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Show IlBrigham City Peaeli Festlvel September! BEAUTIFUL BRIGHAM CITY PEACH DAY FESTIVITIES l T I Brigbam City, the fifth city in size of the etate. was first settled in 1S53. 'People who know will tell you that the site on which Brigham City stands is unequalled in the state. The city is just coming into its own. Public improvements arc now under Ivay which will make of the city one of the most beautiful home towns of the state. ; This soil has been found to be unusually un-usually fertile and to be especially (adapted to the growing of peaches. The 1 1 fruit thrives wonderfully and the soil. I j together with tbc effect of the sun I upon it produces a flavor that is not I I found anywhere else In the world. ! Brigham has long been widely known as "The City of Homes, ' a BObriquet to which it is still justly entitled; but of late years, since this luscious fruit jhas become better known, the appellation appella-tion "Peachvillc" or "Peach City" is 'commonly used. These splendid peaches have so endeared the city to the hearts of its neighbors that they slap it on the back, figuratively speak ing, and call it Peachvillc or Peach-town, Peach-town, just as you might call your bosom friend Jack or Bill. During the present year we will ship from this county between four and flva J hundred carloads of Elberta peaches, not to mention the smaller lots sship ped by express and hundreds of thou sands of bushels which will be hauled by team to nearby settlements. Thia year is going to be a record breaker in prices, too. The crop never fails, while iii,-. frnct rot the noaches In the ad joining states, we always produce. Is lit any wonder that wo are known as ! the "Peach City of the West." Our water system is something of 'which we are proud. Last season the system was installed. The water is taken from one of the purest of mountain moun-tain streams at Mantau and reaches the. city through water mains which, will supply a city of many times our, present population. Brigham City has no scarcity of water, howcvci dry the I season may be. i During the present season Brigham j City has constructed over five miles of 'sidewalk and contracts are now let for I the paving of the principal blocks on 'the streets of the city. Within the prefnt season we will have pavemen from Sixth North street, Brigham Citj 1 1 to Ogon and SaK Dake. The municipal lighting system Ls be - jUg entirely revised and overhauled. Ail poles are being removed from the I streets and steel poles installed witn I I a. strictly modern lighting system I j thereon. Manufacturing plants include the Ogden Og-den Cement plant which has recently-doubled recently-doubled its capacity and installed a potash plant at an expense of $225,000 i The Amalgamated Sugar company fa-'tory, fa-'tory, to canning factories, knitting factory fac-tory , planing mills, marble factory. I flour mills and other factories add to the pay roll. A great number of retired farmers , and ranchers from out of the state have recently come to the city to make ! their homes". They are constructing ! modern residences and helping to beau-I beau-I tify the place. The parks of the city are to be mi-i mi-i proved forthwith. The stake tabernacle taberna-cle grounds are to be parked and planted to grass and the Pioneer park A I is about to be reduced to a modern la-, 1 goon. I We have: 1. The Elberta peach "the best peach in the world." 2. The delightful climate that prc-I prc-I duces the peach. 3. Over 1000 acres of good peach, lund near by yet unoccupied. 1. Over 5000 of the beet people you ever bumped up against. 15. A city so sanitary that people sei dom die, except from old age. 6. The best railroad facilities of any town of similar size in the Unitea States. 7. Electric light and water ivstims owned and splendidly operated by thj municipality. 8. An excellent public school system extending from the kindergarten iiirough the high school 9. Refreshing cany on breezes that insure in-sure our fruit crops and make our sum mer evenings delightful beyond com j i parison 10. Fruits and vegetables of every' I name and kind in abunaaice, and of a quality hardly surpassed by our peach itself. 11 Fishing and hunting grounds that attract people from all parts of the world. 12. More comfortable and modern homes th.ni any city of its size hat we have ever visited, and we have traveled trav-eled some 13. Plenty of profitable employment for any and all kinds of artisans, as well as the common workmen, throughout through-out the year. 14. No hungry, indigent nor poor, for everyone soon becomes "well to do" in beautiful Brigham. 15. Splendid church organizations and equipment so beneflciently operated operat-ed that ' serving God Is here the natural nat-ural way uf h ing." 16. Such magnificent roads and highways leading in all directions that flying machines will never compete with automobiles in Brigham. 17. So many beautiful roses through out the summer that some people in sisf on calling ours "the City of Roses.' IS No liquor, for our fruit diet so controls our appetites that "(lod's pur water is good enough for everybody." 19. Only one hot day in the season Peach day when our thousands of friends come to enjoy our hospitality. 20. A wide-awake Commercial duo that perpetuates "Peach day" and other oth-er great ideas. 21. Organizations of every name and kind to promote our several industries. 22. A public library. 23. Electric wells that have reclaim ed hundreds of acres of choice fruit land. 24. Girls more delicious than strawberries, straw-berries, and more luscious than peaches. Othe-r things we dassent mention. Brigham City was named in honor I of Brigham Young. It is situated abou twenty miles north of Ogden, on the-J Oregon Short Line and the Utah-Idaho i entral electric line, it has felt the) touch of i ha i able but somewhat errat- i ie nn of r.n-liam Young, John Y. Young. John VY built what was then regard ed as a mansion, near the present sitr of the O. S. L. depot, aud he built the magnificent thoroughfare. Forest I street. Most of our citizens today don't I know hov that great street came to be , built. John Y. thought be would lic here, and he wanted something elabo 1 1 rate Forest street was the result. Fori years it was known as "John V. , Douh'vard " Yhn it reaches the stage where it can be paved its entire length, I it will indeed be a fitting monumen. I to its builder. The first permanent settlers started; their work at the extreme northwest! corner of the platted district of tb 3 j present city . Tne place where the cuy lies now was so high and dry and grav- elly that it was countel useless until leading minds showed the mistake. Then they laid out the town and tooK yp city lots, to which thy later got government patent, People who know will tell you that the sito on which Brigham City stands is unequalled in the state. Those who have ever done any irn gating in sandy soil have seen th-e water break through the banks of th' stream, spreading onto the flat surfac j below the bed of the creek. It will leave a plateau, the highest point ' e I ing that nearest the break in the bank, j and sloping thence gradually in three directions from that point. Now, that describes the sito o:i which this city is built. When the A ..ers of Lake Bonneville receded u i i the land began to dry around the foothills, great quantities of water were left stores in the depressions now known as the Little Valley, four miles east of here, and Devil's Gate, farther south. This bodv of water broke through its banks and lushed into the leel Salt Lake valley, forming a pla teau such as we have jist described. From poini in the ve center of iut city, irrigation water runs freely north, south and west; anG, as we said before, the soil is gravelly so we havi ' neither dust nor mud. The city is n: urally sanitary, and there is none ' J cleaner anywhere. |