| Show TOOELE COUNTY FACTS FAcs INDICATIG THRIFT Revival of Mining 11telests Good Schools Traveling westward from Sal Lake City over the Oregon Short Line for twenty miles the line into Tooele county coun-ty Is crossed at a point near Black Rock continuing on past Garfield Beach the road winds around the point of the mountain and runs south Into Tooele valley The city of Grantsvic can be seen to the right lying at the base of the Stansburry range of mon talus the Oquirrh range to the left and Tooele City the county seat Is on a elevated piece or ground at the foot ot this range In this valley are also towns of Lake View Erda and East Tooele To the i vatve estimate of the annual prods of the mines The attention of the entire en-tire world has ben attracted by the wealth of gold found in the mines oe Mercur and Deep Creek mnes all ver and lead properties of Stockton Ophlr and Dry Canyon are well known to the people of the wes The richest cyanide product shipped from any of our Utah mines is obtaIned at the Star mIne In Pine canyon where a small plant has recently ben erected the valuation running a high as 67 to one pound of cyanide Farming Is Profitable N 6 There are O168 acre of land under cultivation Wheat and alfalfa are the f principal crops but vegetables and fruit are by no means unworthy of mention The mining camps furnIsh an excellent market for these product Within the last three years dry farming ha come 1 to the front as a leading industry In J several Instances as high a 600 bushels bush-els of wheat have ben raised on one i far In 1 single season The dairy industry too is developing Into an Important feature and a neW t + + + + + + + + + + + t + + + + t1 + + + + + + + + + + + + t + + + + t j + + r + A > + + < < rt + + + + 1 + ± t + I + + + N + + 4 1 + 1 = 1 i + + ri n i i i i i I i i + u 1III r 1 1 + l il + + I m + + + + I ± fJrL I t + + t W COURT HOUSE JUSTfPLETED AT TOOELE + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + f ± ± + + h + + + + + + + + + + + + + + south is located Rush valley contn ing the town of Stockton which Is once more becoming a prosperous mining camp Ophlr Where Senator Clark of 2Jon tna Is building a large concentrating mill Is southeast of Stockton and just over Lion hill lies Mercur the greatest gold mlqlng camp In the wet At the mouth of Merur canyon is the prosperous pros-perous little camp known as West Dip and on the other side of the vale are the farming towns of St John anti Clover Creek whIe to the south Is Vernon West of the Sansburry range is the Great Salt Lake desert stretching away for a hundred miles and reaching reach-ing Into the state of Nevada on the west Box Elder county on the north and Juab county on the south Ittining Interests I Mining Is the chief Industry of the county and 500 would b a censor I < < I creamery located In Toole City wit facilities for making both butter and cheese Is now ready to commence operation oper-ation with the ushering in of the new year Wool Growing The wealthy men of our county are sheep owners Thee are In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of 20000 sheep owned by real dents of the count which number will yIeld 1000OO pounds of wool which at present prices would be worth 20000 The desert In the western par of the count furnishes a winter range for i fully 300000 head at sheep the greater portion of which are shorn here in I Tooele valley giving employment to about 150 men for from six weeks to two months In the spring of the year thus putting considerable money into circulation when it would be oter1sa scarce sCfrce t I New Court House Good School The total populaUor of the county Is I 7000 and of this number 1815 are of school age who are cured for by comp com-p ent teachers In comfQrtable upto I dae school houses A new court house costln 14500 Is just completed itisacommodlous structure built of brick with stone I p trimmings and fitted up with water pipes heated by steam and In every vay made convenient for the use Gt I I the officials and the public who may have business with them The count officials who will occupy the new building arc Commissioners R W Walt Edmund Leaver and A G Benson clerk J Bruneau recorder I ors Emily l B Dods sheriff WIi I Gillispie assesor J W ahotty I trewurer Mrs Yary Herron and sup ellntendent of schools Archibald I I Bevlln |
