Show Blake City and Vicinity BLAKE CITY Green River January 3 188J Fdilors Herald This place was first settled in and located by Mr Thomas Farrer and sons this being one year ago and iD the course of time it promises 10 grow into a flourishing agricultural reeisn i It has an illimitable Iupplv of water any amount of timber and the climate is warm and pleasant In I addition to this we have coal fields i i abundance right by us which are aus ceptible of ready access We are located on the river and tbera is i timber enough growing on its banks right hero to fence in all the lam that will be taken up The stretch of hnd on which Blake City has been settled extends about ten miles up an1 down tha river nnd a canal can be taken out at almost any point on either aide for conveying irrigating irrigat-ing water Up to December 24th we had no snow to speak of and it had rained the wed previous eonsid erably giving evidence of a mildnea of climate A etna has already been starlet on the west eide of tbo river and little i any trouble will be experienced experi-enced in getting water out as there is i 5 natural by I of boulders across the river at the head of the caml which serves as a dam and there ia no langerof its ever being washed out I will irrigate a very large scope of country for farming purposes Meaars Welsh and Wolfe arc busily engaged building and preparing to run a ferry boat which will be pun pu-n operation this season They have a wire rope here in readiness to stretch across tbe river when the ferry shall be ready for work JTF |