The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
A Thriving Town that Will Yet
Come to the Front.
NATURE WAS VERY LAVISH.
Real Estate in Fair Demand, but no
Boom Wanted.
a Healthy, Happy and Industrious Com
munity with Room for More
of the Same Kind
Prospects Excellent.

Situated about midway between the
two great commercial cities of Utah, Og-
den and Salt Lake City, overshadowed by
the towering peaks OF the majestic Wa
satch range on the east, and famed from
the west by the balmy breezes from the
Great Salt Lake, is the beautiful and fer
tile city of Kaysville, with a population
of between / 800 and 1900.
When the country in and around Rays
hand, endowed it with many resources
not enjoyed by other parts of the terri
tory. The rich and fertile soil, which
needs but the careful hand Of husbandry
to make it show its bounteous ,produc-
tivity, the beautiful scenery and the
healthful invigorating climate make her
naturally adapted for city OF homes,
which she is destined to become.
The almost inaccessible recesses OF the
mountains furnish storehouses for i'm
mense quantities of snow, which issues
forth during the summer months in beau
tiful streams OF sparkling water to glad
den the heart of the husbandman and to
beautify and revive vegetation.
About two years after the first settle
ment of the territory two of the new
corners, Hector G. Haight and Samuel O..
Holmes, started north from Salt Lake
City in search of new locations for homes.
The favorable appearance of the land sur
rounding the spot where Kaysville is
located, attracted their attention and
they resolved to make this their home.
The next year, 1885, several other
settlers, among them, Edward Phillips,
a
others, joined them. and thus was
formed the nucleus for the city of
Kaysville. MrS Egbert was one of that
noble company of pioneers VINO left the
Missouri and piloted the way across the
trackless plains to open up these beautiful
and fertile valleys to the commerce of the
world, thereby reclaiming a vast amount
of valuable country from the savage bands
OF Indians who infested it. Though he is
in his seventy fourth year he is still an
honored and respected member OF our
community.
From the time of her first settlement to
the present, Kaysville has had steady
growth. No unnatural boom with it's de-
structive relapse has ever married the
peace of her prosperous and contented
citizens, but her course has ever been on
ward and to the front.
Real estate demands fair though not
advancing. A large amount of business is
done, and new business houses are built
every year.
SCHOOLS.
The graded free school system is in sue
cessful operation, and the county super
intendent is untiring in his efforts in the
interest of the 1890 children in She
county. Thirty-one teachers are en-
in a very prosperous condition. In the
district comprising Kaysville about three
hundred children are attending the dis
trict schools and the Presbyterian mission
school is also we'll patronized. Besides
these facilities for education the citizens
have erected by their united efforts an
academy building at cost of over 81, 900,
which is handsomely equipped with school
furniture.
PRODUCTS.
Lying a few miles to the north OF Kays-
vile, on what is known as the Sand
Ridge, is the finest dry-land wheat-rais-
ing district in Utah. About 20 600 acres
of land are under cultivation, and at a
low estimate an average OF $50, 600 bush
els Of wheat are raised annually entirely
without irrigation. On irrigated farms
wheat crops are large, at times reaching
sixty bushels per acre, while oats, barley,
corn and potatoes are produced in abund-
ance. The easy facilities for shipment
enable the farmers to command the
highest market prices for their products.
which being OF the best quality they are
usually able to obtain.
Lucern seed is one of the staple, as
we'll as one of the most profitable, pro-
ducts OF the county and over SAC, 900 worth
has been raised in one year.
Davis county offers advantages far su-
perior to any other location in the terri
tory for the establishment of canning
factory. The natural facilities are here.
Fruit Of first quality can be and is raised
in unlimited abundance, and all that is
needed to ensure the success of the in
dustry is some capitalist to establish the
factory. At no place to be found inside
the borders OF our commonwealth can be
seen more adaptable soil, climate and
other natural advantages for horticulture
and fruit raising than the valley between
Salt Lake City and Ogden shows, and the
close proximity to the two great railway
systems, the Union Pacific and the Rio
Grande Western, adds materially to the
convenience of transportation, las it would
alsuto the profit such an industry would
reap for its protector. We hope soon to
and profitable use can be made OF the i'm
mense quantities of fruit which are
produced in the county.
In addition to the products enumerated
above, the soil has been found to be es-
pecially adapted to the raising of sugar
beets. Experiments in beet raising have
been made and they have proven that