Show enterprise its resources and possibilities located in southwestern utah at the extreme southern end of the ea calante lies enterprise it liao been ft ell secluded and anyone to have learned much of it mut leave had special biome bu ome to call him there the escalanti tp valley locally called the desert with its many thousands of acres of level land covered with luxuriant sage and native graces surrounded hv a vast range of timber covered mountains rich with mineral and well supplied with springs has been a great live stock country with an altitude of about feet and a yearly rainfall of 15 inches the climate is ideal for stock raising purposes and cattle and horses will increase rapidly iv hen allotted to run wild the one thing which haa kept this country from being settled was the lack of water alie old residents of pinto mountain meadows and hebron utilized the only natural streams of water which flowed into the valley until about the year 1896 when 0 W huntsman of hebron located an excellent reservoir site in what is known as little pine valley is unica southwest of hebron he at once started a movement to build a dam and knowing that there was not enough land at hebron to use the water he filed on the tow of enterprise at the mouth of shoal creek canyon ei milea below hebron the project was ridiculed by a great many but a few or the more far sighted took hold of it and after about 14 years of hard work and sacrifice the dam was completed the dam site a narrow gorge between two almost perpendicular wall of granite is an ideal one the dam is made of rock laid up with cement and has a slight cune toward the water front making it one of the t dams imaginable alie reservoir holds acre feet of water and when combined with the waters of bhogal creek it makes a good water right for acres of land during the time the dam was un der construction the people of heb ron sold their water to alie enterprise reservoir and canal co for stock in the company and on the advice of the stake presidency moved to enterprise A few 5 ears prior to this a few homeire ida had been taken on the land joining town and when the hebron people left their homes and moved to e they were greeted by a great forest of giant aage bruh with about five or six scattered cabins peeping out over the siga bruh but what a cliance lias taken place since then now enterprise is a thrifty town of one hundred families A thousand dollar concrete and cement block building serves for meetings schools and socials socia ls many ful modern homes are built and others are under course of construction three up to date etoris are do ins a good a water system as good as any in the orld furnishes the town with pure spring water three telephone lines and a daily mail puta w in close communication with the eu rounding country TRO or three thousand acres of land are under cultivation producing bumper crops of wheat ants alfalfa potatoes vegetables fruits and berries the railroad connecting salt lake city and los angelea bistes through the valley only 18 miles distant and furnishes market for these crops the people a hardy bunch of warmhearted pioneers ibave created enviable social conditions deer are plentiful in the mountains and the reservoir is well stocked with trout furnishing groht able blurt for the people individuals and companies seeing the many resources the last two or three ears hate taken practically all the vacant land some irrigation projects have been started and dry farming is becoming popular the people of enterprise have more land and water than they can u and they are offering it for sale ver cheaply this furnishes an unusual opportunity for home eakers what enterprise needs is more people I 1 OR CLO fc mr and airs william bracken and fakih left tuesday for their home at central with the remains of ther son vernon who died of bights disease and leakage of the heart at the home of mr and mrs joseph burgess this ciar |