Show morgan county morgan county though one of ahe smallest Bm allet in oil territory ig is one cf catbe the prettiest and in the spring is a perfect paradise of beauty it contains but a small area of tillable and meadow land but the land is B rich and productive and the irrigation facilities are ate among the best in the territory the weber river runs through the hert of the tire county E east ast canyon creek mill creek loss creek and other creeks afford abundance of water ter in addition to bothe the water of the wes weber be r the streams are well supplied d wt with h trout and other kinds of fish and the mountains abound in came game there are numbers of undeveloped mines of gold silver copper iron coal mica mineral paints fire clays mountains of fine sandstone and lime rock etc etc all inviting labor and cap tul tal for kneir development in the upper valleys and on the mountains there ther are many fine locations for dairies and stock ranches the rhe great fall in the weber river affords untold water power for the establishment of factories and the union pacific railway running through the center of our county paralleling the river gives good transportation for produce manufactured goods mner minerals als rock ac our present population is two thou thousand and bw bu when our resources are b itar understood and utilized we a shall hall double an I 1 our present numbers and become wealthy as well aa as comfortable our people aro are taking a commendable interest in education all our schools are well furnished n well attended and music ia Is receiving some attention about thirty organs and piano have been shipped iwo the county during the past two years the people are pO prosperous pero u peaceful industrious and happy p p y there is not and never has been strong between the mor mons and don non cormons mormons in our county public officers administer the laws coall alike regard regardless les of rr ro religion linion re and the registrars their deputies and nd judges f elections give no aroun grounds d of complaint compla tit in alumari mui ran county the county is divided into five prec precincts Incle composed mi 0 sed of ten en email small tow towns is arg morgan ci city ty is the county seat it is very pleasantly situated the weber river divides it into north and south morgan here the most of the lilo tilo business of the county is done eight tenths of all the produce 0 of tho the county ia Is shipped from frona webar station the union path elfin railway ailway Il company rejected acted the name of our city and named our depot erber I 1 dont suppose this meanness is is duplicated any wheres else in the country the companas comp anys servants sor tell us that there is in more business done at thil this depot than any other on the main line between ogden and ch cheyenne yenne except evanston we have eix six stores a saloon two lime kils one brick yard two blacksmith shops one boot and shoe factory and two dealers in agricultural implements we have two district schools school ono one academy and one mission school all well atten attended dd at present a lecture hall brasa brass band and atilt orchestra band immediately cast of the city we bava have some fine warm springs impregnated with sulphur iron and potassium surrounded with beautiful groves now converted into pleasure plea sare grounds and a it bathing resort there are a number of good substantial residences and the city lots are well laid out to kitchen and flower gardens and fruit orchards east and west porterville on oh est east canyon creek is east porterville has taken a nood good interest in thoroughbred stock and horses the ranges anges r around porterville are well adapted to horse and stock raising rich Kich richville ville is made rich bythe by the possession of the richest anil and best lands in the country the people have an abundance Morgan of county currency tha the tightness of hi tha money maket dont effect them at all tho farmers of littleton next to richville Kich Rich vilie own the best lands in the c county in but the 0 n 9 privileges privileges are not so good as those of 0 Kich villa borne some of 0 them having money ey to loan at these timea time a mark nm their eion prosperity milton la Is inhabited mostly by broat that hardy frugal frug 8 I 1 race coming to n ns s from f in the shores of the baltic sea they are arri amene ting our best beat citizens and I 1 think it will take several gene generations TatlO as to degenerate them into ho the habits cf of yankees ie pe ereon eiton settlement satt lement was n named amed after bishop peterson Pete raon contains nebout sixteen families all doing veil well their farms are very productive but more subject to early and late frosts than other localities they need more fa families milles to help them cultivate all the land mountain green is gradually coming to the front hundreds of acres 0 of new land have been brought under cultivation there the past 1 t few years and the settlers having g bought the hill lands of the railway they have fenced them iu in for far pastures they lavo have not enkui en oui families there to make a good enterprise eo so named because it was considerable of an ente enterprise oprise to overcome the many m any difficulties to be encountered in making the settlements a success are now in a airway to become comfortable situated on the bench land for many years they lost their crops for want of water bot but they have bave constructed ft a new waiter ditch seven miles lone long from which they hope to have a good supply for the future round valley is to a small valley immediately east of morgan the tile pie there raise the earliest vegetables in the county the canyon winds frosts their land is a fine black lome and very ri rich rib b to the west they have a beautiful range at ige for their th cows aldstock and stock which they the Y f fe t cured by pur chaw chaRA croydon settle ment situated on L las lai as creek is a very prosperous settlement the farming and grazing land extend ten miles up loss creek and there are FI fielli splendid enli d ranges for their cows coas and stock coal 0 I 1 miries have been opened up losa loss creek and are worked fomo forno eiery every year if the pacific shot short sho t line cornea comes dov down vp tho canyon as laid out at present rood good coal will bo pill shipped d from there ther e to ogden and salt lac lake T the b 0 p people e 0 p 1 e 0 on n t the h e s settlements ett le mento hae have org organized a n i z ed e companies om p a nie s a and nd purchased aba cba bed nearly all the grazing landa lands adjoining the settlements thia this is a rood think thing as it feema teems to them the moat most of be range land their stock have run on in the past the farmers have become eo po well off that nearly all drive their families to and meeting meeli nj behind fat horses in in good buggies or spring wagons n s and the EODS sons drive fast horses wa in n cartal gor t a there are but few poor in the county most everybody every body own t the he houses they in the charities are ample to prevent want and suffering the tile county is is seldom called upon to take care of the poor what morgan county needs to forge ahead is soma enterprising men ot of means to employ the necessary labor and machinery to devel develop 10 them there ar aru for fortunes I 1 unes all aroun around ua but we cannot eee see them what we fail to see pee now will be found in in the near future and our present inhabitants will wonder and eay say bow blind iwo wo have been not to see what would bae have been the making of us |