Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-23
UP IN BEAR LAKE VALLEY.
yo,,n. Around Hear Lake ns They arc
Viewed by One Who Visits
and LooiSs Around.

Fish Haven, Bear Lake Co, Idaho,
August Goth. 1891.
To the Editor:
on Wednesday, the 18th. we left ny
rum for Bear Lake valley and got as
far as the Hardware, the head or
Blacksmith Fork canyon. AT a M
the next morning we started for Round
Valley or Meadowville, through n
dreary country.
Fruit peddlers are as thick ms hail
on these roads, and when they get
among these people. many OF whose
children never saw an apple grow on
n tree-they become as heartless as a
lightning rod agent, and when the good
wife. with the children around win
mouths watering, asks the price OF the
fruit, the peddler puts the price hlgh
very high,
Round Valley and Meadowville have
a good grain crop, but they don't know
the night Jack Frost viii kill IT.
Very few people live here and the
roads need a supervisor.
Lake Town comes neNt-a neat town
with many good and substantial build
ings. Here Is coop store the pre-
siding genius Of which Is the irrepres-
sible Jos. Irwin. A large business Is
done Mr.. irwin has all maner of
comical signs warning the people
against the credit system and the dan
gers Of running into DEBT.
Lake Town has no fruit trees of
any Kind, and very few of any sort in
tho streets. Water is very scarce
one hour for every acre every fifteen
days: and the stream then IL under the
limited liability act Rnspberrtns are
grown by few people. But the great
est calamity-or what any night may
be one-is that every night at about .
p. m. the water master goes about n
mile or two up the canyon and shuts
the water off from the town, and the
place is high and dry till about am.
the next day. Should fire start dur
ing the night no one could tell the re-
suits.
Saturday we Travelled through long
dreary canyon, TO william S. Muir's
dairy and ranch. There Is to be seen
n beautiful oasis In the desert.
On Sunday morning, drove to Ran
dolph and attended Sunday school and
church.
The people are busy all over Bear
River, putting up many thousands of
tons OF hay.
Randolph has some very good brick
buildings, including the court house
and two-story school house. Mr. Sam
uel Brough IL making large quantity
OF excellent brick, and more buildings
are being and win be erected. The lots
are lldKtu ds us lIull lIttH Alt yum
cerned, but every good wife does what
she can In raising lovely flowers
/ was rather amused on reading the
following sign on n store door i'll the
middle OF August, and 1t was Intended
as a STARTER: Young potatoes for
sale"
Randolph should have a city charter,
being the county seat of Rich county,
and Lake Town should have "a town
government, until better system
could be had,
Monday we had to como back to
Lake Town, and on Tuesday travelled
to Garden City. This is the first place
l heard people complain of being poor.
They have some splendid gardens, a
few orchards. and an abundance Of
small fruits.
In the afternoon we came to Fish
Haven and saw a beautiful sunset On
the lake and as the sun came over
the mountains this morning aud spread
his beautiful beams over the lake
10x20 miles, 1t was grander than 1 have
language to describe In Fish Haven
are beautiful orchards: all the fruits
that do well in Cache valley flourish
here, and the gardens are splendid.
The teachers of Bear Lake county
are holding three weeks session of
their summer school; 1t ends Friday.
he grain OF Bear Lake, which Is
mostly oats, looks well, and all the
people ask Is that frost keep on a
little longer, and the wheat, though
light, will range from 30 to 40 bushels
per acre. Garden City and Fish Ha-
Ven need some men,and they viii come
some day, 10 improve this lake front
and make money out Of what will be
one OF the finest summer resorts In this
county
This morning, as l went to the lake,
] found Prof. PORTER Of the A, G, Lo-
gam and family In camp. The profes-
scr was frying big painful OF fish.
making, ! suppose. bruinfoOd for the
coming winners college work.
The people all over are very busy,
happy, and enjoy good heGlth. ,-.
SALOP.