Show I THRIVING TOWNS I Southern the Settlements 1coplc Prosperous Growing niirt I On the road from Monroe to Richfield and situated between two of the large I canals that run through the whole Sevier I I valley is the town of Elsinore so named from a celebrated city of that name in Denmark The place was settled about 1875 by people who were unwilling to go I into the United Order of Enoch for i Christs sake They were as they still i are mostly hard working Scandinavians I e3 ygoing and temperate Before settlement settle-ment the Elahiore site was 1 barren r rocky waste it is now a prosperous and substantially built town of several hun i dred people The houses and public j j buildings are all erected with an excellent excel-lent Quality of buildim rock of which j there are vast quantities near by One of the most enterprising men of the place is Mr A Bertlescn He owns and runs a big flour mill which is now being remodeled with the latest improved milling machinery The mill grinds the year round and as it has a capacity of 300 bushels perday Bertlesen annually turns out hundreds of tons of firpLIass flour Beside hid mil Mr Bertlesen keeps avery a-very large herd of Berkshire hpgs num bering over 200 head and producing about 20000 pounds of pork every year Bertlesen like his hogs is fat and looks as though nothing under the sun bothers him by the infrequency of meal limes SAVKD nv SAJT bolt thirty miles farther north is the j pretty little town of Salina I place noted for the great quantity a most excellent rock salt which is shipped to the adjacent adja-cent counties and also to the Nevada mining districts Just now there is some excitement here on account of the Utah Railroad Companys doings Up Salina Canyon is a surveying party of eighteen men lay ing out the proposed route for the t i U R R which if built through this way a it most likely will be will give Salina t boom and no mistake for oncoming on-coming out of the canyon the road must run into the town The peoplethose with some foresight sea plainly enough that great advantages to Salina must inevitably follow the building of the road roadYour Your representative stopped long enough in tho town to take dinner and have a chat with Fred Miller postmaster and merchant who expatiated on the resources sources of that part of the Sevier Valley and the prospective possibilities of Salina Salna j QUKNISOX Fifteen miles still north is tho growing I town of Gunnison Agriculture the sheep and cattle industries are the chief I modes of gaining a livelihood in this place The town is surrounded with large l and excellent fields and pastures Hero the Liberal element is strong and growing from year to year Before long they will call the turn on the brethren who live in mortal dread of the fact because be-cause they known it to be inevitable I Robbins Christensen run the only Liboral store in the place They keep a I large l stock on hand and do a good business busi-ness I nessMrs Mary Robbins id i postmistress The lady also keeps the only hotel in the place Travelers will find at the Robbins Rob-bins house the best of accommodations with moderate charges NElIII NUGGETS A few hours ride from Gunnison brings the traveler to the bustling town of Nephi There is apparently more business busi-ness done in this town than any other south of the capital The place fo i destined des-tined to become a large city some day as it is a good shipping point for Southern Utah Several very fine residences are being built this summer One man a Mr bui Lund is putting up a 5000 twostory brick and an elegant residence it will be when finished C K Foote runs the Union Hotel on I Main street Ask the conductor to show you the Union Then go and be made I comfortable Jrkemans journalistic chestnut the Nephi Ensign ia a step in advance of his Manti nondescript but most of the people already think it would have been better for paper and public had it never been born However a its early death is anticipated the infliction will in all probability prob-ability soon find an early grave I will have but few mourners MiLOZir Nziimi Juno loth |