Show BEAR RIVER AND BEAR LAKE LARF WITS bome some ON GO oper acion BY H W N the ample bosom of these blended and alid magnificent vai val valleys leyes rests on three of the inland territories of the growing west idaho utah and wyoming each claims its portion of this rich domain which in summer is luxuriant in grasses and speckled with growing herds berds cf cattle watered by bear river and ats tributaries tributa rles ries and adorned with the flashing crystal of the beautiful lakes iube labe in which the la selous lus ins clous and fine ly flavored trout finds its most moat congenial haunts this thib valley or series of val ey eye ss la Is in possession of an industrious thrifty and intelligent population whose hlll villager age and towns dot the mountain slopes elopes and whose prophet prophetic fc outlook gathers in their distant neighbors as they mutually incline from opposite sides of the wide spreading grassy plains bet between weon wean charming in summer rigorous in winter and at all times suggestive of a flourishing future these settlements have pas passed ed the rubicon of hardship and uncertainty until patient toll toil now finds ample remuneration i and improvements consequent on understood stability are re everywhere apparent the center of this stake which is under the presidency of Wm Budge in the town of paris it is noted for its persistent f and successful application of the operative cooperative co principle and by clinging to the first suggestions made by president young and reiterated by his successors has proved that in union there is not only strength th but likewise labor comfort and wealth like many of the settlements of the operation while it had llad been exhibited in the creation of ditches and canals in the building chool housea hoffes and meeting cousee received a grater impetus w n advised and practiced practised in regard to the importation and supplying of the masses with merchandise most of the colonies and settlements of the saints adopted thia thib plan many however making it the beginning and the he end as a matter of 0 comoda ac t fon ion and profit the few who rave nave it wider range and felt that mercantile needs were wen but the stepping stone to better bettel things havo been and now are the advance guard everywhere in regard to industrial and financial independence while the laggards and the th short sighted have with the same certainty and unanimity bartered their means for that which Is ia not bread brend the little bustling store of paris was waa opened in 1874 there was no excitement over ita its birth but amid some misgivings there was hope and faith that it would prove a blessing to the people it was in ia shrewd and prayerful hands and cautiously feeling neeling its way in 1876 it created the dairy and I 1 farm the following year it added a tannery shoe shop harness shop and shingle mill in 1881 the tin shop tailor shop and butcher shop were suggested then a wagon and machine department were wore added now the several branches are each doin doln their special work for the cong vengence veni ence advantage and unity of the people there are halt hait a dozen dairies in the neighborhood which have all done remarkably well and supplied local demand as well as furnished several carloads of cheese to in salt nike nake city the operative cooperative co Dalry dairy from its commencement to the close of lar last season 1882 has manufactured a quarter of a million pounds of 1 cheese fifteen thousand pounds of butter and thirty thousand pounds of pork the value of which reached the aggregate of and there is yet room for enlargement or the formation matlon or of new companies in looking over these beveral several branches itnyre is found to bo be about fifty bands employed and since the beginning over has hns been paid for services rendered three thousand pairs of bootland boots boot sand and shoes were ma made do last year from leather of an excellent character calf kit and bole boie tanned with good pine bark barkr neither stinted in manipulation or oil while there lilis haa always been bun a good dividend yet this has been accounted secondary to the elucidation of a principle and the influence of an example e individual interest was limited by safe bounds and end stock felling was deprecated on almost any condition finally half of all the profits were retained and c capitalized a zed save that of those who b had a reached their limit and it was waa imperative for them to withdraw so bo that the causes which have disen d many coop co OD e tor esat ebat all events have liere here been unknown uThe The a mount amount of buil buyl ness tram transacted acted up to the last fiscal year exceeds and the profits have averaged more than 15 percent per cent per annum upon the stock the original capital capit nil nii as provided by igl igi investors was about 00 the tho capital stock Is ia now over while the goods gooda build ings inge machinery and plant are valued at less lebs an indebtedness of about the number of stockholders remains intact there exists great necessity now for expansion the people have the means they have confidence in their leaders and directors rec tors torb and a good presentation of i ibe be matter si simply appears necessary to a further extension of the advantages of operation cooperation co |