Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-03-03
HOME FROM
A LONG TRIP.
Apostles Grant and Clawson Return
from Arizona and Mexico.
TRAVELLED OVER 1000 MILES
Found saints In q cheerful ana Pros
porous Condition. Except ~ Johns,
where sfug gle Has fiesn Hard.

Apostles Heber ]. Grant and Rudger
Clawson after a trip covering a period
Of FIVE weeks and over 1900 niles re-
turned home last evening accompanied
by Mrs. Augusta W. Grant, wife Of
Apostle Grant. They with Elders
Golden Kimball and Carl G. Maeser,
visited the NJ. Johns. Snowflake and
Maricoya Stakes In Arizona and the
Juarez Stake in Mexico, holding special
conferences on the Sunday schools,
Young Mems and Young Ladies MI
tual Improvement Associations and
religion class meetings in Arizona There
were more OF these latter held In Mex
leo from the fact that the schools
there are all under Church auspices.
there being no public school system
there as In Arizona. Several Bishop
RIGS and High Councils were also or
ganized.
The trip. said Apostles Grant and
clawson this afternoon, was an ex-
ceedingly pleasant and profitable one.
They we're warmly welcomed In all OF
the places and found the people In
prosperous and cheerful state OF mind
except as 70 81. Johns, where the crops
have failed almost every season for the
past fifteen years The struggle OF the
1900 Saints IN this Stake has been a
very hard one from the commence
mens, and only the sturdy faith OF the
pioneers Of that section has enabled
them to continue steadfastly on as they
have.
Recently their lot became 80 hard
that the question OF abandoning their
settlement was seriously considered,
and President Snow wrote 10 those Ia
authority releasing all from their mis-
slons and suggesting that they were al
liberty 20 20 wheresoever they might
Will But naturally they were ayerse
20 giving up that which they had la
bored for 50 many years and moving TO
where they would be obliged 10 begin
over again; so they have concluded 10
try II once more,
The great difficulty with which the
people have TO contend Is that OF the
irrigatlng water which is strongly i'm
pregnated With salt rendering the land
so saline rs 20 be almost impossible Of
cultivation. The solution for this trou-
bio. the people believe, lies In building
great reservoirs In which to catch the
flood waters Of the rainy season and
thus hold II back for crop raising pur-
poses. II IS estimated that about $4,000
has already been spent In building res
ervolrs, dams and bitches by the people
Of this stake. They have fine public
buildings and a Church academy which
has cost $4,000, and which Is yet $1,000
short OF completion.
The party visited the Church acade-
mics az Thatcher and Juarez. These are
well attended and under capable prn-
clpals. Elder Guy c. Wilson Is In
charge OF the Juarez institution. while
Prof Emil Maeser presldes over the
one at Thatcher. In Mexico the Saints
are erecting very handsome and sub
stantial buildings and the towns that
they have founded the last ten or twelve
years are 40 far ahead Of the sleepy
slow-golng Mexican towns OF three or
four hundred years old that there IL
scarcely room for comparison. Elders
Kimball and Maeser remained behind to
visit Dlas together, after which Elder
Kimball was TO return home and Elder
MAeser was 10 go on 70 san LUIS.
There were many social gatherings
and entertainments Of various kinds in
honor Of the visitors and all were OF a
character that showed the Saints were
keeping well 90 the front In all those
things. Their hospitality Is apparently
as unbounded az their faith. Al Mesa,
Marieopa Stake, the almond trees were
In blossom and orange groves I'm pros
porous condition. On the return home
Mr.. and Mrs, Grant and Elder Clawson
visited Phoenix. the capital Of Arizona,
whore handsome capitol building IL
being erected They also took a run out
to an ostrich farm near that place. The
scene presented was novel one. The
farm IL stocked with l70 birds and the
raising OF them has proved TO be very
profitable business. each producing
$40 worth Of plumes per year.