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Show ABOUT OUR COlim. Attract tfi us Tli ut Sliould Induce ftliuiy Good SoKUtx II uie. Box Elder County has: Railways valued at $2,250,000, Room lor 100,000 more people. Real estate valued at $1,500,000. Streams vhich 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. The BrciijiU, the Pioneer Paper of the county. Mountains of almost pure iron ore near Willard. Valuable silver and lead mines in the western part. AVasbakee. a village of civilized Indians near Portage, Extensive salt fields on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Yast grazing lands where 100,-000 100,-000 to 200,000 sheep winter annually. annu-ally. 30,000 acres of land under cuL tivation. 12 000 uf which are ir- rigated, Farmcs which raise 50 bushels uf grain and eight tons of alfalfa to the acre. Invaluable onyx and marble 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. Sudiclcnt rich farm hinds lying west of Bear River City to sustain 1,000 more- families. Land that produces 423 bushels of excellent potatoes to the acre, and 19.1 tons of onions to the acre. The honor of surpassing all other counties in tho matter of average yield of oats, producing 50 bushels to the acre. An easily traceable mica ledge of several miles in extent, as yet un-. un-. c'aimed and untouched. Located ! in central Box Elder. A healthful cli mute; fish and game in abundance; del iglit fill mountain retreats with cool water and beautiful scenery. Hotspiings of wonderful medicinal medic-inal properties: tiie Utah Hot Springs near Willard and undeveL uped warm springs near Dewey-v Dewey-v i lie, Corinne and Plymouth. Best hunl'iig grounds in Utah, at the mouth of Real River. Myriads Myr-iads of tiie feathery tribe, from the goose down to the snipe are found . here during the hunting season. Natural gas fields on the western and northern outskirts of Brigham City. Briek and lime kilns have been successfully burnt with this gas as fuel. It has aix heeil us.'d fr domestic purposes. The greatest canal in Utah, the Bear River Canal, which cost $2,-UOO.000 $2,-UOO.000 and brings 100,000 acres of rieh land near Corinne und'T cultivation. cul-tivation. The canal is 70 miles , in length, with 1 50 miles of laterals. |