The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-09
CANADIAN TOWN
BUILT BY UTAHNS
From Bare Prairie Springs
Thriving Little City.
STORY OF RAYMOND, ALBERTA
UTAH UEoPLE THERE PROSPER
Gus AND HAPPY.
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4 AYSFILL1, May S.-From am open,
n uniuhabited plain i'm September
1901. to a settlement of 200 thrifty
I and prosperous inhabitants iu lTay.
! 1904, is the record of growth made by
/ the town of Raymond i'm Alberta. Cam
/ ada, where Uncle Jesse Knight OF
/ Provo, with his sons and some others.
I set their hands 20 make the waste
i places fruitful one year after fl was
/ laid out I'm lots and blocks Raymond
/ manned after one of Mr.. knights s0nsJ
/ had 600 inhabitants; in two years there
/ were l200, and another thousand have
/ come in since.
Industries Are Numerous.
The town has a sugar factory. q large
flour mill, bank a newspaper "a hotel
and q number of thriving commercial en-
/ terDriseS. Tt IS the headquarters of large
ranching interests and has irrigation prof.
ects on loot and canals already construct
ed that insure its Inhabitants against iu-
jury from drought Those who have -ct-
Jted there were chiefly tain people.
though some have gone from other uface-
Beautiful and comfortable homes are be-
( ing erected and every one seems content
Ephraim r. Ellison OF Layton has just
returned from business trip to that Sec
/ ton, and when asked last evening ass 10
lht cpu0lLuu or the Utah CJiouiSts THCrr
( he spoke interestingly of the prospects of
IloSe VINO are so rapidly changing the
district around Raymond and c0utiguous
settlements from "a prairie into the rich
I est ana most productive of agricuItural
sections.
Venture in Sugar Market.
Mr.. Ellison is the manager of the
Knight Sugar company. which IS owned
entirely by Utah people. or those who
ada The company is 81 .0000H0 concern.
founded by Jesse Knight and sons of Pro-
Vo. Mr. Ellison and some others. 1T IS
really an Indignation Of two large
ranching companies and the original
sugar company, SO that now. i'm addition
to engaging extensively i'm the growing oh
sugar beets and cereal crops and in tho
manufacture of sugar the company to.z
an enormous business in ranchiug and
kindred pursuits
known Utah names. Mr. Ellison being
manager, George IS. Green. fr sp.ra-
tary; T. j. o. Brieu. field superinreudsut-
A. H. Williams. chemist and sugar ex-
pert, and Raymond knight, ranch di-
rector.
The prospects before our people in
CaHada are excellent said Mr.. Ellison.
The season there is as early as in Utah.
ana farm work has not been delayed So
much there as here on account. of storms.
We had sixty teams at work an our
farm and they lost but half day dur
ing April
Experiments in Sugar.
we are expecting very pro=por0us
season for the sugar business THE -.-
Perlmehts made last year showed that
beels with high percentage of saa-
chaflue and purity can be grown profit
AMY III ana around RAYMOND. where our
factory IS located. as % the yield per
Scfe. we can scarcely say at this time
what lJ VIII be. but look for the crop to-
average at least ten tons on uuirrigateI
Farms II may 90 much higher than that
-e ! ~ In. rr ..r.
Deets, the natural moisture iu che ground
Delng SUFFICIENT to mature them.
Big Beet Crop.
Last year we made short but sue
ceSSIul run at the factory and mauufar-
uured between $4,000 and 30 900 pounds Of
sugar our factory was two or three
weeks late IN starting This SpTiuE we
are growing or having grown for us 5000
acres OF beeJS- Reckoning a yield OF ten
tons per acre, the 1900 tons OF roots
pounds OF sugar for, according 10 last
year trial, the Deets win produce 80
pounds OF sugar per ton. We are cr1H-
ing I-vV acres OF beets ourselves and have
contracted with farmers for 1900 acres
more We could handle the product of
4-y1J acres If the factory was kept uu to-
ITS fun capacity. The RAYMOND faeraTr-
Is an exact duplicate of the one az T6-
San, ana has q capacity for f4J tons of
DeeJs, or 10000 pounds of sugar per dan.
taJtle on the open range have done
Wei during the past winter. We have
done no FEEDING and we are now shipping
beef 20 the market right off the range.
ana they are ia prime condition Since
Jan. / We have marketed 100 carloads of
beef cattle.
we have 200 acre. of grain i'm this
spring, ali giving promise of abundant
harvest our sugar beetS are AN IN br
now, and some of them were up when +
left Canada.
People Are Prosperous.
Mr.. Ellison returns I'm good health He
reports Lhat the people generally are
prosperous. healthy. busy and happy one
exception, as TO health. is the case of
Bishop Frank d. Grant of Stirling who
was formerly a resident of Woods Cross.
On account Of severe and prolonged at
tack of rheuma tlsm. AR. Grant has con-
Guided TO return 10 tab. He will prob
ably again settle In Davis county
Mr. Ellison S company owns some 30 alI .
acres of land iu the UeighbOrhg0d of Raw
mond- Something ike half Of 81 IS ara bIs
the balance being excellent for grazing
mat the population of that district is IN
creaslHs So rapidly rs accounted for by the
liberal Inducements To- desirable settlers
mat tue company offers. as well as hr
the natural advantages Of tHe c0mfry
The Manitoba Free Press ou April .
printed thrce-uage Writr-uU of Ra--
mona ana MS business institutions Point
ing Out the marvellous growth of the place
which Was attributed 10 the industry and
pFogfesslFeucss of the Mormon settlers,