Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 14 | 1917 Banner Year for Brigham City Residents Many Improvements Completed during Year

1 917 B A N N ER YE A R FOR BRIGHAM CITY RESIDENTS; MANY IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETED DURING YEAR' '" " ' ' i !,! - - ' '-':..' '", ' t 1 , .r. i -. . ? - - , . , . , rM j - Orchard ' , y -s--oa-C- W -z . ' indtvr " ' " , " -Bear River SioXG I ..;ri, mf?$r' - . I i s t J 41 I QxJt?fvisanKfuay zr?s-- tPSi LM- f& - " v I Wormno scrub cotfe Jnio ftehest breeds known. Js 1 m g X f New Municipal Administration Administra-tion Takes Reins of Government Gov-ernment January 1. Special to The Tribune. BRIO HAM CITV, Dec. 29. As was fully anticipated a year ago by every, optimistic person, 1917 was a banner year for Brigham City, and many noteworthy things have been accomplished here as well as in Hoxelder county as a whole. In Bright Brig-ht m City, from a municipal standpoint, hi- things have been done and bigger things are anticipated In the immediate future. The city purchased a modern fire engine en-gine at a' cost of $111,000; voted bonds In October to the amount of $80,000 for improvements im-provements to the waterworks system 1 and for the purchase of a more adequate land purer water supply; resurfaced Main street with Tarvia and spent $15,000 in extending paved sidewalks; graded many streets, and iiuthorized the installation of a heating plant in the city hall at a cot of $2000. With all the improvements that have been accomplished in Boxeldei- county during the -year, the county has also had tine to show its patriotism, as all the 1 people of the state have done this year. '. The county was at the top in her class in subscribing to the Red Cross fund, to the two laberty loans and to the soldiers' welfare fund. Hundreds of thousands of1 dollars have passed out of the county : through these patriotic channels during ; the vear, and the records will show Box- elder county well to the top of the list! in furnishing volunteers to the colors. ; New Administration. At the close of this year Brieham will ha vp a practically new administration which will take over the reins of government, govern-ment, and under the conditions upon which the officials were elected a change of government will be inaugurated if found feasible, which, it is predicted, will revolutionize the present system of governing gov-erning the city, and upon which, it is expected, ex-pected, will de-rend the future greatness great-ness of Brigham City. The new form of government, if adopted, will be the managerial man-agerial form now In successful operation in many of the larger cities of tho country. coun-try. Ttie corporations have spent large sums in the countv the past year and the programme pro-gramme of some of the big companies for 1 !M S calls for more improvements here. Many undertakings that were put under why last vear have been finished. These are' ehieflv the remodeling and modernizing moderniz-ing of the Garland sugar factory, enlarging enlarg-ing the cement plant in this city from a 500-barrel daily capacity to a ltiflO-barrel daily capacity, giving the Brigham cement ce-ment works a greater capacity, it is said, than anv other cement factory in the I'nited States; rebuilding of the Honey-ville Honey-ville flour mill; laving the foundations for two huge dams in Devil's Gate for the impounding of water for irrigation purposes, pur-poses, and the successful prosecution of the big task of constructing the Corinne drainage system. which is gradually transforming 11.000 acres of land from unproductiveness to fertile farms. The improvements at the Garland sugar factor fac-tor v. completed In time for last year's campaign, places that factory among the leaders in the west in point of capacity. The Devil's Gate irrigation project, backed bv Salt Eake capitalists, is another an-other big enterprise that will benefit the lorritorv adjacent to Brigham City in a large decree. It is est i ma ted that another an-other vear or two will be required to complete t lie big storage reservoirs that will head off the tremendous volumes of flood waters in the spring that now run to waste and release it d tiring the drv season for the irrigating of thousands of " acres of arid land north, south and cast of this city. The company will probable prob-able use that portion of the main dam that is already completed this coming sprimr and be pre; ared to sell water rights next spring. The dam was built to" a considerable height during the past yea : Bank Resources. Boxelder county's hanks have made a wonderful shuwini; during 1917. A gain oi" more than $'51.o00 has been marie over into, or an increase of approximately U per cent. The resources of tho five banks of the county o;i December 1 were as fnlVws: Fiist National. Brigham. $!m,fi.v!.t;; ; State bank,, Rrigharn. $n;i . -i.tie ; Security bank. Brtghn in. ?55.7;7.25 : Stale bank. Tremonton, 545.53.s.39; Bank of Garland (estimated!. J;i25.0o ; total for tho county. $3.21.27.3 1. December 1. 1!K, tho total was approximately- S2.630,-Oi'O. S2.630,-Oi'O. an increase for 1017 of ?'J51,0'10. Building Activity. Bri.uhain City's building record in I'1 17 fell heiow the iii'-rh mark sot in inu;. but this condifion was due entirely to conditions condi-tions con! rou ti n -j. t lie count ry. M any modem iaMiies were contemplated early in the year, but were postponed on account ac-count id' t'ne hiirli iost of materia. As it is. Hriirham's expenditures for new. modern residences iind for improvements e. eeded s.5 A few of the larger riuiloiu-: projects o.itside of Briuham :i'- elated a ci -si of -? 75,ii"ti, U' 1 1 lol low ing residents of Brigham built new homes and made improvements at expenditures as set forth: John G. Wheatlev, brick residence, $3200; Oliver Eorsgfen, improvements, ?S0o; Richard Christiansen, brick residence, resi-dence, $3000; Mrs. Elida Steed, pebble-dash pebble-dash residence, $2000; N. J. Nelson, improvements im-provements on business block, $500; Martin Mar-tin .1. Nelson, cottage, ?S00; John B. Mathias, brick residence, $4iQ0; Annie C. Nelson, frame cottage, $1000: Dr. IX. A. Pearse, brick residence, $SOO0; E. P. Hors- lev, improvements, $1000; John F. Petersen, Peter-sen, improvements, ?10t'0; Merrell Lumber Lum-ber company, business property improvements, improve-ments, S2H00; Joseph Burt, improvements, ?25tm; Jensen Brothers Milling and Elevator Ele-vator companv, warehouse. $8000; Bert Otsen frame residence, $3000: Clarence A. Jensen, brick residence, $3000: Lorenzo W nderson, brick residence, $K500; Pearse-Cooley hospital, improvements, si 500: Otto A. Kofoed, brick veneer residence. resi-dence. $3000; John 1th, improvements, $600: T. B. Mathias, improvements, $lnd0; N P. Hanson, jewelry store, $600; Io-renzo Io-renzo Hansen, frame cottage, $2000; William Wil-liam Jensen, improvements, $::200; Mrs. M. F. Pelrce, frame cottage, $1000; C. N-Christensen. N-Christensen. improvements, $2000; J. P. Christensen, residence, 2JMjn; J- Hess, cottage, $2500: J- H- Hess, frame cottage, $25iiii George Freeman, frame cottage, S'50()' E C F. Hartmann, improvements, Vr.00: Hartmann apartments, improvements improve-ments S2000; J. D. Robinette. cottage, $1500- Stewart garage, improvements. SOir citv hall heating plant, ?20i0; Leo ! Lund, residence, $3000; total, SSn,2a0. A few of the bigger buildings m the I countv are as follows: Bank of Garland. ! rebuilt, $20,000; Portage school. InfiOO, I T W Lewis, Garland, business block, i I sfiOOrt-'HonevviUe mill, $20,000; James M. , Dalton residence. Willard $3000 ; ; J W. , Manning residence, Garland, a000; total, . ?6S,000. " Canning Industry. Canners of Boxelder county are uuani-: mous in the belief that 1917 excelled any previous year m the history ot fruit canning can-ning in this county. This extraorulnary condition is accredited to more tha n o. e thing Inthe first place, the season heU out well, allowing all the fruits an. vegetables vege-tables to thoroughly mature, 'thont interference by the elements, gtving t e canneries an opportunity of cleaning up evervthing which was tit to preserve. In the second place, the war created Sll "i a tremendous demand for canned that some of the local canneries had sold their season's output long before the fruit was even ready to pick. And rcc3-well. the canners are wearing the hi- smile the fruit growers were sat s-ed. s-ed. and the employees of the factor.es were paid better than ever before "two ' canning factories are operated J this citv, one at Perry, one at Millard a d one at Tremonton. T he Brigham fac tories could have packed a great iteai more fruit had there been sufficient la-Sor la-Sor as t was. the fruit shippers got a whole lot of fruit that the canners should have handled. Prosperous Tremonton. The little citv of Tremonton has been on the r ap for a number of years as one of the most enterprising towns in Boxelder Founded in 1903, the town now cornor ses a population of energetic and enterpiisfng citizens to the number of t -It ,A 700 or goo, with waterworks, severs electriS lights and nearly all the modern conveniences; has four churches, a modern brick school building, homing eMit -rados. three hotels, one o which eon a in- thirtv rooms and ts being en-ftrKed en-ftrKed bv a" addition to contain twenty a, dUion I rooms, making it the largest ho e in Bixelder county; four general store winch carry stocks that compare well in size and nualyv with any in Towns ten times the size: a bank with deposits of nearly half a million dollars; canning factory, a vinegar factory, three garases and numerous minor m-duArles m-duArles all of which combined give the town a substantial pav roll. -lance at the figures of its shipments dt-ring the past year will give a good I of the business transacted by its niercliant,s and others The following items are taken from the records of the Ore -on Short Line railroad. The figures are "for fuU carload shipments and do not include more than a hundred carloads of nroducts loaded on near-by sidings that were billed out from the Tremonton or-fice or-fice of the railroad: Wheat t'ars Hav 5'", cars Oats J;; cars Bailee l'iirs liplrs; li cars Potatoes t"ra Livestock c:irs Canned poola ' cars Miscellaneous- -1 cars Total -'4 carS Building in Tremonton. . A number of important building opera -t ions have been carried out d uring tile vear. A .OJU't'-'ousiiel grain elevator is neariitiT completion; a large brick build-in build-in has been completed, one part of which loused as a motion picture house and the oilier as an implement warhouse; an audition to the Midland hotel: an addition, 5ix!ei feet, to the (.lol' ion Rule store; a T wentv -room addition to the hotel, and several new dwellings have been built. ( f social and fraternal orders. Tremonton Tremon-ton ha a lair si i a re. anions whOh are the I. O. O. F.. Modern Woodmen, t he a'd societies of the various churches, a home economics association and a commercial club composed of the best boosters in the state. The citizens of Tremonton are proud of their city and are continually working for a greater Tremonton. Purebred Livestock. Boxelder countv boasts of one of the best flocks of Rambouillet sheep in the world; of a .superior stable of Percheron breeding mares; of one of the best herds of Hereford cattle to be found anywhere, in which are found animals that have taken blue ribbons and championships and grand championships; numerous stables of purebred Jerseys. Holsteins and Gurnsevs. A notable feature of Boxelder countv breeders is that they are all boosters boost-ers for purebreed stock and are constantly urging that their neighbors and the residents resi-dents of the state engage in the breeding of purebreds. Perhaps the bisgest industry of Box-elder Box-elder county loday is the sugar indus-; indus-; try. The county supports two factories at present and "another factory or two ! are under contemplation. In the I.'tah- Idaho Sugar company's territory there are 1 10,000 acres of beets raised. For these I beets the sugar company will pay approxi-1 approxi-1 mately S700.000 for the 1917 harvest. The ! company, whose factory is located at Gar-! Gar-! land, employs 200 men in field and j factory, and the pay roll per month dur- ing the sugar-making campaign is approximately ap-proximately $30,000, with an enormous sum for sundry expenses and supplies. The Amalgamated Sugar company, which operates a factory in this city, has a beet acreage of approximately 4000 acres and paid to the farmers in November $250,-000, $250,-000, with another pay day in December and one in January. Railroad Improvements. Boxelder county has received her share i of the railroad improvements of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line railroad, and of the total I bud,get of that road for J 917 improve- j ments. which was $4,1 14,672, Boxelder county received $240,000 for the completion of two projects. Besides, a large sum I was expended in making extensive 1m- provements in tlie Brigham yards. The I lines under construction this year, a nd i which were recently completed, were the I extension of the-Baker's spur at an ex- pondlure of $i 0,000. and Garland to Bear River City spur, at a cost of $179,000. The ! Oregon Short Line also made improvements improve-ments on the Tremonton depot at a cost of .,3100. Boxelder county also received her portion of the sixty 'miles of eighty and eighty-five-pound rails on the main line that was relayed with ninety-pound steel. During . the year the O. S. I. acquired title to a valuable tract of land east of Eighth West street and south of Forest street, upon which the com nan y contemplates the erection of large warehouses ware-houses in the near future. This tract is situated so as to be easily accessible to railroad spurs from the yards and lor the public. Boxelder county ranks high In education educa-tion and has a school system that is equal to any in the state. Its school buildings are nearly all new, the old buildings throughout the county generally disappearing disappear-ing and making room for larger and more modern structures, with all modern conveniences. con-veniences. In the past six years approximately approxi-mately $300,000 has been expended in the county for new schools. This year a school was built in Portage at a cost of ?15,00u. Next year, in all probability, Brigham City will be allotted another school building to take care of the greatly great-ly Increased school population. Large School District. The Boxelder county school district is one of the largest in the state of Utah, outside of Salt Lake and Ogden. It is co-ex tensive with Boxelder county and, compared in point of area with some of the slates of the union, the district is as large as t lie states of Rhode Island and Connecticut combined and nearly as large as Massachusetts. The schools are conducted under the "county unit," or consolidated, plan by a board of five members, one of which is selected from each of the five districts into which the county is divided. The I present board members are Peter M. Hansen of Elwood, Thomas Wheatlev of Honey villc, F. V.' Fish burn of Brigham Citv, A. M. Soeley of Grouse Creek and John J. hum way of Garland. This board has employed for tills year upward of 170 teachers. This Includes a superintendent, four special supervisors and forty-seven principals. One-seventh of these teachers are teaching in one. two and three-room schoolhouses in the western west-ern part of the district ; six-sev ents are teaching in the Bear River valley and in tlit- territory east of Bear river. Of the total number of teachers employed, one-third one-third are employed In this city. There is a junior high school a t Garland and a four-year senior high school In Brigham which has an enrollment of 500 students. The schools in Brigham are very much congested and more loom will ha ve to be provided for another ye;w. There are 2 iii seven t h. eighth a nd ninth -grade pupils pu-pils in P. rig ha in, and the officials may adopt 1 1 io much -talked -of "six-t hree-thiee" hree-thiee" plan, which would put these grades in a department by themselves. Thi? plan is working successfully in the Gar-laud Gar-laud school. The farm bureau movement in Boxelder county is perhaps one of ii;e most sue-cessl'ul sue-cessl'ul undertakings that h.is boon ae- ompiivbed here. The county's awrieul-trral awrieul-trral affairs lave been in charge of Flub- ert II. Stewart, county apent, and a great ileal of beneficent work has been accomplished accom-plished through Mr. Slewart's department, j Following are some hrief notes on tite farm bureau's activity, statistics on farm production during the year and a general report of the county for 1917-. Tremonton cheese factory produced -10 per cent more butter during the same j length of time this year over t ha t period last vear. Hay production for the year is approximately ap-proximately 5im) per cent. Wheat production of the year one-fourth one-fourth greater. Some dry land wheal on large fields this year averaged twenty-tlnee twenty-tlnee bushels per acre. Much dry land wheat sold for $L'.36 ner bushel. Oat vield approximately one-fifth greater 'than last year. Some fields yielded on an average ninety-one and a half bushels per ai re. last sprins. during the strct'-h of feed shortage, approximately flfly-lwo carloads of hay weiv shipped into the countv' by the farm bureau, leal bureaus and other co-opera th e insi itut ions ; thr.-f- cars nf seed otits. two cars . si-lcl seed potatoes pota-toes a lew carloads ot -oa! for threshing purpose-', one to" seed be-ins. one ton of selc-t seed ensilage corn. inHudins fine varieties. Various tests were mad1 with these and valuable data kept. Some of the ensllase com yielded t went y-tw o tons per rc. re.