The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-24
Spanish Fork Splinters.

This place is fairly struck with build
ing boom, especially among the merchants.
The Co OPP store is now charging its
large building to huge dimensions When
completed, it will outdistance any store
south of Salt Lake in size, convenience
and value, The Young Mems Coop have
recently purchased valuable piece of
ground on Main Street and are preparing
for the erectionsof an elegant store. Mr..
David Malcolm IS pushing his store build
ing upward and the Hon. William Greer
is now laying the foundation of bust
ness house-probably legal-in the heart of
'own. Mr.. Dahle has just had superb
glass front placed in his new brick store,
and has recently completed and finished it's
upper story for dancing purposes.
The ecclesiastical board of the church of
Latter Day Saints lately purchased of
the city an excellent site wherein. to build
a new meeting house, and the Presby-
terians have bought of Samuel Cornaby
corner lot near Main street On which to
build church and probably mission house
and school. ~
Mr. Joseph Bayack has built him neat
little store on the East Bench, and is doing
thriving business.
Henry Gay has added to his celebrated
bakery very handsome variety store,
where all receive kind treatment and the
best of ice cream.
Across the street from the CO. op. store
MIR. Hughes is putting up barber shop.
A new schoolhouse will be built this fall
| opposite MIR. Peterson's furniture store.
| I his, it is expacted, will be model school
house, built on improved plans and fur
nished with the best of seats and desks, and
all needed appliances and apparatus.
The farmers are delighted with their
prospects this year. A heavy crop of grain,
an abundance of hay, a moderate prospect
| in places, for lucerne seed. and the potato
heavily laden with apples; grapes being in
large, heavy punches; but the peach, the
cherry and plum are awaiting another sea-
son to decorate their now fruitless
| branches.
| Spanish Fork is moving solidly forward
For years past it has been quietly but
steadily amassing wealth in land, homes,
mills, home Industries, education, machin-
cry, etc. 1t will soon turn its attention
more direct towards the beautiful, the
healthful and the comfortable. Before long
Main street will be made passable, the
cobbles will be removed. The numerous un-
healthy, green poisoned ponds will be
drained or filed up Our water bitches,
choked with decaying organic matter, will
receive due attention when the subject of
health is better understood More and
better shade trees will adorn the streets of
our city when our present ordinance relat-
ing to horses and cattle running at large is
better enforced. "A regular police will
be appointed, and the peace and
quiet so devoutedIy wished for will be
usl e red in. Fast, dangerous and defiant
driving will then moderate, the interests OF
the law abiding saloonkeeper will be more
Zealo usly guarded, and the slumberS of the
weary will not be necessarily disturbed by
the shouts and yells of perambulating
hoodlums all times of the night. Water
pipes will be laid from the penstock of the
Coop mill or some other headsource, and
hydrants will be located at convenient
places for the sprinkling OF lawns, the ex :
tinguishing of fires and other needed pur
poses.
The people have long since seen the
necessity of having our school grounds
made attractive and convenient, and not
many years will elapse before they will be
enclosed with substantial fences or even
hedges, and the now shadeless and barren
play grounds will be decorated with ele
CANT lawns, shrubbery, walks and shade
trees, among which artesians wells will
spout forth cool refreshing draughts for
thirsty children and at the same time
sprinkle and water the delightful sur
roundings. Such condition of things is
in store for US whether the railroads pass
through our town. or not, and as to their
coming or staying away the people are not
over-concerned at present, believing that
some day some railroad will find it very
profitable not to treat Spanish Fork with
the contempt of tue Union Pacific.
Several attempts have been made to rid
our town OF that scourge called script Our
merchants denounce it as q curse: the
farmers abominate it; the tradesman and
toiler pronounce it u specializing ulcer and
strange to relate the ones who curse il
manufacture it; the cnes who abominate i,
treasure itin sackfuls and the ones who
denominate it an ulcer hug it to theil
bosoms as one lover will another. The fact
is, it keeps cash out of the market and will
continue to do SO until the people demand
money or money value for their produce
and the merchant is compelled to sell his
goods or a cash basis at fair valuation.
The Woman's Suffrage association hold:
meetings regularly and with degree
of success. Cor. HER.
SPANISH Fork, Aug. %. 1890.