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Show Interesting Letter From the Snake River Country. EDITOR LEADER: Yesterday the face of nature was nicely washed by a rain--the first for a long time, - and this morning everything looks clean and bright. The distant Rocky Mountain range, the Medicine Lodge and Saw Tooth range, each about a hundred miles distant, are crowned with a glittering coronet of snow. Crops in this section look well, but are late. Some very fine oats and potatoes are growing not far from here, as fine as I have seen anywhere. This will be a found a good farming country as soon as an energetic, industrious people will settle it. M. D. Hammond's company of graders have nearly finished the first branch of the Snake River which is about nine miles long. It will carry a very large stream of water, and reclaim a great breadth of good land, the water has been running in the upper six miles for several weeks, and proves the work a perfect success. Some idea may be formed of the magnitude of the work, from the fact that the headgate alone cost the constant labor of twenty-five men for more than three months. Some 53,000? [58,000?] feet of timber and lumber and 35 ??? Roman cement have been used in constructing the rock work. The work is in charge of J. M. Martineau, Civil and Hydraulic Engineer. This county is excited at the prospect that the Utah& Northern shops are to be located at Eagle Rock, and hundreds here already see piles of money ready to drop into their hands as soon as the change is made. Should the change be made, no doubt quite a town will spring up at Eagle Rock. It is understood here that a round house will be made for 24 locomotives; and that the machine car and repair shops will employ some 300 hands. Fifteen new locomotives are to be added this winter to the 22 now on the line; and this will give an idea of the business this road does. The fine Pullman sleeping cars now running make a night journey on this road rather pleasant than otherwise. More anon. X. WILLOW CREEK CAMP, Idaho, Sept. [September] 19th, 1880. |