Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-05

uoWn AFTER q successful run has been
great boon TO the farmers and In
sVeryohes opinion the beet growing in
uub.ry VIII rank among the foremost
ot me state In very short time, Fruit
tusins, Too, IL coming well to the front.
~ iaet II ~ An ideal country for the
agflcuituraliatp
A. J. Davis leaves IA the morning for
ms oil we'll IN the San Rafael. lie says
the wei Is down 1900 feet, and the
present indications warrant him in be-
nevcing that It win not be necessary TO
20 lower than 400 or l,S0O feet In order
10 secure q good flow of oil Mr. Davis
mas the highest hopes for the OIL fields
IN mat part of ne state.
y, II. Turner returned this morning
ilom a business trip through the Dixie
country, and Is at the Kenyon He
says that the Silver Reef properties are
LOOKING unusually fine, ana that In
Grand Gulch ~ being found copper as
saying 50 per cent pure, and there are
iots 81 the bronze metal IN that Sec
ton. Mr., Tnrnor reports better feel
ms IN southern Utah than for long
TINE past and everybody ID hoping for
~ any one wants to go IN bathing
lioW az GARFIELD they viii find II neccs-
eary TO walk out about a mile from the
pavilion to get into water deep enough
70 battle" remarked r. ]. Conner to-
day at the Kenyon, with pathetic
touch CT sadness to his voice with
the water out az far as It is from the
snore now, the shore looks Ike n ruin
and 1.ft,tfrftc o. I al, ~
ought to feel Exchanging their harps
ought TO feel like hanging their harps
ing because her children We're not. Back
hWays towards old Lake Point, whore
the hrst salt was made Is dry land, 1t
seems to grow worse and worse"
1T makes me very tired, the way
some OF the self-appolnted critics In
TINS country get after the missionaries
IN CHINA because they ask for sonne-
thlng In the line OF indemnity for The
Chinese Christians who have lost their
little all IN the recent Boxer troubles,
said Chaplain Marion at the Manitou
today Minister Conger and the Brit
lsh minister will both admit that had
u not been for the Chinese Christians
that not one OF the members of the for
elgn legations would have been left
alive In the attack on them In Pekin.
The devotion OF these Chinese Chris
tians was most remarkable. | know Of
Presbyterian missionary who was at
tacked bv Boxers and thrown 10 the
ground. Immediately -four native Chris
tlans threw themselves over him inter-
posing 70 save his life at the risk OF
their own, Two OF these natives We're
Beaten to Jelly, and II was only their
action that saved the life Of that mis-
slonary," When asked what he thought
OF medical missions Chaplain Marvin
said they We're OF the very highest
utility OF the most important service.
He knew Of one medical missionary,
DR.. Lewis, who was able TO perform
seven operations for cGtaracts on CIT.
nese patientH In one day Nov said
Mr., Marvin, ARE not people who are
thus humanely treated bound Co show
some gratitude for what has been done
for thom? You may rest assured that
they do, Minister DENLY visited num-
crOus Chinese coast mission stations
IN an American war vessel, and at The
end Of his trip enphatlcally endorsed
the work Of the Christian missionaries
both Protestant and Catholic" The
chaplain will hold regular Episcopal
services every Sunday morning at Fort
Douglas; and In the evening, there win
BE- a general evangelical service with
gospel hymns. He is very glad to have
the assistance Of Christian Endenyor
workers from this city In the post work,