| Show THE TE BIG BI HORN BASIN BASIM IDAHO Apostle Woodruff Talks or of Its Ad Advantages Advantages vantages to Settlers GOOD FOR FOlt GOOD MAN fAN mind Cattle aU ucb It In Hal lini tg or r Im d dAro Lr Aro Apostle tle Own Owen Woodruff rr who II Ia n W Won on imle hla way to MexIco returned recently from th the rn Dig Horn Basic Idaho wheN ho he WeISt veat at the matinee ot of Snow to Inquire Into th time welfare ot of the Mormon and make such and give tre such luch advice IW 4 would seem to require to hll hi departure for Mexico llO tle talked glowingly of the of that section To II a man h hi saW It is II a rood good place pile for I a company compan ot of who will wili unite to together together gether In a canal to make for themselves hom homes During a 11 Ment visit lilt its III company with dent Jo W lo and my nephew Woodruff to the I saw things and gathered item that may be ot of Interact to those thOle who dra to cut cast their lot with time till sturdy turdy or er and make horn hom rot for themselves I desire to 10 sa cay In the beginning It is III In m my estimation I a chol choice new for tor an Industrious man but a bid bad ODe en for tor a lazy man IlIn manThe The Horn Ic abut about 15 mil miles tong long b by 10 wi wida The fh elevatIon ranges range from sO feet t to MO feet a above e eaM sea aM level leel TheN There era are 50 acre neres ot of land that can In b be Irrigated In eluding Iha that which Is II now already un tier der cultivation The Th climate I think Wi Will compare favorably With that limit ft of the Salt Lake al nih though I cr r hap to more sudden udd change changeAt At Basin CIt City the point mot moat aub u Jet to extreme In iii this the p BasIn It re reIa one night lust last winter I emil am toh told Ii de degrees zero uro and oe one da day lat last summer 10 degrees het heat In the shade wal was recorded 01 Ott Wood river ant one ot of time tributaries of Or Grey nul Hull river 2 U degrees below acre uro I is the mo most extreme old cold r recorded orde 11 in the put five yeal years 1 It Itis is 18 generally so warm Ild end In Inthe Inthe the til all amid that these sudden thal lr are fel felt very ey keenly It 11 eel Oem however hoever tantalus very r cold lold more Ihal hiatt two 10 or three days lt at 1 a time One settler tUn who hiss has lived In both the Ashley hley and aad alt Ik valley told me they had mo more warm tl day In win winter n ter than Ihan In any place he hd had ever lve lived all and mo more And u as little whit Last winter was as the tint lint winter In sIx Ix Ixer er that there has bin been lOW anew enough yr got good Cattle have hae been able to vinter out winter Ino our 11 have ln been the six Ix to eight earson the west sIde of the lii II Basin ln Te The soil 01 II Ic of at n ft lod good quality with an abundance 0 of water for irrigation rh rho people have been able abl to pru produce for tor a ot of year ear wheat barley corn rt pota potatoes toS toes alfalfa tImidIty anti amI almost an all allkInd kInd of vegetables including tomatoes anti and watermelons 0 01 Is being raised th time peed e S some of the farmer farmers this Ibis year ear a as math I Ito as Wi to 4 40 buah tech this Tr rear Tile This Cr 1 a red redy C ud and brings 9 cents pr per pound The otil lamal damage that hl hac hen been done to cr 1 tor or 1 to number ot of rea ears ty R a which the ot of hailstorm over lart tint In 1 ISIS This year ha hen be been n the and shott shorted sine the settlement ot of our people on the II ton Bend hat anI and notwithstanding this tart fact tomato tomatoes eor corn and ond melon ripened The 1st first killing frost October lt There has haB been considerable fruit fruitt out within time the last two amid ft t Olt ears the trees appear to b be doing wl well Good hac been raised for several lra ers ears on Slide Creek on th time et out Idl of the nun hum Un to time the of this month the weather was good 0 with tle time exception of oC a few blustery slays 11 th the sno snow melting In tile the ln as 18 tact tut as asIt asIt It fel fell and It has oB only bl told cold the ditches to betel freeze 1 a skim km of Ic ice on Th There e are at present but f few St set tiers In the nil fiig Hor horn DaMn abt about tO 4 Saints anti and I it few mor more than this numb number ot of pl people who belong to ol other r denomInations Eter Eider and J I organIzed the ton ward arll Sunday Sunda wIth Wm 1 H Pack Packard Packard ard is I and David I and Wm e as al hil his In making our trip whIch WI was b by team we lie traversed the tho old Id road from Jr near fn lon and Fort ort across OrEn Green river up the and Li LIt LIttIe t tIe Land to Polle Springs 1 AtlantIc CI lAuder the Indian reservation nero WInd river via Ia He canyon to Thermopolis thence dOl down the tho fig Dig Item river tu to Ilasin City the lont county seat ot of Dig Big Hor Horn count an and on to BurlIngton trao traveled from Evanston n out about 0 mi miles The station tc the settlement I Ht ted Lodge reached che via 10 HUIt Butte As Snow h lice cm cern nw me to look after Bore seine cola colo mate matter I wi will take tak pleasure In answering an any InquIries ra made person ol all or b by mal mall regarding this Inet great country with Its wonderful undeveloped NU rues e |
