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Show Emery County. Items of Interest from our Neighbors On the East. The Latest Storms, and Items of News from tJoose Creek, Idaho. Feb. 16, 1891. From nur Rcj.Iur Corretpundant. Bitteily cold. A good school is iu a flourishing condition con-dition at Cleveland. Colds, prevalent with change of weather, weath-er, no serious diseases; Cleveland reservoirs supply the water for domestic use through the winter. A mining District formed, called, "Huntington Mining Distinct," accrding toall Law recjuiiements. One death in Huntington in the last three months, aniona a population of eight hundred and fifty: The enterprising inhabitants of Cleveland, Cleve-land, have established a Cp-op with commendable zeal, also.a millinery shop and store combined. App arances indicate great improvement improve-ment here, nutters adjusting themselves in the 1 -jht of as?ei'taiued facts, relative to the we.'ihh of thU part of mineral Utah, Emery County. Diplheiia has nude its appearance at Pre- twenty miles away; it is hoped that it will not make its way hithur.some i f the people are I.kely to feel the eflects of the last visitation the remainder of their livs. its details are sorrowful in theexireme, wherever its vials of wrath are poured. One week of blight clear weather, growing milder, and again the Storm king resumes is Way the Valentines Eve, clouding up, the warning of the tiiltecntli slight, snowfall, settiing to steadfquirt business at eight.about four inches on the level only, dee; est here this season. Mountains white, from bone to summit. The storm croEsiun the Missoppi Vil-ley, Vil-ley, spent its furycin, and through, me Rocky Mountains: ihe sixth, the elements gathered their forces, and over the range above Huntington, made an in-teiestmg in-teiestmg display of fuiiousiy squally snowfall; suddenly liltinj, the clouds, breaking awav over t he clifl's, golden streaks ol sm. shine appear, gl ding here and there, but, dashing ai d whirling with the fury ol the gale, return, setting down as it deteimined to cover tve.-v week and craning every hill aud hollow wiih the needed store lor summer consumption; only however, a slight fail in the valley, though deeper in the mountains, of a veiy bright texture ending with a blizzard of twenty-four h-'tirs duration, clearing, rolling the clouds away ovir the souther ; hills and tei riced chlis. Goose creek, idaho A correspondent to Huntington from Gtoie Creek, Idahotates they were having hav-ing the first w inttrtheie, snowing heavi ly,"Feb. 1st. The new Church Academy fininshed for school tiiis winters a ccreditable building, New Co-op Store ol white or greyish white gian'te finished last Fall merchandise removed from the old to the new building; the old, now used for District school; The Go-up, under the management of Mr, lames Stoddaid, a gentleman of fine merchantile ability, is thriving; .Enterprise, not altogether dampened by the disabilities imposed on the Mormons though, they are a law ab d.ng, thrifty, predominating number uf Idaho's Citizens; The water question has caused the people of this region, some troubled, and troubled their pockets pock-ets some sixteen or eighteen thousand dollars, in ready monev, paid to secure water sufficient for the.r wide spreading gardens, and fields, but in spite of this perplexing thing, fine orchards, groves, and shade trees are seen clustering round homelike, comfortable dwellings here and there w th targe fields of alfalfa or lucern, and por ge plants, and meadow grasses. Birch Creek, a small stream ol soft water flows into the town from the southeast, is under their con-trole con-trole entirely, but serves only to water a few acres of city lots; no timber of any size, growing on, or near this stream; black Alder, Biich, and s.itne species of the willow family, not much above ordi-naay ordi-naay Goose Creek, the main stream, flowing in from the southeast, is a large beautiful clear soft stream, abounding in fish; some very fine residences adorne the val ey, which is near one hundred miles long, varying in width from five to forty miles; the small but thriving village of Marion, lies three miles from Oakley, in the little basin due east from Oakley, doing well, in a northwesterly direction. Large ranches up and down the Valley, are supplied with water from Springs in the eastern range of mountains, sufficient, unless a season of unusual drowth occurs, when water is hauled from the mountain side, as it sinks in the sand.and dry desert land it must cross on its way to the lower level. Veg'tation grows luxuriantly here making from five to ten feet in one season, sea-son, iu the growth of young trees of all kinds; 110 coal mines discovered in th s locality yet. wood not as plentiful near by, as in manv other places, timbers at a distance of, from ten to twenty miles from the town; plenty ol game abounds, deer and antelope, good winter range within reach The people preseivering and eneigetic. A. B. S. |