| Show salt lake co recommends purchase of road bonds 0 investors all over the country arc are being furnished with information re garding juab county and asked to in vest in the new road bonds which have just been issued these cincu lar letters are sent out by a salt lake firm and they give a brief his tory of our county calling attention atten tio loi i to the tact fact that it has a population of more than 12 people and that there Is no funded or floating in debt edness the total assessed val nation of the county Is over ippu ag and the road bonds are be ing issued in order that this section may keep step stop with other enter enterprise pris ing communities of the state in the matter of good roads among the road improvements planned being the construction of fifteen miles of cement highway from nepha to the county line on the north the following paragraph Is taken from the letter sent out by the fir a which has subscribed for the bonds and is undertaking to place them wit witti smaller investors juab J ab county has an area of 2 acres of which some 70 acres are under cultivation of this amount about halt half la is in dry farm lands in 1920 32 33 per acre was the average value placed by the coun ty assessor upon all dry and irrigate ed land in the county over head of sheep and 10 head of cattle are owned and grazed in juab county and are valued on the assess ment rolls at over a million and a halt half dollars in the mining indus try of utah this county stands among the leaders with an annual production of about ten million dol lars the tintic gintic district has produced over two hundred million dol lars and new underground wealth ii 1 being discovered yearly gypsum or plaster is found in the nephi section with the result that a nationally known industry has been established there nephi plaster Is shipped throughout the country and was ua us ed extensively in the construction ot of the world worlds s fair buildings in san francisco |
