| Show I SMAaST COUNTY IN UTAH But Davis is Great in Wealth Products Resources and Energy 1 Utahs smallest county Davls lies betweenthe two commercial centers of the stateSalt Lake City and Ogden i and embraces the rich and fertile strip I of land that borders the eastern shore of the Great Salt lake The area of agricultulll land is limited but under high cultivation the soil is capable of producing immense crops Each year adds to the value of real estate as nea industries that call for the products of husbandry are established In the north end of the county especially es-pecially Is the advance In land values noticeable thIs by reason of the more pormanent and abundant water supply and the locating of the Ogden sugar I factor and several canning factories in that vicinity IrrIgation Enterprises The big reservoir project that was put Into effect by the Davis Weber Coun ties Canal company at a cost or 60000 has proven a boon to Davis county farmers Perhaps no other one thing has such an effect upon the industrial progress of the sand ridge district as has this stupendous undertaking that has been so successfully carried out The water that was stored in East canyon creek Morgan county during early summer months was released early in August just as the natural flow from Weber river failed and the supply was sufcient to mature the growing crops that would otherwise have perished per-ished The farmers can now depend upon a constant how Qf water for irrigating irri-gating purposes and every branch of agriculture Is forging ahead in consequence conse-quence of this New settlerS are coming in and real estate is moving Agricultural Products Davis county is essentially an agricultural agri-cultural section Upon the products of the soil the people depend for their livelihood The natural advantages that I n uuu LV LUC UU > UU drawn together a thrifty prosperous community and comfortable homes j and pleasant surroundings are to be seen on every hand The land slopes gently to the southwest from the foothills foot-hills ft the Wasatch mountains et the4 shore of the lake thus adapting It particularly par-ticularly to the cultivation of agrlcul tural products i In the south end of thecounty market gardening is the chief pursuit Small nP ghS tracts of land are given thorough care and the result Is astonishing So great + Is the yield per acre of arden produce + that the figures truthfully stated will seem incredible 4 I As an examaple of what can be pro + duced It may be stated that during last summer John H Barlow of Bpuntiful sold ns worth of tomatoes from three fourths of an acre of ground The same gentleman gathered 1000 worth of small garden produce from two acres Soil Is Prolific An experienced gardener of Bountiful gays that asfhlgh as 1200 bushels of carrots and parsnips 900 bushels of beets 500 bushels of onions 150 bushels of Pn n < I tn hT nf nnt i I toes have been ptoduced c on an acre Small fruits of every kind thrive in all parts of the count and are considered con-sidered a profitable crop Strawberries I and gooseberries have been known to yield 600 per acre For all of these products a good market mar-ket is found In Salt Lake and It is from Bountiful Woods Cross and Con terille that much of the fruits and vegetables come that are found in the Salt Lake mark Five years ago about the only crop that wan produced pn the extensive area of tableland thaI forms the northern north-ern t > art of Davis c unty was wheat I < > > y The average yield ws twelve bushels per acre on dry farms Recently fruits sugar beets and tomatoes are being raIsed as well as cereal crops and the farmers profits are being doubled and trebled Sugar Beet Industry Sugar beet raising bas been proven to be profitable and under favorable conditions twenty tons per acre can be produced John H Layton of Layton reports a crop of twent eight tons per acre On Irrigated farms the principal crops will yield about as follows per acre Wheat 40 bushels barley SO bushels oats SO bushels alfalfa four or fie tonsHorticulture Horticulture is engaging the earnest attention of many residents of Syracuse and South Hooper and extensive orchards or-chards are being set out W H Miller of Syracuse has twent five acres of bearing tree and next year J1e will + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + t + + + nilli + + + + + i + + + + + + + + + + + + + I 4 1 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 0 L il + + t 4r41f ri i + + + + + + + 1 1 t + + + = + + I + t + + I + + + DAVIS COUNTY COURT HOUSE + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + J1early double his acreage Fruitrais ing is beyond the experimental stage and the future will witness a great increase in-crease in that industry It Is believed that more than 100 acres of land nill be set out to trees next spring in Syracuse Syra-cuse South Hooper and vicinity A Growing Industry The cannIng business Is becoming an important factor in the industrial progress pro-gress of Dais county It is not alone to the stockholdErs in such a concern that the profits accrue but to the producers pro-ducers of the raw material that the factories use Many a farmer whose land formerly produced nut more than 8 or 10 worth of grain per acre annually an-nually can now market from 78 to 100 worth of tomatoes from an acre The PaSt season was not favorable to the canning industry by reason or late spring and early autumn frosts but nowithslanding this the factories have put up an Immense quantity of 1ru1t U 1S estimated that there was r produced in Davis county this year 1200 tons of tomatoes and that probably I prob-ably 720000 cans or 30000 cases were + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + U = = = oo + j p 7 i t I l iA i + + + I A + f I t t In J 1 t 1 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + M 4 + I J 4 + 4 I tLII 1 + s ea V I + + + w I 1 t T 0 itT1 + L 1 irJ tIIT + + 4 + DAVIS COUNT MAYORS 4 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + put up by the three factorIes that are I supplied by Davis county farmers Some JUg Concerns The Woods Cross Canning Pickling company was the pioneer institution ot Its kind in the county The business has been managed very successfully for several years by C W fonn Fifteen thousand cases of tomatoes were canned by the company this year About seventy hands are employed at th fnltn tlThe Syracuse Canning company has had two successful seasons This year in additIon to canning tomatoes the company launched out Into fruit canning can-ning and their experiment In that direction di-rection has been satisfactory About 3000 cases of fruit consisting of apples ap-ples pears prunes and peaches were put uP and 2000 legs of pickles were prepared Other products or the faa tory are Conned pumpkins and caf51lP James T Walker is the companys manager man-ager and the stockholders are Syracuse Syra-cuse people Kephi Hardy SO13 built a cannel at Clinton during last summer aneL operated 1t successfulI turning out over 200000 cans of tomatoes That this industry Is to becom permanent perm-anent Is evidenced by the project recently re-cently exploited by Sweet Soule of Salt Lake representing eastern call1tal This fire has ecured monef at a low rate of interest that will be used to erect an immense tin can factory and cannery combined The stock is being subscribed by Davis and Weber county people and the assurance Is given that the factory will be in operation next year It is said that 50000 will be expended ex-pended In erecting and fitting up the factory Clinton or Roy near the boundary 1lna of Davis and Weber cotZltIes has been selected as the Site There 1s a prospect that the Woods Cross Calming company Will build a branch factory in Clinton airyin Is Thriving One of the thriving Industries of Davis county is dairying In the north end of the county five creameries are In successful operation The Hooper Dairy company an institution that was established about four years ago handles hand-les the IncteW products of South Hooper Hoop-er Clinton Clearfield and Syracuse The principal product of the Hooper company is cheese John W Singleton is the companys manager Layton has a cheese factory built In 1897 that is doing a good business The South Weber Creamery company vas established as a branch of the Karsvllle creamery four years ago but it Is now being operated as a separate Institution Institu-tion with Levi Taylor jr as lessee Kaysvllle has the only butter making establishment in the county It Is operated oper-ated by Seth C Jones as lessee and manager of the Kaysville Creamery company IrJones is a pioneer In the dairy busIness and to his efforts the development 0f the Industry locally is largely due The Kaysville creamery handles about 4000 pounds of milk daily and butter and cheese are made The Elgin dairy of Salt Lake has a branch station in ICnysville and this company also handles vast quantities of milk from Farmington CentenlJIe and Bountiful Shipments of Milk So Important has the milk shipping to Salt Lake become that the Salt Lake Ogden road runs a special milk train each day Other dairies doing business in the county are the Keystone and Jake Smiths both of which supply Salt Lake onsumers A ptomlnent dairyman speaking of the growth at the business during recent re-cent years said recently There are now about 1800 cows being kept for dairy purposes In Davis county The milk prOduct amounts to about 4000 gallons daily or more than 1400000 gallons gal-lons annually It Is safe to say that from 90000 to 100000 annually is paid to Dais county farmers for their milk and each year the amount Is increasing increas-ing Ten years ago very little was received re-ceived from this source but it Is a growing business and the future prosPeCts pros-PeCts are bright Prices are going up and producers will be encouraged thereby there-by to enlarge their herds and reap more profit Mineral Resources The mineral resources of Davis count coun-t are still an uncertain quantity For a score of rears there has been desultory desul-tory prospecting all along the Wasatch range from the very summit of the mountain down to the cultivated fields that reach to the foothllls and spasmodic spas-modic efforts have been made to engage the attention of mining men in some of the best developed prospects The bare fact remains however that not one property In the county is being operated with profit There are many good prospects east of Bountiful Cen terville and Farmington and Interested parties feel sure of ultimately making a strike but up to the present there have been no returns from the outlay in development work Banker Stone and E B Foote of Evanston are Interested In a promising prospect In Farmington canyon and the Horseshoe Gold Silver Mining company owns some properties In the same locality from which tree gold specimens have been obtained Gold and copper claims that the owners believe be-lieve will yet become profitable have been found east of CentervlJle and in Holbrook canyon Bountiful Copper Excitement i During last summer there was considerable consid-erable excitement over reported rich ropper illscoverles on Antelope island Prospectors from allover the state rushed to the scene and staked out aims by the score covering the min erai belt and some development work was done Several mining corporations wee formed and the claim is made that with the opening of spring the ISland will show great activity A F Abbott who Was associated With David Leeche In making the original or-iginal discovery of copper in that locality local-ity is quoted as saying that some of his claims are rich enough to be worked wUnout loss from the surface as high as 70 per cent in copper having been found Outcroppings IndIcate that there are vast are bodies beneath and if thlH proves to be true there is undoubtedly un-doubtedly great wealth In store for those who have secured claims on the island The protracted legal battle between the Ilhnmey Gold Mining company and the Farmington Gold Copper lining company having been settled 1n favor of the former It Is expected that work on the dIsputed ground will be resumed at an early date The property prop-erty is located a mile cast of Farming ton and the stubborn fight that was waged is proof that the litigants believe be-lieve the claims are valuable Educational Progress Davis county has an excellent school system In operation under County Superintendent of Schools N T Porter whose individual efforts have resulted in great advancement being made along educational lines during recent years The corps of teachers at present em plo ed numbers fort five They are thorough and efficient in their work I and no count in Utah can boast of better I bet-ter system of school work than Is in operation here Count Superintendent Porter has I done much to improve the standard of efficiency of teachers He has steadfastly stead-fastly refused to grant teachers certi jiates to persons who were unable to pass a satisfactory exanI1ation and it has become generally known among educational ed-ucational workers that the Davis county coun-ty examination is a thorough and com prehendve one This safeguard agaInst incompetents has resulted In csily the best teachers being employed and associated with this is the fact that an advance in salaries has been made that draws In person who are high in the teachers profC6Sion Fourteen School Districts In Davis county there are fourteen school dIstricts and the school population popula-tion is as follows First district 272 Seeoni 589 Third 143 Centonme 225 Sixth 256 Seventh 61 Eighth 634 Ninth 35 Tenth 52 Eleventh 41 Twelfth SO Thirteenth 145 Fifteenth S9 Sixteenth 107 total 274L A novel method of centralizing schoolwork school-Work Is being tried in South Bountiful That school district Clers a wIde area and the expEnse of operating small schools In outside poJtlons was found to 10 burdensome To obviate this the trustees recently adopted the plan of having the pupils brought to a centrally central-ly located school room Instead of taking tak-ing the school room to the children The experiment has been eminently stisI factory to pupils parent teachers and school officers and a great saving of expense has resulted The plan is sad to have been successfully cared out In the est but this Is believed to be the lrst time 1t has been adopted in Utah Lbra System In line with educational work It should be note that a public school library association was formed in Davis county last summer the object of the I organization being to establish and operate a free circulating library system sys-tem In the larger school districts o the ounty Jhe association was formed form-ed lu y the trustees and the county superintendent sup-erintendent and upon them will devolve de-volve the responsibility of selecting books and adopting rules for the reg L t 1aon of the library Already about II GOO volumes have ben ordered and the i systm will be in operation early in 1900The I The money comes from school taxes jut the libre will be for the use of the general public undr proper reg I ulaton and the design Is to have the books pass from oDe statonto another at Intervals 50 that the circuit will be covered each ycr Several new schooL buIldings were erect this year In the Thirteenth ds trict a fine buck structure provided with a modern heating system has ju3t ben complete at a cst of 30 Two new school houses were completd In Layton and oe in Kasvle at a cost of 120 each I County Out of Debt Davis county has the distinction of being entirely out of debt as a corporation corpora-tion The revenues derived from a county tax of S mills is economically expended and at tile end of the ea a comfortable surplus Is on hand Thu present administration consists of W J Parker Schofeld Kershaw and Joseph L Holbrook commissioners Thomas H Phillips clerk David Thomas recorder Henry H Blood treasurer W E Streepe jr attorney attor-ney L E Abbott sheriff and Israel Barlow jI aeSo There are three incorporated cities In the county Bountiful City has a population pop-ulation of 1G The principai business firms are the Bountiful Coop Peoples Opera House Mercantile company Lee I I Bross cash tre Bountiful Lumber tt Building association Edward Thomas 1 and James Burngham The only j newspaper In the county the Davis Count Clipper Is 1 published the by John Stahle jr Farm1ngton is the county seat and has a populatioa or 1200 It Is an incorporated in-corporated city and Is becoming widely known by ran or SImon Bambergers ppula resort the Lagoon being lo cted there The three general stores in Farmington are the Coop J D Woods and the Farmlnon Commer cIa Manufacturing company The Davis County bank Is a Farmingtn institution In-stitution and does a general banking busins with 25000 capital KayIe City covers an area of twentythr square miles embracng the town of Layton ylhin the corporate cor-porate limits there are about 2000 inhabitants In-habitants The leading firms and professional pro-fessional men are KaYvle Coop Hyr Stewart Heber J Sheffield E A Williams Son general merchan disc John Barton Son furniture Robert Bleamire and Stewart Smith fresh meat Swan Co saloon G F PatUo tnw re I J Proudfoot one on-e tone Galbrath BCzer four mill stuff and imported livestock Bishop Barker Ward Dummer bricks Horace Eo Lewis photographer William E Bone James Sheffield shoemakers shoe-makers Wm Alien architect W H Strong painter Dr W F Ingam Dr S Geason physicians The Bares Banking company is the larges in sttuton of its kind in the county Its capital i 2500 Pseu Small Tow Of the unincorporated Davis county towns Woods Cross is the largt This place is the home of the Deseret Livestock Live-stock CtJJpany 3 firm that owns 50000 sheep 2300 acres of lad in Rich county coun-ty and a general store In Wood Cross The compa s capital stock i 16000 Fd handsome dividends are pod Other Woods Cross firms are P Hatch Bros R Duerden and Parley E Batch general merchandise The Enterprise terre Brick company manufactures a high as 400000 bricks annual and finds ready market Cetervle is a progressive twn or 4100 Inhabitants with four genera stres Centenle Coop George W fCleve land Mrs Brandon and Smith Wal I ton ilth Bros the pioneer nurserymen nursery-men J the county do a large and increasing I In-creasing business In home grown trees selling In all parts of Utah and in outside out-side localities The Davis County Nur I m is also a Cetenie concern Layton has 600 people two general stores Farmers Union and Adams Sons company a saloon and a steamroller steam-roller mill that handles 550000 pounds of mi stuffs annually Evans Naldr do a slaughtering and fresh met busI i aess Clearfield Syracuse South Hooper I Clinton and South Weber are growing I settlements In the north part of the I I county where rapid advancement in industrial and agricultural lines Is being be-ing made Their combined population Is about 1500 The total population of Davis county is not far from 8000 The wealth of the count as shown by the assessment rolls for 1899 is as follows Farm lands 1627794 city lots 267009 improvements improve-ments 550065 livestock 164712 per renal property 255604 railroads 600 721 car companies 883 telegraph lines 441 telphone companies 3949 Total 3483101 The municipal officers who were elected elect-ed last November In Bountiful and who will take their positions with the opening open-Ing of 1900 are as follows Mayor John Fisher councilmen James Nevle Robert W loss John H Bqrlow B A Holbrook and Amos Cook recorder Charles R Jones treasurer John Stahli jr marshal Joseph H Moss justice ot the pence Charles W Stay ncr The neW city administration of Farm ington is as follows Mayor L E Abbott Ab-bott councIlmen David Hess George WY Palmer Arthur Hess J H Robinson Robin-son andavld L Rice recorder Henry O at treasurer Amas L Clark marshal J IV Coterel justice of the peace Ezra F Richards The Kaysvie city officers for the ensuing en-suing two years will be the following Mayor John G 1 Barnes councilmen George Swan jr Seth C Jones John W Gale Henry H Blood and James H Linford reorder H J Sheffield jr treasurer Orton A lam marshal mar-shal EliJah La cock justice of the peace R W Barnes |
