Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-10
NEWS OF THE NORTH.
Notes Of Town Buildings AMI rrOgr5ts
IN each Vail y
rsTow, IusuO, Aug, g, 1897

WESTON, lusno, Aug, 9, 1897
10 the Editor.
The ciops In the northwest Of Cache
valley are not quite as good as they
were last year, but very many OF the
ranchmen are surprised when they
come to harvest their kraiU, as 1t II
bstter than they looked Tor, consider
log the droutb, or dry summer as II
s called here; and while the crops are
lighter the wheat is Of much better
qusliiy than ia.t year, and ffeeI from
smut.
Most OF the grain IL being harvested
and Ia cut by header, and the farmer
hns his wheat cut, hauled and stacked
Tor two busnels per acre, and some do
all this iuT one bushel aud three lecks,
and the granger locks on.
Farming On dry lands especially ha7
now become luxury. The granger
riJes on his snlky pl0w, also on pull
verb I; no rides as he drills in his
gran, rides to NOW anu rake his hay,
AMI someiimes the money 10 der, or
some other shark, rides In n foe car.
rage ant scoops In the Rrnnger, m .Tt
gage aud all; yet he may have saileJ
clear Of these terrible sh irks.
Fairview iRa bishops ward between
Preston, Idaho, aud LswIston, Utah,
sud everyone lives on his rnncn one
mile apart, the people are all busy In
the fields aud no men are to be ioun d
at hume In day time. Tney are too
tired to talk much OF anything at
uight, Here, as In all other Mormon
town, you finu neat anu substantial
emu. en-, surrounded by beaulilul
grove OF treei; anu here ana there Il
neat school house, situated 50 as the
children from overy nook aud cJrrsr
| OF their postteIed homes can reach H.,
aud MI have u chance for educotIon.
NJ. w. Pratt son Of the late I'll !er
Pan.y p. Pratt Ia bishor.
Should you attend divine service ut
| one OF these wards, where the people
reel 10 three sad four miles from the
church, you will nld nearly every
family present; ana outs.ue Ia nearly
every kind Oi vehicle from the hand
some surrey TO tue humble farm
wagon, wbllj his more favored city
brother, VINO lives but IA block or 70
lrem the house OF GOO, sleeps away his
time al hU mo or is on pleasure bout.
Weston 10 eilu,tud sb0u. six miles
west oil Faifvlew, over Bear river,
aud Ia "a neat village with substaniia
| nomeF, and Is also surrounded ioi
many milta with ranches that show u
prosperity that 10 substantial. Here Ii
foupd large meeting house, and u
two story school house that wvuId do
honor to any city. Prof. Il. A. Box
| -. Ia. haa
yeafp, anu Ia sogaged again to teach
the young idea. Blshop Clarke speak 4
very highly OF the school work being
| done here.
Mr.. Otto Garsmap is manager OF the
| Coop store, one among the mauy
who, by wise management, has KEEP
clear Of the whirlpool OF bad debts anG
iOJllsh speculations anu has built q
new store, butcher shop and grsnaries
Mir. Gassman Is busy man In OtheI
ways besides having the large buei
ness. He Is Study school superiu
tendent anu ward CLERK. The old, ole
story, the willing horse, etc.
Weston shows that live men hav,
been its leaders anh Bishop Clarke hai
Rm1del Little tlwn to preside over
Every town one goes 10 shows who 4
and hss been at toe heat, aud when
reach u slovenly town l am rominde,
Of one OF President Brigham Young
tIipe south. He had held meeting ut
town where everything iuoked,as Top
BY in Uncle Toms Cabin says, a.
specks | CROWD" AMI Oh leaving thu
next morning the Blshop went vi
10 the carriage and asket
President Young. II he bni an.
.urther word OF counsel 10 give bin
before he lett. The presiuen, smilet
and taid, "Yeo, Bishop; think If yUl
plow one more ditcu across the stree
and put one more wiillw on the lenc,
that 10 all you need d." THE b snOl
failed, like lur cousins across toe bil
pond, to see where tho joke came 1t
1t 10 not every leading man who Is
town builder, but as you 20 thtOugl
the land yam SEQ tue marks OF hi
leadership. And go with the othe
fellow. TINS Rusge 10 still, true wOr
proclaims the workman. SALoP.