Show LETTER FROM SCIPIO Scipio Oct 8 3 1894 The little town of or Leamington situ situ- situated situated aled below the mouth of at Leamington canyon on the Sevier river is enjoy enjoy- tag lag a local boom at present The Ibex Mining and Smelting company a corporation that owns awns the principal mines in the Detroit mining district II la Is erecting a smelter in the mouth OJ of the canyon on the north side aide of ot the river livet It is I a copper plant and will when hen completed give employment to sixty or seventy men Teams are arenow arenow now DOW engaged in grading the site upon which the immense buildings are to stand and the carpenters are busy at Wor work erecting electing the superintendents superintendent's headquarters Paul Johnson Joonson Esq aman a aman aman man of 01 great practical mining experience ex- ex experience experience acquired in Sweden Norway anu anti South AmerIca J Is superintendent of 01 oon construction and aDd will Woo lalla also when the plant is 18 built have bave charge of ot the smelting smelling He In informed formed me that he be expected to have havethe havethe havethe the works works-at works at least let two stacks stacks-iu stacks iu run run- running running running ning order within three uee months from Irom now The ore are to be treated at the works will wUl be hauled by teams from the mines to Oasis a Distance of at about thirty miles and thence shipped by rail to y seven miles further The smelter being on the opposite side Oe of the river from tram the rail raH railroad railroad road a bridge and a switch will be built across the stream The crops crape at Leamington are good this season and with the other prospects prospect before them bem the people of the little liitle burg which has bas struggled led for tor existence for lor many years have bave taken fresh hold bold good times in the future The people of at Oak Creek ba have ve recently completed a floe brick school schoolhouse schoolhouse house 50 60 by 25 feet teet It was built In 1892 and 1893 1898 and furnished last taU fall School was taught in it last winter b by Frank Hinkley and Miss E It oust cost about and is situated on the southwest corner of ot A II block adjacent to the public square quare Three of the thrifty young younK men of at the vil vii R Lyman Joseph son Ander-son Ander- Ander Anderson son and Geo L Duston set et out at their own expense last spring rows of 01 line shade hade trees on two sides ldes of the school bouse house lot ot They are black locust and are all growing nicely lending beauty and finish to the prop prop- property property erty already A pound bell nicely in a fine belfry erected on the center of the school house houle gives the village a tint of at metropolitan air The crops ot of Oak Creek are this year The people here bere are learning to use ule their limited supply of Irrigation water to the best advantage possible Thus early in the spring they wm will utilize their whole supply to irrigate their gelds later in the season they will turn it on their wheat fields and irrigate different kinds of at sma small grain with wih it and still lUll later they theys s J will put it to good advantage In in maturing their their beir potatoes corn corn sugar lugar cane etc Dry farming ha has also allO been successfully tried a at Oak OakCreek OakCreek OakCreek Creek and some lome of tb the citizens ba have even succeeded in raising railing corn without Irrigation It If the latter enterprise should prove a real success the pros pro prospects prospects of a larger settlement on OakCreek Oak OakCreek OakCreek Creek are very good At Scipio the people are busily en engaged en- en engaged engaged in erecting a beautiful two story school house bouse which when com com- completed completed completed will be the finest and most com com- commodious commodious structure of ot its kind in Mil Mil- Millard Millard Mil lard lard county It will cost COlt upwards of 01 and the enterprising citizens are building it too without bonding their district and without going Into debt for it The old Round Valley lake so well known to travelers In early Utah days has entirely disappeared disappeared and its Ita former soil IOU Is now covered with some lome of 01 the best bes farms inthe to in inthe the district This change is 18 due t to the fact that the people have en- en enlarged enlarged en enlarged their reservoirs iu lu an upper valley situated about eight miles southwest of ot the settlement which en- en enable enables en enables ables able them to utilize all tue water which comes down from the moun mun mountains mountains all ail the year round After Alter the Irrl irrigation season is over they simply catch all tAll the water in their reservoirs and keep keep ft there here till Ull ill the next season only allowing allo ing a sufficient quantity to escape to supply the culinary demands J Thus nothing is II left to perpetuate the lake and swamps which formerly plea pleased ed or displeased the eye of the by passer r-by r is noted for lor its ro- ro romantic ro romantic mantic mantlo location its fruitful fields Its fine brick houses and thrifty inhabitants inhabitants tants ANDREW JENSON |