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Show ' . - CL r- - .A, C "i'j' .( s J at Lehi and Faysou. Our Industries Location, Homes Provos Schools, The Lelii facfarmers of Utah tory this year paid out to the and Merchants. As an educational center, Provo is known all over the west there being in attendance at the Brigham Youngnmiversity students lrom nearly every western state and from Mexico and Can- -, ad a. The enrollment" at the university this 1400 students. The Procter Academy, over is year which is also a private or church school, is also . well known and has a large attendance of stu- jdents.'.BQine of them coming from different parts of the state. O.ur city or public schools, of yhich beets, county over while the factory at Pays?n,'wIueli'tsTiOt sotargp; paid out nearly a quarter of a million. Of the farmers of Provo" received about The two slicing plants are located at $75,000. Provo and Spanish' Fork. The juice from the beets is pumped .from these stations to the two ' . main factories.' Utah county could almost be called a large" fruit orv&f37ereTeingrcTialslIof apples," factories are millioir-dollaraf- one-ha- lf or growers association have their offices and warehe" largest and best fruit districts houses. county are Provo Bench, Provo, Mapleton he and Pleasant --Grove.imt In order to demonstrate to the farmers of By Don IV. Conover the county that a mixed crop can be raiiMMl profitably, the Wm. M. Roylance company- last year ' Provo today can well be called the City tract of laud, from which they rented an 8 Beautiful, not alone for its beautiful homes and shipped this fall cars of celery, 10 cars of cab- - , bage, 5 cars of onions, 3 cars of parsnips and two streets, but from its location in the center of this, cars of potatoes, --valley- in-- th conclusively that the- entire- - Inter " the mixed with and'fertlb'zatlon plopereare snouitain region. On the east is our beautiful I k substantial can raised be witJfa profit. good crop mountain-regio- n. On the east is our beautiful Sir.' Roylance also" demonstrated with his potanorth and our beautiful Utah Lake on the west toes that the crop will give its usual yield by s t r This lake is one of the largest fresh bodies of importing the seed from, another state, as the i ( seed from w'hich he raised these potatoes came water in the. state,, and is of a great commercial . r 'r ' from Idaho, , value not alone from the water t . ' v ' ! r t "'""Another profitable industry of the county is r i it furnishes irrigation projects, of which there are the dairy business. Which is being followed very ; T .. K several in this valley (some of thes projects havn1' Uv extensively by the farmers, there being over i , 1 ing canals going into Salt Lake valley, and irri$100,000.00 distributed annually among the varof of thousands acres also from ious' dairymen of the county. Under our state gating land), but law these dairies have to be conducted upon a . th amount of fish that is taken from the lake ansanitary plan, and in accordance a number of the nually. For ten months of the year seines are , local dairymen have erected some of the most up- - , being run daily at Provo, Pelican Point, Lehi, dairy barns in the West, in fact the CherAmerican Fork, Geneva, Spanish Fork and Gosh-ry Ilill Dairy has a barn for their cows that i there common of fish en, being 2,000,0(10 pounds ahead of any in the state. Harry Gammon also to the fishermen "has a similar barn to th Cherry Ilill, excepting caught annually, netting that it is smaller. $40,000. One of the largest and best points of The cow has become so profitable that'a num- -' atthe- mouth- of Provo river, wherefishing is berof "local 'men haveformed an ' organization," the Madsen brothers do their seining. George known as the Utah County Jersey Association. Madsen, who has charge of the seining at this These men have sent buyers East, where they have The Knight Woolen Mills point, is authority for the statement that there, bought a number of the prize Jerseys from the are as many large trout in the lake now as there best herds of the United States, so that a number wene 25 years ago, and that they catch at each there are five, all run under the free school plan, poaches, prunes, pears and cherries, as well as -of local men now owtrsomeof the best and purest haul of the sfiine 25 to30 of the- - large fish," areamong Ihe courses plots of raspberries and strawberries In every bred Jersey cattle in"the United States. Among- which they are compelled to turn loose again in iig crop finds a market taught' in the these breeders of cattle are A. O. Smoot, Wm, the lake. , The lake is 14 miles wide at its greatest to the third year high school. Th attendance at in all parts of the United States. This year Goodridge, W. Lester Mangum, Wells L. Brimhall width and 26 miles long and covers 265 sqnare the five schools is approximately 2000, of this through the IVm. M. Itoylance 'company, the John Roundy, Jacob Coleman, Joseph Buttle, Wm. miles. Upon the lake are several resorts, the LTtah ' Fruitgrowers association and other small number 185 being high school students. Nuttall, Thomas Pierpont and a number of others fruit shipprs, th fruit raisers of Utah county principal two being at Provo and Geneva. - bein this city, The lake' abounds with fich, the principal What We False. shipped 1285 ears of first class fruit, the cars lands being native or lake trout, black bass, cat Although the auto seems to be taking the ing distributed about as follows: Peaches, 750 still a plaee of the horseyet we find there are fish,"' carp," mullet," and chubs!' The state Fish'"'""-'- ' Provo City and Utah county are situated in apples, 350 carsj, prunes,. 60cars; pears,, horSes. of fond good number of men who are still .and game law prohibits seining for trout and one of the most productive valley v in the state. . 60 cars; strawberries and raspberries 50 cars; Charles local our is these liveryman, black. bass, so the. fishermen, who number 100, Among The principal products of the farms are fruit and cherries, 15 cars. From this the fruitgrowers West rope, manager of the Provo Livery, who has The greater are" allowed' toi"cateh,"onlytlie-cmmmjirTarietieispatl 1lbTaincH6b,f'TirivmgHh-best,.niat- 4 for which they find a ready market at two cent3 amount of this was shipped from Provo, where to supply two large sugar factories with two ad- 2 Continued on pave FruitUtah the two and The a pound, wholesale. main the Roylance company ditional slicing stations or plants. most-beauti- ful -- -- thls-amo- unt - SO-ac- re 1 1 thus-showi- ng . i it 1 i j - , , - jjf -- V -- 1 t- p , l -" 3 A W" to-da- te -- - -- - - -- the-best- the-sta- -in te. -- r ears -- r,' 1 If & - r1-- ' H JTmTj y'liitl'M.iJlt f: tl E to your favorite Christmas shoppin g flJHe, will be1 proud of the gifts you buy him at our store e Y ( r L i.- - v r- - Any of the following will make a charming gift that will bring more than; a passing remembrance of the giver: s', W. REEFERS AND MUFFLERS in handsome rich design. JEWELRY Just the kind a man prefers Tie pins, , Buttons, Tie Clasps, etc. cases with in leather TRAVELING SETS complete set ' toilet articles. THE FAMOUS HORNER HOSE Something new 'in hosiery Lisle, , .vj AM1 ' 25,SiJk 50V - - NECKWEAR SPECIALS A beautiful assortment in Christmas boxes for G3, 75 and 1.00 GLOVES AND MITTENS Nothing more appropriate for father, husband or brother. 25, G5, 50, SWEATER tCOAT for Men and Boys, roll collars, plain shaker knit. GRIPS AND SUIT CASES of desirable quality, HOUSE SLIPPERS The new kind; plenty of otherR, " See our Telt Slippers, SETS OF USEFUL ARTICLES in dainty gift boxes Garters, Arm Bands, Suspenders, Tie and Jewelry Sets. BATH ROBES; SMOKING JACKETS As a gift never fail to please. SHIET3 OF STYLE Patterns that are surely winners MACKINAWS Made by the Knight Woolen Mills. . A visit to our store will convince you that the gifts above mentioned ,are only a few of the many gifts you will find at the store. li 1 CR R L THOMAS Quality Store i 1 V tVtNI ( - 11.1 |