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Show slightly with the production of other crops. It is estimated that no less than two million bushels of wheat were raised by our farmers, which are woith fifty cents a bushel or a clea; million dollars. The usual heavy crops of vegetables and fruit, together to-gether with lar ;e numbers of horses, cattle, hogs and poultry, have added enormously to the income in-come of the county, while many thousands ot sheep roam the adjacent ad-jacent hills and pour their valu- GOOD YEAR Sugar Factory, College & other Buildings, able fleecy burden into the market mar-ket every spring. A valuable industry of Cache is the creamery business There are ten creameries in the valley as follows: One each in Logan, Wellsville, Contribute Heavily to Logan's Material . Welfare. . .... Logan and Cache county have made vast progress during the past year. Good wages, good prices, plenty of employment and heavy crops have tended to make our people prosperous and happy. More money has been in' circulation than in any other period per-iod in local history, while farm products have commanded better prices than for many years. , SUGAR FACTORY.: The Logan sugar factory has iUlllVliie nuu nue jto.ii, vwiji by Lorenzo Hanson. i The Farmer's Union creamery at Wellsville- managed by Win.1 Wyatt. ' The Oneida Mercantile Union Creamery at Franklin, managed by Moses Thatcher, Jr. The Paradise creamery managed man-aged by Samuel McMurdie. The Cache Valley L'airy Co creamery at Richmond, ma aged by Alma Merrill. The Union creamery at Richmond, Rich-mond, managed by C Z. Harris, The Smithfield creamer;', managed by Abram Smith. These ten creameries pay out nvor nnnrtPI' of a million dollars distributed vast sums in our midst, and promises to be a valuable, val-uable, addition to the sources of income of the people of Cache county. It is owned by ; a company com-pany comprising David Eccles, C. W. Nibley, G. W. Thatcher, M W. Merrill, C. G Hyde, and others, and which is capitalized at $500,000. David Eccles is annually for milk, and can produce pro-duce 150,000 pounds of butter daily. J hey employ fifty hands the year through and distribute butter and cheese all over the west. The making of Bricks-Gessel Bricks-Gessel and son of Providence have done a thriving business the past year in the production r,f bricks. Thev have made over president, O. vv. iNiuiey v.-Resident, v.-Resident, H H. Rolapp secre, tary, and Thomas D. Dee treas- The factory cost in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of half a million dollars. Se main building is 277x80 feet, the warehouse U5x52; the boiler house 43x187 feet; and there -will, , be five beet sheds 500 feet long! and having a capacity of 4500 tons of beets. There is also a finelv furnished boarding house of 17 rooms. The plant requires 150 men to handle its machinery when at work, and has a capacity capa-city of 350 tons of .beets a day, yielding 35 tons of excellent sug-Zidaily." sug-Zidaily." It will use 25,000 tons of beeis this year, paying out for lllnrl labor S50.000 in Nov, two ,;oillion brick of ah t:cceL-ent :.; quality, all of -which found ready sale in this county. Mr. Gessel has just added a steam dryer to j his other equipment, and expects to make1 brick during the balance : of the winter, and thus add large- j ly to bis annual output. Wool Garments. Logan has three knitting factories, fac-tories, employing about 60 hands constantly, and bringing into our midst from . .outside sources, about a hundred and fifty thousand thous-and dollars" annually. Logan's I knit underwear and hosiery are famous throughout the United j States. 1 . and $100,000 in December. It is expected that the capacity of the plait will be doubled .next year I and that, all the beets that ..he, farmers can produce will be in Educational Facilities Logan is better supplied with educational institutions than is probably any other to-vn of its population in the. country. We have the Agricultural College of Utah with 350 students and 37 brisk demand. y Following are; the more im-j portant building 'permits issued in Logan during the present vear: . cost. Agricultural College, 1 targe front building, b4o,00U Agricultural College, 2 barns, , . , i-' Joseph Newbold, bnc j warehouse, , Robert Lafount,6 room I brick, J"-p. J"-p. A. Benson, 7 room - frfljm ' Zeph Thomas, 32 . room brick, . . ' To-nhine Frank, 1 room teachers; the Hngnam xuuujj college with nearly 400 students I, and 30 teachers, and the New, Jersey Academy with 50 stud" ents and 8 teachers. The col -lees pay out a hundred thousand dollars a year for all purports, aside from a similar amount spent here by visiting students. The ! city schools are well supported j land largely attended, and the pupils are instructed oy 22 com-! inetent teachers. The' sum of I $21 ",oco-was; ; assessed this year f Cr city educational purposes- frame - - P O Sanson, 2 room brick 1,000 J." A.' Hendrickson, 4 room -brick n 'I AVin. Edwards, 6--room. -brick 4,uoo Total 102,400 Agcuuluiral Activity- The large crop of sugar beets raised in this valley interfered but |
