| Show facilities AT HUNTINGTON HUNTING TONI 1 i FERMENT QUESTIONS PUT AND j REPLIED TO huntington HuNTiNG los lox emery cop co coy p utah october irth 1884 1881 editor deseret news in order to avoid answering from one to half a dozen letters each mall mail I 1 deem it wisdom to answer all at once through the NEWS I 1 am asked have you any room for more latter Latte pas Pay day saints at huntington yes what alq ar the facilities and climate we have about acres of land and water enough to irrigate lt it we ve have an abundance of cedar and pinion pine wood near by on the foothills toot foot hills also extensive coal beds from six to ten miles distant and plenty of saw timber and building timber from 10 to 25 miles distant we now have a wagon road made about fifteen miles up huntington canon which stream affords some nish fish nabi and the road gives us access to the lumber and building timber and we wd h hope e in the near future to haye baye the r road noad oa opt opI completed to the line between this and sanpete counties that we ma may have an outlet to bau ban Ban Eau pete utah and salt lake counties but some say you have not got a good stock country well we do not claim that we have as grass Is very scarce in the valley yet we have good summer tango on the mountains west of the valley and in some parts there Is winter ranze range for small email herds of stock but as 25 this Is a farming district with no fence law of course it Is no place for sor large herds of stock the farming season smon our cow herds do very well the cows are herded during the day and an corralled at night but those have persevered and good lucern patches scan can make their cows wore more prod tabie table by amne them thega v lat kat good feed of lucern at night and morn ing but what is yow yog climate and can you raise fruit yes we can raise the hardy kinds of fruit lor tor for that has already been done and I 1 think that grapes pes may maybe b e raised in abundance the dhe he soil Is of a heavy clayey na nature and therefore cold and backward in the s spring pring but when warm weather comes on vegetation grows wavery gro very fast generally speaking the winters are cold and dry deer are plentiful on the mountains indge and we frequently have a treat on their dell clous flesh Is the land all taken up in that vicinity no there thera is some moro more to be t taken up under the direction of a committee and we contemplate laying out a ditch that will coyer coyen three or four thousand acres of ouen land and land and we propose to locate three or br four mea meg men upon a quarter section so that thai there will not be large quantities of unoccupied land under under said canal there are also chances to buy land with a title to at at froni from five to ten dollars per acre our occupies les ies one section of jandis landis baldoff lal ial laid doff off occuE into locks blocks 33 rods square with faur lots la in a block and the streets arosix rods rod wide except two main streets which are eight rods rod wide there being but few waste lots there are good lots in the tha townsite town towa site for fear we weary the patience of your readers we will close by sq savins inz lne that the frost nipped some of our late grain and corn on the ath and bothof september but we trust that suai clent has Us been raised to bread the tho settlement including the newcomers new comers the health is genera generally speaking good bours yours truly ollas olias FUL neb ner |
