Show KAY VlLLE A BUSY CITY A Thriving Town that Will Yet Come to the Front NATURE WAS VERY LAVISH Heal Estate in Fair Demand but no Boom Wanted A Healthy Happy and Industrious Com iiiiinity with Koom for More of the Same Kind Prospects Excellent Situated about midway between the two great commercial cities of Utah Ogden Og-den and Salt Lake City overshadowed by the towering peaks of the majestic Wa satch range on tb3 east and fanned from the west by the balmy breezes from the Great Salt Lake is the beautiful and fertile fer-tile city of Kaysville with a population of between 1800 and 2000 When the country in and around Kays ville was formed nature with a lavish hand endowed it with many resources not enjoyed by other parts of the territory terri-tory The rich and fertile soil which needs but the careful hand of husbandry to make it show its bounteous productivity I produc-tivity the beautiful scenery and the healthful invigorating climate make her naturally adapted for a city of homes which she is destined to become The almost inaccessible recesses of the mountains furnish storehouses for immense im-mense quantities of snow which issues forth during the summer months in beautiful beau-tiful streams of sparkling water to gladden glad-den the heart of the husbandman and to beautify and revive vegetation I About two years after the first settlement settle-ment of the territory two of the newcomers new-comers Hector C Haight and Samuel 0 Holmes started north from Salt Lake City in search of new locations for homes The favorable appearance of the land surrounding sur-rounding the spot where Kaysville is located attracted their attention and they resolved to make this their home The next year 1850 several other settlers among them Edward Phillips William Kay Joseph Egbert and others joined them and thus was formed the nucleus for the city of Kaysville MrV Egbert was one of that noble company of pioneers who left the Missouri and piloted the way across the trackless plains to open up these beautiful and fertile valleys to the commerce of the world thereby reclaiming a vast amount of valuable country from the savage bands of Indians who infested it Though he is in his seventyfourth year he is still an honored and respected member of our community From the time of her first settlement to the present Kaysville has had a steady growth No unnatural boom with its destructive de-structive relapse has ever marred the peace of her prosperous and contented citizens but her course has ever been onward on-ward and to the front Real estate demands a fair though not an exhorbitant price which is steadily advancing A large amount of business is done and new business houses are built every year SCHOOLS The graded free school system is in successful suc-cessful operation and the county superintendent super-intendent is untiring in his efforts in the interest of the 2300 children in the I county Thirtyone teachers are employed em-ployed and the schools are reported to be in a very prosperous condition In the I district comprising Kaysville about three hundred children are attending the district dis-trict schools and the Presbyterian mission school is also well patronized Besides these facilities for education the citizens have erected by their united efforts an academy building at a cost of over 57000 > which is handsomely equipped with school furniture PRODUCTS Lying a few miles to the north of Kays ville on what is known as the Sand Ridge is the finest drylaud wheatrais ing district in Utah About 20000 acres of land are under cultivation and at a low estimate an average of 150000 bushels bush-els of wheat are raised annually entirely without irrigation On irrigated farms wheat crops are large at times reaching sixty bushels per acre while oats barleycorn barley-corn and potatoes are produced in abundance abund-ance The easy facilities for shipment enable the farmers to command the highest market prices for their products which being of the best quality they are usually able to obtain Lucern seed is one of the staple as well as one of the most profitable products pro-ducts of the county and over 510000 worth has been raised in one year Davis county offers advantages far superior su-perior to any other location in the territory terri-tory for the establishment of a canning factory The natural facilities are here Fruit of first quality can be and is raised in unlimited abundance and all that is needed to ensure the success of the industry in-dustry is some capitalist to establish the factory At no place to be found inside the borders of our commonwealth can be seen more adaptable soil climate and other natural advantages for horticulture and fruit raising than the valley between Salt Lake City and Ogden shows and the close proximity to the two great railway systems the Union Pacific and the RIO Grande Western adds materially to the convenience of transportationas it would alsu to the profit such an industry would reap for its projector We hope soon to see this matter taken up so that proper and profitable use can be made of the immense im-mense quantities of fruit which are produced in the county In addition to the products enumerated above the soil has been found to be especially I es-pecially adapted to the raising of sugar i I beets Experiments in beet raising have been made and they have proven that those grown in Davis county hive saccharine sacch-arine properties in excess of those produced pro-duced elsewhere in the territory and we may y3t see a factory established within our burders The business and dwelling houses of the city are built almost universally of brick made convenient by the abundance of brick clay in the vicinity And here we may add that no part of the territory has the raw material for the manufacture of beautiful and durable brick in such inexhaustible in-exhaustible abundance as Kaysville I Some of the beautiful edifices of Salt Lake could faecitad as monuments of the merits of this production which forms one of the resource of our city No extensive mineral deposits have yet been unearthed in our immediate vicinity vicin-ity though many are firm in the belief that hidden wealth exists in our mountains moun-tains While the locating of mines would greatly promote her growth it is not absolutely ab-solutely necessary for the advancement of Kaysville Her future is full of promise Her citizens own and love their homes and one thing which will tend to build her up is that all who locate there become bona fide residents working for the good of the city Her business houses are all solid establishments estab-lishments and are headed by men of acknowledged business ability She has the only bank in the county and the institution is doing a large business busi-ness She is the only town in the county having hav-ing the advantage of a municipal government govern-ment The prosperity of the past year coupled with the prospects of the future make Kaysville a desirable and profitable place for homeseekers |