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Show I HIGH M ON I WEBERFARMS Improved Lands Over $7,000.-000; $7,000.-000; Property in State Over $200,000,000 Weber county's improved farms arc valued at $7,235,895. according to a ta-ble ta-ble prepared in the office of the state board of equalization, showing the as sessed valuation of various classes of real estate property in.thf state, The total of real property of all classes in all counties of ths state is assessed at $211,999,232. Last year real estate in the state was assessed at $213,455,079. The aggregate value of lnininv claims, which is fixed by the const i tution of the state, is $795,092 this year, comparing with $583,291 last oar. Lands classified as waste land which include lands not devoted to agricultural or grazing uses and not within mining claims, are this year ns-sessed ns-sessed at 16.847,657, The county assessors found the to-tal to-tal area of Improved farm lands in the state to be 1,766,720 acres, and these lands wore valued at S104;08S,-120, S104;08S,-120, or slight l in excess of the city or town lots. The (able shows that Boxelder county has the largest aore-of aore-of improved farm lands, practical-ly practical-ly 353,000 acres t'aclio is second with 185,637 acres. Millard third with 137,-210, 137,-210, Sanpete fourth with 112.120 and Utah fifth with 105.742 acres. Salt Lake county is well down in the list with 68,447 acres, Weber has 45.721 acres and Davis 87,971. Daggett, nat-urally nat-urally has the smallest area of im-proved im-proved farm lands. 6004 acres, while Grand, much larger In area, has only WEBER THIRD The Salt Lake county Improved farm lands were found to be the most valuable per acre, being assessed at an average of $17.". II Davis lands were next at $161.56, Weber third at $158.26 an acre. Utah fourth at $128.73 and Wasatch fifth at $11660. All the others are assessed at aver-age aver-age valuations of less than $100 an acre, the cheapest improved farm lands, according to the assesors. being in San Juan county at $17 83 an acre. Cache tops the list for the total value of its improved farm lands, the figure being $15,096,710 Utah coun tv's assessor valued farm lands there ' at $13,609,761. while Salt I-ake county faim lands were valued at $11,1.29,185, the county being nosed out of third place by Boxelder, where the farm lands were valued at 811,672,385. We-ber We-ber county's improved farms are val-; tied at $7,230.89".. and those in Davis county at $6,134,600, Sanpete s larg-er larg-er area giving her a total valuation of $6,229,965. Summit has a trifle1 more than $5,100,000 as assessed vWu ation of Improved farm I. mils and the other counties are all less than $5,-000,000. $5,-000,000. UNIMPROVED LANDS. The total area ol unimproved farm lands in the Btate is given by the as lessors at 1,213,067 acres, or rather ' 'Tnore than two-thirds of the area of ; ithe improv i-d form lands. Their to- j rial value is placed at $lu.751.666 Iron county reports almost 341.000 acres i of such lands valued at $1,100,000; Millard county more than 266,000 acres, at nearly $2,500,000, Wasatch ! county only 76 aces Davis County's unimproved farm lands are valued ar $29.01 an a(.ro the 18 000 acros in Salt Lake countv at $26 16 an a1rM r'ah roun,V R 5- an acr while severaj counties report unimproved unim-proved farm lands worth on an nve rnge leas than $S an acre, and in Iron county they are worth onlv $3.24 an acre, according to the assessor. The home orchard is excluded from the classification of fruit lands, and the Interpretation of the home orch ard Is rather liberal. Weber county I" ghen 2021 acres of fruit lands, "ache 14C0 acres. Ptah Davis countys commercial orchards are said to total only 12", acres. The total to-tal for the state is placed at 7266 acres, and the value at $1,156,143 The alue of fruit lands per acre ranees from ?26 rH in Sanpete coun ty to $26117 in Carbon, which has thp highest assessed valuation for thia class of land, but onlv 141 acres Of It. Salt Lake's fruit" lands are placed at $210 nn acre, those In We ber county at $169.06, those in Wall county at $175 03 and those in Box-elder, Box-elder, the home of the Brlgham I It) peach, at $160 83 for the 1460 acres Weber county, first an. T'tah county, coun-ty, second, each have slightly over $340,000 worth of these lands, according ac-cording to the respective assessors, and Boxelder has $235,000 orth Salt Lake's fruii lands to'al In valuation valu-ation 1108,000, there bein 516 acres so listed. GRAZING LANDS. The reports shows 3.812.377 acres of privately owned grazing lands in the state, valued at $16.1. 577, or 'at an average of less than $5 an acre Summit county's assessor lists 583 106 acres of grazing lands, and val ues them at $4.39 an acre, giving a total valuation of $.341 000 Box elder's 526,000 acres of grazing lands are valued at $2 50 an acre, or more1 than $1,300,000. Ptah county has 803,000 acres of such lauds, and val-: ues them at $6 95 an acre on the average, making the total $2,108,000. Morgan countys 268,000 acres are valued at $1,260,000 or at $6.14 an acre. Grazing lands in Salt Lake countv are valued at $14 48 on tho average and In Wayne countv at only $1.28 un acre Of the $6,847,657 valuation placed on waste lands, $3,097,245. or almost 'onc ha'.f Is In Salt Lake county. No J other county has more than $700,000 worth of Biich lands, though Wber i and Boxelder. In the order named, i approach that amount |