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Show OUR TOWN! i lly II. Hurley, j The following appears In the Junc number of the I'nloti Pacillc .Magazine, .Maga-zine, printed In Omaha. Ni b. Thirty-live years ago. Milfoil im 'lie "end of track" of the Oregon Short Line Railroad. I-ater li lie ante the San Pedro, Los Angeles cv Salt Lake, and Milford surrendered lis place if distinction as a tertntu-is, tertntu-is, for the more enviable one of dis trict terminal 'n the through line from Salt Lake to Los Angeles Tin railway maintains In Milford shops roundhoused car repair d. pari meiit More. dispatcher's olllce, eating house, freight and passenger station, surgeon, special agent, and other of flees. W. F. .Merry, division master mechanic, and W. R. Spclllgue. train master, have their headquarter here Last year, the line became one of tin-units tin-units of the great Union Pacific Sys tern, and The Union Pacific Maga-zlne Maga-zlne should serve to acquaint officers offi-cers and employes of the other unli-wlth unli-wlth the Important facts about thin newly acquired stem of the system Milford has a population of about l.SOO. Its elevation Is 4.96S feet It has first-class hotels, business houses, moving . pocture theatres, schools anil churches. The Hotel Atkin and the Milford Hotel have about 60 rooms aplcre. and tln-.r service ser-vice Is excellent. Among the husj. ness houses may he mentioned the Jefferson Mercantile Company Wm Miller. Cash Grocery. Arrlngton-Itird Furniture Company. O F. Hubhell Drug Compnny. Milford rhnrma.-y. j William Dobson Clothing rnniwnv. Golden Rule Store. Milford State Bank and Beaver County News. Milford High School built In 1 9 1 6 cost $80,000. In 1 920 a public school was built at a cost of ","..-000. ","..-000. The Methodists. Christian Scientists Sci-entists and Mormons have churches, and the Masons and Odd Fellows maintain lodgs. Funds are now available av-ailable for a library. The monthly pay-roll for railroad shops and mines Is about $60,000 Milford has three and one-half miles of cement sidewalks, electric lights, water system and sewers. There Is no better drinking water In the state of Utah. Ileaver county, in which Mlllord in j 1 1 u.i I ! . has gnoil roads,, one of j which i oiiuects with the Lincoln , 1 ghway ul re aver. Itah. ll.-r.ulai slag.' lill'S radlale from Milford to' inland puinu, le aver, M Inei v i !!-. Adaiiisv.lle, Gristmill-. I'aiowan. Frisco and .Yw hoil-e Tin; slug - fur I'aiowan coliiie. Is with i he Mage for iv.lar city. St George, ion Canyon. Kalliah Forest, and tin- Grand Can-win Can-win I Ni.l III Hllll I of the Colorado ( ii 1 alioul :'. ii. nun in 1 1 s ot la ml 'las been llew loped , se to file lowll nil iln-ie are tributary lo Milford, perhaps 1 7 it , 1 1 m u ai res of unproved nid unimproved land 1'olalocs y .i-l.l 2uu lo 3.".n liil-hels In the in re. alfalfa from 1 lo 7 t' lis ier acre, anl o.its from 2'l to 7 a 'iil-h'-ls, act or ling to tin- age of the land. Milford and vicinity are sp.ir-elv ..-tiled, but there are great opportunities opportun-ities (it ambitious t-ioi luin-ii and farmers far-mers in th's v ill |
