Show i t i i 1 ii f TOOELE COUNTY i iry mJ Population 1600 1 Assured valuation 1900 1000 Tooele City Dec hu has been beena a prominent factor totor In the history or of Utah Ulah III ht man many ways A quarter ot of a century ao ago when mining flourished on the right anti and on the left lett It was WAI the sai a ot of much business antI and political 1 activity Then for a time interest In mining waned a tact fact that tha t was AI so ao companied by Iy the migration ot of many People from the county cout Durin During the tut lut few years however It has haa again forged to the rant front with th the result that It I is now enjoying a very rapid growth According to the federal census of oC 1890 1690 It had bad a population ot of according to the came census ot of 1900 It has haa a population or of 1111 It will thus thu be seen that the number ot of was practically doubled durIn during that period This record is II only broken by one other county In hi the which has hili had an or of a little more than one hundred per cent for tor the same length ot of time CITY Tooele City la I the county seat eat It I is noted for or It its I line fine fruit and excellent school facilities The latter will stand well abreast with those ot of any city ot of equal population In the State Slate The school hou house I h a large larl reten I preten lIou an anti modern structure The count county court house houle I is also alio an edifice that reflects credit upon the people A great many persons person find employment In sheep heep raising and In dry farming All As AllI I well ell known Tooele county ha has one ot of the greatest winter ranges In tM the State Grantsville is II situated In the same valley aller about ten mite miles northwest and near the shore hu ot of the Great Salt take The principal occupations ot of the pea Ileo pl plc are farming and tock stock raising and some ome or of the wealthiest sheep owners of oC the county the here It also aIo has ha excellent school and other pub lie Ile buildings and It its people eople enjoy the reputation ot of sound and conservative business methods the great t cyanide gold can camp p phu hu has been almost entirely responsible for tor the big bl In the population and wealth a II 11 or of the th county during the thelast last decade It I U hero here that the to fa famous moul mine slate end numerous others have han sprung Into IX ex existence and turned out their streams tream of oC Olden golden wealth into Inlo the hands hand earl laps lap or of their fortunate owners owner It is isa J Ja a thorough bUill II town lown and probably a as peaceable and orderly a mining In II camp U wu was ever founded OTHER TOWNS Other towns town In the county are heR I fling In the extreme south and comIng com Ing northward VErnon Clover St Johns Ophir Stockton lAke View hillville lC E T and Ind In the west est Iosepa and till the latter In the Deep Creek countrY There are a tn few oth othen en but Iut these cover the most mOlt Import Important ant on ono MINERAL T The mineral mineraI ot of the county or ore varied and parts ot of It may be said laid to 10 have veritable mountains of at low grade ore as a well as 1111 sections which carry CUTlY the more precious metals metal In large and paying quantities |