The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-12
ST. ANTHONY SOLON
I SALT LAKE VISITOR
A. NJ. Boylen Talks of Matters
i'm General in Gem
State. itA

A. M. Boylen, City Councilman and
leading clothicr of st. Anthony, Idaho,
and Fl. A. Buchenan, Chief Of Police,
are in tho city, guests of the Wilson.
In speaking Of conditions in that sec
tion Of the State, Mr., Boylcn said:
1.-The city of st. Anthony is in a
most prosperous condition. 1t is i'm
proving rapidly and increasing in popu-
lation. The new railroad building to
Yellowstone park, and which is COM
pleted for business a distance of twen-
ty-two miles, has given st. Anthony
wonderful impetus in business
way. Our town has n good water
works system and power lighting plant,
but lacks many of the improvements
date modern city; notably of which
may be mentioned city sewage sys-
TEN.
lone thing that has contributed to
hold st. Anthony back is the county
seat fight which bobs up every SIX
years. This year the vote will be on
removing the county seat to ReIburg.
OF course there will be no great con-
test, but the vote will be taken just
the same. This is necessary to pre-
serve their right TO again make the
contest six years hence. 1t don't in
reality amount to anything, as there
is no danger that the county seat will
ever be removed from st, Anthony, but
the fact that attempts have been and
are being made has kept capital shy
of investments. 1t is fact that the
town of ST. Anthony, although place
in excess of 1000 people, is behind the
country tributary to 1T. The country
surrounding st. Anthony covers an i'm
anywhere.
Crops Are Immense.
"The crops this year are immense.
Prices Of produce are high for that
part of the country, and the sugar
beet industry is one Of great profit TO
the growers, as that crop develops in
weight and quality in Fremont county
far in excess of any other beet raising
section of the country. The range,
what is left OF it, is in fine condition,
and stockmen have done we'll this sea-
son. -
Asked as to political conditions in
Fremont county, Mr.. Boylen said: ''I
am not IN politics, and in no sense an
active politician. l am plain business
man and take no active part In local
politics. On questions affecting State
and National affairs | am a Republi-
can. However, the Republican party
in Idaho this year has been unfortunate
IN the selection of somo of its candi-
dates. -
In the matter of Governor, Mr.. Boylen
says Governor Gooding is very un-
popular in his own party, while it is q
fact that his opponent, Judge Stock
Slayer, is corresponding popular. At
the election this year, Mr.. Boylen adds,
there viii be much silent voting done,
the result of which will remain an un-
known quantity until after the votes
are counted. What tho effect of the
American party move viii be in Ban
mock county and other places he does
not pretend to say, but believes it Will
eventually result in a breaking up Of
old party lines IN some of the coun-
ties in the State,
Adnires Salt Lake.
Mr.. Boylen is a great admirer of
Salt Lake, and is outspoken in his be"
lief that this will eventually become
the greatest inland city in the country,
both In population and business. No
other city, he says, has the rich scope
of country to draw upon that has Salt
Lake. Now that railroads are center
ing here nothing in the nature Of things
can happen or intervene to hold her
back Since his arrival he has taken
in large portion of the city, and ex-
presses surprise at the amount of build
ing and public improvements that are
being carried on. The city govern
ment, he thinks, must certainly be in
the hands of progressive men who are
not working for a day, but for all
future time, if the stability of the
work being done is any criterion.
Mr.. Boylen Will be in the city for
few days. Chief Of Police Buchenan,
who brought down prisoner, returned
to ST. Anthony Thursday night.