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Show GOVERNMENT FUND BENEFITS WIDELY USED IN COUNTY AID ! their homes from mortgages foreclosure fore-closure and represented an outlay of $2,123,718 for this count. y Nearly 11,000 home owners were saved in the state aa a result of this refinancing program. The heme building industry benefited through the Federal Housing Administration Ad-ministration which insured 419 I bank loans for S17.372.58 for modernization mod-ernization in this county and 72 bank loans for new home construction con-struction bringing in an additional $190,000 up to lute summer of this year. More tnan 5400 homes have been modernized and 1.145 new homes have been built in Utah alieady under this program. Through the federal land bank and land bank commissioner, loans were extended on 1,111 farms in tiiis county in the amount of $2,-091,300 $2,-091,300 through June 30, 1936. The emergency crop, feed and drouth relief programs were likewise like-wise widely employed in the county coun-ty between January 1,1933 and September 30, 1035. There were 453 crop and feed loans amounting to $37820 and 370 drouth relief loans amounting to $191,172. The Resettlement Administration Administra-tion was also applied in this county coun-ty with 207 loans made resulting in payments of $97,326.61 to June 26 of this year. Further, the Resettlement Re-settlement administration extended extend-ed 581 outright grants for $32,124 ,n payments to the same date. Its "arm debt adjustment work handl-d handl-d 19 cases in the county and re-iluccd re-iluccd the indebtedness on these farms by $5658 and, in adidtion, ;mid delinquent taxes amounting ;o $1007 on the property involve'd. Rental and benefit payments to farmers under the A. A. A. amounted to $546,061.88 for this county through June o fthis year. The county figures under the Public Works administration are not available for projects on federal feder-al property but they include foreBt trail and highway improvements as well as various stream measurement meas-urement and other surveys. Among other items within the county under un-der this activity were the Spring-'ville Spring-'ville station improvement and an allotment of $1,000,000 for the Deer Creek project of which $114,604 has been spent. The county data are not avail- - - I able on the federal aid extended for highway construction and for the C. C. C. The Emergency Construction work including the C. C. C. represented rep-resented an outlay of about $14,-600,426 $14,-600,426 in the state through June 30, this year. Thitry camps were established in the state with 14.189 youths enrolled. Loans and outright grants were also made for non-federal building build-ing construction which added additional addi-tional schools, city and town halls, waterworks improvements, reservoirs, reser-voirs, sewers and other public improvements im-provements accounting for $3,844,-442 $3,844,-442 in the state, about evenly divided between loans and outright grants from federal funds. In addition ad-dition allotments were made from E. R. A. and P. W. A. funds for non-federal public improvements accounting for an adidtional $219.-1 600 in loans and $336,233 in outright out-right grants and swelling the total to $5,400,295 through July of this this year. Nearly every county in the state participated in this non-federal buildin program. Utah county's projects included a grant of $22,500 and a loan of $65,500 for the Spanish Fork watermains; a grant of $9,660 and a loan of $22,534 for the Santaquin waterworks; a grant of $96,300 for Utah county school buildings; a grant of $12,000 and a loan of $29,000 for the Lchi watermains; a grant of $13,700 and a loan of $32,300 for the Orem waterworks; a grant of $20,250 for the Provo city school buildings. Thus Utah county received $174,410 in grants and $149,334 in loans for public improvements non-federal in character. char-acter. The Works Progress Administration Administra-tion with its employment creating program on public works made payment of $871, 132.97 for work within Utah county up to July 31 of this year.; This was exclusive of the state-wide projects which were ; conducted and in which this county coun-ty shared.- The Federal Emergency Relief administration brought $1,716,140 in federal funds into the county. The original employment creating creat-ing program of the administration the Civil Works Administration, spent $355,030 in employment creating work in this county. This figure excludes the qoun try's share in state-wide projects. J fioncfits accurhig to Utah county coun-ty and its schools, cities and towns during the present administration are show in data, just compiled through Allen T. Sanford". stale director of the National Emergency Emergen-cy council. The county participat-de participat-de in practically every phase of the program. In the entire state grants, allotments al-lotments and payments from fed-oral fed-oral funds reached a total of $80-889,30!) $80-889,30!) up to midsummer. Loans made and insurert through federal agencies of the New Deal in Utah were $144,053,706 up to midsum- I mcr. This sum amounts to more than one-fourth of the state's entire en-tire assessed valuation for this year. The figure ;s extrusive of the sums spent by the state and its local taxing units to obtain the federal aid. Through the Reconstruction Finance Fin-ance Corporation $1,245,970 was made available in the form of loans of June 30, 1936. Of this sum $678, 278.72 has been disbursed. disburs-ed. The Home Owner's Loan corporation corpor-ation aided 1069 home owners in the county or 23.1 per cent of the non-farm residence owned. This aid enabled home owners to tttm |