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Show Tl) It'lLUIII). A 1 1 1 1 li 1 1 1 - Si'l il)i- Takes an InlcT-CNlini; InlcT-CNlini; i.'ilii llinvn lulled 1'l'i'liy T.ivvn. Progress and Improvement Seen on Every Hand from Brig- j ham to Willard. j i into Hi,, strahrlil, la'oa.l lara- lliat I, 'ails Hi,' t,, sliaily ,-hy ot Wilkin, we soon ioiinil mils, -t'rs traveling alnn- llic ,l,-li-l,ll'i,l sli'i'lrli in Hi,' mail oj),osil,. lli-lmp l-'a.-i-i'i; an, I I'. ',:l,d;:-i-V: ,lai','S,uhi,'li is l,r,l,-r-,',l ill. sron's of Mal.-ly ,o,kirs. J A IViv i',ls I'nrlli.'i' on u , I i,',-,l l thai a n, 'al new lirirk home is j Hearing , j , 1 t i. i i : ( l.-o. II. 1-'.,,-. r j is llu' own, a-. .War l.y, (lit- I'min.la- lion is laid and the inaleiial on (he ground I', ii- (In- ,-ri-elinn of aiiolher l.riek ir.viil.-mv hy II. 1'. Ma.U.n. ( .1. X. liai-ker's now lar-lain.- 1 1,-n- ! a, -re vineyard was an iiitereslin-.' Tlio New Tlireo Mile Creek Meeting House - Reclaiming Dry War.trs Planting Tliousaiuis of Trees. Vr!i of IVit.NjhTlnrs in llir iliils- Tlic i;i;r linn .liiiii's Tlic il.ii'In'i's' lli' lint'i.inl iiial t'l iiil Ijirh.itil'i noiirisliiu.i;. Utlior Ituildii.ti Nol.'v iiiul llrii-rilcnlloii -TlK! r.iuifil City of '. il.oll. it Rilf k-niiikliij;. Moiulny fiflrninoii, a rriircHcutn-ti'ti rriircHcutn-ti'ti of Tmk .!i'(ii..:it Umk a run down to W'ilianl. 'J'ht, si'vcii-mik' st retell of eimntry sk'ht. 'J'l.r- vines :.iv lonkin- h:iniy ;nnl heallliy ami liie iirosj-eels for a heavy yiehl are Hal leri n. Ilrllillil Uh! howeiT home of this ever original IJarker were slill st'en the lm'e .jiiantities of iron on' tiial have heen taken out of llu: adjoining adjoin-ing hills. Why these mines are not now beinn proli ( a 1 ily wnrked is a mystery. The ore ihry produce is said lo he literally inexhausiihle ami it is almost pure iron, assaying from eighty (o ninety ier eent. in that valuable metal. The fruitful orehard o Jiyron Harliiir, on the rigid,, was passed. The trees are thriving under the heueliriul elleets of this al ten ,a iely moist anil sunshiny weather. We between Jlrigham City and t ha I pretty town now presents its most beautiful and at tract i ve appearance. It has assumed its fresh, new spring garb, and a captivaiing one it is indeed. The broad, dry, smooth highway bugs Hit- foothills of the great mountains, to I lie left, from town to town. Considerable of the land on that side is still a sagebrush plain, but it is being rapidly reclaimed by the sturdy husbandmen. Large patches are being fenced, the sagebrush sage-brush rooted out and burned to may again look for he prodiu linn of some enormous samples of peaches iiinl other line fruits tins summer at this splendid orchard. We soon found ourselves driving down the quiet, peaceful, homedike streets of Willard. Many changes for tin; better were noticeable since our last visit. Some of the streets were being-graded being-graded and premises adorned with new fences, and new buildings wen: not wa-nting. The day of Hie old Indian-shoot-em rock walls is almost al-most a thing of the past, we are make way for numerous cozy homes and attractive and produclivi'i gardens and line orchards. The big majority of the houses, orchards and shade trees to the right, until you near AY il lard, show signs of greater antiquity than their neighbors on the upper side of the road. That part seems to have been almost entirely ignored until recent years. I Comfortable homes are found nestling down snugly near the roadside among the fruitful orchards, orch-ards, which are skirted on the west by broa I. greju tL'Uls of yrain, grass and lueern that stretch out to the west for miles even until they reach the briny shores of Great Salt Lake w here the signs of vegetable vege-table life suddenly cease. This strip of land, between the mountain and the lake, probably from three to eight miles wide, is cut by two railroads, the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific. The people therefore are provided w ith splendid railroad facilities in case anv big mineral developments are made in the mountains to the cast, which is quite probable. Improvement and progress were noticeable on all sides. New residences resi-dences were being erected, fences repaired and premises generally fixed up These- things all go to show that the people along this pleasant drive have caught the spirit of the times and are in the swim of general advancement. The first thing worthy of mention men-tion we noticed on the trip was that the tanners bad just begun cutting the Iirst of their season's three crops of lueern, but being warned pleased to state. J. L. Fdwards is creeling a new brick house on the hill east of town, for renting purposes. Hut (.Inmost (.In-most conspicuous recent improvement improve-ment in the town is the new Willard Wil-lard Co-op Store. 'J'he building -a large, two-story brick of modern : design. It would do credit to a ' town several times larger than VCTr-" lard. The hackers of this institution j deserve praise and patronage for i their display of pluck and faith in ; the town by the erection of such a i handsome structure. ! iMr. Wells is running an ice i cream parlor in connection with j his store. I Willard boasts a commodious J tabernacle and very ample school facilit ies. It has 1 he most delicious mountain water to be found in the Territory, cool and sparkling, seemingly seem-ingly with one mighty hound, from i the huge, frowning crags that overhang over-hang the place, to leap into (he ; very lap of the city. Ils countless ! broad, spreading shade t p-es are probably unsurpassed in the J county. ( The shipments of i'miK grains, ' vegetabhs and small garden pro-; pro-; ducts from this place are fast aug-i aug-i nienting and gaining considerable ! prominence. A railroad station j has lately been built and an agency j established here to facilitate these shipments and U v tlie better accommodation accom-modation of the increasing travel. The Dalfon A', Hruuker pressed brick company west of town an-l an-l rusliing (lu-ir business. A kiln of 'several hundreds ol thousands of brick is now almost ready forburn- The mounds on tin; western oul-skirtsoftown.whrre oul-skirtsoftown.whrre an ane'ienl city. called "Cublick," is suppos-d to j have been, were visited. Xotwith- standing that tin- developments i there during the past mouth or so i were very meagre, ski lelons, and ; antique relies of pot t cry, arrow ! heads, etc., were exhumed. Mori-extensive Mori-extensive explorations into (he bowels of the numerous mounds. , the oui lines of w hieh can hi- dis-' dis-' tiiK'lly (raced on the surface, should he made. of rain by prognostic clouds had j procrastinated further work. '; Considerable new ground is be- ; ing broken and fenced along near Three Mile Creek. ! The brick w:iUs of the eonunodb , oils new meeting house are nearly ; completed. The work is being pushed; ere long the roof will be. put on and the eniire building enclosed. en-closed. When finished, this build-in:; build-in:; will be iiiite a handsome and imposing structure; a lasting monument to the enterprise and proLrressivcness of the good people of Three Mile Creek. Many thousands of choice young fruit and shade trees have lately been set on t on all hands; some ditches are being curbed, to prevent seapage and lo facilitate the irrigation irri-gation of hitherto almost wortblc.-s spo's. Near here resides Ceo. Davis, the champion tomato raider. A Utile furtla r on we noticed numerous signs on the mountain; of the recent presence of mile ral projectors. 'I he l"re; h earth fp-n, lUimcrolis shafts and tunn Is v,a-dirtinelly v,a-dirtinelly di: eeriiii'h- from lie-main lie-main hitdiway. We w re nuabh to b-:irn jut w bat Mice, ss they ne t with or are now receiving. P.is-dng down the bill that turns |