The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-23
CACHE PROJECT
Proves SURPRISE
Salt Lake Newspaper Men
Visit Trenton in Dry
Farming Belt.
CEREAL FACTORY SCHEME
BIG TRACT OF GOOD COUNTRY
BEING OPENED.
Especial to The Herald.)

Logan, Aug. N.-A party of Salt Lake
newspaper men and Secretary Lon Had
dock OF the NJ. 81 NJ. association, in
charge OF L. II. Cutler OF the Trenton
Land & Investment company. which has
its office In the Judge building In Salt
Lake, left here this morning for Trenton,
where they spent part of the day in look
ing over and sizing up that section Of
country, which is believed just now to be
on the verge of a boom such as no other
place In northern Utah has ever expert
enced: For great many years Trenton
was the center OF Cache county'S dry belt
the headquarters of the dry farming
district of this section-but the compile
ton of the big West Cache canal has
. opened up wonderful possibilities for
northwestern Cache in general and Tren-
ton in particular. and that locality prom
ises 10 become as productive as the east
side of Cache. which is famed as one OF
the garden spots of therwest. Big fruit
orchards have been put out since the wa
ter became available and within ten years
Cache county will be the principal fruit
producing section of Utah.
{ Cereal Factory Project.
But just at present Trenton. and, in
fact, the whole county, is very much in
, terested in the project of establishing a
big cereal factory here, and il was with
a view of giving the newspaper men some
idea Of the advantages that Trenton pos
sesses over other localities for establish
they We're taken over.
IL is putting IL mildly TO say that they
were very much surprised at the remark
able change that has taken place and Is
taking place there: that is, those who
were acquainted with the place, and the
others were very much impressed with
the great possibilities of that section, par
tical.arly with regard to the enterprise
mentioned. They found big country. one
that Is well drained, and with thousands
of acres of the most fertile land lying
outdoors 1t Is blsected by the main line
OF the Oregon Short Line. and speaking
OF the railroad calls 60 mind the evident
fact that the company is quite confident
as to the future OF Trenton, Tor IL mas
erected there one of the most substantial
and commOdious stations along It's route
One not demanded by the conditions pre-
vailing at the time of its erection
Centre of Dry Farming.
Lying above and TO the west of Trenton
are the principal dry land wheat fields of
Cache which annually yield between 800
600 and 400 900 bushels of grain II is all
hard wheat and is in big demand at the
cereal factories, notably those OF Battle
Creek. Mich. scores of carloads having
been sent out of Trenton to that city last
year and for many years past in fact.
The proposition now before the people
here Is that of establishing factory 10
utilize q good portion of this wheat and
Trenton being centrally located, with
first-class railroad accommodations, am
pie power ldclntitS, pieHly OF hclp picitS
OF water and an abundance of land, has
naturally been selected Mr.. Haddock was
very favora'l y impressed with Trenton
claims before going over, but after in
specting the place he did not hesitate 70
declare Trenton the finest location. IN
Utah for such an industry. 1t certainly
has advantages no other section of the
county can claim-that was the verdict
of all.
The proposed factory is 10 cost in the
neighborhood OF $4,000 and will employ
about 100 hands 1t will have as its back
ers the NJ. az NJ. association, the United
DEVELOPMENT association, the business
Land & Investment company. which latter
is to assume large part of the burden
of providing a site for the factory anc
arranging the necessary preliminaries fol
its installation.
The thing which the visitors marveleC
at after viewing this fruitful section wa.
that every day the trains carry through
II many home-seekers going TO Idaho
oregon and Washington, to districts les:
fertile and with not one-tenth the ad
vantages that Trenton Possesses. They
nav nearly or quite as much for thel
for too Trenton's greatest need is ad
vertising II is the land OF opportunity
in so far as Utah is concerned. No othc
section rivals II in the advantages IL of
fers TO the home-seeker. the intensive
farmer and the car talist. The fight Mr.
cutler and his friends are making for tn,
cereal factory is the first notice the othe
parts OF the country have had that Tren
ION Is on the map. but IL is not the last
for there Is crowd OF boosters in thu
thriving little town whose work will brinl
big results. for they have the goods ant
know how TO display them. The visitin:
boosters returned 10 Salt Lake on tn
affPrnOOQ train.