Show CASTLE VALLEY wyaus castle castie valley august 11 1882 editor deseret news mema bo so this is the much talked of castle vr valley valley vailey iley we came in at the southern extremity and have traveled on up to this river which la Is at the northern end of the valley how the idea one forms as to the appear ance of any place or tb thing ing is the op posits of the reality I 1 supposed the valley to be a long plain encircled by blue rolling mountains instead of which it is a rough broken country with many hills and ous tabled mountains the south end presents much the same appearance as does our own dixie minus the volcanic rock the ground looks rich however and has hag been a eplen splendid did range for or cattle but now from one end to tho the other of the valley all tb that at is left of the grass grabs is in the memory of the oldest inhabitant and innumerable dried up parched looking stubs ranchers have used up this county in a graz ig point of views view so 80 say bay the bet bev tiers e thousands of stock having been kept ept there b before it began to bo be settled up coming to the muddy dathe the first alist settlement verily we found a muddy stream some few famil ramil famines res have nado a heyy good start here heres and grain look looka well twenty five miles further on vo we toach roach castlo castio dale which sa Is to be I 1 have been told 0 the county peat tho the place Is more moie bulit built up than the others but the natural facilities are no better than bom some other eother places still travel log north twelve miles on hunting ton is reached did I 1 eby eay that all the settlements here are built down along the banks of the streams thua making mailing long narrow towns huntington ia is also a stunning lIttle place and here as everywhere grain looks beautiful about twenty nilles miles north you strike the price biver river ten miles from irom the crossing Is the mouth of the canyon through which the denver bio kio grando R B R Is fat fait paa pua pushing hing its ita way eastward the valley around price biver river 1 Is isi 3 much larger in fact there are arup arap anaple 1 if f facilities for a good sized settlement here theland the land also looks richer the river Is larger and there Is a mountain of emi coal near by ilmy in my humble opinion price river elver is the place in this valley game abounds all through the country but here it seems more plentiful if anything jr stories are told by such men as rhodes and Gremes that distance the tales talea in novels of hunts for 1 grizzles griz lles fights and narrow escapes from a hugging death one man has h s been killed hilled in this valley by ft A bear deer and antelope are very rree free frei frel fre e i seen and killed hilled and of oro 0 course many of the smaller kinds hinds kin bin da ott oft game wood Is plentiful around this 9 place and and a saw mill is jn in operation 15 miles up th the 0 canyon iv I 1 I 1 am to told d a town ia is oon foon to be laid I 1 out on ahia ahls price river eiver and L V would cordially advise any who are il in search of good comfortable farms and hombs homes to come here aa as there is no better land in plenty of wood a very good supply of water 1 many fortunes in the coal abounding here herel and it is on the line of the I 1 mentioned the poor grazing facilities but reliable men assert that there are excellent ranges up in the mountains before closing I 1 want to speak of the warm welcome we received fromi framl frona i a young couple living here do you you know what a long lonesome lonee ome hot daya days 1 travel is in a ing your destination after dark dartt strangers in a strange land ifa if you do you will know how pleasant piere plese ant it was to be asked by the lady of 0 the house to come right light in and have supper smoking venison light dumplings dump lings and good soup made a feast for a hing king this oddly contrasted with the over thriftiness of a good man who charred charged guirty y ata ta for a small smal armful of wood in a place where wood was a cord elee Elce blessed are the hospitable br for they shall ahall bo ba welcomed in heaven HOMESPUN |