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Show NORTHERN UTAH. Finest Fainting Country Out of Poors. Harvesting Uirupyiug the Attention Atten-tion of the Grangers. Busy Scenes in the (JraUi Fields of the North. franklin and tho Montana Trutfo Ilopprrs iu .MjrladM, with l'rustctH of JUore Urlifliuiu City null Corluoc, Salt Lake City, Aug. 13, 1S76. A trip through tho northern country coun-try at this time of the year will amply repay any one in plo&iure of eight-seeing eight-seeing and agreeable changes. So I thought on Tuesday, when I took advantage ad-vantage of the chance ottered by the excursion to Franklin, Idaho, The company numbered altogether about 450, and an agreeable lot they wore,, too. . I Riding up through the counties and Dast the settlements of Davis, Wubor and Box Elder, the view on either side of the track was gratifying in the highest dt'gree. Harvesting was he gun and the farm hands were cut in lull force, mowing, raking, binding and loading their crops of grain, acres and acres of which wore ripe and yellow mid bespoke rich reward for the granger's toil. Passing over the divide and entar-ing entar-ing Cache valley, the panorama which spreads out before the traveler's eye as the run is made from the Summit Sum-mit to Mendon is indeed a grand one. On the east side of tho vale of Cche lrom the extreme south to as far uorlh as the eye can discern is one VKSt patchwork of green and yellow fluids, with the settlements at convenient con-venient distances, snug-like aud cosy, like so many nusts. Tne back-ground of majestic mountains, turning into the blue sky, lends much enchantment to the view and wuuld be a fat feast for romance write iu drawing inspiration from. The eve could not weary of the foreground of this lovely landscape, with iis grain fields, hay lands and pastures of irregular ir-regular fcquarps, dotted here and there with wheat kbeavts and hay cocks, and Bpeckled profusely with horses, cows and oxen, grazing and fattening upon some of tim richest meadows in the mountains. Down, along tho western foot-hills of the valley, over thousands of acres of good-looking land, the train is pulled up at Mcudon. The residents of this thriving little village have h choice spot of country, and appear to be taking advantage of their situation by cultivating every acre in the im mediate vicinity, and a heavy harvest will be the result of the summer's work. US again, leaving Weilsville, Hy-rum, Hy-rum, Providence and Millville to the iij;bt, across the bottoms aud over the Bear, tne little narrow-guue eu-gino eu-gino Frunklm snorts and pu f Is, and I in good lime whisiles at L'gan.j Hero life, thrift and business are to' be seen on all sides, and from all in-1 dicalious the citizens ot this northern i metropolis are destined to become 1 wealthy and independent, if hard work and Btrict attention to business will secure se-cure them thesij desirable results. Evidence of thrilt and industry were visible at every turn. Teams were being driven hither and yon at various rates of speed, hitctiod to wagons, running gears, reapers or mowers; some going out into the adjacent fields, others turning to the stackyards laden with food for the threshing machines or hay for wintering win-tering stock; all deing something and suggesting that if EOme of the iile workmen of Suit Lake city and neighborhood could be induced to go up and help them, the benefits they would derive therefrom would be manifold. Many fine buildings in i Logan speak loudly in praise ol the ( enterprise of the citizens and are -monuments of which they can boast and feel proud, limber is plentiful close by; one would think so, at least, to see the stacks of railroad ties jn the railroad ground there. There seem to be ties enough to lay filty or sixty miles of track, and when the continuation of the U. N. R. R. is begun, tie-furnishing will not hinder its rapid construction. Leaving Cache valley's capital wo pass Hyde Park, Richmond and Smithfield, at each of which places the same evidences of bustle and busy life attract the attention of the traveler as mark the settlements left behind. We finally arrived at Franklin. Frank-lin. This town is about a mile over the line dividing Idaho from Utah, and is the present terminus of the Utah Northern railroad. The place itself has nothing of interest in it just now. It is a deserted-looking, forsaken, dull village, wnich has seen better times, and, if I mistake not and the indications are not deceptive, will see them ai;ain. It has the triple advantage of a good location, the railroad rail-road from the south and a stage liue to the north, to suggest this prophetic remark. And another thing, which I consider as indicative of future importance im-portance to Franklin, is tho growing interest in the Montana trade. Mr. J. A. Leggat of Grand Haven, Michigan, stopped at the Lewis house on Tuesday night, and left on the northern stage Wednesday morning. This gentleman is one of a number of Michigan capitalists, who are heavily iniereted in Montana mines, and he was making his first trip into that territory since becoming so interested in-terested some ten years ago, for the purpose of making arrangements and terms for the conveying of immense shipments of ores from the north to Franklin. He appeared confident of success in perfecting his plans for this new lino of transportation, and of being able thereby to bring his ores at low freight rates to the market here and realize a margin from their tale. This done, and the prosperity of this little town will increase, as ono thing will bring on another, and trade, traffic and thrift will once more it the significance it had a few years ago. Its stores will be refilled with merchandise; mer-chandise; iu people will have a ready market for their products, and their real citato will be "some sort o' " valuable. Tho Lewis house at this pUice is as comfortable, clean and well provided as any hotel outside the capital, cap-ital, and the charges are very reasonable. reason-able. Nothing noteworthy happened on the return ride until the ascent from Mendon lo tho divide was being made. When within three or four miles from the top I noticed a lot of grasshoppers flying about, and as the train moved on they came thicker and taster and a glance upward re-i vealed them in myraids makint; a straight shoot for the corn fields of Cache. Nor were we shut of these disagreeable objects during the whole distance from there to Call's fort, a few miles north of Brig-ham Brig-ham city, and on ft strut ch of about , two mile before coming to Call' fort they were as numerous as I ever saw them during their visitations from 'tiS to 72. This was a most grievous ' spectacle, fur, reflection on the ravages rav-ages of these pests in past years, begat sorrow lor tint residents of this thriving thriv-ing section, became, if they do not detitr y tho corn and uats, which are vet unmatured, they will doubtless uUy around and lay their eggs and do incalculable damage next year. Tlio puople told mo the ironclads hud come from Malad, where tho crops had suffered considerably from their appetites. And now for a suggestion to the grangers: Take this grasshopper warning, and "pre-paro "pre-paro for war in time of peaco," by garnering your grain; take care of it, for your stores may be limited toward tho harvesting season of next year. At Hrigham city tho folks were moving along in tiioir b toady, old-fashioned old-fashioned way. Tho factory was running run-ning with a full set of hands, and turning out good cloth in largo quantities. quan-tities. A forco of men had coru-uieuced coru-uieuced work on tho tabernacle, the foundation of which has been down Muvoral years, and were raising it to the proper level with red and white bricks. It will be a handsome building build-ing when completed. Announcements Announce-ments posted around the town gave out that tho Brigham City dramatic association would play on Saturday night "The Brokeu Sword" and the "The Two Polls." The new social hall at this place is nearly finished and is a very tine structure. A trip over to Corinno aud a walk through its streets, ehowed that place to bo a dead city indeed. Tho trade has diminished and dwindled down to nothing, and idlers are plentiful. Tho freighting business to Montana, which once did a good thing for Corinno, doesn't amount to one quarter its extensiveuess a few years sgo. Between Corinno and Portage, ((-altered all over tho hills iu thul vicinity are three immense herds of sheep, to sett which would sot at rest tiny doubts a person might have as to th wool crop. And these herds are hut a small fraction of the sheep numbers of the territory. Tho sudden change in the atmosphere atmos-phere of Tuesday and Wednesday was remarkable, even in the extreme northern parts of the territory. The wind blew a hurricane on Tuesday night, aud early Wednesday the thermometer ther-mometer was down below 40. Vines were frozen and injured in many places on Wednesday night. J. E. E. |