| Show ITEMS FROM HYRUM hyrum city cache co february 21 1898 in amateur parlance I 1 will say it la is some time since anything appeared in the news from here I 1 think that hyrum should also be heard from occasionally casio nally in the first place allow me to congratulate you on the articles on education also the one warning the people against the early office seeker some people are writing that ninety per cent of the people are opposed to a unity on the silver question party but this is only the old story of the tooley street tailors of london nine in cumber number who addressed a petition to the house of lords as we the people of england etc such men are either heads of a political club or are chronic officeholders office holders in my travels among the people I 1 find they are becoming tired of these disturbers disturb ers and went want peace some persons have ain an idea that the state has no other interests to care for than the cause of education until debt has nearly brought ruin it Is IB said comparisons are odious let Us soe see hyrum a few years ago was besieged by some reformers with the cry let us bond but remembering the SIC avise se counsel of the founders of the state s whose motto was always pay as you go our people sald said no with a very large N but it w was said you will not be called upon to pay it back let your children pay the wisdom of our peoples decision shines out brighter as the tax notices come and go our city is free from debt our school district is also free from the same curve curse our leaders and many others are also aso free from debt wen well says some knowing one you are perhaps moss backs or behind the times let us see hyrum has a population of about 2000 souls and our mortality for 1897 was 14 we have as good school buildings as can be found in any city of our size the central school has three large rooms well furnished then there is a neat brick the south part of town a substantial school house in the third ward while the trustees rent two rooms in our beautt beautiful church academy building also one in the canyon so that our school children have every opportunity for or a good education let me before leaving this subject give one more example president orson smith last spring started a college on a volun voluntary twy donation donat iop system with nearly all toe the money power of the county saying it cant be done the building to is being roofed and it still appears that where there to is a will there is a way hyrum has good church buil building din and many very nice private residences denew also an electric light company and this is not bonded either it to is a first birst class plant the wires are all covered with a three ply or insulated so that if a wire falls no one is hurt unless the fellow picks it up and applies the end for a shock the winter has bees been very severe still the health of our people is very good we have a largo lar number of very aged people a mm P petersen etersen M ya year bishop 93 03 representing five genera eions also slater sister E barnum Bar nuin the theold oldest at living school teacher in cache county 83 years and representing five liv ing generations those between 76 75 and 85 are too numerous to name there has not been much snow and that there to Is Is 18 going away very fast everything denotes that spring is nigh during the cold snap the roads were ta ap an excellent condition and the way wen hauled wood from the mountains was amazing and hundreds upon hundreds of loads of grain have been 1 hauled from southern cache to the southern pacific railroad at corinne Corl in southern cashe are wellsville hyrum Pa paradise avon college mill vule arid providence with between six silt anil and seven thousand people without railroad communication and we have petitioned the oregon short line railroad to extend the loop around the gouth end of the valley as it was first intended the expense would be trifling and our dur people will make any legitimate offer to induce the company to build around the valley all this grair grain and other farm products sold here would have gone over the railroad had it i been here our people are determined to do their own hauling or give the arst railroad coming our way our best support then are we not equally as well off and as much up to date as our bonded and debt ridden friends our cites treasury has a nice surplus ano and our schools can be run the full term |
