Show PORTAGE BOX ELDER COUNTY UTAH WHERE IB IS IT editor deseret evening news the tho above question is being asked by bya a great grea t many persons and as several have been misinformed as to where it is I 1 thought I 1 would inform them through the coi columns 1 of your valuable paper portage is a new settlement laying at the foot of the mountain one mile and a quarter U arter south of oregon springs idaho 0 and one mile south of the idaho line it is sixteen miles north of bear river bridge and lays right on the mail route to virginia city montana there are eighteen families living in the settlement sixteen from wellsville I 1 cache valley and two from lehi two are close by whom we found here brother thomas green is our presiding officer at present with whom we are well weli pleased through the energy of our young brother wm H R anderson we have a post office of which lie he ha has been appointed postmaster and we consider he is the right man in the right place there are 70 inhabitants in this place including men women and children childr en and three months ago there was not a house on the ground we expect to have an increase of from forty to fifty families in the spring 1 I know not what can be done for the gathering of the poor as we have had no one here to try us yet we have a good location a good president and good meetings and we intend by the blessing of god to make a good settlement here W |