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Show THE CUT OF HIES. A Few of Its Attractions And Natural Advantages. Ol'R VARIOUS BUSIXESS LST1TITI0S. Water Works, Electric Lights, Flour Mills, Woolen Factory, A Fruit Paradise, Healthful Clime. Shoe shops. Drug stores. A creamery. Tailor shops. Barber shops. Meat markets. Lumber yards Livery stables. Harness shops. But one saloon. A woolen factory. Several law firms. Blacksmith shops. A roller flour mill. A flourishing bank. Skillful physicians. A first-class bakery. A photograph gallery. A Chamber of Commerce. Hotels and boarding houses. The city lighted by electricity. A decidedly healthful climate. The deserved title of City of Homes. Good schools and com mod ious chinches. Broad, hard, mudless streets and sidewalks. A canning factory in course of construction. An elegant Opera House; seating capacity, 600. A tannery and wool-pulling establishment. Man y tri bu tary settlemcn ts which act as feeders. The best fruit-raising climate and locality in tlie Territory, A well-equipped lire department of about thirty active members. Beautiful mountain scenery within with-in half an hour's drive of the city. Clear, pure and palatable drink- ing water fresh from the mountain j brooks. An unsurpassed system of water wurks established in 1S92 at a cost' of $25,000. j Its being the county scat of Box Elder, a prosperous county of S.000 inhabitants. An active, intelligent and wideawake wide-awake class of citizens numbering nearly 3,000 people. Nuiderous elegant residences, handsome public buildings and private business houses. Great duck and geese slaughtering slaughter-ing grounds close at hand. Wild deer and bear in the adjacent mountains. Box Elder Creek, affording excellent ex-cellent and almost unlimited water power for all kinds of manufacturing manufactur-ing establishments. Numerous flourishing harness houses, such as general merchandise, merchan-dise, hardware, produce, grocery and furniture stores. An enviable commercial situation in the business heart of the Territory, Terri-tory, with two great rnilroads, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific, tributary to tlie city Tiik lJrui,F.i:,ono of tlie acknowledged acknowl-edged bt-st local newspapers in Utah Territory and which is the pioneer paj.fr of Box Elder County. It is bright, progressive and a credit to Northern Utah. |