Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-08-02

are truly surprising. The crops are
poor on dry farms. but the Irrigated
lands. considering the late SPRING and
heavy frostH of May and June, are
about average.
LACK OF UNITY AND ENTER
PRISE.
The readers OF the News" will no
doubt remember that early last spring
your correspondent epokc uf n gigantic
project to take out the waters Of Bear
river below Soda Springs, convey u In
TO the portncuf and then construct a
canal 10 convey tho water 10 Gentle.
Marsh ana each Valley. n distance OF
one hundred miles 90 Plymouth or
Square town. Box Elder county. and
then empty again Into Bear rivDr. This
would bring under cultivation humid
reds Of thousands OF acres Of ns good
land as can be- found. bat liz now "a vast
sage brush desert The people. how
ever have given up this promising pro-
icct. Bishop Garner in speaking OF Il
said. I'VE have Loot more grain on our
dry farms, this year alone. than would
pay onc-half the cost ~ constructing
the canal one hundred thousand
dollars, and most Of this In labor. would
Dc sufficient % complete this grand
scheme, but "a union NJ effort e. lacking,
and aa one gentleman dcprccatlngly
remarked. ~ We only had the same
union and get-up the early settlers OF
Utah had. we could not only bring this
water out. but furnish homes Tor thuuH-
nudH Of families and place them on rich
ana fertile lands, Last year those dry
farms yielded thousands Of bushels OF
wheat. but this year they dwndlc down
20 hundreds. ana that ~ short. Htuhby
stun that q header can hardly gather"
on many of these dry farms It o.
n question whether they will take tho
NHWHHIaIE "a fHfH s.u NHa U.fu
! saw large band of horses grazing
on short, stuhby wheat. The exceed
ingly hot weather has caused tho grain
20 rlpon worry fast, ana harvest VIII
BE- very early.
The country between pocntollo and
Mlnncdocn IL a barren desert of broken
lava beds. with here and there pile
Of lava rocks thrown up, resembling
a hay stack. In other places vast foldH
OF rocks are pnEtly out uf the ground
nnd looks like "a vast cemetery, ~ head
stones We cross the Snake river AZ
American Falls over the railroad bridge
and NJ the train plascg slowly over.
one gets a sight of the falls. which are
nwfully grand Al Minnodocu we stop.
this IL the shipping point FOR CaHsla
county, n depot, one small store and
hotel recently put up, ~ all there ~ In
this vast wilderness. The stage then
takes the wnyfarcr over a thirty mile
NnHflt 10 Alhlnut ANN county tNAis Ahnut
~ miles out you come TO the Snake river
again. ana the stage plungea down the
cinbunkmeut on Co "a rlCkuty looking
ferry boat. Nine hundred feet OF aeoth-
ing waters are between these two
banks. The boat ~ gently started and
the strcnm propelH YOU safely over Two
steam dredging boats urc taking up the
sand from the river bottom and
SEPARATING THE GOLD THERE
IHINnM
but no one knows whether u IL pay
ing business or not az tho owners are
mum. There must, however, be- money
In H. as this company have "a force NJ
men building a double decker that Will
not only be "a drcdggr hut also a floating
home for the hands employed. Thora
must bee gold ON this river aa many
people are dredging aud working inc
old time rocker.
We take the stage again
THIRTY MILES TO OAKLEY,
the largest ward I'm Camia stake OF
| Zion. Here ia one vast body u aa rich
land az can Dee found anywhere ana
reaching 20 miles or more. but ~ now "a
desert Tor lack of water when one
secs mis- mighty river and no use made
| Of II for irrigntlug purposes, II seems
TO utuhau something strange,
HOMES For THOUSANDS.
while riding across part OF this vast
| plain with Deputy Assessor David
/ Johns, he sald "Our government has
| been making graves In Cubn. Spain and
| Manila Tor thousands, but had ID spent
/ two million dollars lu getting out The
| Snake river II could have furnished
| farms md homes for hundred
| thousand families"
AZ oakley a telephone line has been
/ Put up by a local company durlng last
| year, and many neat improvements
| have been made. The grain crops are