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Show PROVO "(UTAH) SUNDAY HER ALP, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1941 PAGE FIVE Payson Canyon Is Mecca For Winter Sports Activities Among other things, Fayson is noted for its winter sports advantages. advan-tages. Skiing and tobogganing: are extremely popular on the snow-cushioned snow-cushioned slopes of Payson canyon. can-yon. Shown here are a few inviting invit-ing scenes of this activity. PAYSON BOASTS CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS. RECRE BY MRS. EM5IA WILSON During the early days of Pay-son's Pay-son's history, one of the leading occupations of the settlers was logging and cutting ties in Pay-son Pay-son canyon. In the first years this was directed toward their own needs, supplying them with fuel and providing logs to build homes and the fort which was their shelter shelt-er from the Indians. Numerous small sawmills were operated in the canyon and none but native lumber was used for all building operations. With the iimitud road building facilities of that time, the canyon roads were steep, rough and narrow. The advent of the railroad in Utah provided a real industry for the settlers by cutting ties which were sold to the railroad company for much needed cash Important as the canyon was at that time and down through the intervening years at no time has it been in such general use as at the present time. Under federal supervision, much timber continues to be cut, both for fuel and for lumber. Also the mountains provide grazing for the local cattlemen's association. But the past decade has brought great changes, witli the development of the canyon for recreational purposes pur-poses and the building of the new Webo scenic loop. Modern road building equipment and the use of the automobile for travel have combined for great changes. The beautiful scenic drive is made over a graded and gravelled road, where great vistas of sheer loveliness provides one of the finest scenic trips in the state. The trip over the loop begins, either at Payson or Nephi, with a gradual climb up 'each canyon and over the divide. Great Playground ' Hie road is usually opened in early June and throughout the bummer its verdant beauty is enjoyed, en-joyed, but the drive becomes most popular in September and early October with the gorgeous autumn colorings creating a masterpiece of beauty over tne entire loop. The canyon has developed into a great playground for every month of the year. Maple Dell, only five miles from the city is a beautiful, cool summer resort and numerous improvements are being planned by the new owner beiore next summer. Further up the canyon, the great recreation area, developed develop-ed by the forest service, is used extensively throughout the year. 'At numerous places, stoves and camp comforts have been provided provid-ed where camping groups and picnickers frequently assemble. The large reservoir is stocked with fish and also forms a beautiful beau-tiful pine encircled lake for boating boat-ing and bathing. Peteetneet creek, on the banks of which the first settlers made camp in October 1850, is a stream of clear sparkling spring water. Its course is followed by the canyon can-yon road and the stream is also kept well stocked with trout. It also is used for irrigation purposes pur-poses and is one of the city's valuable natural assets. Winter sports are enjoyed by a large number of enthusiasts in Payson canyon and at no season sea-son of the year is it more beautiful. beauti-ful. Many residents own summer homes in the canyons and parties of friends gather frequently at these homes for the fine skiing during the winter months. At no time in Payson's history has there been greater pride in 'V, . i. : WW- : MODERN BUILDINGS, SPLENDID ATI DI AL jiy If u GEORGE C. CHASE . . . Mayor of Payson public buildings, than at the present. pres-ent. Each of the four L. D. S. wards have fine modern chapels and are now following the church plan of beautification in preparation prepara-tion for the 1947 centennial. The Nebo stake tabernacle on Main street is also under the plan. The Payson city hospital, opened open-ed on Feb. 14, 1938 is being operated oper-ated most successfully under the supervision of the city officials and local physicians and continues to draw patronage from a large area. It is one of the finest small hospitals in the state and its extensive ex-tensive grounds are now landscaped. land-scaped. Every school building in Payson is modern and up to date and adequate ade-quate to care for the enrollment of approximately 1500 students since the completion of the new $150,000 additions at the high school last year. The city building on Main street and Utah avenue has quarters for all city officials and also houses the public library which is run so efficiently by Librarian Mary McKell and assistants. Beautiful Memorial park, dedicated dedi-cated to World War veterans is now more popular than ever since the addition of new recreational facilities, large lighted tennis courts, softball and volleyball courts and playground equipment. A large open air fireplace was constructed in this area last summer sum-mer by the Nebo stake Bee Hive girls. Formal application has been made for a national guard armory arm-ory to house the local battery and is the first in line in the state if an appropriation is made by the legislature this year. , The Strawberry High Line Canal company has its own modern mod-ern building and the Strawberry Water Users' association has offices of-fices in the same building. The largest single industry in Payson at the present time is the poultry industry and the local plant of the Utah Poultry Producers' Pro-ducers' Cooperative association is now the largest in the state. Floyd Harmer, plant manager, reports re-ports that last year they handled 50,000 cases of eggs and more than 120,000 bags of feed. Fifteen 5 5 I S men arc employed with more at the peak periods. Just recently, the association mailed to its members mem-bers in this locality $10,000 in dividend checks. The Payson Milling company is a Payson owned industry, providing provid-ing employment for local citizens. It is a modern and up to date plant in every way and a very successful suc-cessful business under the management man-agement of Amnion Hermanson. It handled well over 7,000,000 founds of grain for "the" "farmers during the past year, providing a cash market for their products the year round. The high quality of the flour and sereals made has created, a vast demand throughout Utah and surrounding states. Thu3 the famous fa-mous Payson Snow White Flour, advertises the thrift and beautiful beauti-ful city of Payson throughout a large territory. Payson is the southern terminal for tne Salt Lake and Utah Rail-load Rail-load and its large repair and service shops are located here. Although not a mining city, the mining industry brings to Payson one of its largest payrolls. Located Locat-ed only 23 miles from the -rich silver mines at Dividend about 100 men , employed by the Tintic Standard Mining company reside in Payson with their families. A program of building which stated about five years ago in Payson is still in progress and many new homes are now under construction. Recent , among the added improvements im-provements and greatest assets was the opening of the Commercial Commer-cial Bank of Payson on August 30, 1940. After being without proper banking facilities for several sev-eral years, Payson and adjacent towns are proud of this fine modern mod-ern banking institution and the beautiful modern building on the corner of Main street and First North. George C. Chase, Payson city mayor is vice president oi the bank and Roy Broadbent is cashier. cash-ier. P. P. Tnomas is the bank's president. AnQther new business opened early last fall was the cold storage stor-age plant and lockers by C. E. Iluish. The business is operated in connection with the Porter Market. Payson boasts on up to date weekly newspaper and a printing plant capable of handling all types of printing jobs. Payson is a shopping center for a large area and the progressive business and professional people of the city are ever desirous to please those within and without Uie city's gates. The city's $250,0uu sewer project proj-ect is about 98 per cent complete and about one hundred service connections have been made. The system is completely up to date in every detail and the construction construc-tion has been successfully carried out as a WPA labor project. La-ban La-ban Harding is construction superintendent super-intendent and Joe McNabb is city engineer. Ground was broken on October 22, 1938 and the 150 men now employed will be released in April to begin work on oiled roads in the city. More than five miles were gravelled in the late fall for the preliminary base. Several additional ad-ditional miles of new sidewalks and rock irrigation carriers will also be built this spring. Being the heart of the great Strawberry valley irrigation project proj-ect and surrounded by rich farming farm-ing land on all sides, agriculture is the principal Industry of Pay' FACILITE son. Climatic and other conditions condi-tions are ideal for all types of farm products, fruits and berries. When the various Utah county towns were selecting some product prod-uct to advertise at their community com-munity celebration, Payson was hard put to make a selection, with such a wide variety of equally fine products. Seeking something with a strong pull, they selected, the Valencia onion which was being be-ing grown so abundantly hera at that time. And so Payson's great harvest celebration, Golden Onion Days and Home Coming celebration celebra-tion is now known to thousands. As the onion is a symbol of our many farm products, so it has become a symbol for the best community celebration it is possible pos-sible to have. City sponsored and directed, Payson is happy each year to greet the thousands who return again for one of Utah's greatest annual celebrations. The affairs of Payson are in most capable hands at the present pre-sent time, with George C. Chase as mayor, Floyd Ilarmer, A. C. Page, George A. Cheever, Dr. Merrill Oldroyd and Louis A. Bates as councilmen; J. A. Law, recorder; Miss E. A. Crook, treasurer. treas-urer. - ' Largest Cypress Tree Lives 3,500 Years ORLANDO, Fla. U.R The world's largest cypress tree, called "The Senator" or "The Big Tree," grows between Orlando and San-ford. San-ford. Estimated from water marks on its trimks to be 3,500 years old, it stands 125 feet hieh. It once was taller, but the top was destroyed by lightning. It is 17 feet in diameter diam-eter at the base and th first limh is 75 feet from the ground. n ii 14 H i ii i ii ii ii ii t M II II It II II II II II II II II II II 1 1 II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II . II II II II II II II II II II II II II M II II II (I Fi II II II II ri 11 11 II II II II 1 1 II II II II II II FI 1 1 1 1 FI II II 11 11 FI I I II II CJ t I 14 II II II I I M II t I tl II II M II FI FI F 1 n n n FI ci FI FI El 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 FI 1 1 F 1 FI II n FI Fi FI II II H li tzz: Utah County The Provo chamber of commerce is endeavoring to bring new factories fac-tories into Utah county and is now working through Senator Murdock, Congressman Robinson and others to have a U. S. army post or other government unit located in this area. Our county has much to offer in such basic things as power, gas, coal, coke, water, labor, transportation, transpor-tation, etc. Following is a brief desription of these important assets. POWER Ample electric power is vital to the successful operation of industrial indus-trial and manufacturing plants. At Olmsted, six miles north of Provo, there are two generating plants of the Utah Power & Light company. One is a hydro plant with slightly less than 20,000 horsepower capacity; the other is a modern new steam plant which generates 25,000 horsepower. These two plants are inter-connected with the company's system of 51 generating plants located in Utah and Idaho which are capable of producing 320,000 horsepower. Provo City has a new municipal team plant which began operations opera-tions in April 1910. A new unit is now being Installed which, when completed in April 1941, will give the plant a capacity of 8,000 k. w. There are, in addition, several sev-eral smaller municipal plants in Utah county at Lehi, Pleasant Grove, Springville and ; Spanish Fork. This concentration of power plants makes Provo one of the Payson is one of the fastest grow i n g communities in the state. In the last ten years the population has increased more than twenty per cent. Beautiful homes and buildings build-ings are outstanding in Payson and our schools are a credit to to the city. Agriculture is our principal industry and Payson is the heart of all kinds of farm products, fruits and berries. The poultry business is rapidly increasing. Over 50,000 cases of eggs were shipped last year. "LIVE IN PAYSON" PAYS O N GEORGE C. CHASE, Mayor COUNCILMEN George A. Cheever : Arza C. Page and Merril J. A. Law, Recorder Boasts Vast esources ror IMew Industrie leading power production and distribution dis-tribution centers in the West. Reliability of the power supply is of great importance. Here, there is a supplementary supply which will insure continuous service serv-ice at all times with no interruptions interrup-tions to plant operations. I GAS I Artificial gas for fuel is produced pro-duced as a by-product of the blast furnace operations at the plant of the Columbia Steel company near Provo. The normal gas production is 12,000,000 cubic feet per day. Approximately 50 per cent of this amount is consumed by the coke ovens, and other plant operations. About 300,000 cubic feet per day are sold to the local gas company during the six spring and summer months. The daily sales to the gas company are increased to about 3,00o,000 cubic feet per day during dur-ing the six fall and winter months. This leaves an available gas supply for new industries of two to tnree million cubic feet per day during the six months of the year. In addition to the above, natural gas is available in the north end of the county which is supplied through a system that serves the Salt Lake City area and the northern north-ern part of the state. The aggregate aggre-gate supply available is 125,000,-000 125,000,-000 cubic feet daily. The natural ga.s has a thermal value of about 1000 li. T. U.'s per cubic loot. COAL Ninety-eight per cent of Utah coal is mined in the Carbon-Emery : Floyd Ilarmer : Louis A. Bates L. Oldroyd Miss E. A. Crook, Treasurer Basic district which is only 65 to 75 miles from Provo. These bituminous bitumin-ous coals are considered the highest high-est quality on the western market. mar-ket. They are low in ash, and moisture, extremely low in sulphur sul-phur and ' have a heat value of about 13,000 B. T. U.'s. At Columbia Colum-bia and Sunnyside are coals that can be made into a good grade of coke. Freight rates on , coal (slack $1.45 lump, etc. $1.85) are lower from the mines to Provo than to any other center in Utah. The Utah Coal Route (railroad) which has its terminus in" Provo provides pro-vides excellent daily transportation transporta-tion service from the coal mines to Provo. -4 COKE Coke is produced as a by-product at the plant of the Columbia Steel company, near Provo. The annual output is approximately 400,000 tons. Large quantities of this coke are shipped to the smelters and refineries in Utah and surround-ing surround-ing states. It is available in Provo at the lowest prices in the state. I WATER Water, a basic requirement for most all manufacturing industrial indus-trial and agricultural purposes is available in Provo and Utah county coun-ty in great abundance. Utah lake,' three miles west of Provo, is a fresh water body, 30 miles long and about 6 miles wide. Provo river and several other streams flow into the lake. The Provo river (Deer Creek) project now being constructed by the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation in Provo canyon about 16 miles from Provo at a cost of $15,000,-000 $15,000,-000 will impound 150,000 acre feet of water. Of this, Provo City will own 8000 acre feet which, together to-gether with water it already owns, will supply ample culinary water for a city of 50,000 people. Water will also be available for industrial indus-trial purposes. I LABOR Labor conditions in Utah county are unusually favorable to industry. indus-try. Workers are practically all native white and literate. Housing is good and living conditions, generally, gen-erally, are excellent. Utah county is the largest producing county, agriculturally speaking, in the In-termountain In-termountain region. There is an abundance of fruits, vegetables, dairy and poultry products, etc so the cost of living is always low, when compared to other sections. Strikes, boycotts and labor troubles trou-bles of this kind are exceedingly rare practically non - existant. The local university, high schools and grade schools afford educational educa-tional facilities far above the average. av-erage. Y- TRANSPORTATION : The main line of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad runs through this area providing quick freight and passenger transportation trans-portation (through connecting railroads) west to San Francisco; east to Denver, Omaha, and Chicago; Chi-cago; and south to Texas and the gulf ports. The Union Pacific Railroad operates op-erates a branch line through this (Continued on Page Seven) it frt 81 II II II M THE FINEST CITY IN UTAH COUNTY FI M N t.i fi H H N to H ii M M It liS 13 18 ii it I I M Ci i I M |