| Show horse have alsoreaping machine which mows and rakes into windrows ready for binding boy of twelve or thirteen years can sit uponspring seat and drive the horses for this machine have alsopart inthreshing machine owned together with my brothers which is driven by eight horses threshses and winnows at the same time upon two carts we can therefore move it from one place to another three machines one for weaving it It stands inshort time My one for wife has sewing and one for knitting These are very handy for accomplishing work also own part insaw mill driven by steam it can saw from twelve 1o fourteen thousand feet of lumber per twenty-four hours am also part owner inmercantile store containing wares to the value of 20 000 riks dollars am at the present time foreman at this mercantile and am right now busy at sending barley to the railroad which shall bring it to the seacoast and thence to England Barley and other grains are very cheap here suppose that in Denmark it is quite the opposite shall now give you some information in brief about this Territory its situation its fertility Territory is the same as Amt --or county rather as province But the people here have more liberty than they had in Denmark Each Amt chooses certain men that meet together onceyear to enact laws for the welfare of the people Utah Territory lies 3000 miles inland from the Eastern seacoast and 1000 miles from the Western seacoast or California When we made our journey here we came by railroad from New |
