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

year about 500 tons of breadstGf has
been teamed from Sewer westward and
something like 5000 bushels of wheat
has been sent to Salt Lake.
In 1897 Sewer has sent out about 800,
GOO pounds of butter, mostly to Nevada,
and partly to eastern Utah and Colo
RADIO. Of eggs there were put aboard
the cars for Salt Lake about 10000
cases, of 80 dozen each, amounting to
100000 dozen, or 100000 eggs. Poultry
is nearly all sent to Salt Lake City,
what is not used at home. The ship
ments of dressed chickens in '97 have
been all of 10000 pounds, that repre-
senting about 5000 fowls. The county
uses q deal of cheese, but had some
thing like $4,000 pounds to spare this
year.
More than in any year before, there
has been a tendency this year to hold
on to cattle and sheep. Cattle have
brought from 81 to So more per head
than previously, and more have been
driven in than shipped hence. Beef
steers nearly all went to Salt Lake and
feeders to Omaha, Kansas City
and Denver. Local COW men are
increasing their herds, and cattle are
now hard to buy The sheep growers
have done a hundred per cent better
than in 1896, and wool is even above
that increase.
HORTICULTURAL.
During the spring of 1897 10000 bud
ded and grated fruit trees of first quail
ity were planted in Sewer; about half of
these were prunes, and this is more
than were planted in all the Is years
before. Among the orchards are sew
eral commercial ones that aim to send
all their product to the outside, ship
ping all kinds of fruit to Salt Lake,
Butte and Chicago, and winter apples
to California. The yield this year has
been greater than ever before, more
fruit having been wasted than waNA yer
before raised in a single year. Monroe
alone, the principal fruit town, raised
1,500 bushels of peaches. Richffeld's or
chards dropped 10000 bushels of apples
and the county all of $4,000 bushels.
in the vineyards OF Monroe and Glen
wood clustered ten tons of as fine
grapes as are raised anywhere in the
state, excepting Dixie. Then there
were $500 bushels of plums, hundreds
Of tons of cherries, apricots and pears,
and all sorts of small fruits raised.
Sewer has thoroughly demonstrated
that she is a fruit country, able to yield
anything but tropical fruits, and all
prolific and fine favored. Next spring
her orchardists will plant 10000 apple
trees, mostly OF Lnerben Davis variety,
and steps will probably be taken to
save the surplus by drying and evap-
Grating.
PUBLIC OFFICIALS.
Sewer county is in the tenth SEN
atorial district, now represented by
Senator l. K Wright. She is one of
five counties in the sixth judicial dis
trict, over whose circuit Judge Will
lam NJ. McCarty travels. She consti-
tutes the 18th legislative district, repre-
scented in the lower house by B. H.
Greenwood. County officers are H. H.
Bell, W. II. Robinson and j. A. Ross,
commissioners; Samuel G. Clark,
clerk; Maud S. Layton, recorder: 3.
w. Mcdaniel, attorney; John w. Coons,
sheriff; Joseph A. Smith, assessor; H.
P. Hansen, treasurer, and P. D.
Schroeder, surveyor All of these ex-
cept the clerk, sheriff, treasurer and
surveyor are Democrats.
CITIES AND TOWNS.
One city and five towns in the county
are Incorporated. Richfield is the city,
and. the, towns are Elsimore, GlenWood,
Monroe and. Salina.
The population of the several towns,