here, which for so long has been de-
MED, and the light is breaking in upon
this dark Mormon habitation of cru
city. LovEJoY.