Show W t REXBURG H HS S HAS RAS AS S A CITY Splendid Sowing Showing Made ILde by the You Town 4 liH INVENTORY ENT RY FOR FIRST YEAR YEARS S ES OF 07 POINTED OUT OUTI I Special to The Herald Ida tune rune 29 has grown to such uch proportion since its location locuon by y Thomas rhoma E F Ricks and others that about ut a year yr ago our citi sons aen en concluded to tu take upon them the dignity of ot a city atty government so 50 we now have a mayor six councilmen a city attorney treasurer clerk etc We have June nearly three e miles of the bet best sidewalks in the state of Idaho Idabo Our population JM to Is 2500 2510 We have ha e one Of f the t and the best b st church churchIn academy in the tle west which was waa built by voluntary contributions at a acost aC acost cost C of Just Jut south of Rexburg one mile at atan atan atan an altitude attitude of feet above the city ct there th is a large natural reservoir or basia which it would would seem is provi providentially situated for fOl the future use and benefit of what wat is ill sure to become in the future a of Idaho agricultural stock rats rais raising big ing and nd commercial lal Water Prom Tram the Snake To the Ule north of us six miles mites in the center of this most magnificent agri agricultural agricultural cultural valley alleY flows the never failing north fork of the Snake river To the south of us winds the larger south forK of oC the same sante stream they form a con conjunction conjunction junction Jua on about six miles west and then tta flows flow onward past Market lake Idaho IdAbo Falls Blackfoot and then onward for a stretch of miles through a fertile valley whose re resources resources resources sources are just juat beginning to be scratched bed so to speak by the plow point of the th thrifty husbandman Rex Rexburg Rexburg burg burc has more than doubled in ill population population lation since the census were taken in 1900 1500 During the winter we have ve in attendance at a t our academy and district schools of or more than 1000 students many mU of ot whom coT come e from the tte Ban Bannock Bannock I nock flock Bingham and Teton stakes Some SeIDe of the finest brick and stone te business ll blocks block in the state of Idaho I Ican can be seen here We Ye have a First National bank with a capitalization capitalisation of which it is Ia said declared a dividend of 20 per cent last year Things Thing a City Olty Heads w We have hava a splendid telephone and aDd electric light system Roller Souring flouring fla houses hou knitting far fac toris tc butter and anti cheese factories and merchandise e of every description p o f It it is I said aId by y aPed authority that Rexburg will win Q wool livestock Uve agricultural aI prod eB etc more than M cars C of fre Jt durI the year 1104 Our n are ace intelligent t pro and enterprising evidenced evl by the development of numerous in m industries through t the investment t t of local capital We have ve succeeded In interesting t foreign capital tal la in connection with a 1 little litti of ot our oili rw own n to tp such h an extent t that we wilt hain in operation in the early earl j tall the second largest eat sugar factory in the C United fIta within piles miles I of f our beautiful city We have lave within a radius I of fourteen f h miles from Rex I taMir shout about ut 1000 acres re of sugar beets year ftp 09 Through The Oregon oen Short Sl rt Lute railroad which la passes through tb b z our oW town ear eU earrise I rise ries Joany tends ti who ho are led to be believe believe lieve that because St at Anthony Anthon Is 18 the county y seat of Fremont county it is the largest t place sod and the only place i worth orth visiting when whOn the facts are aie that j has baa more than double the j j of St StAnthony Anthony is only I ithie I three thie n miles Iea from the sugar factory ta tory I I while t Anthony Antnony is more than th seven miles away anY Our resident and business houses hosea ar r principally plin y constructed for 1 beauty Mity ty durability of 01 a beau beautiful tUtU sandstone of colors colon which can CJ be had within thin two miles of town We now have baTe in Is erse r e of erection a I distrIct school building which when completed c will coat cost us rss We de desire sire aIre to urge parents of the larger towns town of Qt our county to have their 1 visit ua us and d take up their abode in 1 our nit mid to t V Yer War r the th Young y Opportunities are abounding here for tor young oung men I to lay the ue foundation of in many professions ions and indus indue industries tries tn While the government land along our streams which are success successfully i fully ted irrigated is now DW owned by inal settlers we nearly all have more moreland land then iban we can successfully handle We think k it can an fee be safely said that not note e of the land that is owned here bore has s subdued and cultivated We JIw visitors to come and see us and help keh PUB us is tomake to make that empire in the theU valleys U of Idaho whose population and magnificence may some day In hi the not t far off o future be a wonder and a pride 1 to the tha nation I |