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Show GEORGE SMITH HAS PRAISE FQRJHE FARM Qecunes Land In Box Elder County. Crops Are Look'ng Bully. "Land's the Thing" Mr. George O. Smith of this city, returned Tuesday night from a ten days trip in Box Elder county on a land hunt. Georgo brings homo with him a thick lower Up, a pleasant Btnllo, n few wood tick scars, nnd a mammoth bundle of rich talk concerning con-cerning tho ripe possibilities for homo making, and land speculating in western Box Elder county. Whllo thero ho secured a nice piece of land and Is happy ovor the prospects ot soon having; a waving Hold ot golden grain. Ho says tho storm was a hummer, hum-mer, causing all tho farmers to tnko a few days off and rest and rejolco over tho nrosnects of a bumner croi this fall. Tho roads, said ho, "wero Just like a plowed field, tho grain fairly jumping skyward In tho sun-shino sun-shino after tho storm had cleared away." Mr. Smith left with Mr. A. G. Lundstrom nnd made his first stop nt tho big Lundstrom-Carlson ranch. From thero ho went through the Kel-ton Kel-ton pass, over tho Black Pines and took a look at Strovcl, Bridge, Naf, and other growing settlements. Tho Lundstrom farm ho says is looking fine, and his brother John Smith who has a fine farm In this vicinity bids fair to harvest from G000 to 8000 bushels bu-shels of grain. "Whllo wo aro working work-ing around here," says George, "making "mak-ing a few dollars theso fellows nro out there becoming rich nnd independent. indepen-dent. Thero is plenty of good land there nnd at reasonnblo prices, and tho fellow that gets hold of somo of It will surely make no mlstako." Mr. Lundstrom then left for homo and Georgo remained to take In other sections of the country. Ho stopped atrSnaw.vllle, a thriving, settlement set-tlement of Ave hundred people, with plonty of good land at Its vory door, wont down Hansel valley where Will. Greaves, tho Miller Brothers, tho Dahlo Brothers, Julo Wahlen, Mlko Andrus and others ot Logan, Dr. F. J. Freenor of Ogdon, tho Olohns, Halls, and Baughs ot Wollsvlllo and others from various parts of tho totato aro making phenomenal successes. Ho then wont on to tho Bluo Creek country where ho was completely harmed at tho dazzling sight ot tho mammoth farms of Lorenzo Hanson of Logan, W. S. Hendricks of Rich mond; Louis Miller, ot Hyrum; C H. Gunnoll, Into of Wellsviilu, nnd n score of others who have cast their lot in that promising section. "Thero Is no grain In Cacho valley that looks better than tho grain I saw'on my trip," said George, "and this land Is really the best Investment for a young man that I know ot. Just say for mo that It Is better than any other oth-er Job In sight." |