| Show FREMONT COUNTY AND ITS WEALTH WEAL TH Great Resources of a Comparative Comparatively ly Iy Now Section ALWAYS t PLENTY OF O WATER I Ir an sad and hatter dinner lor tor Homo S eleu Special Correspondence Idaho July 2 Tie num lIum numerous erous of or your paper In ii Hoak valley are ore always pleased to ta see se something published concerning country and people Less Letts than n II of ot years ago the great Snake vIII ul ulley ley I tins a barren sage Hugo brush waste senate f ii I waters of at the winding whiting and Snake river were confined to tit tin nu nn tural channel of or the stream for tor a thousand miles through this state stale on o oIts Its Journey towards the ocean Tho Th rivers teemed with the Iho I ho tinny finny tribes and an anthe the hills and valleys were still In III the tic undisturbed possession of the numer numerous Qua ous aU wild animals that lint Inhabit tin th Rocky Hocky mountains It was urns a valley olley talle known only to the tho hunter and trap trapper por per lucks Hicks the first settler settle at nt pitched his hid tent here ani 18 13 years ago and lint since siu e then a n desert deser has linn been subdued and the tho sage broil waste been beon replaced by b fields of ot waving 1 tv lug ing grain All along alone the bunks of the th great Snake river canals have beet been taken token out until the river Itself IM la bul bu buthe the trunk of one vast thread work of ot o streams of or living water The Hint first II 11 t canal constructed con h in Fremont county count was wo at lit Rexburg In h 1653 Now If It the tho canals In operation op i In the tho county were ele stretched out end to tt end they would mach a n distance of ot o 1000 miles Some of or these then canals are arc small rivers and then men and horses have kart hn ve been owned drowned di In ht them Fremont coun coon county county ty was Wa created out of ot a II por portion portion tion of or old bounty In Ir 1893 and Is a n parallelogram p tulles miles lies In extent and Is IA capa capable ble bye when whon fully tully developed of at producing an OR much grain us as IB Is II now mine produced In it Inthe Inthe the State of Utah Every EnI tot fot of land lam not adapted to will admit of ot cl i grazing for tor horses sheep or cattle nUll there being no high or Inaccessible mountains This year oar with all till the rest of or tile the country we have received our share sharo of af heat hent and drouth Mouth but bUl tilt this Is an In exceptional year ear nod still we 0 have un an abundance if ot water for Cor Irrigation Our county count Joins loins the Jackson Hole Hule country whore where the tho mountains are arc alive ull e with elk deer mill and other ather game gnome and where the time streams are arc filled with on ar abundance of ash ashOur Our Is very ery much like the far tnt fanned famed Cache valley In Utah Three Thre years yearn y out aut of af the past seven during which we wo have closely observed oh the lit climatic conditions we wc have hae lord had no nc at nt all nil Sometimes we ire have n a I snowfall of from ten to eighteen incites Inches but our winters within the past post ten ter years have not been hn severe Fruit I rull run car he be grown successfully In all nil pails o othe of 01 the valley ulle Timber r Is abundant nm ani near at hand and anI lumber can call be he had nt lit from no 10 to W 15 per thousand feet teet Irany In Ir Inan any an part of ar our county count Stone quarries of the of ot building stone can be hc obtained near any All of at our anI best Jest towns townsand and amid large quantities lies of ot this atone stone Is be tie being beIng ing lug shipped to Butte Dulle anti for tor forthe the construction of ot hIgh grade rade build buildings hugs ings and the tho State Stale at lo to will probably be he built of at stone taker taken from the near vicinity of Rexburg Holler louring mills mile and saw mills are ore situated nt lit convenient distances Ve We have some same thirty ward organizations organIzations lions land and lint are arc proud of ot our educational and social n advantages Many an young people who have hare ha 1 receded rel their edura In schools and colleges es In Utah Itah and nail tram from many of at time the eastern ties tics are arc now non making their homes hones here heie the advantage and opportunities foi fah young oung people to get gel a start alart here being excellent It Is strange that riot so ninny many man young people remain In the larger IlIr tr towns town In it Utah with no nu resources at lit their hands when homes homeR can be lIl flU Xo o readily anti easily acquired here there Sheep men are arc snaking milking fortunes and ant cattlemen cattle cattlemen cattlemen men lire are doing doln well Log cabins with dirt roofs loots built by b the early settlers are arc fast disappearing and ond line fine commo commodious lions dious dwelling houses are taking their place From to Idaho Palls Falls on the south and to 10 Marysville on the thc north new settlements null and towns arc nrc springIng spring springIng Ing up III Our land lant when proper properly cult cultivated j products produces wheat not from Cram fifteen to 10 bushels bushel per am acre buy bui bu from front to 10 sixty bushe For Foi oats and potatoes Idaho Is III the b state For Par root crops crop of any an kind it Ih U unsurpassed un The Th other day we Wl w e stated to 10 n a neighbor that we have hav grown growl Jr Wh turnips two of ot which would more mor than fill n a half bushel whereupon tha Mishap Hilltop of Teton A n thoroughly reliable man said that ha li hind had seen HIU a II turnip raise In his neighborhood 1 that coula roula not be b put Iut Into n a 1 half hAlt bushel hushel nt tit all It weighted pounds Sugar beets of ot the finest quality have b bees eh raised on the dry farms east of ot Hex Ilex burg where land Is U still open olen to I homestead entry year ar ft it thor Ihor thorough thorough ough test lest of ot sugar beet culture In our county count Was erns ns made mad and our returns from ltd farmers showed as asgood asgood good an nn average of saccharine matter as In any part of Utah Ulah Bishop Hart of getting a n return of ot 21 per percent rent cent of matter The tests were wert made by II the th time chemical department Washington D P e We w have local mar markets Lets Itts for n a great part of our produce Our hogs have Im sold sohl all spring from 4 41 i ito to tn 6 cents pet l er pound live II weight Sheep Sherll men and cattle attle men are ready rend to tolU buy lU all nil of our aur hay hn and grain Ih ad 1111 advance vance vAn Since time the beginning of at the year tor has lias ha shipped more mort than 1 tars firs of ot farm products From Irom now note un mm until til III Christmas S our depot will IH he crowded with the chipping hipping business Train loads toads of f and ancl wool are arc re being moved out of ot here mere Over oter the Oregon Short Line Un railroad It Is estimated that mend head of ot sheep winter and summer In Inthis this lids count county Fremont J county c has about thirty set settlements anti and towns owns the most imoh tont of which are arc Rexburg St An Anthony n them thony Teton Menan Lewisville h tad and Salem And In IlIon Toton basin linden Hoden and Victor Rexburg has built during luring the present fear resident prop property arty erty cort valued at and business properly valued nt at These build In ari are mostly constructed of ot stone atoll taken aken from our stone quarries We Wl haxe hn gave C now In t course of oC er an academy which will cost built of f none Atone very ery much like that of oC the Halt Lake This Thill will make an MIll edo center Inter of Rexburg Ilex Hu Hubur burg bur Is III fut fast becoming to the Saints of ot Idaho what Pull alt Lake Ink City Is lit to the Saints In Int Utah t tah The plat Is 18 a 1 copy COP of ot the he th Salt Snit Lake City It plat past and the Ihl lay hay In of ot the he reminds one very VII much of the he streets of ot Halt talt Lake I ke City It Thirty miles nulles IIII II east of ot Is h the Teton relon The valley very Ir much resembles Cache valley a II 1 In Utah The Theall valley all Is about fifteen by b thirty milts miles In n extent surrounded entirely on II by br b a alow low ow rolling roiling chain of ot mountains The I mountains am nor broken by hy numerous I small canyons where mountain moun laIn streams wind down Into hitch tho rho valley Valle the tho lir with nn an of water wain 1 of f timber urn uro at lit the Ilse Very 11 doors lie of if tin limo crops of wild hay my lire are cut tulln In lu this thin valley without lurl oi III cultivation It IM Is especially III Iu II tho Ito country fur fill cattle cullie men nten Those who oho lui have homes houses In the bu ln And meal local markets high H fur for nil all their produce by selling rolling to tho limo tH tHUe tie tle men man Prominent Stilt Snit Lake Inke families have large holdings of land and cattle there Wo We invite Utah people who are di Ill der airous of snaking making ilia kIng new nest no homes to 10 come rump and see leo for tor themselves what IH is being done dono hero In tho the sway of ot Irrigation and trod the limo building of ot homes here url ore always glad to timid find a n place for home seekers rates lire are given shen by 11 the tho Oregon Short from convenient Utah itah points to ta all 1111 who ho are all looking for Cor homes or pleasure |
