The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

| ity and substantial growth during the
past year than Nephi. For several
years the city has been gradually eX-
banding to meet the business and resi-
dence needs of a acknowledgements
farming and manufacturing population.
but the twelve-months just closed has
eclipsed any one of its predecessors.
Some forty-seven new residence build
ingS have been erected within the in
corporate limits, ranging in cost from
one to many thousands of dollars each,
the most beautiful and costly of which
is the stately colonial edifice just COM
pleted and occupied by Hon. George c..
Whitmore, the well-knOwn banker.
This is a thoroughly modern structure,
and recognized to be the handsomest
residence south of Salt Lake City.
There are others here, also, scarcely
less substantial, although lacking
somewhat in architectural beauty Be
sides, this city, owing TO its healthful
climate, pure water excellent schools
and general pleasant surroundings, to
say nothing of it's social advantages,
is becoming noted as d most desirable
place of residence for families desiring
a quiet, peaceful life.
The agricultural resources and prod
uctS of the surrounding farms are
largely in excess of local consumption,
and grain and produce are exported
age under cultivation, tributary to this
city, has, during the past five years,
increased fully 20 per cent, and now
that the school and university lands
are upon the market, the increase will
be much greater in the near future.
Dry farming upon the bench lands
hereaboutS has passed the experiment.
al stage, and some of the very best
grain crops harvested in this valley
the present year were taken from lands
that have not had an irrigation stream
turned upon them. Judging from the
large areas now being cleared and
fenced, this class of farming will be
fully doubled the coming year.
Stock-raising constitutes a leading
industry of this section, and Nephi is
known far and wide as one of the
largest shipping centers in the southern
part of the state for live stock and
wool. Buyers from the eastern mar
kets gather here in numbers during
the shipping season, and trains of sheep
and cattle are loaded at frequent in
tervals from the stockyards here dur
ing the spring and fall months, while
wool, hides and pelts are a source of
constant commercial traffic by An
drews & Co., who have headquarters
here.
The mountain of gypsum that ex-
tends for miles east of the city, will
continue a source of wealth for CEN
turtles, and as the demand for the
manufactured product will increase
with the rapidly-increasing population
of the great west, the plaster industry
viii ere long become one of magni-
tude and far-reaching Importance At
present the only shippers of calcined
gypsum, or plaster of paris, is the Ne
phi Plaster Manufacturing company of
this city. Their mill plant has pres
ent capacity of leo tons every twenty
four hours and a ready market is
found throughout the northwest states
for all the product the company can
supply.
The Nebo Salt company, which deals
exclusively in prepared salt. evaporated
from the waters of the saline springs
at the eastern base of Mt. Nebo. makes
regular shipments of this household ne
cessity to intermountain markets, be-
sides supplying the local demand with
a superior article of family and dairy
salt
The Nephi Rock Salt company are
miners and shippers of rock salt from
the adjacent mountains, which finds a
ready market at the various quartz
mills and reduction works in the min
ing camps in this and other parts of
the state. At present the company is
shipping on an average OF 200 tons per
mCnth.
The silver, copper and lead mines of
the Mt. Nebo district, few miles
north of the city, have been undergo
ing systematic development during the
past year, and several new and prom
Using prospects are being opened up.
1t is more than probable that during
the coming year one or two of the for
mer old producers will be again ener-
getically worked and shipments re-
Sumed. as well as the output from new
bonanzas put upon the market, caus-
ing shekels to jingle in the pockets of
their owners
Within the past two years large de-
posts of a superior quality of mineral
paint have been discovered northwest
OF this city, and few shipments Of
the material have been made; but, ow-
ing to a contest over the ownership,
the property now lies idle, pending the
legal adjudication of the title.
The coal measures on Four Mile
creek, southeast of this city, are being
developed with f1attering results. some
OF the product having already been put
upon the local market and pronounced
of the very best quality for domestic
purposes, and especially desirable for
blacksmithing purposes
Taken altogether, Juab county,
which embraces the great Tintic min
ing camps. and its diversified mineral
resources and broad acres of farming
and grazing lands, has scarcely an
equal anywhere.