| Show B AND NEWTON fihs ihs journal man ilan pleasant Plea sint things cf wednesday aug ath I 1 came from lo logan loan n an here along the highway there are n grand arand fields of hay and grain a rain such as were never seen in these parts beaole and men and teams are arc as busy s bees the first thing I 1 got when I 1 carne came to benson was a bite nd and I 1 fishing either the west part of benson be son I 1 hid had h id never been in before and it is ig a beautiful field dotted here and there with handsome brick and frame residences with every building in needed on a farm and the P wire wire and machinery must have cost a fortune here are the flowing wells and like northern cache and southern idaho one has no difficulty in knowing where to find people as all homes are arc surrounded with tall trees being the favorite A rich people live here but they dont believe it large farms well cultivated when asked how bow many many cows do you on milk oh ob twenty or thirty and I 1 send the milk to the creamery they have also a lovely brick school house and you find three just sach buildings in west and north benson and riverside these ranchers are great on building handsome and costly school baill buill buildings in s and when I 1 think of sume school hool meetings in towns to build a school house and hoar boar the howling I 1 wish these men could see ECO what there scattered ranchers have done for their little ones and education when speaking to men in towns they say oh these fellows have large farms and are rich and it is nothing for them to do I 1 answer those big farms erms cost a heap of money and hart hard work then the homes outbuildings buildings out and IN wire ire together with machinery cost a little fortune each but the facts are gentlemen where theres a will theres a way and that is the true and only answer that can be given I 1 then came on a beautiful carriage road seven miles calling at every farm house till I 1 came to tz NEW ION almost everybody has been keeping ino this place well before the readers of THE JOURNAL but both sides have rested and have no more dirty linen to wash through the papers I 1 think a newspaper is ia a poor place to do that in and wherever I 1 go I 1 recommend them to cleanse all that sort eort of thing at home my advice is to send the news never mind petty quarrels relt it does no good and probably makes enemies for life newton has some nice dice home but they are not many and everywhere you go through the town one is reminded of president Pre eident brigham bi i g younos youngs saying in hyrum when looking at a rock building badly constructed if how 0 w badly we need architects newton has an industrious and I 1 thrifty people and they eem seem s es specially ally so BO when one remembers what difficulties they have labored i i under in constructing reservoirs sometimes on only I 1 v to have them burst just ar ai their grain needed the water this ind and many other obstacles that other towns know nothing about they have bare had bad to contend with and I 1 say bay they have done well viell they have substantial public buildings r and a nicely nicel fenced square had these people had the waier wacer and timber that southern cache has let go to to waste anil and the careless canyon man who left his camp fire to the mercy of the A i rids alich h has sent up in I 1 1 wood and timber limber than t they h e v even bro brought out they would have hav e shonn much more fo for r these bles blessings Einus than we wd have and better results result would have followed newton has many fine farms land cultivated clear up to the hills and miles of wire fences some of them built on the dos dois hind lea leg plan on asking a gentleman why the wire was not put in a straight line he said its only a funny way we have out here among the farms I 1 went over was one of about 75 acres owned by mr alfred goodsell alfred came to newton as a boy and cat can be reckoned among the founders of the town he ha is a farmer and a goodone good one on walking through I 1 his wheat I 1 find he can safely cou count n t on not less than twenty or bushels to the acre on his dry farm and when he told me w what he had passed th through roub buri burying ing his wife and nearly all his first family after edg long feiges of illness just as his big sons were really ready to take hold bold and help him to hold the plow the great master called them away and alfred w was as left to b tart lifes battles aaen again t and did r PO 0 and today is once more on his feet beet and has some hoys boys to help him the health of the people is v very e ry good and everybody at work ask for amail a man yes sirl lie he is off on the header doctors and lawyers would die here among among I 1 this busy people of and disuse C 0 ri an aug 8 1896 |
