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Show works establisbed in 1892 at a cost of $20,000. Its being the county seat of Box Elder, a prosperous county of 8,000 inhabitants. An active, intelligent and wideawake wide-awake class of citizens numbering nearly 3,000 people. Numerous 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 business 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 railroads, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific, tributary to the city. Thh Bug lick, one of the acknowledged acknow-ledged best local newspapers in Utah Territory and which is the pioneer paper of Box Elder County. It is bright, progressive ml a credit to Northern Utah. THE CITY OF HOMES. A Few of Its Attractions And : Natural Advantages. Oil VARIOUS BUSINESS ISSTITUTIOSS. WatBr 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 Htahles. Harness shops. But onIc 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. (iood school and com mod ions chui clu'tf. Broad, hard, inudless streets and sidewalks. A canning factory in course of construction. An elegant Opera House; seating capaeily, GOO. A tannery and wool -pulling establishment. Many tributary set I lenient s which act as feeders. The best fruit-raising el i male and locality in the 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. Ch ar, pure and paUtable drinking drink-ing water fresh from the mountain brooks. 1 An unsurpassed system of T.tter |