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Show THE BEAR RIVER VALLEY IS NOT A BOOM COUNTRY First Class Bear River Valley Farm Lands For Sale But We are Getting There Just the Same, as Will be Observed From the Following Statements. Come and See us, and We Will Show You. veniences of a prosperous sugar city. Between the "Twin Cities" are now many orchards, and ere many years the land for this distance of two miles will all be divided into small tracts and adorned with beautiful orchard nomes, wnen we snaii macros me visability of "A Greater New York." Corinne, in the southern part of the Bear river valley, was the second cttjf of Utah many years ago bu Ogden finally became the railroad ..o ceuici, "u vunuuc its fonner prestige. There are some fine orchards near Corinne, and when a good drainage system shall have been completed for the thousands of of land in that part of the val- or- h V, there will be many more chards and alfalfa tanns and Co- rinno will again become a prosperous village. Hear River City, Riverside and Fielding, though not directly on either of our three railroads, each has its special advantages, and while the inhabitants of neither are forced to lead the strenuous life of the dwellers in larger cities, the people are more prosperous and contented than those dwellers of tenement houses in who have the metropolitan cities, I1(.V,T breathed the aid laden with the odoI. of apl,it! blossoms, nor ever i,eld great fields of waving grain and alf.,fa. Here the owners of a small cottage amidst such surroundings and in such a climate enjoys blessings that millions of human beings can never hope to realize. Space compels us to leave out the easi side towns on the main line of the O. S. L. railroad, for the newspapers published in the capital of Box Older county set forth their resources and prosperity. In fact, Brigham City is of sufficient importance to require a special edition itself, and we hope that our brother editors there wi supply the same, and also state man of the resources and advantages of Box Elder county, and of Utah, that our facilities render impossible. brief, we shall mention that Brighani City consists of nearly three thou sand people, many of whom secure s good living from less than five acres of peaches and strawberries. Its lo GARLAND, cation is ideal, and the shipments of the town two miles north of Tremon-ton- , these two kinds of fruit alone were has the great sugar factory which more than 100 carloads this year, and consumes the product of more than the Oregon Short Line railroad has 5,000 acres of sugar beets annually, recently ereeflM there the finest de and also has stores a bank, newspa- pol iiiui we nave ever seen in a town per, and other necessities and con- - of Its size. The settlers of the Bear river val-lehave reason to be proud of the fact that neither farming land or town lot prices have ever been affected by the spueulativi- craze known as a Doom. Hence, mere is nu nan- ger of a collapse, as always occurs prices have been inflated by speculators in boom localities. There is no large amount or land now offerea for sale in the Bear river valley So far as we have been able to estimate, the w ho o amount OI good land for sale here la not to ex ceed 2.000 acies, and nearly all of this or is either owned by by farmers who wish to reduce their i.Mia. .'r the renson thai ihov find that the same.,..,.amount of labui applied u. ,,r ' iov,,t u.,iii nnwiuec j j tx niwnv itiv larger profits. About eighty aacres of proper land with oats 01 bailey, and rotation with alfalfa, will often yield larger profits by careful irrigation same and cultivation than it th. amount of labor be expended on a larger area of land. acres of Some even prefer forty orchard and land, with, say a five acres' in potatoes or sugar beets, and the remainder in alfalfa or pain, Persons who have traveled extun-- ! sively through the central and weststates claim that land is much cheaper here in price than anywhere else they have found, when the yield and price of crops is considered together with the railroad facilities, climate, water supply, etc. TREMONTON, where this paper is printed. Is located very near the geographical center of Bear river valley. This town Is only four years old, anil is supplied with a good railroad depot, three ware houses used by grain buyers, a bank, good stores, hotel, restaurant, livery stable, meat market, lumber yard, telephone exchange, and other business houses necessary In a village surrounded by a prosperous farming and fruit growing country. A good school house, with two rooms, and the Baptist, Methodist and German Apostolic church, each have new and commodious buildings. s ' -- ten-acr- e OTHER PARTS OF THE VALLEY ALSO PRODUCE BIG CROPS. It is not only in the vicinity of Tremonton that good crops are produced. Other parts of this great valley is equally fertile, but some parts are not quite as well supplied with water as other parts, and dry farming has to be depended upon for producing the crops, and in this as in many other things, some men are more successful than others. Near Fielding, some ten miles north of Tremoriton, is the large and farm of Mr. Calvin Richards. The writer visited this farm just after harvest, and saw the immense stacks of barley and wheat that the owner had produced without the aid of irrigation, for his land is mostly above the Bear river canal, and he has to defalls pend on what little moisture during the winter and early spring for the production of his crops. Mr. Richards is one of the most successful dry land farmers in the north end of the valley. He showed us about his ranch, which consists of some six or seven hundred acres of well tilled land, on which he has good, comfortable buildings, not only for his family, but for all his tools and implements. It made us think of some Pennsylvania farms to see how nicely he has his belongings housed, which is a strong contrast to some farmers. well-tille- LEONARD HILLIS PEORIA, ILLLINOIS tanned this land and had other crops WEISS BROS.' POTATOES. in proportion. Chris Weiss and his brother Carl o II. 11 Jiunri ioidcu 7J uuoiiriB VI art very' successful growers of spuds, THE CITIES AND RAILROADS uai mj tvj tuc ,i .i iij liio lai iu ileal hut this year their yield wa not UTAH. Tremonton in 1906, and also realized quite up to the average. a very large profit on a small piece On fifteen acres Chris Weiss raised of potatoes. He had some 1,500 bush :i,525 bushels, or about 175 bushels Ogden, Utah, within one or els that he sold at a good price in to the acre. His crop brought him hours by rail of most farms in 19 cents a bushel, April and May last. or $68.25 an acre, Bear river valley, is a beautiful A GOOD BARLEY CROP. and he says there is more money in of twenty thousand people, and . This expression has beeu uttered here by a certain kind of people ever since the pilgrims first landed at Plymouth Rock, and is occasionally heard in this fertile and prosperous valley. that every Now, we do not claim farmer in the Bear river valley is getting rich, for some have used too much water and too little drainage, to undertaken while others have Cam; more land than they can handle Except such Instance! as properly. these, the man who cannot make farming pay in this valley would fail anywhere else. He may be a loafer who is eating his breakfast when the real farmer is returning from the station for a second load of grain. Poshis money for sibly he spends "booze," or passes it over a table covered with green cloth to a sporting who prefers "gentleman," working suckers, instead of working the land. Or he may be one of those roving, howdiscontented individuals who, ever willing to work, believes all those "fairy tales" that are sent out from the boom states, which indicate that gold is falling off the trees all around Boomville, and that every man can get a sack full of coin if he will only biing the sack. The germ of discontent is frequently as fatal to success as malaria in Arkansas. We believe it is the opinion of every industrious farmer in this valley that the soil and climate here, to gether with our splendid irrigation system, afford opportunities for the industrious and thrifty farmer equaled in few other places and excelled in none. If one has but a small amount of money he can buy a few acres here, and set out some fruit trees, and while cultivating his orchard raise sufficient berries, potatoes, or sugar beets between the rows to provide for a small family. Or he can rent land of others, or find work by the day if in need of cash money. There are very few days during the year when the demand for men and teams is not greater than the supply. two the city the Alfred Rauber, who has a farm one potatoes even at that price than there great railroad center west of Denver. It is the terminal city of the mile south of Tremonton, had a crop is in sugar beets or grain. Carl Weiss had between eight and Rio Grande railroad, which will beof barley this summer that nearly got him out of debt and made him smile nine acres this year, and harvested come a part of the same system as all over. Fifteen acres averaged fiftj t,80O bushels of salable potatoes. The the Western Pacific, now building two bushels per acre, or 780 bushels only fault the buyers found was that from Salt Lake City to San Francisco. Ogden is also the eastern terminal of they were too large. for the crop. the Southern Pacific railroad, which John Shuman. of Tiemonton. had SHEEP AND ONIONS. reaches all parts of California, and ten acres of oats just east of town One of the best known farmers of north to Portland, Oregon. This city tlvat yielded 1,200 bushels this year. The first settlers in the Bear river Mr. Shuman also had another field the north end of the valley is Hon. is the western terminal of the Union S. Hansen of Fielding. While Mr. Pacific railroad, which extends to valley were the sons of the patient west of town that did nearly as well. W. Hansen has some other fine stock, his Omaha and Kansas City and other and courageous Utah pioneers who SOME DRY LAND CROPS. great specialty in that line is the eastern points. The Oregon Short had either been accustomed to dry ('. V. Itiehards of Fielding has a Ramboullet sheep, and probably he Line trains also leave Ogden for farming on a large scale or to inlann above the Bear river irrigating has the finest herd of their breed in Portland, Oregon, and the great min- tensive cultivation of small irrigated canal and what crops he raises have the United States. He keeps about ing camps of Montana. Connection farms. After these came some farmto depend on what moisture the win-te- i 500 breeding ewes and turns off about is made here also for the new rail- ers from the prairie states of the season may give his soil. This that number of lambs every year. His road lately completed to Los Angeles. middle west, most of whom were 80 had acres he ewe of wheat that lambs bring an average of $20 The "Bamberger" year railroad, nearlng thrifty Germans, inexperienced in irthirty-seveand a half each, and the ram lambs $30 each, completion, is supposed to be an Og- rigation farming, but industrious and averaged bushels to the acre. On another 100 when sold. If possible he tries to den terminal for the Moffat road now supplied with sufficient money for a acre tract he raised twenty-twbush keep the ram iambs until thev are a building west from Denver, or one of good start. Our farmers are too busy els to the acre. He also had fifty year old, but the demand for his stock-ha- the other great eastern roads that in a more profitable and ocpleasant acres of barley that produced 2,075 become so great that he cannot have been extending their lines to cupation than to waste their time or forty-onand a half bush- keep up with it. bushels, wards this great railroad center, and quarreling about politics or religion. els per acre. In 1906 Mr. Richards But it is of his onion crep that we to the Pacific coast. There are large o had five acres of barley that, aver- wish to speak of. It shows how much railroad shops, packing, manufacturA PROSPEROUS COMMUNITY. aged eighty bushels per acre, a yield better it Is for a farmer to have some ing, jobbing, and wholesale houses in that he says he has never seen ex- specialty and devote the principal Ogden, and others are In contemplaTo show what can be done in six ceeded on dry land in his thirty part of his efforts to the production tion. years in the Bear River valley, one years' experience. of that specialty than it is to try to Less than forty miles south of Og- has only to ride out to the farms of Mr. Paul Stark, who owns a dry do too many and not succeed den is Salt Lake City, the capital and the German settlers west and souththings farm just east of Garland, in the Bear with any. the largest city in Utah, which will west of Tremonton. Here he can see river valley, produced 825 bushels of Mr. Hansen usually plants from be properly mentioned In a future is- beautiful homes with fine orchards and wheat this season from twenty acres seven to ten acres of onions, and sue of the "Times." gardens and hundreds of acres of oats of land. This was done without irri hires his neighbors to grow for him o and wheat and alfalfa where six years gation, and the crop averaged forty from fifty to 100 acres more. His "WE ARE UP TO DATE." ago was a wilderness of sagebrush in one and bushels to crop in 1906 was about 1,000 bushels a soil that looked as if it would starve acre. Besides tnts ne nad an ex Hp an acre, but, this year the seed failed In no state east o the Mississippi a to try to get a living from lent crop of lucerne seed to germinate, and the summer was river did early settlers have such it. jackrabbit these beautiful places we Among so cold that forty acres did not ma- conveniences CHRIS WEISS' OAT CROP, during the first half might mention those of D. J. Acker-man- , so his of that life was a as ture, century the there, farmers crop Chris Weiss harvested this year only Samuel Imthurn, Jacob Hoerr. sixty-ninacres of oats that were quarter of what it usually is. Last of this valley have enjoyed for years T. M. Meister, John Schrenk and e fifty-fivhe carloads of past. It is almost impossible for one others, all of whom came from the east. shipped said by Mr. P. A. Hansen, who bought year tlieni for the California market, to be about 600 bushels each. This year he who comes from the east side of the a few years ago. and with little knowlAlleghenies to realize that here, in edge of as line In duality as any grown in the shipped but thirteen carloads. but a good deal of His whole product was sent to seed the "wild and wollv west." nearlv knowledgeirrigation, of drainage, learned in the From the sixty-nin- e acres valley. In to California farm growers raise is seed within three swampy soils of Ohio. Indiana and Ilevery irrigated the yield was about 6,500 bushels, or from. miles of a railroad station, that near- linois, have succeeded in about, ninety-fivbushels per acre making for Mr. Hansen employs mostly Indians ly all have rural mail delivery, and themselves productive farms and beauWE RAISE PRETTY GOOD POTA to work in his onion fields, letting that nearly every farmer has tele tiful homes that are the pride of the them have the work by contract. He phone connections with all parts of valley. TOES IN UTAH. D. J. Ackerman has about If any of the croakers who say Utah says the are the most reliable help the valley and the more distant cit slow. They ies. Roads are also being covered ed his new brick house whichcompletis no good will come into the Times he can get, but very never slight their work, no matter with gravel, and the numerous school of the finest houses on the is one office, we will convince them of one how little they get for it. houses and the churches of four or It is 36x38 feet in size, with fivesection. rooms thing, and that is this, that Utah can Mr. Hansen has erected a large five religious organizations seem suf- in the upper story. It will have large raise some potatoes. We have before to house brick ficient with convenmodern want in this supply every us six of the tubers that weigh just porches on two or three sides and be iences, and lives in the line. a very ornate and convenient farm 21 pounds. The largest of these most beautifulprobably home in Utah. country house. Mr. Ackerman has also built came Irom (he farm of ,Iohn Burman It is difficult for one who has never a large granary and tool house of Elwood, and tips the scales at six ALFALFA and lived in a mountain country to un- shop, and has the brick walls compounds. Mr. Burman had fou,' acres is the of derstand that the and climate great so Utah, is crop hay mild, pleted for a large chicken house. this year from which he harvested o over 1,400 bushels of marketable po- the best hay grown for sheep and though snow may be seen the mountain found cattle As a tops during the greater part of anywhere. pasture tatoes, and Mr. P. A. Hansen, of Los for! NOT BOASTING. hogs with ground barley or other the year, yet we seldom experience Angeles, who bought the whole lot alfalfa is a very profitable crop. zero weather here, and the cool Some of the most prosperous farmsays that there are many otherB In grain, the summer ers in this the first two carloads that are quite It produces three crops each year in mountain air during valley have declined to Bear can the on river and be nights valley, good only appreciated as large as this six pounder, but as by furnish crop reports for soil with those who care five to have seven proper experienced this de- lest they be accused of publication,so this was so smooth and of perfect tons per acre can be produced at the lightful clime. Sun stroke, bragging, hydro- we have found it he concluded to carry it home shape necessary in some three the after first cuttings phobia, and season, cyclones, in his grip and place it on exhibition earthquakes instances to get Mr. B's. from in the Chamber of Commerce in Ios and sufficient pasture can usually be have never claimed a victim here, so Mr. A., and the latter report again from as we sold far the after is cut have third to heard. crop pay B. Angeles. The other five were raised the neighbor Intelligent people do charges for irrigation water. Alby Lewis Brenkman on his village In usual seasons we have practi- not consider a statement of facts as lot just above the Methodist church falfa is the best hay known for dairy bragging, and as for we do and also are of good shape, smooth purposes, and to rotate with grain anil cally no rain from May to November, not expect, them to imbeciles, read this naner it thus no has other as a the crops fer an farmer affording equal oppor- anyhow. and white. We also have some speciWe reirrvd our tnnhiiif,. tr. mens of the Blue Victor that will aver- tilizer, in tact, with proper rota tunity to cultivate and harvest his print a larger number of "con soil will tion the without crops than rather improve wet cerning the returns of our facts damage by age about two pounds each, also deteriorate. best farm weather. The rainfall in the vallevs ers on our grown by Mr. Brenkman. who says best but these are Wherever alfalfa can be grown suc of Utah is less than f the sufficient to showfarms, he did not search for the largest imt the possibilities. Of Is no there for for the average cessfully, middle but necessity states, Just picked them up as Ive came down t . . course we have aimed to .1 r i town to show their fine shape. If tiuoiiuoiieu i arms necause mev are the irrigation canal supplies the water best that has been done. show the There are "worn out." from the melted snow of mounthe an of our friends can beat this lot of tain peaks during that season of the thousands of teres of land in Utah spuds, just bring along the sample as GOOD YIELD OF ALFALFA SEED. that are worthless for farming puryear when it is most needed by the poses, and there proot. Mr. Gil. Rector threshed the alfalfa are some farmers growing crops in the valleys. Mr. Fred Eggli. who resides out who are worthless for any grown on twelve acres, of land this purpose, near ait creek, sent us some fine year, the but we are confident that there yield being 275 pounds to are People become sick sometimes, and potatoes that are almost as large as the acre, which at the current price of they also die in Utah, otherwise we many thousands of acres of land in tnat new Hoy that came to his home the Bear river valley just as good as izys cents per pound, will bring him would have no room for the increasa while ago. He states that the yield $34.37 per acre for alfalfa seed besides ing population, but there are two dis- the land where the crops herein reon three acres was about 700 bushels about $10 an acre for barley grown on eases which do not ported were Such reports a of choice potatoes besides a large th-loriginate here, these will be grown. same land. more common when the and If not too which, number of small ones. If the choice long standing, farms are reduced In size and always find certain relief or perma- large ones are as big as (hose he sent to more careful attention Is cure. nent We given to refer to asthma and the cultivation us, we would like to know what he UTAH'S BEAUTIFUL WEATHER. and irrigation of the consumption. We have failed to learn land. calls small ones? of a case of either that have origiMORE BIG POTATOES. October, the beautiful, was a most nated in this climate, but there are M. H. BOX ELDER'S HEALTH. Holler, another F.lwood seductive month, and we are glad to 1U14UICU1 i peopie in t tan wiio can brought a basket of spuds to say this year It was no exception to testify to the benefits of this climate The Times office a few days ago that the general rule In Utah. Bright days, for these diseases. We also have nuThe October bulletin iRBued by hi says grew without Irrigation or cul- cool nights, crisp mornings and no merous medicinal springs, whose watState Board of Health, shows a tivation this summer, and if they are frost, what could be more enjoyable? ers have afforded relief or total of seven deaths from all causes; permanent six towns, or a fair sanipli of what potatoes wii districts report and do Strawberries In market and the to cure to many afflicted ones. when neglected, he can well ask what mato vines still bearing their luc- nine make no report; there are three Is the use of intensive farming0 There districts entirely free from disease. lous fruit. No other state can excel Box Elder county, with over were fourteen potatoes In the hHSket t. And now In November the fourth 11,600 SAMPLE COPIES and they weighed over thirty pounds, crop of alfalfa could be cut in some Inhabitants, had only four deaths in the smallest weighing on- - pound and fields If this warm weather should the month of September, a record ten ounces, and the largest a little continue sufflcientlv to cure It. We are sending a large number of hard to beat. Who says Utah Isn't long a healthy state? more than three pounds samples of the Tremont Times to NOVEMBER ALSO BEAUTIFUL. We noticed In the Wilkes Harre, various parts of the country, with a Pa., Record that some one there had put Who ever saw a more beautiful view of giving the r, aders of the The Rear river Is nearly 300 miles three potatoes on exhibition work same some facts regarding the oppor- long, and after It emerges from the that month for all kinds of weighed one DOOM and a quarter r sport than we have had In No tunities for making money In the Hear river canyon In Box Elder couneach, which was retarded ns some- vember? But two or three cloudy Hear river valley, but we state here ty. It supplies water to Irrigate about thing wonderful. What would the days, only five or six frosty nights, most emphatically, that if am of land In the Bear river you don't "" Record man think of the twentv-eigh- t and one rainy day and not much like work, stay Where you are or pass valley. t nan on exnililtlon a in here thin f.ll No snow of conse us by, as we have at that -- o shipped a few thut averaged nearly three and no miserable kickers to other states, where we pounds quence stormy Lesrnlna Ever New. eaui. l.lirss ne in In K We ran r.loo weather to stop the farmer from BOB they will remain, and we still is ever In the freshness of Iearning some potatoes In Itah. his fall work. a few left for early export." have completing IU youth, even for the old. be-er- n SOME OF THE CROPS RAISED IN BEAR RIVER VALLEY IN 1907 OF d FARMIN' DON'T PAY HERE." n o s e one-fourt- e e WHEAT AND OATS. Mr. John Summer and others pur- chased a new thrashing outfit, using gasoline instead of coal for fuel, at the beginning of the present season. oats that gave him an average of 118 bushels to the acre, or over 2,000 bushels. Mr. Andrew VVagenbaugh has one of the finest forty-acrfarms in the They report the entire run for the valley. His yield of oats was about season In round numbers as 70,000 90 bushels per acre, and of hay five bushels, there belug approximately tons per acre. Some of his apple 58,000 bushels of oats, 11,000 bushels trees broke down with the weight of of barley and 1,000 bushels of wheat. tipples. As there were nine other machines J. C. REICHERS' BIG OAT YIELD. threshing in this valley, it is prob-ablJ. C. Reichers, who lives about a that the total product of grain grown In the valley this year was mile south of Tremonton, had a big more than 500,000 bushels. The prices crop of oats this season, but while for grain have been better than usual the yield was not so large per acre as have raised on smaller fields. It this year, and farmers are wearing a so shows what intelligent farming will broad smile. do on irrigated lands. On thirty-fivSOME GOOD RECORDS. acivs he had an average of 105 bush The largest acreage and the best els (0 the acre, on eighteen acres an average was grown on the Sommer average of 112 bushels to the acre, 22 Where acres farm, averaged and he had had thirty acres more M 3 bushels per acre; 80 acres el that gave him ninety bushels to the this averaged 113 bushels per acre. acre, Mr. Reioheri informs us that he Many small tracts of oats threshed irrigated these oats but once during by this machine averaged from 75 to the season. He thinks the neonle nnv a 11 II 1... I. .1 mimmi Pe. aeie on sou groundml.too much attention to Irrigation and that had been plowed last Call lor not enough to drainage Ackertnan spring plowing Mr. Dan showed the best average of which we THE SUCCESS OF A YOUNG GER have heard, where thirty acres proMAN. duced LVtOO bushels of oats. The .lit' Mr. Christ. Weiss came to the Bear ferenee in yield between fall and river valley ten years ago and sought spring plowing Is about 28 bushels work as a farm hand. He found the per acre, and land that has not been Work and plenty of it, but he made up In alfalfa for more than three years his mind to be his own boss, and now will fall below this average so much be owns 120 acres of land a few that It would not be considered profit south of Tremonton. He makesmiles theable by good farmers. renewing report for this vear's har This valley la supposed to excel Forty acres of oats yielded 80 any oilier part of the United Sta'ei bushels per Mere: i acres, 'id bushels in he quality of Its oats, as well as P acre; 50 acres, 100 bushels per Its yield per acre. As corn Is not'acre- - As the price he sold for was grown sere WCCOesfully, oats always P?r 100 pounds, it will be ob- comiii itid a g'H,i prb-for horse fee,) served that the returns were more In the local market (40 cents a bushel 'ban $35 an acre, which is near the usually), and owing to superior qual VHe$ he paid for the land at the time ny our oats are in demand at the "f purchase Mr. Weiss Is also meal mills where they are ground for something of a breakfast food. potato raiser, and we may have someBear rler barley finds a ready thing to say about hlB spuds before market at the Utah breweries and at we get through. present prices is about as profitable THOMAS LYNCH'S BARLEY. as oats. In order to how that 1907 has not Wheat on Irrigated sod land will been an exceptional year in the Bear yield forty bushels per acre, and the rivet valley, we submit the following price here is 80 cents a bushel, which taken rrom The Times of 1906: is above the usual price Experienced Tom Lynch, who cam. to Hear river farmers ptate that It is as easy to valley from Peoria. III., harvested In gei i en bushels of oats per acre from I KM, ,006 bushels of brewing barBee rtrer vaibv soli as fortv bushels ley and 1,235 bushels of oats from of wheat, and that oats usually a twenty-niacres. This same give land larg' r profit. yielded In i9o:t n bushels of oats About seven miles west of Tremon- to the acre of the entire twenty-siton. at Thatcher, resides Mr Alan acres. li'x he, who reports his yield of oats And here is another from 127 seres of land as lO.iujn bushThe Dean farm, three and els, an av.rag. of nearlv S3 bushels tulles west of Tremonton. had one an acre field of barley In 1906. containing Isaac Hurnhone. unoth r alrln twenty five acies, that yielded 92 farmer, living In the nt bushels ner a, re u hi. t, f.... je Point IxHikout. bad eighteen ncres of, cent,, p,.r bushel Mr. O. O. Rector e e e . - x one-hal- f one-hal- s lar-me- r, the-Uta- out-doo- r 11 |
