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Show BRIGHAM CITY IS I OF Memorial To County's War Dead TOWN ij Is 5jfllural Of Economy Of Brigham Setting Provides Playground Basis Box Elder County e is Great Salt Lake, the Boar more river tributary streams and adwhich marshes providing the 13 native), a drve- jacent Vetorafewmin- best duck hunting in the world. of But far more important to the Vation with any economic as well as the physiVmld show clearly metro-city- . cal headth of the area are broad no is City And part of acres of fertile farm and orchard with unfailing supplies of in the 'fact that land, any water for irrigation. Here, near, xetend to be a at hand, are raised all but trop-- ! fe-,'aat it leal fruits and vegetables, c:e. available to the residents of the adtown at low prices, are innumerable garden-fresh- , living in a small and throughout and long seasons. !ry advantages widely recognized Good City Government t fai need to list them Brigham City corporation and 23, to ages as a place Box Elder county offer citizens to rear a of e a home, the town virtually every service the largest cities can afsnail town, Brigham ford their residents. To mention The ieel that in every a few, there is an excellent r wa to school own comes close that system. It has been the Nature, geography, unwavering policy of every city ti to foun-- k irk of pioneer, and county administration since it the community spirit, the earliest development of this d progressiveness area to emphasize tn ter education, citizens have com-ik- e and consider the training of thai it so. as a public .bodys best t beei are youth jeh mountains investment. iBrigham City has ae. Brigham Citys back two grade schools, adequately a stt the town has none staffed with instructors who are n of ey of the vantages well qualified and trained, and that town streets who are permanent, !d th dangerous to park citizens of Brigham City, Box rrigati narrow and windiElder high school can boast in nping ng any distance equipment and facilities equal it figt unpleasantly ardu-kinto the best city high school, and 144,000 likelihood of curriculum on a par with any, d in" and cut off anywhere. anication with the Summer Recreation Program world during winter sual Unusual in a town this treme, cold weather in fact is a anywhere, and limited crop It of a, recreation summer program, di in turn limit the sponsored and carried on by the and igiiculture ieth gar city government which enjoys the participation of as large a d we (Soli Lake percentage of the towns children as does Brigham mountains Citys ipio: program. y and Box nation Silk Industry Once Thrived In on V . 3ust 1 I V ' I v N ?, v. tree-ripene- d 1 good. ty-:ai- year-aroun- d size-unu- LC Standing in front of the court house, this bronz statue was erected in memory of Box Elder countys dead heroes. The monument was bought by popular subscription from citizens and school children throughout the county. In a vault in the base are the names of all Box Elder service men of the two wars. The bronze plaque lists the names of those from Box Elder who gave their lives for their country. If you want the finest duck Smile, Smile, Smile and goose hunting in the entire Theres nothing embarrassing U.S.A., be in Box Elder county hel in November or 'December. There about smiling and saying are thousands of acres of marsh- lo to a stranger, out West. To es, fields and ponds supporting Box Elder county people, a youve an enormous duck and goose is a weve playground, picnic spots, winter Welcome At Refuge Visitors are welcome at the t, hunting, fishing serve to 54,000 acre Bear River Migratory ig, they Bird Refuge. There are 200 spevalley and protect erne weather, "front yard a Citys cies of birds to be seen; never seen - anything like it. p . President Young sent to France for cocoons and Instructions, and each ward sent one representative to Salt Lake City for Brigham City sent training. Octavia Pierce to Salt Lake City to learn the reeling of silk. She In turn taught one person from each ward how to do the work. It took two years to perfect the organization. While the work was of learning the industry carried on the local people were busy planting mulberry orchards or single trees on or near their homes. Several such trees are still growing around town. In 1897 the state legislature passed a bill providing for a state commission composed of five members to be appointed by the governor. As a result of the passage of this bill the silk industry flourished, good spun silk bringing 84 cents per pound. They also made silk neckties and mittens. Mrs. Eliza Forsgren was called on a mission to Chicago to demonstrate the work of silk making in Utah. At the manufacturing department at the worlds fair in 1893, Utah silk, received a gold medal. While passing from Damascus to Beyrout in northern Palestine, the writet saw evidence of an Improved sjlk industry as compared to ours of an earlier day. - i Co There were In (Brigham' City during the days some forty different Industries furnishing employment to all the people who otherwise were not employed, and especially to help emigrants who were as yet not acquainted with the language or our American ways, but who, themselves, had usually learned a trade In their native land, and learned it most thoroughly. But the silk industry was a relatively new Industry to many of them and therefore had to start from scratch and learn every step, later teaching it to others, which they willingly did. In pioneer days the people were guided largely. by ecclesiastical authorities in every line of work in other words they pooled their information lor their common Co-o- now. U person stranger population. 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