Show PROVO TIm GAnnEN CITY Dutiful for Situation Cirowth and DovGloprnont Sorro of Hor Roprosoritativo Citizens THE POINT OF VIEW I lIE PLACE Iron which l to view Provo is renii > lc IIill an abrupt elevation l eleva-tion to the north of the cit > The origin of the 7 mine is obvious No sooner elect the visitor i sec this splendid plateau overlooking the valley th in the vision of wb it willet be bursts his mind i but whether upon NuI a et temple I of learning i shall I surmount these heights remains a question Somewhere ere the list Pioneer slnll be laid to sleep the Harvard of the West will rise Why not here THE SITE Deneath us then like a huge painting in which things live mel I move md breathe and change color I with the position of the sun and the shifting of the clouds lies the Garden Gar-den city of Utah The site is tin piralleled l in the West No w ish board ups and downs is in some more pretentious cities I could mine a smooth gradually declining pi un from the foothills to the like with just enough slope to make the streams along the sidewalks ripple and shimmer in the sunlight Provo is surely the paradise of the poplar Straight is angels they grow upward in ill spears y their ran beaut r more linn a hundred feet and stand like annie facing each other on opposite s dcs of the streets until the avenues they form are merged m the vanishing point of the perspective orchards ned shade trees vie with cich ether m veiling the houses and succeeds suc-ceeds admirably save with the newest and MOST PROMINENT BUILDINGS Of the litter the nearest to us is the Drigham Young Academy occupying a brume to itself ind surrounded by Jail ns and thnltj groves of young trees eich bearing the name of some student who planted it The woolen mills smoke begrimed is becomes i fictory its till chimneys belching forth curling clouds of smoke lorm a prominent group in mother block In the center of each quarter of the city is i i large building representing reo spectivel the Pker the Franklin the Webster and the Timpanejgos f schools In the very center of the city rise the graceful spires ol the Stile tabernacle and on in eminence a mile to the east is the Insane Asjlum one of the most prommcnl buildings ol the State Were we at that point J we should be able to look down in unbroken avenue straight through Center street and on for five miles till it ends in the blue waters ol the Ike 1 THE HOMES Dut the beauty of Provos archi lecture is not done in her public buildings fake a drive through her shady streets md you will see whatever mi suit jour > mood from the log cabin ol pioneer days now hidden in orchard or overgiown with vines mil the till barn like adobe houses that mark the transition transi-tion period to the picturesque cottage cot-tage and the splendid mansion that stand for the culture and afllticnce of today Around these homes you will find orchards and gardens behind and in front linns and < l flow erbeels that smile through jeweled jew-eled tears distilled < l by the cool night air or sprinkled there by artificial fountains BUSINESS HOUSES The business portion of the city Is I located mainly on Center street Situated l as they are in the mielst ol n thriving agricultural d strict the merchants of Irovo do a furly successful I suc-cessful business The stores compare com-pare favorat ly m equipment with those of Salt Iake I or Ogden but it might well be said m parenthesis l that the busmess is overdone lnle having most oflhe uU ullages of the I metropolis sucn as electric light cit water works afire brigade tcl ephone service an 1 thorough f ruled prim ir and seconei iry schools Provo 13 i Mil a rurll cit Most of its 7 ooo inhabitants are cm played tiling the soil though it has its quota of rich men engaged in riming stockraising and manuf ictur ing SIZE Such isi snoptical sketch of the city as it is toel It covers m arm of five or six square miles thoigh where the city end inn the country begins one could tell better fioin the official plat than from an examination examina-tion of the buildings md improvements improve-ments Its growth today is rather m the direction of the mountains than towatel the lake but it is b > no means a Utopian dream to believeth believe-th it m a decade or two all the pllin from the rock ribbed buttress on the east to the sandy belch on the w cst will be one great cily rOUNDING or PROVO Utah counts e s IIrt s ld 1 n 1848 at a point alii < I lh i i I K just south md wet of II here the R G W railway crosses the 1 mpan ojjos river 1 he follow car the settlers moved further up the rivr Then came tin founding of Irovo I on its present site Lirl in M irch 1819 a compmy of ijj s mis setout set-out from Silt Jake I City un ler the direction of John S Iligbcc to settle set-tle Irovo On the Iblh of March I 1849 the newly arrived cejloii n is organized into an ccclesiisticd ward I with JohnS limbec president md Isaac Higbceand Dime Hunting toll counselors A fort wal the hrt public work erected which kept the settlers busy for six weeks EARLY IIISTORy Utah county was orgmizcd d ir ing the s line year an1 oificers ip pointed by Governor oung Here is the record ot the first civil administration admin-istration m Irovo I April 14 iSjt Anclcction was I held at the city of Irovo for city officers ml the fjllowiig pcrsors were elected Elli I EVIIIi I nn > or DividC 1 infield < l Samuel Clirk Win 1lce I md H aria i Re llicld < J al ler men Davil I duff Williun Will Chauncc Turner Iekiel Kellogg Junes R Ivie Gilberth Haws Ros R Rogers Thomas G Wilson ml 1 Jonathan O Duke co mcilors who 1 were sworn into oflice by ma Isaac will be ill cirnet effort while with you to knOt k off your ecclesiisticd hwl klcs uU set OU free 1 h ive onlv to mention ihe names IS ofne j II h of some I of tl esc jurors to shon the reader how little truth mil how much fmatical liitred dictated the charge Dr John KiMtp and Abraham Abra-ham Cownover Irovo Gorge W Dean nov ol Richfield Mailm II Peck for years after lerrilonal sealer of weights and meisurcs James Pee founder of Pi son cit John R Miirelw president of De iver Stake John J Turner since fimom sheriff of Utih county The controvcrsv between Governor Gov-ernor Cummings and J udge i Crullc biugli m to the u < c of the milinr I w is submitted to President Duch mm md the judge was unrere momoiislv turned elovn Cradle bingh thereupon adjourned court without chy Here ire the wends with which he dismissed the grind jury Hit is i expected that this court is to be mill b this community is 1 a means of protecting it iimst the peccadilloes ot Gentiles md Indians unless this community will punish its I own murderers such expectatiois I will not be re ihed It will be thee I for no such purpose When the people sh ill come to their re ison al11l 1 imm fest a elispe sition to punish their own high offenders it will then be time I to enforce the law also for their protection pro-tection If this court cannot bring ou to a proper sense of dut it can at lei t turn the siva cs held m cus toely loose upon jou Judge Crullebiu h expressed and I actcII open onty u hit many carpet bIg offici Us there ifter hav e elt and < l but ill conce lied Such has been Higbcc The Maor and Aldermen Alder-men have given bonds and security for the faithful discharge of their duties During iS3i 2 the county court organized the count into sehool districts dis-tricts election precincts and roul districts The first trial b jury was the Stat of Descret vs Henr Mcr He was lound guilt on time indictments viz stealing three horses from one m m a saddle from mother md a w itch from a third l and 1 fined 300 md costs of court orhboron the public works for three v ears T his occurred tinder the government of the provisional State of Deseret The county was reorganized according to the require mcnts of the ore line act of the Tcr ntor ol Utah on April ig 1852 Nothing unusual occurred fjr six cars fficultics md Ind m troubles being quite the usual order of things when there occurred what 13 1 novms the Move and Provo for a short tune had a sudden and unexpected gronth of popuh tion CR DLEB UGIIS COURT Next came that fimous or m f mious chapter in the un prudence ofthe Iirntoi Judge Cridlebiugh court it 1 rovo General Johnston md the army ofticers were luriou I I tint peicc hid 1 been prochimed without giving them a eh nice to win I liurcls ind Judges Smcliir 1 ccles I I mdCridlelnugh lent themselves tom to-m attcmpt to reoput ho lihties By 1 their ill > ultillg chngcs to grand I juries and mfmious court rul ngs I they hoped to foment rebellion Cridlebiuqh went so fir as to call for ten companies of soldiers to surroun 1 the courthouse court-house while he hel < 1 cOllrt1II order instmtl obe > cel by Gincrd Johnston John-ston even though fjrbul lento do sob so-b Governor Cumin ngs Com I I lines of suldurs were suit b the same judge into Smpete and Scvicr I counties I i to arrest high oflieials of I the Mormon Church me1 when they I I could not be found he tried to em plo the Indians to hunt them don I I m their hiding places m the mountains moun-tains tainsHere I is a sample paragraph from the ch irne lo the grind jur Yoll I I are the tools the du ws the mstru I1 ch 01 itmini d chinch de > put 1111 i 1h I 1 < 11101 ur hireh 11 I I il r 11 < Id 1 d I Voll i Y on ire taught I I I > Ih older i UK 011111111 i I Ill hn 1 1 lIIur < 1 s Deprived ol vou bcr I v ul hoe 1Dt jour man I I l hood ind become the willing instruments instru-ments ol bad men I sa to ou it the hatred against Mormons tint the most atrocious libels 1 upon them hive been rcadil y bel tvid and acted upon b their enemies Hut thanks be to the triumph of truth that day also h is passed The next events of importance in the lustur of Irovo were the establishment estab-lishment of woolen nulls and the founding of the Brigham oung academy acad-emy but as these intitutions arc treated IInder lither heads Ito pass I-to a brief consideration of the period known as THE BOOM One M almost tempted to call the boom spirit a ten poi iry aberratio i of the intellect It is a species of local patriotism gone mad It is m en iargeiuent I ol the eves md i irs and I i a contr ict on of co n non sense Not that Provo did not have v atid 1 i tilkmg pouts Her site is i ad m ttcdl cqu d if not superior to 1 th it of any other city m the state IIer J location 13 m the center of the I btue m the center of the ig rieiilturd wcillh md on the shores Hour sei of GlI lee nearer by I lifty imlci to the coal and leHI mines I th m the smelters of the Jord m lor wheh those mines arc run she his i w iter power for irng ition and I niinufietming purposes exceeding th it of O Igcn and S ill Llke I Cit combined Hanilural i railroad ccn ter in mini only the Kent of the Mull ind down I rovo cmon and is i the educational Mecca ol ZlOn md I so of other idnntigis tint migl be urged if arguments ol tins kind ire anr pall ltion for wildcat speculation in re d cst itc Hut arc the DREAMS TAKING SHAPE Everybody caught the freny Real estate co inn mded f ibulo n prices on option Rents I trebled Houses went up on every v leant lot Dusmess bloc s lose to the lourth tory md were subdvuled into ofiiecs until we should not find it flieult to accommodate the whole of hncrdoni A street rail wa was built by private capitihsts the word comes from I aim ciput licul but these had lost their held temporarily Not content with cit trallic they extended two miles cast to the grivel bed and west four milis lo the like The city w 1 > I n dJ 1 I i u itel work to leI le-I 111 tile 1 a pOpUIIIII1l1 ol 4 uoj pe i k h ihi rt IIIS the key to the situ atlon the ke we didn t getIhe 40 ooo people that should have come but didn Well happy was lie who didn hive inInni lo lose Individuals were ruined but on the whole the city was benefited She 13 fist growing to fit her clothes A thousand thou-sand students from abroad come very rcarl filling up I the boom houses each year The waterworks though expensive to the city ire a cheap luxury lo the householder Hope 13 icvivmg The city will yet fulfil the dreams of 1889 90 |