212 SADDLE AND CAMP 



upon in the valley where the engineers were en- 

 camped, was Birch Creek, emptying a little 

 way below the engineers' camp into Twelve- 

 mile Creek, a tributary of Bear River. I fol- 

 lowed these creeks down to Woodruff, thence 

 turned northward along Bear River to Ran- 

 dolph over a high ridge, and down Laketown 

 Canon to the little settlement of Laketown, at 

 the canon's mouth and at the head of Bear 

 Lake. 



Practically the only settlements that have yet 

 found foothold in Rich County are Woodruff, 

 Randolph, Laketown, Meadowville, and Gar- 

 den City, the last-named village lying on the 

 west shore of Bear Lake, close to the Utah- 

 Idaho State line. Randolph, with a population 

 of six hundred, is the county seat and the larg- 

 est and most important settlement in the county. 

 The houses are chiefly of hewn logs, and this is 

 the construction used in Rich County generally. 



While the county is large in area, it is for the 

 most part mountainous, and the land adapted 

 to agriculture is practically confined to Bear 

 River Valley. The crops are almost exclu- 

 sively hay and grain. Isolated from railroads, 

 it still flavors of the frontier, and the traveler's 

 imagination is not taxed very greatly in an at- 

 tempt to picture it as it appeared in the days of 



