| Show NOR I 1 OF VISITS KAT no depression Depies sion relt in fit ahat favored spot WHEELS 01 INDUSTRY CLICK TO IT the honorable mayor of sawtooth visited the gumbo flat saturday and paused upon our streets to make a critical study of metropolitan con dillons urbane handsome affable his honor was cordial in his hand grasp to hia his many f friends but all the while ceaselessly I 1 is eye roved the town the people how they spending their money and what the butlo ik k was to the question put to his honor how are your people riding the depression 9 hon replied depression hell mean depression 7 9 faint no such animal out our way haven t heern tell 0 such a varmint hon has a brand new money maker all of the profits of which he will snap oft off before the gilt wears off it I lie Is hatching hena hens eggs with flying fish As the waves beat up against amassa valley hon saya says the force of the water throws myr lads of flying fish high up upon the ledges there they lie ile exhausted un able to move but ceaselessly spray ed by the surf so that they don t die but with absolutely nothing to do until they recuperate wl ich us lually takes twenty one days I 1 pro vide em ein with sittings of hens eggs keeps their occupied they become content and it costs me ab sol nothing he put a corner on eggs in our diggings and before the populace got next carted oft off thousands of 0 dozens and bought up all the mar ket eess rose in retail price when the merchants found out there were none in town says hon gives the hens a lay jay off you fellows work em too hard hird first you work up down gayln tai eggs then you work up down donn and git em louzy sitting on em I 1 let the hens take a lay oft off let em roam the placer diggins and get nug gets in their craws and then when the squawk sounds like money I 1 dig em open and make all expenses can pan out 16 a day among the chickens and not halt half work by the time the eggs are I 1 atch jd j d the mayor of sawtooth tells us the fish are rested fly oft off the ledges and a new shoal of them are spatter in bothin to do remarks his honor but put eggs under em and that aint work at all hon has the right idea and as it isn t a one crop system but a dl oll versification of labor and a double output the more storms the more water the more water the more fly ing fish t thrown rown up so the bigger the hatch the bigger the hatch the mo moi pullets to get nuggets in their craws diversified like that we re to the berries FOR IT now for a cast iron bill to scratch with the chickens and the more storms that beat on the rugged cliff coast line of amassa valley the more wet down here helpful in every wa way y P things lookin better n better every eve ry day in ev r ry a ay says his honor the genial mayor of saw tooth thus are the blues driven away and depression ended more afore success to you hon mayor come often eess it could be excavated mr cropper some of the first ti timbers niters over from fillmore tor for the dam and also hauled the first load of rock from the lava flow to the south of deseret A little distance east of the dam they found an old river bed leading southwest tor for about three miles and his this they found would serve as an excellent canal they decided they would use this old river channel to carry water on to the land how ever they had a distance of about yards from the dam to the river bed through which they had to jig aig a canal in fredr to tae the tle water into this old bed this excavating they had to do with shovels and wheelbarrows as the settlers did not have such things in those days as slips or tongue scrapers so the earth had to be hauled out by hand a real undertaking after much hard labor the dam was completed the land cleared of brush and the corps put in that bear ear the virgin soil yielded wonderfully ertuly big crops were harvested and the set tiers were happy and their hopes ran high they thought they were done and that the worst was nas over little did they realize the maent tude of the task before them before the old sevier which tor for thousands of years had run unhindered into lakes would submit to be safely bar har hessed and made to serve man ev ry foot toot of progress and every inch of advance made in the deseret coutney haa hag been stubbornly resist d by nature and has been overcome only by dogged persistence and re heated efforts no not ghost towns but ghost projects there are in this valley where men of wealth have sunk their thousands yes hundred of thousands which testify that subduing the great Pa livant val ley has been a task of no easy accod ment in 1862 the dam went out which disaster was repeated each year until the settlers got discouraged and amov ed away no further attempt was made to get the water out until 1873 which Is s another story to be continued in an early issue by thomas IT pratt |
