The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-18

This region has all the requisites of
a frst.class dairy country, and that in
dustry, while hardly touched as yet,
will come in time and will grow to be
one of the most important Pasturage
is fine, hay and grain plentiful and the
water pure, cool and abundant. The
Jensen company Of Salt Lake and Po-
catello has recently begun the purchase
Of cream in this part of the valley
and in Teton basin. One Of the advan-
tages of this section that is of im
portance to both the producer and pur-
chaser of the cream is that the uni.
formly cool nights and abundant cool
water keep the cream sweet longer than
in hotter regions, thus reducing to n
minimum the expense of handling and
! collecting it.
| Excellent Fruit Grown.
Enough has been done in the rails
| ing of berries and small fruits TO dem
onstratc that it can be done success
fully. The most prolific crops of cur
rants, gooseberries and ras7bcrrles the
writer has ever seen and his observa
! ton has extended over most of the
United States, are grown in the Teton
basin. about twenty-five miles southeast
of Ashton. The growing OF the harder
fruits, such as apples and peas, has
not vet advanced to n point where IT
can be said to certainty that 1T VIII
| be Il success, DuJ IL IS DelcNcu Indl III
will prove to be.
Saw mills in the hills ten miles north
of Ashton put a good quality of lum-
ber on the local market at a lower price
than the Oregon and Washington lum-
ber in general use throughout the west
There are large areas of fine saw TIM
ber yet untouched on the mountain
slopes bordering the upper course OF
the north fork above Ashton, and the
of the great Teton range which rises
as a mighty barrier on the cast OF
this region are similarly clothed.
The climate of this region is brac-
ing and healthful. In summer the sun
shines almost every day and there IS
little wind, The days. arc bright and
warm, and the nights always cool. This
invites an outdoor life and is condu,,
Give to refreshing sleep and sound
health. In winter the cold is not ex-
cessiye. but is steady. complete thaws
seldom occurring until the winter is
over. The snowfall is heavy and lies
on the ground all winter. there beng
usually three months of sleighing dur
ing which the wheels on all vehicles arc
displaced by runners.
Magnificent Scenery.
The scenery near at hand is magnifl
cent. The Yellowstone National park
borders Fremont county on the east,
while south of the park stretches the
lofty Teton range, its vast snowIields
and towering peaks visible from every
part of the valley. The mountain
scenery in this range is finer than that
in the park This range has Its cul'
mination in the rugged and preclpltous
Three Tetons, which in point of scenic
grandeur have no superior IN the united
States. They are the dominating fea~
ture in the landscape of all this region,
their pointed spires being visible from
almost everywhere, even from points
from sixty to 100 miles distant. The
varied scenery of mountain and plain,
the pure, bracing arr, the clear, sWlit
streams, the beautiful lakes and the
pine forests, all combine to make OF
this region an ideal summer outing
ground and paradise for the sports
man. Just over the state line to the
cast is the renowned Jackson s Hole
big game hunting grounds, reached by
stage from Ashton. Elk have rapidly
increased in numbers, and the past year
large bands wintered in the forests of
Fremont county. More elk were killed
in Fremont County during the hunting
season of 1908 than for many seasons
previous. Some Of the most noted trout
streams of the west are III Fremont
county, and numerous clubs and resorts
are maintained in the Island Park re-
gion, which is famous throughout the
intermountain west Not the least or
the natural beauties of this region are
the two falls in the North Fork of the
Snake, a few miles above Ashton, one
of them being 10 feet high and the
other thirty-five,
Wide-Awake Town.
Ashton, the hub Of this wonderful
II gion, this peak of the great Snake
river valley, is but three years old,
having been born in 1906. II is
healthy, vigorous youngster, and already
has n population of about 500 wide
awake. energetic and enterprising peo
pie. The town is more substantially
built than most new towns, majority
of the business houses and large por-
ton of the residences being built of
brick. with stone foundations and trim
mings. No brick has been imported for
the purpose. every brick structure IN
the town having been built from brick
made in Ashton. This brick presents
good appearance and is of excellent
quality. For foundations the, black ba-
saltic rock which underlies the whole
region is used, while for sllls, caps and
TRIMMINGS generally the rock most used
is gray or slightly pinlSsh lava rock,
found in various places in the upper
Snake river valley. This rock is very
easily worked when first quarried, but
on exposure TO the weather soon be-
GENES much harder, and is very de
sirable material for the purposes for
which it is used.
Substantial improvements
| The town has good three-story
brick and stone modern hotel of TWEEN
| ty-fve rooms and a fine brick school
house three stories in height, and at
tended by 200 pupils. Ashton has had
two big fires. the buildings consumed
i'll both cases beng some Of the lightly
! built frame buildings erected shortly
after :he townsite was first opened
There are two banks two churches, two
| livery stables, two large lumber yards,
! three hardware and implement stores,
and many other stores and business
| places. There are now three good
grain elevators, one of them having re-
Gently been built. The two that were
| in operation in 1908 bought from the
farmers of the surrounding country
more than 100000 bushels of grain
An opera house, about dozen bust
ness buildings, nearly all of brick and
stone. and n number of residences are