The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-15

splendid fruit belt, peaches and small
fruits in particular. Founded in 1851.
Greatest fruit producing section OF In
termountaln empire. Box Elder peach
OF peaches and fifteen cars OF small fruits
were the shipments In year; in other
words, $4,000 boxes of peaches. Small
fruits returned the growers $50, 600. The
gross shipments from the 5000 acres in
fruit aggregate S350,000. In addition TO
peaches there are hundreds OF acres in
apple orchards. a number of them now
bearing and several in which the yield
is 1000 bushels per acre. Tho livestock
industry also adds TO the wealth OF Brig
ham City, as this industry Is valued in
Box Elder county. OF which Brigham City
is the county seat, at So 500. 900. Still
another industry IS that OF cement. Four
miles north OF Brigham City is a cement
plant only recently completed. which
manufactures cement from the mari beds
In that region. The cement company is
capitalized at 100000 and gives employ
the Indian village of Washable, the resi-
dents being descendants OF the Shoshone
tribe. Box Elder is one OF the two coun-
ties In tho world. Salt Lake being the
other, where you can go to sea by rail-
the great Lucin cutoff across Great Salt
lake being In this county. the trestle over
the open water being twenty miles In
length. Brigham City owns property
other than the light and water plants.
valued at 1000. Tho bonded indebted
ness is $4,000. running twenty years and
bearing a per cent, owns Its light plant,
worth 10000; It's water plant. worth
$50 900. has an assessed valuation of
$685., ,436: receives gross revenue Of s2S.110.
There are two banks, the First National
and the State Bank OF Brigham City.
Phone connections.
Collinston-Elev alton, 4A16 feet; popu-
lation, 100. On main line Oregon Short
Line railroad. With the surrounding
about Colinston is irrigated by the canals
OF the Bear River Water company. IT
is especially adapted to the intensive
farming OF hay and grain: stock raising
is a principal industry. Phone connec-
tions. No bank.
Reconsideration. 1899 feet: popula
ton. 1000, Fourth city In the state and
the metropolis OF the Cache valley. a
valley hidden by giant walls in the great
Rocky Mountain range; one OF the most
beautiful and one OF the most productive
valleys on earth; 1t is the Eden of Amer
ica for to the husbandman 1t holds out
as much OF tho profit and honest gain as
did tho first estate OF the original twain
whom God made. This valley contains
as can be found anywhere in the world.
Ten miles WIDE forty miles long and the
best watered valley In Utah. In Logan
is located the Agricultural College OF
Utah. No county in the state has made
such rapid advancement in farming, Not
only have improved methods of tiiling
the soil been adopted, but whore once
one found the Indian pony and the Texas
cattle, one now sees tho pure-brcd ami
mails of both classes-nne Percherons.
Clydes. Coaches or Shlres and tho gentle.
sleek Jerseys or Guernseys. or larger
IIolsteins. Hundreds Of thousands of
dollars have been spent in the past ten
years by the farmers OF this county i'm
importing puro-b 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 tho United States. hun
dreds of fne animals being shipped out
each year TO Denver, Salt Lake, San
Francisco Los Angeles and other largo
cities of the mountain and coast regions.
Cache valleys dairy interests amount to
one and one-halS million dollars per
year; two condensed milk factories have
an output of 81. 600. GOO There are two
beet-sugar factories IN the valley, which
produced in 1909 over thirty three million
beet farmers, yields in some instances
aggresating thirty-fve tons per acre.
There are 5000 acres planted In fruit
trees. and in 1909 there were 1900 boxes
of apples shipped from the county. There
is n knitting factory in Logan. the first
one established IN the state. The center
OF this wonderful Cache valley is the
city OF Logan, and one OF the beauty
spots OF the country, 30 characterized by |
former President Roosevelt and by Sena- |
tor Tillman whom on visit there.
Logan City came into existence in 1865 |
although il was settled in 1859. 1t was !
named in honor OF the great Indian chief. |
Logan. II is q city OF homes. and in |
addition to that lays claim to the title |
of the Athens OF Utah. because OF the
within its limits. The older OF these
legc, founded In the year 1877, II is 10 |
Gated In the heart OF the city and has !
some very fine buildings. The Agricul |
tural college, established here in the