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Show NEWS FROM RICH COUin . A Meeting at Randolph Takes stop 1. Ins; to the Formation of a Board of lirud . An enthusiastic meeting of the farmer-and farmer-and stock-growers bf Rich county was held at the county court liou.,e yesterday to di -cuss the advisability! if organizing a coiuj . board of trade orjsOTfl i. g iiiulii'nl protect the financial Interes t of the peoph I Rich county. Several good speeches w nl made showing the urgent necessity of su hi an organization, and quite a number ,ifl schemes were advanced and debated. rl discussing the subject for nearly three ho -1 the following named persons wen' appoinl J I to uran a constitution and by-laws: Win. Rex, A. W. Nebeker, J. M. Grant, G. W. Palmer and Ed. Bcnzley. The meeting then adjourned until March 5 at 12 o'clock. 1 ' a move In the right direction, and If pr erly organized and carried out will work a great amount of good to the producers . our county. Boar River valley is a good country j and is continually improving. The i i" draw hack Is the distance to market. Three years ago it was almost impossible to raise grain without being frost-bitten, bu. last year over fifty thousand bushels of a good as irrain as was produced In L'tah was raised in Randolph alone. T his year per haps double that amonnt will be raised, 'i n, changed condition of our climate Is some thing wonderful. The spirit t)f improvement is at wor) amongst the people as to a marked extent New- stores, comfortable dwellings, new school houses mostly built of brick, are be ing erected in the place of Hie old log hous ! which will shortly lie seen only as granerles I and stables. What we need most of all is a rallroi running through the valley which would I make this a desirable country to live in. The health of the people is excellent births are frequent, and death is almost a stranger. Randolph, Utah, Feb. 7, 1892. |