The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-23

der private ownership. The meter rate
Is only cents per kilowatt, and the rate
for power is 81 per horsepower per month.
A bank has been organized by local
capitalists and is now doing a thriving
business. 1t is the pride of the stock
holders and citizens generally that at no
time during the panic did it suspend cash
payments.
room public school building. which will
be completed the coming summer at q
cost of $4,000 This building will be a
model of architectural beauty, and will
have no superior in the state.
The sentiment in favor of a municipal
water system is practically unanimous
and committees are now at work on the
preliminary plans for a modern system
of waterWorks.
The city is advertising for bids for
the construction of cement sidewalks in
| the business section and screened gravel
walks in the residence section. The walks
VIII be put in as soon as spring opens
! Ephraim has a population Of 5000. II
| is situated almost in the center of the
county, at the junction of the Rio Grande
Western and the Sanpete Valley railways
II is surrounded by thousands of acres
of the finest farming land in Utah.
AS an educational center Ephraim has
no equal in this section of the state Its
public schools rank with the best in the
state. 1t is the home of the Snow acade-
my, one of Utah's leading preparatory
Schools IL is fpilTdlfn DOdSL tHdt Sne
furnishes a greater number of district
school teachers than any other city OF
like size If Utah.
Within two miles of the city limits lie
the great oolite stone quarries that have
furnished the stone for so many of Salt
Lake City's handsome buildings. The
fame of this building stone has reached
the coast cities of Los Angeles and San
Francisco. The builders of those cities
are sending in orders that will make the
duarries a scene of great activity this
year.s All of the quarrymen are planning
to greatly increase their output and get
their duarries in shape to handle the
largest orders. Failure to be prepared
to turn out their product in large guam
titles lost them the Newhouse contract
and they will not be caught mapping
again.
Perhaps the most promising enterprise
in sight for Ephraim is the drainage of
the immense tract of swamp land lying
Immediately west of the city. Citizens
of Ephraim own more than 10000 acres
of this land. and steps are now being tax
en- to organize a drainage district for the
purpose of retaining this vast tract
The land, when drained. will be admir-
ably adapted for sugar beets and -vege-
tables. 1t will furnish homes for several
hundred families and will double the
value of the farm property surrounding
this city.
The headquarters of the supervisor of
the Manti national forest are located in
TINS CITY lie tuteSt service cOHtenlPidteS
the building of a telephone line connect
ing Ephram with Orangeville. in Emery
county. during the coming summer. There
is already a county road connecting these
towns.
The Ephraim Commercial club is en-
titled to a great deal of credit for awak-
ening the spirit of progress among the
people As result of its labors Epll-
RAIN is already the best town in this
section of the state and it is forging
ahead much faster than any other town
in southern Utah.