$13,000 Reward. Bear Valley, Utah. How to Get There. A Review of the Smoot Inquiry

Salt Lake City, 1905. First Edition. 32pp. Sextodecimo [15 cm] Printed stapled wrappers. Better than very good. Short land-promotional work for Northern Utah's Bear River Valley touting the area's agricultural possibilities and the ease at which one could take the railroad to the area, and coincidentally, there is an advertisement for the D.L. & W. and Michigan Central Railroads on the rear panel. Includes a brief section sandbagging Reed Smoot and the author's opposition to the seating of Smoot in the U.S. Senate. The reward ($13,000) was offered to demonstrate the question of Mormon domination of politics. The majority of Peet's writings were anti-Mormon (truncated) drivel, but in this case, Peet was the land agent for Bear River Valley Lands, but can't seem to help himself (in regards to Smoot).

"Of the hundreds of people from other states who are now residing in Bear River Valley and other parts of Utah, not one has been interfered with or hindered in any way by the Mormons. Bear River Valley is home of the prosperous, contented and happy farmer." - p.8. Flake/Draper 6219. (Inventory #: 6979)