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Show IN BO COUNTY. A IlrnolloD.t Thai Slioultl Di.luoo Itlitnj-Gooil Itlitnj-Gooil Sttllir 1Itc. lrtvolrlov County ht?: Pvailwnys valued at $2,250,000. Room lor 100,000 more people. Ileal estate valued at $1,500,000. Streams which afford good water power. A population of S, 000 industrious people. Great ledges of slate rock near Honey ville. Horses, sheep and mules valued at $700,000. fiui Bt'iii.ER, the Pioneer Paper of the county. Mountains of almost pure iron ore near Y tllard. Valuable silver and lead mines in the western part. Washakee. a village of civilized Indians near Portage, Kx tensive salt fields on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Vast, grnzing 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. ! Farmcs which raise 50 bushels of grain and eight tons of alfalfa to the acre. Invaluable onyx and marble quarries on Promontory hill, near the railroad. Teaches, strawberries, rnspbrr-rics, rnspbrr-rics, grapes, etc, unexcelled in both sine 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. 1 Land that produces 423 bushels ' of excellent potatoes to the acre, ' and 19 A tons of onions to the acre. ; The honor of surpassing all other ! counties in the matter of average ' yield of oats, producing 50 bushels j to the acre. 1 An easily traceable mica ledge of i I several miles in extent, as yet un- j claimed and untouched. Located : in central Boxelder. 1 A healthful climate; fish and game in abundance; delightful mountain retreats with cool water, and beautiful scenery. Hot springs of wonderful medicinal medic-inal properties: the Utah Hot Springs near Willard and undevel- oped warm springs near Dewey-ville, Dewey-ville, Corinne and Plymouth. Best hunting grounds in Utah, at the mouth of Bear River. Myriads Myr-iads of the feathery tribe, from the , goose down to the snipe are found 1 here during the hunting season. Natural gas fields on the western ' and northern outskirts of Brigham City. Brick and lime kilns have been successfully burnt with this gas as fuel. It has also beeii used for domestic purposes. The greatest canal in Utah, the Bear River Canal, which cost $2,-000.000 $2,-000.000 and brings 100,000 acres of rich land near Corinne under cultivation. cul-tivation. The canal is 70 miles in length, with 150 miles of laterals |