Show A FRIEND OF UTAH WHO MAKES HIS FRIENDSHIP W. H. Capwel was induced to come to Utah from about four years Cap-well bought a small farm in the Bear River and the Tre-monton On arriving in Tremonton he got a hustle on him for a youth 65 years bought three building built him a attractive bought two more business and has a large two-story business block almost Capwell has made several trips back to his old home in and on these trips he has made several Utah take to the as T. Iliff will Cap-i well is a good He regularly attends and he does not hate or vilify the In he stated at a large gathering in Pennsylvania that the Mormons would average up with any of the denominations that continually howled about them We are glad to publish his letter in the Dallas Post of April It is as CAPWELL WRITES FROM THE Editor of The Dear So many of our Dallas friends have expressed a desire to hear from and not having the time to write to all I beg your indulgence and a little space in the Post to tell them all how we are getting along out here in the and woolly First I will say that the Post comes as a welcome letter every and with it and several other papers from Tunkhannock and other we keep pretty well informed as to what occurs in that part of the old Keystone Capwell and I are enjoying good health and have plenty to do to keep us Last sum- mer we had several visitors from and it gave us much pleasure to show them around and let them see how much has been done in the past ten years in transferring a sage brush plain of sixty thousand acres into beautiful farms and the most productive in all the And we hope to see many more out here this year and shall do all we can to entertain them and make their visit Tremonton Much has been done in the past two or three years to improve our little and much more will be done this In it has already lost much of the crudeness that enveloped it when I first came and many of those who may be called the have left here and gone on to other new towns to share a short time in their and then move on Years We now have three churches and a fourth a school house costing over a some concrete sidewalks and more in a water system under sewer planned electric lights to be installed during the and many other improvements that will us quite a metropolitan and yet our town is not quite seven years Postoffice and Rural Business is good and the increase during the past year is most When I first came here the postoffice paid a little over a now it pays more than twice as and if it keeps up to the past two quarters by next year it will be advanced to a third-class Then we had no rural route starting from now we have covering all the central part of the A Cold We had one of the longest winters known in Utah for over twenty-five Twelve successive weeks of then about the first of March the snow disappeared and in about a week the mud dried up and the roads have been very fine ever A few times the thermometer marked 6 or 8 degrees below but when the left there was no frost in the ground to speak Bumper Crops This The prospect is good for bum- i per crops this and at the present prices the Utah farmer is certainly coming to But with all the big crops that are raised here the fruit industry bids fair to overshadow them so far as profits are About acres of apple trees were set out in valley last and I think fully as many are being planted this One company is planting an orchard of several others are planting from 40 to While some of the trees were set out a number of years there was no market for apples until within the past five or six consequently no large orchards were a quarter or half an acre being all that was necessary to supply the family and the small local From Fifty-nine A friend of mine planted 59 trees of Winter Bananas some eleven years They occupy less than three-quarters of an acre of and have some apples the past four Last fall he picked from these 59 boxes of which brought him an average of per or for the I paid him for two boxes of thought them worth the This gives you some idea of the profits of fruit raising it is done in an scientific For a In the two boxes I did not find a wormy and in a shipment of from this valley to the apple show at Denver not a worm was although our Commercial club offered a prize of for a wormy one discovered in the And this reminds me that the Commercial club is one of the features in all the towns of the great Every business man is expected to be a member and aid in boosting And the few dollars he invests in the club brings him back a bigger per cent of profit generally than his stock-in-trade are coming every week and new faces are seen on the streets every Many of them are just looking while others are making preparations to get homes before land values increase any for it is a. fact that the price of good land has increased nearly 25 per cent in the past three Good fenced and with only fair is worth anywhere from to an But for fear of wearying your patience and tiring out the I will You owe this letter to the fact that we are holding a special election today to decide whether Ave shall bond the town for a sewer and being the judge of election I am writing this while waiting for the voters to Hoping that this may find all our Dallas friends prosperous and I sincerely W. H. CAP |