The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-15

tG a "a pdded dec ito to the & maes o
sa Vi G foT e n yn %5 inp and
this basis the 5000 in fruit in the county re-
turn revenue per year Of S33! 200
grown great quantities. the canning factory mt Brig
ham City during the season canning $4,000 per
SUGAR BEET INDUSTRY
At Garland is located one of the factories OF the
Utah,lda Sugar company, beet sugar plant with
Slieiug capacity Of 1900 tons per day. What this
industry has douc for Garland is shown by the fact
that where six years ago thcre but six houses,
today there is population of 1000 aud 5000 people
has water works system, costing approximately Sl5,
river power plant at cost of about $l0oo0 $l5,-
600 school house sewer system, which has just been
5000 city hall aud jail furnished with two steel
cells at cost of about $3OO0 grayeed streets cost
market each year IN this locality upwards of 1900
head Of cattle and $1,000 head Of, sheep, from the
beet pulp of the factory and the wondrous crops
of alfalfa hay, the yield Of which cannot be excelIcd
OTHER INDUSTRIES.
The live stock Of Box Elder county is valued for
taxation at s67s446. In view that the valuation is
Industry in Box Elder county is worth least 500
GOO. Tins year there vas returned by the assessor
Hssss. 9sssis and mule. 1sss5 ssS9 sS@:I$2 sS%S
Sheep ............l0 l05,731 2o2,s75
Add to this the product Of the farms and the live
stock and agricultural industries will reach up the
millions Farmers on dry farms raise 40 bushels Of
wheat per acre, farmer harvesting l72S bushels
lands the weld is from aJ TO Go bushels of wheat -
TO 100 bushels of barley, 90 to 125 bushels of oats
and any good farmer can raise from - to % tons
OF beetS, some having raised high 80 tons
From 40 to 800 bushels Of potatoes per also
During the past year thousands of acres of dry
farm lands have been taken up. filed upon by home
been given the preference 4 deal for land the largest
m ,S m ba or tss @ STATE a was during the
transfer, hose lands belonged TO the Promontory
lana ana stock COMPANY and the new corporation viii
develop thcnl' build lrrIgatng canals and construct
Another industry which will be started by The
first of the coming year is cement Nineteen Kindred
acres of mari heretofore regarded as the most barren
mari lands II feet in thickness to the cIav below
the two when mi xed together making the best of CO.,
ing miles north Of Brigham City 1t hns capitali-
o rro 01 Spoooyo, me plant will haze capacity of
ooo parteis per oay and VIII employ 40
MINING INDUSTRY
- The mineral resources of Box Elder county have.
IKE many other counties in the state, not been IN,
bur tho wealth stored in tho mountains is of Great
@ reml There is gold silver, lead copper, iron anti
salt potre, SALT sulphur, asphaltum soda boTaY aInn
steatte mineral paints, fire clay fulcrs Garth. pot,
all of the best cement hales the various claws re-
Ho;red ore Tor The manufaGtpre of brick Graphite is
FOOT ledge or the orc has bcen found This has been
10 be tho greatest erapHe S f ng On t% 3y
IN building material there is everything desired Ma,
IN
the northwest corner of the county. In the Dove
Ssek nsiret IN the same locality gold is found in
assure VEINS the country rock being granite banked
by qnsrtzlte There outcroppings of silrer,lead
orc adjacent to Pilot Peak while in Silver Island in
me desert are found good prospects, In the New
foundand district in the desert region is a croup of
mountains which rise from the sand waste This
group is made up of limestone, granite and 0uartze
with great dikes of dorfe breaking through in
this region that is the part of the county
500 locations have been made.
In the main range of tho Wasatch mountains
which the eastern part of the county, are the
Willard and Sierra Madrc Mining districts the en-
tire western side of Sierra Madre mountain in which