The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-20
PROVO POINTS.
Advantages and Inducements of
the Garden City.

EVERYBODY is happy.
THE Enquirer is still booming.
The Provo american is yearling.
ANUMBER of large herds of cattle and
horses have been driven out from this
city to summer ranges in the mountains.
A ROW of shade trees has been re-
Gently set around the Central School
lot; we understand a new fence is the
next on the programme of the trustees.
SFARMERs and gardeners have been un--
usually busy, and have accomplished
their objects in most cases, by sowing
and planting more land than ever be-
fore.
The grounds around the new County
jail have been cleared of the rubbish
and leveied, giving the jail almost as.
handsome an appearance as the new
tithing Office.
THE prospects for fruit are much
better than for several years past. The
apple blossoms scent the air, and with
the green foliage of the trees and other
verdure give to all picturesque ap-
pearance.
WILL SHOOT and ]. r. Boshard. the
green grocers of this city, have each
fountain throwing. spray of water to
keep their vegetables fresh. The water
is from the artesian we'll, in front Of
Sim Duggin's drug store.
Mr.. DoDD, the gentleman who pur-
chased several pieces of real estate some
time ago, has moved into the residence
formerly occupied by Doctor Haroy, in
the Fourth Ward. We understand he
will engage in the business of ship
ping produce to markets in Colorado.
THAT Provo has some natural advan-
tages nowhere else to be found, is adj
mitred by all who know anything about
the matter. The abundance OF water
for irrigation and the rich agricultural
lands in the vicinity are sufficient to
insure the prosperity of q moro numer-
Gus populstion. Good farms and resi-
dences are being offered and sold at
lower prices to-day than could have
been obtained at the time the D. & z.
G. r. w. was built through the city.
and no extra charges on account of our
climate being so similar to the climate
in Ogden. Being centrally located
manufacturing districts IN Utah valley,
and with ample railroad facilities, the
merchants and business men of this
city have facilities equal, if not su-
perior in some respects, to those of the
junction metropolis or Salt Lake City,
and they are shrewd enough TO see and
to take advantage of these natural IA
cilities.
Now that our municipal government,
is to be conducted on business prinei-
pies, We don't care fig if that Spring:
vile correspondent does allude to the
Garden City as the Garden of Eden, or
GethsemaDe. The time is not far dis
taDt, when respectable druggist may
engage in business, without beng sus-
pected of being deliberate law breaker,
and strangers that may come into our
midst, may not go away with the er-
roneOus impression that the healthiest
place III the Rocky Mountains has need
of so many drug stores. Without in
tending otfense, and in purely
suggestive way. we submit: the great
protective monopolies, owe it to t1eir
many disinterested p followers to con-
struct some less formidable sentences
with which TO scare timid newspaper
correspondents away to Springville.
The only saint residing in Provo that
ever thought of specializing in real
estate by claiming this to be the
Garden City of Eden" is Kinney, the
postmaster. Other saints do not boast
of being better than their neighbors, or
that our city is so much ahead of
neighboring towns; and even if that
Springville man does imagine that God
lives here, he need not be afraid to
come and see US on that account.
There is no one here that will hurt him.
The people are b ospitable and kind to
strangers, and always glad to see their
friends. especially those from Spring.
vile. We do not boast of our
superiority or claim this to be the centre
of all creation, and there is no feverish
anxiety about the railroad building a
Union Depot.
April 10Th. B.