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Show Smithfield Has Prospered In Every Line of Endeavor Merchants feel prosperous after a very successful success-ful year. Commercial National Bank Business Bus-iness materially increased. Smithfield, December 17, Smithfield is situated on the Summit Sum-mit Creek delta in the east central part of Cache County, eight miles from Logan. The city lias a population of about 2000. It is quiet, orderly, clean iiul attractive with neat homes and ?ood substantial public buildings, electric lights, a perfect water system, cement ce-ment pavements and an excellent street car service connecting it with Preston on the Xorth and Salt Lake City anil Utah County points on the south. The town is beautifully situated on a broad upland overlooking the valley. Plowing through the center of the city is Summit creek furnishing furnish-ing ample water for irrigation. , The region is a very fertile slightly sloping tract 4,486 ft. above sea level and about five by six miles in dimension dim-ension entirely under cultivation. Beets, potatoes and apples are the chief commercial crops. The beets this year brought $150,000 into our city on Oct. IS and another pay day comes this month for beets. Among the best orchards are those of George Romncy and Sons, James A. Cragun, N. O. Gyllcnskog. Sylvester Syl-vester Low, William Read, Joseph Green and Jesse T. Moses. The dairying industry of Smithfield is by no means a new one according accord-ing to figures she has long ranked among the largest dairying towns of the state. In 1905 a new and modern mod-ern plant was installed to take care of the milk. This plant cost nearly 5:0,000 with a capacity of 750,000 lbs. per day. Many improvements have been made this year. COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK The Commercial National Bank with Thos. B. Farr as the popular cashier and Geo. E. Miles as his able assistant, has enjoyed an increase of $100,000 business tho past year. We are proud of the liberal patronage of our bank to the Liberty Loan fund, in carrying a goodly sum themselves and assisting many others. The general gen-eral business in all lines has been most satisfactory this season. The K R. Miles Co. have added a most substantial addition to their already commodious store. They carry a complete line of general gen-eral merchandise and have this year added, "The Toggery," a men's furnishing fur-nishing department. In this block-is block-is also the "Arrawa Confectionery," post office and office rooms. The Riter Bros. Drug Co. is an exceptionally ex-ceptionally well equipped place having every modern convenience for confectionery con-fectionery purposes, prescriptions laboratory, a patent medicine section, sec-tion, book section, and side lines. This little store is a credit to our town. Mr. Joseph Kostle, the manager is a registered pharmacist and carries car-ries the best class of goods. Lorenzo Toolson is a thriving merchant mer-chant on South Main, dealing very extensively in produce by car load lots, a heating plant has been installed, instal-led, water piped into the store, a large m'zc latest model national cash register, and a ladies and gents ready to wear section has been added during the past year. Robert Griffiths mercantile business is thriving in this block is found a meat market and a rooming house. Mr. Del Rice has opened a grocery store during the nast vcar which is a very thriving and promising enter-prize. enter-prize. The Milligan Grocery is in a nourishing condition and commands its share of hc patronage. The Smithfield Union Hall located at the corner of main and center streets opposite the O. L. & I. station is the center of amusement. The ground floor is occupied by a beautiful theatre which has a seating capacity of five hundred, also a well equipped stage the largest in the state north of Ogden; an up-to-date barber shop and a tailor shop. In the basement is found a most attractive pool parlor. The second story is occupied by a modern dance hall 48x100 feet. The Union Hall is leased by the Smithfield Amusement Co. with William Wil-liam H. Griffith as manager. In connection with the theatre this Co. has installed a metallic screen, a Wurlitzer full orchestra, photo player play-er piano, two new power 6 a. motor-driven motor-driven picture machines, a wagncr 5 horse power motor converter set giving the best results to be obtained They are running such service as Paramount, Artcraft, World Pathe, K. E. S. E. Photoplay and Greater Vitigraph. A public dance is conducted each Saturday night, music being furnished by the Hyde Park Band. The Crystal confectionery formerly former-ly located in the Union Hall is now located in their own building on the corner of main and center street. In addition to carrying a complete line of candies, ice cream, sodas, cigars ci-gars cigarrcttcs and tobacco, they have recently installed a steam table and carry a complete line for hot and cold lunches. A small dance hall and a Wurlitzer player piano makes an ideal place to hold private socials and dancing parties. The Anderson Lumber Co and the Smithfield Lumber Co. have made rapid progress in building up our city Each Company has been very busy building many new homes, barns and other improvements. SMITHFIELD MOTOR CO. The Ford Auto Co. garage and shqps built by Thomas Woolford. who is manager, was completed this fall and is a credit to our city. This is one of the finest garages in the valley. H. Shaw is head mechanic mech-anic with Carl Hansen and W. C. Claypool his able assistants. Mr. James Hill the city plumber is also located in this building. The Smithfield Uric!; and Tile Co is one of the principal enterprises. Their pay roll is steady for a r"1' force of men and teams. At the O S L. station a new plat- form for heavy freight has been built I and many small improvements inailel during the vear. Two roller nulls are kept busy all the vear round. Both mills have been overhauled and new machinery practically throughout has replaced the old. Smithfield was indeed fortunate in securing a sugar factory. This factory fac-tory built by the Dyer Co.ivvas completed com-pleted and put into operation this fall, with a six thousand ton daily capacity. The main building is a four story steel and brick structure with reinforced rein-forced concrete floors making it practically fireproof. The machinery is propelled by a 1100 II. P. steam engine; the smoke is carried into a stack 225 ft. high a coal silo with a capacity of 7000 tons equipped with a steam derrick which is a great saving device, as eight cars of coal can be unloaded in the time taken to unload one car by shoveling. The beet sheds and outside buildings build-ings arc all modem and substantial. A large boarding house equipped with twenty-eight bedrooms, a blacksmith black-smith shop, fifteen cottages and tvv. stores arc located in the close vicinity. vic-inity. A modern sevver and water system arc also found here. A branch of the O. L. & I. runs to the factory, from Lcwiston through the Trenton district . Our city is divided into ecclesiastical ecclesias-tical wards of the church of Jesus Christ, and each ward is provided with modern church edifices. The following brief mention will give an idea of Smithfield in a commercial com-mercial and business way. Commercial Commer-cial National Brink, five stores, two barber shops, two lumber and hardware hard-ware Co's., a paint and paper shop, two implement houses, a restaurant, a rooming house, a hotel, two garages two meat markets, two shoe and rc-I rc-I pairing shops one furniture store, two confectionery stores, a plumbing shop, three blacksmith shops, a drug store, two flour mills, Brick and Tile Co., a millinery store, two picture show houses, a modern central school a sub high school and several produce houses. J. W. Harry the owner and publisher pub-lisher of the Smithfield Sentinel a weekly paper, has from a small beginning be-ginning grown with the rapidity of the city. The Sentinel is now located lo-cated in a new brick home and enjoys en-joys a wide circulation. Mr. Joseph W. Peterson a notary miblic and real estate dealer has a well equipped office in the same building. Smithfield has a bright future from present indications. The rich lands, the spirit of progress, pro-gress, and enterprise that is awakening awaken-ing the people to the great possibilities possibili-ties awaiting developments will no loubt increase our population, our enterprises and our possibilities. |
