Show THE NORTH COUNTRY NOW and for a month or two hence is the time of all times to see seethe the country this part of the continent because it is verdant only during v the summer time and that not a s very v ery lengthy one everybody knows that this is a backward sea son through all our valleys it is koiv now near the middle of june with the longest day at hand and yet most of the sown and planted vegetation is but little above the ground and some of it only corni comi ing through nevertheless for grass lay and small grain the present appears to be one bone of the most favorable season ever enjoyed in the territory the prospects are flattering for fine crops and if nothing untoward intervenes there is li a likelihood of stack yards and bins being comfortingly full after harvest harrest going northward north ward we take passage on the utah central IL railroad and are carried along at a pleasant pace out of this city of orchards past the warm springs and the hot spring lake which latter has swelled to very large proportions within the last few years insomuch that it would make a capital place not only for pleasure boating but 1 fr regattas boat races race sas as it must be somewhere about two miles long iong by a mile wide and has a placid f e appearance it is a fine piece of water and if it occupied some of the lower ward wards or was immediately at the foot of the city west or south it would vastly ell eil enhance hance the appearance of the landscape as well as become the moat popular of pleasure resorts As it is it is a little too far off leaving the lake we speed outwards through the smil smiling ing fields orchards and gardens of bountiful or sessions one of the garden spots of the territory and pleasant t to 0 look upon the mountains receding in a sort of crecent shape and the laud sloping sharply from them centreville Cen treville and farmington follow loi lok along there tile the mountains approach us again and the salt lake comes close to us usi to vary the view then we branch off westward to kaysville rays Kays ville the great bench intervening beaw between e en it and the mountains and the lake keeping at a respectful distance passing on to our left several miles mile a is hooperville hooper Hoop erville ville and soon we come to the weber bottom where the muddy weber rushes northwest north west ward though not quite so swiftly i and voluminously as the water marks show him to have done but lately the iron bridge over the roily rolly stream is crossed and we are in ogden at the depot where the four roads the utah central the utah northern the union pacific aud and the tho central pacific meet and where various engines and cars run boand fro in a manner rather to bewilder the stranger who does not know the lay of the land here the musical voice of thu tho hotel is heard and we find out where we can obtain refreshments or stay the night As the depot at ogden is but temp temporary omry the approach from and to that city is not very imposing nor very clear to the uninitiated and he is likely to stand a few minutes and consider the best way for him to take to get handily into the heart of the city if he wants to to those who knew ogden years ago and lave have not seen it for years it will appear much changed with a marked increase in substantial I pretentious and showy houses and other buildings s if we wish to continue further north we cross the track of the Utah Central to the west and going few rods northward we see the diminutive carriages of the utah northern narrow guage inside of one of which retake we take a seat after a while the engine comes to us and pulls us along out of ogden we pass through a wilderness of green willows with a few trees interspersed and an occasional small clearing for fur gras grass or grain cross the ogden river and various various subsidiary streams and swampy overflow ings for itis tho the time of high water and fiby tiby jpy and sud by the z ields fields open ont out onty and andl the grass stud find grain crops appear A few miles along and we leave north ogden 1 tb 1 the east and slat erville tarther further to the west continuing on divers farms are passed and willard wallard city or willow creek settlement is reached a pleasant place here the salt lake laho comes pretty close to us again and the mountains are not far away nor have they been for some distance on and off leaving willard Wi liard ilard we pass through bome some attractive meadow and farming country near the settlement and our next stopping place Is brigham city or box elder this is a on a hill or high bench I 1 at ting the foot of the mountains to our right coming down within half a mile of the railroads itis IQs evidently a clean pleasant prosperous city the city approach to the depot is the finest of any on the journey jorney coming down a gentle gravelly slope at a right angie angle with the railroad with a row of fine trees on each side of the street it would c constitute 6 nati tuto tute a beautiful and imposing avenue leav leaving ino ing brigham there is some more meadow and farming land which looks very inviting from ogden up the most of the best farming or grass land of each city or settlement appears to bear northwestward from the respective city or settlement the central pacific road which hitherto from ogden has kept ua us compa company sometimes close and at others more distant shoots onn for corinne and leaves the utah northern alone we continue our journey and come to a large shallow lake through which the road runs a mile or two and through which branched eff athe the U N line that went to 0 o corinne about five miles westward now we have an uninterrupted run for several miles a pretty straight run much of the tb way toW towards ardth the e head of the valley and hamptons Ham the mot moi mountains in to our right vary from within a mile or two down to nothing from the road if we have thought that tile the utah northern being a narrow gauge creeps along at a snails pace we have by this time become undeceived for the cars rush along at a rattling rate that equals and indeed surpasses the speed of the wide gauge most ordinary people would think think the narrow gauge goes fast enough for them along up here the mountains are rather steep ste epand and almost precipitous generally genera ly rising right up from the valley without any high intervening bench another peculiarity of this stretch of country from willard and especially from brigham city to ham bam hamptons tie tee tons is that along the foot of the mountains there stretches a string of farms and faro farm houses mostly but not invariably lying east of the utah northern and varying from a field of a few acres to a mile or two in width there are house houses sand and farms all the way with very few intermissions west vest pf af the railroad and some portions of the way east of it there is much land of a swampy nature with a sort of half barren over jordan look about it this however like the over jordan cout country try furnishes much pasture land of greater or less fertility and value much of it being wet enough these strings of farms farina and long strings they are we understand are known as willard north string t willard south string 13 r ig A brigham in north string brigham south south routh string and so on in IP many places laces in these strings little evi evl dence denee ence is there of running Sti streams eanlS eanis for irrigation though we see a few small ditches with a little water in them and occasionally a pond and or slough or narrow lakely there are pi probably y springs of greater or less magnitude in various places starting from the foot of the mountains apparently nearly on a level with or sloping gently to the tho body of the valley much of this farm land may be naturally moist like the bottom lands hereabout and may not require irrigation or buttery but very little of it certain it Is that many of the patches of grain look very green and vigorous some near the road do not look so flourishing many of these farmers evidently practise dry farming pretty dry farming too some of it seems to bo be As we near hamptons Ham we can see that many fields am are of rye which is headed beaded out rye leing early and better suited than other grain to dry farming but the crops do not look heavy the houses along these strings of farms like those in the settlements generally are of a substantial nature and me are evidently milt wilt b by I 1 if T A pe people 0 w who 0 menu mean to stay the ii houses uis ran range from the log hut but to the tho brick brlek or rock structure of one story story and a half and two stories not a few w 1 indicate n cicat e a comfortable well weil t to d do 0 position 0 s fol for for their owner sand band some out ut not all are adorned with orchards ards jand and nud aud shado trees 4 |