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140 GUIDEBOOK OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES 



The location of St. Anthony 



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throu 



SL Anthony, bridge was easily built. Previous to 1893 this place 



Elevation 4 969 feet, mcluded only '^ jack rabbits, lava rock, and Old Man 



ropulatioii 1,238. -' * , . . 



Ogden 221 miles. Moon. C. H. Mooii, tile Original settler^ came hero 



in 1887, built tlie first bridge and store, and called 

 the place St. Anthony because of its fancied resemblance to St. 



Anthonys Falls, Minn. The river in 



ar 



Immediately below the bridge the river spreads out to an extreme 

 width of 800 feet. 



In the spring of 1893, when St. Anthony was made the county 

 seat of Fremont County, the settlement consisted of three log cabins 

 and one two-story log store building. The population increased 

 rapidly from that date and now numbers about 2,000 persons. St. 

 Anthony has two large schoolhouses, one of which cost $60,000, a 

 170,000 courthouse, an opera house, a large flouring miH, grain 

 elevators, tlu-ee banks, and a city water system supphed by pumping 

 with electric power generated by Snake River. 



One of the principal industries in the immediate vicmity of St. 

 Anthony is the raising of seed peas. In 1913 there were 26,000 

 acres of seed peas in. Fremont County. They are growni here exten- 

 sively because the soil and climate are favorable, and imdcr irriga- 

 tion they yield heavily. There are nme seed warehouses in St. 

 Anthony. The shipments from St. Anthony for the year 1913 

 were 396 cars of peas, 470 cars of oats, 259 cars of wheat, 10 cars 

 of barley, 50 cars of potatoes, 106 cars of merchandise, 121 cars 

 of stock, 52 cars miscellaneous; total, 1,464 cars. Thousands of 



his vicin 



m the mount 



Tsvelve mi 



glimpse 



known as the Sandhill Mountains 



lines 



.^^^^.v-v. U..V.J, «^^|jt:tii tu ue iwo mies oi mils wiiu 



nearly paraUel tops, but on entering the gap between these Imes of 

 hills oDe finds a cultivated valley surrounded on three sides by a 



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rudely 



The 



tral 

 remnant 



of an old crater. A great mass of yeHow sand, drifted in from the 

 southwest, IS lodcred in the north siVIa ^f +1.^ ^^«^.^ 



miles 



They consist of fine sand, which is driftmg north' 



