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Show LWV study on County Seat to be published in three series Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of three articles art-icles to be published conern-lng conern-lng a study conducted by the League of Women Voters relative rel-ative to the "Economic As- fiects of the Location of the rbn' County Seat." The articles art-icles or a condensed version of the published report. Complete Com-plete copies of the study or available at the Cedar City Chamer of Commerce offices. INTRODUCTION In attempting to assess the economic aspects of the county coun-ty seat location the study committee members found that problems and questions frequently arose which could be resolved only by consideration consid-eration of either the historical background of the Iron County government or functional background of county government govern-ment in general. Much time was spent resolving resol-ving these questions and it was decided to include here some of the research which was done in these areas. It is hoped that this information infor-mation will be both interesting interest-ing and informative to the membership, for whom the Study was prepared, and to the voters of the general public pub-lic who also read this study, HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Little Salt Lake County was established by the Legislative Legisla-tive Assembly (Provisional State) of Deseret in 1850 and town was Incorporated Feb-urary Feb-urary 6. 1851 making it one of the first five in the State of Deseret. The history of settlement of the county had its beginning in October 1849, with the discovery dis-covery of rich iron ore near Iron Springs. On May 10 President Pres-ident Brigham Young arrived for his first visit to southern Utah and promptly named the 1 little settlement "Parowan." In November 1850 a group set out for a site on Coal Creek to begin the work of the Iron Mission. Parowan was the largest town in southern Utah for about 40 years, except for the ! early 50's when the iron man- ufacturing in Cedar City was i at is peak, but "the popula- tion balance shifted to Cedar i City in 1890." The present pop- 1 Ulation nf tho ennntu ic 19 177 visions smaller than a state are termed "creatures of the state," meaning to say that they are created and controlled controll-ed by the political authority of the state . . , Article XI of the Utah Constitution recognized recogn-ized the several counties as "legal subdivisions," and the Utah Code refers to the counties coun-ties as "bodies corporate and are necessarily implied." However How-ever (these) governments are dependent upon the legislature legisla-ture for any change in authority auth-ority or responsibility. "Study of State and Local Government," Utah Foundation, Founda-tion, 1962. (Next week will begin the report re-port on Economic Aspects.) i with 73.5 percent of the pap- j ulation living in Cedar Oily, i However, Parowan has re- ! mained as county seat of Iron ' County although the issue of ! removing the county seat to Cedar City has come to vote i three times. i The most recent vote, in 1958, was 2089 votes for re- " moval, and 2385 ' against. ! Utah's founders made provis- ' ions for such change in both ! the Utah constitution (adopt- ' ed 1895) and the Utah State i Code. Functional Background i Local government usually performs the day-to-day gov- i ernmental services citizens ex- pect fire and police protec- i tion, building inspection, di- ! sease control, provisions for 1 water, local roads and streets, i and many other services . . '. ! all of these policitical subdi- |