The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-15
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING, MAY Is, 1910

struction Will begin Mt once upon inc
lead stacks and smelter, so AS to treat
all kinds Of ores. All ore from the Cir
oux mines nt Ely Will be smelted here.
An addition TO the old town OF Tooolo,
merclal city and has ono OF tho finest
hotels in the state. Water and light
plants OF Toocle are owned by private
company. Assessed valuation of city,
SS04, ,140. Rate of taxation is mills: GROSS
revenue, S332S. one railroad. Salt Lake
Route. Phone connections. Two banks,
Commercial bank and Tooelc County state
bank.
Garheld-Elevation. 1850 feet; popula-
tion 1000. Smelter town, Former bath
ing resort on Great Salt Lake. GARFIELD
helms. located here. Capacity OF plant.
$500 tons per day, employs 1900 mon; Is
copper smelter; smokestact, which 1s 900
feet In height and which is S0x30 feet at
tho base, has largest capacity Of any
smokestaclS in tho world: smelter plant
cost $1,0O0,0oo. There are two big mills
plants. belonging to the Utah Copper
company, the capacity OF both being TO-.
600 tons per day. jEvery twenty tons OF
crude ore whom crushed make one ton
OF conoentrates.) Tho concentrates go
to the Garfield smelter. Capacity OF these
mills Is to be doubled; the plans have
already been completed Due TO the in
vention Of local engineers tho capacity
can be doubled without Increase OF addi-
tlonal floor space. The power plant OF
these mills alone cost $1,000. 900. and
Chicago. Tho mills cost $4,000. 900. T'hore
are three railroads. Solt Lake Route.
Western Pacific ana Rio Gronde. Car
field has one bank tho Garfield Banking
company
Woods Ciross-Dlevation, 1850 feet: pop
uIation, 500. Located in Davis county In
factory is here, where Is put up the
famous Woods Cross brands OF tomatoes
and asparagus, both of which rank Mt
the top, Utah tomatoes, II should be
hc et canning
United States o9n grow Tho color l3
perfect. as also tho flavor. The output
OF this csnnery during the Sc. season le
Tomatoes yield an average OF ten tons
per acre. one tomato grower received S14T
per acre from his crop, $4,000 from thirty
bank Threo railroads. Oregon Short
Line, Rio Grandc and Salt Lake & Og-
den, latter electric line.
Farmington-Elcvatio 4521 feet: pop
ulation. 100. County seat Of Davis coun-
ty. City OF third class. In Salt Lake
valley. Most productive valley In the
world. Agriculture. dairying and mar
llet gardening only industries, Truck
gardens find market I'm Salt Lake for
green stuff. Yield OF potatoes In county
heavy. Holds medal for largest produc-
bushels. City has bonded Indebtedness
OF $40. 900. running twenty years. bear
ing 6 per cent interest: floating debt
plant worth $4,000; water plant worth
$50, 900; other property worth s25oo. as
sessed valuation, S320,365: rate OF taxa
three railroads. Oregon Short Line, Rio
Grande. Salt Lake & Ogden. One bank,
Davis County bank.
Kaysville- Elevation, 1862 feet: popula-
Gated in Davis county. First town or
ganized in county and is named after
Bishop William Kay. who owned town
site. First ground brolten for agricul-
In 40 -,I fnY Af
farming and garden region. Has one can
merry and one grist mill. City has high
school City has bonded indebtedness Of
S25 .00O runs ten-twenty years, bears 3
per cent; owns It's light plant. worth
$500; water plant worth $4,000; other
property worth $500, assessed valuation
revenue, $5667. Has one bank, Kaysville
Banking company: three railroads, Ore
gon Short Line Rio Grande and Salt
baK9 SgdeP repon PEno il eannot be
celled anywhere In the state.
Layton-Eleyation. 1929: population.
1000. Town IS in the fruit and asricul--
tural region OF Davis county, where soil
is wonderfully fertile. Has one bank.
First National. Is ono OF the thrifty,
thriving towns OF the county,
Decentralization. 1898 feet: popula-
ton. 10000. Second city In the state, as
also the second city in the lntermountain
empire. Center OF the canning industry
and horticultural region as there Is on
earth. A railroad center. wholesale and
jobblng center, manufacturing center
County scat OF Weber county. at the foot
OF the Wasatch range and near the open
ing to Weber canyon, one OF tho most
beautiful chasms In tho Rocky mountains,
and through which runs the most perfect
canyon highway In tho world. There are
sixteen Canneries in Weber county; In
fact the canning industry OF the state is
directed from Ogden, and the pack OF
1909 was 500, 600 cases OF twenty-four cans
TO the case. Sixty per cent Of this pack
was tomatoes. To move this pack neces-
STATED the use OF 1000 cars or fifty
trains Of thirty cars each; Ogden city
tain region when the United States and
Mexico engaged In war, and this title
was recognized In tho trenty OF Hldalgo,
closing the war. Captain Brown bought
the site for 1000 Spanish doubloons Og-
den Is one Of the most beautiful resi-
dence cities IN the west. In 1903 tho sum
public improvements in the way of paved
streets and sidewalks cost 100000 in
1909: the city bought It's water plant
in 1909, paying S556.000 for 1t wholesale
houses of Ogden distribute merchandise
over the entire mountain region agSro-
eating millions Of dollars annually: the
Weber club. the Ogden Chamber OF Com
merre, the Civic Improvement league: all
unite with Ogden citizens for the better
mont and Improvement of the city; there
are twelve splendid modern grade schools;
the DneSC nlSn SCHOOL Du4lbluS III lle
state; the Sacred Heart academy and the
Weber academy: two state institutions
are located here. the School for the Deaf:
Dumb and Blind, the state Industrial
school The largest pipo line In the world
Is In Weber canyon, carrying continuous
capacity OF water from Weber river suf-
ficient for a $4,000 horsepower turbine.
IL cost 81 .000. 900 and the pipe Is eight
feet in diameter About the city and
upon the benches are orchards and farms
and gardens that cannot be equaIed any
where; 1000 bushels OF peaches are grown
per aero, $500 boxes: 1000 bushels of ap-
PIES 1900 bushels of onions per acre arc
some of the products OF this wonderful
region, the soh OF which is 100 feet deep.
There are hot springs at the mouth OF
Ogden canyon and also ten miles north.
whose waters are a panacea for all Ills.
There Is q beet sugar factory here which
produced 16.5O0,000 pounds OF sugar in
1902, and the 1870 farmers who grew the
beets received S44O. 900 for their product
Shops OF the Hartman railway system
are located here. which employ GOO men
and pay an annual wage of 100000. Og-
den owns property other Than water
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