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

Richmond. The incorporated towns number seven,
and they are Paradise. Millyile, Providence. Hyde
porated towns number eleven these being Avon. Ben
son, College, Cornish Cove, Grccnville Mount Home
Mount Sterling, Pccrboro, Trenton and Wheeler
INDEBTEDNESS OF CITIES.
OF the larger cities Logan the county scat, has
bonded indebtedness of $l62OO0, which runs twenty
per " cent and $4,000 S SSn per- R value Of
the lighting plant owned by the city IS $1,000 and
indebtedness. It's assessed valuation for 1909 is
22Il329 the rate OF municipal tax rs IL mills. IhG
sources $50 Si6.96 of which $26,54i19 from
from wholesale liquor licenses and the remainder from
other sources. During the year 1908 the sum of
S62o6l& expended upon streets, alleys and bridges
At the November election the Republicans in the
of recorder and councilman. The liquor question
submitted to the at this election and Logan
against prohibition, 674; majority, 742.
Cache county. called the granary of Utah is one
Tnctiyc spots in The West 1t is the norihcrnmost
county of the state, its northern boundary line being
in the mountains, the giant walls of which surround
it completely glorious in wealth of scenic splendor
and abundantly yielding fields, it is vcrtable Eden.
Not alone because of natural loyclineSs does il merit
the title of Eden for to the busbandman it holds
out much of profit and honest gain did the first
estate of the original twain whom God made one
Ghs . @ m rd in tbn world and is of course
pre- -culincntiv an agricultural section
Away from the beaten path of travel, its advan.
tsgcs have not become known to tho world. As the
miner and prospector in the years agone spurned with
hurryng heel the golden treasures of the new Nevada
in the haste to reach fields more ajurng because
talked of, the home seekers Of the nation to
whom the West has held out open arms for the past
decades, by tho thousands have hurried through
this Land Beautiful 10 less pleasing and less fertile
has been spreading aud its future is Frightening
with the promise of commonwealth that shall be
glorious because of It's progress and productivencss
CACHE VALLEY MOUNTAIN PARADISE.
Cache county has area of about 1000 square
miles but much Of this area is made mp of the noun
a nd rpt In Tho LIST pt
thirty miles or more from the eastern edge of The
valley The valley itself is about ten miles in width
best watercd section of Utah dozen creeks pouring
valley, While the Bear river raTersSs the northern
and central parts OF the county, passing out of the
enter the great Salt Lake 1t is vcritabc mountain
Paradlse-not ono of uncnding summer or of monoto
seasons, section filed with homes and industrious
farmer folk; who are making the tilling of the soil
an honorable profession, instead of mcnia employ
mcut.
No section of Utah or perhaps of any of the sur
rounding states has made such rapid advance in
scientific farming has Cache county, fact that is
no doubt due almost entirely to the influence the
county seat-Logan. Not only have improved methods
of tilling the soil been adopted but where once ono
sees the purebred animals of both classcs-fne Per
cheronS, clydcs, Coaches Shires anal the gentle
sleek Jerseys or Gucrnseys, larger HoIseius. Hun
drcds of thousands of dollars have been spent the
past ten years by The farmers of this county in i'm
porting pure-bred animals and IN adopting better
methods of caring for them and today Cache county
Is known as the mecca of horse buyers in the western
part OF the United States, hundreds Of fine animals
beng shipped out each year to Denver, Salt Lake
FRANCISCO Los Angeles and other large cities of the
mountain and coast regions
A rather striking illustration of the means that
mas gone INTO the Improvement of the horses of this
section occurred not long ago, when horse fair was
nc IN the northern part of the county. 1t embraced
IN us showing perhaps one bali of the county and
when the Judge called for the Pcrchcron class there
was ranged up before him fifteen of the finest stations
ol Inc country, representing investment of more
han $4,000 in this one class and while this was The
largest class there twcnty-four other classes
called This is mentioned because in this industry is
best evidenced the great progress that the county has
made in the past fifteen years.
MILLIONS IN DAIRY INDUSTRY
Horse breeding is not the chief industry of this
section. While IL has attracted more attention than
any Of the others, because it has drawn here more
strangers than any other enterprise of which the
county boast yet it is outrauked by the dairy and
beet industries. Caches dairy products amount in
value to between and quarter and one aud half
million dollars year. The business is taken care of
by two condensed milk factories, located Logan
and the other a Richmond in the northern part of the
county, each Of them doing an annual business of