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 Early History 
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 ITS : RESOURCES : AND : ATTRACTIONS. 
 
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 PBOVO. 
 
 EARLY HISTORY. 
 
 at the base of the Wasatch Range, where 
 its deeply seamed front towers high and precipitously 
 toward the sky, lies Provo, the "Garden City" of Utah. 
 The pioneers of Utah entered the Great Salt Lake Val- 
 ley in the fall of 1847, and in the following spring a small party 
 from this body started south on an exploring expedition. Im- 
 mediately on reaching the summit of the divide, between what 
 are now Salt Lake and Utah Counties, they gazed southward, 
 and beheld stretched out before them, calm and undisturbed, 
 a beautiful sheet of water some thirty miles in length, hemmed 
 in on all sides by towering peaks, with yet enough of plain to 
 tempt the settler, and with many streams pouring out from 
 rugged ravines, threading their silvery way through the un- 
 cultivated area until lost amid the sleeping waters of the lake. 
 Roaming along the banks of these rivers in search of game, 
 and about the shores of the lake, was a tribe of Indians who 
 possessed the spot as their own. They were the "Utes," 
 though the opinion of some is that they properly should be 
 called "Pah Utes," or "Water Utes." The fact seems to be 
 that not only this lake and Utah County, but even the territory, 
 ultimately derived the name "Utah" from this tribe, and that 
 "Piute" county is only "Pah Ute" corrupted, or improved, as 
 we may choose to think. 
 
 Be this as it may, the exploring party, satisfied with the 
 inviting appearance of the spot, reported favorably, and a 
 party soon started south to colonize the newly discovered 
 section. An agreement was made with the Indians by which 
 the pioneers were permitted to locate in the new valley, and a 
 fort was built at a point a short distance below the spot where 
 
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 the Denver & Rio Grande Railway track now spans the " Tim- 
 panogas" River. 
 
 Accessions to the new settlement caused an extension of 
 its borders, and, as circumstances permitted it, the tendency 
 seemed to be to go closer to the mountains on the east. Ulti- 
 mately the first site of Provo or "Utah Fort," was abandoned, 
 and the city built a little further away from the " Timpanogas ' r 
 River, which now supplies Provo with water. 
 
 How the place came to be called Provo, is not an absolutely 
 settled point; but the more plausible explanation, and that 
 
 PROVO WOOLEN MILLS. 
 
 most generally credited, is found in the following story: Gen- 
 eral Fremont, on his first exploring trip to the Pacific, passed 
 through this valley when returning eastward. Before leaving 
 the Missouri River on his journey westward, the General bought 
 a fine blooded animal from a Frenchman named "Proveau." 
 This animal carried him to the Chores of the Pacific and as far 
 as our valley on his return, when it sickened and died. The 
 " Pathfinder" had become greatly attached to the horse, and 
 named the spot where it was buried after the animal itself, it 
 having been known by the name of the Frenchman from whom 
 Fremont had purchased it. The other theory is that " Provo'* 
 is so called after an old mountaineer and trapper who made 
 
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 the valley, the border of Utah Lake, and the course of the 
 " Timpanogas v River the scene of his periodical hunting and 
 trapping visits. 
 
 The word "Timpanogas," signifies "rushing water," or, 
 putting it more graphically, " rocky torrent," or the tumultuous 
 rushing of water over a rocky bed. 
 
 COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL. 
 
 The early history of Provo, if written, would be devoted in- 
 the main to a recital of extreme hardships, resulting from bit- 
 ter and almost incessant Indian wars. While the pioneers of 
 that place were permitted to establish themselves by a friendly 
 arrangement with the red men, it did not long continue. The> 
 Indians soon began a characteristic and most violent warfare- 
 upon the hardy settlers. In founding this now fruitful and 
 prosperous locality, not a few of the best men were killed. It 
 
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 was practically a continuous struggle, with brief seasons only 
 for the pursuit of agriculture. But as the early settlers had 
 gone there to stay, and were possessed of that courage which 
 is characteristic of the men who settled this territory, the 
 locality prospered and grew, notwithstanding the Indian depre- 
 dations and the loss of many able men in the predatory warfare 
 which the Indians so persistently maintained. There is left, 
 it is true, little or no trace of the struggles through which this 
 thriving city was founded; and only occasionally, as the mind 
 of some veteran reverts to earlier days, do those now enjoying 
 the peace and prosperity which prevail here, realize, even in 
 
 TERRITORIAL INSANE ASYLUM. 
 
 the most distant sense, how dearly the blessings by which 
 they are surrounded were purchased. Pleasant it is, and 
 sweet, to behold these cultivated fields and numberless homes 
 where the people dwell in comfort, surrounded by the luxuries 
 of modern times; but few there are who can appreciate the 
 extent of labor that has been performed to bring about the de- 
 lightful results which everywhere in this valley charm the eye. 
 But if the thoughtful will pause and consider through what 
 struggles these results have been achieved, the sense of ad- 
 miration for the persevering toil of those who founded this 
 prosperous commonwealth must overshadow all other feelings 
 and leave little room for other sentiments than those in which 
 reverence for the pioneers predominate. It is impossible to 
 
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 estimate the extent of wealth contained in the canals and 
 ditches by which the fruitful acres of this valley are watered. 
 How slowly, and with what excess of unyielding toil, these? 
 were built, only those who participated in the work can realize. 
 The wealth, not only of this valley, but of our whole territory, 
 is represented more in its canals and irrigating ditches than in 
 any other direction perhaps more than in all other directions 
 combined. Millions of dollars in the hardest coin the honest 
 sweat of honest men have been spent in canals; and those 
 
 FIRST NATIONAL BANK. 
 
 who live to-day, who prosper and enjoy comforts that, without 
 these canals, would be unknown here, can never fully sens& 
 how great is their indebtedness to those who fought and 
 worked, who worked and fought, that this county and this- 
 city might be. 
 
 THE CAPITAL OF UTAH COUNTY. 
 
 Provo is the capital of Utah County. This county is second 
 in population in Utah. The city is surrounded by one of the- 
 richest agricultural sections in the whole territory; there being- 
 settlements continuously north and south of it, and around the- 
 western base of the Wasatch Mountains ? or a distance of 
 
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 forty miles. The people are prosperous, and unitedly strive to 
 promote, as well as participate in a growth which is now quite 
 rapid, not only in the city, but also in the entire county. Being 
 the first born of the county, and its capital, Provo has naturally 
 
 PROVO CENTRAL SCHOOL. 
 
 been built up more rapidly and more solidly than its neighbors. 
 The population of the city is between 5,000 and 6,000. 
 
 It is a peculiarity of this place, that all who make it their 
 home, become thoroughly and substantially identified with it, 
 -working unitedly for its prosperity and progress. 
 
 RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES. 
 
 If Provo is so favorably situated as a place for the build- 
 ing of a home, it is no less desirable as a locality for the invest- 
 
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 merit of means and for the establishment of manufacturing 
 enterprises. Surrounded by boundless resources, prominent 
 among which are almost limitless agricultural opportunities 
 which lend substantial aid to the mining investment, the mar. 
 vel is that comparatively so little advancement has been 
 made, situated almost in the heart of the Territory, considered 
 -as to population, and nearly in the centre geographically, 
 
 PROVO OPERA HOUSE. 
 
 Provo is rapidly being viewed as the coming seat for manufac- 
 turing in Utah. Its fitness for the position is the more pre- 
 sumable from the fact that no other point along the western 
 base of the Wasatch, situated as near the centre in trade and 
 population, possesses equal facilities either in the matter of 
 power for operating manufactures, or in the abundance of re- 
 sources easy of access and upon which industries may be 
 founded. 
 
 Unlimited manufacturing opportunities once conceded, the 
 Jiext point in connection with the growth of manufacture in 
 
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 this section is the ease with which ingress and egress may be 
 obtained by means of railroads for the exportation of the 
 goods manufactured, for the supply of coal, and if it be neces- 
 sary, for the inbringing of raw material. That Provo is 
 blessed with these advantages in abundance will be clearly 
 shown in this pamphlet. 
 
 8. 8. JONES* MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT. 
 WATER POWER AND SUPPLY. 
 
 In an economical sense, the chief feature of Provo is its 
 opportunities for the founding of manufactures. Its water 
 power, extending a distance almost of seven miles without di- 
 minishing the force of the stream, or interfering with its util- 
 ity for irrigating purposes, is inferior to none in the Rocky 
 Mountain Region. The "Timpanogas" is a constant and un- 
 failing source of industrial power, and scarcely any limit can 
 be placed to the possibilities it presents for the operation of 
 
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 any number of manufactures that may be built upon its banks. 
 It is already the site of the largest Woolen Mill Manufactur- 
 ing establishment in the west, the "Provo Woolen Mills," 
 and the marked success being achieved in this branch of local 
 industry, points emphatically to the assured prosperity of 
 other industries, on equal scale, when the needed capital is in- 
 vested in the many other directions for which the locality is so 
 eminently fitted. 
 
 It may also be well to add that in recent years the sinking 
 of artesian wells has been introduced with results astonishing- 
 ly successful. There seems to be no limit to the subterranean 
 reservoirs over which, not only Provo, but Utah County gen- 
 
 PROVO LUMBER AND MANUFACTURING MILLS. 
 
 erally is located ; and what is more striking still, is the fact 
 that, on the average, these wells require to be sunk less than 
 200 feet in order to obtain a good supply of water, almost un- 
 excelled for its purity and admirably adapted both for culinary 
 purposes and for irrigation. Another interesting feature in 
 this connection, is the fact that there is no perceptible diminu- 
 tion in the water in wells already in existence by the sinking 
 of new ones. It is, therefore, reasonably inferred that practic- 
 ally no limit can be placed to the supply. Arrangements are 
 now making for the sinking of a huge well on the elevated 
 plateau north of the city, by Denver parties ; and the persons 
 interested are so confident of success that the securing of 
 water means to them simply a matter of the time necessary 
 
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 to sink the required depth. These wells, as before stated, 
 being valuable for irrigating purposes, there can be no reason- 
 able probability of a time coming when there will be a lack of 
 water for all purposes in and about the city of Provo. As to- 
 the quality of the water supplied by the Timpanogas River, it 
 need only be said that a brighter, a purer and a clearer stream 
 is nowhere to be found. Distributed over the fields, running 
 through the charming "Garden City" in countless uncovered 
 streams that adorn either side of each street and afford moist- 
 
 THE NEW WEST SCHOOL. 
 
 ure for the shade trees everywhere abounding, it gives a fresh- 
 ness and a perennial delight peculiar to few other cities in the 
 world, outside of Utah. 
 
 IRON ORE. 
 
 In Utah County, not far from Provo City, are situated vast 
 iron fields capable of furnishing millions of tons of ore for the 
 manufacture of iron, so free in its nature that it is used as a 
 flux in the smelters of Salt Lake Valley. This will yet find 
 labor for thousands of people and bring in return millions of 
 dollars annually to the territory, and to this city and county 
 more particularly, when the day arrives that Utah iron re- 
 ceives the attention which its magnitude merits. There has 
 
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 been incorporated in Provo a company known as "The Utah 
 Valley Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company," its present 
 officers and board of directors being John E. Booth, president ~ 
 Walter R. Pike, vice-president ; Wilson H. Dusenberrjr 
 treasurer ; A. O. Smoot, Jr., secretary ; A. A. Noon, 
 
 SNOW BROTHERS FURNITURE EMPORIUM. 
 
 superintendent. These, with Amos D. Holdaway and 
 Thomas Beesley, constitute the directors. The company 
 proposes soon to begin the manufacture of iron. The- 
 property owned consists of large bodies of iron ore r . 
 situated on the east hills of the Tintic Mining District, 
 less than thirty miles from Provo City. The company's- 
 possessions extend over a tract of land of some 340 acres, and 
 
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 contain, one might almost declare, absolutely inexhaustible 
 -quantities of ore which is found in dykes or deposits. These 
 ;are twenty-six in number, but their depth or width has never 
 fceen ascertained. For the purpose of mining, or, rather, quar- 
 rying the ore, it is only necessary to clear off a light covering 
 of earth, and then proceed as in rock quarrying, with powder 
 
 MRS. E, HORTON'S STORE. 
 
 and drill ; and a single blast will very often tear down a hun- 
 dred tons. The fronts of ores thus exposed are, in many in- 
 stances, nearly a hundred feet high from the floor of the 
 workings to the top ; but this is not the depth of the ore, for 
 even the floors of these quarries are of solid iron ore and of 
 the purest quality, reaching down into the earth to unknown 
 depths. Wherever shafts have been sunk for the purpose of 
 prospecting, the ore has improved in quality with the depth. 
 
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 attained. Developments have been made in these deposits by 
 means of hundreds of feet of excavations, tunnels and cuts, 
 all of which expose such quantities of ore that it would be dif- 
 ficult, if not impossible, to name a place where they are rival- 
 ed in extent or in excellence of quality. Under the conditions 
 stated, the working of these ore bodies is very light in ex- 
 pense. The road to the mine is of easy grade ; single teams 
 can be driven to and from any part of them, and haul 4,500 
 pounds to the load, while two railroads are but a few miles 
 distant. 
 
 EXCELSIOR HOUSE. 
 IRON AND BRASS MANUFACTURES. 
 
 It should be stated here also that the largest operating 
 company for the manufacture of machinery and the working 
 of brass and iron in Provo city, is the "Provo Foundry and 
 Machine Company," of which an organization was effected in 
 January of 1886. The present officers are H. H. Cluff , presi- 
 dent ; J. E. Booth, secretary ; and John Devey, superintend- 
 ent. The main building occupied by the works of the com- 
 pany is 80x32 feet. It is two stories high and is built of adobe 
 and brick. A commodious molding room in the rear of the 
 building is 60x40 feet, besides engine rooms and shops which 
 are usually constructed with such works. The company has 
 all the latest and most improved machinery planers, turning 
 
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 lathes, power drills, and furnaces necessary for brass and iron 
 casting, and the baking of cores for hollow iron works, with 
 wide capacity, and facilities which do not include those used 
 in the manufacture of machinery. At present, but a limited 
 number of workmen are employed by reason of the heavy 
 cost of pig iron now imported from the east. This difficulty 
 will, however, be overcome at no distant day, as the company 
 heretofore mentioned, which has in its possession the largest 
 iron beds in the country, but a few miles from this city, con- 
 template the erection of furnaces for the manufacture of pig 
 iron as soon as possible. The foundry company has been 
 
 RESIDENCE OB JUDGE W. N. DUSENBERRY. 
 
 thoroughly successful in its work, and is daily turning out 
 machinery and castings fully equal to those produced by east- 
 ern institutions of a like kind. 
 
 IRON FIRE-PROOF PAINT. 
 
 The manufacture of fire-proof paint, though still in its in- 
 fancy, has already attained considerable importance in Provo. 
 The idea of the manufacture of paint from iron ore was first 
 suggested to Mr. A. A. Noon, of Provo, by the large quanti- 
 . ties of ore thrown aside as waste, for the reason that it was 
 considered not of the best quality for fluxing rebellious ores- 
 at the smelters. The iron ore possesses a beautiful red color, 
 and a little over a year ago experiments were made to manu- 
 facture it into paint by crushing the ore to small particles and 
 
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 then mixing it with oil. This, when applied to woodwork , 
 was found to give a bright, rich color ; l?ut the powder was 
 not sufficiently fine. Many difficulties were experienced and 
 were only overcome after numberless experiments and at a 
 great outlay by the Provo Foundry Company. By a novel 
 and original method the ore was reduced as fine as the finest 
 flour and the cost of manufacturing the paint reduced to a 
 minimum. As soon as the article and its merits grew to be 
 known, there came demands from all parts of the territory 
 for it ; and the machinery which, when built, was deemed 
 equal to supply the trade for years, was found to be altogether 
 
 RESIDENCE OF DR. W R PIKE. 
 
 inadequate. Other and larger machinery was built and, in 
 another year, still greater facilities will be imperatively 
 necessary. The manufactured article is brown or red, and is 
 not only largely fire-proof, but is most excellent for its pre- 
 serving qualities in changeable climates. Wherever it has 
 been used, it is pronounced to be far superior to the eastern 
 article. The ore from which the paint is manufactured is 
 from the deposits owned by the " Utah Valley Iron Mining 
 and Manufacturing Company, " in Tintic mining district, al- 
 ready referred to. 
 
 UTAH GRAPHITE. 
 
 A fine quality of graphite, or black lead, is mined near 
 Payson, Utah County. The mine is owned by the Provo 
 
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 Foundry Company. The ore is found on an incline vein 
 several feet in thickness. So far as developments have been 
 made, the ore improves in grade with the depth attained. At 
 present, it is used only as foundry dusting, in the molds into 
 which the melted iron is run and its effect is to produce a 
 smooth surface which could be secured in no other way. No 
 very extensive experiments have been made with this article, 
 for the reason that the capital of its owners has been used in 
 other directions ; but with proper working and treatment, it 
 will certainly become a valuable article of commerce in Utah, 
 and soon be among Provo's important industries. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF DR. JULIUS HAMBERG. 
 WOOLEN MILLS. 
 
 The largest and most successful woolen mills in the West 
 are located at Provo. The excellence of the goods manufac- 
 tured grows yearly. Being in the centre of an immense wool 
 growing district, it has every opportunity, and the success of 
 this institution demonstrates that others have only to enter 
 the same field, display like energy and business tact, to reap 
 the same gratifying rewards. There is not a doubt that 
 Provo could support manufactures capable of working 
 $2,000,000 worth of wool annually. The extent of the work- 
 ings of the Provo Woolen Mills is evidenced in the facts here 
 given, which were furnished by its superintendent, Mr. Reed 
 Smoot. 
 
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 The Provo Woolen Mills Company own a full block of 
 ground in the heart of the city upon which the mills stand. 
 The mills are run by two Turbine wheels, to each of which 
 there is eighteen feet of water pressure. The main part of 
 the building is 75x145 feet in dimensions, adjoining which is a 
 room 15x33 feet. Running at right angles with the main 
 building, while south of and adjoining the room just men- 
 tioned, is still another two-story structure, 33x134 feet. The 
 main building is four stories in height. There are in the mills, 
 wash rooms, bins for storing the wool, eight sets of carders, 
 three carders to a set ; grinders to keep the carders in trim ; 
 
 INTERIOR VIEW OF DR. JULIUS HAMBERG S LIBRARY. 
 
 a spooler and reel, and a jack with 240 spindles for making 
 yarn ; there are also four self-acting mills, 125 feet long, each 
 having 720 spindles ; two machines for spooling the thread ; 
 thirty-seven narrow looms for flannels ; nineteen broad ones 
 for cassimeres and blankets ; one warp dresser, one shawl 
 fringer, and a spooler and beaming frame for arranging the 
 warp. A fire pump, with a capacity of 300 gallons per min- 
 ute, together with piping through all the works, with fire plugs 
 and hose, are the protection which is afforded against fire. 
 Moreover, the mill possesses three fullers, three washers, two 
 gigs, two presses, two cutters or shear frames, and two 
 brushes, one with and one without steam. 
 
 The mills have manufactured nearly 500 designs since the 
 
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 day they began operations, in the fall of 1873. The capacity 
 of the looms is over 1,000 yards per day, and 1,000 pounds of 
 wool is consumed each day. Fully 5,000 pounds of soap is 
 used weekly for cleaning the wool ; and since last spring over 
 $12,000 has been spent in dye colors. Every year sees an in- 
 creased demand in the goods, this demand, outside of the 
 home consumption, coming from Montana, Washington, Ida- 
 ho and Wyoming Territories, and the States of Nevada, Colo- 
 rado, Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri, Louisiana, and, in fact, 
 from almost every state and territory in the Union. 
 
 It is the largest woolen mill west of the Missouri River, 
 
 RESIDENCE OF DR. F. H. SIMMONS- 
 
 and is incorporated for $500,000, in shares of $100 each. Though 
 having a hard struggle in the beginning, with excellent man- 
 agement it is doing remarkable work to-day, and promises 
 even better for the future. 
 
 LUMBER MANUFACTORY. 
 
 Large lumber mills, which commenced some years ago, 
 and which are situated in the immediate neighborhood of the 
 Utah Central and D. & G. Ry. depots, supply all classes of 
 \voodwork for Provo, and places not only in the county, but 
 at great distances. In fact, it is almost safe to say that not 
 a single industry of a manufacturing character has been start- 
 ed that has not met with success, in view of which fact it is 
 
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 surprising that more extensive work has not been under- 
 taken. 
 
 ASPHALTUM. 
 
 About sixteen miles east of Provo, on the line of the Den- 
 ver & Rio Grande railway, are situated the asphaltum mines 
 of the "North American Asphalt Company." There are thir- 
 ty-three claims, covering an area of nearly 640 acres. The 
 vein is from eight to fourteen feet in thickness, and lies almost 
 horizontally. It is the only pure asphaltum in the United 
 States. There are other small discoveries in the vicinity, but 
 none suitable for paving, nor any of the uses to which as- 
 phaltum is put. The latest developments have uncovered de- 
 posits containing from 40 to 60 per cent, pure asphaltum. The 
 company is a St. Louis organization. Adolphus Busch, the 
 wealthy St. Louis brewer, and president of the Anheuser- 
 Busch Company, is its president, and among the stockholders, 
 officers and directors are such men as Phillip Stock, H. P. 
 Taussig, and Charles Nagle. St. V. Le Seiur, the discoverer of 
 the deposits, is manager and superintendent. The company 
 is now erecting machinery, costing $25,000, for working the 
 ores. The building will be three stories high and 114 long 
 by forty feet wide. It will be capable of working 100 tons 
 every ten hours, and will manufacture everything possible 
 from paving material to the finest varnish. Already nearly 
 $20,000 has been expended in prospect work and experiments. 
 The company is incorporated for $1,000, 000.00 and will, beyond 
 doubt, be a signal success, a benefit to the county, of the 
 greatest value to Provo City, and of material profit to our 
 territory. 
 
 MANUFACTURING POSSIBILITIES. 
 
 It may be worthy to note here some branches of industry 
 and manufactories which promise immediate and gratifying 
 returns upon operations being undertaken, and for which 
 Provo seems singularly adapted. Among others are the fol- 
 lowing : 
 
 STOVE WORKS. 
 
 In this connection it may be said that there are no stove 
 works west of the Missouri River. At least half of the cost of 
 a stove in the inter-mountain states and territories is that of 
 
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 freighting. With iron works established, and with the limit- 
 less iron resources already mentioned, the manufacture of 
 stoves, grates, etc. , upon a large scale, would be a source of im- 
 mense and immediate profit. The market afforded is an 
 extensive one, comprising Utah, Western Colorado, Idaho, 
 Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, California, Washing- 
 ton Territory, Oregon, and even the east. 
 
 CANNERIES. 
 
 Utah County is the largest fruit producing section between 
 the Rocky Mountains and the Coast. Vast quantities are 
 shipped to Colorado and surrounding states and territories. 
 There is no doubt that a fruit canning establishment upon an 
 "extensive scale would pay handsomely. Moreover, the canning 
 of other agricultural products is equally possible. The tomato 
 in Utah County is a safe crop. Every condition seems to pro- 
 pitiate its growth, and its size and rich flavor both recommend 
 it as an article that, canned properly, would soon rival and 
 perhaps overshadow in the east and west the famed Utah po- 
 tato. In this direction alone is an extensive field for enterprise, 
 and when we couple with it the richness and size of the Utah 
 peach, plum, pear, strawberry, raspberry and grape, it will be 
 discovered that in the United States there is no unutilized in- 
 dustry in the same direction that rivals Provo in the promises 
 held out to enterprise and capital. 
 
 PICKLE AND VINEGAR WORKS. 
 
 Pickled cucumbers and onions are imported into Utah and 
 sold in the Provo market. Better cucumbers and onions are 
 raised nowhere in the world, while apples, from which the very 
 finest vinegar can be made, lie rotting on the ground and are 
 fed to cows and pigs because a market is not offered for them. 
 
 ROLLER FLOUR MILLS. 
 
 Utah County, with Sanpete, Millard, Juab, Sevier and other 
 counties south, of which Provo is the natural key, produce 
 wheat in the greatest abundance. Large roller mills would 
 receive the great surplus of wheat shipped to other sections, 
 and would pay a handsome profit on investment. They would 
 
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 find an extensive local market, and a territory east and west 
 into Colorado and Nevada and far south. 
 
 BEEF PACKING. 
 
 This county and others are filled with herds of cattle, the 
 greater part of which are marketed outside of the territory. 
 An enterprise of the kind indicated would be a source of im- 
 mense income to the inaugurates, and would find a virgin field. 
 That Utah should have no beef packing establishment, pro- 
 
 HON. A. O. SMOOT. 
 
 Hon. Abraham O. Smoot is one 01 the representative men and pioneers ol Utah. 
 He was born in Owen County, Kentucky, on the ijth day of Februray, 1815. He 
 joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in 1835, an(i traveled in the 
 ministry for about a year and then went to Kirtland, Ohio. In the spring of 1837 he 
 returned to Kentucky and in company with H. G. Sherwood organized a company of 
 Saints and led them to Far West, where the Saints had located after being driven 
 from Jackson County, Mo. He continued in the ministry until the latter part of 1838. 
 Was taken prisoner at Far West when that city (which was held by Mormons) fel 1 
 before the forces of the milita of the State and the mob. While a prisoner he married 
 his first wife, Martha T. McMeans, on the nth day of November, 1838. 
 
 When the Mormons were driven from Missouri in February, 1839, he left with 
 them, suffering many privations in the inclement weather, and arrived at Quincy, 111., 
 March 8th. He spent the spring months there. From there he moved to Nauvoo 
 
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 and went forth again into the ministry. In the Exodus of the Latterday Saints across 
 the Plains and Rocky Mountains to Great Salt Lake Valley he led a company of 120 
 wagons, sharing the privations and hardships of the dreadful journey with a forti- 
 tude that illustrated his character and determination. 
 
 In 1851 he went on a mission to England and on his return conducted a large 
 emigration to Salt Lake City. In 1856 he was elected Mayor of Salt Lake City by 
 the City Council to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. M. Grant, the first Mayor 
 of that city. In Feb. 1857 he was elected Mayor by the unanimous vote of the people at 
 their regular election. By repeated elections he continued in office until February> 
 1866. His wise and conservative policy advanced greatly the progress of the city. 
 Declining the mayorship in 1866, he served twelve yeai's in the Council branch of 
 the Legislature. In February, 1868 he went to Provo and was immediately elected 
 mayor of that city. He served Provo twelve years as Mayor without any remunera* 
 'ion whatever, just as he served as Mayor of Salt Lake, without salary. He is Presi- 
 dent of the First National Bank, Zion's Co-Operative Mercantile Institution, the 
 Lumber Company and the Provo Manufacturing Company. 
 
 He has ever worked to advance Provo and Utah County, and has been the financial 
 backbone of its business institutions since his connection with the County, over which 
 he stands as spiritual head, being President of the Utah County Stake of Zion. A 
 man of mighty strength and resources, the hard experiences he has undergone and the 
 labors of the past have made him a monument of worth in the region which he has 
 aided to reclaim from a desert and transform into a garden dotted with the homes of 
 men, who now honor and respect his name. 
 
 ducing the beef it does, and surrounded by a beef producing 
 area as it is, is one of the surprises that await the stranger. 
 
 SHOE FACTORIES. 
 
 Nearly all the hides produced here are shipped to points 
 outside, made into boots and shoes and returned to be sold. 
 We pay freight on our own hides both ways, that they may be 
 returned in a shape to be worn. That the margin will not 
 justify the manufacture, is absurd, especially in view of 
 what has been done in Salt Lake in the same direction. No 
 argument is needed to show that the manufacture of these' 
 articles within the territory would find ready and profitable 
 markets. 
 
 In addition to the industries specially mentioned, there are 
 many others that would justify an extensive investment. 
 Among them, without exhausting the list, we may mention : 
 
 CHEESE FACTORIES. For butter is a drug at 15 and 20 cents 
 per pound. 
 
 A TANNERY. For what is said regarding shoe factories ap- 
 plies here. 
 
 CRACKER FACTORY. A market unsurpassed in the west is 
 offered such an enterprise. 
 
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 AGRICULTURE. 
 
 HOP CULTURE. 
 
 Some three years ago, Major Berry, who is owner of a large 
 tract of land on the bench, just north of Provo, made some ex- 
 periments in the culture of hops ; and while considerable 
 difficulty was experienced in the beginning, the results attained 
 during the season just past have been of the most gratifying 
 nature, and have demonstrated, beyond the peradventure of a 
 doubt, that this very important and desirable industry is thor- 
 
 HON. W. H. DUSENBKRRY. 
 
 The present Mayor of Provo, Wilson H. Dusen berry, is one of the leading men ot 
 Utah county, and is to-day, perhaps, one ofProvo's most useful and generally uti- 
 lized citizens. He was born April 7th, 1841, at Perry, Pike county, 111. He is the 
 younger brother of Warren N. Dusenberry, Judge of Utah county. Mayor Dusenberry 
 was reared in his native State. In 1860, with his father's family, he went to California, 
 visiting Provo on the outward trip. After being in California for two years, the broth- 
 ers returned to Provo, where, out of respect to their mother's wishes, they remained 
 and became identified with the introduction of a systematic and higher edu- 
 cation in that city, out of which has grown the present advanced state of educational 
 institutions in Utah. He was County Superintendent of schools from 1874 to 1880. 
 Wilson Dusenberry began his political record in 1872, when he was elected a mem- 
 ber of the Provo City Council, with which he has been associated ever since, 
 
28 PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 (excepting for a part of 1874-5) as Councilor, Alderman and Mayor. He was County 
 Clerk from 1875 to l %%3. ^ n ! &79 Mayor Dusenberry was elected a member of the 
 House branch of the Utah Legislative Assembly. In the same capacity he served in 
 1882 and 1884, being a member for three consecutive terms. He was the most prom- 
 inent member in that body in securing the adoption of the parliamentary rules which 
 still obtain. In 1882 he was chairman ot the House Committee on education and in the 
 Territorial Convention that nominated Hon. Jno. T. Caine as delegate 'to Congress, 
 he was made President. In 1864 Mayor Dusenberry married his cousin, Harriet V. 
 Coray, the niece of the late Delegate, Wm. H. Hooper. She died, leaving two child- 
 dren, in 1872. In 1874 he married Margaret T. Smoot, daughter of Hon. A. O. Smoot^ 
 of Provo. He is and has been since its inception cashier of the First National Bank of 
 Provo. Mayor Dusenberry is quiet and undemonstrative, clear sighted, possessed of 
 marked political ability and business sagacity, and, is one of those men whose 
 influence has been felt throughout the entire Territory. 
 
 oughly practicable in this locality. It is a new undertaking in 
 Utah; and because the soil and locality seemed peculiarly 
 adapted to the culture of hops, Mr. Berry was induced to make 
 the experiment. On this bench, also, there is good reason to 
 believe it is the purpose of eastern capitalists to establish large 
 fish ponds, as the water from artesian wells seem specially 
 suited to this purpose. 
 
 GROUND PRODUCTS. 
 
 Moreover, all the land on this bench enjoys the breezes 
 which forever come down Provo Canon ; and the value of these 
 winds to fruit-growers is inestimable. The frosts of early 
 spring, in many quarters, destroy the fruit crops by nipping 
 the tender buds ; but wherever there is an unfailing breeze, 
 the frost is carried about and, not being permitted to settle on 
 the buds which may be shooting out, they are protected and the 
 season's fruit crop is assured. 
 
 The soil, also, is a fine sandy loam; and because of its 
 natural warmth is well suited to the culture of grapes. The 
 canon breeze is also of great benefit in this respect ; and the 
 gentle slope of the land being to the west, it enjoys the warmth 
 of the afternoon's sun. The result is, not only fruit of the most 
 luscious description, grapes large and of rich flavor, but also 
 vegetables that are of rapid growth and of early maturity, 
 The soil bears all the lighter cereals and vegetables. Potatoes 
 and onions are particularly famous, and hundreds of car loads 
 of the first named are exported annually, the demand coming 
 from parts as far distant as Cincinnati and New Orleans. 
 
PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 Celery, asparagus, and garden vegetables of all kinds are cul- 
 tivated and grown in great quantities. Small fruits abound, 
 and the grape, if repetition may be forgiven, is of as fine flavor 
 as the celebrated California product. It is dark and rich in 
 color, large in size and delicious in quality, and is grown ex- 
 tensively throughout the valley. Apples, plums, and apricots 
 are raised in large quantities. The climate and soil are par- 
 ticularly favorable to the culture of peaches, and nowhere in 
 the world are finer ones raised than in Utah. They are uni- 
 versally conceded to be superior in every respect to the peaches 
 
 
 HON. H. H. CLUFF. 
 
 Harvey Harris Cluff, son of David and Elizabeth Hall Cluft, was born January 
 9th, 1836, in Kirtland, Ohio, being the seventh of a family of twelve, whose ancestors 
 came to America shortly after the landing of the Pilgrims and settled in the "New 
 England" States, some of whom served as Legislators, officers and soldiers during the 
 struggle for independence, his father being in the war of 1812. 
 
 David Cluff became a convert to the doctrines taught by Joseph Smith and 
 moved to Springfield, thence to Nauvoo, where the family remained until the Exodus 
 in 1846, when they located at Mount Pisgah, thence they went to Musquito Creek, 
 Iowa, where they remained until 1850, at which time they crossed the Plains to Salt 
 Lake and located in Provo in October of the same year and joined in completing the 
 "log-fort" and school house. In the spring and summer Mr. Cluff tended his father's 
 flocks along the base of the Wasatch mountains, improving every opportunity of his 
 
30 PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 shepherd lite by studying the Bible, Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants. 
 In the winter of 1854-5 he lived with his brother David, at Parowan, and in 1856 vol- 
 unteered, on the 6th of October, to a call of President Brigham Young, to aid the 
 late Hand-Cart companies across the Plains. The following day he started from Salt 
 Lake City in company with 40 men and 22 mule-teams loaded with provisions and 
 clothing. It was on the Sweetwater, near the South Pass, where he aided in saving 
 two men from freezing to death. The last of that season's emigration was found at 
 the upper crossing of the Platt. Heavy snow storms caused delays at Devil's Gate, 
 preventing their arrival in Salt Lake until the middle of December. The experience 
 of this trip is beyond description. On the 24th of January, 1857, Mr. Cluff and Mar- 
 garet Ann Foster were united in marriage, to whom four children were born, all dying: 
 while very young. He was elected City Councilor in 1859 anc ^ ^ n the following year y 
 with three brothers, built a large furniture factory and music hall. In 1862 he was 
 elected a City Councilor and re-elected in 1864, serving until 1865, when he went to- 
 Europe as a missionary, laboring six months in England and two years and a half in 
 Scotland as President of the Glasgow Conference, and the last year over the Scottish 
 District, returning home in 1868 leading a company of 400 Saints. One year after- 
 wards he went to the Sandwich Islands accompanied by his wife. He returned thence in 
 1874. He obtained a clerkship in the Provo Co-Operative for three months, served as 
 manager of the Utah County Times Publishing Co. two months, and in 1875, by a P~ 
 pointment, commenced the duties of Assessor and Collector of Utah County. He con- 
 tinued in that office until 1879. In August, 1875, he was ordained by President 
 Brigham Young, Bishop over the Fourth Ward Provo. He was again elected City 
 Councilor in 1876, and in 1877 he was called into the quorum of the Presidency of the 
 Utah Stake of Zion with A. O. Smoot and D. John. In 1879 he was called to preside 
 over the mission on the Sandwich Islands, and went, accompanied by his wife. There 
 he erected a sugar mill at a cost of $24,000, and commenced a meeting house 35x65, 
 returning home in 1882. For several years after his return he superintended the Provo- 
 Lumber Manufacturing and Building Company and has been superintendent of the 
 erection of Utah Stake Tabernacle from its beginning. On the 2oth of September, 1883, 
 his wife died in Provo City. In the beginning of 1884 he was elected President of the 
 Provo Theatre Company and in 1886 made Director of the first National Bank of Provo. 
 He has yet many useful years before him. 
 
 of either Delaware or California. The trees here are of much 
 hardier growth and less subject to the blasting influences of 
 the frosts than elsewhere. 
 
 THE GARDEN CITY. 
 
 Provo is very properly designated the "Garden City." It 
 is the fashion in these days to have a high sounding sub-title 
 or name for every city almost in the country. In most cases- 
 these names have but little, if not a painfully ridiculous sig- 
 nification, and are mostly the result or^ish of the over-confi- 
 dent and ambitious citizen. Provo, however, is justly entitled 
 to its second name. It is deservedly called the "Garden City " 
 
PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 31 
 
 of Utah, and the valley, in which it lies like a gem, might 
 rightly be termed the garden valley of the west. The soil is 
 rich, and the climate of the most favorable kind for the pro- 
 duction of that which pleases equally the mind, the eye, and 
 the palate. It is the home of the vegetarian, where this phi- 
 losophic individual could live and feast the year round, and the 
 spot of all others to be favored of an epicure. 
 
 SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES. 
 
 The city is laid out with wide, handsome streets, at right 
 
 JUDGE W. N. DDSENBEKRY. 
 
 Warren Newton Dusenberry was born in Whitehaven, Luzerne County, Pennsyl- 
 vania, November ist, 1836. His mother's parents were prominent people in that part 
 of the state. Mahlon Dusenberry, the father, moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania 
 where he married'Aurilla Coray, the mother. The Dusenberrys are of Holland descent, 
 but on both sides the families are ol long American ancestry. The mother was a 
 great granddaughter of Abigail Green, sister of General Nathaniel Green, one of the 
 most noted commanding generals of the American Revolution. Judge Dusenberry is 
 the third child in a family of nine children. 
 
 In 1840 his family, with his grandfather Coray's family, emigrated to Pike county 
 Illinois. In 1860 they crossed the Plains going to California with ox and horse teams. 
 On this trying and hazardous journey the principal burdens rested upon Warren N., 
 who was then twenty-four years of age. Late in the fall of 1862 they returned to 
 
32 PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 Utah and located at Provo, where with his brother Wilson H., he soon became the 
 leading educator at least of Utah County. He and his brother are not only practi- 
 cally the founders of the school system in Provo, but also are to be credited largely 
 with the founding of the Brigham Young Academy there. He followed the vocation 
 of teaching most of the time until 1874, when he was elected by the Legislative As- 
 sembly Probate Judge of Utah County an office he still holds. During the time 
 since 1874 Judge Dusenberry has been a practitioner at the bar of the District Courts of 
 this territory as well as the Supreme Court of the United States, besides holding nu- 
 merous other positions of trust and honor. Prominent among these, and one which 
 will ever be a monument of honor to his name, is his connection with the Territorial 
 Insane Asylum. His sympathetic sentiments for the distress of his fellows impelled the 
 drafting of the bill which became the law creating this institution. To him more than 
 any one has been accredited its location at Provo and its present advanced state. For 
 more than five years he has been President of the Board of Directors, and most of the 
 time chairman of the executive and building committees. With Dr. Pike he made a 
 tour of inspection among the asylums of the United States for the information which 
 has helped to place Utah's asylum on a much higher plane than any similar institu- 
 tion in our inter-mountain region. Judge Dusenberry is a conservative man and has 
 exercised great influence in Utah County in bringing it to the front and giving it the 
 prestige it now enjoys. 
 
 angles to each other, and attractive public buildings are not 
 wanting. Schools were among the first structures that were 
 thought of by the early settlers, and from the first adobe room 
 built, the system has grown until now, Provo has a complete 
 and most excellent school system. In regard to these advant- 
 ages, the Garden City perhaps leads the territory ; and with 
 two academies, and its public schools, will compare most 
 favorably with the east. Churches are not lacking, and the 
 utmost freedom of worship, thought and action prevail. All 
 the blessings attendant upon civilization elsewhere are found 
 in Provo ; and one can live there surrounded with the same 
 culture and refinement as in older and wealthier cities east or 
 west. 
 
 It is conceded that Provo has the best district school house 
 in the territory, recently erected at a cost of $20,000. The foun- 
 dation is also laid for the Brigham Young Academy, the cost 
 of which, when completed, will not be less than $75,000. The 
 new Northwest Educational Association has also erected a fine 
 building here, known as the Proctor Academy, at a cost of 
 $8,000. There are a number of other school houses, new and 
 commodious, which would swell largely the aggregate amount 
 this thriving city has put into institutions for the education of 
 its young. 
 
PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 33 
 
 One of the finest buildings in the territory is the Tabernacle 
 in Provo. It has already cost close on $75,000, and when all 
 work is done on it, will not run under $100,000. Besides this 
 Ihere are a number of lesser church buildings, as well as Pres- 
 byterian, Methodist and other edifices for the worship of God, 
 "which give the city a metropolitan air, and offer a variety of 
 forms of worship for those who are not particular where the 
 -Sabbath is observed. 
 
 HON. S. R. THURMAN. 
 
 S. R. Thurraan was born May 6, 1852, in La Rue County, Kentucky; received an 
 :acadnic education; moved to Utah in 1870, and at once commenced teaching school 
 at Lehi City, Utah County, which vocation he followed almost exclusively for eight 
 years. He then began the practice of law, and went to Ann Arbor, Mich. 1 , 1879, at- 
 tending the law lectures for several months at that place. 
 
 He is associated in his profession with Mr. George Sutherland, a firm which, 
 vithout doubt, has the largest and best practice of any south of Salt Lake City. Mr. 
 "Thurman commenced official life at the early age of twenty-two. From that period 
 to the time of his going to Ann Arbor he was an Alderman and member of the City 
 Council of Lehi City, and in 1882 was elected Mayor of that place, an office he re- 
 signed when moving to Provo in November of the same year. He was a member of 
 the House of Representatives of the Utah Legislature in 1882, being the youngest 
 anember of that body, and was recognized as one of its ablest members. He was re- 
 
34 PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 turned in 1884, 1886, and is a member of the present Legislature, where his influence- 
 is second to none. In 1882, together with Hon. John T, Caine, Hon. P. H. Emerson, 
 and Governor Arthur L. Thomas, he was appointed to revise and codify the laws oi 
 Utah. He is at present, and has been for some years, County Attorney for Utah 
 County and Attorney for Provo City. 
 
 Politically he is identified with the history of the Territory. He was a member of 
 the Constitutional convention ot 1882, and also of the late Constitutional Convention 
 which framed the anti-polygamy constitution. He was chairman of the committee 
 which drafted the first declaration of principles or platform of the People's Party, and 
 delivered the first political speech in the first political campaign of that party in 1882. 
 Of his National politics, he is a pronounced Democrat. Mr. Thurman is a man of 
 growing capacity and is one of Utah's prominent lawmakers and politicians. 
 
 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 
 
 The Territorial Insane Asylum is located at Provo. After 
 going through several counties in the territory seeking for an 
 eligible site for the building, the committee, having the selec- 
 tion under control, chose the site now adorned by this building. 
 A portion of the structure, the south wing, is completed, at a 
 cost of $120,000. It is supplied with all the modern and most 
 approved appliances, is surrounded by a beautiful tract of land 
 for farming, is built right under the overhanging Wasatch 
 peaks, and commands a glorious view almost of the whole 
 valley and of the lake on the west. When completed it will 
 cost not less than half a million dollars. 
 
 The County Court House and City Hall, a joint building, 
 cost $30,000, and occupies a valuable site. Now in course of 
 erection and almost completed, is a new County Jail, built 
 after the most modern architecture, with steel cells and a 
 pleasant and attractive exterior, which will cost $15,000 to 
 $18,000. 
 
 Perhaps no other city of double its population in the United 
 States has so fine a building of amusement as Provo. The 
 Provo Opera House has a seating capacity of 900, and cost over 
 $30,000. Like all other public institutions in Provo, everything- 
 is new and contains all the modern advantages in the line for 
 which it was erected. It may be unnecessary to state that a 
 city with such a building has a good record among traveling- 
 theatrical companies for the number of its amusement-loving- 
 inhabitants. 
 
 There are several hotels in the city which, while not of a 
 pretentious nature, nevertheless afford ample accommodations^ 
 and all supply a most excellent table. 
 
PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 35 
 
 The First National Bank of Provo occupies a building that 
 cost over $20,000. The Bank was organized and began opera- 
 tions in 1882, with a capital stock of $50,000. It has paid 10 
 per cent, dividends from the beginning, and has a reserve fund 
 aggregating 11 per cent, of the capital. Its stock is to-day 
 worth 1.10. The above facts are based upon the institution's 
 report of October 5th last, in which also it was shown that 
 nearly $3,000 undivided profits were on hand, in addition to 
 the reserve fund of $5,000. The officers of the Bank are : A. 
 
 DR. W. B. PIKE. 
 
 Walter R. Pike, M. D., was born in Norfolk county, England, on the 8th of 
 June, 1848. He came to the United States alone at the age of sixteen years, having 
 previously spent some time at sea. After traveling for three years in the western 
 country and putting up with the inconveniences and roughness peculiar to western 
 life in earlier days, he settled down to the study of medicine in Salt Lake City, being 
 then nineteen years of age Under Dr. J. S. Ormsby he studied for two years; then, 
 he entered the drug business, pursuing that vocation for over five years and until he 
 obtained a most thorough knowledge of drugs and medicines. He then went east in 
 1876 and graduated from the medical department of the University of Vermont in 
 1877, From here he went to New York City, entering the University of New York, 
 from which he graduated in 1878, taking the two degrees in as many years. He then 
 returned to Utah and located in Provo, where he began the practice of medicine and 
 
36 PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 has remained there continuously ever since, excepting one year'of practice in Salt 
 Lake City. He preferred the former place, however, and returned there, where his 
 practice and influence have grown together. He has held for several years the posi- 
 tion of county and city Quarantine physician, but resigned both upon being appointed 
 Medical Superintendent of the Territorial Insane Asylum, which is located at Provo 
 and which was opened in 1885. The Doctor is advanced and yet conservative in his 
 ideas, is of a very progressive turn and has won a wide reputation and been more 
 than ordinarily successful. 
 
 O. Smoot, president ; Wilson H. Dusenberry, cashier ; with a 
 directory of strong and trustworthy men. There is ample room 
 and a most excellent opening here for at least one other bank. 
 One hundred thousand dollars to $150,000 could be safely in- 
 vested in this direction. 
 
 Being so centrally located, with so many advantages, there 
 is one thing that is surprising to the inquirer and the business 
 men the absence of jobbing houses equal to the opportunities 
 the city affords. One large wholesale house, which must have 
 cost all of $30,000. stands near the depots of the two railroads. 
 The signs are that Provo will soon occupy the position as a 
 jobbing centre, which its geographical situation undoubtedly 
 warrants. Provo's legitimate market is the whole of the 
 southern, eastern and western parts of Utah and of Western 
 Colorado all mining and growing agricultural areas. 
 
 CITY OFFICERS, NEWSPAPERS, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 
 
 Provo is a chartered city, and has been one for many years. 
 Its present officers are : Mayor, Wilson H. Dusenberry ; Al- 
 dermen, A. O. Smoot, Jr., Walter Scott, W. H. Brown, J. E. 
 Booth; Councilors, Roger Farrer, Charles D. Glazier, Evan 
 Wride, Win. McCullough, David Holdaway, John M. Hold- 
 away, Joseph T. McEwan and James A. Bean. 
 
 The "Utah Enquirer" is the oldest paper in the county. 
 It is a semi-weekly ; the "American" is of recent birth and 
 issued weekly. Besides these, which are newspapers, are the 
 "Utah Industrialist," a monthly magazine, and the "Home 
 Circle," a literary periodical. 
 
 The Chamber of Commerce, under whose direction this 
 pamphlet is published , was organized in September last. To-day 
 it has a membership of sixty, and is second to none in the ter- 
 ritory in the effectiveness of its work, in the unity of its 
 members and in the determination with which it pushes to 
 
PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 37 
 
 completion any policy that may be adopted as the sense of the 
 Chamber. Its officers are : Wilson H. Dusenberry, president ; 
 James Dunn, first vice-president; A. A. Noon, second vice- 
 president ; who, with S. S. Jones, Reed Smoot. W. C. A. Smoot, 
 Jr., F. H. Simmons, Richard Brereton, W. R. H. Paxman and 
 Joseph A. Harris, constitute the directory. George Sutherland 
 is secretary, with Ed L. Jones, treasurer. 
 
 DAVID JOHN. 
 
 David John was born at Little New Caslle, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, January 
 29t"h, 1833. He was the son of Daniel John and Mary Williams. His father was an in- 
 fluential farmer. His parents were members of the Baptist church, many of his family 
 being ministers of that denomination. It was designed by the family that John also 
 should be educated for the ministry ; and for this purpose he spent four years in the Bap- 
 tist College, Haverford, West South Wales. He became identified with the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on the 6th of February, 1856, and is still a mem- 
 ber of that body. On the 6th of April, 1861, he sailed in the ship Manchester ; from 
 Liverpool to New York, arriving m Salt Lake City in September of the same year, 
 whence he went direct to Provo, and has since resided there. He has spent years in the 
 ministry of his church, abroad and at home. He has combined business with religion, 
 tor he has been a school teacher and a business man in the Provo Co-Operative Institu- 
 tion; in the Provo Woolen Factory, and in the Lumber Company, which originated 
 with the firm of Smoot & Johns. He left the factory to fulfill the duties assigned him 
 in the church. He served as one of the trustees of the Provo district schools for fifteen 
 
38 PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 years, and for as many years he has served as a member of the Board of Directors 
 of the Provo Co-Operative Institution. He is now in the prime of life, and gives 
 promise of still being of much use to his church and his country. 
 
 PROPERTY VALUES AND TAXATION. 
 
 The city property is assessed at $721,863, which is about 
 one-fourth of the fair cash valuation. On this amount for city 
 purposes, six mills on the dollar are assessed, making the tax, 
 on an actual cash valuation, only one and one-half mills on the 
 dollar. The county taxable property is placed at $3,386,000, 
 which is about one-third of its cash value. The territorial, 
 school, and county tax on the assessed valuation, amounts, in 
 all, to eleven mills on the dollar, which brings the actual tax 
 down to three and two-thirds mills on the dollar. The munici- 
 pal, county, school, and territorial taxes, the total on an actual 
 cash valuation, aggregates therefore, but five and one-sixth 
 mills on the dollar. On this showing there need be said no 
 words of commendation. It tells its own tale. 
 
 RAILROADS. 
 
 Both the Utah Central and the Denver & Rio Grande 
 Western Railways run through Provo City. The former is run 
 in connection with the Union Pacific, and is practically one of 
 its branch lines. It extends some 200 miles south of Provo, 
 and makes this city the supply quarter, largely, for Southern 
 Utah. From the south, all wool passes through Provo to local 
 points, before being exported east, and a vast amount of it 
 finds a home market at the Provo Woolen Mills already re- 
 ferred to. Provo is the junction of the Denver & Rio Grande 
 Western Railway with the Utah Central. It is also the nearest 
 city of any importance to the boundless coal fields, situated 
 some sixty miles distant, near the main line of the Denver & 
 Rio Grande Railway, in what is known as "Pleasant Valley." 
 
 There is absolutely no limit to the coal supply ; and with this 
 considered, in connection with the colossal iron deposits here- 
 tofore mentioned, it gives a solid character and reliability to 
 the prediction already made, that Provo is destined to become 
 the seat of immense manufactures ; especially for the produc- 
 tion of crude iron, if nothing be said of the numerous branches 
 that necessarily follow upon the production of pig iron. 
 
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 It is important to note in this connection that south of 
 known as the "Weber Pass," through which the Union 
 Pacific now runs, there is no really practicable route for a new 
 railroad (and the number that are now rapidly rushing to Utah 
 from the east may not be counted on the fingers of one's hand), 
 until Provo Canon is reached. This gives foundation to the 
 prediction that several through lines from the east are destined 
 to come to Provo ; and, as other cities of magnitude east of 
 Provo are impossible, because of the unfavorable conditions of 
 
 S. S JONES. 
 
 Samuel Stephen Jones, one of the founders of Utah County commerce, (and at 
 the present time a prominent merchant of Provo City), was born at the Angel Inn, , 
 Brentford, England, in February, 1837. 
 
 Mr. Jones obtained his business experience with the firm of Bardsley & Son, Tea 
 Merchants, Tottenham Court Road. London, which was also a post and money order 
 office. He came to Utah with the never to be forgotten Hand-cart Company, in 1856. 
 After passing through for several years the harsh vicissitudes of early western life, he 
 engaged in business with Messrs. Birch & Stubbs, of Provo City. Later he embarked 
 in the mercantile business himself. He took a leading part in establishing the Co- 
 Operative movement in Provo, and acted as superintendent of the Provo Co-Operative 
 Institution for several years. Mr. Jones' present business is second only in Provo 
 
40 PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 City to the Co-Operative institution. Besides his store at Provo, he has a brancf* 
 establishment at Price, Emery Co., and conducts also the business of charcoal burn- 
 ing at his kilns in Spanish Fork Canyon from which the Germania & Hanauer Smel- 
 ters, in Salt Lake Valley are supplied. 
 
 Of his public service it may be noted that he was Adjutant in the Provo militia;, 
 assisted in raising supplies and forwarding troops to San Pete and Sevier during the 
 Indian campaign of 1862, and accompanied Col. Nuttall with a company of men to- 
 the Sevier. He has been in the City Council several terms as Councilor and Alderman. 
 In fine, S. S. Jones for many years has been in various spheres a representative man- 
 in the Provo commonwealth, and a pillar of its commercial fabric, as he is to-day. 
 
 the country lying there, it necessarily follows that, the im- 
 portance of Provo as a railroad town and a manufacturing 
 centre is necessarily and incalculably enhanced. 
 
 ATTRACTIONS. 
 
 At the base of the Wasatch range of mountains, and at a> 
 point where its peaks rise abruptly, reaching upward until 
 their tops seem almost to pierce the sky, lies the manufacturing 
 centre of the coming State of Utah. It is about four miles- 
 south of a mountain canon of the same name as that of the 
 city. Through this canon the Timpanogas River, or the river 
 of "Stony Waters," 'as the Indians graphically name it r 
 dashes its course, until, in spreading through numerous artifi- 
 cial arteries and veins, it pours upon the teeming acres that 
 lie between the mountains and the pleasant bosom of Utah 
 Lake. The high embankment north of the city forces the river 
 to sweep in a semi-circle to the south and west. The river is 
 thus thrown above the city, and gives ample supply for all the- 
 purposes of manufacture and for irrigation. Along its course- 
 have grown up beautiful groves, interspersed with fruitful 
 fields and pleasant meadows. In and around there are lovely 
 and quiet drives and lanes, with wild roses, flowers and shrubs- 
 growing in rich profusion. 
 
 The Utah Lake is on the west of the city. It is the largest 
 fresh water body in the west, and can be reached in a twenty 
 minutes' drive. The view from any point north, south, or 
 east only lends fresh charm i;o the effective scene. Into the- 
 bosom of the lake pour the waters of the American, Timpano- 
 gas, and Spanish Fork Rivers, and its outlet is in the Great 
 Salt Lake, through the Jordan River. The city, during the 
 summer, is clothed in a complete verdure of fruit, ornamental 
 
PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 41 
 
 and shade trees. The lay of the city, with its broad and level 
 streets, as seen from the mountains, afford a soft and pleasing 
 vista. Through the trees the main buildings of the city can 
 be seen, and off to the west slopes a stretch of fruitful farming 
 land with its contrast, in regularly laid out fields of yellow and 
 of green. The lake spreads out from this latter point, and the 
 opposite range of mountains on the western side of the valley, 
 breaks the view, forming a fitting background for a scene of 
 such pastoral loveliness. The mountains are famous for their 
 
 A. A. NOON. 
 
 U3RARY 
 
 The lite of A. A. Noon has been one ot many strange scenes and circumstances. 
 He was born in Middlesex, England, on the 28th ot June, 1837. His father was a 
 professor of languages in London; was educated in Goltenberg, Germany; served in 
 the Prussian navy and finally settled in London, where he practiced his profession. 
 A. A. Noon left London for New Orleans, when but a boy, in 1851 at the time of the 
 ^great excitement in California. From America he went to Australia at the time of the 
 great rush to the gold fields, and with that wave went to Ballarat, Bendigo, and other 
 noted mining sections. There he prospected and worked in the mines, and was rea- 
 -sonably successful. He went from Australia to India and was at Calcutta at the time 
 of the excitement because of the massacre at Delli. From India he went to England 
 -again; thence to Africa, where, in connection with his brother, Adolphus H. Noon, he 
 Tielped to establish, among the first, the sugar enterprise of Port Natal, and owned, 
 fcy rental, the Ispingo estate, a farm of one thousand acres, from which, under their 
 
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 management, were shipped large quantities of sugar, and placed the estate in a 
 position to ship hundreds of tons per year, so that it is to-day one of the great sugar 
 estates of Natal. While in Natal he was appointed quartermaster of a volunteer com- 
 pany for the protection of the colony against the savages Kaffers. He visited the 
 Grequas soon after they first crossed the mountains to No Man's Land, and had some 
 business with them, and by some suggestions, which they acted upon, averted trouble 
 between them and the surrounding tribes of savages. From this country he emigrated 
 to America ; married in Nebraska to the oldest daughter of Henry and Martha Smith,. 
 who emigrated to this country from Africa. He was one of the contractors in Echo* 
 Canon, on the U. P. R. R., under Brigham Young's contract; went to Tintic, 
 Utah, in 1870, at the opening of that mining district and assisted in laying off and lo- 
 cating, with A. H. Noon, the present site of Eureka City. He always took much in- 
 terest in the great iron deposits in that region and, with A. H. Noon, was among the 
 early locaters there. Since 1876 he became more and more interested in those great 
 iron deposits and by his continued perseverance succeeded in getting an incorporation 
 organized with the leading men of Utah County, which was accomplished September 
 2, 1884. These iron fields bid fair to make of Provo a Pittsburg, tor they are inex- 
 haustible and are reierred to in this pamphlet elsewhere. Under his management 
 the first iron plant was made in Utah in commercial quantities and he took the first 
 into market and sold it. The entei prise is still under his management, as is the Utah* 
 Valley Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company's properties. With his son, Henry 
 A. Noon, and Harry Goodwin, he is now carrying on the American, a paper devoted 
 to the mining, manufacturing and the general interests of the country. 
 
 grandeur and majesty. Off to the south, over an arm of the 
 lake, towers Mt. Nebo, at a height of 12,000 feet. It is but a 
 few miles from the city, and all through the year eternal snow 
 crowns its sky-embosomed head. The peaks that stand as- 
 ever watchful sentinels to the east of the city, are over 10,OOO 
 feet high, and have all the characteristics of the Alps, save 
 only, it may be, the never departing snows. In the fall of the 
 year, when the foliage is brightened by the early frosts, they 
 present that rich picture which makes the mountain home 
 always the one endearing spot in after life. The beauty of 
 the autumnal tints everywhere shown in contrast with the 
 rugged, worn, seared, seamed and scarred visage of the granite 
 fronts, cliffs and precipices, form a picture too enduring to> 
 fade away from the mind with change of scene and home, as. 
 in softer and milder localities. 
 
 The abundance of winged game about Utah Lake in early- 
 days, made it a noted resort for the Ute Indian, after whom,. 
 as already stated, the county and territory seem to have been 
 named. And it is a pity the other names of springs and creeks 
 in this lovely basin have not been preserved as well as that of 
 the "Timpanogas," "Pomountquint," "Waketeke," "Pin- 
 
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 quan," " Pequinnetta," "Petenete," "Pungun," "Watago," 
 "Onapah," "Timpah," "Mouna," etc. These have all been 
 superseded and their memory seems to fast he fading away, 
 like the races to whom they were first known. 
 
 The suburbs of Provo are essentially pastoral in their air, 
 quiet and pastoral in their surroundings. Here the scene is 
 such that one weary of life, after searching through all the 
 world for the rest denied under busier skies, might at last find 
 
 JAS. E. DANIELS- 
 
 James E. Daniels, son oi James Daniels and Elizabeth Salthouse, was born Feb- 
 ruary, 1825, in Manchester, England. He emigrated to the United States in the fall 
 of 1842 with his mother's family, in the ship Medford, and landed at New Orleans. 
 In passing up the river they were ice-bound at St. Louis during the winter. In the spring 
 of 1843 ne went to Quincy, 111., where he had a sister living. From here in 1845 he moved 
 to Nauvoo, where he worked at cabinet making. After the Exodus from Nauvoo he 
 moved back to Quincy, 111., and fitted out for the trip to Salt Lake Valley. Crossing 
 the Plains in 1850, in Captain Milo Andrus' company, he arrived in Salt Lake City the 
 last of August, of that year. He had married the year previously, and stayed in Salt 
 Lake City until December, when he moved to Utah county and assisted in founding 
 the town of IVyson, his being the fourth family that settled at that place. lie next 
 moved to Provo City in the fall of 1854, where he has resided until the present time. 
 
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 He worked at the carpenter business until 1870, when, on the resignation of E. F. 
 Sheets, he was appointed Assessor and Collector for Utah county. 
 
 In 1874 he was elected county Recorder, and also county Treasurer, which offices 
 he filled until the year 1882. He was again elected to those offices at the last general 
 election. He also served two terms in the Provo City Council as Alderman, and fig- 
 ured to some extent in the military affairs of the county. He was with General Pace 
 in the Black Hawk war in San Pete, acting as Adjutant on his staft. He served in 
 the famous Echo Canyon Expedition, and was afterward elected Lieutenant-Colonel 
 of the first Regiment of Utah county Militia, under L. John, Nuttall, Colonel. He was 
 commissioned by Governor Durkee, and held that rank when the Utah Militia was 
 disbanded. 
 
 some comfort of life, with the promise of peace and freedom 
 that nature holds out in this beautiful region. 
 
 The scenery in Provo Canon and, in fact, throughout the 
 different canons that open into this valley of valleys, outrivals 
 that of more famed localities in Colorado. The " Bridal Veil 
 Falls," with their numerous cascades, broken into a gauzy veil 
 as they pour over numberless rocks, until there is left of the 
 stream nothing but the white spray, over which the rainbow 
 tints play wherever the sun strikes it, is pronounced by artists 
 to be among the most beautiful and picturesque bits of scenery 
 which the whole Rocky Mountain region affords ; [while the 
 grandeur of the canon at the mouth, with its high browed cliffs 
 and deeply-seamed-face, is uneclipsed by and no less impressive 
 than the far-famed "Garden of the Gods." Moreover, the 
 abundance of large game of deer, of antelope, and of bear 
 in the mountains will add an additional charm to those who 
 are interested in hunting sports : while the easy distance with 
 which game can be found in this region, robs hunting of 
 the labor that characterizes it elsewhere, and makes it to 
 those who like that sort of recreation, a source of unmixed 
 pleasure. 
 
 The climate is equable and bracing during the falj, winter 
 and spring months, while the heat of summer is tempered and 
 its enervating tendencies mitigated by cool winds. The air is 
 invigorating, bracing and wonderfully pure and clear, and 
 the nights, naturally pleasant, are made the more delightful 
 by the night wind which, sweeping from the canons and down 
 the ravines, and in its flight passing over the untrodden snow 
 of ages, refreshes the body and more than compensates for 
 whatever of heat may have been felt during the day. 
 
 A bathing resort has already been established on the shores 
 
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 of the lake, and at a point where the Denver & Rio Grande 
 Railway skirts the edge of the water, a grove of trees has been 
 planted and is in a flourishing condition. The shore and bot- 
 tom is hard and sandy and is sheltered by a bluff some fifteen 
 feet high, which protects it from the east winds. The tem- 
 perature of the water is, during the bathing season, warmer 
 than that of the ocean; and the fact that fishing may be in- 
 dulged in, together with yachting and bathing, will give to 
 Utah Lake an advantage over any other resort in the territory. 
 
 HON. JOHN B. MILNER. 
 
 Hon. John B. Milner was born at Grindley-on-the-Hill, Nottingham, England, 
 January 27, 1830, and came to Utah in 185$. Ue received a good education which 
 he improved by persistent application during leisure hours, and which did him excel- 
 lent service in his subsequent career in the literary and professional world. In 1854 
 he took up his residence in Frovo, which has been his permanent home ever since. 
 For a brief period, after settling in Provo, he was engaged in school teaching, but 
 devoted much of his time to the study of law in which he soon developed both a fond- 
 ness and aptitude. His subsequent and prominent identification with the bar of 
 Provo brought him before the public in all of the important cases on trial in the local 
 and district courts. In the celebrated trials before Judge Cradlebaugh, Mr. Milner 
 left nothing in doubt as to his ability, and he has ever since been classed among the 
 able lawyers of the Territory, few possessing greater powers of eloquence as a pleader. 
 
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 At various times during his protracted residence in Provo he has filled the offices ot 
 Internal Revenue Assessor, District, County and City Attorney, Justice of the Peace, 
 County Assessor and Collector, and has sat in the City Council and in the Territorial 
 Legislature, where his eloquence as a speaker, received due recognition. Mr. Milner 
 has also been prominent in the religious affairs of his church and is regarded to-day 
 as one of the ablest and most eloquent preachers in the Territory. 
 
 It demands no unreasonable stretch of the imagination to 
 picture in the mind's eye an early day when, along the shores 
 of this lovely stretch of water, for miles and miles, there will 
 be beautiful drives, handsome villas, surrounded by private 
 gardens, ornamented and adorned. And during the summer, 
 pleasure boats will ply from point to point on the lake ; while 
 its bosom will be dotted with the white sails of countless 
 yachts dancing upon its tiny waves. This, with those rich 
 and rare sunsets, known only to the Rocky Mountain region, 
 when the heavens burn with living colors ; when cloud upon 
 cloud, towering high above each other in the pure atmosphere 
 seems bent upon destruction ; or, when the rays from the sink- 
 ing sun melt the mild heavens into the tenderest tints, throwing 
 a halo of light and radiant glory over the darkening earth 
 all, all give that variety so necessary to the soul of him who 
 loves nature for nature's dear self. 
 
 A PROVO MORNING. 
 
 The " Industrialist" of Provo has the following co-ming- 
 ling of the sublime and the ridiculous, which yet tells a tale 
 of the beauty and loveliness of a morning in this charmed 
 spot: 
 
 Provo has one peculiarity about it, that is not experienced 
 in any other town along the base of the Wasatch Mountains. 
 In other climes and in other places twilight begins after sun- 
 set, but here we have it before sunrise. At this point of the 
 range there are no foothills ; no gradual slope, nor benches ; 
 and Centre Street runs slap up to the big toe of the Wasatch. 
 On the western side of Utah Lake we see the sunlight on the 
 peaks of the Oquirrh range, filling its ragged sides with a glow 
 far beyond the reach of the artist's brush. But it is yet twi- 
 light in Provo for the majestic sun has hours yet in which to 
 climb up the mighty wall that bound us on the east before he 
 pokes his head over the summit to bid us good morning. And 
 
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 what a morning ! The pines, the massive rocks, the autumn 
 tinted groves, yawning precipices, the snows of centuries 
 perched away up amid the clouds ; the awful grandeur of 
 ^ach intensified in the smiles of the God of day. 
 
 It is a scene well worth traveling to behold well worth 
 lying over one night in Provo to experience. Old travelers 
 declare that during the course of their wanderings over the 
 earth, scenes were encountered that enchanted other senses 
 besides that of sight. They desired to be alone, for there was 
 something supernatural in their surroundings and the sound 
 of a human voice would be sacriligious. We felt that way 
 upon first beholding a Provo sunrise, and while standing at 
 the chamber window in the face of nature and the mighty 
 works of God, there was wonder crept through our heart as 
 ^111 urchin yelled out from the veranda, "say mister, if yer 
 want yer breakfast yer got to hustle. The spuds are on the 
 table an' dad done said grace." 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 That Provo is destined to be a great city, none who know 
 tier opportunities, or who appreciate the extent of her re- 
 sources can doubt. The day of her more rapid growth may 
 be delayed beyond what is now anticipated. We do not think 
 so. But it will come as sure as the sun is to rise. If the 
 united effort of all her citizens avail aught ; if there be any 
 teaching in the experience of the past ; if a heaven blessed 
 country, of boundless mineral resource, and almost limitless 
 -agricultural productions ; if healthful influences and equabili- 
 ty of climate; if the greatest of natural attractions give prom- 
 ise of due appreciation, then is Provo destined to become a 
 city of importance and those who come earliest will be made 
 most welcome and will participate in the fortune and favors 
 that await the honest, thrifty and industrious, the health seek- 
 er and the lover of virtuous pleasures.