| Show MOTHER I 1 bonneville ra ONN AND THE BEAR RIVER VALLEY av by 11 I 1 V cardon united states department of agriculture nephi utah ages ago when old mother bonneville had finished her airving of the great basin after she had sculptured the face of each mountain and shaped it for a future usefulness after she had laid each valley with strata of fertile soils brought here from the hills by busy eroding streams after she hall had taken this wonderful aon region safely through its infancy then she went northward and left to man the rearing of her off offspring sprig for him a great task and a noble one in ill her wake remained many widely varying COnditi conditions here a desert broad and brown and hot there a well formed fertile valley beautiful in its make but sadly deficient in that great essential to life water again a valley of like character but more fortunate in that many streams crosscut cross cut its grass greened floor then in places a combination of all these conditions existed and such a valley is the subject of our theme all was well planned in the beginning and ably finished in the end leaving mountains and valleys to shelter clothe and feed the progeny of the little army of men which came later to conquer tile the desert centuries after the departure of mother ther bonneville there camp came across the plains and into the struggling bands of patient suf suffering ferin god fearing fearins I 1 homeless liomel ess people blazing a trail of two thousand miles from civilization liza tion into the heart of th tha western wilderness where dwelt the child left to their care ages ap before just why the they should choose to stop on the shore of tile wonderful inland sea rightly named ly by them great salt lake is a query not to be discussed here at an any rate there they stopped and from a hilltop gazed out upon a vast expanse of salt laden water surrounded by milvi of sage 0 covered land it was a wild sight and not an encouraging one was this the land of their dr dreams eanls this land of apparent waste they hall had been heavily taxed and tried before now and this was no sweet end to their troubles some were tempted to turn back others to go further on and preparations were made for doing so but they lid did in neither cither for suddenly through some unknown power their leaders saw into the future the he sage lias has been removed from the face of tile the land and in its stead were ivere beautiful farmsteads f alyin between and connecting up great cities of much worth and si significance they trev remained and toiled ind and endured and succeeded in ill tile hie face of many stin stinging 0 id 0 failures others followed and some went avent further westward and more came and so it continued today through mans work tile the great basin is even more beautiful perhaps than mother bonneville had hoped for and it grows more beautiful and more wonderful each bear car th wonders or 0 the future are only to be imagined lying laid in the hie heart of one of oc the most fertile portions of the ireat great basin is the famous bear river valley described in tile the foro fore part of this article as being a combination of all of the condi lions left in the wake of the old lake thera is no place in the great basin and even beyond its bounds so wonderful in an agricultural sense no region so filled with opportunities no valley more adapted to the welfare of man than the bear river valley vahey flowing in southward the bear river enters the famed bained box elder county on the north and passing through vast areas of deep rich brown soil it empties itself into tile the northern end of the great salt lake close to the rivers rivers banks and far from them are acres of fruit tree the fruit of which compares with the best grown in any region apples and peaches peaches and apples all down the valley while liere here and there connected up by beautiful farm are thriving therivin th rivin cities of much orth hiorth and si significance ance surely this is what the leaders of that little band of men standing on tho hilltop on the shore of great salt lake foresaw this is the beginning in of tile the realization of their vision tile bear river valley is a valley of good fruit and it is far farned famed as such at many fair its fruit has taken lead over all competitors peti tors on the market box elder county fruit is sought after and demanded these things are due to the soils of the bear river valley being rich and deep the land being of a gentle slope and easily irrigated and the climate being ideal for successful growing of all small fruits melons and especially apples and peaches many have early discovered those facts and others are fast becoming in aware of them for this valleys greatest recommendation is tile hie success of its fruit upon the markets of our nation well organized or anizel and working 1 in a systematic manner the fruit 0 growers of the bear river valley are setting 0 an example to all other sections of this country they believe in good fruit culture in ill getting tile the most out of the soil with the least possible injury to it they believe in proper irrigation and not water waste iu in the application of properly established scientific principles and not dot in the art of guessing they further believe in the proper marketing of their fruit iu in the protection of the consumer and in allowing tile the fruit to tell its own story of tile the wonders of their district but box elder county is not limited to fruit growing alone within and outside of bear river valley stock raising and dry dray farming dairying and the sugar beet industry are successfully practiced just as successfully in fact as is fruit growing tou much cannot be said of these activities ti tivi vit ties ic so for f 0 r they t i are deservio deserving ones cones but the occasion of tin this s ar tide demands more of a disca discussion sion of fruit growing in bear river valley splendidly situated in the center of this valley resting on an 0 alluvial fan left by tile the old lake 1 bonneville is the city of brigham t this city has been called tile homo home of good peaches and that statement is to be fully verified ven by all visitors on peach day the color the flavor and the soze of brighams Brig 0 hams peaches are ansur i j passed this is due to tile the ideal location of brigham is as a peach I 1 j center possessing a well ivell drained soil and being bein protected prot CC t C 1 I from severe winters rs and late spring frosts the land in the vicinity of this city is naturally adapted to reach peach growing but that point needs no proving it is ad bitted milted by all and peaches are so plentiful and so inviting and so good that the people of brig liam ham desire that everyone sli share alPi 5 their good fortune and know of ofa their peaches and taste then them they well know eliat one taste will lead to another and more but they the are fully prepared to satisfy all tastes and the 0 mood good citizens of brigham are noted for t their hospitality |
