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Show BEAR LAKE. A Goud Clnoca fur Ye Idle Ones. Sr. Charles, Bear Lake Co., Idaho, .Uy 21, 188. Editors Herald: I have had an excellent opportunity oppor-tunity to visit noany every settlement in the church slake from Woodruff to Soda Springs, aud bave badtqual opportunities tor talking with the bishops and the people, both in public pub-lic and in private. The prevailing wish iB lor new settlers to come here and help to develop the resources of these valleys. It is really sad to see so much grass, such quantities of water, aud so many acres upon acreB of land wasting and remaining idle, while hundreds of persons in Salt Lake city and other places are living from hand to mouth; others, too, are quarreling about water rights, while here it flows in abundance, as froe as the mountain air, aud courting use. A great amount of grain has been put in this Bpring in thia valley and places adjacent. So far, the grain looks well, and everything has been refreshed by a finq, sleady lain of twenty-four lujiira' duration. The olimate nere has moderated considerably con-siderably from what it waa a lew years ago; and as the country gradually settles up and improve ments are prosecuted, I beilevo it will continue to moderate. Of oourse tbe country baa its disadvantages, but I believe the truth of the poet'B saying can be realized in this mountain moun-tain region: "A man is a man if he's willing to toil." The meeting houses here as a rule are also good buildings. On tbe 13lh inat., in company with President C. C. Rich and Bishops Hheets and Puguiire, I visited tbe church held urounda On our way thither we called at three cheese factories, one of which U owned by tbe Paris coop, and which I would term a model factory. Perhaps 1,000 pounds of cheese ia produced here every week and it ia certainly good enough for anybody to eat. It speaUs unusually well for the coop and also for Mr. ThomaB Pasaey, who has oha.go of the factory. Nor are the surrounding factories 80 far behind. This is truly a butter and cheese country, and ihojsauds of pounds of these articles are lost here yearly through lack of persons to cultivate the soil and cows to consume tbe grass. A, G. |