Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-24

OTCnaTu. lie was so well pledSeU VIII |
his land that he persuaded his Oldest |
son to buy 40 acres, and another son
in his teens to buy 10 acres. His sister |
and brother came on from Illinois and
each bought 20 acres, and all pros
pered. When the Malad Valley rail
road was built, two years ago, it estob-
lished Tremonton station by the side
of Mr.. Nihart's land. Mr.. Nihart sold
building lots, built store buildings,
started the fremont Times, a wide
awake weekly paper, and today he
has nice income from his Bear River
valley interests. Mr.. John Shuman
from Newport Pennsylvania, came
with Mr. Nihart, bought land adjoining
his, and has prospered equally as well.
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Timid people should read the follow
ing: Mr.. Edward Kent did not succeed
| as well as he wished in Nebraska, so
he with his wife and three small chill
dren schoonered to Utah. Five years
ago he bought 20 acres in Bear River
valley, but having no money he couio
not make his first payment till he sold
| his first crop. He rented a small
shanty that cost $45. and lived in that
the first year. At the end of the first
year he made his first payment and
built himself a neat little cottage OK
2S, two years later he bought 40 acres
more land. Last year his barley aver
aged S5 bushels to the acre on 8 acres
and his oats 116 bushels on II acres.
Mr.. Kent has kept up the payments
on his land, and today he mas 36 heal
of live stock, which include A good
horses; he has good wagons and farm
implements, has kept his children in
school during the time and should he
want credit it would be given him at
the bank or any store in Bear hIver
valley.
This year, 1905, Mr.. Kent has built
large, commodious hotel in Tremon
ton, and his business is good.
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In the year 1900 Mr.. James Carter
from Owatonna, MINI, bought 500
acres of Bear River valley land at sac
per acre. This land has paid for every
improvement that has been made on
it, and today Mr.. Carter could get $15.
per acre for his land. Not only has
Mr.. Carter made $50 600 on his invest.
ment, but he has regained his health
, as he came to Bear River an invalid.
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Mr. John Holmgren planted in 1904
60 acres of sugar beets in Bear River
valley He dug and sold over SOC
tons from this 60 acres. an average OF
over 25 tors to the acre. Three acres
of it yielded 38 tons to the acre, and
25 acres 30 tons to the acre. This is
the largest yield of sugar beets for
one. three, twenty-five or sixty acres
ever recorded.
These sugar heets netted Mr.. Holm
gren over sos per acre, after every ex
pense was paid. In the year 1903, Mr.
Holmgren raised 576 tons from "a
acres, and in 1902, so tons from
acres.
Bear River valley exceIs any OTHER
spot on the globe for size, yield and
quality of sugar beets.. :. :. ....
Mr. Moroni Mortensen, in Bear River
valley, has a 7-acre apple orchard
(trees to 10 years old He sold from
this orchard 700 boxes first-class APP
pies, and 500 boxes second-class These
apples netted him on the ground, after
paying for the boxes, the list class SOC
per box; the second, SOC per box. or
1890 net from a young 7-acre orchard
His peaches, pears, prunes, plums and
cherries did equally as well. Mr.. r
Hanson. who owns a 15-acre orchard
racaiUad much nor anra for biu npoh