Show THE BEAR LAKE STAKE the bear lake stake of zion embraces all the saints residing in rich county utah bear lake county idaho a portion of uintah county wyoming and a small email par of bingham county idaho idabo it consists of twenty seven organized wards and branches and has a total membership of t divided into 1282 1232 families william willia ii budged man of much experience both at home and abroad presides over the tha stake and resides 4 at t paris bear lake county idaho james hart widely known as a successful missionary in dary england and france and as a a church emigration agent in new york is flot farat counselor in the stake Preside presidency and george osmond now low absent on a mission to england seco second d counsel both reside in bloomington Bloomin gion idaho rich county thus named lu in honora honor othe late apostle charles C rich ur the founder of the settlements i in u the bear lake valley embra embraces t the he extreme northeastern part of cat utah h territory Terri rrita toty ity and contains five settlements of the saints namely randolph the county eat teat t woodruff laketown Lake town meadow ville and garden city they are AU ail fully organized organist d into wards ot the church the area of the county eon coa fists chiefly of which on the west rise to a considerable heige t 1 while the bear river valley on the east where randolph and woodruff 3 are situated is bordered by ana more gently sloping heights which are covered with grass thus affording 1 excellent facilities for pasturage taft I 1 abundance of rich meadow 3 noted for being grama very nutritious coln corni pen sates for many drawbacks ca causel ac by the long and often severe winter us rich county also includes the booth end of bear lake valley and half of the lake the W ae 11 range age on the west which separates thes valley from cache is quite high at ehte vt point and nearly thirty miles th through it is wooded with a prolific s growth of plue pine of the different species affording 1 the settlers plenty of wood and timber randolph ward cout aaning seventy 1 six families of saints 0 or r bembe mem bett embraces the town to of randolph a and settlers living in a scattered condition on their farms and ranches along bear re river aid also on some of it its tribe triba baries such as big creek little creek and utter otter creek streams all U X into the river from the west abi town of R randolph a adolp h t thus hue named in ft honor of randolph H R stewart one of at the founders of the settlement and aff first presiding fider elder is pleass pleasantly nUy 91 aita abed on a level tract of country on toe the west side of bear river 38 nilba int fel northwest of Evan evanston fiton in wyoming 16 miles south of sage ge station the nearest wo M railway station 0 on n gilb oregon short line and 15 anum southeast of laketown Lake town in bear balb valley the fine two story brick c court 14 house bouse built in randolph in 1888 to towe filk ys up high above the rest of the h e build ings in the town consisting mainly 1 small log dwellings there are however a few handsome brick and franc fram buildings randolph was first settled in 1870 and has been a hard place to wrest from the wilderness the fronte z were very severe in early times add for fourteen years the people did not na I 1 raise their breadstuff but this year the harvest has been excellent and the people who have stuck to the place are now getting gettine quite comfortable are archal bald mckinnon presides as B bishop over the randolph ward with gaoa peart as his first and olavus is as bis secona counselor woodruff ward containing 49 hijii members includes the vil or of woodruff and the scattered on their farms and tiers jere residing bear river kiver and on hea along ches ratus creek and woodruff Wool ruff creek one half of the people live about alb out Ee y townsite which is 10 2 3 miles th 0 of randolph and 22 miles evanston Bv anston by trail up we creek and an d down lost creel creeh lucratus ratus istance distance to royden croyden in morgan nty is about 45 miles and the dis die edw to logan cache county by idest t mountain road up woodruff fr down blacksmith fork it is k and 50 nailes the village of wood y lies on a nice flat near the foot west of bear river and 81 s hii niles miles surrounded burr by some excellent and farming land more abdow 0 W lers are wanted here as well asat as at and the opportunities of se here on easy terms are homes iring also settled in mod this place olace was sao and was named lamed in lionor honor of woodruff who paid fre ant t wilbord gilr ord ut to this part of the country of yea years rs ago john M P nuin number ber liter bishop of woodruff ward ter is the C putnam is his hie first savannah his second coun sessions S d or byron lear valley proper in which ear p river iver SH and woodruff fr are situated idolph about fifty five ve miles long include the ear extension bension long along a the idal eratus fe on the south its average width miles while it reaches a out three dab th of five miles at its widest ta and tapers off to mere canyons and lower extremity at its upper altitude at the lower end where wyoming stands is irville ville iw bisbo ve the sea level while its upper altitude of nearly feet fl has bill an where beni bear river en oos M the point the valley and where it leaves it riba Co cokeville keville hardly a tree or shrub eny kind grows along its banks y attributed to the cold and ich is hk WI ads which often sweep through part apart of the country ward has forty fi five ve afee town lies or members mern bers a majority of the settlement of af lake tom goelde ide it in ls rest on the adjacent ra up a fand d the kante and in the south end of round falley ley lying westward laketown Lake town beautifully located at the mouth of apt the extreme south in canyon like town wn aad of ef bear lake valley and on one e and wf miles milea south of the south end of t gawlake AW lake the townsite commands df a A j view of the lake and the entire ir lake valley and the whole ery aery to la indeed I 1 grand rand and imposing re lissome to acme excellent excellent farming laud land not enough of it nor yet water lent for irrigation purposes to ke laketown Lake town a large settle walt t the surrounding mountains ich recede jn in crescent form bif if nature intended to make as for a settlement are low and with grass gram thus making be population of lake town much of a stock raising as of a wing comma nl tv the town is 49 I 1 from evanston wyo 29 miles nth th of paris and 39 miles from mont tiler idaho the nearest railway sta boqi ira kera man of the hardy pioneer style 11 has jurisdiction in lake own n as ishop bishop with joseph irwin booe a of the th most successful merchants althe tl the valley and joseph weston as meadowville Meadow ville with its 22 families or members men abera is the smallest emal leet ward in rich county it embraces the settlers residing in the north end of round bound valley including a few families in the village of Mea meadow lowville niile which is situated at the base of the mountains on the westworth west north of spring Cree kand sur our rounded by extensive meadows which hives gives the place its present name ahe village la Is four and a half miles northwest of laketown Lake town and nine miles south of round valley which is separated from the main bear lake valley by a low spur of mountains is somewhat circular in form and extends north and south for a dis tance of about four or five miles mies with an average width of nearly three miles bishop joseph ki kirn m ball a son of the late reber heber C kimball Kio iball presides over the ward which was first set led in 1864 garden city ward with forty one families or saints consists of the north end of rich county bordering on idaho and includes the village called garden city where most of the inhabitants reside this beautiful beautt ul place is situated on the west bank of the lake the shore of which at this point is lined with fine groves of cottonwood and other trees the facilities for farming at this place are quite limited as water for irrigation purposes has to be brought from swan creek bev seven en miles distant on to the strip of bench land on which the town stands thia This strip of arab arable leland land is only about a mile wide and is formed by the mountains receding in a halfmoon half moon shape away from the lake at thu the point where the village stands while the base of the foothills north and south n are washed as hed by the waters of the lake leaving bare barely ay room elou enough gh for wagon roads garden city is four ana two thirds miles south of the boundary line between utah and idaho 19 miles s south of paris and ana 29 miles southwest of montpelier 1 aho 69 59 miles from evanston and 40 miles by nearest p practicable mountain road east ot glogau Lio gaii cache county this place which was first settled in 1877 is now presided over by bishop robert calder with david cook and alonzo cook as his bis counselors from the foregoing it will be seen been that the five wards warda of the church in rich county utah have a total membership of 1413 souls aeouls or families famil iee there are but a small number of non mormon Jl residents in the county ANDREW JENSON GARDEN CITY rich county utah sept 19 1891 |