The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-25
CACHES CAPITAL.
The Pretty City Of
Logan.
CITY OF MANY WATERS
Prospects for Manufacturing
Interests.
THE SEAT OF TWO COLLEGES.
Beautiful for Situation-A Home
Made City-The Temple of the
North
Prospects for Manufacturing
Interests.
THE SEAT OF TWO COLLEGES.
Beautiful for Situation-A Home
Made City-The Temple of the
North
Logan City

during the past few years, has become
one of the most prosperous and wealth
lest counties in the Territory. Situated
practically in the centre of ons of the
most productive valleys in the Rockv
Mountains, it has drawn from a fast
growing and exceedingly thrifty popula-
ton. Whatever has been accomplished
in Logan has been solely by the labor CT
the people there. 1t has had no help
from the outside. Whatever of wealth
and sccumulations and comforts and
luxuries there may be in the city,
have been brought out of the ground
by the toll and hard work of
man, and have been accumulated
as a result of the saving of money and
by persistent interest. 1t is very easy
to build up town upon mining field,
or to bsget degree OF excitement which
imbues every branch of business in a
natural line where there are prospects
of large fortunes to be made in yery
brief periods as result of speculation.
In cases of this kind there is no lack of
outside help, and while city may pride
itself upon Its rapid growth, there is
very little reason for self-congratula-
ton among the inhabitants of it for the
reason that it has not been the out
growth nor work of their own hands.
But it is a slow task, year by year, to
build up city out of the ground,
beginning with nothing but the
favorable conditions of nature, the
blessings of the Almighty, and the IN
yielding toll of men who recognize the |
nobility of work. Where success is
achieved in cases of this kind the credit |
should assure0ly be great for those |
whose labors have brought it about. |
This is the case with Logan wholly; in |
fact, she would have shown a much |
greater degree of prosperity to-day had |
there not been constant drain upon |
her resources from points outside, and |
had not the railroads so persistently |
sought to deprive her, by unjust dis
crimina ton, of tie markets to which |
she was Justly entitled. When exorbit
ant rates are charged for coal, and when |
the VIII Eat and -four of Nebraska and |
Missouri RIVER points are pitted (be-
cause of railroad Svarice) against the
farmers of Cache Valley, for the trade
of Idaho and Montana and points north |
and northwest, it is astonishing that
the people have been able to hold their
own so we'll. Had her people been
possessed of other stamina than that
they have enjoyed, it is not at all IN
likely they would have practically failed.
But Logan, as the capital of the
county, grows herself in proportion |
with the growth of the county, and |
that is rapid She has one of the finest |
sites for manufacturing in the whole of |
the Wasatch range. Pouring into the |
valley from different ravines, on the |
eastern side, there are large streams |
of water which are never failing
sources of power and it is
but question of time until the wise
men of our day, recognizing the value |
of these great natural powers, will direct |
them to those uses which,the ingenuity |
, of man has learned the value of apply |
ing them. FoundIies, wooden mills, |
tanneries, and kindred industries, and |
home manufactures OF varied kinds, are |
certain in time to be erected along the |
water courses, that for some four miles
give unlimited power along a single |
stream, and will supply force for the
operation of any number of mills or
factories, in which the inhabitants of
this lovely valley will not only yet find |
labor for themselves, but for their
childrens' children. 1t is really matter
ofsurprise that this work has not already
been more extensively inaugurated, but
the eyes of many practical men are earn
estly turning in that direction. There
are now being made boxes doors, win
dow sash, and the like, which are sup
piled to the whole Territory from q
woodworking establishment operated
there by Messrs. CART and Haynes,
upon one of these sources of power,
found in the very heart OF Logan, and
extending along the channel of the
Logan River. below and above, into the
mouth Of the canyon for fully four
miles.
TIE milling business is also a very
material factor there. Two hundred
and fifty thousand bushels of wheat are
shipped annually out of Cache Valley,
which could as well be made into -four
and exported as manufactured article,
to the advantage of the valley and all
concerned. The 100000 bushels
reared annually is nothing to what
could be raised. When the valley
has a greater surplus these huge
water powers will be more fully taken
advantage of, the capacity of the mills
are now operated in the valley will be
increased, their number will be aug
mented, and the farmer, whose wheat
is priced because of the character OF
Cache Valley grain, sensing that
patriotism which should possess all
men to build up their own community,
will turn his wheat in the directions
already started for manufacture by the
mills, operated to the fullest extent by
the water power with which Logan is
blessed. Independent of other con-
siderations there are beauty of
its location, cleanliness, health
fulness Of surroundings and all condi-
tions which make it desirable place
for home. Absolutely there can be no
doubt that Logan will yet be manu-