Show Wood River The Wood River country is said toe to-e one of the fineEt regions onthis coast that remains unsettled There are 40000 acres of agricultural lands surveyed now awaiting the husband mand energy to make i an Eden Contiguous to these valleys there is an unlimited stock range with plenty of cottonwood along the streama for fuel and fencing and in the near mountains there is an abundance abun-dance of pine and fir suitiblu for lumbering purposes The climate is extremely mild adapted to the prc duction of all the cereals and vegetables that are cultivated in the temperate zone The market is one of the best There are also in the adjacent mountain vast fields of argentiferous sulphurets of galena A number of these lodes or belts have this season been discovered and prospecting peeling will be carried on extensively next eeason Wood River is on the line of the Utah and Northern There are already ten or twelve farms located and i is cafe to say in the spring of 1880 the whole valley will be occupied The great difficulty heretofore that prevented the settlement of this country coun-try was the hostile Bannocks claimed i as their reservation But the late Bannock war settled the difficulty in favor of the whites |