The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
A FAIR AND RICH VALLEY.
Cache is One of the Richest in
the World.
HEALTHY AND HAPPY.
Well Watered, it Teens with the Finest
OF Grains.
The Late Mining Developments Near by
Have Created a Boom That
win Have Good
Effect.

The rtist Eisele has painted a picture
of Logan City and of Cache Valley, which
it is designed to place on exhibition at the
Worlds Fair The picture gives Fl ne
view OF Logan City, showing the promi-
nent buildings and its charming location
and places before the eye that beautiful
stretch of country covered with farms and
meadows and hedged in by mountains
that stretche to the nerth and lie TO the
west of Logan City.
The foreground gives a near view of Lo-
gan river. One of the chief attractions of
the painting is the impression OF living
light that everywhere pervades the can
vas. Ia no way could the natural char
acteristics of the valley be more
perfectly portrayed than in this
particular feature. The raritied
atmosphere and its freedom from smoke
makes the light that floods it from end to
end thing almost to be felt. 1t is SO
great thing that it cannot be fully COM
pretended by those who are moi familiar
with il. 1t would seem that Mr. Eisele
must have the artists genius, for he has
surely caught the one feature of Cache
which above all others is the most strlk-
ing to the river of light and life.
Naturally enough this point indicates
that the valley is place where one would
expect TO find a healthy, industrious and
happy population Devoted to farming,
they have built themselves cheerful
homes, and to the natural advantages of
nature in that vicinity have added to the
attractions and comforts and conveniences
that are the product of the toll of q frugal
and industrious people. The idea which
seemed TO be a chief one in the mind OF the
late President Brigham Young, was that
il the people should cultivate the land and
become possessed of it they would have
all the staple characteristics OF a purely
agricultural people and could not be dis
placed by strangers. And for this reason
his influence was in opposition to the
efforts of those who, at early day, We're
attracted by the hope of large gains in the
precarious field of mining.
1t was not that he was opposed to min
ing in itself, but because ne knew if his
people should be led away by the mining
fever that the agricultural interests would
suffer, and no people at that day could
survive on mines who had not behind
them permanent and well developed
agricultural industry which would insure
food at reasonable rate and SO prevent
the depopulatiOn of the territory by the
high prices Of the neceSsaries of life and
possibly by starvation. That his wisdom
and his power in controlling the people in
that direction resulted in the present de-
velopment of the mining industry Of Utah
should be settled conviction in the
minds OF all familiar with the history OF
Utah.
This influence was felt as potently in
Cache as in other parts of the territory.
and while, in many respects, this valley
has not developed its mineral or manufac-
turing resources to the extent that many
others have, nevertheless it stands with
out peer in its agricultural advantages
and advancement. The valley is noted for
the
HIGH STANDARD OF HORSES AND CATTLE
that 1t produces, and in all the contests
for recognition at the territorial fairs
has succeeded in bearing oil no light pro-
portion of the hOnors and awards. Ger
tainly II produces more grain than any
other county III Utah. 1t produces more
hay, possibly more stock, and beyond
any doubt greater proportion of the to-
tai area IS subject to cultivation and has
been brought under cultivation than any
other county il the territory.
In the whole Rocky mountain region
there is no valley OF its area that is SO
abundantly supplied with the water of
natural mountain streams, and the good
people OF that section have not been slow
to take advantage of the bounties of ma
ture and to fructlfy their well-tilled acres
with the rich stores that KING Winter
piles up IN the mountains, and which the
summer neat dlSsOiVes in order to fill the
irrigating streams thai lave the valley |
ro-l end to end like silver threads.
LatterlY the people having reached a
more satisfactory degree OF agricultural |
advancement have turned their attention |
TO manufacturing and mining. and the |
indications are that this valley, which !
seems to have been blest beyond all |
Others in its Capacity for the production I
OF food, VIII shortly be recognized as a |
mining and manufacturing center of no |
less Importance than it now holds with |
regard to agriculture. Discoveries of |
mineral made within the last eighteen /
months cover a field of unusual extent. 1t |
would seem that the veriest trio might I
leave any Of the villages that nestle under
the mountains which hem in the valley,
and IN few hours search discover some
form OF mineral. Locations of min
ing claims are almost endless, and |
the experience that all the sue
cessfui mining districts have hitherto
been compelled to pass through in
CtaA - nCN DeluS Silateu Dy the lnnaD1C-l
ants of Cache. The main work has been /
the search for new claims, rather than
the devotion of time and means to con-
centrated labor on specific properties with
q view to testing their durability and
richness. This is natural. 1t is hard to
get people into the way Of thinking that
they have enough of what they believe to
be very good thing. Finding, how
ever, that the location of claims does not