Show KM P. FOLSOM BACK FROM Oil Salt Laker Talks Interest mgly of Conditions m the Alberta District Hav ng -just returned from a tr p into Canada Hyrum P Folsom of 5o3 South Third East street says that the region surrounding Cardston 4-lberta is one of the most prosperous he ever saw and that the new temple be ng erected there by the Mormon church is be ng built of gran te rock s m lar to that used n the Salt Lake temple Mr Folsoui was one of a party of probably "oO- excursionists who went from Utah to Canada and" speal ng last n ght of h s exper ences there he sa d Wh le we were there the people held a d str ct fa r and at that expos t on was seen a d splay of local products which speaks well of the possib 1 ties of the co ntry The farmers there hold anywhere from 150 to "00 acres of gro nd each the country be ng roll ng and cult rated without irr gat on They have a fox farm near Card Bton wh ch proved to oe qu te a novelty to me Nearly all the bus ness men of Cardston and c n ty are interested m it Here are reared foxes m a corral of about two acres wh ch s properly fenced ftnd underla d with w re nett ng about two feet beneath the sur face of the ground to pre ent the foxes from escap ng They make qu te an ndustry qf th s fox farm There was cons derable talk of war wh le I ivas there b t the go ernment had announced that it would accept for service Qnly s n gle men and such married n en as were known to have no ch ldren Much of the business there is done largely as t used to be done here in the old da-j s on cred t un 1 1 farm prod cts are reaped at the end of the season or by trad ng among producers and all seemed to be prosperous Among the old Utah fr ends whom I sa v at Cardston were my son Boy L Folsom my brother H nman and my brother n law Irank Broadbent The foundat on of tho Cardston temple is be ng la d m re nforced concrete wh le the superstructure is to be of "ran te s m lar to that used m the Salt Lake temple and wh ch is found n quarr es with n fifty m les of the town of Card ston The temple is to s t on a si ght elevat on and I have no doubt that it will piove to be an impressn e ed f ce when it is f n ished It will cost approx mately $250 000 One of the big pieces of con struct pn is the railway bridge go ing into Lethbr dge wh eh is 307 feet h "h and more than a m le long The people of Lethbr dge and Eaymond enioy such public improvements as waterworks elec tr e I guts and paed s dewalks |