Show BEAU LAKE rI I M t D A DiscanrsB on the Hard Winter BEAR LAKE VALLEY April 28th 1880 5 Edilota Herald Ai I have not seen a single litter in the HERALD this winter horn this farad far-ad country I suppose many of our southern friends think we hare all frozen to death during the past winter win-ter Past did I eay Past for you no doubt but present with us TDM however must ba kept secret as it might tend to keep a number o settlers away from hero who contemplate contem-plate coining toil tbua spoil a number num-ber of prospective gcoJ trades for present settlers vho iut ° ud going a little farther Eoulh not that they are dissatisfied with the ountry far tram it They simply move Iwny to make room for other wlo need gccd homes I worse than they do Pure philan tropy Nothing else The country up here in full ot mm vho will givea isoutherner Ii gout trade for nj homestEad It < aaiot be denied tint niter hl tee I u lulu severe this time Snow began falling eaily latt l 2rll EO that those who went to conference last October found it rather hard to get home and it ha kept comin ever since AVtiet litre was none in tio t tr it wouhl liLn from all the uiountaii e The fence poets began tj lolo clumpy in JBuunry ill Fetruiuy the fences hid under to snow You might drive for I miles in whet used to be a lane null i not tee u toiitary post In March we I felt as thuugh uu could turn our Ii cattle out and BO we might to die I The wind thittnl to the south I I now you will ceo the snow go i mid come but ve dd no i It kept bljwms till it neat I I the mercury down to 30 ° below zero I i 1 Many of oar cnttFo went lower than thai EO low indeed tint tney never got up again Feed by this time began to get bCirce and those few rtobecaulitcamg man who had t ecu baviuj hay dint u the last i three or four year began Ii harvest of S greenbacks tihcr and gol i not to II I mention calves yearlings cud othor thiugs that like rut skins arc easily I converted into ltgai tender in this country I I Not o few trusting to an early I spring anti aLXicus to allow in tuo I spoil of tho welltcxJo ones solJ their II I feed and baa since bad 10 see their own sunk slated Not BO with the I long headed few they never ran ehort and when the buyers swore I I they would never ba caught in that SI I snap again the seller would pocket filthy lucre with u quiet grit I saying plainly I have heard many I say EO before you Call again The interesting letters of C H Savage of All the way to Tucson will m no way distoarageiouie of our settlers from trying to plant themselves them-selves in the counlry where mercury in midsummer rarely falls below 100 indeed I believe the higher he temperature the more would want to go Many think they have frozen I = 0 much this winter that nothing less ban such a climate can tuaw them ut Their ideal country is tx place where roees bloom the year around where rattlesnakes can be eoa backing in the sun from January till December where hzzards turn their feet to tho sun to cool them and where above all frozen noses are neither seen nor felt Still Bear Laka Valley is not a bad I place to live in bu there are come hero like these Mr S found in the Orange Country who are dissatisfied dis-satisfied and do not know when they are well off That cattle should die for want of feed in many places as the lait winter has no doubt been unavoidable but hero in Bear Lako Valley I fear all or nearly all can be traced to indifference or at least want of thought and care Hard winters here have boen the rule all ezpecteJ to feed about five months but the ret three winters stock nas I wintered out Peoplo put up leas hay and in many instances what was put up was spoiled for want of proper care where it was not fed out All used to pray for lighter winters Well they have bad them and found that the hard winters ate the blessing of this country and not the curie The idea of making hay here by any effort except cutting and stacking has entered but few headeor if it has it has Boldom found its way to the muscles and sinews Last fall when al were crying out for want of more hay thousands of acres of land produced nothing for want of water while large streams were running pact or through it that a little labor in the ehape of a dam would have turned on but none or few thought tilt it j it i was too late Now they will do it but there will be no necessity thu year as there is plenty snowwhicb I cannot help making hay plenty ou S all tho bottom land This may bo o I bd country but by wlul we hear from other places I believe we ere I rather a little better off Loan ingot places in the mountains and wben I we think that all of our stock might lJao been saved by a little forethought fore-thought it hurts F L r S |