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Show STILL TRAVELING. tldcr AuJrew Jcnvon's Trip Turou:u Bingham County, Idaho. roCATFioo, Bingham County, Idaho, June 'J, 1S9J. (Correspondent-oof tho DturriEr News. The Bannock Stake of ZIon embraces' all tho SaluU living in Bingham County, Idaho, north ot the forty -third parallel of north latitude, and also n few sea1 tercel families in Al. turas County, wiiich lies Immediately Immedi-ately west of Bingham County. East thu SUko extends to the Wyoming and north to tho Montana Mon-tana boundary line. Willi the ex ception of about sixty families who reside iu the Teton Basin, thu bulk of tho Saints dwell In tlie great fcnaku River Valley, the scttlc-meiiLs scttlc-meiiLs being scattered for a di-tancu of about ninety imlesupand down tliumaiii river and its several folks and tributaries'. The south fork or maiu branch of Snake River which near Market I.ake suddenly changes IN courco from a northwesterly northwest-erly to a southwesterly direction makes a natural division of the boutli and north settlement?, and there Is uodcubt but that the Bannock Ban-nock Stake at some future Jay, when the populatiou iucrcasus more, will be divided into two or more Stakes. The country being ojeit fur hundreds of miles westward, heavy wind", which no doubt originate on thu I'acillcCoast, frequently sweep through the valley from southwest to northeast. Thus wo find In tho Tav lor Ward, south-c-a-t of Euglu Rock, a long row of sandhills which are continually, traveling northward with the wiud leaving small saud knolls in its wake. These finally become stationary sta-tionary through btlug overgrown by vegetation, while the great bulk of the saud masses is shut ly working work-ing its way further and further north, and w ill p-rbajM eventually be arrested in its march by the river and carried by it In the opposite direction di-rection toward the Pacific. On the south side of thu South Fork and on the ca't side of the Snake River proper ( i. e. the river below the forks) there are, within thu limits of thu Bannock btake, nine organized wards of the Church, . namely Menan and LabelK (M, Poole's Island, already decrlled), and Lou'sville, Illjliy, Willow Creek, lorn, Lagle Rock, Taylor and Basalt. Louisville Ward embraces 11 Iirgu scope of ceiiiitry lying south of the "Dry Be-d" and east of the main channel of Snake River. The tovvnslte. containing .".20 acres, is situated iu the center of a line form lug district, and bids fair to become an Inqortaut town at some future day, wheti the country shall have been filled with inhabitant. Bishop Richard F. Jardiue, one rf the founders of the place, resides lien Louisville Is liflc-en miles north of Eagle Rock. Market Like Station would bo a much nearer railway joint, but tho river makes direct communication with that placv lm po"sIble. Swuiheast of Louisville lies tho Righy Ward, so named 1 11 honor of W illiuni F. Itlgby, first counselor counsel-or in thu Make Presidency. Thin ward contains only ahaut thirty families, Including thu Cedars Branch, lying toward the mountains moun-tains east, and near the mouth of the Loner Snake River Canyon The tow nsite of Rigby, containing 160 acres, Is so far nearly unoccupied, unoccu-pied, but the people intcud to build on it as soon as they have proved up on their lauds. Righy is, as yrt, a vast sagebrush plain, with here and there a few acres under estivation estiva-tion The Erven lucern patches and wheat fields preHiitindeeii a lovely contrast to tho unbroken lands sur-rouniing sur-rouniing thtm. But in Louisville Louis-ville and Righy there is room for thousmds of settlers, aud the hnds are suppo-ed to be as fertile as any iu tne gnat buake River Valley, to which the very thrifty growth of sagebrush njw covering itabucdautly testifies. Bishop George A. Gordou, a young mm, presides In this want. The Righy tovvii.ito is six miles southeast south-east of Louisvillo centre. South of Rigby lies the Willow Creek Ward, containing about tw enty five families, presided over by Ui.-hop Alphonso B Simmons. This ward derives its name from Willow Creek, quite an important stream which rises in tho mountains moun-tains on the eat side of the valley, and falls into Snake River immediately immedi-ately alovo IZagle Roik. Tuo dls tanco from Rigby tow nslte to the centreofWillowCreekWard, where the meeting house ttanda, Is a little over six miles. Here al-o new sett'e rs can flud good accommodation, accommoda-tion, but they must bo prepared with fortitude and hysical strength enough to wage au exterminating war with the sage brush. Eight miles southwest of the WIUjw Creek centre and seven miles northeast of Eagle Rock we come to the beautiful towuslte tf lona, named after an ancient town in thu Jordan valley in Palestine, lona Ward, Including the South lona branch, embraces some ex cellent farming land and prombts to bevome one of the principal cities of this region of country in tho near future. To secure waterfor irrigation irriga-tion purposes a canal seven milts long and thirty feet wldo at the bottom had to be built, at a ctt ot$27,WQ. Tills canal conveys con-veys the watsrfrom the south fork of Snako River Into Willow Creek, and is thence conducted in the natural channel of said stream and Sand Creek to the Uper end of lona Ward, where it is taken out into smaller irrigation canals. James E. Steele, late of American Fork. Utah, is the Bshop of lona Ward,but there will soon bea change in thu Blaho) rir, as Brother Steele has been called to fill the position of second Counselor to President Thomas E. Ricks, in the Stake Presidency. I held a meeting with tlie lona Saints on the evening of Thursday, COtli ult. At Eagle Rock the ward organization organiza-tion ia presided over by Bishop James Thomas. The Saints residing at this lace aru mostly business men and employes of large business establishments, of which tho principal princi-pal ones are the branch house of Z. C. M. I., a branch of the Consolidated Consolid-ated Company,and tho Co-operative Wagon and Machine Company, all larjrely representing "Mormon" capital. Tneso houses, whose main places of business are in Salt Lake . SB9s SHBbSS i City, Utah, are all doing a lively business in their different lint, as Eagle Hock Is tfaHrmrirtOTtiinrkct-town tfaHrmrirtOTtiinrkct-town of the uairrounding country, The town is situated on tho left pr east bank of Snake RIycr,ra asandy tract of land, and tho ". Mi though tolerably itralshi,have bcttt laid off likemost other railway towns, with a view of conforming to the direction of tho railway track. ignoring the cardinal point, of the compass. Ibe Utah it-X erth-em erth-em Railway, at this point, crosses the Snake Illvnr'on a substantial Iron bridge, Lollf Immediately below be-low j.Ue celebrated. Tajlar.JkdilSsv Thisbridgoforoiany years ws tb alUmportanpflnt for the Montana travel and jtekled Its owners greater profit thah perhaps any other toil bridge in the western country. AMfro rjointvhere these bridges span the fcmako River, this Immcuso stream If suddenly contracted con-tracted from a width ranging all the wayfromrhetiundredfcet to half a mllo to the space of about eighty feet in Mie main channel and about twenty five- in another. Tlie water Is fJrccd between two perpendicular walls f solid rock, and is said to have n depth of 100 Teet Immediately te-lowtl.e te-lowtl.e bridges. It also has quite a fall for several hundred yards,wh!ch gives Eagle Rock most excellent facilities for watir tower. So far this has only been taken advantage of In tho erection of a first-class flouring mill, which, in point of modern Improvements and size, is second only to the Rexburg mills. South of Eagle Rock and lona Ward lies tl u Taylor Ward, cm-bracing cm-bracing about fifteen famillH', under the jiresldency of Bl'hop William lriest. The op!o hero havo suffered suf-fered much in past years for the lack of water, depending, as they have, upon band Creek, a small stream and side channel of Willow Creek, which goe-s dry iu thf latter part of the season; hut arrange minis havo now lei 11 made to git water direct from SnaVe River, which will give them an .abundant supply. bcuth of Taylor is thu Basalt Ward, tnibraciuga very extensive tract of country lying along thu railway as far south as Ross Fork, including a few families at Black-foot, Black-foot, the county scat of Bingham County, aud a little branch organization organi-zation rolled Rivcrdale, situated on the west side of the river oppoito Blackfuot. Basalt Station, tbo ward center where Bi-hop Andrew O. Iugelstrom re-ides, is fourteen miles Kouthwistof Eagle Rock and thirteen thir-teen miles north of Blackfoot, Yesterday (butiday) 1 rjient at this place and had a pleasant time with thu Saints here, spiaklng at two meetings held inn hall hired forthopurpese. Thuevenitigmett-ing Thuevenitigmett-ing was i-speclilly well attended and about half thu congregation wire strangers who listened attentively atten-tively ton sermon on thedlviuemis-a'ou thedlviuemis-a'ou of the Prophet Jose hSmith. Innnotlier neck the enterprising little community at this place will havo completed their line and commodious com-modious mec ting-hou-e, mentioned in a former communication. From tliis plv-e I return home to Salt l.ake City. Amiiiew Jrso. |