Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-29
OUR NEICHBORS.
LYMAN, IDAHO.
Prosperous and rhri,inE coun'ry lane,
Water aud Timber Ia risaty.

Special Correspondence.
Lyman. Fremont Co. Idaho. May 20.
This ward In situated about eight
miles south ~ liexburE. twenty miles
from LewiHville. aud being on the main
mall route. I had TO come across c0un-
try via IliEby and Ia nelln. II IL like
MI other places very widely scattered.
The people live IN a radius Of four BY
seven miles. After crossing "a bridge
seven hundred and seven feet long over
the Huuth fork ~ the Snake river. the
facu uf the country II changed from
one vast plain 90 a wen wooded coun-
Try, which resembles the southern end
~ Dear Lake valley.
The wirr fence Il not In evidence
herr. Every ranch has a fine pole
fence. ana nt every home Il found from
ten 60 twenty-five cords OF wood all cut
M into stove lengths ana neatly
stacked. Timber rod and white Pine b.
here IN abundance, only ten miles frnm
the settlement on rolling hills. with no
fuErs1 mountains TO climb. The coun-
lry j. well watcrcd and owned By the
people.
The soil T. rich and deep. Forty
families live on this vast area, aud na
liirhop =. A. Wilcox informs me. there
II room Tor four hundred such families.
ana land and water enough Tor all.
There are three district schools about
three miles apart and two are In FcH-
sion now.
TO see what has been done In tho six
teen years since this place was sage
brush wilderness IN truly wonderful.
Land, and ~ good as can be- found.
u choap and In abundance. and can be
bought from i've 10 ten dollars an acre.
which VIII average three tons ~ iucern
or thirty bushels ~ wheat 10 tho acre.
Aud a. bishop Wilcox said 10 me, with
q higher cultivation he has raised sixty
bushels OF wheat 90 the acre. Tho land
IL UlUHllN luNNu q NalNA
and lots Of them have section or two.
Thuy probably anticipate that nt some
FUTURE day this country win boom and
thus there viii be. as Colonel Sellers
has II. millions In u.
To give 10 those who are looking for
homes an idea. the following was Of
Tered me- An aged gentleman go
years. II have two ranches under cul-
uvatlon, We'll fenced and an abundance
" water OF my own, 12n acres. The
crops that are now IN. ~ course Il IL
not yet all under cultivation, but tho
balance can be hy ordinary plowinF,
thirty head ~ cattle, an the farm I'M,
ulempntn teams and WAGONS, stables.
grnnaries. two good log houses an Tor
5000. ! don't ask penny down, slr.
Just take the place, II Is unoncumbcrrd;
VIII deed Il 90 yuui you give me u
mortgage Tor any amount of time al
seven per cent per nnnum. With proper
cultivation the farm viii pay fof Itself
In ave years ana support n family
handsomely during that time.
Had I been thlrty-nlN Instead Of
aiNty-aiN, l should have turned from
tho press 90 tho soil,
Men who are not afraid of work can
md good places 10 mako homo here,
but there IL no uao for tho KID glove
fraternity, The Bishop. who was rs
busy NJ a bee az this late season. left
his work. took mo all over tho ward IL
nearly every home. IL N a land rich
IN everything that viii sustain life for
both man ana beast. ana az no distant
day when population reolalma an lta
rich acres or rather cultivntcs them, ID
WIN be "a land flowing with milk and
honey.