. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . TME ^m€iFm 163 good market, with short winters and those sel-dom excessively cold, with the salt water breezesfresh from the lake, and in a country where thefinest kind of fruit can be grown, we advisethem to stop here, inform themselves as bestthey can, look the ground over thoroughly anddecide for themselves, the question of choosingthis
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . TME ^m€iFm 163 good market, with short winters and those sel-dom excessively cold, with the salt water breezesfresh from the lake, and in a country where thefinest kind of fruit can be grown, we advisethem to stop here, inform themselves as bestthey can, look the ground over thoroughly anddecide for themselves, the question of choosingthis place for a new home. This is one side ofthe picture. The other is want of water. Allcrops in this valley are raised by irrigation. Aditch has already been dug from Malad River,which supplies some farms on its line, and thetowii with water. A large flouring-mill is alsosupplied with water from this ditch. Some of the finest wheat we ever saw wasraise<i near Corinne, on irrigated land. It was. UTE SQUAW AND PAPPOOSE. spring wheat and produced at the rate of nearly50 bushels to the acre. The spring wheat ofUtah far excels in quality, the best winter wheatproduced in Eastern States. It has a large, plump,hard, white berry, and will rank as A No. 1 inany wheat market in the country. Corinne in its early history, was a roughtown; but the rouglis have passed on, or sleepin unknown graves. The town now has threechurches, a good school, a large flouring-mill,several commission and forwarding houses, storesof various kinds, etc. It is the natural freight-ing point to eastern Idaho and Montana, and be-fore the Utah Northern, with which it is con-nected by a short branch, was completed toFranklin, its jiresent terminus, nearly all thefreighting business of the last named Territorywas done from this point, and a large share ofit still comes here. Corinne is about seven miles from Great SaltLake. A railroad company has been charteredto build a road direct to Montana, with favorablepro
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