Show Bear River Utah Alvin M. West Compares It to Other Locations The following letter published in Tremonton Times from Alvin M. West should be carefully read by West is a well posted and a thoroughly reliable real estate He has probably brought more and a better class of people to Utah than any other West has no use for Jack Knife philosopher or the real estate pirate or the chronic Tremonton has a few of the hotel keeper is a fair June Dear I am glad to note in the Times that you have been on a trip outside of Utah to investigate the value and prices of- land As' you are I spend most of my time m other and therefore appreciate the opportunities in the Bear River Valley more than any of those who stay I am certain that the opportunities are far better for making money in the B. R. V. than in either of the great valleys of California Sacramento or San where they have hot nights' and get chuck full of The climate of the coast valleys is fine except for the eure of but the prices of land and water are so high there that it is impossible to make interest on the and a large number of the people who reside in those coast towns pay their bills from investments Utah The California orchard which I sold two years ago cost an acre annually for and an ample water about one-fourth trie amount used in the B. R. would be hard to find in any of those coast valleys for an In the new reservoir systems of the coast valleys the water charge for a ply to the four crops of alfalfa that win 6 will cost more than the price Ho lieve that- any- good with a sufficient water 8 be purchased near a any of these valleys for F Alfalfa and Butter I I may remark while on this that alfalfa will being average price of a ton in B. R. V. when the dairy bus Jf shall be developed there as it J be when there are more people that valley who are not afraid W milk cows and who will keep good stock and give them the as prescribed at the It is a reflection on faff intelligence and industry of faff farmers of Utah that so poultry and eggs Jy shipped into and through from states east of the Mountains while many of tho same Utah farmers are ing about mortgages and ing the quickest means lifting the mortgage besides the land by removing and the hay the A Forty Acre there will be many Kr in that valley a few who get rich on a forty acre there will he less heard and the owners of farms will be able to spend me few months of the year In Angeles climate for most tie rear is more enjoyable in R. V. as I know by I Utah Von observe that are practising what I as sold our California chard ami have invested the in a Utah apple cj if I should state the value we expect that orchard to ive in fen you would link me quite and neighbors who have not been to see what prices similar ds are bringing elsewhere consider me ready for into the Ananias My Idd to this suggestion would be I prefer membership in that rather than in the Tremont Knockers Having made a personal investigation of nearly every irrigated when traveling correspondent of the Irrigation and having kept posted in regard to those valleys either by visits or correspondence I believe that I have good reason for the hope that is within me and an abiding that the future will vindicate the B. R. V. booster rather than the Knockers and I have tracked Knocker and Kicker from the valleys of Ohio to those of and while they have sung their songs of the booster owns the automobile and will pay taxes to support the other fellows on the county farm or in the where they usually find their sooner or These fellows are just as necessary as the to the happiness of the booster and the as one feels so happy after the serenade is over and the smile of the appears in I prefer paying ray share of the fax to send them where they can be herded together than to meet them too Canon This Canon is located in the Arkansas valley within walking distance of the famous Royal and is for some reasons the finest colony in the entire valley as I have seen it through Oklahoma and the state of The climate and scenery here are not equaled in many places in United and are so easily and cheaply reached from the centers of population that when these advantages are more widely known the apple orchard here will vanish like the orange groves of Pasadena as the rich men of the east will want them for homes and No first class apple orchard can be purchased here now for an if owned by a rich and the cost of buildings must be added to this This notwithstanding the fact that the apple crop lias almost been a failure for the last three Tourists Some day a few enterprising men will become interested in this place and advertise it extensively as a resort and Canon City will become famous for its tourist crop rather its apple Bear River The present price of land in the Hear River Valley will double in value just as soon as the farms arc reduced to a basis of 40 acres and a better class of farming is practised there ns to drainage and but not the Knockers arc sent to the rear and the boosters and workers sit on the front seat and greet the stranger as a few people in the Bear River valley have done in Peaches and It may he interesting to you to know that bearing peach orchards without buildings have sold for more than two thousand dollars an acre at Palisades and I do not believe that the orchards at either place bear any more peaches or better ones than the orchards of Brigham City These like the best ones of usually require thinning every year so that all arc large and bring the top of the as the Brigham peaches did not do last It is only in the years that the fruit crop is very short that it pays to ship poor fruit of any The freight costs the same for poor quality as for the so that the profit is for only raising the best which Colorado shippers admit they can do if they will attend to the Freight I believe that freight rates are the same from the peach districts of Colorado to the eastern markets as from Los Angeles should take a few loads of Utah peaches every as they are superior to their own peaches and ripen after the California peaches are all Only those picked by experts should be sent to that as they will not tolerate a box with poor fruit in the Visitors I you will induce many of your neighbors to vist other localities where the boosters dwell and that this class will soon be so large in the Bear River valley the other class will be ashamed to show their faces when the stranger enters our beautiful and fertile Very truly Alvau M. Franklin's mother-in-law hesitated at letting her daughter marry a as there were then already two printing offices in the United and she was uncertain whether the country would support a |