Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-25
CACHE VALLEY NEWS.
The Rain Brings Joy-RebuildlDg {
sclioolhouse =. relief society
Conf 4 nee iaIk.
II, JHMoND. Cacne o., Utah,
May 2snd, 1907.

N jHMOND, Oache Oo.i UtaO,
May 2snd, 1897.
To tho Editor:
The rains are moving a very heavy
burden from t.4s minds OF the farmers
OF Cache valley. They havs planted
and planted and are still sowing grain
and planting corn and potatoes, ETC.,
anxiously up to the sky to see n any
eign OF rain was there. AMI II only "a
cloud no bigger than man could be
seen, 1t brought Joy. The winter
was long and wet, and May has
been the warmest know here To-.
msny yesrs, so that the earth had
become parchcd and dry, 30 much so
that one farmer told me that ne had
plowed and sown with wheat twenty.
five acres, and unless rain came o
would not put q narrow on 1t, but now
the rain has soitensd the olods, he
can properly cover his grain. Had the
drought continued thousands OF acres
OF wheat wouia never have come up.
Then no wonder our grangers look
happy and business generally Will
thrive also.
Richmond ward met wi tn very bad
luck last September. They had bt no
OF the henusomest brick school Duiiu-
ins. two stories high, costing S6. 900,
A fearful east wind tore the upper
story OIL and ruined the structure Tor
the uurp1ee they had intended. The
trustees have patched IL up 30 they
could use the lower story. This spring
the school board called the tax payers
together and they voted tax Of l2a
mile on the dollar and also empowered
the trustees to borrow an additions,
$4,000, which VIII give them 5000,
anu they intend to build new Luild-
ing anu pull the one down that maj
cost than 60 much the year before.
l attended their mas meeting on
Wednesday evening last to consider
the proposition NJ 10 whether or not
under their present circumstance
they could this year raise the 81, 800
that hat been allotted to them 10 build
the Is. Y. College, and they concluded
tiny could not assure this amount but
that they woull do what they could,
seeing II would take them two years
to 10 what they had already Promised
The school board. But the people OF
II chmond are large hearted people
and although their taxes will he for
school, city, csunty, Stats and local
tax. about 223 mile, they will be
found among ,hr front ranks OF the
donore to the b. Y. College.
The Relief society held its confel-
ence In the tabernacle on Tuesday
last IN Logan. A very large audience
was Present. A change was made In
The presidency. What we wish 10 say
10 D.. haf liat. 10
lions given by these women thought
as Mrs. Jane Richards spoke, that 1
wished she were twenty years younger
for tho good she could do. She carries
her audience with her, her clear and
simple truths carry conviction, anu
thought such women Should have no
other care but leaf their fellow sisters
unto eternal lite.
The question OF storing whost end
its object was talked OF and 1t was
said many thought 1t was for day OF
famine, but this was no! tbs sol reason,
as II wae also for the time when the
people should II 20 10 Zion as The
prophets have tolu. In speaking with
Aunt Zlna latter meeting ,she asked
mn to publish the following: "Many
had preached that President Heher &.
Kimball said that the time would
come when -four would cost barrel for
barrel In golu, and they had also ssso-
ciated this prediction with famine,
Then President Y uDg hai said
in my hearing after the last grass
hopper war that hard times ehouiu not
me any more. This seemed TO com
tiict, but In my travels I met "a man
who was In the House whom Pres!-
dent himbail made the remark, anu
said that men now farmei little land
on the river bottoms, nut the day
would come that the land would be
farmed from hill 10 hill, gye aud even
to the tops OF tue mountains, aud then
because % tue multitude that woull
come TO Zion for safety there would
then be hardly en9u III TO feel them,
so tnat b0th OF these Prophets agree"
A large numour oi our people IN
southern Csche osve gone 10 Idaho,
all wanting leo acres OF land. Mus!
OF these have gone 10 the Snako River
country, aud the word SIN Is