| Show ABOUT THE SNAKE RIVER WILFORD fremont co idaho june iota 1896 I 1 left blackfoot bingham county idaho sunday mornings morning the lost on the 4 o train to market lake passing idaho falls falis market lake la Is miles from salt lake city and to is merely a railroad tation station and lor for six miles south the track in ia in danger of overflow from the snake rivers river which out into a broad lake that to in already nearly up to the rails on the track all the gunny ache at idaho falls are ordered oiled filled with 9 and ind to defend the track from the rising riling snake river is likely to Ovel overflow flow its ita flat babka lu in many places this year prom from marret lake to rexburg it to is twenty two miler judge miles romney cahoon caboon is a son eon of mahonri mort mori ancog cahoon who it to is said was named darned by the prophet joseph the judge took us to the hotels hotel gave us our b breakfast f and took us ua over a rather rot rough gb road load of twenty two miles in tw iw hours bours ana fifty erb in time for or the bannock stake conference our train was waa over one hour late laie at market lake yet jet we were just in time for the first meeting we bad six very excellent inge meetings tings including severities seventies and other meetings and three meetings meeting wels appointed lor for elder stevenson Steven aou at parker wilford allford and balem after which president thomas E ricks bloke is to take lake us overland to lona ions bingham stake conference where we expect to jr neet beet elder M F cowley thence we proceed oa our elision to montano Mon washington and oregon I 1 am looking over the bench land at al overlooking the valleys and the peaks which tower up into the abe clouds cloud with perpetual ice and now enow also the range of mountains of 0 the yellowstone basin and grand yellowstone low sione stone park which Is only about 60 miles rodiles from rexburg Bex Rex burg henry lake is io at the me head of we tiie north nonh turk fork of the shake river while jacksone Jacke Jack ons sona lake empties into the south mouth fork of snake river there seems boerne to be no end to 10 the resources resource there la Is water and land for fer one million people at least during our ride surveyor john T smelly called our attention to a natural reservoir about one mile lung and one half balf wide with very little labor thin his can be made into nto a deep lake and he be pointed out the survey he bad x made ade to build a canal to supply the reservoir with waste water to bring into cultivation the acres of excellent beach lands awaiting human alj aid many are availing themselves of the he great opportunities thus offered elder peter flamm volunteered to take us a ride over to parker ward to h hold id a meeting the place is only inze balne miles distant but we traveled twenty miles to get there heading head the north fork 01 snake river by way of st anthony the county seat ot of fremont county it looked rather provoking to be obliged to go up the river so far and then retrace our steps back again in the same direct direction iou on the opposite side aide of the after but the broad raging river could not be crossed except on the bridge AM at st anthony the natural high stone abutment bring the river into about fifty feet space pace and here a bridge spans tb standing on this into bridge one eee so the cramped up api raging stream edream foaming as an it passes through its ite channel with the divided foaming rapids both above and below where it spreads out wide rushing foaming and roaring this Is ia a grand eight bight on either aide of the gorge are two great odd bec and the fishermen have a grand time ha hauling tiling in the mountain trout there are two kinde kind one Is ia somewhat like the ciesa of the salmon in color the timber limber on the crooked river marks the serpentine adding to toe the willa country ar a degree of beauty especially the numerous frill like which must be more than yards wide one man some time ago undertook to pass down tur tor ugh the narrow gorge in a boat beat this thia proved the last effort of his hia life as an he landed into eternity about four wise miles down the river we arrived safely in a scattering country own iown called parker after one of the oldest settlers of thin thia theo termed worth werth jess leaa desert many of the settlers are on 16 acre lots lota A meeting house marke the town we were hospitably cared for by delroy Steven stevenson sov a nephew of the writer who took ua no over his bia homestead consisting loSing of abree in which he has baa a partner never was I 1 more surprised than looking over the acres of wheat 80 acres of oats 15 acres acre of corn and 4 acres of potatoes aud and about 2 acres of bog posture paa ture this Is di taud up into two lots with a bog tight once fence lots of young pigs are on oa fur for the fall about one hundred Is in the yield each year of blooded bogs boga fron from these two lacern and timothy pasture said delroy last year I 1 took in gold I 1 do not sell my grain it to Is too cheap I 1 can ship hogs bogs easier than grain to look over the face of the broad valley val leyB dry and barren with only a kind of wili wild plant resembling the sunflower kun bun flower covering the surface one would be inclined to think tl tle the e country good for nothing except but the building ot 1 four canals from ton ten to twenty five miles in length and carrying little streams stream in all directions has made the country a fruitful field this valley differs materially from others the canals have boen been brought out over the sandy loam which formerly was moved by the winds like clouds of dust and the ou sub b irrigation has changed the me surface now where wheat could nit be raised rom 85 tu 60 bushels can be grown per acre the irrigation ditched are from live five to six rods abart and the Soak soaking irig the orope crops thus this loose sandy loam and an abundance of water have turned the barren desetto loto into fruitful fields fielde 9 at pm the people of the scattering bering town were brought together into the large meeting house and where so eo many came from was waa a marvel there were the millers nod and others of farmington davis county but bul looks looka of salt sait lake city descendants of the historians thomas thomaa bullock recorder of deeds deeda in 1848 io in salt lare city the first recorder of utah one outsider atter attended idea the meeting he baij this was thu the first church he bad attended for the past seven years and if w what bat be had bad heard was mormon ism he would be pleased to 13 bear ear more ot of it on the he following day we drove eight ates balm over to wilford and hield held another meeting at p m at salem I 1 found a boy ton ten yours yeara old mounted on a bulky plow and plowing two aliree per day this was wa so BO different to our salt bait like boys boy that out of curiosity curlo alty I 1 followed the boy turning up the sal e 11 sage brush brueh and all nearly one round how old are you my little mani man ten ren years what to la your name george victor harrie 11 11 Blah Pla convy yop yee air s how lar jar to is it around this piece of sage age brush land that you are plowing just one mile sir air Is since I 1 have taken this trip around a portion of this thia broad country and see bee that as aa far as an the eye can see there here to i still more country I 1 add one and a half millions to my JIM estimate of we be people hat bat can be accommodated bore although frosts exist at times and winds winda occasionally blow the elements elemen iB will yet as a in many ther places be modified and tempered some borne years yeara ago at parker president Preil dent john taylor looked down a dry well eighty feet deep and aad predict ed that that hat dry well should about J flow with water hanoe thoe thode tour four canals hava been brought brough out lout no not only does land sub ab irrigate but this dry eighty foot well flar fi jwo nearly full of water at salem alone there to la plenty of land and ana water in abundance for numerous nume rou homes bome EDWARD |
