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Show Western Letter. Following Is a letter written by N L Brown of this city to tho Weekly Herald published at Dayton, Tenncsseo: Garland, Utah, March 7. Dkak Hhhai.d: As it has been somo time since I have tried to writo you a letter let-ter if I cuii collect my thoughts long enough I will give my friends through your piper a few lines from thu northwest north-west part of Utah. I have been In Hoxelder County cloven months This Is known as Bear River Valley, !lftccn miles south of the Idaho lino. This valley Is noted for thu production pro-duction of wheat, hay ami sugar beets One sugar factory cut over 80,000 tons of beets last year from 5,000 acres, which turned out over 21,000,000 pounds of sugar. This Is thu greatest sugar beet country, I guess, in tho world. Good laud and water hero Is $150 an acre. Wu ruKo from llftecn to twenty-live twenty-live tons of beets an aero ut f 1.75 a ton. Wo grow almost everything that Is grown In Tenncsseo except cotton und tobacco. Fruits and berries of all kinds. Not much sweet potatoes or clay-peas. Spring wheat runs from 30 to 40 bushels to tho aero Not much fall wheat sown. I made 120 bushels of outs lust yctr oil one acre. Our climate hero Is 11 little colder than East Tennessee and tho cold season a little longer. More snow and not so much rain. Wu hud lots of ruin lust siimmur, but as a rule we irrigate crops. Plenty of water in tills valley for irrigation. irriga-tion. I will be in to visit Tenncsseo about October, 1007. With best wishes to Tins Hkiiu.d, 1 close. Yours Truly, N L Brown. |