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Show MAKING NEW HOMES Northern Utah is fast increasing in population. Every year witnesses marked changes in this respect. Cities and villages become more densely populated; and waste and lonely places become settled and improved. These additions are made by the constant stream of immigration flowing here from other nations, and by the rapid growth of resident families. With such increases come the desire and apparent necessity to enlarge the feld [field?] of settlement. Every man feels that he must have a home; and this honorable and independent sentiment leads him to seek a locality where the advantages of water, soil, climate and extended country are possessed. It is not enough that he can secure a small farm in some settled section, but he must make for himself a home where there are few to crowd him into any given space. As proof of this, many of the new comers, as well as old settlers, are making their way northward, beyond the fertile valley of northern Utah and southern Idaho, and are seeking to establish themselves at very distant points - in the Snake river country and other places. The true wisdom of such a course may be questioned, although it is certainly right and proper for every farmer to have all the land which he can manage creditably and profitably, and to which he can get a sufficient title. But at present, in order to accomplish these objects, there seems but little need for our people to go beyond the confines of civilization. Within easy reach of Logan and the larger towns of the north, there is an abundance of good, available land, which can be easily secured by honest settlers. The regions of the Cub river and the Portneuf, and the Pound and Mound vallies [valleys], offer a promising field for people who desire to make homes there. Already numerous settlements have been made, and the country bids fair to soon become rich and prosperous. There is no necessity for a farmer, who has no resources except the labor of himself and family, to occupy a whole section or even a quarter section of land. Indeed, the whole experience of settlers in this country has been that greater profit is obtained by carefully cultivating a small field than by half neglecting a larger one. The man who has more acres than he can care for, is in reality "land-poor;" and the very extent of his possessions ?ed while in [unreadable line] ??? [Break] salaries are very low in Germany compared with those in England. The entire salary of the Imperial Chancellor, Prince Bismark, from all sources both as Prussiona Minister ????? [BREAK] prosperity of the ???? would be enhanced by settling it more thickly. The country far away in the north may be as rich as represented, but we are inclined to doubt on that subject. Campbell said: "Why for those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? ‘Tis distance lends enchantment to the view. And robes the mountain in its azure hue." |