| Show summit dog gog county bunij 1 within the last diw few days we have seen and conversed with juge 4 rhoads ad and others from summit county who speak very hi highly ehly of that high region especially for stock raising purposes at ramas kamas prairie judge rhoads settlement there has been a large accession to the population this season beason and pack and russell are building a saw mill there which will be in running 0 condition before long lie he reports that his hig cattle horses etc wintered extraordinarily well weil sv elland eiland and all bis his animals are now fat ile he has a large flock of sheep and from one hundred and eighty ewes he be has now two hundred and twelve lambs which number wi I 1 yet be con siler slier ably increased the bridge across the weber that was broken down a few weeks since has been rebuilt and the improvements along that stream are said to be progressing steadily there was much rain there with some hall ball at the time this valley was similarly visited week before last and it has been quite frosty till recently it will be useless in all probability for the settlers to plant indian corn or sugar cane in those elevated valleys as the warm seabon season will be too short for the maturity of those crops but wheat barley oats etc can doubtless be grown to advantage from what we have seen and beard of summit county we are strongly t of the opinion that stock raising as a general thine will be a more profitable business there than grain gro growing iving sving and particularly sheep raising as the hills and mountains will furnish excellent pasturage for flocks and her herds heras 1 I nearly all the year round |
