Show i I S S Washington Wa Was First Industrial County in State In the this southwest corner of o the lato is Washington count county created February 3 1852 2 It his has one of or the thet iI t temple cities Inthe state I It is one oneo o of th the best watered counties in the state and has an area of ot 2405 miles mUes was the first county count seat sent but by the act ot the legisla legisla- turn tune on January 14 14 1863 it was u moved oved to St. St George John rohn JohnD D. D Lee was 18 the first settler who vrho established a Do ranch near New Harmony Assessed valuation is 15 Washington county was the first Industrial county in ili tho the state a n. cotton cotton cot cot- otton ot- ot ton mill having been erected in St. St George to manufacture the tIme cotton otton which was was grown in hi the county Bl Blue e denim cloth was the product The Time growing STowing of ot cotton otton was an ex experiment ex cx- and was as test tested d' d out by a company which was organized In 1861 The ThC maximum crop was raised In 1862 when tho the product ag aggregated aggregated ag ag- ag pounds It was wa this production that gave the county tho the name mime of or Utah's Dixie Land The Tho two wo Jarge large streams which traverse the tho county are the Virgin river and ih th Santa Sonta Clara river the latter latr r having Its Us origin in the Pine valley mountains Smaller streams pour their volume of t v water ater into the tIme larger Jarger ones named which r results as aJ said in the tho county being perhaps in the th the best watered county state EVEN TEMPERATURE Tho Time count county claims to have a more agreeable climate than any other the mean annual temperature show show- showIng lug Ing a a. a little below 60 Fahrenheit Were the surplus surplus' water valer In iii time tho Vir gut gIn river stored it is 13 estimated that could be bo irrigated The figures show hoW that five rive crops crops o of al alfalfa nl al- falfa nUn are nrc annually while English walnuts raisins figs tics as aswell aswell well ell as l 5 time the deciduous fruits also thrive there The luto lute Luther Burbank Burbank Bur Bur- bank when shown the peaches e own in In Washington county count Z said Id they were the time most magnificent die dis display pIn play that ho hind had ever seen F FAMOUS M. M U MINE All of the tha metals both bOUl precious Ious and base basc aro found round in Washing Washington ton county It wad va hero lEro that the Silver et Reef Ree mining dl district was tho first instance of t. t pvc pic- cloua clous metal being found round lu In sandstone sandstone sand and stone and from the tIme district 12 12 In ln silver was Mas taken when the tio low price of ot tho the metal forced an the the- mines They Ther have luwe only recently come back Some of ot tho time mo most t magnificent s scenery in the world I Is found in Washington Count County including the and ap canons canyons Zion national park comes In ono one corner of oC tho the county and thaI thaU the tho I Mt U highway a U thc tho e greatest o of its Us kind In tho the world also cuts cute tho the corner of Washington county |