The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-26
HOTEL GOSSIP.

THE recent cold spell gave US a killing
frost three nights in succession in Morgan
county. said Charles A WEIGH of Morgan
City. at the Cullen last evening. Mr.
WEIGH is an extensive farmer in that Sec
ton.
Cucumber and squash were all killed
and the potato vines were also badly nip
ped. but we can't tell just how badly the
tuberS were injured, because the croI
has not yet matured. We have turned
] the water over the ground and, although
the vines have been killed off, the pota-
/ toes may be far enough advanced to have
not been very badly damaged. Some OF
/ the late wheat that was in the milk has
no doubt suffered but most of the croE
: had been cut and it was a very good yield
averaging through the county about TWEEN.
/ ty-five bushels to the acre. The hay croI
1 in the county was very fine. and cattle
are doing splendid, so that our farmers
are in good shape.
Large numbers of sheep Craze on the
ranges of Morgan county. and the grass
has been very fine. but the trouble is. the
mutton is not owned in the county. Our
| citizens have devoted themselves to agri-
culture. while the people of Davis and
| Tooele counties have grow rich feeding
their sheep on our grasses"
Mormon missionaries labor in our
county the year around and are never mo-
Tested. but treated with respect. the same
ligious itinerants are" said e. P. Kicker
of Sumter. SIC, last night at the Knuts-
ford. They pursue their way in an unos-
tentatious manner. and those of our peo-
pie who do not approve of their religious
views merely pay no attention to them.
In Sumter county the negro population
exceeds the whites in the ratio of about
three to one. Our elections are always
peaceable at the polls, and the negro can
vote his own political convictions, but
the whites count the vote. There have
time. but the people of our section never
hesitate to string up black brute that
there is proof against OF having assaulted
a white woman. Crops have been large
Cotton and corn are the big crops with
us. but for several years We have raised
tobacco successfully. the yield being large
and the quality very fine
'.Blackfoot Ida. is growing town. and
the country for miles around it is a very
fine agricultural country said John c.
Brown, general merchant of that town.
at the Kenyon yesterday. The two large
pleted up there have reclaimed a large
amount of land that now produces the
biggest kind Of crops. The country is set
Ting up very fast, and that fact is of ma
terial interest to Salt Lake, as this city
is bound to be our natural market and our
supply point. am purchasing my fall
and winter stocks, and have bought quite
extensively. as our trade has not only
been very large this year. but there are
positive indications that it will continue
1.-THE geological survey has just been
completed. a thorough typographical sur
vey of the Indian territory said F. H.
Newell chief photographer of the de-
partment. yesterday at the knutsford.
THE work consumed three years time.
and 800 men were employed in the field
1t was done very quietly and scarcely
any one in the territory knew the nature
of the survey being made. which was d.
rected by Charles II. Fitch. The terri
tory has been completely sectionized and
the lines fully defined. and the maps are
now in the hands of the secretary of the
interior. Township range and section
boundaries have been determined and es-
tablished. The work was done as nee
essary preliminary to the Indian allot-
ments.'
George S. Carson. president of the Elec-
tric Light 4, Power company of low