HUNTING THE picturesque nine hours from salt lake cy city via v th 44 utah and northern brings you to srah lake ike the meanest place c in n earth yih for mosquitoes lucky are you if you are provided with netting to SS ct yourself from the posts peats t the he alft liest and most moat persistent nt bores that ever affected doted hu humanity get away froidl fr om this point in the night if you can or fly very early y in the morning A rough gh slid and tumble hotel will take care of w YOU att for the night if you have to stay and do ao not want anything to eat it iff IN 1 however t ow ever mosquito proof which ai a worth the trifling charge for a good ad wa market lake station to ia a short tallee nce from idaho falls and is lo 10 bated eu on snake river it may yet be A place 06 of importS DeD if the mosquitoes derm the e traveler who has not visited tes t he north country bouy for the thelast thela last at few S will be amazed at the immense strides in the opening and settling of wa the country along the lie lice e of the railroad oad miles and miles of gigantic ditches 10 are constructed to irrigate the 1 na d bordering snake river ere long the as the one barrau stretch known snake river rive valley will teem with h of towns and yil villages lages arri ution is doing its mighty worland wor kand the in this region will never fail for snake river is one of the largest deepest tortuous of our and most rivers and draws its SUP supply ply astern a an immense water shed from lofty schilling glaciers and snowy reserves depth in moun aves of unknown i tail la chasms as yet unexplored by V U vhs distance from market lake to rexburg coburg is twenty two miles beds part of the way wil y over lava and 11 deep sand on the way w ay you A cro aaa snake river on a v very er y well instructed constructed bridge grass abounds everywhere and where ever the hand of has turned in the water fine ftc crops PS of heavy grain arg are 8 seen eod it I 1 is 11 ea from the bridge to rexburg slad ann kat the whole country on each side of the road in ig under ditch digging king has ha been reduced to a science blit ul the immense amount of work 88 to construct them the labor lk of the pioneer to be no child chulds play A long weary wait a awaits W a i ts athe the willing to open up a new coun country A deal of self dental denial must be b brae ta ha rd work and hard fare 1 are re the ank tones stones to the royal I 1 nd e n of a pioneer farmer rexburg is 1 a scattering town with a pot ain BC office falce and four or five anve stores and aitto 14 the centre of an immense farming friou won along the banks of snake river should judge the elevation to be b a lit tle over feet beet tomatoes ripen and other oth ner tender plants do yel well the soil boll very y rich and the vegetable growths look i strong ong and luxuriant splendid V grist and saw mill is also seen D which attests the fact fac t that the assi future of rexburg is metropolitan the thing ng in order should be a woolen enill the n a foundry adry and machine shop aud 80 on tibe th aaa solitary saloon is antti i an iacre increase ass of wishes no one lla death h dispensa fital NV h at to 18 now known as an the bannock take consists ets of thirty two settle etien vastl ln in 1882 the assessed value of bra now dow covered with these set was last year it WAS waa the principal settlers are cormons mormons Mor 1 mons na although there are many nori non 1 1 in the dif lerent vil lacea in 1882 about bushels ol oj grain were raised this years year no estimate put it at these facts show tho the region to be well suited for the sustenance of life although timber la is a long 1009 way off and the winters are cold and long the hills surrounding ther the valleys valley are covered with line bunch grass gram making a splendid range for stock prom from rexburg over rolling hills covered with fine grase crossing moody and canyon canyo n creeks the road to the bridge I 1 la a th the e teton teto n basin abid in 32 miles the grand old teton reton peaks in the range loom up at times in their solitary grandeur the road is excellent for a natural one the views to the north are grand and bonam anding diug away to the northeast Is ia the yellow stene park while in the valley is the north fork of snake riv river er at canyon creek the settlers have been construct ing a canal for thelast the last five years to bring out the creek waters for watering the berchek beeches around teton city herds ue ads of antelope use I 1 to roam these hills but they are no more mo re to be seen a solitary Oli tury badger was all that was waa visible b on the entire stretch h of the road when I 1 crowed crossed it everybody visiting those these parts has baa notions of hunting ana fl fishing very many will be disappointed the he game get out of sight bight and are only to be found in the unfrequented parts part the same game with flab fish both indians indiana and ald white men d do 0 the work of clearing out the streams so that fishing becomes tedious unless vou ou go a long way it I 1 Is IL a grand view when you got get an unobstructed one of the teton basio balai I 1 bad pictured in my mind a narrow valley with mountains on each side of the most romantic character buts but like many other mental visions it was all brushed away when I 1 saw the real basin to the east most of it in wyoming Is ia the teton range W with iab the four rioted noted peaks that suggested to the frenchman a name for thern them south is in the palisade range of mountains on the west to is a lower one bearing the comparison of our west vrest mountains with the higher wasatch peak the north end to is open like un unto cache valley the length is about 35 miles with varying width of from 12 to 18 miles milem long liong streaks of timber how the location of different creeks that pour their waters into the teton teo river which becomes in mitsu midsummer amer a large one this river at the south receives the streams from ga game moose and trail creeks all of them large streams agn not sive a vestige tige of ea allera ler it tup land to Is to be seen grass abounds aa well as immense bodies of timber in the mountains near by there are about families now in the basin most of them mormons cormons Mor mons and plenty of room for more many faces familiar to salt lake are to be seen but there is no rust on them boys who did not know of what kind of f material they were have built log t homes and corrals are fencing in ill their CIR claims hauling timber and are now finding out what they are able to do wherever the land is cultivated every thing does dew well vegetables grow fl alne and large but I 1 saw the potatoes nipped with wilh frost on the morning of july not touch much damage how ever waa done although in localities near beartha the ML mauth uth of canyons they were not touched corn was thirty inches noigh which was a fine showing for an elevation of feet the highest point in the basin under cultivation ou la Is feet above sea level the highest Markl marking yag of the thermometer recorded was wag ninety degrees in july and the lowest thirty one olle below zero on the of last january for these facts I 1 ana am indebted to mr gideon murphy who kept observation by spirit thermometer Ln mo meter the leading men of the state seem dita d if posed to treat the Mo people with fairness why should they not do so in my opinion they are the backbone 0 of f the state wherever they settle improvements are manifest they go to stay arid and stay to W work rato to found homes build up tp and develop the re sources of the country agriculturally large bodies of bituminous onal area A id to 0 exist in the mountains adjacent to the valley in fact 11 nature seems to have fixed up this basin for a urge large population and it will riot not be very long before the people will fill it up food feed is Overy everywhere where abundant there are no barren places in sight eight with proper ments for winter feeding this PrO promises MINOO to be one of the finest places for stock ralp raising ting in the west A asa a a matter of course it to is a long way from ft a market there Is nothing you can sell on the grounds but live stock alad add a poor market for that at present there Is ia no money in because kuae there is none paid out the man who intends to settle there must go with necessaries for at least one season seabon must most also have a to tea ar naother nother wise hie he will be put to great disadvantage it I 1 is the story over again of the settling up of cacho cache valley and other elevated minta the ambitious young man must have determination and endurance and b be willing to turn his hand to any kind of burk he will be sure to succeed in the long run I 1 witnessed the celebration of the in ILA a large bowery I 1 heard as fine I 1 SAW gaw as fine a body of or people as I 1 desire to they had bad turned their bucko backs upon city life and were making new homes in this lovely valley and all felt happy over it so 80 much for the granger side of my story altory the rest pertains to the scenic and to another other part of tl ti e great interior west little known I 1 started for the lake country and found here in the teton basin that it was some sixty miles further to the eastward into ft country without a wagon road over ever a r range R n 9 e of moun mountains t ID a hard to securing the services of mr old murphy I 1 started he had been over 0 ver the part I 1 desired to visit our road followed trail creek to the sum rait feet one of the very worst t boada possible to got get over with a wagon the 1 last rat lull ull near the summit was 1200 feet in three quarters of a i buile tuile X tie millions of horse borse flies files bound abound also grand bodies of fine tiva timber beir GM game is plentiful up the canyon away from the road once at the summit the view reaches way away to a great ui stance to the east mt bonneville and Jack jacksons sonto hole as well as the south bouth fork of snake river are spread out almost at your feet from the summit down to fish greek creek the distance is ie about four miles very steep and sidling I 1 had bad to hang on to a pole to keep the wagon from upsetting for a long distance through the wet grass and weeds which drenched me to the skin an experience I 1 shall not forget very soon at fish creek a large camp of ban nock indians had been locate for a long time this means that the fish are ar cleaned out from the streams and tb the game either killed billed off or frightened away this I 1 found to be a fact all our oar efforts to capture the finny prizes were a failure until we reached a point beyond the line of their predatory rambles our road kuch as it war wap followed north and kept on the east side of the teton range As soon as we reached lake greek creek the three appeared more majestic thun than ever in fact the picturesque side of the range is the east one I 1 saw for the first time in america a glacier in a huge crevasse of the grand teton the trail keeps on the west side of the river and as soon as we had reached a point 20 miles north of our indian friend the game began to appear large herds of elk were standing in the water on the banks banka of snake river and grouts groups of antelope were visible all around us up while to my sur surprise and delight I 1 saw a fine specimen of a moose standing ina in a little lake here was indeed the sportsmans sports mans paradise here nature seemed supremely grand for no man lived near by to interfere with the four footed beauties that reveled in the grassy plains unmolested by the hunts mans rifle I 1 deplore the barbarity that seeks to destroy from off the earth such beautiful ful creatures and that wantonly shoots them down just for sport I 1 am proud of a government that has decided to preserve one part of our natural domain in all its primitive grandeur and where the wild animals that roam our plains may live unmolested through this wise policy the buffalo have increased from a small herd up to nearly other game also it is a 8 long weary pull of 85 35 miles from fish creek up to io jacksons lake so named after a government official who died here but bui the grandeur and sublimity of the mighty peaks and the placid lake make up for the long haul jacksons jackson a lake is formed by the snake river entering at one part and leaving it at another forming a beautiful sheet of water fifteen miles long and as an many broad in the widest part there are pretty islets here and there in the northern rn part and long promontories jutting into it on the western border are the grand peaks fore foremost being mt morao moran with its beautiful glacier and a vertical shaft of a dark colored rook above it th this Is side of the range is grand the other the reverse this is the artists side the western th the 0 granger gran gerle the elevation of jacif jacksons ions ion s lake jake is feet the height of the grand teton feet the lother peaks run between and the highest marking given some day thousands will look upon this scene a railroad will penetrate these wonderful regions then will the game depart as the iron horse puts in an appearance camped near near this lake the wild swans and cranes geese and ducks hold high carnival not a soul lives on the stretch from fish creek to the lake jake only on the northern banks a mr taylor lives with a squaw equaw wife in true mountaineer style the whole roadway is through a meadow of rich graes braes while timbered ridges fringe the steep mountain sides aides away to the east are fat valleys inviting thousands of settlers and but sparsely inhabit ea with cattle cattlemen and trappers who has ever heard of the big horn basin with its acres ot of tillable land at an elevation of feet that is found miles northeast of the jackson lake county and is as yet untouched by the feet of the settler this serves to show that there is fis room for millions yet in the vast basins that are now the best spots where the wild pame game abounds aud the appearance of 0 the country has but little changed all down the eastern slope of tha south fork beautiful valleys are found the famous jacksons hole being a deep warm valley covered with a rich growth of fine hay bay thousands of elk live in these rich valle valleys yr so much so that a stack of eighty tons that was put up in jacksons hole was consumed by them one very hard winter there are two other lakes smaller in size that are found south of jackson jacksone Jac keone Is notably jennies lake and lees lake the first is ie three miles long the other six these have their outlet in lake creek and receive the waters of the and other peaks having secured some souvenirs of the scenery and running short of provisions visions the retreat was made for the basin I 1 found the ascent of the teton pass more difficult from the east requiring four hours boura to climb two and a half miles but like all troubles the end came to the weary climb which will prove an inseparable barrier to the settling up of the south fork valleys unless a good wagon road is made over it it is talked of as the point over which thi the e burlington road will come in its western stretch but this is talk one thing is certain there are more natural advantages to help a road in the region described than was found on the union pacific it only needs a smal stretch of the imagination to see the valleys peopled with thousands who now need homes and who will be glad to seek them in so fertile a region before leaving the subject I 1 may say that there are two poet post offices in the basin Fox and haden that the greater part of the tillable land is in idaho and mountainous in wyoming very strict laws are enacted to prevent the shipment of lumber from one state to another none but actual settlers are allowed to kill the game at all seasons of the year if any of my readers want more room for their strength more inducements to better foundations for their large fa milies