Show hoytsville situated three miles south of Co coalville alville in weber valley is the thriving M hamlet of it is is not a city or even an organized town but a collection of f farms arnis and an houses which from natural prominence and the prosperity rity of tile the people has bus merited the name and prominence of a town and obtained it tile the weber valley is wider at this point thin than any other point in its course and noted for its fertility two irrigation companies formed within the last seven years and two good ditches built have afforded sufficient water to irrigate the entire valley and change it f from rom a desolate growth of weeds and bust bustled bustles les to as productive a tract of country as th the e eye nee need rest upon this part of the valley was first settled in and 1862 by samuel P hoyt from whom the settled settlement ent was named aud and a mr bir bradberg Brad burg the children of the form former erstill still live in and kamas and are well to do farmers the settlement however did not thrive very well until within the last seven years since then boyts ville has forged to the front rapidly aud and the valley has been put under cultivation the site of the old fortification against the indians in lians built in early days can still be seen just north of the schoolhouse boasts of ot about people most of them well todo to do farmers astore A store schoolhouse and meeting meet Dr 0 house comprise the public buildings the schoolhouse and church are both good substantial buildings recently built and a credit to the hamlet the store is run by a local company of seventy six shareholders comprising most of the business people in the settlement the company is called the 14 farmers mercantile company the affairs of which are managed by a beai J of five directors miss bliss kate chase of salt lake now manages t the store under direction of the dir directors e actors the resources of the hamlet comprise mainly farming 0 products such as are raised in other parts of the valley the grass and an grain crop is heavier than other parts of the valley can boast odthe of the soil iq largely clay and adapted to brick making all of the brick houses in the settlement are made of brick manufactured at home A brick yard is bein being 0 run this summer and several new houses erected a fine quarry of sand stone called the spring canyon quarry lies about two miles from the settlement and is owned and operated by local capital rock from this quarry has been sent to ogden Og denSal sal lake and park city and has been highly i n i 11 I 1 L 11 ibi TL lack capital to work it there is ars aers a valuable ledge of lime rock from which lime is extracted one kiln is ia row rowin in operation the irrigating 0 com companies panic m before mentioned are as follows the one on the east side is called the boyts ville irrigation L company and has a capital stock of it op operates crates on oil the east side by a large well built and well conducted ditch the other is 8 called the west side irrigating company has a capital of and operates on the west side of the valey ley taking the water from the weber river by means of these two to ditches over acher of laud land have been brought under cultivation only two artisans ply kneir trade to any great extent the blacksmith john 1 I who draws patronage for miles around even from coalville Co alville has a neat little busness business built up tip by pluck and energy charles West stonemason ason chisels the marble and granite and advertises to place your on your tombstone as neatly as any one thrifty industrious and looking C for opportunities to give prominence to their little settlement the people of hoytsville are known and respected far and wide and most of them will doubtless live to see their thriving bittle hamlet increase to several times its present size Coul courville coalville Co alville ville ChOn chronicle icle |