The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26

winch are fenced. Morgan, Weber and
Rlch counties form a summer range
for their 10000 to $4,000 head of sheep.
During this year three train loads of
muttons, about 10000 head in all, were
! shipped to the Chicago market. The
1897 wool clip was near 900, 900 pounds.
The paid up capital stock is $126. 600 and
on this a dividend of liz per cent was
declared this year. The president of
the company is James I. Atkinson.
William Moss is general manager and
w. .. Lee is manager of the store de-
partment, which does an annual busi-
ness of about $4,000
Jake Smiths creamery and the fire
brick business operated by James H.
Hornsby are new and lourishing in
dustries in Woods Cross.
Bountiful has a population of 600.
The Davis County Clipper. the only
newspaper in the county, is published
there weekly by John Stable jr., and
has an extensive circulation. Bountiful
has fine opera house, 50x90 feet. The
principal firms are the. BOuntiful Coop,
the Peoples Opera House Mercantile
company, Call & Wiley, and James
birmingham, general merchandise
Edward Thomas, furniture, and the
Bounuful Lumber & Building associa-
ton, lumber. The total amount of
business transacted annually is about
| 100000 Bountiful was Incorporated as
city in 1892.
CenterVille is a thriving town of
6OO inhabitants. 1t is noted as the To-
cation of the natural gas wells. which
furnish light and fuel for Salt Lake
City. The New American Gas & Fuel
company own several thousand acres
of land in the gas fields and Driver &,
Co. also have extensive holdings.
If the supply increases as it now
seems likely to do it is but matter of
time until manufacturing institutions.
attracted by cheap fuel, will be estab-
lished in Davis county.
The Coop store, George w Cleveland
and Mrs. Brandon are retail dealers. in
general merchandise
The Davis county nursery is one of
the permanent industries of Centerville
Pennington, the county seat of
Davis county, mas three general mer-
chandising stores, the Coop, the Com
mercial and Manufacturing company.
and j. d. Wood. The three institutions
carry stock of about $4,000. The
Davis county bank, with a capital
stock of $4,000 and $4,000 surplus, does
a general banking business. The city
has population of 1,150
The Lagoon, Simon Bamberger's
city limits. Mr.. Banberger is engaged
in making extensive improvements on
his premises, and is constantly adding
some new attraction. He is said to
have in contemplation the erection of a
new bowery and pavilion to cost
several thousand dollars.
The corporate limits of Raysville
City cover an area of % square miles
and embraces nearly 1900 inhabitants.
One of its principal industries is the
Kaysville creamery, which has a cana
city for handling 10000 pounds of milk
per day. During this year 100000
pounds of milk has been purchased and
made into butter, cheese and cream.
Some of the manufactured product is
shipped to San Francisco, but the bulk
of it is marketed in Salt Lake City.
The same company does an immense
slaughtering business. They have ex-
pended this year 100000, which has
been distributed among the farmers.
Plans are maturing for an extension of
the business next year.
The Kaysville Brick & Tile company
and Ward & Dummer manufacture
large quantities of bricks. Owing to
excessive freight rates preventing
shipments. the bulk of their product
is used in the county
The steam roller mills. of which
Hyrum Stewart is proprietor, ship con-
siderable mill stuffs. but make a speci-
atty of grists.
The leading firms of the city are:
Kaysville Coop, Hyrum Stewart, H. J.
Kaysville Mercantile Co., E.
A. Williams & Son, general merchan-
disc; John Barton, furniture; Swan &
Co., saloon; f. Blamires, fresh meat;
G. f. Pattillo, tinware; M. j. r. Proud