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Show Pencil "Pushers" Visit in Idaho I Tells of Sage Brush Country Changed Into Beautiful Homes. IIvdb Paiik, Sept. 27 After a three weeks sojourn in Idaho, we arc now home, and will again send you a few Items. While In Idaho, and northern part of our beautiful Cache Valley, we were very much surprised at the rapid changes that have taken place dutlng the last few years. To sec how the dry, barren sage brush country, has been changed Into fruitful fruit-ful fields of grain, alfalfa, and In some places canals and fine young orchards, Is truly astonishing. A conservative estimate of the grain raised in the northern part of Cache Valley, from Bear River north,.- would be about three hundred and fifty thousand bushels. Preston, the metropolis of northern Cache, Is rapidly forging to the front, and Is surely destined to become a great city. Some of the finest farms, orchards and homes of the valley are there. Should any one think that northern Cache can not produce line fruit, let them goto Preston and learn their mistake. In the orchard of Robert II. Dalnes, we measured an apple thatwas 14 Inches In circumference. cir-cumference. It was not the only one, but tlieie were- ma,ny similar ones. The beet crop Is Immense, and the people alt have plenty to do, to take care of the abundance or good things they are blest with. Beet digging commenced last week in II) de Park, but the storm soon stopped It. The crop Is an averai o one. It will require a great deal or labor to harvest it. There is con- fa slderablc sickness here at present. L. L. Nielsen, one or our aged citizens is quite sick, and last week George -Hancey came home from "Poverty Flat," and Is now down with typhoid fever. Mrs. William Follett Is In a precarious condition. Several young children are also sick with various complaints. The new house or Mrs. Sophia Lee is nearing completion, com-pletion, and will be one of the beautiful beauti-ful and substantial residences ot the town. This will make the third house that has been built' on centeratreet , this year. The political pot is beginning to simmer, and soon ''there will be a hot time In the old town tonight my boy." |