Show SNAKE RIVER A few kofes from that which may be through th courteaay cour teay of mayor L J horrick Hor risk we havo been permitted to aej copy a letter ri recently by fro i mi J K pool a gentleman well k eatn to alie people of ogdan sir lul lias for some lime been in iho snake river country but is at ent working at login city from which place the letter wa mailed the writer rayc I left nay home or family two since in very good health and BO far as I am able to fay the health of the people in the vicinity of snake 13 good but like nanny other itaw settlements ments y hao failed to make u crop or rather to reap harvest accounts acco unto alack of energy on the par of the people who are thero nor on of the of the soil on account of the conable condition of ho climate but on account of there being moie tabor to be done in order to get the water than the few who were there were able lo 10 do in time to save the inai grain it if true too that th baring during the months of april and mav was vry unseasonable being cola and grain sown broadcast on salt ground and by alin way I had no other and dragged in never even until we made our ditches and watered the land occupied our time until ilie middle of june but what liitle grin there was that canio up in any time matured mitu red and there are mena of as fine wheat and oal grown in our nei OH I ever caw in this or ailt lako valley this fact settles beyond ul contradiction inal lime can be niada one among the let of producing in the mountains for this season lids certainly been one of the meat remarkable anil among the moat unfavorable tant we have ever experienced in the west hence I reel encouraged anil IOB that we trill bo more HI other year there lias been on unfavorable report circulated about thu place which in my judgment id not founded altogether on facts there are tonie who arc not acquainted with or accustomed the oil and others who are unfavorable in their feelings towards the set detling ling of this country another who have seen better days and have had a better living than they get here like old israel look back to the ie ks and onions of and murmur and find fault with abo country but so far as my experience boea and I am I think capa ble of judging tho here in tho way of soil timber and grass are unsurpassed by any place I have brer n west of the river the climate is I think as knur to bat of cache valley as I am able to judic we have our ditch made a dia tance of five miles to our farm be fidei branch or ditches and my sons and I have enclosed about acres and plowed eliy ot building ins digging bellg ditc itc and if our lives aret pared and we can get anything to lita on and teed for another sotir I hope we will be in more favorable circumstances J R POOL LOOIS sept |