Show I CONVERT ALFALFA i FlEW INTO TOWN Just One Year Ago Today the New Tooele Lots Were Sold Special to The Tooele April 15 Just one year today has marked the positive conversion of an alfalfa field Into a thriving little place which bids fair to be a metropolis in tn a R short time Indeed the development is a matter of surprise to Tooele people themselves On April 15 iS 1309 1909 Just north and east of ot Tooele City acres and Q additional acres of land kind was bought by b the Tooele Improvement company and ant platted into town lots It was sold to the highest bidder Today on 00 GO per cent of the site stand splendid homes and busi business business business ness houses Perhaps noone no one company has done more for the development of Tooele townsite than has the Tooele Im Improvement provement company under the control of W Yo v L Irvine and the efficient manage management management management ment of H S Wales The main street Broadway is built up with fine large larg business houses under the management of did business men and the homes are oc or occupied occupied by refined intelligent people A good water system has been installed with at least feet of water mains and a pressure of pounds There a good electric light system also an odi ordinance ordinance nance has been passed whereby the busi business business ness portion will wUl have cement pavements in the near future In the early summer sumner an unlimited amount of improvement is promised Contracts are let for several I large buildings Among the number about completed is the Catholic church and there will be other churches Tooele not only hopes to reap much benefit from the nearby smelter but from the tho mines that surround it also alsofrom alsofrom from the great wide fertile fields that are to the north south east and west and the abundant fruit that is yielded There is a proposed cannery that will wUl be another good gord enterprise It is plain to see that Tooele will draw from an im immense Immense immense mense area of productiveness No Retrogression Now Th The great influx of people 1 and the rapid growth of the new townsite has had the appearance of or a spasmodic growth but with the smelter that will keep hundreds of or men employed and with such resources as Tooele is IB surrounded there thero is no doubt that this will be a busy city and there will wUl be no retrogression Perhaps s one of the best evidences of the growth of Tooele is the building of a new railroad system On the Tooele Valley railroad with Charles Berke as ns superintendent regular passenger trains run on scheduled time from the smelter to the Salt Lake Routes depot stopping at the tho substations in the thi th new townsite and the old town conveying passengers and hauling freight There Is also a neat little gaso gasoline gasolIne line motor car that meets me ts all trains and runs to and from the smelter is only ony a short distance from Salt Lake and la Ia located on the tho Los An Angeles Angeles geles San Pedro railroad with three trains a day in and out of the city The spirit of advancement nas been far reaching in its effect Improvement seems Pe ms to have been contagious and anel has naturally resulted in rapid increase of values all ll over the valley The Salt Lake Security Trust com corn company company pany under the management of F E and C E McGurrin has invested about OO O In building in Tooele Some very fine buildings are evidence of the rapid progress progress progress ress In the tile building line Even the ex ox extreme extreme winter did not stop the work and with the coming of spring work has opened up in real reel earnest and is pro producing producing producing a result that is unparalleled Among the many buildings b that the trust company has built is a fine brick hospital and drug store run by b Doctors and Spaulding and the Idanha Inn a large apartment house run by b Mrs M 11 Smith Has Fine Hotel Hotel Tooele Toole To le stands out in proud evi evl evidence dence den of progress It Is one of the fInest hotels in Utah outside of Salt Lake It has steam heat running hot and cold com coldwater coldwater water baths and all equipments to make malte a complete hotel There are several large business houses In new Tooele owned owne l and run by ly efficient busi bust business business bustness is 15 the I IX IX Ix ness m men n Among the number X L furniture store a iii branch of the tho firm firmin firmin in Salt Lake A splendid bank Is doing a fine business in charge of G A Sievers former cashier of the Bank of Commerce in Kansas City The capital stock is The surplus Is The pres president dent is F E McGurrin directors are D 0 DC DC C R C Gemmell G A Sievers C E McGurrin and Dr F S Bascom all Salt Lakers Several lodges have been organized A Chamber of Commerce is composed of or orthe the leading citizens of the town Golf links will soon be laid out A new opera house and amusement hall hail will be built In the near future A postoffice for new Tooele and a fine public school are soon to be established The Tooele Building association has just completed a hand handsome handsome handsome some booklet descriptive of the town |