Show IH 1 yon VON 0 it u lio ito in 4 i abhi ad hi J JA af 1871 aw 4 bli editor deseret news mems A few items r about rich bleh county whence I 1 have justi just returned frome From haniton Evanston which point 11 I 1 reached byrain by rail trall to montpelier there theres is a continuous valley down bear river biver with an average width of about three and a half miles the distance be bei bel i tween these two points ia is in the neigh boyhood of one hundred miles the soil is goodard goo dand susceptible of profitable cultivation ia Is easily watered from copious side streams and bear river biver all of which abound with trout most of this valley below evanston is in utah grass building timber and nd water are very abundant mountains on the east and west low like those in bear lake valley antelope very numerous a herd of were seen at one time and place by several persons on the bottom below below randolph ran Ban dolph the day lre I 1 returned to evanston persons from ban ran dolph and lake like town had bad killed a number of them they would run them down through the snow without difficulty one was captured alive I 1 since bince rely lely hope that the whites will let the antelope and deer alone at least so long as we have tamu tame meat to eat the wild game belongs legitimately to the indians indiana I 1 woodruff henry lee bishop anil and randolph randolph ran Ban dolph hockaday stewart bishop are very promising places and ofner offer every facility for settlement by the poor woodruff ia about IS 18 miles mi 1 es from fr 0 m evanston randolph ran Ban dolph some 12 miles still further down the river both situated on nine fine ane side streams four miles below randolph bardolph ran Ban dolph is a nice place for another settlement the pass or summit between bear river biver and Bea bear rake sake valleys is low and easily crossed the distance between lake laue town and ran Ban randolph dolph is s about 20 coal has been found some 13 12 milea miles east of woodruff i another town has been surveyed north of bennington some eight miles named georgetown the people of all these settlements been seen seeni to be feeling very well and methinks nie thinks that all ail they need is well directed operative cooperative co labor to mak maker them ethem A alfin prosperity with so much building timber and other othen materials so very accessible I 1 bad had hoped to see greater improvements in the dimer different settlements especially the older and Import important antones ones mrs Super superintendent of the cooperative operative co store at ht st charles told me that in the last sixteen months their store had netted the shareholders 1 per cent on their original investments this prosperity is partly traceable to the low prices at which their first of general gene ral merchandize merchandise dize was purchased and in paying for it in grain which they freighted in which transactions they made profits hence the large largever 1 per pr centa gei I 1 kl at theu the wyoming and rocky bocky maun tain coal beds I 1 found a goodly number of our people the gentlemanly superintendent in of the business at abb the wyoming colliery kindly offered the brethren their brick store for use to hold meeting in a week ago last sunday we had a very good meeting about souls in and outsiders listening with respectful attention to my remarks the trie roads snow and weather favoring me I 1 made the trip last friday from paris to evanston a distance of eighty odd mues III in twelve travel traveling travella ln I 1 hour course I 1 had several relays of 01 an imala in haste aaste respectfully etc A M MUSSER |