Show more about bingham co editor CLIPPER according to lo promise I 1 will continue my account of Bing liani county the altitude of 0 lona iono is feet this valley is under climatic influence of the pacific ocean and japan current which accounts for our warm warin chebook winds during the latter part of winter and spring 0 time lime this climate is 8 subject to no pro prevailing availing diseases people who may come here that have co contracted consumption bronchitis ca tarrah and other like diseases will be benefited ted but such diseases are never cene generated rated in this climate cyclones Cyclone sl sunstrokes sun strokes and hydrophobia are arc unknown occurrences is the ruling rilling curren ces here sunshine weather with an average of dayson days of beautiful sunshine summers are pleasant with CO cool ol 01 nights and no do days but what the farmer can persue his work uninterrupted by heat beat felt by himself or injury to and discomfort to his teams fall weather is particularly bountiful with its sunshine and pleasant lays days which continue until after afler the holidays giving tile tho farmer all needed opportunity to gather in and care for their crops irrigating CANALS the first canal for irrigating in this section of country was commenced in 1879 by anderson brothers merchants but after fell in ill to the hands of a few dete determined farmers lino anon iiii as engle eagle rock bock willow creek witter water co the canal is thirty feet wide on the bottom and averages five feet deep has a grade of seven feet to the mile the promoters of this enterprise lad had a hard struggle in the but perseverance and hard word has developed this canal about fifty miles in length and it now pays a hansom profit to its owners and furnishes cheap and plenty of water to the farmers who own the canal since the beginning beg ining of work on this canal many others have been constructed ted in this county upwards of thirty differ different ent canals fro from m ten to fifty miles long and some will soon be extended to miles in length I 1 completed amborg the many I 1 will mention a few names eagle rock willow creek cedar hollow foot hills the great western farmers friend burges slew harrison arrison II rigby Lewis lewisville ville and st anthy these canals will irrigate all the way from to acres of land there is not a place in the western world where the possibilities ties of farming are arc better belter than in the lie t snake river eiver valley these statements are not flights of imagination but as real as the snake river kivch MORE ANNON like most of the other places the weather is cold and dry city spring crops are corning coming along slowly the health of the people is good E migrants emigrants are coming in daily farmers who have proved up on their farms aie sell selling tig part of their farms in accordance with counsel to divide up among the latest arrivals we notice nolice wm win atkinson of bountiful Ili ats right send them along we can make room for many more such men inducements will be given to a good music teacher at luna correspond with the writer A AW W BEACH IONA IOKA IDAHO june ath 1893 |