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                             BRIGHAM
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     Twenty-one miles north of Ogden, on the Oregon Short Line Rail-
   road is Brigham,the county seat of Boxelder County.  It was set-
   tled in the spring of 1851 by William Davis, Thomas Pierce and
   James Brooks and was named for Brigham Young, then president of
   the Latter-day Saints Church.  The pioneers experienced consider-
   able trouble with Indians, who stole horses and cattle and killed a
   few of the settlers.  On July 30, 1863, Governor Doty and General
   Connor concluded a treaty of peace with the Shoshone and Bannock
   chiefs at Brigham, after which the town grew more rapidly and on
   January 12, 1867, it was incorporated by act of the Legislature.
     Ground was broken at Brigham on August 26, 1871, for the Utah
   Northern (now the Oregon Short Line) Railroad, and on February
   5, 1874, trains began running regularly between Brigham and Ogden.
   About that time a woolen mill was erected.  It was destroyed by fire
   on December 21, 1877, but was rebuilt on a larger scale than before
   and is still one of the active business concerns of the city.  Brigham
   also has a large canning factory, a roller flour mill, three newspapers,
   three banks, a sugar factory, a natural gas and oil company, cement
   works, a telephone exchange, a number of mercantile houses handling
   all lines of goods, a public library housed in a building of its
   own, a modern public school system, churches of the Latter-day Saints
   and Presbyterian faith and it has acquired the sobriquet of "The City
   of Homes."
     Being situated in the heart of a rich fruit growing section, where
   peaches, prunes, berries, etc., are grown in large quantities, many
   crates of these products are shipped annually.  "Peach Day" is an
   annual festival in Brigham, given over to exhibiting the products of
   the orchards, music and recreation.  The Fruit Growers' Associa-
   tion attends to marketing the fruits by the co-operative plan and the
   
   
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   Boxelder Commericial Club is always on the alert for the interests
   of the city and its industries.
     As a city of the third class, Brigham has an electric light plant
   that cost $100,000, a waterworks system with thirty-five miles of
   mains that cost $85,000, both water and light plants being owned by
   the municipality. The estimated population in 1919 was 4,200.
   
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 SOURCE: Utah Since Statehood, Warrum, Noble - 1919
        S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.