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Show ----- - Book calls Farmington the xRose City' surest and safest investment for the aged businessman is a piece of earth where values are sure to keep an upward trend. ' ' Those are some pretty old-fashioned old-fashioned sounding ideas. But John White was right and those who brought their families to Farm ington have had good lives there. It would be interesting to know who moved to Farmington because of this lovely book and how many people still have an original copy of the book with its beautiful old photos of Farmington. hy CHERIE HLjBER Clipper Correspondent According to a lovely old book published in 1913, Farmington is the Rose City. Appreciative of the achievements achiev-ements and fame brought to the city through Miller Floral Company, who produced roses there, a committee com-mittee of citizens planned a celebration, celebra-tion, and Farmington was named "the Rose City." Arbor Day was set aside as Rose Day, and each year a rose sale was conducted and prizes of shrubs were awarded to those planting the largest number of roses on that day. The book, Farmington the Rose City, was written by John S. White, publisher of the Reflex in Kaysville for the Farmington Commercial Club. The book, written to promote Farmington and attract new residents, gives some interesting insight in-sight into Farmington as it was some 80 years ago. "The streets are broad and well lighted," the book reads, "and while the main road leading from north to south through the town is six miles long, it is well lighted the entire distance. This thoroughfare, which has recently been set aside as part of the Utah state highway, will also constitute a part of the proposed propos-ed Midland road. ' Businesses then in existence in Farmington are also mentioned. For example, "The Mountain States Telephone company has an exchange office in town, and most of the people are connected up with the telephone, also with electric lights and with the city water mains." Farmington had some kind of a race track too. "Two years ago a mile race course was established. This course joins Lagoon immediately im-mediately on the north and cost $75,000." The book was written with the hope of selling land and substantially substantial-ly increasing the population. "The city of Farmington needs three thousand additional residents," one section reads, "not from the Industrial Workers of the World, but from the world's industrial in-dustrial workers, and we have to offer them building lots, factory sites and farms at reasonable prices. White even offers some philosophical philo-sophical insight. "A large majority of the world work without thinking. There are also those who think without working, but the successful in any line are those who think first and then apply themselves to the accomplishment of the things they have undertaken to do. ' ' White became something of a philosopher again as he tried to promote the charm and benefits of Farmington. For example he wrote, "The best heritage a parent can bequeath be-queath to his offspring is a plat of ground in a favored locality. The |