The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13
WYOMING WHISPERS.
The Little Boom Evanston is Having -Uinta
Stock Farm-Faust and Wanita.

St0ck Farm-tauSt ana Nanlta.
| The weather is remarkably warm here
| for this season of the year.
! Produce brings good price this season,
and the farmer is correspondingly happy.
All vegetation is throwing off its summer
suit to give the cold winds of winter fair
shake.
Fine pictures of the great trotters, Faust
and Wanita, of the Uinta stock farm. are
on exhibition at Beckwith &, LADDERS and
in the show windows of the City Drug
store.
The public school is now thoroughly
organized, with Prof. Hamm as principal,
aided by very efficient corps of teachers
The young people of Evanston enjoy school
advantages that larger towns cannot boast
of, which they seem to heartily appreciate.
Merchants are doing a good business
The winters supply of grain and potatoes
is being secured, and in exchange groceries
and dry goods form a prominent part
Hence q rustic among the counter Jump
ers.
Excavating of the city water works
trenches has been delayed, awaiting the
arrival Of the water pipes. They are now
all here, or on the way, So that the good
work of supplying the city with water in
case of fire will be pushed to completion as
soon as possible.
DR.. w. A. Hooker, physician at the in
sane asylum, now occupies his new quar-
tiers on the asylum grounds For fine
view of the town, the location is all that
could be desired. For convenience and
finish of the building, one needs but a
glance to observe its merits. j. G.. Fiero
one Of our leading mechanics, did the
work.
Brickmaking still continues, regardless Of
the cold nights of two weeks ago. Then, a
green brick Oh the yard in the morning was
as solid as burnt one from the kiln. The
proprietor, James Mills, though very in
dustrious, cannot make brick all winter
The last kiln of the season is now being
built and will soon be fired.
In keeping with the progressive spirit of
the times, the owners of a large percentage
of the dwelling houses in town have been
repainting and otherwise remodeling them,
preparatory to the advent of the grand ex-
cursion party that is expected to arrive
from Salt Lake, via the Salt Lake, Wyom-
ing and California, within few months at
the most.
The different churches Of the town are
well attended. The ministers now have
occasion to preach to but few empty
benches. The Latter-day Saints have
fine brick meeting house almost completed,
and itis receiving an elegant coat of paint at
the hands ST Charles Jarnan, one of our
local artists. Seats have been ordered. and
upon their arrival the westinghouse, one of
the handsonest and most substantial in the
territory, will be dedicated for worship.
II the erecting Of houses and sales of real
estate denote anything of the prosperity Of
town, Evanston is indeed in prosper
GUS condition. Many fine residences have
been erected during the past year, and
some have yet to receive the finishing
toucheB. Real estate has sold well on the
market, quite an amount having changed
hands since q year ago. Notable among
the buyers arc DR.. Harrison, of the firm OF
Harrison & Roth, who has invested in
number Of dwelling houses; n. z. Hooker,
proprietor OF the City Drug store, who pur-
chased the drug business from DR.. w. A.
Hooker, and a good location from G D.
O'Neil, on which he proposes building
fine brick block at an early date; and
foreign hrm, who recently purchased the
Reipen hotel property.
The Uinta stock farm, owned by A. G.
Beckwith and located within the city
limits, Is being improved with cross fences
where they were Leeded, and with blowing
prior TO sowing grain and grass seed. in
large quantities. This addition TO the
many acres now under cultivation will
make the farm a great hay and grain pro
OF some Of the most famous trotters On the
globe Among those born and reared
there, is Wanita, the phenomenal roam four
year-old FLY that has trotted against all
Corners Of her age as q three or fOur-year-
old in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado,
and went in free-for-al at Denver re
Gently, but has never failed to take first
money. Her record, 2:20M, though one to
be proud of. will be lowered, if crowded,
before she returns from the eastern cir
cult, where she now is, entered against the
best blood of her age on the turf. Faust,
another famous occupant, the admired of
all admirers, is an iron grey gelding three
years old. He having had better chance
of displaying his ability than his charming
companion Wanita, meeting faster com
pany, lowered the worlds three-year old
record in race by making mile in 2:1S4.
This feat he accomplished in the recent
races at Montana.
Hazard.
EVANSTON, Wyoming, October 10, 1889.