The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-12
AROUND ABOUT BEAR LAKE
How the Folks Up There Pass the
Time in the Winter.
LAKE Town. Rich Co.. u. T.
January Is, 1888.


To the Editor of The HERALD.
| Bear Lake Valley is having bloom
ing boom just now; not such as We city
people occasionally go wild over, but of
snow. The weather-wise said we were
to have very light winter, on the one
hand. and upon the otter, a very hard
one. Suffice it to remark that we had a
very dry time of it during the fall
Within ten days of Christmas, we had
depth of about four inches of dust
upon our ROADS, and the weather clerk
dealt us out a few small doses of snow
with the view OF settling the dust, out
almost in vain, till the past day or two,
when the beautiful has fallen in town to
the depth of foot. Our farmers and
stockmen greatly rejoice thereat.
Heavy SHOWS, especially if wet and
packed well in our mountains, means
plenty of grass and water. and cOnse-
quently grain for us Bear Lakers. A
good snow bank in due season is val
liable bank indeed.
Everybody remarks on the growing
moderation of our Bear Lake winters;
but a few years ago, in our snowstorms,
man would scarcely venture out, un-
less he was so thoroughly clad that the
devil could not penetrate him. Now
you see them in their shirt sleeves, and
not extraordinarily wrapped by any
means.
For three months hence the male
members of our community will have
little to do but feed the stock, prepare
for Utah's admission into the Union,
and pray the God of nations to pre-
serve them from Republican misrule,
and return to the White House that
greatest Democrat of all-Grover Cleve-
land.
Our Stake Tabernacle is standing
monument of the industry and devo-
ton of the remote and rugged Bear
Lakers. The roof is on, and the work on
the inside will be prosecuted vigorously
during the winter.
Lake Town is the most south 5rn set
Element in the valley. High and dry as
we are, we still live, move and have
few cents on hand occasionally to sub
cribe for good paper such as The
HERALD. Lake TOwners are great read |
ers, aid we take little load of papers. |
We jog along as most of our other set |
Elements do; and have a full share of /
local institutions of whose labors we are
by no means ashamed The hold avs
passed off quite nicely. dancing, sing
ing. speechffylng, theatre attending,
eating, drinking, etc., (of course all
liquids) being among the
many diversions of the day.
We could scarcely help 6attering our
elves on the heroism of the typical
Bear Laker to-day. Although the snow
was so deep, and no road broken
the canyon, which is strikingly
uphill from here six miles to the sum-
nit, we noticed Elias S. Kimball, Esq,
representative elect from this district
who by the way, is cripple on crutches
in consequence of having recently cut
his toot-accompanied by J. 6. Kim
bali, Esq, and their aged mother pass
ing through town, en- route for your
city, via Evanston, fifty miles distant
from here, by wagon road. Despite ex-
pert driving, if they get through the
the canyon tonight, and not have a
half dozen somersaults in the snow,
they will do well sbut it would take a
great deal worse than this storm to de-
ter Bear Laker from doing his duty
when once his mind is made up.
JOSEPH Irwin.