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Show TITLE OF GARDEN CITY OF UTAH HELD BY PROVO Waterworks Bettered, Streets Paved, Communication Communi-cation Improved and Established Industries Prosper. PBOVO, Jan. 1 The past year has brought inrHS-efl prosperity and growth to Provo and ht-r biins enterprises and institutions and her citizens generally gen-erally have prospered and experienced material ad va moment. B'Iuips, man-ufaeturiDg man-ufaeturiDg and banking firuif import au S'Iisqc'1 o ' c r th previa us . oh r. The population, now more than l'V-"'-'? nris hppn iniTe.-iPd by ninny families moving mov-ing Iito to httro Mifi educational ad-vftntttg'-u offered, take advantage of the hmsinp-H opportunities, present and po-fentjfJ.l, po-fentjfJ.l, ami enjoy ih(; pi'-.iant natural ad"-antrigt- and deniable toi-ini comb-tionH comb-tionH which niako Pro o au weal residence resi-dence city. The first est roc t pa in the history his-tory of this city has bee rj done IhU year. Kight blocks in the business renter ren-ter have been pawd with cement cou-erete cou-erete at a cost of about $li.",0ou. A portion por-tion of this, where it in on the sfjte road through the city, bus het.n paid for by the "county from its state road tax fund, und a smaller rontrihuueu hub been made by tne at ate road department. de-partment. The greater part of the cost is being defrayed by property owners aloDtr tne line of the improvements and by the tfalt Lake A, Utah Kuilroad com-pany com-pany for paving the righr.-of-way. The paved ftreets are so favorably regarded that it is ftxpijcted property owners on other adjoining streets will insist on paving during the present year, and that in h few years the entire central portion of the city will bo paved. Water Betterments. Among other street improvements i& the resurfacing of the state road through the city, where it is not paved, and applying Tarvia treatment to a mile of the road in the southeastern part. This has coat about $3U00. Some improvements have been made on thtt waterworks system by the extension ex-tension of pipe lines and collecting ad ditional water at. thy source of supply sup-ply in Provo canyon. An alternate pipe line is being laid "on Eighth North street to connect with the main line on Academy Acad-emy avenue, to insure a greater supply of water for the section affected. The city has purchased seven acres of land adjoining the .North park and moved the city stables and material yards from the courthouse block to the new location. Probably the biggeso municipal mu-nicipal work initiated the past year is a municipal lighting plant. For this purpose the city has filed on '2UH second-feet of water from the Provo river, to be diverted near the mouth of Provo canyon and conveyed through a pipe line for about one and a quarter quar-ter miles to a site owned by the city, where it is intended to build the generating gen-erating works. AVork on the pipe line will begin early in the present year. Communication Improved. 1 tie -AiudjUMin .Muu-s jLt'iupliune i'eieiujiu i.-uiiii'.iny mis expeuuuu tptio,-Uoo tptio,-Uoo in i nij'i u cuilu i s on it6 ttucpnone Mc-toni in mo city. J he poles liave been removed from the street and tjie wires placed underground on lemur street iruui Third Last to Huh V est, and on Hist est irorn Center to l-ust Aortb. C Ut cubies have been replaced with new on oilier parts or the system. sys-tem. The Utah Power & Light company has extended its ligiiung service through L artei-viije, Pleasant View and aeross the south part, ot the Provo bench into Lake iew. at a cost or more, than $-it,uon. This year the company com-pany expects to spend about (o,00U for extensions and- renewals of its system . in this city. The- Provo Commercial club ha? been active iu movements for the advancement advance-ment ot the community. Through its efiorts, jointly with l'iebor City and , Park City, the Timpanogos loop, 'which i leaves Atkinson on the Lincoln trail, ! goes through Park City, Provo valley and Provo Canyon to Provo and to bait Lake, has been established and logged. This route of seeuic beauty aud many natural attractions takes the traveler by way of the Park 0 ity mines, the I Midway hotpots unique warm springs j in egg-shaped limestone shells down i tbe canyon, with its mountain streams I aud cataracts, past the Mr. Timpanogos Timpano-gos glacier, which lias been set aside as a uatura! reserve, through Provo and the famous Utah county fruit orchards, with a view of the Utah lelte, and into bait Lake county and citv. Industries Promoted. The club has also caused to be organized or-ganized au industrial committee, -with William 1. Wilson secretary, which has ! undertaken a very successful campaign j for the support ot' home industries and i enterprises. With a thorough appre- I eiatiou of the necessity for industrial j activity if business is to prosper and grow, the club is active in tostering j new enterprises aud in giving encouragement encour-agement and support to firms and iu-di iu-di iduuls who may desire to locate manufacturing man-ufacturing plants here. To this end data ha "been compiled and correspondence correspon-dence taken up at everv opportunity by t-eeret;iry Henry Xuttail to present the: favorable conditions existing for en-' gaging in manufacturing, such as transportation trans-portation f acilit ies. elect ric power, fuel and opportunities for securing labor. There has not been anv great amount of building. Probably ' . W"nUl'0 will cover tiie expenditure tor new building?. build-ing?. Tbe most important business building? erected during the year are the Xaylor-Clark garage, on Center street, and the Orem station adjoining. Thn garage is a one-Morv and basement, fireproof "structure, CxM1') fet. built ot file, er-mnt and iron, with ;i capacity tor 125 ears and with ma-" hinjry and equipment for the mechanical department depart-ment cost $i!.j,ni.in. The Orem intemr-ba intemr-ba n ar i(Ja is 4'"'xl'""i t'eer. built of I brick and (mipnt, and -'nst about 612.- 'JO", ft is con anient !y arranged for passenger-;, freight and nvpiv--?;; husmes and is the finest station building on the Orem line. Several attractive home? hfive been built in different parts of the city. Woolen Mills Prosper. The bu.-dnefs of the Knight Woolen mills has increased lot) per cent during the year. Large orders for the products of the mills have been and are being received from east, north aud west. A very gratifying condition is that the intermountain business of the companv has so grown that for the first time for rnanv years since the early history his-tory of the mills (then the Profo Wool-eu Wool-eu mills), when the sale of its goods was mostly in Utah and surrounding states and territories the greater part, of the product is again being sold in Utah and adjoining states. The number of employees the early part of the year was 107. .Vow there are 239 people employed, and the prospects are that a larger number will be needed to enable the mills to keep up with the orders. A large building, 40 by 147 feet, has been erected at a cost of .$10,000 for offices and the manufacture of cloth ing. .Lveu with this addition the plant is taxed to capacity for room. It is probable that 1916 "will see additional buildings erected. The Startup Candy company has given employment to 13o persons and is shipping its products to all points in the west and east as far as New York. Manufacturers Busy. The Provo Foundry & Machine company com-pany has had forty ken employed and is doing a big business in supplying mine machinery and equipment "and structural steel and iron. The Provo Pressed Brick companv is employing thirty-five men in the manufacture manu-facture of brick, fljo brick and drain tile, and reports an increase of 35 per cent in the business of 1915 over 1914. The company has installed a complete new drain tile plant this season. Many other smaller manufacturing plants have been kept in active operation opera-tion during the year, and report very satisfactory business conditions and growth. Fruitgrowing being one of the principal prin-cipal industries of this section, the people peo-ple are vitally interested in any move-ment move-ment that promises increased profits from the fruit. The proceedings of the state horticultural society, in convention conven-tion here last month, were followed closely. The suggestions on marketing, canning and evaporating fruit aud utilizing util-izing the hy-products will, without doubt, prove very profitable to the producers. pro-ducers. The promise of canneries and evaporating plants to be erected the coming year are verv encouraging, as the trouble iu the past has not been to produce the fruit, but to neeure a profitable market for the fresh fruit and to prevent the loss from waste of fruit which cannot be marketed at the time of gathering. Slate and Cement. There is also every reason to believe that a sugar factory will be built here this year, either bv one of the com pames already in the Utah field or bv a Colorado companv which has been investigating in-vestigating conditions to that end. More land is becoming available everv vear for beet growing, and sufficient beets can be produced in the Provo district to supply a factory. Regular shipments of slate from the slate factories in Slate eanvon are now being made by F. W. C. Idathenbruek to Salt Lake, where the material is used for roofing. There are large deposits de-posits of slate in the eanvon," and the I prospects for big development work and shipments in the near future are very promising. Negotiations are under way for the erecr tion of a cement manufacturing plant. There are mountains ot limestone Immediately Im-mediately east of the ciiv. The stone has been thoroughly tested and found to he 1 ideal for making a superior qualitv of ce- ; ment. With the raw material 'in mi- i limited quantities, and easy of access for I the railroads, the making of cement, fori which there,- is an increasing demand will I doubtless prove a profitable undertaking, 1 not only for the owners, but for the community, com-munity, by providing labor for a large number of men. It is expected the plant will be in operation In 1016. Five Big Schools. The Salt Lake & Utah Railroad company com-pany contemplates running a branch of-the of-the Orem Interurban to Oirnstead, six miles north of Provo, at the mouth ot Provo canyon, the coming year. It is expected ex-pected that the fine buildings and grounds at Olmstead, which were used by L. U Xunn of the. Telluride Power company for schools and the home of the Telluride association, as-sociation, and now owned try the Utj h Power & ligth company, wfn he taken over by one of the large Salt Lake hotels and used as a summer resort tor its guests. They will have beautiful scenic surroundings, mountain Rtr, fishing and othr out-door attractions, including the facilities for making easy trips to the Mu Timpanogos glacier. The public school children of Provo are housed In five large. commodiouB buildings, build-ings, with heating plants away from the build incs. a nd with excellent water and sever connections. The sanitary condi-'icn condi-'icn are first class. The srhool population popula-tion is $ i ; tlu: school enrollment Is '2:.'.'i'.- T'.ic tea oiling tori.e numbers sixty under (he supervision of fuperintendenl L. K. fcguertsen. During the present ye.-ir the s. hoo! grounds lia.ve been enlarged en-larged at the Central and at the Farker. j ' The public ;.55 rem mended the board for j pur."..frm? additional grounds. Tne p!fl;-'rou!:d movement has re- i .ved :-unr...-r irom rhe Horn and School I -i oc ii uon and from the public in g'?n. ;era!. Mi;. r-pirs'us bs been eourd I ov don.if'on? from the citizens and those I inopr'-s'd in children's pia minH :ic-HvtiP :ic-HvtiP Thu yr a fully eoipred man-uM man-uM txjining dep-irtmi-nt was esuolithed. T'lk Hum a i:d School association has , placed Th rr.icvnery n ihe department a t h cos1, of 51: 2'"' Sixty -t" o pup! is are raking the reeuiar course Th domestic .- ; n : e a p. .3 art depart : e r. t or t h e hi g h ; rcr.ool ha." been increased with addi- , f K'na 1 (ou:prr.eni . : The md'isT-.-ja! pfp 0f tviP conn-nu':!' ; h.-s !.. n mph.o-'red m the schools an1 k r-nspr rc' i r ion,-'.;p i .Pf een sch-! r.'l TJ"r ruhr " ork of t'-.p 5. hr,. ? r.. ir,2 iwn.h .a vim. nil factor oikin for n-I n-I othr pu:cp?pfi, vpsr. j Proctor Academy. 1 The Froi tor academv, conducted ly I iI'j '!" grgTalonyi Fdncation s:c".e'v is.-in is.-in i's ihir';. -fhp.-.-i ,.-ar and h-s ;.n in I'.-regs in at Lerdan'-e or law ;r, pe-iia!ly pe-iia!ly in the hicli school derannpn'. Thi ic-Tni enroijnjent i? more t hn 2 "i ri . Tiie j ".''v. H. Goodwin, princinai. and t-vt j teachers -an addition of two to Usf veer's ! tt-Uiing fone--giide the pupils and t'u-dents t'u-dents in tiie path of learning The curriculum has been broadened b increasing r he elect h'e studies ami cutting- down the required . mdis. a nd ; complete acauemic Lommrcia) course hat been add--d. Two ne-w depu ; t meiiis. domestic do-mestic in-r and domestic ' s-.-incp. have bf-en added this ear. A npw tpa chers' home, a rwo-slory hnek stru'-tiire "d(t", eleven rooms, has been built on Second j South street, br.wepn Academv avenue and First West street, at a cost for build-I build-I inz. fixtures and turniture of about P37u0. Ciher expendiiures for improvements and I eouipment are: painting,' paoering and other renovations of the school building, S-'i": installing a steam-heating plan!. ?"2-HUt; equipment for the domestic arts and domestic science dep? rtmems, The Rev. Mr. Goodwin, as field suoer-intendent suoer-intendent for Utah, also has supervision of schools conducted bv the soeietv at 1 Vernal. Lehi, Bountiful, Heber and Coalville, Coal-ville, in all of which the society has made some material Improvements this year. .At Vernal an addition to the school has beon made at a cost of o0u0 and between l 300 and $400 has been expended for fur- I nishinqs. One new teacher has been employed. em-ployed. In all the schools there is an in- ' crease in attendance over last vear, and the prospects for future usefulness in the educational field are hrfght. The society aims to keep abreast of the times in providing pro-viding educational facilities to meet tha requirements of changing conditions and demands. The growth of the Brigham Young university uni-versity during the past year has "been of a substantia character. The attendance is larger than that of a year ago, being about HOC. The increase is !n the college, col-lege, which now has an enrollment of 425 100 students more than last year. They comejiot only from the various sections sec-tions of Utah, hut also from the Rockv mountain and Pacific coast states and from Mexico and Canada. The increased efficiency of the institution, institu-tion, however, has been more marked than the increase in attendance. President George H. BrimhalJ, ever aiert and on the lookout for the best in education, has Inaugurated In-augurated a number of new features in discipline and improved methods of instruction. in-struction. The work of the hifj school students is more carefully supervised than ever before. In the training school for the grades the ideals of modern education educa-tion are being worked out with great success. suc-cess. Professor B. F Larson has been especiallv successful in manual training work. His exhibit of work done bv training train-ing gehool pupils at the exposition" in San Francisco attracted universal attention and received most favorable comment from educational journals. Class in Journalism. The class in journalism, under the direction di-rection of Professor N. L. Nelson, has been an active factor in the work of the school, the press of the state having been kept supplied with interesting newsitems. The school greatly appreciates the courtesy cour-tesy of The Tribune and other publications publica-tions in the state for their co-operation. It has made the work function vitallv. The teaching force of the school has been materially strengthened by the addition addi-tion of energetic and scholarly professors. profes-sors. In biology Dr. Martin P. Henderson Hender-son has aroused great enthusiasm. Professor Pro-fessor Dean R. Brimhall, recently graduated gradu-ated from Columbia university, as director di-rector of secondary training has given new educational impetus in the church teachers' college. Professor Car) F. Eyring is rendering magnificent service in the physics department. In oral expression ex-pression and physical culture the university univer-sity is fortunate in having secured the services of two competent ladies, Professor Pro-fessor Armorel Dixon and Miss ' Edith Barlow. Especially pleasing is the social hour under their tuition, during which pedagogues and students mingle in joyous social intercourse, acquiring all the arts and graces of the refined ballroom. The school has always stood for the heroic and practical, and the development, of chic pride and patriotism. In har- , mony- with these ideals the young men ! ,of the school last spring, armed with j "picks and shovels, proceeded to the mountainside and built a trail leading to Maple flat, a beautiful spot near the top of the mountains east, of Provo. Probably Prob-ably next spring the work will be completed. com-pleted. The trail at present is so good that it was found feasible for the school I to make the climb to the flat and cele-, cele-, brate Founders' day there, j At present the faculty and students are directing their energies toward acquiring ! the splendid Whitecotton library, valued j at more than $3000. Mr. Whitecotton has generously contributed $1500 of the sum. and no doubt the books will soon form a valuable addition to the school library. A number of campus improvements are contemplated in the spring, including the cindering of the track and making the -ampus one of the finest athletic fields in the west. General Hospital. The Provo General hospital was established es-tablished in October, 1903, by Doctors J. W. Aird. George E. Robinson and Fred YV. Taylor in the building on the corner of Second South and First East streets, known as the Smoot home, and ' its srrowth has been steady and substantial, with the addition of more space and buildings in keeping with the demands niiide for the '-are and treatment of the si.-k und Afflicted. The hospital lias the four buildings and tiie entire south half of the block. I'-xiil rods. Of these build in ks. the most recently acquired is the. Hoi brook double compartment compart-ment bulldincs, and grounds to the west of the old main hospital proper. In January. Jan-uary. 19.1 S, Doctors David Westwood and H. G. Merrill joined the firm, and the rive doctors have devoted their time and ability to making the hospital a public convenience and necessity. The last and largest building acquired by the hospital start has been equipped and furnished for a woman's hospital and maternity home, and was tlirown oDen for the admission of patients during December. De-cember. The State Mental hospital has during the year been conducted alone the same high plane as for several years past, and today it occupies a position of distinction among the Institutions for treatment of mental and nervous disorders. As heretofore,' here-tofore,' many persons of note, professional men and others, have visited the instir tution, all of whom were apparently much interested in the work being accomplished. accom-plished. . Those who were competent to judge expressed themselves most approvingly approv-ingly of the methods followed and the general management of the hospital. Considerable work has been done In the way of improvements. A concrete silo has been erected and the poultry plant has been enlarged. The grounds have been beautified by the arrangement of walks and flower beds. The department for the feeble-minded and non -insane epileptic has been successfully suc-cessfully operated during the year. This department, however, is at the present time running at capacity. The inmates of this department who can be benefited by the re-educational work are encouraged en-couraged to attend the school exercises. The adoption of the Montessori system of Instruction- has been of great advantage advan-tage to the school department. The pupils pu-pils take great interest in it and are gradually worked into the Diimary and I grade classes. Several of the older girls from this department are employed at ; times in the sewing, dining and ironing rooms. The older hoys busy themselves about the grounds and in and about the dairy. In the manual training department depart-ment all scrubbing and clothes brushes used in the institution are made, as well as all baskets used on the farm and in the laundry. There are also classes in needle and art work, and some very creditable work is done by the pupils. Make Own Clothing. All clothing required by patients of the institution is made in the industrial department, de-partment, including overalls, jumpers and hosiery. In the wards female patients engage in needlework of various kinds and sew rags for carpets and rugs, which are made in the industrial department. Dr. D. H. Calder, superintendent of the hospital, has recommended measures not only for the alleviation, but for the prevention pre-vention of mental maladies. These recommendations rec-ommendations were incorporated in a bill which was presented to the legislature of 1915, which, however, failed to pass it. On this point Dr. Calder says: We still feel it our duty to advise practical remedies to meet this condition. con-dition. At the last session of the legislature legis-lature we suggested that provision he made for the appointment by tiie governor gov-ernor of a commission with inquisi-Torial inquisi-Torial powers to Btudy the subject of feeble-mindedness and allied condi-- condi-- tions and make report, with recommendations, recom-mendations, to the governor and tiie next legislature. This met with the approval of the legislature, and the commission will, no doubt, report fully on the subject. The number of patients discharged from the Institution, recovered, during the past year averaged from 3.1 to 42 per cent. The commitments are increasing In number and there is a gradual increase in popu la t ion. coupled with the commit merit of the feeble-minded a nd the non -insane epileptic patients. The popula tion hats" also been increased, more or less, by com- ' mitment of simply senile persons, who really do not belong in the hospital, but in the county Infirmaries. yy " . i ' . r';: . - l- - 'ilJl PR070, UTAH . i - H '--as Street scenes in Provo, rightly c ailed tie Garden City of TJtali. |
