Show PORTAGE portage nov id 10 prospects for suc lul ful crops are at present very bright the tall lall wheat Is mostly up and green ereen fields can be seen on all sides wheat Is bringing a good price most alost of this seasons output has been marketed at prices bioni to lo per bushel the truthfulness of 0 the old maxim so oft repeated that the more a ton gets tho the iloie they want has per naps been veril verinel led with nith greater plainness this season amongst the farmers in disposing of their products than for many sears past especially with the pocatello man who freights ills his grain over the mountains into malad valley where lie places it upon the cars the roads are continually lined with these good natured souls and if 1 any ono one lit in all this wide world of ours deserves serves a few cents above the market price for his crop it must needs be ahen to tile the man aho vho ft ho tills the earth in ro catello valley the soil front from which he produces pio ducos duces his crop is tile the richest that lays out doors tile the Nin winters are more favorable for the production of dry land wheat than elsewhere of course lie ho does not have quite so much to as most people but oien alien ills thirst is quenched lie he is able to do more manual labor than any other class of men and perhaps before ne lie concludes with nith his story the purchaser has bas given a few cents more for ills his grain than lie ho should have done but bu t the buyer neier regrets ills mistake atter after he be thoroughly examines his purchase he finds unusually large bright plump golen coin wheat in new nen bags free from from smut rye and weeds the best yet that has been unloaded then tile the smiles become mutual the wheat leat crop for tills this season in the little snug valley above mentioned is estimated at about bushels while the expectation for the coming season will not be less than bushels tile the jesse jcsse M smith co now has seeded 1400 acres to fa fall 11 wheat S ivansen about acres etc portage is not yet finished as has been reported this season a beautiful bushel capacity steel elevator has been completed a credit to our village and tile the construction of a bushel steel ware house commences soon at out our siding aidin several surface wells are arc being driven by modern machinery good results stean steam plows ai are beg beginning luning to cultivate our soil J W V hawks left for logan to attend the land sales by the promontory curlew land co oliver C hall half has recently returned from american falls where lie has been dining the summer improving his homestead lorenzo hastings and jimmy reed have gone to southern utah for the winter on a trapping expedition john johll F conley is still in fit the grain market regardless of prices A new butcher shop by the alie way lias has gone up lit in our midst ous school is running smoothly the Y A HI AL M I 1 A made a good stai stait t tuesday evening N with ith all officers bishopric and a large number of members present the twelve year old daughter of flails N and maggle haggle knudsen is on the Impi improve irom irdill nil lit attack of typhoid |