Show MORE U BEAR RIVER VALLEY utah farmer fanner sees two hundred million millio t n acres of grazing land employment FOB F OR EVERY MAN climate stimulates and exhilarates lady gives reasons why it is a good place to live in f e A lady who Is familiar with conditions in bear river valley sent the following article to the dallas post of dallas penn now having seen what our la land nd will do let us take taka a look at our cha chances ti to market our products the utah farmer has practically no appo opposition for seven hundred miles in any direction he sees over two hundred million acres ot of grazing land upon which are millions of sheep cattle and horses whose winter hay and grain depend largely upon him he sees thousands of coal iron gold silver copper lead salt cuip sulphur her asphalt and onyx mines whose mint mini ers rely almost wholly upon him for food in addition to the two old railroads the southern pacific and the oregon short line for the past part eight months we have had a very I 1 much shorter route to them tn in the san pedro los los angeles I 1 R R and in I 1 11 r n 41 dollar contract was entered into for a fourth railroad connecting us ua most directly with the pacific coast aad and the great southwest the deseret farmer has the tol owing lowing one of the advantages of the new san pedro and los angeles railroad to this section was alde made apparent last week when A H snow of Bear river valley famous peach man was offered by a los os angeles buyer an extraordinary price for from twelve to fifteen carloads of utah peaches claiming that the quality and flavor of the utah article is superior to the californi Califor Calif orril nl product this buyer also stated that los angeles Is prepared to use several carloads of utah potatoes daily ENI employment FOR ALL I 1 every man woman and child cabi find good paying employment from seven to nine men nine months in the year beet work Is paid tor for by the row or ton or acre and rapidly working young men or woman women sometimes earn 3 per day work for all the men obtainable tai began this year early in february and will last until november at prim prices ranging from 20 to 25 cents per hour for common labor 1 I clip ri tram gal the Tro tremont utah stahl times A person ta tavell ng through the country and observing th the e large number of small boys and girls working in the beet fields cannot help being impressed with the bene ficle nt results achieved upon the advent of the sugar factories while the work for toi such youngsters may seem aldous to some it Is far better than to have them running continued on page three more about the bear river valley continued from first page the streets and indulging in language and practices that are anything but commend commendable abl e there are arc not more than halt half enough here to do the work and lor for that reason japs have been employed in the valley all summer cost ot of living averages about the same as in the east while articles of eastern manufacture are higher ty meat hay and coal are cheaper and one ton of alfalfa will go twice as far as a ton of timothy no fuel I 1 have ever used equals utah coal THE CLIMATE conditions CONDITION TS ye we have an unusually healthful climate unlike the country bor dering on the seas and through the valleys of the inland sections where the humidity Is great the atmosphere is rare and clear A breath of the morning is like ilke wine it stimulates and exhilarates the death rate is very small about eight to the thousand population people live to ripe old age and die not from disease but like the tree on the eastern hillside because it is old the weather is 13 perfection lon over days in the yem year zero is especially cold weather but the cold is not felt like it is where the atmosphere is dense in this altitude the air being light does not chill as it does in lower local atles and we never hear of men freezing or even getting frostbitten as they do in many of the older states the climate Is especially favorable to those with weak lung sUnless too far gone cases of consumption are cured after a brief stay here the rarefied and pure air Is death to the germs and the patient recovers his health and strength and lives to alss the day he came all over utah may be found rugged people who were not expecting to live when they arrived but who have since regained their health it Is true that some die but ln ance th e asoli they delayed too long in an unfavorable country and the atmospheric conditions here could not befar miracles but the man whose lungs are effected only to an extent that his strength has not been totally impaired can core here and get well other diseases which elsewhere are view ed with horror yield readily to treatment and the people are free from the dread that takes possession 0 of f less fortunate when typhoid fever diphtheria and kindred ailments lurk in the air all over the valley nature has established iia natural tural sanitariums in the shape of hot mineral springs the waters of these springs are very efficient la in many diseases and in rheumatism they are arc almost a certain cure for every case THE SCHOOLS OF UTAH in the united states utah ranks in population third in education and first in the fro proportion portion of pupils attending to those belonging books pencils pens everything needed by the pupils except clothes and food Is furnished free by the state and no teacher in the rural schools is paid less than 50 per month the course of study for the public schools of utah tall was fas pronounced one of the finest shows al the st louis exposition the state of utah not only invited but urged all who visited the louisiana purchase and the lewis dark clark exposition to inspect the school exhibit which astonished thase who did not before know what wonders had been worked out of the raw material beginning 50 years ajo ago with no aids by a state which places and has al ways placed her schools at the head of all interests GOOD REASONS GIVEN in conclusion let me say that my husband or myself have been here two thirds of the time three whole I 1 summers since early in 1892 and my observation observation Is that this is as gooda good and probably the best place for a poor man to come to for th the e following first the bigger the family the better second healthfulness unexcelled climate fine third schools the best fourth yearl yearly Y income of families from two to four times greater than in the east according to the size of family fifth cost of living not much ifancy higher than in the east sixth capabilities of the soil no land on earth has made a better bette r showing seventh avenues of employment for women a D dairying cows are arc kept at the smallest cost and with a separator sepe every cow nets its owner from 30 20 to so CO dollars a year b poultry and eggs almost double eastern prices and no more expense c bee culture one woman I 1 know came west with a sick husband little money and eight colonies of bees in seven years she had colonies of bees and cleared 1500 a year meantime her sick husband got well and her only child a son grew up into a physical giant alfalfa is natural bee food lastly developed land is cheaper tor for its quality than anywhere else and the experimental stage having been passed there need be no guese aea work about what a man is buying ALICE P BISHOP deseret news |