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Show RECLAMATION AIDS BOXELDER COUNTY BIG PRICES HELP THE FRUIT GROWERS 1 TIHE old and the new in Brigham Citjr. At the top, left, is the modern home of B. T. Alvord, and on the right that of W. f H. Glover. At the bottom is the first house erected in Brigham City and still in use. r vrH cv . 7 jif , Building Record Eclipses All Past Performances in Brigham City. Special to The Tribune. BRIGHAM CITY, Deo. 30. The people of Brigham City and Box-chler Box-chler county can look back with pride upon the achievements a"d progress recorded during the busiest twelve months that have been known here. In many respects the year eclipsed all previous years, some of the most important items being the reclamation recla-mation work now under way .both by means of drainage and by the establishment estab-lishment of sound irrigation projects; the big increase in bank deposits and resources; building of homes and business busi-ness blocks and the establishing of new manufacturing enterprises. The year had its drawbacks, chiefly the heavy loss in fruit production, caused by late spring frosts. All farm products also suffered to a considerable-extent. considerable-extent. However, regardless of the losses in quantity, fruit growers and farmers made almost as much money as in years when crops were large, due to the .big advance in prices of "aft va-- va-- rieties. Big prices were pnid by bny- ens for everything grown from the early f strawberries to the late sugar beets. S Little Fruit Canning. Fruit canning was almost abandoned entirely, owing to the scarcity of fruit and the extraordinarily high prices prevailing. pre-vailing. The Brigham lactories also had a light run on tomatoes, and as a consequence at the close of the season could only fill nhout 50 per cent of the orders for goods.1 The canneries received re-ceived extraordinary prices for their entire en-tire output. The new year has even more in store for Boxelder county than had the past year. The good effects of drainage in the Corinne drainage district, now under un-der course of construction, will begin to crop out, next season, and the 11,000 or more acres of choice fnfm lands will atzain begin to yield good returns to the farmprs. The formation of Brigham 's drainage district, whih will reclaim several hundred hun-dred acres of the choicest land in the country, lying north and west of the city, will be well under way and pros-pets pros-pets of the preliminary work being disposed dis-posed of soon will enable the commissioners commis-sioners to push the work right ahead. With these two projects completedj .besides .be-sides several hundred acres reclaimed eat and south of Brigham by water ' from the Devil's Gate reservoirs, now bping constructed by the Brigham Conservation Con-servation company, and by water from the proyioscd extension of the Hammond canal, Boxelder county will rank high among the agricultural counties of the - state." Brigham 's building record in 1P16 W X !" 1 " Y Wi ... ... t pt I JES O-- S"t t - " - u l uj- H - I s-s 2 "r r . 5,-3 Slf f u 's h , t r v ' s. - s -' f ' I ' eclipsed any provions rfeord liv- a good niargiii, over 00 buUdinw pei-mits bc-iris bc-iris issuett by Buildinjx Tnspo'tor 0. F. Wells. Many handsome residences have been built. ' In the business district a new $12,000 theater is nearing completion. com-pletion. The remodeling of the First National bank building was completed during the summer at a cost of upward up-ward of $30,000. W. H. Clover is remodeling re-modeling at a cost of $3000 the building build-ing formerly occupied by him into a modern automobile sales store. The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company erected a new exchange building build-ing at "a cost of $o00 and the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company just completed an office building at the sugar factory af a cost of $700. Other improvements in the business district make the amount expended in 191fi for business property approximately $ii0,000. $100,000 for New Homes. Approximately $100,000 'was expended expend-ed for new residences, as follows: J. E. Halvorson, $8000; M. Kasmussen, $2000; Joseph Penrose, $2000; M. A. Poulson, $1000; J. A. Palle and O. R. Palle, each $1000; J. D. Peters, $1000; Merrell Lumber company, $2000; Tom Youngquist, $1500; P. P. Slggard, $500; Henry Pett, Jr., $900; Varnich Hansen, $1000; Orson Kortb, $1900; N. C. Si-monsen, Si-monsen, $2200; J. Francis Merrell, $4500; Frank Earl, $2500; P. M. Baird, $1000; Hans Olsen, remodeling, $500; William Iladlev, $3000; Oscar Fors-gren, Fors-gren, $1000; a've Hansen, $1800; Bank annex, $1000; D. F. Olsen, $2000; Eliza Jensen, $1200; W. I. Hargis, $2500; f Lt it- I hw Frank Grecuhalgh. $2000; John Brook, $rou: C. N. (Iiristensen, 2;")U0 ; H. D. Wootinden, $2800; J. H. Burt, remodeling, remod-eling, $1400; Tom Youupquist, $1800; C. H. Tavlor, $2800; B- V. Call, $5000; A. E. Cutting, $2000; Lena J. Nelson, $lo0U; W. H. U leave, $2000; Mrs. Christen Chris-ten a Hansen, $3500; Stohl Brothers, i $2000; Wilfor.i Reeder, $3000; Carl Jeppson, $1000; E. C. F. Hartmann, $KiO0; Mrs. Med a Jensen, $2500; Fred Elifien, $25()Ur Mrs. S. L. Longstou, $15u("i. Aside from these, approximately approximate-ly $10,000 was expended for small au-aitions au-aitions throughout the city. Will Begin Paving. City officials have their minds set on street paving, and undoubtedly before be-fore the close of another year will see the beginning of such improvements. That four blocks on Main street and perhaps all of Forest street from Main to the Oregon Short Line depot, eight blocks, will be paved soon, is the opinion opin-ion of prominent city officials and business busi-ness men who are working on the project. proj-ect. With the citv 's bonding capacity greatly increased, the matter of floating float-ing another bond issue will soon be undertaken for the rebuilding of the distributing system of the municipal light plant and for procuring more water. wa-ter. In 1916 a children's playground was added to the city's civic equipment. This is located on East Forest street and was built: and fully equipped through the efforts of the Kindergar-1 Kindergar-1 ten club. The rebuilding of the city park on West Forest street w-as also begun, and I each year a large sum of money will be expended on the park until it" is rebuilt re-built according to plans, and when finally completed Brigham will boast a park equal to any of those in even larger cities of the state. Boxelder County. Boxelder county is practically devoted de-voted entirely to farming and' stock raising. The'irrigated section is along the- east side of the countv, extending west throughout the central portion, including in-cluding the great Bear River valley. To the west and northwest dry farming and stock raising are the chief industries. indus-tries. Short grain crops prevailed all , over the county in the pasf year, on ! account of late frosts,, but extremely high prices brought the farmers almost as much revenue as last year, when the harvest was in most instances twice as great. In Curley valley, in which Snowi'ille is the principal town, the wheat crop fell down half. This valley has sufficient suffi-cient water to irrigate 10.000 acres when properly handled. At present there are 10,000 head of cattle on the range, and the valley ships out annually annual-ly forty cars of hogs and a great many more cars of ,beef cattle. The to wd of Snowville is the most prominent promi-nent point west of Tremonton on the transcontinental auto route, and has enjoyed en-joyed unusual prosperity since the northern route was opened up for coast-to-coast travel. Last year (1916) fourteen four-teen new homes were built in the town; two garages and a waterworks system will be the first things that will be undertaken un-dertaken in 1917. Coming to Front. Western Boxelder county is gradually gradual-ly coming to the front in the production produc-tion of rough lumber, and for quite a number ow vears the extreme western part, especially in the Black Pines dis- i trift, all the rough lumber for buildings build-ings has been cut there. There are several sev-eral sawmills and much timber. Park valley is the lug livestock section sec-tion nf Boxelder county. From this valley val-ley alone 2tMin head of herf cattle and :ibout 20.HU0 hrnd of sheep are shipped nmnrUiy. Alfalfa and .some dry-farm j grain are also raised. The ordinary grain production of western Boxelder is approximately 12,000,000 bushels per year. Perhaps sugar beet culture tops the list of products in the irrigated portions por-tions of the county, chiefly in Bear River valley, and along the east side of Bear river. In 1916 14,000 acres of land were planted to beets. The total estimated tonnage of this vast area is 190,000 tons. For this immense harvest har-vest the Utah-Idaho Sugar company will distribute among the warmers considerably consider-ably more than $1,000,000. This company com-pany employs 350 men several months out of each vear. and has an annual payroll of $250,000 for the Brigham and Bear River valley factories. Another sugar factory is being talked of, and if the project materializes this plant will be erected near Honeyville, and with the addition of a third factory fac-tory the beet acreage will accordingly be greatly increased in 1917. Banks Make Good Showing. The statements issued during the month by the various banks of the county coun-ty show a healthy growth in the past year, and demonstrate the prosperity of the people of the county. On December Decem-ber 1, deposits exceeded $2,177,000 and the resources were more than $2,(330,000. The total deposits in the various banks on December 1 were: First National, Brigham, $650,641.46; State bank, Brigham, Brig-ham, $575,687.7'2 ; Security Savings, Brigham, $436,199.30; State Bank of Tremonton, $264,794.23; Bank of Garland, Gar-land, $176,147. Tremonton is forging rapidly ahead as a commercial center. Located on the Malad Valley branch of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line, it is the nearest shipping ship-ping point for a vast territory west, northwest and east as far as Bear River. In the past year a $4000 garage was erected and a $7000 creamery the only one in Boxelder county with a weekly capacity of 1200 pounds of butter. but-ter. A second story was added to the building owned by the Thompson-Scott company. The city is installing a $3000 storm sewer on Main street. An interesting inter-esting feature of the town is its annual shipments of farm products. This year the following shipments were made up to December 5: Grains wheat, 31 cars; hay, 96 cars; oats, 26 cars; barley, 11 cars; livestock 38 cars, a total of 202 cars. The city has electric lights, telephone tele-phone exchange, waterworks, sewers, paved walks, many large mercantile institutions in-stitutions and a wide-awake commercial club. Breeding Blooded Stock. In Boxelder county are located some of the foremost breeders of .blooded livestock. Among the leaders in this industry are C. G. Adney of Corinne, Willard S. Hajisen of Fielding and John J. Craner of Corinne. These men have made pure breeking of livestock a life study and have done a great deal toward raising the standard of the stock in the county. The farm of C. O. Adney Ad-ney attracts "hundreds of livestock men from all near-by Btates for its splendid herds of pure-bred Hereford cattle; in which breed Mr. Adney has specialized for twelve years. W. S. Hansen specializes in Ram-bouillette Ram-bouillette sheep and Perchevon horses and Mr. Craner has some fine specimens speci-mens of Durham cattle and Hampshire sheep. lt Better livestock" is the slogan slo-gan of Boxelder county farmers, and the scrub stock will soon completely vanish from this section. Land Reclamation. In the Corinne drainage district lands are gradually climbing in value from $50 to $60 per acre to $100 and $120 per acre The cost of draining the land is but $17 per acre, the owners own-ers having twenty years in which to pay for the improvements. In all, 11.-000 11.-000 acres are thus being transformed, and within eighteen months the work will have been completed and a garden spot will spring up where now even salt grass does not thrive. Four trenching trench-ing machines are working daily, ervdi having a capacity of 1D00 leet of trench daily. Heavy flows of salt water lire encountered when the tile is first laid. It has been intimated that- just a? soon as these lands have been drained and returned to their original fertility that a big sugar factory will be er-u-ted in the tract at Corinne to handle the beets of the southern end of Bear River valley. Good Road Construction. Despite the fact that this county is one of the largest in the state in point of area, it boasts some of the best roads in the state. Last year a portion of a six-mile stretch" north of Hot Springs was treated and this fall the county work on a two-mile stretch of concrete road, beginning at the south boundary of the county and extending northward two miles. One mile of this road is completed and the other section will be built in the spring. This road will gradually be extended each year until the thirteen miles between Brigham and the Springs will .be covered. In the past six years several hundred thousands of dollars have been expended expend-ed on the highways of the county, and the commissioners are constantly making mak-ing appropriations for further improvements. improve-ments. Coast-to-coast tourists are within the limits of Boxelder county for nearly a dav after leaving Ogdeu, and they travel continually over well-built well-built highways. The manufacture of drain tile is an important industry of Corinne, where the Corinne Concrete Tile company has a factory with a capacity of approximately approxi-mately one mile of tile daity, varying in size from four inches to fifteen inches. The company has the contract for supplying sup-plying the tile for the Corinne drainage district. This company is also supplying supply-ing large quantities of drainage tile to big land owners throughout Boxelder county and Cache. In the latter county coun-ty a contract was recently made for 200,000 feet of tile for a drainage project in western Cache county. The capacity of the Ogdeu Portland Cement company's factory is being increased in-creased to three units, and therewith the capacity will be increased from 725 barrels to 966 barrels daily. Railroad Improvements. Large sums of money were spent in Boxelder county during the year 1916 by the railroad companies ior new roadbeds road-beds and improvements. The Oregon Short Line expended several thousand dollars in enlarging the yards in this city and the building of thirteen miles of "road by the Ogden, Logan & Idaho electric was accomplished during the vear. This road was the cut-off between be-tween Hot Springs and Brigham, which completed tne through road between Ogden and Preston. The uuikling of this road through Brigham transformed a street that before was but hills and hollows, public dumping "round and otherwise undesirable into a first-class boulevard, extending from , Seventh South to Sixth North. The improvements completed by the Oregon Short Line consist of considerable consider-able trackage east of the freight depot to be used as a local freight yard and interchange yard with the electric line; the building'of a spur to Jensen Brothers' Broth-ers' mill; extending the Malad Valley track one mile south of the depot along the main line; building an additional siding as far north as the sugar factory, fac-tory, and building a freight yard ou the sugar factory grounds. Two railroad branches will be built in 1917 in Boxelder county. The Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company will commence work at once on a nine-mile branch road from Garland ro Bear River City, whiih is to be operated by the Oregon Short Line during the beet season. This road will traverse a rich farming section now lying from two to four miles east of the present road, tho Malad Valley branch. The Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railroad company ' has authorized the construction construc-tion of an eight-mile branch line from Brigham to a point one-half a mile east of Bear River City on the east side of Bear river. Engineers are now working work-ing on this branch, and it will be completed com-pleted in time to handle the 1917 beet crop. Passenger service will be operated oper-ated over the road as fllr as the lac-torv lac-torv of the Ogden Portland Cement (.ompanv, ami the line will go by way of the new sugar factory. There is a probability that passenger service will be run daily over the entire road, as it will traverse a newly developed farming farm-ing section and will "also be within the reach of Bear Ri- City people. These improvements will cost the two companies compa-nies in the neighborhood of $400,000. |