The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-22

dozens doe OF az who operate 'Ea0 and m dp sgp
Mont The creamcrcs turn their milk into butter and
niue cheese, and for a great many years thc de
of course, the industry assumes larger proportions
with each year. The farmer who but few years ago
on of land is growing wealthy on Il quarter of
that The lower lands of the valley make cx
cGhcnt astufsGe tor the daiyman IN Inc summer ana
the fertile and well watered upper lands provide him
$1,000 year As natural result of the growth OF
disappeared and in their stead boodod or graded
animals and the sale of such cattle forms no incon
siderable part of the county's annual income.
BEET SUGAR AND GRAIN.
There beet sugar factories in Cache county,
one at Logan and the other Lewiston and between
ton more than half million of dollars annually The
yield this season in Of 10000 tons and an
high as hirtyfvc tons to the acre reported and
the average yield is very high here. The beet area
extends from end Of the county TO the other.
At one time Cache county farmers wer" devoted IN
the main TO the production of wheat and at the pres
cnt time while large areas have been turned to other
uses, there is considerable quantity of wheat and
of the side of Cache whore is located the famous
hard wheat belt Crops there produced without
is sought for by the manufacturers of breakfast foods
good part Of the west side crop going to Battle tile
Creek, Mich. and other points where located the
factories of the cereal companies. There is perhaps
100000 bushels of this wheat raised in the hard wheat
region each and then of great quantity
along the east side of the valley.
OF late years Cache county has forged we'll TO the
front as a fruit producer. For many years IT was
thought that marketable fruit could not be raised here
but the agricultural college dspellcd that idea with
its experiments and now considerable area of the
5000 planted with commercial orchards and
orchards being set out every year. The acreage
does not include the small homo orchards This
season the apple crop which represents in the main
the fruit yield is rather short, but those who
the business estimate that than IL 900 boxes will
he shipped from Cache this fail. With the exception
of tVyOp Tho host
the Jonathan and Gano sorts prcdominating. The
ica fSi AN @ I%S season @ oG9
boxes TO lts patrons Several large companies have
been formed and orchards of two and three hundred
have been planted that it is safe to predict
that within the next decade at most Cache viii be
duccd of excellent quality, as the price received
this year will prove The last shipment from here went
Logan. That is little higher than the usual price
received, but this year the average will be above
In a manufacturing way Cache county makes but
scant procnsion, yet there are natural advantages
here that arc possessed by no other section of the
state in such abundance and that form foundation
Tor manufacturing enterprises For thing there is
mountain streams, with which the valley abounds but
of course, transportation facilities lacking and but
little has been done 10 foster manufactures There is
one manufacturing enterprise that deserves mention
Knitting mills in the state and since t6at time other
companies have been formed and at present there
is large and is disposed of in Montana Idaho Oregon
and Washington All of the factories located in
LITTLE IN MINING WAY.
Tn mining way Cache has done but little. The
hills dotted with small prospect shafts, in which
Ito be found plentiful evidences of mineral, but
in no case has there been taken up a systematic
ploration of the ground with view to locating a
mine. rather developing one Some years ago the
discovery of large bodies of galeua in the southern
part of the county caused furry and bg camp
established at La Plata, but the bodies gave
out the surface and there has been little done
in development except in the La Plata mine, where it
is said good showing has been secured after more
than thousand feet of tunneling The most promis
ing prospect in the county at present the Mineral
Point mine where there is said to be large body
of the highest grade iron ore-quite equal 10 the
best Swedish iron. The Colorado Fuel and Iron
pany has investigated the proposition and it IS said
will invest there if the work being prosecuted dis
closes the fact that the body is large
pccted. Work has been suspended the mines in
Logan canyon for THIS year. but said that it Will
be renewed next year All the found far is
gaena and copper rock, some of 1T carrying good
values in silver But the development of such mineral
resources Cache has VIII be left TO outside capital
in all probability for people here busy with the
things that promise more certain returns.