Show ir t f j A BRIEF 11 REVIEW this morning a 0 lookin looking on oil tile the rei county court house tile the restoration of which imp been d quite recently I 1 find it is a it much it to I 1 i butter better a accommodated on at and id if f liner architecture than before the ilio ft of august n 1888 which destroy id d till all tho the wood work the wa walls ils are the sanio fame only raised a fow few feet the i roof bof is similar boing being of tile the nian mansard sard design the tower is more lofty and better appointed than forai forner erl lv this restoration was ut a cost of aim abut it fifteen thousand arld dollars including tho the new in missive fireproof v vaults a ti it The Tho sight of this rile fine building led tile me to reflect back for a third of a century at about this time of year for it WBK was on the sixth day dav of peb february 1856 that a small corpany eon con pany of 4 pioneers landed in ill this valley intending i to make this oar future home hoine although isolated many miles from any other aher settlements here the nativo red men were not altogether as friendly ay as they might have well been hii then was a new country with an untried clit climate nato and it a soil that had been condemned by all who passed over it as altogether too cold old and fro frosty ty and alkaline a nature to be susceptible of cultivation sufficient to produce anything capable of sustaining tile the life and nature of man there was but the desert sagebrush sage brush to be seen save tia ve w where wh ii ere th the e water wate r cou course arse wend bended wended ed its way froni from the alie east side of t the lie valley vaclev to the west which had its rise tit at the base of the loftiest loft iest mountains mounts baldly are belknap whose summits tower skyward to it a bi haht ait of 12 feet while the val jey itself ii i about one half that elevation above the pea icon thus to contrast the former desert with tle present fertile plain is one wherein n ib hand of an overruling providence must perforce be acknowledged the present prosperity ty of the 2500 inhabitants that now people this va ley with their fin fini brick ard and substantial rock residences varying arbing 0 in in value from one thousand to ten tell thousand thou said dollars th the e ext kiive woolen factory and flour ing mills which are aou manually fly in creasing in value our meeting gilr 13 houses dedicated to 0 o the wor worship ship of the most high our schoolhouses school houses ind and properties li ii our growing com community munty receive th their ar ed edu 11 national cat eat ional frainie training ig to which may bo be added a dozen or more mercantile itile establish est ablis lin ien and artisans arti shops of many kj kinds adl our spacious street lined fined with shade and ornamental tres tre s imported many thousands of miles for the purpose of beautify ing and adorning our city thus enhancing tho tha value of our property an q afie ans 1 I 4 and d pleasure pl casim of tile the bauls 5 not forgetting tho the well tilled fields and fruitful orchards and gardens till all tend to manifest ent enterprise and industry not to bo surpassed ased in any part of the ille abi world laj and nd this ibis t 60 n a d ry ind orid climate chimal 0 wl where i e ra tl the A si simplest byj pl cst shrub will ill with wither af anddie if not aided in ill its growth by a arli funi hil irrigation which is accomplished only tit at ai expense of 11 ninny llev thousands ads in ill I 1 ho construction construct ion of miles 0 loading leading canal and hundreds of lat lateral erial cr bisti dai n uniting ditches ditche sand and much of this growt growth it and progress is accomplished under the arising from froin want ofra broad transportation i ill mediated me mediately diatel V ti available and shows what a few resolute and determined ae people filled with energy and hidu industry stry can accomplish in a few years nor noll is the increase inc tease in copulation copulation opu lation and advancement in education neglected which is fully manifest in tile the small P proportion ro portion of illiterate illi illiteracy terae y among the rising generation sonic some grades of our schools numbers numbering tig ii Farone hundred pupils I 1 ll 11 tion to the foregoing it is an it assured tact that the time is not far dik dibtan fc when it a n will be an accomplished plis lied fuel fact in our cily the track I 1 is a already Icca located teI and surveyed and art inducements tire are it lid I 1 I 1 cut that ere a year pass the breathings brea things of the tron iron horse will ill reverberate through tile the aI adjacent jacent lulls hills on oil its way to the ini immense mensie iron and coil coal fields to the south ind sulphur beds to tile lie north of af this ibis will enhance our facilities nn all hundred 1 per r cont cent as a market will be opened up for our surplus products and infuse new lifo life into our commercial coin interests with other and more favored localities G N beaver jati jan 24 1890 1800 |