The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-22
RICH VALLEY
OF BEAR RIVER
Three Thriving Little Towns
Which Plainly Indicate En-
terpriSing Citizens.
IDEAL LIVESTOCK COUNTRY
ALL KINDS OF CROPS IN
ABUNDANCE.
tspeeial correspondenee.l

FEAR RIVER Ndueys htcn COuntg, L tan,
April 17.-Bear River valley comprises
| about three-fourths of the tillable lands
OF Rich county and includes the towns
| Of Randolph, Argyle and Woodruff. The
attitude is 500 feet. The temperature,
though sometimes frigid during the win
! ter months, during the summer is very
Pheasant, and the valley is one of the
most healthful spots in the state. While
the climatic conditions are not adapt Cd
to the successful raising of fruit and the
more tender plants yet the yield per acre
and the quality of the hardy grains, veg
etables, small fruits. such as oats, barley.
wheat, potatoes, cabbage, beets, carrots,
lettuce, parsnips, currants, gooseberries,
ETC., are fully equal to 9ny other county
IN the state. The average yield per acre
OF grain for the past two years was as
follows: Oats, 60 bushels; barley. s. BUSH
els; wheat, 45 bushels. The following.
while not by any means the rule, shows
what can be done by proper cultivation
of the garden: The proceeds from a gar
cen of one and a quarter acres at the
Nepouset Land & Cattle conpany's ranch
last year Melted the sum of $1,000.
Randolph.
Randolph is the county seat and has a
population of about 500 It supports three
general stores. q butcher shop, two bar
Der shops, newspaper and printing Of
tice, furniture store, two millinery stores,
two doctors, etc. which do an annual
business aggrcgating $4,000
1T has creamery which last year man
Lfactured 1900 pounds Of butter and a
large quantity of cheese, and which pays
to its patrons annually $1,000 to SlS.0O0
for milk, and pays its stockholders an
annual dividend of s to 10 per cent.
A bank which was only established last
year is doing a thriving business. A fine
brick school house, in which are en-
pioyed four teachers; the Rich county
court house, and last, but not least, a
magnificent ward tabernacle which is
nearing completion and which cost $4,000
Randolph and Argyle own about 10000
head of cattle and received during last
tall and winter from the sale of beef
steers and COWS $4,000; produced last
which was fed to stock owned by the
residents; raised $1,000 bushels of oars
wheat and barley.
few miles northeast of Randolph are
claims, from which last year. in addition
to doing assessment work, were shipped.
via Sage. on the Oregon Short Line rail
way, 1000 tons of phosphate. Contrasts
near future. This product is hauled by
team TO Sage. a distance OF about six
miles. 1t is rUmored, however, that a spur
of the Oregon Short Lire will be built TO
eoing.
Argyle.
Argyle is a small town south and imrne-
diately contiguous to Randolph. with a
population of about Is5 This is a pros
porous little community and has a neat
brick school house. The farm and ranch
products are included with Randolph as
above.
Woodruff.
Woodruff is situated ten miles south of
Randolph, the precinct occupvinr the
south end of the county. The population
is about 800. and the town has two gem
eral stores, fine brick meeting house.
which cost 5000; a magnificent brick
school house. one Of the best eouipped
in the state; creamery which distrib-
9tes TO ITS patrons annually about 5000.
There were sold from this precinct last
fall and winter 800 head of beef steers
and cows, which nette6 the owners an
proximately $4,000. The precinct raised
last year nearly 1000 tons of hav fed
mostly to stock, and produced 61.OC0 bush
els of wheat, oats and barley, a portion
of which was also fed to beef steers and
mutton. The California Iron & Conner
company own some extensive phosphate
beds on Woodruff creek, west of town.
and expended during the past year about
$1,000 making a wagon road to the prom
erty.
Last year several thousand dollars we're
expended by some Evanston capitalists in
surveying for large reservoir to be con- |
strUcted at the Marcus on Bear river |
about ten miles east of Woodruff. at al, |
estimated cost of 100000. Canals have
been surveyed from the reservoir site on |
each side of the river TO Cokeville TheeA
&C nails will cover 75,000 acres. 1t is stated
on good authority that construction work
Will commence during tine summer
The farmers of the valley realizing the
Importance OF raising only the best. have.
CURING the last Few years. invested thou
SANDS OF dollars in thoroughbred horses |
cattle. sheep, nogs, poultry, etc. etc
The products of our farms and gardens
find practically an unlimited market ~
Evanston and the mining camps of Kern
n erer, DiamondviIle, Cumberland and
Almy.