The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-02
TRIBUTARY TOWNS.
The Crop Prospects of the South
We're Never Better.
NEW MINERAL DISCOVERIES.
The Effects of Irrigation Upon Our Arid Lands
Between Salt Lake and Ogden
Layton is FlOurishing,

BEAVER CITY, Utah, June %, $780, Cor
respondence Of THE HERALD The agri-
cultural prospects of the southern ''cow'
countries never looked better than they do
the present season. The principal reason
for this bright outlook is the almost phe-
nomenal wealth Of irrigation water that
continues its undated flow from the al
most perpetual snow banks on the north
ern slopes of the Tushar range of noun
tains. Not that there was an exceptional
fall of snow in the mountains during the
past winter, butwe have been favored with
many cool chilly nights during the most of
the present month which undoubtedly has
had tendency to materially lessen the rap
idity with which the snow usually melts
long before this season of the year.
AS natural result of aquaceous con-
dition, the cereal, root and hay crop of
this region promise magnificent returns
aud the heart Of our granger is CORE
spondingly buoyant over his excellent
prospects.
Not so, however, with the horticulturist.
Apples, pears, and in fact all classes OF
fruit, are this year almost d total failure.
The reason therefor is the ravages of
the codlingmoth and other fruit destroying
insects. The majority of the fruit blossoms
were early destroyed by the late frosts,
bat where a sheltered locality permitted
the formation of fruit its interior seems to
have become The Matching out place of the
Larvae Of some insect or other, and of course
utterly running everything in the shape of
fruit
As this condition of affairs only exists in
the counties north of the Black Ridge or
"Dixie'' line, it will afford quite prolific
market to our "DiXien cousins for tneir
surplus fruit crops and enable them to very
easily obtain in exchange from our farmers
a supply of breadstuff and feed grain.
something that the average 'Dixieite' does
not as general thing pretend to raise.
In contradiction TO this report as to our
prospects for hay, it would be well TO note
that Minersville complains of myraids of
grasshoppers which are attacking their
second crop Of alfalfa with, in some cases,
disastrous results.
Rumors were rife the past week of some
very rich mineral discoveries on the north
western slope of Mount Baldy, but inquiry
fails TO develop anything more substantial
than the discovery of ledge of exceedingly
low grade silver-bearing ore. IL is
said to be fact, however, thai
the whole mountain in question shows
indications of being mammoth repository
OF gold and silver ore, for on its northerr
base company of fifteen are busily en-
gagged with sluice boxes in extracting gold
from the placer deposits now known TO ex
list there. and while the goidwashers are
exceedingly reticent as to the magnitude
of their "clean ups" yet 1t must be on
paying basis or the members of the com
pany would not have stayed with it az
long as they nave. a short distance north
east from these places deposits, MessIs
Thomas James and w. H. Raht of Frisco
have struck ledge Of gold-bearing quart:
Of paying quality and are now engaged il
driving 600 foot tunnel in upon the
ledge.
We have had much railroad talk al
through this section, but somehow none o.
1t has thus far gone much further thar
''chin musicn in materializing.
The extension of the Union Pacific t
Phoebe is tagging along very slowly; tn,
grading is almost entirely completed Blu
the company seem to be very slow abou
commencing to lay their track and are sub
stituting old railroad iron for the new
rails with which they first filled their sup
ply yard at Milford.
Cedar is jubilant over the immediat,
prospect of an English syndicate buying VI
ali of the coal and probably iron deposits il
the neighborhood. newspaper is alread,
talked OF there. and Editor Maeser, of tn,
Utoniail, is said to be preparing for the frs
infliction. There is doubtless no good rea
son why any ably conducted local journa
would not prosper in that promising field
Messrs. Booth, Richardson. Iund an,
Secretary Thomas, of the territorial boar,
of equalization, have just paid visit Z
Beaver and have officially ''ral1ed'' the as
sessment rolls of Beaver and Iron counties
Their careful scrutiny of the rolls in ques
ton developed but few errors of any mo
ment; but the results showed the wisdom
of the legislature in creating the territorial
board of equalization.
The GLORIOUS Fourth' seems to hav
been largely absorbed in the mammoth Gel
ebration in Salt Lake, for the effort to ge
up local celebration has been largel
handicapped by the most OF the speakers
etc, going to the metropolis to see tn
sights. CASUAL.