Show just is as the year 1892 is drawing to a close and we are upon the threshold of another year we hurriedly glance over the pages a of history that have again been made in our great nation our noted territory and our prosperous county the lynching lunching lyn ching of the italians in new orleans and the sailors of an C U S vessel who were shot down in the city valparaiso caused much talk and required considerable consi drable attention from the general government go last year while this year the troubles have been mostly within the union in the form of strikes the troubles at homestead and those coeur dalene idaho will be well remembered by most newspaper readers great many valuable discoveries have been made in our territory during the year I 1 in the is nay ay of building paving materials also aiso much mineral has been from the numerous mines of our territory nd now disco discoveries verias made but not so much as would have been put out I 1 had not the price of lead and silver been sa so low among the cases decided by the court the territory the one regarding the persons property of the mormon church is no doubt the mot most interesting there has bis been a large wool clip this year amounting to upwards of bs lbs several promising institutions have come into ex istance in m our county coulty this year besides many improvements prove ments menti have been made we have two banks in the county which do a good bubines bu sines one the younger at farmington and the other at Kay the schools of the conerity are D now ow in a pretty good condition there are 2 2426 pupils in the county of school age between 6 18 and thirty five teachers employed most of the towns now have their schools graded there is a stake academy in farmington which is also in a flourishing 0 condition also two new west sebooh schools which are doing good work A number of students from tia tue e county are attending the schools a logan provo and salt lake three fine public school houses aye ave been erected in the county one in the eighth school district one in the eleventh and one in first they are all built in accordance with the modern indea of school houses bouses scores of new cottages and dwelling houses bouse 9 of all designs have been I 1 ere erected acted ilithe towns of the county and siso also several fine aares stores in the north end of the county we hive have a fine creamery in kays villa and another in bountiful tho aitho woods cross cannery has lein bega established this season and is ia located in the south end of tha oun bounty ta employs a great nany hands in the the fall is one of the best canning establishments in n the west some mining lias has been done in the county but no discoveries of great importance made much salt 4 had been gathered near lake shore and in that locality much work has been done drilling for natural gas with considerable success the vegetable and fruit crop with the exception of small fruits and berries were somewhat behind other years in the county two more towns in the county have concluded that they were able to manage their own affairs and have been given a municipal form of go government making three in the county in all at the last election the democratic baity gained the day and will fara furnish us couty officers for the coming two years y A large reservoir was commenced at bounthai BountH nI this fall which wl will take some time to complete it the stockyards stock yards in south bountiful were also built this season A number pathe of the early settlers of the coux 0 assed r away this season nama nanka daniel davis daniel wood billop IV brown patty sessions and elizabeth haven barlow the stores in the south end of the county have done away with the credit system with but few exceptions one of which says a little tick for honest folks while the cholera plague was worrying the people of our nation the grasshoppers were eating the lucern and destroying the trees and fruit of the southern portion of our coull coulty ty considerable means has been coia contribute alis year for the furtherance of ecclesiastics ecclesiastical 1 charitable e education at al and other yorlli y purposes also the worlds fair quest question ionis is receiving due attention every thing considered we may be well pleased with the progress our county lias has made in the past year |