The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-11-24
|. TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE.


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According 10 the White Pine New,
News. Mrs. NC Lewis has sold her
tao ranches in White River valley 70
the Mormon church for $4,000, and
expects 10 move with her family to
Oregon. The purchasers will no doubt
colonize the property.
The Denver Republican says: "The
Mormon church organization OF Zig
Horn basin, Wyoming, is having a sur
vcy made for big irrigation ditch TO
be taken from the shOshonc river. near
Eagles Nest. and run to McCullagh s
peak. east Of Cody. The ditch viii be
thirty miles long. and will irriga'e
90. 900 acres Of land The church viii
settle 300 Mormon families on the re-
claimed land
There are 1000 people In the dozen
settlements which make up the Alberta
colony II is not composed entirely oil
| Mormons. ns some may suppose ior
ten per cent Of the population are non
Mormons The Alberta country eN-
tends from Mount View, sixteen miles
west Of Cardston, the largest settle'
lnent. 10 forty miles east Of that point
The altitude IL about $500 feet the
land is excellent for grain and cattle
winter feeding being unnecessary ana
. tifty.milc canal Is now under CON
ttruction to be supplied with water
from the ~ Mary's river. The immi-
grafton is steady ard some time Alberta
will be thickly inhabited. Wide lati-
lude is allowed officers in enforcing
law, and bribery doesn't go In that
country. as officers hold office for life
and are considered above corruption
Apostle brigham Young, at the Tab
,rnncle last Sunday said he was much
pleased with the progress being made
by the saints In disseminating their
religion throughout the world, and
thought that the interest manifested
therein at the present time was largely
Tue to the opposition made against II
Apostle Young said he bad recently
talked with many strangers In th'
east, who were surprised that the Lat
ler-day Saints believed In God, and one
man said that he thought the religion
II the Mormons was wiped out "whei
The congress OF the United States legis
,ated against polygamy." lie expressed
the belief that the Saints have create
light than any sect OF modern times
but they show less wisdom thai
others.
The speaker denounced the cry 70
money which In abroad In the land
Apostle Young said he had recent,
been obliged 10 spend several weeks il
Chicago. which he considered a grca
,aiamsty, and the continual cry wa.
9 Money, money, money ano ~ -
n not accustomed TO that cry"
DIR. Talmnge said Ithad been fashion
able in the past to decry Mormonisu
u because II had had n bad name, aud
i thing that has bad name is seldoI
spoken Of in any other terms tina
= those OF reproach and denunclator
u lie said, that II Is the fashion In III
u world today to go largely By name
and scarcely ever to look beneath III
y surface; that our bits Of knowledgea al
j tied up In packages, and the packag
n labeled ''Mormonism' has ever been !
l. III repute with many. But, DR. Ia
e mage said, II was becoming populu
n for people TO investigate the religio
% Of the Latter-day Saints, and he cite
l. Instances OF where he has recent
d spoken, by request. at the Univenii
a Of Edinburgh aud Mt Cornell, upon I'll
n subject OF "Mormonism."