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Show Boxelder County lias: Railways valued at $2,250,000. Room lor 100,000 more people. Real estate valued at $1,500,000. Streams which afford good water power. A population of 8,000 industrious people. Great ledges of slate rock near Honeyville. Horses, sheep and mules valued at $700,000. The Bugler, the Pioneer Paper of tlre-oounty. Mountains of almost pure iron ore near Willard. Valuable silver and lead mines in the western part. Wasbakee, a village of civilized Indians near Portage. Extensive salt fields on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Vast grazing lands where 100,-000 100,-000 to 200,000 sheep winter annually. annu-ally. 30,000 acres of land under cultivation, cul-tivation, 12,000 of which are irrigated. ir-rigated. FarmeB which raise 50 bushels of grain and eight tons of alfalfa to the acre. T 1 ....l.l l i , iiivuiuauie onyx ana maruie quarries on Promontory hill, near the railroad. Peaches, strawberries, raspberries, raspber-ries, grapes, etc., unexcelled in both size and flavor. Promising gold, silver and lead mines within twenty minutes' drive of the county seat. Sufficient rich farm lands lying west of Bear River City to sustain 1,000 more families. Land that produces 423 bushels of excellent potatoes to the acre, and 191 tons of onions to the acre. |