The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25

the best wheat.
1t is the best watered valley for its size
IN the Rocky Mountains.
1t has reputation for making the best
butter and raises the finest horses in the
mountains
The Territorial Agricultural college is
located here; so also is the Brigham Young
college, so well endowed by the founder
whose honored name it bears.
Above all, Cache valley has Logan, and
Logan is to-day, the third city in the Terri
tory and promises to be the second. We
can afford to let the rest fight for first
place.
The valley has a population of $4,000 or
10000 souls. Logan city contains one-ffth
the number, and is the capital and the com
mercial centre of the county. The acreage
under cultivation is less than one-half the
area that can be brought under arabic sub
lection. AS in all Rocky Mountain valleys
the bulk of the population is on the east
side This is due to the fact that the main
streams of water come from the mountains
on the east. Thus we have Franklin, Just
on the edge of Idaho but alas for Frank
En-the first town on the north and com
ing south and following the base Of the
mountains on the east we pass through Rich
mond, conspicuous for It's big barns, rich
soil and well-to-do population; then Smith
field, on ridge that runs east and west
and overlooks the country to the north and
south, and which is forging into CONNER
eial prominence. Then Hyde Park, nest
ling among many rich acres. The next
place is Logan and going south we find
Providence, Mtllville, Hyrum and Para
disc, all skirting the western base of the
mountains that hem the valley on
the east. Properly speaking, Hyrum,
which is one of the most prosperous set
Elements in the valley, and Paradise should
be placed in the south end of the valley.
Turning to the north and following the
mountains on the west, we have Wellsville
and Mendon.
In the centre of the valley are new set
elements springing up constantly. Lewis
ton, Benson, Newton, Charleston and Tren-
ton are among the most prominent while
there are several minor ones.
Perhaps forty or fifty thousand acres
are under cultivation, and while this val
ley has eight or nine mills that manufac-
rure and export -four, it has been estimated
that the grain yearly exported will not be
less than two hundred thousand and may
run as high as three hundred thousand
bushels, or eighteen million pounds.
This is about half the amount raised
Owing to the peculiar character of the soil,
the wheat is uniformly full and hard; and
is deemed by many miIlers worth fully
70,
wheat raised elsewhere.
another heavy product of the valley is
the hay crops. With the encroachments
of settlers upon lands formerly used for
Dasturage, there necessarily follows a
greater demand for hay in the west. Not
only because surrounded by mountains,
but on account of the abundance of water
risCache valley fortunate in this regard.
She has long reaches of rich meadow lands
and is so situated as to command desir-
able and unfailing market for her hay and
other crops. In consequence of this Cache
Is a good cattle country and not only re-
lmarkable for her beef and horses. but for
the creamery butter which has already
won wide reputation.
gn Cache valley, Utah's fastest horse was
y
been great lovers of fine horses and we'll
bred cattle. AS a result, L. G. Lee was
produced, who sold for more money than
any other U tab horse and who made
record in the neighborhood of 2:15. AS
result of this Cache valley horses have at
tracted public attention and to-day enjoy
reputation that is rivaled by no other
Utah-bred animal.
The Bear river winds part of its sinuous
length through this valley, and the head
works of the now noted Boutwell, canal are
located in Cache county in the narrows of
the canon through which this stream finds
its way into Box Elder county and ulti-
rnately into Great Salt Lake. To the
west of the Bear river and in this valley are
thousands of acres not now under cult
ration and which many feared would never
foe redeemed The determined undertake
ing in the construction of the Boutwell,
canal, is the most potent argument looking
to the ultimate reclamation of all this
splendid land. Naturally the people have
been filed with apprehensions that this |
canal, as it would drain the Bear river, |
would also put an eternal barrier to the in |
creasing acreage to be brought under cult |
walton in Cache county by irrigation. Mr.. |
Boutwell,, basing his declaration on the in
vestigations of his engineers, is authority |
for the assertion that the Bear lake, when |
utilized for the storage of water, will |
afford sufficient for the irrigation of every |
foot of land anywhere contiguous to the |
winding course of the Bear, and between |
the two lakes. All this land will some day be |
watered and be watered well.
A revulsion of feeling has taken place in
this valley as to the realty holdings of
farmers Instead of leaving because all
cannot get from one hundred and sixty to
six hundred and forty acres, the feeling
grows apace that man is better off with
less land and his boys at home than to be
the possessor of $40 acres of land and his
bows forced to seek a home elsewhere be-
cause of the bristly instincts of the father.
Moreover there is a profound disposition,
as the wiser economy, to cultivate fewer
acres, and to cultivate them thoroughly.
If all the land in Cache valley were cul-
ziyated but half as well as is done in the
eastern states, or one-fourth as well as in
England, the land now brought under
subsection by the farmer would support a
nopulation of 1,OOO, 900 souls.
It has taken US close on thirty five years
10 learn what we now know and to reach
fbe point we have now attained. And we