The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-15
SOMETHING ABOUT UTAH AND ITS RESOURCES
! BOX ELDER COUNTY

six fruit shipping firms; two flour mills; canning
two newspapers; two iewery stores; two hotels; two
rooming houses; one candy kitchen and ice cream
and any number of professional men. The city owns
ITS own r TIoetTc light plant and also 1T: own wafer
which has four ward churches and the stake tabcr-
naelc The Methodists have chapel as also the Pres
SCHOOL SYSTEM OF COUNTY
onS Box & Elder Rdt , county from one end to the @ @ other
modious building cannot be found the whole state
and as The field broadens new courses will be added
tunity chat can be obtained in college university
for high school work At Brigham, Willard and Gar
handsome building In these Schools the higher grades
meet and receive instruction from teachers who arc
able and the schools fitted up with every modern
appliance in in those grades. that students
application. In each precinct throughout the county
splendid school buildings have been erected. In fact
old buildings superseded by now ones, additions built
onto good ones until the value of the Box Elder school
During tho year SS H@s %"en rad ONT IN
building and sites and 50 55229 has been expended in
erected at Trcmonton, Riverside Roweville and add
ions Irons 5aY9 been made 10 the schools at Plymouth,
ennuneFatoTs 4I2l boys and girls Ought to bc the
si5SIS y5c as OF rao5 GGx Elder county this year T9y d
2o2 T%loTed % to children @ boys lS girls, 16. Total
the nSaSn Of TINS c "%SSr 9 pupils
e4pGndtnro for education for the year 1905 was
GREAT FRUIT SECTION.
While tho interests of Box Elder county are diver.
ihed inc frult Industry Of the county is the largest
sections of the great ntcrmountan empire The Big
ham CITY peach or the Box Elder peach is known all
over the country as the finest peach grown and the
Box Elder apple has likewise attained Reputation that
Is. only second TO the peach, Ono thousand bushels
OF apples and pcac hes unusual yields
IN BOX Elder county and beautiful sight can
be seen that in the orchards of this country The ri.
CATION IN Box Elder county scientific basis The
great Bear river canal through the county and
tmGre are number of irrigation companies In add.
ION 1t has been discovered that wells can he utilized
d2r iTrgatlu$ purposes the water being pumped by
o! small irMits IN the county, particularly in the
Vicinity of Brigham City. While fruit lands can he
@v AT baf Gn,na % h'ges lands IN and around Brigham
'a for less than $1,000 per Several companies
nave ald out tracts Of orchard lands and have planted
The trees These tracts when the trees become three
14oa5 1"pS ora are sold on the uStameut plan Up to
OF their crop free from worms Then cyDerts frnm
Inc Agricultural college invaded the orchards intro
box Elder county apple growers harvest their CROP 90
per cent tree from worms bemish and this is like
WISE T IIue or peaches and other fruits.
the fruit industry of Brigham City aDd d" Box I" EdeT aeg
and for favor color and Size Brigham fs ,o lcaa aa
measure m well with those of all fruit districts, while
nave made tho city famous, the soil beine of tbn
a4 loim'tlon To produce peach that has a flavor
days Of the year and that gives the rich color to The
rcs aprcos SraWbcrrIGs raspbcrres, cher
ana cantaloupe other fruits and vegetables are
IN abundance, 7' "'e grown
lisntcs showing the harvest of fruit in Box Eide,
GS !or o ono current year available hence
Slts ioi iooS, an average year must be taken From
brigham City alone there was shipped 2i5 cars ~
peaches and 10 Of small fruits -
In each car of peaches there was an average of
1850 boxes. and of the smaller fruits about half that
many as the cases almost double the size Of peach
At the above number of to the car the
result shows that 30S 700 of peaches were sent
out by growers OF Brigham City and vicinity. which
net the growers about 90 cents per case, making ::
the peach crop alone. The ten of small fruits
average about 500 per ear or 5000 for the whole