Show THE UPPER SNAKE RIVER EGIN fremont county idaho may majr 3 1898 perhaps a few items from the north fork of snake river will be interesting te to many of your numerous nun readers your correspondent coart moved into this locality ane years ago this abi spring at that time but little land was fenced and the grain raised was to 10 hundreds of bushels while lucern and tame hay bay were correspondingly scarce many of the reau residents lents were trappers ranchers and others who seemed to have no permanent abiding place now there are iwo wards organized hore viz parker P 0 egli and egin 1 P 0 edmunds anti and the necessity exists for their division as they occupy too much ground hu deeds of miles of fence is now put up mostly barbed wire and the small email grain crop for 1892 was nearly forty thousand bushels with a great abundance of lucern lucer n beed labed lucern hay bay potatoes basup peas squashes me june cabbage etc tomatoes To matues mud and small fruits do better here than in any other place of similar elevation that I 1 have seen in fact gooseberries goose berries currants and raspberries rasp berries are wonderfully pro duc tive apples pears pluma and cherries are a success where properly oared cared for the soil sod varies trum from u L loamy volcanic sand to a rich heavy beavy I 1 clay the water supply is almost unlimited SA w timber is in not so oo plentiful near by as could be desired dedire desi reu u but building timber and fence poles from thirty to to forty miles die taut are comparatively cedar posts and wood are six to ten miles distant the proposed townsite of st A anthony which has been selected belec ted as temporary county seat of this fremont county joins the parker waru ward on the east we have the finest mud and moot moat extensive exien sive range that can be found west of the rocky mountains mountain offering ott ering bummer feed for hundreds bundred 8 of thousands of sheep bud and stock cattle though provision would have to be made for wintering them fish and game art are not dot so 80 plentiful as they were but they are still abundant the lanu land in the immediate vicinity of this place to Is mostly taken up but there are very many land owners who would be glad to sell a portion of their claims at a price and avoid the disagreeable agre agreeable emble Iter Oter native of mortgaging their homes to u pay debts incurred incur reu in the buying of machinery etc I 1 do not think that wore more than ont tenth of the claimed laud land is under cultivation probably far ar leua letia than that thai still we have been paying taxes un on all this u unproductive property perhaps this will suffice for our immediate neighborhood but volumes might be written ot or the flattering flat cering yet truthful character the great snake river valley the facilities offered by the teton basin upper lupper fall river teton bench rexburg bench and lany many other places it would be impossible to enumerate in this beitf article CORI coal has been discovered in several places some of which ahio lh rivals rival in excellence the famous article from rock springs there Is in an aban 1 glance danoe of building rook and brick cla clay y almost everywhere lime kilns kalns are turning out oat as flue fine a quality of lime as I 1 ever saw anywhere lumber and r hingle mills grist mills mille brick mills potteries chesti cheat factories etc are keep inu pace wito wita the general progress pro greeB this upper snake river offers in duce menie in such virleta and profusion as aa utah never old to all classes of intelligent nodest enterprising and determined settlers the bannock stake already out numbers several ut of the older stakes and Is yet in Us its infancy the disabilities of the mor mohe mobs have been removed their franchise restored and there will be a rush for this promised land that will soon appropriate every available nook and corner to those really desiring homes of their own let me briefly recapitulate thousands of acres of land large rivers of water thousands of square miles of timber and grass building material convenient and abundant and a climate unsurpassed by any in the north temperate zone for its adaptability to maturing a great variety of products here Is a chance for you and your children to escape being mere howers hewers of wood and drawers of water committees will be established in the various towns tow us and villages for the purpose of affording information to those in search of homes regarding unoccupied lands lands landa for sale or exchange etc I 1 should not omit to mention the grand opportunities offered for the education of the young in the rexburg academy and the numerous district schools witti within in the reach of all there are also numerous and finely appointed appoint eu mercantile institution s which are abing doin a thriving business we need more good mechanics mec banica good blacksmiths a 1 especially settlers what more can an you reasonably ask first come coale first served respectfully JAMESH JAMES H MASON |