Kaysville Kinks #30 Garfield Beach and Resort

SEPTEMBER 1892

- James H. Linford and wife left Thursday for Logan where they will reside in the future. The best wishes of numerous friends here will follow them.

-- Miss Minnie Williams returned this morning from Thatcher, AZ where she has been spending a few months with relatives.

-- Kaysville now has 3 daily mails.

-- A Republican caucus will be held at the City Hall on the 4th for the purpose of electing delegates to a county convention to be held in Farmington. The chances for Republican success at the polls is very meager. Their labors as far as this county are concerned will be in vain.

-- The Democratic Campaign machinery is being brightened up and placed in readiness for the great political contest on November 8th.

-- Prices: Kaysville butter from our creamery is selling at 35 cents per pound. Eggs are 25 cents a dozen. Live spring chickens are around $3.50 dressed, Old chickens $4.50 per dozen. Tomatoes $1.00 a bushel, small cucumbers at 15 cents per 100.

-- Labor Day will be observed by the closing of business houses on Monday. Except for a dance at Williams Hall, no amusements are announced for the day. A number of people will take advantage of the $1.25 rate over the Union Pacific and spend the day at the Garfield Beach.

​PHOTO: Garfield Beach and Resort - ran from 1881 to 1893. It was the finest recreation resort located 2 miles southwest of Black Rock on the shore of the Great Salt Lake. It had a railroad station, lunch stand, restaurant, bath houses,pier and pavilion. The steamboat "General Garfield", also known as "The City of Corrine" was docked there.