| Show CACUE COUNTYS RICHES An InterestIng Description of a Prosperous Country and a Progressive People Of the many vales that dot the breast of the mighty Rockies none Is fairer more fruitful or endowed more lavIshly lavIsh-ly w1th natures choicest favors than Cche valley A place of fertile fields of succulent pasture and pure stream q I rightfully enjoys the reputton of being otis Qf the most pleasing and desirable de-sirable localities of the vast Intermountain Inter-mountain region The valley Is about rgon fifteen miles In wIdth by sixty nle in length and was first settled in the year 1856 Cache county does not tae In the entire valley there being I a eon dbt1r of the nOrthern end f i i Idaho From the little cOlony etbl ed In Yelmle In he year mentioned a communIty of 2SOOO ruls has grownup grown-UP bute in six cite and fifteen smaller towns Of the cItes LOg wIth n population of 6000 Is the la est next In order come H rum SmIthfield SmIth-field Welsvie RIchmond and end en-d < m The towns are Providence Fern disc 11ie Avon Sterling Lewiston Lewis-ton Benson Newton Clnrkstxm Hyde Park Peterboro Cache Junction Teen ton Cole and Covevle Logan Is the county sect and nere a and three millions oC dollars The vast area of mount range on the eastern side of the valley supports immense herds of cattle and sheep during the summer months Not less than 100 she are each year drIven over OUr ranges and yet abundant pasturage for larg herds of cattle and horses remains re-mains The yield ot cereals in Cache county In ISiS exceeded 20000 bushels nine tenths of the crop beg wheat The greater part of this was grown on the i IcS Ic-S W HRICKS Treasurer Cache County County Treaurer Cut fruit als9 20000 tors of hay and 50000 ton of lucra Is her annual bar vested A couple of years ag the raisIng of sugar beds was commenced in Cache and the fir year about 8000 on of the cho Es qualIty > were produced about 6000 tons were marketed but owin to poor tranap9rtaton facilities the othercould not be gt t the factory fac-tory on time Of the great quantity 01 other root cODS produced her no ac curate estimate cn be chen Superiority of Its Livestock Other products ot Cace ilat have made her famous r ther > horses and ctte approximately 10 or the form for-m and 20000 ot the latter being ownedby rdent of this county Her homes brett U9 by sucessil stages from the Spanish brncho in Indian cayuse to the splendidly proportioned animals that are now to be seen on every hand hoe made this section the favorite plane for those desiring well or bred rng horse wheher for draft drIvlg The same palnstain care has ben obrc In the breeding of cattle e both for dairy and market purposes + + + 4 4 LL I + + + + 4 lrlI w + + I + + + + + + + 1 4 I 11 + t 4 = t t + + T + OPERA HOUSE BLOCK LOGAN + + + + + + + + + f + + + + + + + + i + + + + + + + + + t + + + + + + + e locate the offices of the county COI Joalon The officials of the county are gWeo ocas lieoDistrict District Judgeharles H Hart Board of Comtf onersJames Melde chairman H F LUenquist and Thomas Muir County TeurerSamu l W Hen drick SaerfEer Crockett AttorneyFrank K Xebeler ClerkJohn W Owen RecrerUss Bessie lorehead Agtlor1aler W Jones Superintendent or ScthoolsW G Raymond SurveyorJ S Baker Ber Purely Agricultural Cache count 15 strictly n community commun-ity of farmers its principal developed resources being along agrIcutural lnes and Cit this respect i excels any other district In the state It early earned and still maintains the title of The Granary of Utah About 170000 acreor land are under cultivation and this are Is dividtd Into about 4250 farms whIch annually yIeld products valued at between two unwater farms whIch have been under un-der cultivation but n comparatively shot time Fifteen ear ago dry tang in this county was considered impracticable and unprofitable nOW hOwever the unwatered region is hie m profitable producing the best gain at the lea cost and farmer have climbed a far up the mountain elopes a pinning and harvesting are pmble In their effortS place under cultivation eve foot 01 the valleys fertile soil But the production oC the staple cereals es Is not the only great agricultural reurce oC the coisty Ever year n quarter of n million bushels of pot toe are raised her 1roI 2000 to 25000 bushels O corn 200 bushels of apple 500 bushels of plum 2000 busnls of pr and a vast quantity of sal r r = f 1 9 I and E ockrlslng Is stilt one Qf the important sources ot Cache eouz4ys wealth Teab1fth the husbandman husband-man has crowded basic the hrsma undl the his alone are left for the cattle raiser bt by pasturing his animals here in the sumnier and feed log them In th vlly in the wInter he js still able to make his Jiusintfis I w ii I GEO W TTCHR Danker and Leading Business Man Lagan pay big returns on the money invested The dairy interests of Cache are worth more than passing notice There are sven large creameries In operation In the count and their output yearly lt a conservative estimate is 7000 pounds oC cheese and 400000 Dound of butter while thousands of hog are fed on the by products of chose dalltl Lorno Hansen the pioneer dairm of the state has the largest IrJerens of this kind In the county Las year hs output was 350000 pounds of cheese 15OOO pounds of butter made from 7 COOO pounds of milk time product beIng be-Ing marketed for about 6000 In ad dltun t this he fattened and sold 1O hogs Thte dairy products arc une3cle in quality and find ready market at the highest price In Salt Lake Butte San Inncso Portland and Seleue The value of last last years dairy output Is placed at 175000 n considerable item of revenue to the farmers of the county from ho nearly all the milk used i purchased The commercial dlttributon of this vast Yield of aglIural products i canled on by about 100 firms capitalIzed capital-Ized at apPlx1ately 10000 and 11Ich do a yearly business af mere than the amount named Tie figures ot 1898 ore given because accurate estimates of this vea pr duo on have not Yt been obtained I Is safe to 5 however that with the exception of aln potatoes and hay this years crop equaled that of last The gn potato and hay crops were poorer tbts rear than for a long tIme past nat ovey twothlrdG of last eased eas-ed beIng harvested Logan of course Is the man d tlbutlng center and the largest bus neM concerns are located there In that city too the gate progress In the nter of industrial development hs taken plane Manufactures and Improvements Logan Chit boa oC varied industries I Indus-tries that as et are In the Infancy One of these that ha shown consIderable consIder-able gowth p r late Is the manufacture or knitted goods Three factories are locate here and each Institution Is tae to Its utmost capacity to fill it orders Another Is the W G Dal fi Manufacturing company recently organized for the purpose of making orgzed agricultu al implements Including the faous Uiah plow The are four plang and wOodworking wOod-working mills three modern roller four mis two candy factorIes two foundaes and many other Industries that furnIsh many people employment amid with their product add materaly to the wealth of the county In Hyrum Is rcted the BaronHouse woolen mills that turn out n great variety of woolen goods of the best grade and count nihich find a ready market in the Then the a the electric power comparfies which furnish light heett cmpaes ich fur light het I 7 1 i it I AOl ANDERSON Mayor of Logan and power at rates which have att e considerable capItal to this city Lo sn h incomparable power facilitIes and this fact capital has just begun Io realize It has been estimated that 1000 horsepower could b secured from Lagan La-gan river alone while there are many other streams In the count 1 hat offer tine opportunities In this line Two of the three electric plants are locaed In Logan and one in Hyrum Logan also Jssesso one ot the finest gravity pressure waterworks systems of the yurld The waerls taken from a canal that skirts the base of the east t em mOUUlwn anu IS cae WO 111 Into the city The fall Is such tat great pressure Is maintained m the olti Municipal ot and Other Information Tbs system 15 the property ot the pple and It 15 being rapid extended t all r of the city The affairs of te municipality are unterthe control con-trol oC the fpIowln officers Anthon Aden mayor H Tarbet mrhl J C Waters attorney Mrs O C Orsb recorder r H H Jacob sea treasurer Wifm N Thomas justice and the followIng councIlmen J H Red John SpandC Joseph WIl son Charles England r Thatcher jr Vlam Andrews John Dahle W B Preston jr George W Lindquist and WIlliam Hibbard But Lns chief prIde Is milLs eu I cationaI Institutions There Is located here the State Agricultural college one of the leading Institutions of Its kind In the WEt the Brigham Young college col-lege an establishment c hIger le itg with an envIable reputation controlled trolled by te Mormon church and the New JeIe academy a seat of advanced ad-vanced Instruction that Is matned by the Presbyterian church in addition to the elaborate ese of public schools These tree institutions have Ian I-an aggregate attendance of 1000 students stu-dents and the means distributed by them Is no Inconsiderable part of the sum that represents Logans yearly volume of business The city schools are housed in build lags of modern con tction and equip mont They are conduce apr from the county schools by a beard of education edu-cation at the bead of whIch Is Pro caton fester George Thomas oC the Agrlcl11 tura clcge His fellow members a I I N Y Haws John T Cne jr 1 Benson and Jon Quayle Albern1 Merrill 15 superintendent The county schools under te dir Lion of W G Raymond are eualv progresitive prgclve Some of the countys developed resources re-sources have ben mentioned Its undeveloped unde-veloped possibUtties a imany Along I agricultural lines there Is rom for vast advancement Within the pat two years the cultivation of sugar beets has ben commenced and the results I achIeved Indicate wonderful possbl Ies In the production ot sugar in tilts county The bets grown here were of superior quality yIelding a large per cenae ot saccharine matter and av ergng high In purity The yield per acre w1ere proper cultivation was had surprIsed those meet sanguine In sangne their eXlJeaio Already plans have been laU for the constructIon of 0 sugar factory In thIs county fo unfavorable un-favorable transportation facilities have made 11 discouraging t beet raisers to ship their crops The establishment oC such a factory would open up another an-other big Industry here J Vegeable a al kids grown here are cual to the beat and te climate and EOn i3 admirably aopted for the production of the hardier fruits such as apleG pears plums and the different differ-ent bern fruits A canning factory has bee talked of Cosome time and It Is mare than likely tat the near future will see such an Industry In operatfen oerattn With the excellent advantage for obtaining wate or electrIc power that the county ps It in I no Idle though that prompts the belief that Important Industrial eterrlses will be launched In Cache before many seasons sea-sons roll away Mines of Vast Richness Then too there are untold inIIlIons mlons hidden away In the mEghty bulwark of nature that surround us Mining In Cache has hem ignored and her beds of treasure as yet a practically un explored Attention Is bcng atctd to Caches mIneral mlnernl resources however and the future holds great prom for the county In the way of mining de velcomtnts As n rsrt for those seeking pleasure Cacie count Is famous amonG the counties of the state Her hl abound in sot of beauty that show the det set touch of the Great Masters hand the streams that curse like valise i through the hel of these munt Itt I-tt on their bosom the UtegIvln ozone of the pine clad slopes and abound with speckled dwzes the tae of whh would tickle the Dalae or m epicure There li plenty of feerd game In the his and he val icy and each year hundreds of plea ur ken visit Cache In search ot the genuine recreation and enjoyment that can be found here The progress of Cache countY has nt been meteoric In the let but her growth tins been steady and p mnent e Inch gained as been held and the record gne paiit pr sages well ror her future ddvelonment her Instuton a sound her bud ne1 men of the mot Iutable in the state whlcq added to her natural advantages ad-vantages makes Cache a desirable pIano In which to live |
