The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-23

TO five pounds Of mohalr per year,
which sells at from % 10 80 cents per
pound The meat is fully as good as
mutton, and they are much harder than
sheep.
Poultry raising has not received much
attention except as an auxiliary to the
farm household economy. There is al
WAYS ready market for eggs at prices
ranging from 20 to 30 cents a dozen.
AS for poultry, the market IS never
we'll supplied
Irrigation Will make valuable thou
sands upon thousands of acres of the
choicest land
About Salmon City are grown the
finest apples, pears, plums, pruucs, cher
rics. grapes and all the farm products
of tho temperate zone Wheat averages
from fifty TO sixty bushels to the aero:
oats. IS to 100; alfalfa, six or seven
ions; clover, four to six tons. IT is
estimated that close upon 1900 acres
will be set out with fruit trees within
radius Of ten miles of Salmon City
before the end Of this year,
Land is selling at from $40 10 500
per acre. n higher price i'll some cases
being paid for small, choice plots close
to town The fruit raising. business is
| a business requiring more brains than
muscle. The man with business train
! ing is better equipped than the average
| farmer, even though the farmer may
| have had wears Of experience with fruit
| as a side line on. his farm.
All the smaller fruits are n success
| and in the lower valleys the vegetable
products are almost sub tropical. They
| raise peaches. melons. sweet potatoes
and ali the more tender vegetables and
| fruits
Salmon City itself is a substantial,
homelke little town OF about 1900 poo
| ffNt- al. al l.,,,l IA
| ing with eight rooms, Another will
shortly be built, There arc three banks.
| four churches and ample business
houses, mostly built of brick. The town
| has gravity water system Of the
purcst water. affordng more than loo
| pounds Of pressure to the square inch.
Salmon is lighted hY means of An cleo.
tric light plant established more than
twelve wears ago. There is a good tele-
! phone exchange system.
In the past. Salmon has been fam
iIv town, peopled by the sturdy pio.
nccrs and their descendants. Isolated
from the outside world they have grown
mn like the members of ono family, m.
| timatelv knowing each other, mutually
bclnfuI and mutually agreed in a stead
fas, and lively faith in the great fu-
ture Of their town and district. These
! homes ard dreams the construction Of
the railroad will render capable Of fus-
! 1ment.
The lime is now ripe for men, with
braing and means, TO undertake The
many dormant manufacturing possb,ll-
tins Tho Salmon and Lcmhi rivers
naturally afford thousands of horse
,,oy,er. easily available. The available
pu"rgy nu% Of fhe current for distance
81 100 miles is not less than 1000 horse.
power per mile, and there arc places
nbere dams can be built, penstocks IN
.niicd and a pownr development ac'
sompIished of from $1,000 to 10000
po1 Tbn Sbpc Wild and picturesque portions OF
tb;s county are n delight, to the sports
man. BIackta,l deer, wild goaI; mGnn Gun
9nnr inIn and PANTHER. Gray wolf and coy
lysN Gtn arc ret too o. plentiful in the ranch eouI
tTy fTy 4 few wolverine are also found
Prairie I'n hen, mountain grouse, sage hon
: phcasant, wild duck, wild geese and