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Show WESTERN TOOELE COUNTY By R. D. HALLADAY County Commissioner and Formerly of The Grantsville News. Grantsville, on the west side of Tooele valley, is the chief farming and stockraising city of the county. It was established by Mormon pioneers sent there by President Brigham Young as early as 1850. Owing to the hostility of the Indians these settlers set-tlers were compelled to leave but returned re-turned in 1851 and remained permanently. perma-nently. The climate is tempered by the Great Salt lake on the north and is 10 degrees cooler in the summer and 10 degrees warmer in the winter than any place in the north or central part of the state. Farm products of hay, grain, sugar beets, onions, fruits and many others are produced in commercial quantities. quanti-ties. Sugar beet tonnage of 30 tons to the acre can be produced in any favorable year. Water for irrigation ic: nhtninprt frnm Mm-fh nnH RnnfVi Willow creeks and supplemented by artesian wells in the eastern and northern parts of the city. Large herds of cattle and sheep are owned here and ranged in the mountains to the west and north. Excellent pasturage pas-turage for dairy cattle is obtained on the lowlands between Grantsville and the shore of Great Salt lake. The further development of the agricultural ag-ricultural area of Grantsville is dependent de-pendent upon the obtaining of additional addi-tional water from Utah lake as that available at present is used to the utmost ut-most and no more land can be brought under irrigation from the present sources of supply. Fully 60,000 acres of land, that will produce any crop that can be raised in a temperate climate, lies in the vicinity of Grantsville Grants-ville awaiting the United States decision de-cision as to its reclamation by water from Utah lake. Grantsville is divided into two ec- cleciastical wards of the L. D. S church and fully 95 of the population popula-tion belong to that denomination. The population is 1,300, has excellent grade schools, a four-year high school, and a very healthy climate. Vital statistics statis-tics to June 1, 1926, show only three deaths since January 1, of this year. They consisted of two elderly women and one infant, all occuring between the 9th and 12th of April last. Burmester, six miles north of Grantsville, on the lake shore, is the home of the Morton Salt company, the most important salt company in the western part of the country and a junction point of the Western Pacific railway. The salt is obtained from the lake water and pumped into evaporating evap-orating ponds where the salt is deposited de-posited and then harvested into large piles during the fall and winter m Sr,?e "ext year's use- from 60,000 to. 100,000 tons are obtained in this manner each year and shipped to all points in the western part of the United States. Flux, a lime ouamr r,A ni a lime mill, are located six and nine i?11? s.. respectively, northwest of Grantsville and are operated by the Utah Lime and Stone company of Salt Lake City. These, together with number of men during the entire year and preference is given to people having hav-ing their residence at Grantsville The deposit of lime rock at thesl' two 18 the finest quality and" m addition to the rock used at the sugar factori and 8 t the h.g grade of calcium lime' is pro" rpf!dn- eighty-four miles west of Grantsville on the Victory highway is the site of a large plant buUt f 01 the extraction of potash s-ilr -,n, other products from'thewatef ly just under the surface of the Great of land contains untold wealth in the form of magnesium chloride and other chemicals, in addition to the salt and potash. Magnesium chloride is being used in the manufacture of a metal, claimed to be stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum. The Utah-Salduro Utah-Salduro company has an immense tract of patented land located on and adjoining the salt beds. These beds of salt, from three to twelve feet deep, are about five miles wide and thirteen miles in length. Wendover, on the Utah-Nevada line, is a freight division point of the Western West-ern Pacific railway and the population is composed mostly of railway employees. em-ployees. It is also the junction point of the Gold Hill railway and the , Western Pacific. Ibapah section, better known as the Deep Creek valley, is situated in the vivid in the memories of men seventy or eighty years old. ' The Alvarado and Kane Springs were the two mines which produced the ore in those early days' and in recent years very eminent engineer, from large cities of the United State, have pronounced these old mZl worthy of further development The Western Copper mine 'is one of the largest m this section in recent years, its main product being hieh grade sulphide arsenic. Many tow have been mined and shipped for in secticide products, and it has been the chief support of the Gold Hill section. The United States Smelting and Re fining company have also contributed a large tonnage to the arsenic trade within the last three years. They also have high grade sulphide ore and . ( Hydrochloric Acid Plant. Combined .Metals Reduction Company extreme southwest corner of Tooele county. This valley is particularly adapted to stock raising and farming. The agricultural portion is from two to four miles wide and about twenty miles long. Its water supply is obtained ob-tained from the Ibapah mountains one of the highest ranges in Utah, the highest peak being about 12,270 feet. There are about 4,000 acres of pastures pas-tures and farming lands, the chief crops being hay, grain and potatoes. ihe climate is invigorating as the nights are always cool and during the hunting and fishing season many come from the large cities to hunt deer and grouse, and fish for trout in the clear streams. The Ibapah mountains form the east side of the valley and taper tle northward through the Clifton, Gold Hill and Dutch mountain ranges. The mining activities of the section sec-tion center in and about Gold hill the chief town of the western part of Tooele county, and the terminus of the Deep Creek railway from Wendover, Wend-over, 45 miles away. Gold Hill was named from the gold extracting smelter smel-ter which was built there in very early days Authentic information is not available at this writing, but old settlers claim that many thousand tons of gold ore went through the smelter yearly and left in its wake a path of prosperity which is still their mine is also equipped with modern mod-ern machinery and commodious buildings. build-ings. With the exception of the Palmar Pal-mar Gold mine, the main developments lead to the belief that Gold Hill is destined to become a lead-silver camp. The Palmer mine, however, is a continual con-tinual shipper of high grade gold ore; and other properties adjacent and surrounding the Palmer Gold mine are being developed with the belief that there is also gold bearing veins of high values on these properties. South ot Gold Hill six or eight miles is the Clifton Mining district which is rich in silver and lead ores. The most promising properties and those that are being worked and developed de-veloped are the Oregon, Undine, The Federal, The Copper Queen, The Monaca and the Cyclone. At th1 Cyclone new, modern machinery has been installed to expedite the extraction extrac-tion and shipment of ore. Ore has been shipped from this property since the first of this year. To the north of Gold Hill is Dutch mountain, standing out in bold relief 8,000 feet high, with a geological formation that indicates that there are within those gigantic limestone beds, large and rich mineral deposits. The two properties in Dutch mountain that are attracting the attention of (Continued on page 4.) Western ToodTc . (Continued from paep , mining interests at tha if. ' are The Silver Hill S on the southeast of Dutch n, 10ls owned and operated by th. n?,1"4'". Mines company. This pron 1,1,1 produced several cars of hikty silver-lead ore which also a.w values in gold. The one on?,? feature of this pwpertyftS bears so many resemblances L , and quality of formation tn'. kuili the largest and well developed 01 in the state. The company u'nts stalled new modern niachij n !!' developing the ore veins, and m,7 !0' it during the past -eight month, nW The Garrison Monster Mint com pany owns a large group of i on the northeast side of Dutri, tain and within the last year Si,?' half have sunk a shaft 300 fa ft feet of which has been in one Vj tmuous ore vein larger in w than the shaft. A force of mlPatt at work and about forty cars of have been shipped during the devA? ment work. Jr |