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Show - Centennial Welcome Edition 1947 box elder u Brighom City, Box Elder County, Utah Box Elder County Bears His Name S-- at For You Ms Is lew6 foumci Plenty To See (EDITORIAL Lots To Do In some Utah you're from LMty other than Box Elder. Iwt looking over your state I ad getting better acquainted I dus Centennial year . . . Box Elder County Visitors, and residents as well, who pause to see what there is to see, visit points of interest and enjoy the pleasures afforded in Brigham City and Box Elder county, are well repaid for their time. There is Willard Peak and InPoint, a wonderful spiration mountain drive and inspiring view; there is Box Elder county park, a favorite picnic and recreation spot, where its always cool; theres Willomere Ski basin, near the county park in Cache National forest, for skiing and tobogganing; there's t he Bear River Migratory Bird refuge, where you may see more birds, more kinds of birds, than youd believe possible in natural habitat;' there's Crystal Springs, 12 miles north of town, with swimming pool, dancing and refreshments, and Utah Hot Springs, witli both indoor and outdoor pools, south of town: theres Hulls Trout farm, where you can catch your mountain trout for dinner, and the huge Maple Creek trout hatchery and fur farm; theres the right-oway of the first railroad to join East to West, and the monument marking the point where the Golden Spike was driven other from some If you're Ijtjte m the Union, visiting IjDe West seeing America I first, taking alone, or with I a ?0ur family - to Ijnd long I vacation; if you're traveling I in that delightful, carefree I down any my that leads you I road that beckons, if you're I unconcerned by time sched-Lie- s and no slave to the mile-- I meter or the road map . . . jge well-earne- d looked-forwar- just you're If "on your I somewhere you've 1 through visit. d to And I a to determin-- I . . we're talking to you. Then I . passing way" what we're saying is. in welcome!" word, you're yes, welcome in I Brigham City and Box Elder Isunty and all of the people county and its various I jl our are represented, I communities I degree, in loading :he word with meaning and offering it fo you in all sin-- I I some to centy. like Box Elder county. think it's a grand place We I We I I of us Many have spent a enjoying this setting, ct the foot Sine I life-- I of 1 year. every this year we're And cele- brating Utah's Centennial by I mviting you to tarry to get I acquainted, and to see and I sjoy these things with us. City doesn't look "tourists" as an "industrRather, here you'll find Brigham upon y the Western you are gates, you are our friends. We are interested in (on, and eager to know you better. We would like to show fon the things we ourselves !cioy, to let you see and get know our community and Jc' county as we see it and mow hospitality. r,,hin our When to ft. I Make Brigham City your IIf?(,uar,eis for your stay in h. Spend a day or two, at looking over Box Elder unfyErigham City is with- an hour's drive or so of Utah's larger cities and Centennial attractions. - l to JPak the people you in the anywhere about town, is Just a small commun-- r on is the street, the word ' m our . . "stranger" vocabulary. W TfhlIe- - in 1869. beautiful the I Wasatch mountains. Many of I rs who have lived here for I years are finding new and I exciting things to see and do m I our home community and the surrounding countryside, . f with a lot of fine, triendly folk, a lot of inter-- I esting places and pastimes. live, i no out for a ,There'3 Ilrighant Young, honored Mormon spiritual leader, pioneer and first territorial goternor of I'tah, was president of the L. I) S. church when Ilrighani City was founded and named in his honor. Today a small city of some fi.000 population, Hrigham City is the center of a thriving fruit industry, is famous for its peaches, and has a modest but sound economv based on agricultural, horticutural, poultry and livestock producindustries. small several with tion, along well-varie- d IN BRIGHAM CITY, FIRST SETTLED 1849, WAS NAMED IN HONOR OF UTAHS GREAT COLONIZER United Order" Operated Here In ham City and Box Elder county relate. lie returned to Salt Lake Early Days, Did Quarter City for the winter, and in 1890 It is family and located Visitors In Utah from any-- brought good look at the West . . . where in the world puzzled as his permanent (Continued on Following Page) this is it! If you're vacationthey may lie at such strange" of town names as Nephi, Moroni, ing, looking for a change The Picture scene, for comfort and quiet Mant i. Ephraim and the like pleasure and rest, you'll find never need inquire as to the oriThe above picture of Brigthem here. You'11 find you gin of the name of Brigham City. ham Young is from an old get a better perspective of an Brigham Young, great spiritual picture postcard photographic econarea from the vantage-poin- t leader, pioneer, colonizer, which was popular with of a small town try it! omist and political leader, first Utahns and tourists to this of Utah, was territorial governor Perhaps these stories, these well known throughout the state about the turn of the Copyrighted by W. pictures, these friendly mesand through century. A. Morton, on the picture side firms world, in his day sages from business history to succeeding generaof the card is the legend, and service institutions will tions. Everyone can quess, and to Young, horn June enjoy your help you better that Brigham City 1,Brigham 1801, died August 29, 1877, visit in Box Elder county. correctly, was named in his honor. and on the reverse, in addition We hope so. to the postcard markings, after Brigtwo 1819, In years In any event, we are sure This card is a real photohis famous uttered ham Young we're know on bromide paper. The they will let you this is the place' prophesy, graph, glad you're here. . . for a day, William Rotograph Co., N. Y. City. Salt from eante Davis or a lifetime. . . . that in all Printed in Germany. Lake City to locale a homesincerity all Box Elder welstead, early histories of Brigcomes you! Unique - Million Business I year-aroun- ... d A sportsmans paradise, Box Elder offers excellent pheasant and rabbit hunting, the worlds best migratory waterfowl shooting, deer hunting, with growing herds of antelope and elk in the western part of the county, and fishing for sporty mountain trout in streams and from lakes in all directions Brigham City. There is interesting Bear river, which flows from Bear Lake to empty into Great Salt Lake, the longest river traveling the direct-routshortest distance in the world; theres the Proman ontory peak, commanding view of Great incomparable Great Salt Lake; and theres Salt Lake itself, its shores al-- I most at the outskirts of Brigham Citv. e And many Brigham City visitors will find interesting a isit to Bushnell General hospital, the vast army hospital built in the spring and summer of 1942. and vacated by the army in the summer of 1946. The huge establishment stands as a monument to Box Elder's and Northern Utahs principal service in Wo; Id War II. Some representative of nearly every northern Utah family worked at the hospital. Built at a cost of approximately 14 million dollars, Bushnell at its peak operation had as many as many as 3,800 patients, and nearly that many service and civilian personnel caring for them. n f: ), ll Dp Rock, anu Mrs. r,eiyn Newman,: I I iuRanCE rf MAY 8E HELPFUL I ' benedi |