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Show Planning Board To Hold Meeting ! Coming Thursday William Peterson, director of the Utah extension service, and , other extension workers from the t state office will spend all day : Thursday, January 27 in Beaver, ( discussing with the county plan- ning board members problems pertaining to the county. The , meeting will be held at the West ' ward recreation hall beginning at j 10 a.m. Bbth men and wpmert are invited to attend, j Committees dealing with irriga-i irriga-i tion, livestock, crops, finance, ' range, health and rural youth are actively engaged in making an in-; in-; venSory of the county resources j prior to the meeting. The infor-t infor-t mation secured will be used by the ; county planning board as a basis for the formulation of a county plan. The entire objective of the planning work has for its final goal more security in the home, with a more satisfactory income to healthier people. There seem to be fundamental reasons for making county and state plans when we consider that there are in the state from 3,000 ! to 4,000 young couples living as tenants, share croppers, or with relatives, who are waiting impatiently im-patiently that they might have something to call their own. In addition to this, there are at leasb 1,200 young men and about the ! same number of young women ar-: ar-: riving at the age of 21 each year, ! who come from the rural districts of Utah. Some of these people 1 may drift away but the increase i (Ctmtlnud en last page) Planning Meeting (Continued from first page) in population indicates a potential 1000 new families each year in normal living. In 1910 there were 21,678 farms in the state. In 1935 there were 30,695 but with no increased acre age. The facts are that no new acres have been put under cultivation cultiva-tion in the last 25 years. In 1910 the mortgage debt on the farms of Utah was about $7,500,000. In 1936 it was approximately $44,-000,000. $44,-000,000. In 1910 the income from crops, livestock and livestock products pro-ducts was approximately $68,-000,000. $68,-000,000. In 1936 it was approximately approxi-mately $51,000,000. We have built practically no new industries. The income" from metal mines in 1935 was $82,701,000, compared to $54,-000,000 $54,-000,000 in 1936. The demand for increased income in-come and higher living standards has gone on at a rapid rate in the face of stagnant expansion and a materially lessened income from the agricultural industry of the state. |