| Show written for this raper paper TOURING THE COUNTRY aw As two utah boys traveling in the ibe interests Inte reata of home borne industry Indu atry we send gend io a low few observations journeying with team we crossed back baca of the promontory on the north side bide of great salt lake from brigham city to the great flat from the meadows meadow below the city 0 hommes homes and extending northwest north west to parrisis 8 ranch ganob at blind naLs in and among ong the bille bill Is an immense farm ing district the brin bri oRlou ginAt out of the great bear river canal into the two or three large irrigation streams has ha brought under cultivation many fanny thou send and of acres of land this whole flat of over twenty miles milea across is now almost one continuous string of farma farm W H ilowe esq one of salt bait ladt le energetic citizens has haa taken a leading leadin ii part in the interest inte reet of the canal company and la Is working for the development of this country auntry A new town beating bearing his bia name has ban sprung up to in the hi last low lew year from roseville boneville Bow Row eville to Snow snowville ville there to la nothing of much importance except grazing country a few watering places and an occasional loae reach ranch on cur lew jew creek which heads lu in the north near snake river just juat over the hilla bills back of the me promontory tory to la the snug little settlement lement arnold goodlette was waa called from mated malad to pioneer timis work the settlement hae bee enlarged considerably in the last few yarl making homes for many letter latter d day y S baina 1 ts the good people of this section ol of the be country under the leadership of bishop A Good goodliffe Goodle leffe have made this wilder neve blossom like jike the roae leaving our many kind friends at ai all traveled north and west 0 over ter a continuous rolling plain for over fifty atty miles the monotony of out our jo journey urno y was waa broken only once by a lone ranch about twenty miles milea out just juat as aa the canyon widens out on ab the great expanse of plain on casoia creek la is Cor currants rants A mill a store and ana a few residences loom comprise prise this thia place piece following the creek to the she base of the mountains looking east in a little round valley la 19 elba casaia co ida ids the home ot of bishop enol taylor and hia big pr little flock the people generally seem wealtny sod and prompt r oua one spiritually api ritually but are somewhat poorly oft off this thia tall all in consequence of 01 drouth and the ibe rabbits rab bita down the creek a short abort distance and add over the foothills foot b ilia to the north aboud fifteen miles la Is the county most A bloo blod the business part of albion I 1 ic composed compo aed of stores the court boube hiltel etc and educational the residents reel denia are bacr in the more rural parts parta ot of the country the idaho idabo state logli slature appropriated 1 for the erection or a normal high school at albion the work has ba already begun an alii dadds adda greatly to its hie of the place back to the south went wear ei circled by the mountains mounta ioa is albion waro composed of about fifteen a of latter day sainta saint bounding the motin mountain tain to the north we followed a long dugway and ad were soon eoon in oakley valley to the went reaching across tb the wide valley can be seen in the distance the low mountains moun laine near the celebrated and wonderful lul shoshone falls to the right and only about me von miles away we can see bee the snake river winding its serpentine form down the be long valley on either side bide up and down this immense stream la is one of the greatest farming districts yet unoccupied in the west efforts are already being made to bring this wai waier er out lu in canals on either side aide in advance however of this bt project private citizens olt izena of oakley are organizing for the purpose of pumping water from the rivet river and thereby securing sume some of the choicest land before the immense protect project is consummated fifty and people probably will be able to ID the near future to finn find ahmes hi mes in this valey from american falls fall oo on the east to the shoshone falls falla on the west we next journeyed south for about abou I 1 twenty five live miles and as we near the fout cout bills mouth s jtb of us ui at the mouth ol of goose creek to la oakley the metr ophe of cassia wake As we neared the farms barma and of the town we were greatly amused at the numerous oumer oue lack aak rabbits rab bite there must have been thousands of them they seemed to come frum from behind every brush and shrubs sod and bunched like so many flocks of sheep the good people here are prosperous spiritually but feel very buor temporally scarcity of water and numerous oum erous rabbits have jul jud t about stripped them of their substance the people were preparing paring for at attack ou on the jacks rhey intended to arrange a funnel fence fur for ome situe length and by turn ng out oui on eu means masse drive the des destructive rodents in there and subject sub bot them to a blab re in of so many accidents at rabbit budta lu III the past pants the authorities have discouraged cou raged shooting on such occasions bounding the mountain to the south and just as we COME to second ascend coming eastward we make a sudden sodden turn to the left end and pass through the city of rocks backs hete here obscure be cause or of its distance from the more p populated ports of the CLu oi la is one of the grandest gran deet and most romantic scones scenes in the west encircling tibe the outskirts of a little volley valley and by eruptions washings or otherwise arranged like rows ol of bouses steeples of cua robes buni bus luese ceso blocks block and every conceivable shape of structure are massive white rooks rook towering heavenward As we rolled westward and climbed the basin of the little valley the moon brightly back oo on the scene and we thought we had bad never behold beheld a more magnificent natural view than that which arose before be ore us it was late when we reached almo the last town in our round round of the monota iii here they seem to have tied had better success and have saved some produce cassia county through scarcity and being so isolated is like a little kingdom of her own making her bar own prices and mending manding her own affairs wheat wee was a bushel onto oats 1000 1000 per hundred g gounde unde and potatoes per barrel t the fact that theme good people do not live lire io in utah we found them more loyal to home industries dus tries than in often found at home we trust our veople people may learn a leeson joeson of their idaho and build up the west by preferring home manufactures to importations HOME INDUSTRY |
