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Show UTAH COUNTY DEMOCRAT, HORSE SHOW EDITION i) INDUSTRIAL SECTION Provos Great Industrial, Mercantile and Mining Interests. The Institutions and Men who Make Prtno recognizing the farmer, 'the power behind the throne The farmers and what they produce occasion the need of the factories, mercantile institu tions, mills and scores of other businesses which go to make an city. The tillers of the soil of which this community is made up may truly be called the power behind tpe throne. an Up-to-da- te City. the decision in regards to ITovo. Her structing the Kwer plant was ' banks are of the highest order and 700,000. Provo is also the propei headijuar-inhave bttM)d the teht of the niost exact. In the recent financial fcrs and supply station for the public. these institutions held up nient Strawberry project yhe vork on this undertaking admirably and are today strong l,lios and healthy compared to some of the are obtaine at Provo, which aid coufinancial consumptives of other parts siderably to make this city prosper of the countn You can bank on Business in General. Business Houses. Provo's hanks. As has been said that Provo is As will be seen by the list, Provo Mills and Factories. not any boom storm prosperhas many business houses which are, but the has ity, good steady growth which been known as the home managed by energetic men and arej Proo causes a to have hopeful destitown ont l'u in woolen mills business. While largest doing some concerns are larger than others, this part of the eouutry. When in op- nies. The prosperity which comes to it will souii be recognized that Provo eration it has been the means of sup a city by steady growth and by the is supplied witn all grades of stores plying employment to hundreds of united assistance of all citizens with that go to make up a metropolitan Provo people. The payroll of this in in her limits, is the city that will town. Among the many firms that was nearly $100,000 per year. forge ahead and nothing can retard dustry are flourishing in Provo are twenty-fivgrocery stores, seven baiber shops, five drug stores, three jewelry stores, one express office, a cigar factory, three banks, an opera house, two vaudeville houses, two news-- ! (enter Street, Looking Wed. three wholesale produce papers, look into the future their most san- wot Id She has an abundance of all houses, a meat and packing company guine expectations of Provos great- the necessaries of sustenance and is that does a large business, four ness in the industrial world would be fast being recognized as a resourceful butcher shops, four dry goods stores, realized. Resources and forces are power. seven ladies and gents furnishing here and all that is necessary is for and clothing houses, an iron foundry, As a Farming Community. an ice plant, three plumbing establish Father Time to measure out a few While the main sustenance of the ments, twro bakeries, hotels and res-- ' more years and Provo will have two taurants, department! large houses, three tailoring establishments,) an electric light company, two livery stables, a flour mill , three lumber1 companies, four shoe shops, three job - 4 printing houses, undertaking parAcademy Avenue, Looking North. lors, six churches, mining companies, five blacksmith two steam shops, these mills have been closed tier progress. This Is the condition laumliies, the Western Union tele- Although some time past, there is consider of I ovo She will grow and prosper for graph service, two telephone systems, coal companies, six doctors, three able talk at this time of the mills because she has the right kind of dentists, and two wholesale grocery starting operation again in the very hacking the backing of all citizens near future, and this will aid to boom within her borders. She has, from houses, and many others an Industiial standpoint, every reAll of these stores are doing a good! Greater Provo, business and their owners are satisThe harnessing of the Provo river quisite to make her great and recogfied with the future prospects ot was accomplished some time ago and nized by all her sister cities. Greater Provo. Some time in tho not distant future the Telluride Power and, Transmission View from Top of Tabernacle. will be proven that the city of of one it now the are Institutions. company operating Money reached an .acme among her sister citizens of Provo is obtained through In the west. This Provo has resources and Industries power plants largest cities of the west. In not a few cases cities are judged farming and perfecting the soil, they she gets the advan- that are not surpassed by any city in There is nothing that can hinder the go hand in hand with the other indus- by the banks and money institutions being near Provo, west. It wdll be seen that Provo If those tage of this industry. This company the progress of a city that has the re- tries wrhich are occasioned by this that do business in them won out, and that she is the has men the year sources of Provo. Were the years of condition. The burden of this article who choose to decide the citys des- employs about forty of Western Towns for indusof a and has Queen payroll nearly the past to be turned backward to the is to handle the industries of the city, tiny by iis banks would come to round, centuries when all cities of importance and this cannot be done without first Provo, there is no question as to $50,000 per year. The cost of con- try, beauty and wealthy lesources. Great are the hopes of industrial Provo. The anticipations of her thriving citizens concerning her industrial developments are not at all Her citizens are not able to conceive of too great hopes of her advancement. Were they able to tall granite walls; to be built arouna resources from the off, Provo and her smaller sister cities of the county could get along very nicely without receiving assistance from the outer were protected by were a high wall this county and all outside world cut g govern-stringenc- sup-mo- e fr - . pros-petin- first-clas- s e - j s '',- tw-- - BOB Provo Commercial & Savings Bank CAPITAL, $100,000.00 OFFICERS Reed Smoot, President, J. T. Farrer, Cashier; C. E. Loose, J. A. Buttle, Asst. Cashier. General Banking Business Transacted DIRECTORS Reed Sipool, C. E. Loose, Roger Farrer, J. R. Twelver, J. William Knight, L. Holbrook, Ceorgo Taylor, Sr Four Per cent Interest Paid on Sayings xx Safety Boxes for Rent Provo, Utah, Corr Center St, and Academy Ave, |