| Show JUABS BRIGUT fUTURE County a Great Producer Whose Best Days Are Yet to Come I While the mining activity of the past two years has brought the western part of Juab county to the front a one of the richest and most extensive mineral producing sections of the state the eastern Or agricultural part has also come In for its share of prosperity Nephi City being the county seat and principal city has a a natural result reaped her full share from the bettering better-Ing of trade conditions Situated at the junction of the Sanpee Valley railway rail-way with the Oregon Short Line railway rail-way she has railroad facUtes enjoyed by few cf her sister clUes The population of Nephl Is aout 30 and steal growing Besides her I modern court house she has three fine public school buildings erected at a cost of over 20000 and a system oC waterworks qua to anY In the state of Its size The First atonal bank Is rated among the strongest financial houses in the west and the business houses are in the hands of some of the brightest the state and most enterprising men In Developing Industries During the past season a well equipped creamery has been erected by the enterprising people at a cost of 4COO and its entire output cannot supply sup-ply the demand The hide and pelt business Is the largest larg-est ot any city In Utah south of Salt Lake and ncotherpolnt offers so many inducement for the erection of a tannery tan-nery aid wool scouring plant As a feeding and shipping point for I eattle this part oC the countY is rapidly rapid-ly coming to the fNot thus furnIsh lug the farmer with a quick market at goo prlcts for aU his hay Among the heaviest caJtemen are the Lunt Bros George Howard Hendricken Edg hell and George C Wltmore Natures Rich Storehouse The natural resources of this part of the county are almost Innumerable To the northeast of Nephl about nine miles tM I TANES W PA Promnent Business Man of Neph In what Is known as Sat Creek canyon can-yon are located salt springs which 1 have no equal In the state and no superior In the country Brine 35 p I cent sal gushes out from the mountain moun-tain side and by means of one or the best equipped snIt manufactorIes In the west Is converted Into table dairy and packing saltf unexcelled quality In addition to this there are largo mines or quarnleof Tock salt the extent ex-tent of whIch cannot be computed Another of Juab counts natural resources re-sources Is the great mountain of gypsum gyp-sum located about one mie east of town on the Sanpete Vale railway I Is said that this Is the greatest bed of that mineral c discovered In the United States There are mountains of It which stand out clear and white without the usual covering of earth and rnfk thus makiDI the auaInl of It a matter of slight S The Nephi phst er Manufacturing company owners of this vast deposit have a mill of 120 tons capacity located at the base of the mountain equipped with the latest machinery to convert the material Into the finest quality of plaster paris or calgine plaster to be found on the market This enterprise Is strictly a home concern owned and operated by home capital About two niles above the salt works In Andrews canyon are found the e tensive quarries of the Nebo BrownStone Brown-Stone company The stone from these quarries Is a beautiful dark brown without an equal In the west The Sanpet Vale railway recently completed com-pleted a fivemUe spur to the quarries and though active operatIons began late In the season s great has been the demand for this stone that over 400 cars had been shipped at the closing down of the works for the winter last November Orders enough to keep the company busy the coming summer are now on hand Miscellaneous Matters rvap twelve m les south of NeDhl Is it typIcal farming town and hasP has-P demonstrated what Can be don With a limited supply of water probably better bet-ter than any town In the state From a few families clustered around the mouth t the con it has grown Into a lurlshl town of abut 150 inhabitants inhabi-tants Its new opera house and pUblla school building are evidences ot the progressiveness of the people The little town of Mona eight miles to the north a also boat of a fine new creamery built thIs season and non In successful operation The sheep Indugty Is one ot the largest I larg-est In the state 80000 head being owned In the county prodcng annually it 4 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4 + + c + I j + + + + r + + + + + 1 + + + + + + 4 + s S S + + + + + + + + + + + t I 1 E 4 + NEW BESIDENCE OP GEORGE C WHITTtORE NEPHI t + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5 444444441 Is estimated 50000 pounds of wool Situated In the gateway of the San pete and Sevier vales and being on the great sheep highway which leads to the unbounded winter range or the desert spreading out to thE west and GEORGE C WttITIflORE President Firs National Bank Neph south as far as the sate line Nephl has become the distributing point for this vast teritor As a Mining Region And though not a mining region as that term Is general regon this section of the country can boast ot vast undeveloped ore bodies In the Nebo district as well as others to the south and east Of late active developments have ben made In the first namri district dis-trict and orES running high In gold silver lead and other precious metals tl n nnt Th ehs Str fnln nm pany and the Nephi 1 Mining l p y contemplate erecting work and a 20 stamp mill on their properties the corning corn-ing spring Tat Juab county will soon become the leading mineral producing county In the state Is evidenced by the rapid strides It has made in the last two years and it Is the opinion of experts 3ors eXtlers that as regards this industry It Is yet In Its Infancy for besides the famous camps oC Tntc district there are within with-In its borders the rich and growing camps of FIsh Springs Deep Creek and other dJstrlcts sItuated In the weste1 part of the county |
