| Show IN MORMON LAND the tile areat fertility of the promised land of the latter day saints its areat productiveness and wonderful prosperity under the tile above headlines head lince 0 11 hadley who baa has been visiting I 1 in n acklen CK tg len derl i writes the following letter W t I 1 owatonna Ow alonna minnesota journal under dat of nor 29 editor OF THE JOURNAL sill SIR I 1 shall be b pleased to fulfill a promise made miny of your oui readers by 1 giving sowe of obee etione and experiences in the great salt lake valley every year many of our cit zene zens pass this valley er et route for the pacific coast somi of 0 them adall themselves of 0 stop over ovar and a day or so in tit ogden and bait salt lake city they generally about the same people and us as at rule get information from these the tl leake able to g ve that that ie Is ani Lentic knowing this to be true I 1 hn liae e taken my time and shall form my opinion from pers personal oual observation and I 1 have not chef chosen en to time cay ray visit at a it fealon which is the beet lor for every country june r september but hall see it after crops are catherea ea ca and the of the beir are known the hay mow warehouses and rooi root and fruit cellars are elique el ta in the praise ot of the country and the tile tory they A tell cannot be disputed with all abe that I 1 have been able to cam gain from numerous letters from relatives and friends abo bo have resided here irom from eevea seven to twenty years I 1 and that I 1 really knew but litie little of the country and and its resources the salt bait lake late valley Is in fact a little continent by itself separated in every direction from the rest ol 01 the world by mountains and waste instead of belog being surrounded by bythe abe sea it in tact fact bat act rounds the sea the great salt lake whether through inspiration extraordinary judgment or simply rood good luck the Alor mons choe this valley in which to enjoy untrammeled their peculiar religion ligi onit it mattair cot tot there ie no place on the globe that was as a fitting for a people desiring to separate themselves from front the rest of the world the valley ie Is unto itself here you can raise every kind ot of gr grain it crae fruit or vegetable except tropical trop icil the crops under the irrigation aro are enormous compared with dry farming larm ioe and anti a read ready market with fair prices is near at ban band yd in the adjacent mining and cat tie district i the surrounding rounding eur mountains contain abundance of gold silver copper lead iron and coal the mining ie is confined largely to the southern portion of I 1 be the valley and adjacent moan mean bains while the central and northern noi thern portion is fast becoming a vast garden and orchard I 1 was never more astonished than to find or churda everywhere some are more than a score of year beare old one not eighty rode rods from front here I 1 am writing in the heart ol 01 be the city contains over trees one of which I 1 mease measured red it ie is six feet aur and four inches in circumference three feet from the girourd in thia this orchard I 1 picked a few days ago thirty thirteen en varieties of aa as fine apples ae as was ever grown and shall try and bring them home with roe me every lot and celd has its ore bard baril and and under yields abundant crops crops of apples pear pears peaches plums apricots ap ricote cherries and prunes there is an apple story that some people hei itile itte to believe bat but the its apple etory story of this vallet valler is to croven at every turn apples and pears are ais plenty as a in vermont Theother the other fruits a are re not keepers unless preserved served but the evidenced evidences of 0 their great abundance ie is be beyond ond dispute small fruit fruitt grapes and arries berries of all kinds are ra raged sed in lare large quan tilie until within a few years arnit bruit men only raised for home and local nee lice but now large tracts are set with treel treet of one two and three vears of age in the bear river valley I 1 bayone one orchard covering one clio aqui and nearly one halt half of iho next bation Bc tion 1 I a view orchard atil td or rather a negative front which I 1 hope to make a view I 1 have my camera with me and unless some accident happens shall be able to show many features of the country california will a e on ois have a competitor in vie fruit market worthy her mettle mettie as the fruit raised here ia is far superior lu in flavor and folly fully boal crual in size and beauty heretofore it would seem that the people came to this title country to enjoy the climate live easy without caring for I 1 uain ain bot but a chance ie Is rapidly taking place and a wonderful development of I 1 the resources of the country ie is in pro gress A airee number of canneries have teen been established woolen factories boot hoot and alloe and factories of various kinda kinds area era a arcee even aeilt factory ie is in operation at salt lake city A sugar factory at lehi a few miles south of calt salt liste city has line been running runn iDt about tour four years and ha has demonstrated that this Is a natural soil and climate for the BORT sugar beet T 0 Wash washable akle club of ogden has taken the of a beet in hand and the money for a factory has been subscribed and tha factory pill ill be built at once an iron furnace for reducing iron ore with which the mountains abound will undoubtedly be built in the near future an electric plant is in lull operation and can furnish all the power the city can rise tor for a generation ro to come the power w already conveyed by wire aire to salt like city they uee use the saw ama s aza sze ze and kinds of dynamo dynamos that I 1 baw a in uey use in the niagara fah falls great power house one of the iott moet n Atu stupendous us feats ot of engineering ie Is the bear river valley ir rif ealion canal cut for miles in the solid rock ide of the canyon 0 a hundred feet cr more from the batom of the canyon space will not permit ape me to describe it it patera over acrea acres of 0 as fine land eg as exists the tile supply of water ia unlit aled ana an the change which it baa has already wrought are wonderful to pavo save the this letter from rom the watte waste baket ba ket I 1 will brinit bring it to ft a coee hoping that I 1 may live to eee see this valley arain again and witness the results of its assured proof per peri y the writer eviden evidently efly lo 10 tended intended to refer to ibe the web 1 club in instent steal of 11 washakie city ED |
