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Show in wwb mm. Allr;u-(lm Tli.it Slinnttl In.luCf Manv Cooil SfiiUTJ Hero. Hoxelder County has: liaihvnys valued at $-2.'2."0.i '00. P.oom tor HVAh) more people. Ileal estate valued at 1,o00,IM( Streams which afford good water power. A population of S, Oik) industrious p,.,,p!e. Great ledges of slate rock near Honey ville. Horses, fheep and n.ules valued at $700,000. Iiik Bi iii.Kii, the I'ioneer Taper of tli e county. Mountains of almost pure iron ore near Willard. Valuable silver and lead mines ' in the we.-tern part. Washakee. a village of civilized ; Indians near Portage. Extensive salt fields on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Vast grazing lands where 100,-000 100,-000 to 200,000 sheep winter annually. annu-ally. 30,000 acres of land under cultivation. cul-tivation. 12,000 of which are irrigated. ir-rigated. Farmes which rai-e aO bushels of grain and eight tons of alfalfa to the acre. Invaluable onyx and marble quarries on Promontory hill, near the railroad. P..-j,di-.! f r i vb, rri.'S. rasidf r- ries, srajies. etc. unexcelled in both size and tlavor. Promising gold, silver and lead mines within twenty minutes' drive of the county seat. Suflicient rich farm lands lying west of Rear River Cily to sustain 1,000 more families, i Land that produces -12.'? bushel? of excellent potatoes to the acre, j and 1VU tons of onions to the acre. The honor of surpassing all other 1 counties in the matter of average I yield of oats, producing 50 bushels i to the acre. An easily traceable mica ledge of 1 several miles in extent, as yet iin-i iin-i cUiiuivd and untouched. Located in central Boxehler. -A healthful climate; fish and game in abundance; delightful mountain retreats with cool water arid beautiful scnery. Hot springs of wonderful medicinal medic-inal . properties: the I'tah Hot Springs near Willard and undeveloped undevel-oped warm springs near Dewey-ville, Dewey-ville, Corinne and Plymouth. Best hunting grounds in Utah, at the month of Beat River. Myriads Myr-iads of the feathery tribe, from the coose down to the snipe nre found ! here during the hunting season. Xaiura! gas fields on the western J ami northern outskirts, of Brigham j City. Brick and lime kilns have ' been successfully burnt w ith this j gas as fuel. It has al.-o been used , for domestic purposes. j The greatest canal in I'tah. the' Bear River Canal, which eot $2,-j 0()0.i)0( and brings 100,000 acres of; rich land near Corinne under cut- j tivation. The canal is 70 miles j in length, w ith 150 miles of laterals. |