| Show utah a great grazing country A correspondent of the christian ad locate giving some notes of a trip to salt lake writes as follows the want w ant of rain ram has caused the desert which extends alon along the eastern baso base of the e nevadas from 0 oregon ron to sonora from 50 to miles in in width in this desert there are considerable tracts of meadows meadow s at the sinks rinks of the streams f from rom th the 0 mountains east of this desert the rain ram seems to gradually increase to the rocky mountains in I 1 passed through the tl e great basin to the south of salt lake the country was ft as traversed by low mountain ranges ranges from ten to miles apart all like the nevadas running running north and south there were many valleys alleys between them clothed with w ith high grass we passed a i valley alley about miles due west w est of salt lake city some 60 miles in in length by 20 in in breadth aich which I 1 should think contained as much good land as salt lake valley itself winter V inter grazing is is little in interrupted in in the great basin by snow herber wherever he reer you ou see sage age you oi find bunch grass gras it ills is well adopted to sheep and there is is arable land enough for a pito pasto ral population I 1 believe the deserts of utah and the adjoining terri tern tories ones afford is as much feed as the deserts between palestine and the red sea on which the bast ast flocks and herds berds of the israelites grazed fur forty years 5 ears the eastern border of the rocky mountains with new Ill mexico exico utah east oregon and washinton territories are destined to become the great grazing field of the nation while hile the Mii mi sippi villey valley will grow the giam for stall mill feeding much of the wool may yet et fird find its nearest market in in the manu n manufactories factories of cali fornia bornn A vast ast field for the consumption co i of wo rn fabrics mut must yet open in ill south out amer america ica japan enort northern hern china and tho the eastern portion of tle tie russian empire |
