| Show IN WASHAKIE VALLEY may jtb 1898 this valley has had a very late cold spring indeed this thia week has brought the first growing weather where last week weak there were only gray fields of lucern stubble and dark patches of wheat land today there la Is a green attire the abe change is ia very acot the farmers here planted most moat of their wheat last tall tail rod and should it fall fail as aa there is i a little tear that it is ia going to it would be a severe lose joaa to them ua so they have not the seed aeed to replant and if they did the season is so far advanced that it would be am practicable impracticable the farmers of this thia valley had a hard experience during the past year grain being BO 80 low in price that many chose to hold it over until the spring ume dome even borrowing money at a high rate ot of interest inte reit for that arp oae but this spring finds the market improved the Lama alte barmer feels feela the hard times as aa keenly brother havink having adopted a m his bia white his ways waya he be feels feela himself compelled to purchase tools toola and machinery pay build fences and buy wire all of which is ie an expense he be bothin about when hel be led a nomadic life iffe especially has hla his experience been a trying one in making canals before it was wa possible to tio make homes here in washable it was waa necessary neoe wary to build a canal to convey the waters ot of ome springs near Sam samaria bria a distance of fifteen miles milea through a rugged country this thia cost coat an immense amount of hard bard labor but in connection with three white brethren they kept at it until the work waa accomplished shed which took a number of years while while they were thus toiling at the ametine ame game time struggling with pv everty pr erty some ome parties who had bad settled near the head of the canal had commenced using their water so ao when they finished their canal anil and got ready to use their bard earned water they found these parties claiming a large portion of it mind and it required an expensive lawsuit to compel them to delisl A succession of lawsuits were instituted but the be rightful owners were successful each time until this spring when they became involved in a lawsuit with MS M B williams and through a technicality way lost loat the case which will be a severe blow to all who depend on the canal for water the red man does not take kindly to lawsuits but considers his own codes far superior to the white mans and a great deal less lees expensive and as if to make his bis trials complete they are compelled to put up several miles of fenceton a county road which to is being opened through their field this spring thus they have their troubles and perplexities in connection with the rest of mankind the health of the people is improving there have been considerable sickness and some deaths during the wi biliter liter li D J |
