Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-09-19
sPRlSGDALE On THE vIRGES,
Report Of the Condition OF that Ward
Crops aud Weathor-A Fire.
sPRISoDALE, Sept. s, 1886.

sPRfSuDALE, Sept. s. 1880.
EDITOR DEs.IEI News:
AS 5pringdale has not been repre-
sontcd In your valuable paper for many
long years, perhaps II would be Inter
eating 10 me Of its readers to read
something Of our situation anu pfos-
potity. Our warj, which IL preside d
over by oliver d. clifford as Bi'hop,
and Thornton Hepworth and lfanc II.
Lsnsston ~ COUNSELOR, commences at
tbs forks Of the RIO Virgen two miles
above Rockville, a little place cslled
Nutth0p which contains four familiesi
tue name NofthOp was given ~ a
brother Of Captain Dan Jones, WHO
was widely known by the Nauvou
Saints. 10 thon extends two miles up
the north fofk q tho meeting house,
then continuing two miles further up
the river ~ Oak creek, or No President
McA Ulster named n, CrswiOfdsbufn.
Tnis l. the oud u tbs cluuty road, ~
no other settlement can be- reached by
travelling up the river.
SpnngdAle ward consists OF rs iAmi-
lies, NJ l2s s1uls. We have n Relief
Society, presided over by Ursula q.
Clifford, who IL nearly seventy yeais Of
age. We have SUNDAY school thA, II
well attended considering the distance
that some Of tue cliIiren have 10
travel.
Well, now for something olse. We
have had an unusually ory, searching
summer aud fail, ami the fall, though
a little cooler, 70 iar has given " no
moisture. During the summer We
hal 0to quite destructive wind, ana a
more destructive WATERFRONT OF oloul
burst. / believe we mad the hottest
August, take II all through, that | evei
| witnessed. Frequent rains through
the summer In tho toys OF the moun'
tains gave US considerable annoyance
with our dltehea and bad water.
Yet with all these drawbacks we
feel that We arc blessed sni have nc
cause TO complain. Our crOIs hav,
mostly been good, excepting ifec fruit,
some Of which was cut of by the
apTing irOsis, some by Winds aud some
by wOTms. Yet some have an abund
auce Of stone fruit. The host Of OIL u
general good health, though al pres, nj
we have one quite u bad case. OuI
Sunday meetings are well attended
and the people n a general thing ~,
full OF the pure testimony Of Ia,
Gospel. There IL but little drinking
smoAing or bad language used. Oul
cnildfan arc ffee from the contain
mating influences Of the world. Fol
al OF these things We are thankful
This little place has one missionary on
his way TO field Of labor ana two
more will start this fall. There AZ,
more that should 20, but we NJ,
neither stock men, sheep men, mer
chants nor bankers, and but vefy
small farmers, aud no market aud con
squently no money. We have tn.
promise Of a visit by Apostle Lyman
Tuesday evening next.
| Oue more circumstance aud then |
will close. On the night OF the 3tC
and ith inst, the dwelling house Of
Squire Hepwofth took firs and wa, dis
covered by l0-year-old daughter WHIT
was sleeping up stairs with a eister o
the same age. They hurried dowi
stairs, the nfat having missed tho steps
fell and was somewhat bruised but no
badly; but sbe informed tho lathe
who was sleeping out OF doors with tn
rest OF the family. The father saved
the boy, but the house with all Its con
tents was consumed.
SAMUEL II. GIFFoRD.