. 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 ... . he celebratedBear River Val-ley, crossing theriver on a pilebridge andreach Corinne, —857 miles fromSan Francisco,with an eleva-tion of 4,294feet. It is theargest Gentiletown in the Ter-ritory, and ifnot hated is cor-dially and ef-fectually letalone by most oftlie Mormons inthe natural lo-cation is excel-lent, and whenth
. 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 ... . he celebratedBear River Val-ley, crossing theriver on a pilebridge andreach Corinne, —857 miles fromSan Francisco,with an eleva-tion of 4,294feet. It is theargest Gentiletown in the Ter-ritory, and ifnot hated is cor-dially and ef-fectually letalone by most oftlie Mormons inthe natural lo-cation is excel-lent, and whenthe thousands ofacres of fertilelands in theBear River Val-are settled,they surelywill be in time,Corinne will bethe center oftrade and influ-ence to which her location entitles her. On thecompletion of the railroad through here—beforeit came, even—the Gentiles had taken posses-sion of the town and determined to maintain anascendency. From that time it has been anobject of defamation by the Saints; and thelands in the broad valley which surround it, asrich as any in the Territory, are left with scarcelya settler. To-day these lands are open and inthe market, andif enterprising farmers in theEast desire farms in a healthful climate, near a. 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 wa
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