| Show THE OP OF THE paris bear lake laike co ida october 29 1898 A trip through this part of the country at this season of the year Is not only interesting tout but very instructive to one who reads as he runs or rather rides there is not much to be seen though in a midnight ride from cache valley from 11 p tn till one nears soda springs at 7 a m the following mabern ing ing between this place and montpelier a large force of men are axe making good the vall railroad road track where the great wreck took place a short time ago and soon nothing will be seen or known of this unfortunate affair but in the families of the dead engineers firemen the brakeman and the runaway conductor who I 1 am told when he saw what was the result of criminally disobeying orders gathered up his grip and fled no one at present knows where the oregon short line is doing a heavier freight business than ever before train after train all day lone longwith with thirty or forty heavily loaded cars show that this company has all the weft borte it can possibly do soda springs has a grand WY motley chance for some same man who will erent a flour mill mil just think of it at this WI tell end of the nineteenth century the farmers and in fact everybody have are to go to mill thirty miles to montpelier Mont before they can yet a grist ground into into flour besides soda springs there Is also the people of gentile valley nounan bounan valley and portneuf Port neuf have all to go thus far before they can their wheat into flour taking two days for man and team and sixty mites miles travel to get bread there is a chance to make money and lots of it A roller mill at soda springs would toe be central for all and would find work nearly all the year on arriving at montpelier Her at a tn jack frost had bad the town under his grasp the sidewalks were an inch deep with frost it was just after a storm but all is very pleasant ant now in traveling through the towns of paris montpelier Her ovid betin and Georgetown in northern bear lake county one sees that the farmers f a r mers have been prospered more the pst past year than in any a ny since this valley has bet been settled grain has joeen raised in abundance and of a good quality the frost have kept off weeks later than usual camal and for once no frozen grain is found bound in this valley and as you pass through the country coun try the people are fall pip plowing wing and sowing also getting thousands of acres ready for planting next year in riding through the country with assessor and collector robison Rob lson he says bear lake valley os is the gem of the bocy Moun mountains tIns for a man and his family to gain an easy living everything grows spontaneously hay la ia abundant abundia nt cattle command good prices and the little grain raised heretofore has been done one the easy easygoing going plan but this season has given the bear lake farmer a pointer and he is quick to tio grasp and improve the shining hour so ao in the future in addition to his fat beeves juicy muttons buttons mut tons his immense hay stacks ati acks he must like the man in the scriptures crip tures pull down his little granary and big ones but his soul will not be required of him at that particular tame the ground squirrel is a great pest peat here they are very destructive to all kinds of grain bear lake county mr robison informs me has paid thas year as it a bounty 2250 for the destruction truc tion of these pests at two cents a fadl and notwithstanding no twi ding that immense number have been killed no diminishing of their number is visible some wag says they cut off the tails aind let them go but as no bob tau tail squirrels are seen this must be doubted these little pests increase twice it a year and the first crop have an in crease before they go into winter quarters which is in the month of o f august they live in a dormant state from this time ouie till the snows go off in april kind itna then come out as healthy and hungry as the festive tramp the badger are the farmers friends as they dig these little fellows out of their thedr holes boles and destroy many thousands yet with the bounty they are here by th the e millions before closing this letter I 1 would aak space apace for the following it will read like a romance but it is one of the many phases of human life W while jia in bennington Benning tan I 1 was introduced to an aged gentleman who bears every mark of education and refinement sixty one years ago he lived in Sef and in that state resided a young lady they formed an attachment for each other but some same evil disposed person through jealousy separ abed them the young lady received the gospel and came to nauvoo and has been through all the trials fro from M that day she came to utah soon after the pioneers and married a mr graham I 1 know her in cache county thirty years ago the man mcjames Mr James Mo Me Cowan married and went into business in philadelphia and got 4 rich he was also in the union army in ih late years he had a longing domire desire to JD find and out what had become of the girl who bo had gone west with the mormons cormons Mor mons wa to a friend he learned she was alive and living in bennington bear lau lake county idaho and he wrote t to her prom from her reply he found she had been a ik widow thirty two years then aca as a married man he told her it would be imprudent zor tor him to correspond further so go in a tew few years his wife died and A lingering desire came over hiim to a see of his youth and ae he cormons mormons in uth so go he took a 9 ticket SOT montpelier and came here v ten days and returned but blit mt aw pha said to 10 me a power over which he had ivo he control impelled him to seu sell us hia substance and come back he did neo md he then sparked his old love of natty one years before and being in that this blushing young bride ewt would wt not a man outside detho rf the church lie he embraced the gowel gospe 11 wre were jollied in holy mabrl mcw james jaes mccowan aged 81 and hannah haanah graham aged 77 no MD cards and they are as happy as two little doves in a cote the health of the people here la Is good they are prosperous contented and happy I 1 have had bad a successful business trip and the weather though cool coal Is very pleasant |
