Show > 7 ABOUT ASHLEY FORE < Uncle Georges Taiic Good nlr Generally A Sew Kind off Beverage Uncle George is a pioneer and present pres-ent resident of Ashley Fork and one of those hale old fellows who inspire a chance acquaintance with something out of the common line of life He said in front of the Chit House that he had just come in from among the Ingins to see John Fallon A reporter asked him the present state of affairs at Ashley Fork and about the Indian agencies Well said he the crops never looked better at home than they do this very year Ashley Fork has about 400 residents and never a man died there although H few have been killed for a funeral The climate is the best in the kingdom and sickness isJ stranger For the first time the farmers have turned a hand t prospecting in the hills and some very good claims are being be-ing opened up The Uintah and Uncom pagre agencies afford a market for all sorts of goods and considerable dickering dicker-ing takes place I have discovered a new drink which is clean knocking the socks off of whiskey cean I is polygamous tea made from what I have named King Solomons weed which grows spontaneously spontane-ously all over our country Everyone is beginning to use it and when the result comes round I will let you know until then adieu and the vigorous oldtimer pulled away I |