The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-11
IN DIXIE.
The Land of the hooking Bird
and Honey Bee.
Something About the Winter
improvements and
Progress.

Editors Herald:
You would hardly believe, but az
I write the festive bull frog pipes
his organ, the fair moon glides
peacefully through a deep blue Rky,
while what is here called tree frog
gives vent to the serenity OF his soul
In long, low gutteral sound, unlike
the squawk !of its half~brother, in
that ita is a continuous song, or sort
Of per-insa-Whistle death rattle. By
the way, the tree frog is peculiar
institution. 1t disdains the swampy
tracts inhabited and enjoyed by the
bull frog, and enscouses itself in the
crotch Of a tree and there pours
forth its plaintiff lay to the mid
night air.
The day We departed from Beaver
everything was fair and lovely, but
mist from the south would persist
in letting us have it square in the
teeth the whole day long. The next
day we got it-snOw-and it kept
coming every day until we got into
Dixie, and in fact, until st. George
was reached. On the north of the
rim of the basin-that is north of
, Kanswa for Kanawa is.almost on the
rim-the long winter was being
cussed as heartily by some as 10
Cache and the more northern sec.
tioDs, while further south, that is,
in Dixie, it is consider without ex
ceptien the best year ever known so
far as climate influence and weather
providences are known. In Cache
those who owned stock suffered be-
cause of lack of feed and for the
reason that the unusual depth of
snow rendered it an impossibility
for cattle to feed themselves. In
Gentle Valley cattle anu horses
were reported, month ago, to be
dying eff in great numbers on &C
count Of the conditions above men,
! toned while those in Cache Valley,
who were wintering stock there
Bishop Evan Owen of Wellsville for
instance, spent the greater part of
each day, in feeding cattle and
saving the increase which Is gen
orally go desirable at that season
The like Ct the snow and rain and
water was unknown in Cache in
fifteen years, and wa 'er was higher
about the end o. February than for
ii period unknown to the Oldest in
habitant-and Il al, [ may be al
loWei to remark, is saying a good
deal.
In Cedar City, the next town
north Of Ksnawa on theEriver, 80
far as cattle is concerned, the season
| is just as Objectionable; and while
cattle and horses have been starving
in Gentle Valley, in Canaan, a
point between 400 and 500 miles
south, they have been forced to dig
their cattle out of the snow, while
hundreds have been found dead.
The season, so far as the severity of
the weather is concerned, is how
ever, less disastrous than that of the
winter four years bsck-if my
memory serves me right-when,
| combined with the vigor OF
winter there was an absent ice
Of feed because CT drouth
all over the Territory the summer
preceding. Then caLtle and horses
were offered for a song, and still
purchasers were not to be found, fol
the reason that feed was unobtain-
| able.
There is, nevertheless, a compen-
satiDg advantage arising through
the overruling influence of the Great
Cause for every evil; and If csttle
have suffered because of unusual
depth of snow and lack Of feed, the
ranges over the whole Territory, il
existing promises are borne out,
will afford quantity and quality of
feed unknown ia years. If, also, the
planting of grain and garden truck
has been delayed by a backward
spring, the volume Of water result
ing from thes accumulation Of snow
in the mountains of the north, and
from springs arising from SHOWS
and rains in the south, no less than
from the rivers, will more than
make amends for the evils past.
AT st. George or in Washington
County, generally, feel positive, il
an assured market were opened fol-
| the years product, no more conf.
dent or contented people could be
found anywhere. The only regret
Is found in the fact that the acres OF
grain are mot as numerous as could
be desired. If the prospects for a
new mining district-which with
your kind permission I shall refer to
at some length In day or two-in
Washington County shall hold out
and I am Of tine firm belief they
will, then property, which at the
present is at its ebb, because Of the
drouth of preceding years and be,
cause of q failing market, will find
an impetus aud increased value
that will sstonish the natives.
This, to native of nothern hills.
is a strange country. 1t Is "busted
all to thunder" in the language of
a native of Paragowah. There is
no question as to the manner In
which this country was msnufac'
tured. 1t has everywhere az under
lying red sandstone stratum, which
by Earthquakes has been thrown
into the most inconeeivable ferns
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