| Show A GOOD COUNTRY I 1 ADVA advantages oti 09 THE trib SNAKE RIVER VALLEY Y ririe FUZE CHANCE foit NEW SETTLERS AmE AMERICAN rican nicAN FALLS ALLs idaho ter january 1685 editor deseret news As this country is but little known abroad and is supposed by some rome to be q quite U ite out of the world 1 0 rid I 1 thought it i might 1 t d do good goed d to give 1 1 you 0 u a short history t or of oto olo the e region re relon ion lon and the people tha that inhabit at it it t below the falls three miles is warm creek next js s little creek the inhabitants being nearly all latter day saints are organized into a wardani War dand are under it the care of bishop william neeley seeley we have a comfortable lo 10 log 0 tabernacle in which we ile hold meeting meetings s every sabbath and much of the g good spirit Is with us the tov town n is known by the name of neeley ville we nave have a day school and a sunday also young mens and youil young ladies mutual improvement societies socie bjes i the soil boil here is a sandy loam and anti much of it is very sery rich xich prodoc producing ln wheat oats barley rye and corn also cotatges pes squashes melons onions beans peas cabbage in short all kinds of vegetables common to our mountain country we have a range for stock summer and winter and many horses cattle and s sheep eap are kept h here r C we also ila iia have v e a good abood market for everything except grain there is no floering flouring flou ring mill and hat that makes wheat lowin low in price oats are worth about 90 00 cents per li hundred hildred pounds Butte butter raud and eggs which are in much demand bring a good price we are arc three miles nilles fro from in a r railway station estatio n at the american falls is a good place to build a floering flouring flou ring mill there is water enough in snake river to run rila one b undred hundred above aboa C th the e falls are several creeks and the soil is of the best quality tell ten miles below rock creek and there is much water timber and and good I 1 soil the inhabitants are mostly foo too roll latter aa day saints and are organize organ organized iza izZ into a ward under the care of bishop thorn they also have a schoolhouse there is enough of wheat in the two wards before mentioned to last uhe the people two years the grau gran granaries aries arles are arc full in fact some are not large enough to hold all that the people have taic and they are obliged to store many luany sacks of wheat and oats in their dwelling houses at neeleyville Neele we have a saw mill at which good lumber is manufactured on rock creek red cedar abound some sonic trees of which are arc two feet through the two wards are arc in box nox elder Stake under the presidency of 0 snow As a general thing perce peace and good goodwill will prevol we had a fine eail fall alq pleasant weather until christmas i since it has been very cold and we have had more inore snow than during the last two winters much of the range ground i is bare andt heie thele is a better snow for fol olf file fhe opposite side of snake river riser than where we live many thousands of acres of good land can be had bad there and the water can be taken out of the river to water it and the expense of taking laking it out will not be more than looped LOO per pei acre the oregon short line railway runs through chit shit it I 1 have written this by request of bishop billion neeley seeley your friend and nd well D B DILLI 1 |
