| Show UTAH utan COUNTY ITEMS PLEASANT GROVE august 23 1883 1885 editor deseret news pleasant grove is the greatest fruit producing town in utah Wm win wattie wattle Wadley y alone has gathered 00 bushels of apricots this year your correspondent visited his beautiful place and tested his excellent grap grape esland sand would have done doue them ample ampie justice had not the storm prevented which broke upon us with great fury on saturday tile the 9 1 at 4 pm M the rain descended in sheets and in a few minutes a flood was running I 1 down what a few minutes before had beella been a dusty road the storm has done some damage by its severity 7 to the fruit destroying nicch much that was out dr drying lug ing the he town of pleasant piea Flea sant grove continues to extend its borders and it is only a ques question tion oi a short ioime time when it will be one oce continuous town from lehi to the last named place for american fork is extending each way to meet lehi on one ono hide tide and pleasant grove on the other american fork has improved greatly in the last year the new stores of james chipman and WW Jackson are ornaments to the town bishop wm wro bromley browley is erecting a fine new house that is tip up to the square and ready for the roof while quite a number 0 of f other improvements are botic win grant who handles the NEWS for the town is as lively as ever and is trying to push the NEWS to the front assuring his friends that it is the best paper published business in these towns is quiet but firm and excellent crops have blessed the efforts of the husbandman but the prospect for a market for the prod products acts Is is not at all flattering however all hope for the best everything is quiet peace prevails revall sand and plenty seemingly amounts abounds one thing appeared strange to your correspondent in this community of farmers where stock is kept on excellent pasture and where an abundance of hay Is put up and sold for a LL trifle not a pound of butter is to be bou bought lit in the sores scores now one would think that here ia in a district so well adapted for it creameries crea meries would be established and an excellent and uniform article of butter would be manufactured and placed laced on the market at a profitable price rice instead of the supply and prices fluctuating as they do ilow now no butter in the stores or else eise the market glutted and prices run down to a figure that it does not pay to make it for the fortunate parties who launch into this business are sure of a good thing and a I 1 profitable investment besides being a help to their neil nell neighbors gabor as they have ample facilities for placing such a product on the best markets some ot of tiie tile more extensive farmers here who have striven in the past to find a market for their hay are no now w turning their attention to stock raising with the intention of feeding their chiy hay to stock and then making sales of the stock instead of hay realizing that they will thus be better able to reach a cash market A great improvement is noticeable in the ireat great horses honses and cattle through the importation in por tation of blooded stock which tends to enrich the country and it is quite q nite evident that ilithe in the near utah will be able to take the lead the tile best stock as she does now with the most pure and correct religion L |
