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Show From Salt Lake lo Jlorpin. Willie we hear so much talk about the boom and business development, devel-opment, and the diverting of trade toSaltI.akeClty.lt seems strange that men of public spirit have not looked to the opening of a road connecting con-necting Morgan with Salt Lake. For years Uib project Ins been ', talked of, hut lias ceased with the wordy effort. Hy the opening of thb road the brgestpsrtofthe trade of Morgan County would be turned toward Salt Lake, whereas it now goeacli-whete. goeacli-whete. A good road now runs up City Creek canyon the greater (or-tiotiof (or-tiotiof the way to Uie summit, so that a considerable amount of labor would not be needed on that side. Tlie main task would be at the head of Hardscrablde canyon on tlibslde. That would lie an easy matter, and the work could be made wiUi plou and scnter. The outside rot to the two counties would le $X00"1. rhe timber alone, which ewiM Is-reached Is-reached on the Morgan side, would ay for the road. Thousands of loadsarcuow lying on the ground, rotting. To Uie merchauts of Salt Lake tiie trade of Morgan County b worth a great deal enough to pa for the unking and ke-eiu(; in repair re-pair of n good wagon road. Small fruits Uirive In Monran County and are two to thtvo week later than Iu Salt inke Valley. The strawberries are of better tlavu-linn tlavu-linn in tlie lower valleys. Gooseberries Goose-berries currants an 1 raspberries do well, and vegetables are abundant. A road up City Creek and down HarJscrabUleCanjon would pbee east and west Portervlllc within twenty miters of Salt Lake City, and Morgan City within twenty -3 vein ve-in lies. Tiius by a three lsour- drive the people of Morgan could reach Salt Lake if thb road were constructed. Soaking showers have visited Morgan County during the a-t week, Injuring the cut hay, and causing much of the grain to fall. Abetter harvest lias uot greeted the farmers of this region for years. The priurlial of Morgan Stake Academy, Prof. Tob-tniis and l.b lip)ls gave a most successful musl-e-il entertainment iu Morgan oil Uie cve-nimrof the lath. The little war J of Kntcrrielio- to come to the front now. For years the residents there have suffered from au iusuMiciciil water supply. Last April they started upon the construction of a new ditch higher iijipti Uie bench. Tills is called the huterprbe lh-isrh Irrigitiou com-any. com-any. The ditch is seven miles iu length and w as coniplelesl oil June Till, at a cost of over $2,lsl. Thb new ditch will help the cople of 1-iiterprbe. I. G. R. Momia.n City, Aug. H, ISW. |