| Show SYMPOSIUM OF MAYORS I 0 OGDEN CITY Probably no city between Omaha and San Francisco Is better located for a great manufacturing and railway center cen-ter than Ogden Utah Even the water supply alone Is destined to make Ogden Og-den the principal city In the entire In Hermtmntaln country While other cities cit-ies In the odd land regions of the and West must depend upon springs creeks of < a limited supply Ogden only of thorn all Is located at the confluence conflu-ence oC two greet rivers the Ogden and Weber which unite within the city limits Bach river has acapacity of sufficient water to supply a city of 500000 population Ogden city la I located lo-cated at the base of the Wasatch mountains moun-tains and the two grout rivers come through two separate canyons In the mountain range about six miles apart and Join at Ogden city and flow on toG to-G l nt Salt lake tea miles away Thus It will be seen That an abundance of pur Kvater is obtainable for any and all purposes and together with the the great railways centering here make chief attraction for manufacturing enterprises en-terprises f Ogden Is known far and wide as the great railroad center between Denver and San Francisco In fact among railroad men Ogdon Is better known as The Gate City of the West I must not be forgotten that all the great railways rail-ways centering at Denver and Pueblo excepting the Union Pacific send their Pacific coast traffic over the Rio Grande Western to Osdcn which Is tho terminus of the Union Pacific Rio Grande Western and Central Pacific railways These railways have a large union depot and great transfer yards S at Ogden which accommodate the great transcontinental and Oriental traffic Great Improoments arc already al-ready under way by both the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads In shortening curves and grades these great continental lines A cutoff across Grot Salt lake dl rcotiLo Ogden will be built ut an early date by the Central Pacific railroad and to the cast oL Ogden the Union Pacific Pa-cific will make a cutoff between Evanston and Ogden the two cutoffs reducing the mileage over sixty miles and when compldtc I will make the only i I I i prf 1 William Glasmann I shopt and direct transcontinental and 1 overland Oriental route with Ogden a the halfway house and the most Important Im-portant railway center of the entire I route Greatly increased f railway facilities ditties may be expected for Ogden in Il the near future Tho Burlington railroad I rail-road only two months ag finished its I surveys direct to Ogden The Salt Lake Ogden railway promises to complete its railway to Ogden the cornIng corn-ing year Some twenty miles have already al-ready been constructed Ja whole no brighter railroad commercial and manufacturing prospects s are in view for any city in the wet than those contemplated and In behalf of Ogden Og-den City Tho past year has Indeed been a prosperous pros-perous year for our people Our flouring flour-ing mills have been worked to their lull capacity sending their product not only to the States east of us but to China Japan and the Philippine islands I As 0 fruitshipping center Ogden Is only excelled by California Hundreds of clods ot the choicest fruits have been shipped from this center tcall parts ofi tho United States and also I to some forclgn countrics S Over a hal cmen canning and pickling pick-ling factories working double shifts canning1 all kinds of fruits and vegc tables have supplied the farmers adjoining QI joining oUr city with an Abundance ready cash and in many instances leaving even n surplus after paying taxes and mortgages Our great beetsugar factory manufacturing manu-facturing from five lo ten million pounds of sugar annual pear I more like a giant mint coining money for bhe farmers and stockholders alike The Ogden canrilng and sugar factories guarantee a market for the farmers crops each year and remove l doubts and uncertainties price or payment for crops Each Weber county farther knows in the spring what his Income will be in the fall All this In connection with many other enterprises makes Ogden City tho most prosperous welltodo con ploserous ycltodo tented and happy city of 1C313 people cn in the United States Situated In a beautiful valley between Great Salt lake and the Wasatch mbuntaina nnc V IHlch m untlns with less than sixteen miles from the lake to the mountains naturally gives tho people of Ogden l the advantages of a great salt sea mountains which reach to the clouds and pure fresh snow water the year around Natures Health Spot Is what the doctors pro flounce Ogden City but one of PlO the greatest blessings to the people of Og dcn City is the summer resort in Ogden canyon seven miles from the center of Ogden City There In a spot where cool spring air is found in Jot hol whcracol day and throughout SUl ncr months the people from all over the country gather to spend the hot summer days ut this famous mountain resort To the OK den people the canyon summer resort 13 a special blessing as Us nearness permits the pCIHs people to remove their families Into the pine forests of thclr canyon and the firstclass macadam izcd roads alongside the macdam through the canyon lined with beautiful rhloubh scencs shaded by the trees and mountains ris ing p perpendicularly to the sky make It a pleasant I and exhilarating ride for he buHlnesB men each morning and mornin evening going to and from their duties in the city thel dUles Add all this to the most perfect pub 1 s lie school system In the Nation and It will be seen that Ogden Is un Ideal pot wl those seeking health wealth and applnc3sWILLTA nessWILLTAM GLASMANN MayorElect PARK CITY UTAH The past year has been one of progress pro-gress and Park City surrounded by Its seven his hns felt the touch of j a new life and has awakened to r realization of Its greatness and which has been shared in a greater Degree than over before by the outside world bcare Within Us limits arc mines whose prp ductlveness is scarcely exceeded In the world Ore shipments aggregate over 6000 000 pounds per week from which 300000 per month lrepnjdln dividends divi-dends to their stockholders besides paying over 5200 000 per month as wages to their employees This bus not been the growth of a single year but the result of many years of slow and steady progress devoid de-void 6V Jal booms and In which time the tide of prosperity has ebbed and flowed but at no time nor In any one I year has more ore been extracted ands I L and-s I I Edward Evans new bodies discovered and more substantial sub-stantial Improvements made than lurIng lur-ing the year just closing More thorough prospecting has been done ith better and more substantial equipments and with better results than over before In the history of our mines i Tho Silver King Mining company has completed Its aerial tramway the best of Its kind in the world and its sampler at the mine and Its ore depot In tho city aid has paid Jl300000 in dividends The DalyWest Mining company has made great improvements and has not missed Its regular dividend any month this year and has ore enough Un sight to Insure a continuance for along a-long time to come At1 the Ontario and Anchor the watchword of the managements has been progress and every month has S seen their watchword realized In Thane cahyon the California and Corristock has demonstrated that they are producers of a hjgh order and have set the owners of many a claim lying In that locality to work to develop the treasurers within Its limits The Qulncy yhich one year ago was our baby mine has grown to full manhood and stands second to none In the camp and has doubtless given to the camp a greater impetus than any mine discovered hero in many years Around Bonanza Flat the owners of properties have awakened to a realization realiza-tion of the great possibilities of their ground and have done and are dglng more development work than has been done in many years heretofore and are sure to uncOver ore bpdles of great value S The Little Sell Pal Jldse Wolverine Wol-verine Wobosh Bonanza Consoli dated Thpll r r and the Boulder Basin Ba-sin and many others are exploring ground which should bring good results re-sults I The Bogan after several years of fdlenesshasJ resumed work l lath rough r-ough and systematic manner and bids fair to rank as1 a heavy producer during dur-ing the comingyear Tho Croplo Constellation and Thayncs Canyon Consolidated arc working stdadlly ad are many others In fact mol SQ thorough development develop-ment work has < bcen and IsroWbelnS I done In this camp than ever before I IB safe 19 sayS that ud car on the coast haSbeen so3 little prospected as has this one andno camp on tho coast has turned out more genuine bonanzas And not bnly l fn jnlning circles has great activity been shoW during the past year The business portion which was swept fire three years ago has been largely rebuilt and many business busi-ness structures of a desirable kind have been erected during the year Although a great many dwellings have been erected during the year not a vacant house can bo found In the cityOur Our merchants report business In splendid shape and steadily Increasing I each months trade totals up better than the corresponding month for the I previous year By the first of the now year the city will have two national banks which for their size are and will be as strong as any In the Stale Our schols show an Increased attendance at-tendance and are In most efficient working order with a corps of most efficient Instructlrs No place of Its size In the country is more free from crime of all kinds than this city This city of the wild and woolly West will compare favorably with any city o other places We feel that we are upon the threshold Qf a greater degree of prosperity pros-perity than we have ever seen before in this place and the outlook for the future certainly never was so bright Yours very tulDYARD EDWARD P EVANS tOT UTAH X Thc year 1901 Will g down In history as the most prosperous period In Logan Citys career Various causes have contributed to this result Foremost among these sh building of the great sugar factory which Irf now in splendid working order and turning out thirty five tons of sugar dally The great amount of work performed atlhe Hercules Her-cules Power companys plant and also at the Agricultural college and other business and residence blocks don trlh u ted lo the general good times Tho wheat crop was somewhat lighter than usual owing to the drought but other crops wore heavy and prices are much bolter than formerly Logans sugar factory cost 500000 There aro 1200000 bricksIn the main < building which Is 277xSO feet In size Theme are five beet sheds 500 fot long all having a capacity of ISdo tons of beets ono warehouse lJSxi feet a boardinghouse of seventeen roomsv n 61050 feet long nnd a boilerhouse 157x43 feet The capacity of the plant Is 350 tons ot beets per day and 25000 tons will he ucd this year producing 2r ° 2 tons Or sugar < By an expenditure of 100000 the capacity of the plant can be increased 100 per 1 cent and It Is ex pected this willbe done next year I requires 150 men to handle the factory when working The sum of 50000 was paid out in November for 1 beets and I to employees and 100000 In December Two barns have been built at the Agricultural college costing 10000 In I all Work on the new front building of the college has progressed rapidly the past two months and is about 20 S r c J Xorcnso Hanson per cent completed It will cost when finished about 50000 Other buildings erected in Logan this summer are the following Zeph Thomas business block brick 35000 J A llcndrlckson brick business block 2000 Robert La fount residence SHOO F A Benson residence 1500 P O Hanson residence resi-dence 1000 William Edwards brick business block 1000 The wheat crop of Cache county averages ave-rages about 2000000 bushels which means a clear million dollars to our farmers tibia year A heavy income Is also produced from sales of cattle horses vegetables fruit I t etc Theme are nine creameries in Cache county which distribute about 200000 among the people annually for milk The capacity of these cicamcrles Is between be-tween four and five thousand pounds of butter daily For the foregoing and other reasons Logan has had a very prosperous year and the future outlook is brighter than over before There Is among our citizens citi-zens an intention to push our beautiful little city to the front In every way and make it take Its place among the foremost communities of the West Three blocks o sidewalks were paved 1 with cement this season and five more are assured early In the spring while a fine new city hal costing 8000 Is projected for the coming year We have unlimited water power which only awaits use Our three great educational edu-cational institutions the Agricultural college the BrIgham Young college and the New Jersey academy are all doing an excellent work and attract to our midst several hundred students I annually The highest class of amusements amuse-ments visit our city and taken all In all Logan Is a splendid place In which to live and enjoy oneself in the society ofan right people Intelligent a mortal 1 and an up LORENZO HANSON MERCUR UTAH 1 oJ The first year of the new century has been a prosperous one for Mercur There has been no boom in the camp no great strikes in the district but a safe and steady business based upon normal and permanent conditions The boom of a few years ago did nothing but inflate values encourager encourage-r speculation and an activity which could not be permanent That era has happily passed I Is the history his-tory of all nzlrzihg camps toexperience a series of ups and downs the downs usually predominating I we could analyze the cause of this we would find that lack of confidence Itck I w J1i t mM Geo W Luft else had more to do with It than anything elseThe The year IDOl has been marked by somo business changes but no failures Our merchants have done a safe and steady business busi-ness the local branch of McCornick Cos bank is doIng a larger commercial com-mercial business than ever before In Its history while the net earnings of tho Salt Lake Mercur railway havebeen larger the past year than ever before and these two institutions are good criterion by which to judge the general gen-eral business of the camp The city Is out of debt and has money In the treasury I has suffered from rom no epidemic of disease and Is in excellent ex-cellent sanitary condition Its water system Is perfect and the supply abundant abun-dant The streets are In good order sidewalks have been extended to 1 parts of the town and there has been an extension of the streetlighting system sys-tem The fire deportment Is In an excellent ex-cellent state of ctllclency and has shown Its value and promptness several sev-eral times during the last year In extinguishing ex-tinguishing clangorous fires In their incipiency In-cipiency cI1Iency The schools superintended by Principal Prin-cipal Van Hoose and a corps of four teachers were never In a better condition con-dition than at present During the past year a manual training department has been added and many parents who formerly sent their children to Salt Lake have found that Mercur schools are nojt Inferior to those In the city or elsewhere The religious Interests of the camp have been looked after by the Methodists Metho-dists under the charge of Prof Edwards Ed-wards by the Mormons undel Bishop Bho Bryan while Father Keonan occasionally occasion-ally holds services for the Catholics Merour Is a great town for fraternal orders and flourishing lodges of Masons Ma-sons Knights of Pythias Workmen Maccabees Odd Fellows Easftes und Italian societies meet every Week in a wellappointed fraternal hal I has also u literary club and a boys gymnasium gym-nasium while social I Club and weekly Klnnccs t1 the need JOr recreation and amusement Looking forward to theyoI just opening we f eel encouraged over the further prospects of the camp We reel assured that the town will be bettor During tho past year thc Consolidated Merour Gold Mines company which has one of the largest cyanide mills in the world hart been running steadily with regular shipments of bullion the prompt payment of dividends and an Increasing surplus The stock has suffered suf-fered In common with other meritorious properties from the misstatements of unscrupulous stock brokers but not because of any deterioration of the property decrease of Its earning capacity ca-pacity It has earned from 30 to 33 percent per-cent upon tho value of Its stock as quoted on the stock exchange during the past month The most Important feature regardIng regard-Ing the Consolidated Mercur Is the Improvements Im-provements now belner made by Superintendent 1 Super-intendent Tanndy which will increase the capacity ol the roasters about 25 per cent without additional expense A much larger percentage of base ores will then be milled and as It caries the best values it can easily be seen what this will mean for the Consolidated Mercur I and the ICU camp I Material Is arriving for the new and enlarged Sacramento mill and this will add another source of revenue and piosperlty to the camp and restore this valuable property to the ranks of divi dendpa ers The negotiations now under way for the consolidation of the GoyscrMnrlon consoldalon Lle Gyserljllon Gold Dust Silver Lode Rover and adjacent ad-jacent properties will soon be completed I com-pleted Tn the opinion of those on the Inside another l producing property of I Immense area will soon be added to the I llsf I k I also believed that the Improved Im-proved processes for eating > cyanide I ores by which a larger extraction IK obtained at a lower cost will result in the opening again of the West Dip properties wher great ore bodies e lst Erea 1 will Only require a consolidation of these properties under one able man agemqnt worked to enable them to be profitably The same can be said of the Sunshine Sun-shine where at present forty men are employed In enarglng and Improving the mill by which the values will be extracted from the slimy ores These have heretofore resisted treatment treat-ment resulting In los and failure The bondholders are also preparing lo startup start-up he Overland so that Sunshine our southern suburb has also a promising future The successful treatment of the tail Inge at Manning dempnstrated what I Improvement have been made In the I cyanide process during the past few years In the Little Plttsburg Chloride Point and elsewhere In the district are I gcod oodles bf ore which these Improved Im-proved processes will yet make susceptible suscep-tible to profitable treatment I Is these facts which make our people have faith In the continued growth and prosperity of the Johannesburg America GEORGE W LUFT f PRICE UTAH 7 I The year whlch ts nbw drawing to a I close has unquestionably witnessed more substantial and permanent improvements im-provements than any like period In the I history of the town which was laid out sonic fifteen years ago The buildIng I build-Ing recordwill r go i i beyond h the fifty I L M Olson i thousanddollar mark Twenty thousand thou-sand dollarsjof this sum has been for educational purpose In the erection of as fine a modern school house as IB to be found In the State There are accommodations accom-modations for something like 500 scholars The facilities are now at least five years ahead o present needs The Emery County Mercantile company com-pany the oldest general merchandising house of Price moved a few weeks since Into a modern twostory business block which has cost the company In the nleghborhood o 12500 I has a floor space of upwards of GoO square I feet all devoted to merchandising For the First National bank of Price recently re-cently opened for business with a capital I cap-ital of 50000 alhomc capital has been erected a modern twostory brick I building costing between 5000 and 6000 The building ijihlc J being more or less contagious In Price this year the County > Commissioners bought the building for a number of year occupied oc-cupied by the Emery County Mercantile company and have expended something some-thing like 3000 In fitting It up for courthouse purposes Hero vc have a known cxpendltuie of over 41000 The other 9000 to 10000 has gone Into homes some of which would be an ornament or-nament to Salt Lake City or Denver Aside from such as have been noted here private Individuals hav bought from local manufacturers fully 400000 brick which are to by used during the year 1U02 tor new buildings and Improvements Im-provements My opinion Is that we have here the making of a good townnot a city such for Instance as Provo In com meiclal Importance To the south and north of us there Is a large territory tributary In u commercial and educational educa-tional sense The merchants carry such stocks of goods us to render ordering or-dering from outside points unnecessary unneces-sary with n firstclass banking house money will be plentiful for the needs of business men and stockmen while our public schools of which there are none better In the smaller towns of the State will make It a desirable point for the man with a family and that due regaid for the welfare and lancl men of his children and home which Is inherent in the breast of every American There Is much promise to the oil industry In-dustry o eastern Utah and with even the most conservative strong belief exists that we are to become a great petroleum and lubricating oil center rivaling the oil fields of several States to the East of us The eight or ten plans so far brought to this section are most at work now and will be able to prosecute their labors the entire enlre winter through owing to the mid climate mate and the absence of heavy storms on the desert Already the operators of these plants havo left thousivnds of dollars In Price for supplies and I may be said they have not fairly begun be-gun work There has not been a town tax levied Jelet In Price for three year The revenues of the town exceed the expenditures and there is always a cash balance In thE treasury Torltls plentiful at good wages for man woman and child Mechanics have been at a premium for a year or more With such surround ings and as liberal a class of people as there are In the world the town cannot be kept back L M OLSON President Town Board BRIGHAM CITY UTAH The City of Homes has not allowed Its reputation to suffer the past year hut has kept pace with Its sister cities of the State In the way of Improvements Im-provements This spirit has been more manifest the past year than at anytime I any-time In the history of Brigham City Many beautiful private residences have been built n number of fine stores erected but more than all else In the building line our citizens point with pride to the magnificent central I school building which with Its furnishings fur-nishings has cost about 28000 It I speaks volumes for the enterprise of Our citizens and will be of Incalculable benefit to them In the proper education educa-tion of their children The city has expended considerable money In grading grad-ing Main street and curbing thp water ditch for a distance of three blocks and this street Is now almost equal to the best paved streets In Salt Lake City A special effort will he made to keep our streets and watercourses in good repair hereafter a yearly tax havlnS been decided on fpr that purpose pur-pose Tho city waterworks system has been extended as fast as the finances of the city would permit The system now Is getting on n paying bUlls and It will be the policy of the City Council wllhout coubtilO extend the mains 1 Just as fabt possible so that all our citizens may be benefited thercbY Strenuous efforts have been made theo the-o 1 I I Hebor C Bodcn past year to Induce the Utah Sugar company to complete Its east side canal from Bear river I to the south line of the county but at present the outcome out-come Is uncertain Should this canal pass through our city It would accomplish accom-plish wonders I would double our population In a few years and be the means of opening up many new enterprises enter-prises and industries Even wIthout the canal there are good opportunities In our city for I profitable investment of capital We proftablo are distinctively a fruitgrowing community I com-munity but have no cannery while two or three could be run at a profit We have fine water power but manufacturing manu-facturing in carried on to n very limited extent We need also a good electric light system and other things which would pay the investor well Brigham City with r population of 3000 people Its fine location for waterpower water-power its beautiful homes and vast orchards Us splended waterworks system sys-tem Its magnificent school buildings offers special Inducements tothe home seeker and for the Investment of capital capi-tal IIEBER C BODEN Mayor BEAVER CITY UTAH The beautiful I Hbtle city o Beaer Is situated at the eastern extremity of Beaver county and ha a population o 2000 people Perhaps no city of Its size In Utah Is so well provided with all that Mother Nature can furnish In the way of surroundings water scenery and soil The cty is laid out in the form of a parallelogram with sixrod streets wide sidewalks and these are tlwfiys kept scrupuously clean ro the cast lie the Tushar mountains from which flow four separate and distinct streams of the purest water In the State and while in the dry season ua tel becomes somewhat scarce yet the I I i S D Underwood city proper always hits a bountiful supply sup-ply The Inhabitants of Beaer for the greater part are farmers although the younger male members of the community commu-nity find cons nt employment In the mining camps of Mllford and Frisco Beaver Is essentially a home town and the people take much pride in their residences wellkept lawns and parks The Mayor la I aided by an efficient City Council of five members Both city and county offices Beaver being the county seat are nicely housed In the county courthouse an Imposing buldlnS on ono of the main thorough Prominent nmong the business houses aro MansflcldMurdock company occupying occu-pying one of the largest establishments In southern Utah the Beaver Coop which under the present management Is enlarging Its I business Wonderful 1 Cllne Bro n comparatively new establishment which has built up a large trtule under the efllclent trc etclent management manage-ment of A B Chine the Beaver Drug company 1 mammoth establishment with Dr Francis Campbell as Its leadIng lead-Ing spirit the Benson store John Now era company and many others Beaver has been I aver recently connected with the Rocky Mountain Bell telephone tele-phone system the terminal office being I In charge of Postmaster F A Hodges and with the extension of the line to I Mllford and Frisco now almost completed com-pleted Beaver will become n supplying center for the whole county I In the cause of education Beaver supports two excellent public schools affording instruction for some seven I hundred students One mile east of town on the silo of Old Foil Cameron Is tho Beaver branch of the B Y academy which affords many oppoH unIties for higher education and which has enrolled for the present year some 150 students The people of Beaver are looldng l for ward with considerable confidence to development of the mining interests inter-ests not only of the county at JarSc but in the Immediate vicinity of the considerable quantity has city Gold In cnsldcrnhlequantty ly been discovered at the Snoop ROCK mines and if the measures now underway under-way lead to encouraging disclosures become the metropolis or Beaver will f1ctropo1s Beaver wlbicome southern Utah S D UNDER OOD VKAYSVILIE UTAH The beautiful city of Kaysville is situated sit-uated In the central part of Davis county coun-ty uatec in one of the richest agricultural belts In the State and has < population of about 1700 nearly 1 of whoin arc eicp I I r John W Galley In quite a prosperous J condition During Dur-ing the past year the outgoing Mayor and City Council have made mann man-n Improvements such as the I grading of streets graveling of sidewalks I side-walks putting in of flumes etc which Is greatly appreciated by Ithe public and gives the city a much neater appearance ap-pearance The city contains four general mercantile mer-cantile establishments one grocery store one butcher shop one tin shop one hotel one restaurant one saloon and two creameries Next spring will see n cann6ry established here a company com-pany already being organized for its establishment This will prove a great boon to the people as It will furnish much labor and bring much money Into the neighborhood neigh-borhood During the year 1001 one of the local Irrigation companies purchased stock In the Davis and Weber Counties canal and at quite an expense brought theater the-ater to Kaysville thus furnishing n greater supply for the farmers l of this locality enabling them to grow sugar beets tomatoes and much other pro duce which cannot be grown success fully with a limited amount of water The public schools of Kaysville with Prof John Sundwoll at the head are doing an excellent work in teaching the young those things which will make them useful citizens of the community The people look forward to see the Incoming In-coming city officersjtake up the good work and give them a good business like administration JOHN W GAILEY VERNAL UTAH Vernal rom her isolated position among the snowclad peaks of northeastern north-eastern Utah extends greetings to her sister cities of the State and bids all a al happy New Year at this the end or the first year of the twentieth century But a few short years ago Vernal I IT c 11 I E W Davis was not known on the map but she now takes her place as one o the live membprs of the family of cities that dot the hills and valleys of Utah From the first log store of the pioneers pio-neers with Its attendant rude blacksmith black-smith shop and diminutive dirtcoverec hut that was dignified by the name o schoolhouse the little nucleus of a settlement has expanded until today It i has developed Into a live bustling center cen-ter of trade with a business that Is glowing rapidly In volume The city Is the central distributing point for the whole of northeastern Utah and a portion western Colorado and does a business reaching well up toward to-ward a million of dollars annually Within her limits are some of the best stocked mercantile Institutions of the State outside of the larger cities the finest county courthouse In the State outside of the Joint city and county building of Salt Lake und now has In course of construction a Mormon Tabernacle Tab-ernacle that will cost no less than 40 000 also a handsome Episcopal chapel Her school buildings are far In advance of many older and larger cities one building alone having been completed during the past year at a cost of S14 000 There Is a creamery that finds a ready market for all the butter and cheese produced and many other evl dences of thrift rho principal street of the city Is paved with asphaltum and the sidewalks along the main thoroughfares which are paved with the same material are second to none In the West The city also boasts of a o truss band that is the surprise via Hors 3n fact Vernal Is a live progressive pro-gressive city peopled by live progres slvc citizens Mho have the Interest ot i tho city und community heart and I have despite tho lack o railway facilities I facili-ties succeeded In pushing her far In advance ad-vance of many cities more fortunately located Vernal lies In the center of a section with vast undeveloped resources resources re-sources that will sooner of later receive the recognition they merit which wll wl very materially Increase the business of the city and place her well up In the ranks o the States trade centers 01 importance or Vernal was Incorporated as a town In 1S92 after a sharp contest with Oak Ie for the lemoval I of the county seat to this point and Is therefore less than ten years old Unlike many other rural I cities o the State the corporate limits I ore confined to but ono section of 610 acres upon which the business Insti tutions of the city are located Insl upon this smyll area J Is transacted the lsacted business of the h 600O n > oplp S that live in the populous precincts or wards that lie Immediately around the city In the different portions of the beautiful vii Icy In which It Is centrally located The settlers of Uintnh county have almost universally built their homes upon their homestctids and a very small proportion live In town which makes possible tho spectacle o a city with a comparatively small population within the corporate limits transacting a business far In excess of many cities of several times the population The city being the central distributing point for a large section necessitates the handling of a large amount of supplies sup-plies all of which must he freighted In by wagon from Price a distance ot 125 miles over a mountainous road that Is lined continually with heavy freight teams and Is probably the most Important freight road In the State As an Illustration of the amount of Bp plies handled It may be statcd f tone t-one Institution aJne Imported during the past year near 1000000 pounds The mal which comes In dally Including In-cluding Sundays comes also via Price and as another illustration of the citys business It may be stated that Vernal Is one of the fourteen Presidential post 108t offices of the State and ranks well up the list In point of receipts As a mon yor er office there are very few points In the State that approach Vernal Ver-nal in the amount of money sent trough the malls as Is evidenced by the postoffice records In closing I will stale that the city while always busy Is also hospitable and the latchstring to the citys gates la always out for the citizens of her sister cities and towns of the State and through the courtesy of The Tribune Vernal extends the hand of friendship to all and a general Invitation to come and see us at home with the assurance that within the gates will be found not the wild and woolly outlaw of the past whom fancy has pictured the as presiding pre-siding genius of the city but the same spirit of order and law that always ro suits from a determination on the par of lawabiding citizens to establish citzens establsh t peaceable community despite tho fact that they are Isolated In a measure from tho big bustling uptoclalc world E W DAVIS Mayor RICHFIELD UTAH The past year hna been a frultfu one for Richfield perhaps the best In tho citys history We are the center tor a durable body of highly productive agricultural land six miles in width nnd forty miles long On the Sevier river above us there are ample facilities facili-ties to build reservoirs to place all of a c I I James Christiansen Chrlstans this Immense tract under culllvatlori and this year for the first time the Otter Ot-ter creek reservoir furnished our farmers farm-ers with an example of what water storage can be madf to do by supplying them with thirtyeight Irrigating streams at the headgates of their canals during the fifty heated duya when water was needed the most In contrast with most valleys here the lowlands are first cultivated the bottom lands near the Sevler Ilver have not yet been farmed to any great extent ex-tent being usually considered valueless value-less except for the small amount of pasturage they would yield During the past year It has been demonstrated dem-onstrated that after proper preparation this Is I the richest and best land we have Then too an abundance of artesian ar-tesian water Is found under the surface sur-face of most all parts of this lowland For the first time In our history su garbeet raising has been highly successful suc-cessful and though 1001 was only an experimental year Richfield and Its neighboring towns and villages received over 6200 net for their crop Peach orchards planted a few years since on the east side of the Sevier vale proved productive of large well so highly productvc wel flavored fruit that we enter the new year wlh a knowledge that we can in time compete with the orchards of Utah Davis and Box Elder counties The Initial crop from the valleys prune InllaJ orchards yielded a large amount ot fruit of such quality size and flavor that we are not afraid to meet competition competi-tion from the product of California hereafter hereafer This Ilch agricultural dIstrIct Is l eon e-on three sides by mlncralbearinj I I demonstrated ground The past year has patty I onstrated what Gold mountain Is but the Annie Laurie Blue Bird June Bug Trappers Pride and B U and f are only a few of the many good mines which that district contains During the last few months It has also been thoroughly shown that a mineral belt exists to the cast and almost In tho valley The frultlort of all this development has centered ut Richfield The effect has been marvelous Our stores have sold over 200000 worth of merchandise our Implement agencies have handled wagons and machinery valued at over S 50000 the hoKil 1 trade has amounted jo while nearly 7000000 In over 15000 70000 business has passed through the two banks look forward Bright as Is the present we ward to still LS better times There could sti reduc as well be a dozen paying mills ing wel oro of Gold mountain as OIK If men with that enviable palrpusn 1n wih would but put them there Utah The young men who are leaving to other States would help build up hind ample land and abundant water for making homes here were there but an organized effort made to comoiiK will come In time ana the two This tme greater prosperity nod with them sUll wih five times as great Rich a population srent u populuton fe or field Is and will bo the metroPoliS I ctntral Utah UtahTAMES CHRISTIANSEN S SPANISH FORK UTAH As one emerges from the rough passes of the Rockies via Spanish Fork canyon occcs of the the foothills yon and stands on thl rich Utah valley Wnsatch gazing upon nJtY gzing harvests first to command with her heavy ha1ctg ftst ot mand this attention is a small city about 4000 Inhabitants three mile distant dis-tant to the west I rests quietly ana unassumingly on a slope of the valley I The place Is Spanish Fork lr motto seems to be loW bUs sure for during fifty long years her people have steadily and unflinchingly wrestled with the soil until now she Is the chief fawning district of the county coun-ty and acknowlodgesno superior In the Stare homing 30000 acres of land under profitable Cultivation the pjitvlpal I yield of which Is about 225000 bushels of grain annually The droughts of the Jat few seasons I have told on the development of the city I yet in spite of this each year has witnessed the erection or a few neat brick residences which mark the place of a dugout or antiquated abode Nineteen Nine-teen hundred and one gives evidence of tho enterprise of our young men aa I can be seen In the neat and uptodate j I residences of Messrs Hans Larson R W Ovor W E Stoker Morgan Chambers I Cham-bers Joseph Hansen R H Jex and I James O Nielsen I l Little can be said of tho Improvement and extension given j giv-en our business blocks In 1900 However i How-ever Messrs Creer and NIclnon have I j domi some creditable work making I their building neat roomy and attractive j I attrac-tive and manifesting a business push I which hs sure of success The dawn of the < approaching year llnds our post ofilr e In Its I new home Those who would venture < to tell of our citys future predict great things for the next decade On tho Leland slope about a mile distant a site many times pronounced an Ideal location for such an enterprise they sec a nourishing i nourish-ing sugarbeer factory to them tho harnessing of Spanish Fork river for nn electric light plant which shall light and make glad this and adjoining cities Is n sure go day and night such citizens dream of the establishment of ft water system here conveying to our already favored city the pure freshwater fresh-water from the streams gushing out at the foot of the huge mountains Public Improvement Is the common word and we look to see our city discard dis-card Ha snaillike raco and assume a cpood in keeping with tho day We welcome the coming of a longfelt wanta newspaperbeing established by our new citizen Andrew Jcnson HEBER C JEX I OUN1PLEASANT UTAH I Located on an alluvial fan spreading out from tho mouth of Pleasant Creek canyon gently sloping northward westward and souihwjud with Main street and Pleasant creek running along the ridge or the fan the Queen City of Sanpote Justly deserves her pretentious appellation Pleasant Pleasant an she appears upon approaching ap-proaching her I It will be found upon entering that appearances have not been deceptive The streets are well J kept tho sidowaJks in good condition and lined with trees beautiful residences resi-dences arc dotted all over the city and the business blcckc on Main street are equal to those of any other city of its sIze In the State Hero again we will find that outside appearances have not deceived for the business houses have neat and commodious Interiors well arranged and filled with well selected goods of the best quality and appear lo bo doing a thriving business Tho year 1901 now drawing to a5 close has been quite a prosperous one for our city and citizens While most of the other towns in this valley have suffered quite Severely from drought and the raid of grasshoppers our water supply proved sufficient to mature fairly fair-ly good crops and the ravenous artlcu Jata did not reach our fields until the beginning of harvest and then being rather > woratcdln the contest with binders they suddenly disappeared doing do-ing no damage to speak of The woolgrowers though they complain com-plain somewhat of the low prices of wool and muttons and of the overcrowded over-crowded range seem quite contented with their lot The commercial and manufacturing Interests have prospered pros-pered nicely during the past year and no doubt substantial dividends will reward re-ward the Investors Tin1 educational facilities of our city arc most excellent excel-lent The district school located In one of the best and most convenient school buildings In the State completes the I work of the eight grades while then the-n tch academy offers high school courses of four eas The Central I I I I I George Christonsou Utah college summer school held Its 1001 scsslpn In I Pleasant and we Mere favored with the presence 0 some eighty pedagogues from this and surrounding counties I and several of the leading educators of the State during dur-ing t sojourn of live weeks Among the Improvement public and private made In 1901 may bo mentioned men-tioned the new bank building the addition the store building of the Snnpete County Coop tho vestry of the North ward meetinghouse the laying of the corntr stone of the splendid splen-did Assembly hall to be elected In the South word the subutujiilal Improvements Improve-ments made In the Presbyterian church the chapel and the fountain In tho cemetery and Humorous erections and Improvement of private residences So bidding farewell to the goodly year of 1091 we have 4 every reason to anticipate continued progress and prosperity In the mlnr year of 1002 The proapcrts of a more abundant snowfnll the development of coal and tJ nhale deposits In our Immediate vl llnHy strength our hope that there anticipations an-ticipations will b fully realized But bettor than nil these Is the sterling worth of the citizens of our city loyal progressive and broad minded nnd frog thlB worth with the blewing of divine providence we rely for our further fur-ther progress und development Paraphrasing tho word of the poet we unite In saying Our native town wo turn to you With blessings MIX with prayer lI Whor i 010 inp j brave Una woman true And ftvft a mountain air n l live nl I work In Long mfcy we poace Unmindful race or creed And In our efforts never case To make Mt PIeiLqtnt lead GEOHG13 OHR1ST12NSEN JIANTI UTAH Mnntl can truthfully b placed alongside tho progressive cltlaa of the 1 State during tho year Juat pnascd Notwithstanding tho drought and grasshopper Pst which Uuiuagcil our crops considerably the spirit of enterprise enter-prise hna boon manifest and our citizens citi-zens hava stood together for advancement advance-ment VI have begun lht century by the erection of a flrstdau electric plant und can ncnv boost ot aa cood light 03 any tIn the country The plant Is located at the mouth of Mantl canyon about 1 mile and a half from the business busi-ness section of the city and Is run by water power secured by taking out n ditch about a mile and n quarter farther dt fall Is sum ther up the canyon The fal sun dent thlr to give 150 horsepower The machine has a capacity of 2000 lights 16 candlepower and all the machinery machin-ery is of the most modern later The ditch Is n fine piece of engineering Kklll I I I I 1 fs I I S p 1 5 1 S S L R Anderson I and the Ire problem has seemingly been solved by digging the canal deep and narrow This new venuuc Is all home capital managed and operated by home men and bids fai I to be a success suc-cess In every way Another long stride in advance has been the Installation o the longdis tance telephone and u city exchange placing us In closer touch with our neighbors and the civilized world and facilitating our commerce In addition to these much needed improvements im-provements an uptodate llojrlng mill has been built in the business section The building Is three stories constructed con-structed of brick and stone and presents pre-sents an appearariVe that is i creditable credi-table to a much larger city The capacity capa-city Is sixty ban els per dny We also go on recoi M for some line ncv residences and other substantial Improvements There have been some years of less progress than the one Just passed in Mantl and wo take It that our advancement of 1901 augurs well for greater strides forward in the future fu-ture L I ANDERSON MayorElecU NEPHI UTAH I For the last two years Nephi and vicinity vi-cinity has experienced almost a continuous I con-tinuous drought very little snow haying hay-ing fallen in the mountains during the winter and little or no rainfall during I L 2 i r 1f Isaac H Grace the growing season As a result of this condition business In every department depart-ment has been very much depressed Our delinquent tax list Is unusually largo this year and a great number of our citizens han had to seek employment employ-ment elsewhere to meet heir present obligations Very few Improvements 0 any description have been made during the past season Nephi has almost an unlimited land resource of a very good qla Il and all that It lacks Is a greater water supply to make It one or thehpNt cities In the S State Nephi has always been knoun I to i progressive and uptodate and I IIT citizens have always I striven to II I maUi It a place desirous to live in but i ho conditions above mentioned have I larded her progress to a great extent I ex-tent her future however looks very much brighter owing to the fact that p the east part of Juab and the north par of Sanpete counties have united themselves together for the purpose of reservoir I the snow waters of the Gooseberry watershed east o Sanpete county and bringing this water Into Sanpete and Juab valleys I Is estl natcd that there can bo stored some thins Bit 25000 acre feet of water in he reservoir now under construction constructon rhere has been spent In labor and money this season on the project about 50000 and It is expected It will take two more years to complete the system when finished It will cost somewhere from 5375000 to 5100000 or about 515 per share While It Is a great undertaking yet It would Justify expending double the amount af the estimated cost of construction The hoard of directors have experienced some difficulty In raising the necessary means to carry on the work owing no doubt to the two hard years we have j lust passed through however they feel confident of ultimate success and plans are practlcully matured to accomplish ac-complish next reasons work I The project SB a worthy one and It Is to 0 hoped that the people of these two counties will give their support to the board of directors that It may be brought to I cucrossful terminationS termination-S ISAAC H GRACE Mayor PAYSON UTAH I Payson Is pleasantly situated on I I Petc tneel creckln the ncuthern end of Utah valloy about two < miles from theI I foot of the Wasatch range I Is not I known how early this creek was discovered r dis-covered tvnd thought of a u place of I Qttlo icnt bu In 1S59 n number off of-f ami I lose were adviswd to locate here by President Brigham Young In the fall of the same yonrthroe families nnd two boy formed the nucleus abut which the city has grown ttp o 5t1li have with I us the family of John Courtlund Swirle also Allison IH1I one of the boys who w r among the flrsit to lOt te here I Bcforu thre month had pamwdreso lutions WGIVJ adopted at a colony meeting I meet-ing to build a achoolliouKt Thus at this early date wax the foundation laid for he fduoalton of her future noBtcrl ty This cane hsis ever been foremoat In the minds of her people In the SOs Payon could beast the best school hou e In the territory TDiiUlde of Salt Lake City Now vn not only claim the llt 1J4St ouialdi of Salt Lnk City but there ar > bonn In the Stata hat sur paau the beautiful structure that crowns the East Bench A perfect palace home I Is I not as large as some but everything modern and the best Every patron points to IL with pride 5 The last year has seen six new business busi-ness block added to her already numerous nu-merous list Owners ofbuslnoss blocks seem to realize that appearance means much for during the past summer and fall the fronts of many buildings have been remodeled adding much to their beauty I It tan safoly be bald that no other town of Its size In Utah carries on more business Surrounded on all sides by rich farming lands good grazing plenty 0 hay and the mines of Tintlc at our door we are not only able to provide vide for ourselves but In many ways ariist our neighbors Our coffers are never empty The market is good and Wp always have somethingto sell Ten new homes built during this summer sum-mer with modern conveniences speak of the thrift o our farmers and stock me n nWe We have many improvements that larger cltiei would do well to Imitate An electric light plant owned and operated oper-ated by the city 1 coSt thousandM of dollars but can be pronounced financial finan-cial success in every way I not only pays expenses but Is a source of 1500 revenue to the city each year Year by far It Is being extended over more of the city Our people are enterprising 1 1 w t I > I r ir L t John H Dixon This year 120fl has been expended In extending I the electric line Lights Illuminate Il-luminate most of our principal streets Could Inrlf Sam becomo n3 inler l cstfd In the wuer question as have the people o Payson It woulrl not be long l until every baron spot in his whole domain would have its reservoirs Fly storage basins now mark the slopes drained Into Peteetneet nvek I I These I have cost thousands of dollars Each year sees hundreds of dollars spent in Improving ahem Sixteen hundred dol lars have been used in I repairing them the last two years By the means of these reservoirs the water running into our end of the valley during the summertime sum-mertime has been Increased many times Our district of Irrigated land Is extending making homes for more people We feel that Payson is I a favored spot and with her sister towns owes much to the kind Providence who overrules all things for the good of his children JOHN II DIXON TOOELE UTAH Tooele has had a very prosperous year The dry farms produced a very good crop and thousands bushels wheat besides corn wore raised The irrigated farms did not do < ns well the scarcity of water and the unfavorable season being the cause but prices oral or-al that was raised being high made up the deficiencies in the crop A great many bushels of poaches were lost because be-cause the people had no way to take care of them A fruit drier or evaporator evapo-rator Is greatly needed in Tooele The S it Louis Strasburg schools aro flourishing Six teachers arc engaged the attendance being from 100 to 500 pupils The health of the people is very good no disease such as scarlet fever or diphtheria has visited the town Many of our citizens are working In the t mines 0 Stockton I 01 Ophlr and work can be had by asking ask-ing for It The prospect for next year are bright the fall grain looks well and promises to be a larger crop than the pal season The snow Is filling up the mountains and this will give the people plenty of water for Irrigating Senator Clark has men at work in I Settlement canyon lo establish an electric elec-tric plant I will be a success and a benefit for the people In general Surveyors Sur-veyors have bern all around the town several times the past season looking for a place to establish a railroad in I the near future LOTUS STRASBURG I RICHIIOITD UTAH Utahs City oC the North located In the center of Cache valley nejir Idahos boundary merits more than passing notice The financial showing of the past year surpasses expectations Contentment and happiness characterizes character-izes every home The spirit or enterprise enter-prise la marked by her public institutionS Institu-tions lonS The city schools are well equipped In one building of modern architecture and accommodations 400 children are tutored A high school has been established estab-lished and the grading throughout corresponds cor-responds In detail with the latest methods meth-ods The school buildings arc heated with steam and have access to an excellent ex-cellent water system Tha past year Is especially credited with Improvements In acquiring water for culinary usc In the cltyf Jt With the various systems now completed and those under course of construction water may be had In practically avery home In each system the water Is obtained directly from mountain springs and his no chance of stagnating stagna-ting or becoming Impure The Ulchmonti cemetery IB n place of beauty I Is of Interest to many people peo-ple of the surrounding country because ot theIr burled duul The city has recently cent furnished It with n separate and I complete water system and it promise to remain the most artistic resting place I In northern Utah The mermntll houses foundries 1 flout mills creunerl and farmlnc and cattle interests show every indication of prosperity Hay grain and potato crops are always heavy Sufficient fruit Is produced for homo consumption and some kinds of fruit are exported Richmonds soil In the center of the gralnary of Utah IH the most fertile and In connertlon with rural Lewiston could well support a sugar factory of extensive capacity Attention of capital capi-tal Is called to the superior advantages of J factory site Just beyond the northwest north-west portion of the city Twenty to thirty tons o htts are produced per aero without extra t frt The beets test above the avIng s i The people are Interested In this industry and will faithfully support any one who may invpst I The people o Richmond are not only enterprising but arc agreeable and have high Ideals of life and living Freed from the evils o metropolitan towns the sunlight of heaven blesses thorn and makes their homen and surroundings sur-roundings the most inviting 1 AUG S SCllOW Mayor SANDY UTAH Sand the second city of Salt Lake county has had her ups and downs Rumor had It that the shutdown of the Mingo smelter one year ago would ruin the town but th past years experience experi-ence has proven it otherwise i We have as many business houses I today as we had one year ago and all are doing a prosperous business The two smelters erected at BIngham I Junction two miles distonct are valuable valua-ble aids to the City of Sandy Some 300 of our citizens drive or walk dally to the smelters ito work and aside from the exposure In winter experience very t lttle inconvenience Now Is the opportune tune lime for I some enterprising company com-pany to build an electric railway connecting con-necting Sand with the smelters at jlinctlon Highland Boy and Murray and It would receive the daily Patron agc of at least 100 laborers going to and fr9m their work besides l all the other business that It would enjoy AHa Is assuming a little of its oldtime actlvl tyas a mining camp and Sandy is its natural hne of supple suppl-e establishment of Wusatch as a perpianent summer report Is of special interest to Sandy and adds one more to ourllst of resources Sandy can boast of one of the best public schools in Salt Lake county Our I I I C C Crapo S building Is I a credit to > the city and we employ only the best teachers We anticipate an-ticipate establishing a high school In the near future The new Lutterday Saints meetinghouse now being completed com-pleted Is another public monument of the thrift of our citizens Situated In the heapt of the county Sandy hasbeen seleCt d as a rural postal pos-tal center We receive dally malls and have four rural delivery routes connecting con-necting Sandy with West Jordan Union Buller Giunlle Crescent and Gale i The people of Sft1i1Y are to be rpn gaitulalod on the buslnoss of 1101 and the brighter prospects Jlcad for 1902 S r r C C1 CJRACO 1 WILLABD UTAH Wlllard lies to the extreme south of Box Elder county SOn miles south of Brigham City and fifteen miles north of Ogden The population Is about one thousand mostly farmers and fruit growers We have two railroads the Southern Pacific and Oregon Short Line running in close proximity to the city Wlllard has one of the prettiest locations loca-tions in the mountains We have high and rugged mountains on the east with a natural slope of the land to the Great Salt Lake on the west We have very rich and fertile land and cun raise anything any-thing that can he raised in these mountain moun-tain valleys Wo have no wealthy people i living t I i b m I 1 J J Jj Edwards here but many welltodo farmers and stockraisers that are In easy circumstances circum-stances We have oneof the finest streams of water In the State although we have no olty waterwoiks yet that is only a question of time as we have the best queston ot facilities for it Our revenue this your has been mostly most-ly J from stock grain lucerne seed potatoes po-tatoes fruit and sugar 1 > eets Of the latter there was about thirteen hundred tons sent to the Ogden factory Weal We-al have two and sometimes three milk wngons going irvery day to the Slatcrvllle creamery which has been the source of bringing Into our settle ment between HO > and 10000 this year Willard has about 5000 head of cattle here now to be winter but very few stock on ted We own about n many cattle aa we do sheep which I think has been a mistake on our part as sheepmen seem to be doing tho best financially 1 Wlllards fame as a fruitgrowing section for Its J large and delicious fruit 11 well known Some of Ojclens capitalists have decided de-cided to build 1 creamery to be operated here next season S Our district schools are up to date In every respect although we have no I high school There are twojijyono of our young people nuay from home attending at-tending high Institutions of learning Wo have furnisher our runty In the pa5st with a good share of our school tetchers also we have furnished our I quota of the county officers who have cunt otccr been competent and able olllclals The people of Willard are of the old type kind and charltableand we welcome wel-come all new additions to our midst of good citizens 1 L EDWARDS Mayor TOQUERVILLE UTAH Some two or three years after President Presi-dent Young and the pioneers settled In Salt Lake valley ho sent out a company com-pany to explore the country south of the rim of the Great basin and after their explorations they returned and repdrtPd that they had found no country coun-try fit for colonization But all who were acquainted with that great colonizer colo-nizer knew that he would not he baffled baf-fled in his purposes by such a report Today there are three counties of our State organized in that undesirable region re-gion with some 6000 or 7000 settlers and with a climate unexcelled In the Pacific slope The southern experiment experi-ment station Is In Dixie The wines staton fruits molasses cotton and lucerne produced hero cannot be surpassed in quality in any country Our desert regions furnish fine winter ranges for cattle and sheep also the adjoining counties north bring hundreds of cattle cat-tle and thousands of sheep to wlnter here Our schools are all that can be desired our mines are being deeloped and furnish good dividends to the owners own-ers And now to keep In touch with other portions of our growing State oil claims are being loojitod Between the extreme south of the Wasatch range of mountains and the Rio Virgin river and about two miles west of Virgin City is where the oil claims are being located I Is said that boring apparatus appara-tus will be here shortly So mmh for the country thut was despised in the beginning MARTIN BLACK WELLSVILLE UTAH Wellsville is the oldest and one of the most prosperous cUes In the so called Granary of Utah The only nationalities represented are Welsh Scotch and English which bespeaks forKs for-Ks inhabitants thrift Industry and progress True to their nationalities they are decided in their convictions and policies which accounts for their not having one saloon or gaminghouse In this beautiful and peaceful city of 1500 Inhabitants They are proud and justly too of their progressive citizens Two of her sons represented the county In the last Legislature with distinction Senator Joseph IJowell and Representative Representa-tive P 1 Maughan In politics Wellsville Is Democratic but yields readily to any policy In local affairs that is for the union and goodwill of its inhabitants Deeming it wise they have therefore elected nonpartisan officials for 1902 Bishop i W II Maughan being Mayorelect Is I sufficient to assure progress and advancement i ad-vancement In the future In local Improvement much has been done in tie last two years Handsome residences have boon oiecied streets Improved and business enterprises g launched George IL Bradshaw Mrs James VlllmFon Charles Bradshaw John S Lcatham have each completed handsome and convenient residences of I red brick manufactured in > their own cityThe I The old reliable Wellsville Coop whose reputation Is known throughout theSttate Is I still doing a most excellent business under the able management of Superintendent Joseph owell < Baxter Co and Bradshaw Lclshman are doing a ory considerable business The city supports two of the largest creameries in the county The business amounts to nearly 90000 per annum This amount In connection with the revenue from the bft and cattle industries in-dustries is making ho farmers proper ous and generously do they use their means for any public enterprise No city in the State has so few Indigent people 1 Is the town of large houses big farms and no saloons DAVID MURRAY BOISE IDAHO Boise City the capital metropolis commercial I financial and educational center of Idaho participated In the general piosperity of the country during dur-ing 1901 not only receiving Its natural share of that prosperity but more by the favorable condition of Its natural advantages and its geographical location loca-tion as a center for the entire southern part of Idaho The mining Industry surrounding Boise has been stimulated as never before be-fore which necessitated the establishment establish-ment of a mining and tock exchange which Institution Is I now in an active acle and flourishing condition The agricultural and horticultural interests tributary to Boise have increased In-creased at a marvelous rate and tho influx of new settlers arc counted by the hundreds The New York canal has opened up for settlement 50000 acres of the fines lands in southern Idaho all within a radius of t fow miles of Boise and as this canal can be enlarged from time to time the available lands for agrlcul tural purposes seem almost Inexhaustible Inexhausti-ble The capacity 0 the Rldenbaugh canal has almost been reached nnd in Its entire length It is skirted with tho best of farms producing as only land can do in an Irrrigated country The past year witnessed a most marvelous mar-velous growth In Boise More new buildings have been erected than eve befoie In the past Business blocks have been constructed on every side f J 1 I J S I r Alexander Over 250 new homes have ben < erected and occupied and mostly the occupant is the real owner the same The Soldiers home has been enlarged one third Its capacity and almost entirely rebuilt The Idanha hotel completed the finest structure of Its kind batwion Salt Lake and Portland and Is the first sixstory structure In JdahOc I Another steel l bridge Is spanning thp Boise river which makes three wagon bridge within two miles all necessitated necessi-tated by the Increase of travel by the I settling up ot tho land surrounding BoIse There Is now under construction In close proximity to Boise oVCL three hundred nev httmes built within the last twelve months for the use of set tiers on the agricultural hinds adjoin lug the city S Evidences of growth and prosperity are abounding everywhore and a wp are about to elotj the year 190L wo mny say thut I coming events cast a shadow before them the dawn of 1902 will bring forth for his population such unexampled prosperity ax one can hardly dream of The coming your will witness the completion of a Oovorninent building In Boise at the cost of 250000 the Odd Tellows haU and business block will cost 10000 enlargement of the court house at an expense of S1500Q one fourth of n block of stone front flats with all the modern Improvements cost WOOflO the Union block 127 foot frontage by 122 depth 60000 the Boise brewery enlargement of Its I present plant at a cost of 25000 brick Hrohouses 300 feet by 122 foot with trackage near the railroad depot at a cost of 533000 three residences on kVarni Springs avenue at a cost of 25000 each the fair grounds owned and controlled by Boise citizens for which subscription of 25000 In cash I has already been mfr Plans for anew I a-new 45000 high school have boon approved I ap-proved The Pay otto Power and Light com pan will harness the Pajelte at hJorsrshoebend and supply Boise City with unlimited power and light at a nominal cost to the oonsumor at an expenditure of 250000 The new trust company has been organized and rt ady to occupy Its quarters on Eighth street al the first of the year There are now In the offices of the various architects of Boise plans for over 100 000 worth of homes and this will be augmented before the opening of spring by thrice that amount There Is I not a vacant house in the city and some houses with four rooms contain four families for the want of bettor accommodations as money will not rent a house i The great Thunder inountaln gold belt was developed in 1901 to such an extent that as soon as the snow melts in 1902 there will bo such travel Into that district ns has never occurred ox ceptlng to the Klondike of the north i Boise beIng the only natural and feasible route to said district will be the ontilting point for men and teams for all supplies that go into that camp during the coming season and the amount of travel conservatively estimated esti-mated will be 250000 men With those conditions confronting Boise City and the general favorable conditions of the country the population popula-tion of Boise should be near 20000 by 1003 I ALEXANDER Mayor POCATELLO IDAHO The act which authorized the setting apart nnd sale of about 2500 acres of the Fort Hall Indian reservation as a site for the city of Pocatello was passedby Congress in the year 1SSS The work of surveying the site and preparing the necessary plnst thereof for filing in the Iccal Land office and the other work required by the provisions of the act preliminary to the sale of the lands went forward very sloWly nnd It was not until the latter part of the year ISfll that the Register and Receiver of the Blackfoot Land office were ready to offer at public auction according to the provisions of the act of Congress the lands embraced In the site Before the salo of the lands was completed handsome hand-some and substantial buildings were In course of construction and by the I close of the year JS91 many fine business busi-ness houses and residences were to be seen in Pocatello By the time the sitlo of the lands Set apart us a site for the city was well under way It became be-came very apparent that the adjacent lands must without delay be secured from the Indian owners and bo opened for sale and settlement in order that the development of the city might not be retarded and I s promise o a great future ruined To this end the citizens of tho city of Pocatello worked unre Thco Turner mlttlngly from the year 1S90 until the year 1900 when through the able of forts of Senator George L Shoup Congress Con-gress passed an act ratifying a treaty with the Bannock and Shoshone Indians In-dians for tho purchase by the Government Govern-ment of 100000 of tho 1OflOOOO acres comprised In the Fort Hall Indian ron crvatlon Immediately Senator Shoup with his characteristic energy set to work to get the machinery of the Gen oral Land office In motion and to have it applied to doing that which was required re-quired by the provisions of the net oC Congress preparatory to the sale o the lands and so untiring and succcssfu were his efforts that the close of the coso year 1901 witnesses the completion of every act and thing necessary to be done prior to the Issuance by the President Presi-dent of his proclamation announcing that the lands are in the market and fixing n day for the sale thereof to begin S Thus It Is i that the year just closing seaa the fruition of the hope long cherished cher-ished by every loyal 1 citizen of Pocatello the hope that the fertile valleys and the mountains rich In mineral wealth surrounding their city might be made available to the farmer the stock grower and the miner This hope being realized Pocatello Is already taking giant strides toward that place among the thriving cities of our Nation which her location at the gateway to the Northwest and the rich natural resources re-sources of the tributary country entitle her to occupy Already us n direct result suit of the breaking down of this barrier bar-rier which s long hemmed In the city and hampered anil delayed Its develop nint and the development of the surroundIng sur-roundIng country the Oregon Short Lino has appropriated moneys and lot contracts for the construction of shop and power plants which when completed com-pleted will represent the expenditure of 1000000 The opening of these lands Jo the settler and rajnerand the con struction of a shop and power plant of such magnitude is I causing tho launching of many new business enter prises and the erection of many new blocks of fine business houses and Just nov Is urging on a mad race between rival companies to determine which shall first harness and del r In our city the cl power which Is now wasting at American Falls It Is therefore but natural that enterprising business men turn to tho Gate City for new fields felds lor the exercise of their talents Each day witnesses the arrival in the city of numbers of norsons who have come to make Pocatello their future homo and to share in the benefits of the era of growth development and prosperity era prosprlt which the year 1901 has ushered In In Order that Its most favored city might not be without adequate educa local facilities the State of Idaho at tho last session of its Legislature set apart 10000 acres of the lands granted to It by the United States Government for educational purposes and appro printed 25000 to begin the work of building up a State educational Insti educatonal tution at the city of Pocatello Plans have already been prepared for suit able buildings 60000 Is now In tho State treasury to the credit of the Institution I In-stitution and the beginning the next scholastic yearwill witness Its open Ing for the reception of students Much more space might be consumed In cnnnvrating the Items of consumec ennmnralnS progress progrcs which the city of Pocatello has made luring tlu year 1901 We have here II only attempted to outline In a measure meas-ure the beginning of the citys history and briefly note the most Important causes which have led up to tho prom iso of the truly great and wonderful future In store for the city of Pocatello which Is assured and foreshadowed bv the events of the year 1901 THEO TURNER Mayor BEXBURG IDAHO Rexburg From nt county tida wag the first permanent settlement located In the county In consequence of which il Is admirably most located ns t Cin u 0 graphical and business center Tho growth in the past year has been the greatest In her history There has been expended for business busi-ness properties about 15000 and on residences alone 30000 While tho lists will show a predominance of residences resi-dences over business houses erected business has kept pace with Improvements Improve-ments In the shape of larger clerical forces and nn increase in volume of trade by the business houses already established Following Is a list of buildings erected in the past year Woodmansco block estimated0Cfi C E Bramwell h J 000 Rexburg Banking Co 2 O Kcxburg Produce Co 150 < Coop Wagon and Machine Co 2000 Thomas Gcorce 20 Squires tires Lumber Co lm JlaJer art studio 1005 Residence property as follows J W Webster olows Git M Olof Anderson 3000 Jams Eckerscll 3oj George C Hyde 30 C L French 200 James Stewart n 2030 Smurln Thomas 2000 11 A Bramwell 20 JA 0 Intor js Ed Dowsnup 1 f u IN Mary Luttz 100 tn Lorenzo Waldrain 10 In addition to the above here has been a Catholic church erected costing 1500 academy Improvements of about SiHJO and there has been expended about 55000 In addition for various improvements Improve-ments In the city The school census for the year 1901 sh ws an Increase of 222 pupils over that of lrGln consequence of which the schol board expects to erect the coming season additional buildings to cost 2500 which with the stake academy I acade-my makes Rexhurg the educational center of the county Rexburg being located close to tho foothills which open out on to the splendid ranges of Lynmn Moody and Canyon creeks and from there to Teton Basin and the South fork of the Snake river makes I a favorable shipping point for live stock especially sheep and here are located the headquarters of some of the heaviest sheepraisers of the county many such firms as Smart Webster I Ricks Sheep company com-pany Clinton und others of like capacity capa-city cityRexburg Rexburg also has her share of farm trade being fed by such districts as Lyman Benton Independence Edmona Island Salem and a portion of Teton together with her milling Industries We have plenty of beautiful white sandstone for building within two and a half miles brick kilns In active operation sawmills and building timber from twelve to twenty miles away and plenty of water which makes Rexburg a desirable place for homeseckers and through the courtesy of the Oregon Short Line which runs through Rex burg we expect a large Immigration In the spring That Rexburg citizens have unbounded faith In her further growth and prosperity they have demonstrated dem-onstrated by works In the year Just closing A C I1ESS Mayor EVANSTON WYOMING v We have had a prosperous year and the present conditions warrant the assumption as-sumption that the next year will be C S Baker far more prosperous for our community commu-nity than the past By way of improvements im-provements there have been additions made to the property of our town aa follows Stoto insane asylum Improvcmentfl3JWQ 4003 PrcMbytorlnii church kJJ BQckwIlh c Cos bank So Jllh 1500 Ruilroud depot 10001 J 00 Railroad improvements Rllroar sw 3I Water system Improvements 200 Street grading yt rndllH 2m irnproementB Electric lIshtlmproyomentB 20iO construction 3OX Telephone contructon M W Residences approximately > O railroad company The work done by tho rnlroad pany at Evanston IB of a character to substantial and Is as Indicate permanence ane stantial as Iemmncnco that anywhere In the country The development of oil In the vicinity vicin-ity of Bvanston has added very materially Ir of town our pr09pcrltot rially to the and bldx fair to make It I depot for n have ever ot supplies than line larger UpplC8 In development the before been utilized In this country Of Wrrlmr the new year wn higher We begin Ylnr btgn ounda solid built upon a more sold foundation hopes 0 bul has entertained for lion than Evanston entertaied ton Respectfully man a year C S BAKER < Mayor |
