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Show W 14 CACHE COUNTY FIGURES 4 Population 30.000 4 ! ! J v Farm lands S2,5;iG,-l-I2 v I 4 Town and city lots 1.090.115 J-4 J-4 Mining claims 230 .t 4 Total real estate Sn.C-i7.lS7 4 4- Improvements l.l0G,ril).r 4 Total ?5.0r.3,r)S2 4 4 livestock 012,27.') -4 Personnl property 1.2S0.712 4. Railroad S0D.01S 4 Electric light and power 1-U.G11 j- Express companies -10.17:; r 4 Telegraph companies'.... 10.5-10 4 Telephones companies . . . f'5,070 j- Car companies 9.0S?. 4 Grand total 5S.0C1.91S ! 1 4 Number acres assessed . . 357.-I21 -;-, v Number colonics bees 840 -j-J Net proceeds of mines. . .$ 3SG.SDS 1 BY ALBERT T. PHILIPS. I If you were asked to name a hidden : llcy in Utah, could you give .1 prompt inswor or would you" say there is 110 ' srcli thing as a hidden or 'concealed valley val-ley in the Slate? But there is one. and it was discovered in 1S56, and it is 2cnov,-n as the Cache valley, and is in Cache county. Beautiful vulloy it is, too, as it nestles between tlie high peaks of the Wasatch range. "Wonderfully "Won-derfully productive it is. Magnificent views 0 it. can bo obtained from the ground upon which the Lemplc is located lo-cated in Logan, or from the higher ground upon which the Agricultural college col-lege of Utah stands in the Athens of the State. The name Cache means to hide, to conceal, and the county not only derives de-rives its name from the concealed valley, val-ley, but also from the fact Lhat certain trappers or emigrants cached some goods in the Cache valley as thev passed through on their way north. That was a long while ago, more than fifty-one years, time enough for two generations to have appeared and disappeared from the stage of life. But there are those now living who fifty-one years ago invaded in-vaded this hidden valley, laid out a town and established the county of Cache. Settled by Six Families, The colony which settled Cache county coun-ty numbered six families, viz: Peter Maughan, William Maughan, George Bryan, John Tait, Morgan Morgan and Zial Iviggs. They wero sent there by Brigham Young, then president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which church the six families were members. The journey was a long I and tedious one from Salt Lake. There was neither highway nor trail. I A year previous an exploring part' i composed of Samuel lioskelly, Andrew ! Moffat, Stephen Taylor, Brigham Young, Jr., Simon Baker. Joseph Baker. John Gnrr and Bryant Striiigham had j visited the unknown region. The- took with them several hundred head of cat- . tie, their intention being lo pasture them upon the luxuriant grass which trappers who visited Salt Lake told them covered the ground, and to also . cut haj" sufficient to winter the stock. . The explorers were sent there by Brig- ham Young with a herd of cattle which numbered about 2,500. Joseph Baker, ono of the explorers, is still living. Here . is his story of tho expedition: Story Told by Explorer. In the spring of 1855. Brigham Young asked father and some others to Join " him in sending a bunch of cattle up here. ' The church nnd about 1700 head, my ' father. Simon Baker, had about 500 head, ' Squire Wells, Heber C. Kimball, tho Gnrr ' boys, and I believe Wllford Woodruff, had small bunches, and they all united to , send them Into Cach valley. You see , there was eo darned many cattle on Church Island and other pasture grounds that they thought It best lo Jlnd a new grazing ground, and then; never was nor never will be a finer grazing ground than . Cache valley was at that time. Ten of us started out as a sort of . vanguard for the rest, and we got into . tho valley on July 20. Tho members of . j the company were Bryan I Strlngh.am, . I who had charge, Andrew Moffat, his as- . ! slstant; Simon Baker, second assistant1: . Joseph Baker. Thomas Kendall, George . Twist, Thomas Clayton, Thomas Naylor, Harry Cooper, and Brigham Young, Jr. We had no cattle with us except a . few milk cows. When wo reached the Hawbush ticld we camped and Bryant Strlngham and two or three others spent several days In prospecting for a per- manent camp and began putting up hay, for we had brought scythes along for that purpose. After wo had pitched camp, the calves belonging to the cows with us pestered us some, so on the morning of tho 21st I got some of the boys to help me lift off my wagon box, and T Irovc down to the creek on the north side of Wellsvlllc as It Is today, where there was some purty quakenasp ! poles. I got a load, nnd went back and put up a calf pen, that I believe was the . Jlrst shack over constructed in the val- . ley- Site for Camp Selected. Finally the bosses came back and an- nounccd lhat they had selected a permn- nent camping place over nearer the center of the valley, upon what we now call the Church farm We went to work at onco to build some houses, of course. From the mouth of Blacksmith Fork canyon clear down to where Mill- vlllo now Is, wuu one solid grove of cottonwoods, and we decided to use some of 'em for house logs. The . first day we wont over, after we had got . ready 10 begin choppln", Bryant String- . ham takes an ax and says, 'Well, I shall . claim the honor of felling tho first tree . In this valley.' Of course I was young and full of spunk and vinegar then, and I says to Bryant: 'That ain't glvln the rest of us much show; I'm going to haye a contest with you, anyhow. I'll take the heart of that tree away from you. We went to work In dead earnest, ho on one side and me on the tothcr. Srtlngham was big and fat and he tired so that I trot the heart of the tree and fell it agin him. so of course It mado it my tree. When we went to cuttln' hay we found It a pretty tough job. There was plenty of grass, four or live feet high, hut at the bottom there was such a mess of dead grass that you simply couldn't mow It. and we had to search around and rind ! places where there wasn't nny dead grass in order to do any cuttin' at all. Later In the summer, the Gurr boys and othors came In with the cattle, and for a time there was quite a camp of us. We had lo work hard every day, to be sure, but wo had a good time, all the same. Paradise for Hunters. Cache valley was just the sort of a place that frontiersmen would call a paradise, para-dise, at that lime. It was one great ocoan of grass. No sagebrush anywhere, just grass, grass, grass, and game and tlsh galore- Elk. deer, bear, rabbits, chickens were very numerous, the best ! place for them being up where Paradise and Avon are now located, and all the streams were literally swimming with trout. Well, we worked away until fall and then some of the boys went out. Finally It starled to snow. In the middle of November, No-vember, and it kopt it up until Christmas. When the snow got about three feet deep we began to move the cuttle out, as wo hadn't got enough hay put up to feed one in ten of 'em. Wo had an awful Job get-tin' get-tin' 'cm out. and lost hundreds of 'em. Out of about 1700. tho church didn't save more'n 500. We couldn't get 'cm all out didn't try to, of course for we had put up some hav, and so. with a few others. I remained re-mained in the vulley all winter to caro for those cattle. There were sixty-live head of father's animals, 1 believe. Well, talk about your winters we had I a renl one lhat year. It snowed and snowed and snowed and packed down un-, un-, til there was so much that no kind of animal could wallow through it. We had to break trails everywhere the cattle went, by shoveling, and using the big o.en to wallow the snow down. I don't know how cold it was, of course, for wo had no thermometer, but I know It was so darned cold that ve daren't wear our boots; we had to make moccasins out of blankets, and put three or four palra oh" at a time. How They Spont the Winter. On- account of being caught by the storm more suddenly than wo expected, none of us had a change of clothes. We used to take our shirts off and wash them, wearing our coats and staying Inside In-side until the shirts got dry. Before isprlng some of the boys wore their pants out. and they had to cut up blankets and . make trousers of thorn. We spent our time In cutting down trees and brush for tho cattle to browse on. for we didn't have hay enough to feed 'em all they wanted. We lot 'em eat orowso and give 'em just enough hay to work It off. Our principal tSB mcnt was shooting at a mark. forijB j plenty of guns and ammunition. jBj Supplies Give Out, Not a sign of spring did we mtH April 17. and then It come all atjH Our grub gave out two or thru tH before this. We hadn't 0. bit cfH or bacon or corn or anything the. ftH weren't looking very bright wheaeiiM a lot of prairie chickens settltj around our camp. There was tiraH of 'em; they sot In rows on th(iH and corral fences, and on the taH everywhere. Bill Garr and I vuroriiH on 'cm. and I guess wc- killed ceirlH a wagon load of 'em beforo we c'-tflH We kinder thought tho Lord tosImH after us a little when them birds ibH up, but maybe he wasn't. Anjrnr.K got the chickens, and thoy tvera rJjH good eating lor a while. What the Menu Was. Over in tho church quarters thtrsiH a big box with something In It, ujH Bill Garr had the key we decided 'AM If there was anything to eat then. found half a bushel of seed ptu bushel of wheat. So we'd put la tWH three chickens, a pint or so of PM'jH make chicken-pea soup. We took grinding the wheat In a coffee H v.'ould make a small cake each daj. man got a" little piece of cahe t tfH meal, to eat with his soup. ItvupnM good diet for a time, but got J0B tiresome after a bit. but wo hilblB so wc ate it and said nothln'. WewB cll mighty glad when spring "JB Original Settlers. The original settlers, howevtvH the party headed by Bishop llnwH This colon v arrived at what ksfflB site of Wellsvillo the first wecinB 1S50, and sot the stakes for which was named MaughasWflB Work was at oucc begun Lion of houses, and in a short fflj cabins sufficient to house J-llvH were erected and later tho Z42 JfH tho pioneers were brought in'H first settlement in Cache conOT.M made. Indians under the leaatratUB Chief Kntato gave the colony s! less trouble for some time 'n. of running off stock, but no liWB The first winter was a mwt ono to the little colon-, but thnVB onh- one death, that of Joan whoso father had joined tho tj!"jH and who was frozen while 011 H from Box Elder to his home st"eM First Representative OhoKfl. In November, 1856, JHH was chosen representative totneiM torial Legislature, which was JjlTH at Fillmore. Millard county, tp.B capital of the State. Mr Made&wB been made president of ina sum ho made part of tho journey M from the State capital on rM At this session of tho LcslatuH county of Cache was croaJD!iiM dent Maughan was appointed PH mi " it IBOUT LOGAN AND' CACHE COUNTY j 4, 1S57, tho first court Trt'Wellsville. the boundaries fjEnct established, the first as-ijfcade, as-ijfcade, which showed property 100. The selection of county iploted the county arjraniza-jfficors arjraniza-jfficors were: Commissioners, irdner, John T. Garr,, Orange fen; Recorder. Francis Guu-I; Guu-I; J. Maughan. Two years ounty was reorganized and h had beeu located by Peter htos made the county seat. 860, tho town site was sur-fscttlers sur-fscttlers drawing lots for A year later the citr was gJfour wards and five years incorporated. Settlement Was Made. f where tho first settlement was named in honor of Dan-lis. Dan-lis. While Joseph Baker 2(Jka.vo erected tho first build -sijlpon, in Wellsvillc, the first iftuilt by Peter Maughan; the Jjll-by Esaias Edwards, Fran-."Hand Fran-."Hand William II. Maughan, Vjtt-grist mill by Dan Hill & fra school house, which also jjj meeting house, was erected. & lent of Logan, Providence, 31 faaon, Smithfield, Richmond, 5 in was begun in 1859 and wore established at several Ipr Logan Established. Sjsite for Logan was selected Tin-v c,,an' tljo town was "Bishop Preston and John j, 3 Thatcher. The city was in-'4i in-'4i n-?.8cc and tho result of the a fchon was the selection of ticket. Mayor, Alvin iJJderinen, John Thatcher, C. .OS Thomas II. Smith; Coun-Uiu-nn. Martincau, T. C. JL. Robinson, P. Cravney, C. rfAppointive officers were: Uic' I P" Cruacy; city nt-0ranuy; nt-0ranuy; city treasurer, ItrSa a,s8essr and. collect or, II SS' 8TUrr180r. ? Lewis: 'i lice captain and fifteen police wcro also i designated. j ' About Early Settlers. I Mr. Martincau, who is still living, is the father of L. R. Martincau of Salt j Lake, chairman of the Democratic State J committee. The eldor Martincau taught the first high school in Logan. He has i ajso boon County Surveyor and deputy j United States mineral survevor in Cache j county. He was a New Yorker by birth and when the California gold 'excitement 'excite-ment broke out in 1S-19 he started over-laud over-laud to the Golden State with an ox team. When ho reached Salt Lake one of his oxen died and while he was endeavoring en-deavoring to secure another, having to remain in Zion some time, he was converted con-verted to Mormonism and has remained a consistent member ever since. Ilu is one of the few survivors of tho Mexican war and draws a pension therefor. there-for. Bishop Preston, the fourth presiding bishop of the church, who was one ol the founders of Logan, and for whom tho town of Preston, Ida., was named, became a Mormon on account of his wife. Ho was a native of 1'ranklin county. Virginia, and in 1S52 vjr: tj California as a gold-seeker, but finally settled down as a farmer. His neighbors neigh-bors were the Thatcher family ami later he married Miss Harriet A." Thatcher, the wedding taking place in Salt Lake City in 1S58. "While waiting upon his wife before their marriage ho became converted to Mormonism and came to Utah. He was made bishop of Logman in ISoO, being selected, for llial position because he had built the best cabin in Logan. Pioneer Merchants. The pioneer merchant of Cache county coun-ty was Ilezckiah Thatcher, who in 1S00 opcued a general storo in Logan. William Wil-liam Jennings and "William 53. Godbc followed in opening stores. In ISIJ5-0 the Sherman-Thatcher lirm was organized, organ-ized, and in 1S72 the Logan co-op. became be-came a fixture with Moses Thatcher as superintendent. The Logan tabernacle was finished in 1870 and the same year tho construction construc-tion of the Logan temple, one of the finest in the State, was begun. During Dur-ing the vonr 1S70 tho roadway through Logan canyon was opened. This was one of the great enterprises of that time, the people having donated their services to construct tho road. Prices Were High. At the time when Hcze.ki.ih Thatcher opened his store (1SG0), there were no trusts 'and nails and sugar sold for $1 a pound, calico could be had for (50 cents a yard, denims at $1 a yard and SxlO window glass for GO cents. And these prices were maintained until 1S73. in the latter year Hour selling for $22 a hundred. Then came the railroad, tho Utah and Northern narrow nar-row gauge, and prices took a tumble, dropping to less than one-third. Irrigating System of County. In Cache county there are fifty canals, can-als, which arc, all told, 450 miles long. This irrigating svstcm has cost over half a million dollars and irrigates over 500,000 acres of land. Tho first, canal constructed in tho county was the Logan and llydo Park. These irrigated irri-gated lands sell for $100 per acre. They are too valuable to grow small grain and the latter is raised on dry farms. Cache county raises more wheat than any other county in the State. It is designated as the granarv of Utah and this year two million bushels of the cereal was grown in the county. Hay will return the farmers in Cache county this year over one and a quarter quar-ter million dollars. Tho wheat produced, pro-duced, which, by the way, is f the very best qualitv, is largely consumed by iho twelve roller mills in the county in converting it into flour. Other small grain besides wheat is grown. Then there is fruit and potatoes pota-toes and sugar beets and honey and lucern seed, and poultry and livestock. Cache count v caring for 25,000 head of cattle and 100,000 head of sheep. Tho dairy interest is on a large scale, and 1,000.000 pounds of butter and 1.500,000 pounds of . cheese. 150,000 cans of evaporated cream will bo the output this year. Sixty thousand cases of eggs will 'also be shippod this 3'car from the county. All this is what helps Cacho county. What helps Cache county coun-ty farmers, helps Logan and helps Utah, and tho surplus 11101103' received is put upon deposit in the several banking bank-ing institutions in the county. In addition ad-dition to tho small grain the hay crop of Cacho county amounts to a quarter quar-ter of a million tons annuull'. Tomplo at Logan. The city of Logan contains one of the four temples of the Mormons in the State, this one costing half a million mil-lion dollars. It is located on an cmi-i cmi-i nence in the eastern part of tho city I and overlooks the city and the beuu-: beuu-: tiful Cache valley. There is also a 1 Tabernacle in- Logan, and the cities I of Richmond and Wellsvillc also havo i Tabernacles. , During the early nineties tho waterworks water-works system for Logan was construot- cd. This has been added to and bct-, bct-, tored until now the city has one of the best water plants in the State. It was also in the early nineties that an electric plant was put in at Logan by private parties. hater, however, I the city took tho water in hand and it now owns its own lighting plant. In j Ogdcn canyon is located the Hercules light and power plant, which is a part of the Tellurid'i Power and Lighting I company, whose transmission lines are I the longest in the world. I Sugar Factorior? Established. I In 1801 what is now known as tho I Amalgamated Sugar company erected : a boot sugnr factory in Logan, known I as the Logan Sugar factory. This plant j last vcar lunu-d out a product ot 10.-I 10.-I 000.000 pounds of sugar during tho 110 j days which it was run; gavo eniplov-l eniplov-l me nr. to 200 employees, and took tho ! hects grown bv O.jO farmers, grown ! upon 45.000 acres of grouud. At Lcwis-' Lcwis-' toil the- same company operates a fac-! fac-! torv of tho same capacity as the one ! at Logan. Lnst year this factory pro- dueed 9,000,000 pounds of sugar, jnvo I employment to 200 persons, while 000 I fa nitcra turnod over to this plant the ! product of their farms. In thejvicin-1 thejvicin-1 itv of the plant 1750 acres of beets wore I grown last. year, while J 310 acres were grown in adjoining settlements for this plant. In all. the total tonnage was '11,000 tons. This year the output from both plants will be heavier than lnst ; year, and the acreage in beets will j necessarily be greater. I About City of Logan. Tho city of Logan now contains a population, according to the latest figures, fig-ures, of 0000, and it is in a prosperous condition. The Commercial club ia do ing everything in its power to present the advantages of Logan and of Cache county. f There arc several miles of Caved sidewalks and there nro a num-er num-er of graded streets. Thero arc many handsome homes and the city tho third city in the Statcv-tukes a pride in beautifying it in every way possible commensurate with the means'and facilities facili-ties it has. Logan is tho home of Congressman Con-gressman Joseph Howell of Utah. Athens of Utah. Logui is kuown as the Athens of Utah, due to the fact that tho public school system of the city ranks as a model; that tho Agricultural college of tho State is located there; that Brig-ham Brig-ham Young collcgo has its home there, and that t . Now Jersey academy, a Presb3'torian institution, is also situate in Logan. In tho public schools there arc 2200 pupils enrolled.' Prhficioncy is tho standard. Thero are ten public school buildings in the c i ty , and thirty-two teachers are employed. Prof. A. Mo-liueux Mo-liueux is the superintendent. About Agricultural College. The Agricultural college constitutes a part of tho public school S3'stem of the State. There arc live different schools, viz: Agriculture, commerce, mechanic me-chanic arts, general science and the agricultural experiment station, although al-though tho latter docs not provide directly di-rectly for instructional work. The college col-lege is situated on a hill overlooking the cit- and the Cacho valley, one mile east of Logan. Tho grounds embraco 116 acres, 100 of which were donated do-nated 1)3' tho cit3' of Lojjan and Cacho county when, in 1SSS, the college was locatod. Thirty-five acres- constitute the campus, which is tastefully laid out. Ten acres aro used for a parade ground and athletic fiold. Soveut.3'-ono acres aro set apart for agriculture and ten acres for orchard, small fruit and vegetables. Those in charge in all departments de-partments have access to all the grounds for purposes of practical instruction. in-struction. On the grounds .iro twenty buildings, lighted and heated, and with all modern convenioneea for tho purposes pur-poses to which thc wore intondod. The college buildings cost half a million mil-lion dollars. The institution was founded found-ed in 1S8S. On March 8 of that year the Territorial Legislative Assembly accepted ac-cepted the terms of an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, under which law, as also tho enabling net which came in the early nineties, and which provided pro-vided for the admission of Utah to tho Union, 200,000 acres of lund were granted tho Stato. from tho salo of which thero should be established a perpetual fund, tho interest to b used in maintaining the college. As said, Logan cit3r and Cache county donated the site and tho Legislature appropriated appropri-ated $25,000 for buildings. Besides tho appropriations made by tho Legislature and the income from the land fund, the college receives under un-der tho Hatch act of 1SS7 the sum of $15,000 for the experiment station; under un-der tho Moore act of 1S90 the sum of $25,000 annually for instruction in the college, and b3' an amendment to this act in 1007 tho sum is increased $5,000 annually until tho amount so received is $50,000 por annum, and under tho Adams act of 1006 will ultimate' receive re-ceive $15,000 additional for research work b3' the experiment station. The equipment is as good as the best. Other Educational Institutions. Brigham Young college is supported wholly b3 the Latter-day Saints. It has S00 students and thirty-six professors pro-fessors and instructors. In addition to teaching tho higher branches, there is an additional course upon Mormon theol-og theol-og Tho college was founded J11I3' 24, 1S74, b3 Brigham Young, who endowed it with 9.642 acres of land in Cache countv. Joseph F. Smith, president of tho Church of Jesus Christ of Lattcr-da3' Lattcr-da3' Saints, is president; Congressman Joseph Howell is chairman of the executive ex-ecutive committoo; James H. Liuford, president of the faculty, and H. Bul-len. Bul-len. Jr., sccroU" and treasurer. The New Jersc3' academy has 125 students and a corps of six teachers. The courso runs from kindergarten work to a thrce-3'ear high school course. John M. Cathcart is principal and tho school is run as a ProsD3'terian mission. Tho total enrollment of school children chil-dren in the county is about 4500, and tho school propert3' is worth $3,000,000. Beautiful Logan Oanyon. Logan cau3'on, one of man3- beautiful beauti-ful canyons in the majestic Wasatch range of the Rockies, comes down to Logan like Cit' Creek canyon does in Salt Lake City. Tho mouth of the cniryon is in town. Logan canyon proper is thirtj'-five miles long and several miles from its mouth the can-3'on can-3'on forks, one branch of it turning south of cast. Through the canvon flows Logan river. At Rich's spring, which is several miles up tho canyon, a view of which is shown upon this page, tho water boil3 up in a cave, which is about tbirty feet deep and hand-shaped. Tho water rises about one foot higher than tho river and this spring furnishes about one-third of the entire volume of water for Logan river. Mining Industry Flourishes. While f'ache countv- is known as an 1 agricultural county, it .likewise con- tains a number of mining properties, the net proceeds of which, as reported to the Stato Board of Equalization this year, is $386,608. These figures would indicate a much larger output, as the basis given for taxaolo purposes is as a rule remarkably low. There are a number of properties being developed and several others that are producers, and Cache count3f will soon come to bo known as a mining county as well KhI as an agricultural community. UuH In gathering the facts herewith pre- IfiH seated Tho Tribune is under obliga- B?il tions to the newspaper men of Logan IHH and a number of citizens for informa- BHH tion fnrnir-hed: tc the Odoll Photograph- fcsilV ing studio and Lcroy Carlton for photo- Idiiil graphs furnished, halftones from which ItliiV appear on this page. I ft |