Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-15

sides. Hyrum has an academy, hand
some Church and school buildings also
q neat city hall The people are farm
ers. lumber men; also deal in cattle and
sheep.
II has the following business houses:
Hyrum Coop. O. II. Rose manager;
Allen Bros general merchants, James
Unsworth general merchant; James
Jensen, notions; Soren Hansen, egg and
cattle merchant, with large cold stor-
age buildings; Hyrum Wooden Mills,
Housley & Brown, Hyrum Electric
Light and Power company, ]. f.
Wright president
RICHMOND.
Richmond, Utah was first settled in
the fall Of 1859, by Bishop William H.
Lewis Of Lewiston, George and David
Cooper and their father, John Bair,
Isaac Shepard and a few others. They
lived In a fort and in the early sixties
moved upon the present toWnsite
Thomas Tedwell was the first Bishop.
Then Apostle NJ. W. Merrill William l..
skilmore and now Thomas Hazen Mer-
rIll,
The public buildings especially the
school, are among the finest buildings
IN the county. Richmond was incorpor-
ated In 1870; has a population Of 1900
souls The business Of the town Is
farming, cattle raising also dairyng.
Everything In and around the city
shows a well-to-do people.
BUSINESS CONCERNS.
Richmond Coop, T. II. Merrill. man
agcr. the Cache Valley Dairy company.
Alma Morrill, manager. The Peoples
Mercantile and Dairy company C.. n.
Harris. manager, The Logan and Rich
mond Drug company Paul Won Nor
deck. manager, Joseph Monsen, con-
tractor and builder
NJ. W. Merrill owns n fine -four mill;
also one at High Creol, by w. d. Hend-
ricks; Richmond Foundry and Machine
Shop, William j.. Merrill proprietor.
sMITHFGELD.
Dec. l0.-Smithfeld was first settled
in the spring Of 1853 by John p, Wright,
John Nelson, Israel J. Clarke and 9TH
ers, about fourteen in all. Bishop John
i. Wright of Hyrum plowed the first
furrow for water ditch. These men
nut in a small crop, and Il had to be
Natered up on June 18th. The Indians
were troublesome, and they were called
to Maughan's Fort for safety. They
harvested their grain In the snow that
fall. forty bushels per acre. These men
were then sent 10 Logan TO make set
Element.
In the fall OF 1859 Seth Langton, John
Thornley,, Ezekiel Hopkins and others
came and remained as permanent set
tiers. The place was first called Sum-
NIT Creek IL was organized into a
ward November, 1859, and John G..
Smith was Bishop TIL 1863, when Sam
uel Roskeley was made Bishop TIL 1850,
and was succeeded by George /. Far
rel, and in 1900 Newton Woodruff was
appointed TO mn that office
The city OF Smithheld was laid out In
March, 1869 and Incorporated Febru-
airy 9Th, 1858. The town Is beautifully
situated, and has beautiful homes, good
school houses. and a fine tabernacle,
next in size to that Of Logan. Smith
field does large shipping business. and
has a population Of 1900,
The business concerns are those Of
4. X. Miles, Jr., general merchant;
Abram Smith, Petersen & Griffith, Geo,
Y. Smith, notions Union Flour Mills,
James Mack, flour mills; Smithheld
Creamery company.
WELLSVILLE.
Welsville was first settled by the late
Peter Vaughan In July 1856, and was
the first settlement Of Cache county,
and was named Maughan's fort after
IT'S founder. In September OF the same
yaar n W ntvan vlaI piggq Iohn
Maughan, William II. Vaughan, Fran
els Gunnel. O. u. Thompson, and their
families left Tooele county and landed