Show IBRIGHAM CITYS BEAUTill A City of Homes in all That the Name Implies SOCIAL ATTRACTIONS No Place More Congenial to the Home Scelier Hundreds of Cars of Brigham City Products Pro-ducts ore Exported Every Year ami Her Fruit Is of the Best and Finest Varieties Box Elder county has a population of 13000 This is one of the largest counties in Utah and one of the most productive It is an agricultural county Sheep I raising stock raising and fruit growing I are carried on quite extensively and since the Bear River canal has been in operation opera-tion thousands of acres of land heretofore valueless have become producing lands and yield heavy returns Brigham the county seat of Box Elder county and central point is situated at the very foot of the Wasatch range on the western slope and the town is noted far and wide for its hundreds or neat and comfortable homes its broad streets studded on either side with towering trees and in the gentle spring time when the millions of fruit trees are in bloom the city has the appearance of a large and beautiful flower garden and many an eastern gentleman coming hero for the first time becomes suddenly impressed with the idea that hs has in sose mysterIous mys-terious though happy way been suddenly I transported to the Garden of Eden I Brigham is fitly called a City of Homes and right well does she deserve the title for wIthin her limits will be seen hundreds hun-dreds of neat and comfortable dwelling houses and others that lend somewhat of a metropolitan appearance to our city Another worthy feature is that nearly every man owns his own home In a social way for many years it led all cities of its size in the territory For many years it had one of the leading dramatic dra-matic companies in the territory and the people filled with local pride have built one 01 the prettiest opera houses in the west It seats six hundred people and cost 525000 The building is heated by hot air and lighted by gas No place could be more congenial to the home seeker Almost within our limits on the west are the shores of Great Salt Lake where large salt works are located The express business is enormous and it is no unusual thing to load a car a day principally small fruits Our freight shipments compare favorably favor-ably with the express and hundreds of cars of fruits hay grain potatoes onions on-ions sheep cattle etc leave here each season The city supports three hotels but they are entirely inadequate to the needs of the town and a firstclass hotel of fifty or seventyfive rooms would be a paying investment in-vestment A good fruit crop in Brigham means 300000 to the town and the fruit is of the very choicest kinds Each year much of it goes to waste on account of insufficient insuffi-cient facilities for handling it Strawberries in particular thrive well and one man actually sold fSOO worth off one acre of land Brigham has a school population of 1000 and as good schools as can be found anywhere any-where The soil is especially adapted to fruit growing and the flavor of the fruit grown is incomparable Go to Brigham City if you are a lover of fruits if you wish to enjoy the good things nature has provided for mankind and desire to eat and drink in the shade ot your own vine and there buy a home Land is cheap water plenty and the prospects for the future are bright |