| Show SEYlER COUNTYS PROGRESS Crop Shortage More Than llade Up By Advance in Prices TrripMinn Tntere5t 6 A OU Although the leading industry of Se vier county that of agriculture for the year now drawing to a close has not ben up to the standard of former ears conditions are generally quite satisfactory and the people are not complaining In every one of the towns of the county can be seen the general and Individual evidences of progress and public spiritedness progess The fruit crop this year was an almost al-most total failure the hay and potato crops much lighter than usual and the gral crop is short With the exception excep-tion of the last named however prices are up from 50 to 200 per cent so that the los In quantity Is fully offset by the prices that prevail Dairy and poultry products command good prices Irrigation Interests The large canal companies which are laying the foundtion for the future greatness and seability of Sevier county coun-ty by spreading over this valley a network net-work of extensive canals have generally general-ly suspended theextension of these artificial ar-tificial waterways this year and have devoted their outlays and work to the completion of the big Otter Creek reservoir res-ervoir In PlutO county and the smaller Three Creek reservoir In th county In which the canal companies are nearly near-ly all Interest These reservoirs which will storeia great amount of the water which ususjly gQcs to waste every spring 1 Insure a reliable water supply for the thousands of fer tile acres which are now lying Idle but ned te only irrigation to b made highly and profitable productive proftable The bench soils of this valley have ben proven bYfar the best for grain fruit and sugar beets and when these great canals sepd out their oistening arms they will provide hundreds of farming home for enterprising an progressive people and add very ma terIaI to the Industrial wealth of Se I vier county Already the situation is grasped by energetic men and colonization I i tnn zation schemes are talked tn In a few years at most Seler orchards sugar beet fields and grain and produce areas will be sending their products away in raw and manufactured articles Sugar Beet Experiments The sugar beet experiments made this year have proven highly satisfactory satisfac-tory and have demonstrated that the soil of Sevier valley Is of the very best in the state for this purpose Some of the tests showed 18 per cent of saccharine saccha-rine mate and 85 per cent purity It Is expected that next year the acreage wl be sufficient ta induce the capital IStS wno an nuuy LU < uv when the quality and quantity shall have proven sufficient to put In a plant The Important developments at the Gold Mountain and laqsvale mining districts during the past year will affect af-fect no section or Utah more benef daily than Sav county rBeO i the I districts lie at the southern end of the county and provide a splendid home I MYOR S H OUTZEN Richfield market for products and a source of profitable eployment for young men A numberof the citizens of this county coun-ty are Interested In many of the prop ert of these districts some of which are the leading ones Sevier county Is a winter feeding point for a number f Utah cattlemen The heavy crops of hay and short winter win-ter seasons are very favorable for ct tie eedlng and thousands of head are brought In every fall to be pastured and ted The fields from Joseph to Gunnison dotted with horned stock The principal public event of the past year has been the completion of i the Sevier stake tabernacle at Rich fcld at which the church presidency several of the apostles and thousands of people were present Growth I Population The last census showed a population of nearly 7000 I Is expected the new census will easily show an increase to 10000 The county has a bonded In debtednem of 12000 Incurred to build the handsome and commodious courthouse house in 1893 A 4000 jai has been completed within the pas two years The present count officials are Wil Uam M 11cCart jupge Hans Tuft H H Bell and J VT Phipps county commissioners John W Coons serif Henry N Hayes clerk Eliza Rose recorder re-corder James S Jensen treasurer J H Ericken attorney Homer cCar ty surveyor Tow of the County Richfield the county set with a population of about2200 has taken I iri HANS TUFT Monroe One of Savier Counts Commissioners Com-missioners I the lead in the line of public improve meats this year One bank has been I incorporated making two banking houses In that town A threetory I I bank building Is being cotpleted three large sore buildings have bee erected 1 1 the 5000 bushel grain elevator finished 1i one of the handsomest residences in the i county built and several small buildings build-ings buslne and residence erected Electric lights a water system and a canning factor are projects now contemplated con-templated Monroe the net largest town has made some notable improvements among them being the foundation for a 4000 opera house and the completion comple-tion of I number of nice residences Monroe Is one of the prettiest towns In the Ionnt EIs n r has made good progress and a hhndsome new pavilion Is among the several improvements made In that town In SaUna can be seen many evidences of enterprise and thrift In private improvements im-provements This Is me of those very few towns whose financial condition Is I such that no municipal taxes were 1ev led this year SaUna is one of the Utah wealthiest towns for its population In UtahGenwood Is showing her public spirit spir-it In the building of a new mt rock meeting house This has ben the ban ncr fruit town of this year and is favorably vorabl situated for such an Industry Redmond Is a progressive little town in the northern port n of the county which is vying with her near neighbor neigh-bor Saline in point of wealth The pqple of Anbela and Joseph are pushing along and are every ready to take hold Of such Improvements as their growth demands Aurora finished and dedicated a 40 school house early this year and furnishes I fur-nishes other evidences of prosperity I Verllon and Sgurd promise to be the leading sugar beet producing towns of the county as the tests front the beets ral r thee Show a superior product duct The sol is excellent for this Industry in-dustry Burnle Is the only town In the county not In the Sevier valley I one of the two leading towns of Gras valley and has a good school house as an evidence of a live spirit Plateau is a scattering settlement of weltodo farmer northeast of Burr vIe which fpport school house |
