Show BUSY LUND NEWSY NOTES FROM OUR DUB enterprising WEST BOUNTY NEIGHBOR jan 28 1916 john S 8 brown returned to faro fit wan several days ago after a few days with relatives and friends here DE D E wilcox agent for the S P L A as S L railroad has ban returned from st george where he was call ed as a witness warless in court H E spurgeon is the new manager for the bonneville lumber company at this place mr webb having returned to his home in el paso texas there were three more locations made here yesterday there are homesteads dotting this whole see sec tom tion of country and there are but few sections left to file upon ambrose paramore bart dalton and several other jhc sheep p men were I 1 in town the last few days they all 11 report the herds as doing well and are satisfied with the winter eath er the hotels have been doing a rushing business the past two weeks on account of heavy travel to salt lake city everybody is enjoying first class business principally on account of the many locators who believe in trading at home J J blunder gave a delightful party at the hotel root saturday evening to mr and mrs hayes hayea on their departure to their home in kansas the evening was filled with mil music and games gables and at 11 30 a delicious luncheon was main served on account of the snow and ram rain the mail trucks rocks are having much trouble to keep on schedule two men are required to each truck to dig their way out in many places buter but mr birton barton the contractor is doing everything possible to fid the contract with uncle sam bior mr WIllon williamh tax Tt representing presenting the united states government is 13 here to help not only the district but ill all southern utah in the extermination and control of the jack rabbit le ile will appear at the roundup at cedar city and will be glad to hear from the f farmers mers and everybody interested te in the the donadt ment abt of f the federal government which he represents is a anxious 0 u s to help us and it is very gratifying to see c the ill di farmers tak taking nig a 8 d deep cep inte interest t even beyond mr williams expectations he hai gaii spent several deanin in this work for the govern ment bert and is 13 an expert along this line jan 30 1916 rall rail a heat beat and e go got t a good start before winter inter bet in and we me should get an abundant harvest uncle billy sutherland was in lund yesterday fr from new cattle catle he is highly pled pleaded d over the outlook for crops the following J A paramore reports that sheep have fared very well to date but if the present weather continues there will ill be heavy loses the outlook for the sheep men is b fighter at present than it has ever been in so far as wool is concerned lea week 1916 wool was contract aLt ed at 28 cents cent dry farmers hereabout are join lent over the heavy and the fact that the snow is lying laying well ell sine since 1 christmas we have had from I 2 to 10 0 inches of snow on the ground continually attorney E H ryan of cedar city spent sunday in our lively town on his way home from beaver he is fighting a case of grip contracted while on his official trip during the het storm passenger and freight trains are running very irregularly both east and west since the heavy storms all railroads leading into loni lo 10 angels are out of commission and the eastern lines are suffering from the heaviest storms in years the times has made a wonderful impression here and every copy is eagerly sought for and read and ras rea read d by many people we intend making the times the paper that our west friends can tie to it will stand see ace high at all times and its news nen will be absolutely reliable there will be thirty families located here in the early spring and this number will about take all the remaining homesteads hereabout we are exceedingly fortunate in having havio an exceptionally high class clam of homesteaders in ste aders and look forward to much improved country in a very few ears we are gratified to hear from the sheep men that the settlers here offer the free grazing of their land that is not actually under cultivation this is as it should be for the sheep men have been here herd for many years and should we refuse them we coble almost put some of them out of business and at the same time come near ruining our own prospects the dry farmers and sheep men have every reason to pull together for without th on t t the h shearing h ramr and shipping and money spent fur groceries etc lund would lo 10 lose probably one half her business and nd business la in what we are after there la is plenty of loom for both farmers and sheep men the people of and lund have cause to rejoice over the de signs signaling t n g of the parowan carowan lund highway when the road is completed it will give a short route for our people to come to the county ive seat at and albo tend fund to have all pd passengers an and f freight re ight traffic stop atop here for the t transfer esfer points east and north the merchants of paran par an at present send much freight freigh tto to this point and with good roads will on solid all the freight here instead of sending a part to milford as has been the custom Undo undoubtedly the postoffice post office department will seethe see the advisability of sending all the mail by way of parowan carowan when once the road is completed this would mean much to the county and a great saving to the government lets leta all pull for a good road the parowan carowan people are tot not only interested in having this vad completed for their own benefit but or are anxious that it be made mad so a that the lund nada and intervening citizens may be directly benefited the carowan parowan people will do all in their power for the people of the debt end and are determined that they shall have st a short and good road to the county seat so let eat and feht end county cit citizens iLens pull together for a greater lion county ED |