| Show SPANISH FORK SPARKS the progress of our enterprising neighbors A BONANZA FOR A RAILROAD the citizens dedire one nearer the city A glance at the business institutions the people of spanish fork will hail with joy the first railway that comes within at least a reasonable distance from the business part of town whichever railway gets into spanish fork city first will secure the unfailing gratitude of a fast growing community the undivided patronage and good will of a community numbering is something worth securing spanish fork is certainly progressing building improvements are noticeable in every direction people there make no noise and indulge less in boom talk than the people of any town between salt lake and salt creek and yet they could dd so with as much propriety one of the best roller floering flouring flou ring mills n the territory located here it is owned and worked by the spanish fork operative cooperative co mercantile institution the latter have recently purchased the only other flour mill in the place which was formerly owned by lars lawrence the coop co op is therefore in a position to command and perform the larger sharp of the millina business in the southern part of the county the spanish fork coop co op institution is one of the oldest largest and most important of its class in the territory its operations several branches of manufacture besides commerce under the management of john jones it has attained a high degree of prosperity dalley who has been carrying on a modest little business in merchandising izing has recently surprised the community by erecting an imposing brick structure in which lie po poses to carry on his increasing trade for the future the building is an ornament to the town and a practical illustration of the owners enterprise and energy the mena coop co op has proven a from its start five years the superintendent W B hughes alo has conducted it most of the time ie now about to leave it in other hands a most flattering flatt erine offer having been made to and accepted by him from an ogden wholesale merchant arm the last years business lust closed the young mens coop co op showed a net earn of 40 per cent three fourths of which was divided among the stockholders stock holders and the remain ms one fourth was placed to the credit of the reserve fund which now amounts to a little leas than 25 per cent of the original amount of the capital acock mr john S thomas is to succeed mr hushes as superintendent en the another prominent firm of spanish fork is the spanish fork mercantile company managed and owned principally by JE wilkins during the two years of its existence it has done a flourishing trade there are numerous other business houses here all of which are seemingly receiving a fair share of the trade spanish fork has never been behind any one of her sister cities in this counte in the matter of education she has always prided herself and justly so in her schools her educational system and her teachers our two last county superintendents of public schools have been furnished by spanish fork a circumstance that in itself is significant prof joseph A beese is now worthily discharging the functions of principal of the district schools county surveyor davis has lately been making purchases of real estate it is understood that mr davis will remove to fork |
