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Show SURVEYS STATE MIHEJEPOSITS State Geologist Plakes Report On Non-Mcta! Properties Throughout Utah salt lake, Dec ftT-Assessed valuation val-uation of nonmetaillfrous mining de-J posits in Utah has more than doubled since D'17. according to a report made by Professor Wtutnm Peterson, geoio-is geoio-is for the Stats' l-ord Of eU.lUa-tion eU.lUa-tion and assesament. m 191 the valuation val-uation vrs $U.nl2.o:-. and '"MSO ill ban climbed in sr, . is . f f-port f-port was filed yesterday in the orrtte ef Governor Bamberger. l'AIM DATES M1 rioN- Mr Peterson tabulated the val uations resulting from the work jc Compliahed by n Purvey made under his direction, and a comparison or tin-assessments tin-assessments made in 1917: Coal kinds: Coal lands: Carbon county Assessed Asses-sed valuation In 1917, .70.0; a-sessed a-sessed valuation Hi lv:o. H4.2M02 Every county assessed valuation " U17. $1 . JiHi.o: . ;isessed valuation in i:je" (1,489.201. Wasateh county assessed valuation In UJ17, $i4.:.13 assessed valuation In 1020. $231,491. Summit county -assessed valuation In 1917, $24S8,29l; assessed valuation in 1920, 2,861167. Iron county assessed vnluatiun In 1917. $H:.,7nr. assessed valuation in 1920 $482,254 Duchesne county Assessed valuation valua-tion In $13.8X7. assessed valuation valua-tion In muo, $61,912. Asphalt deposits Assessed valuation In 1917, $178:02$ assessed valuation in 192'',' $1,062,76 I Oltinlte depoalta Assessed valuation in 1917. $166i004; assessed valuation in 19JU." 274.477. Salt and potash deposits Assessed valuation in 1917, none: assessed valuation val-uation In 1920, $011,447. "ement deposits Assessed valua Hon in 1917, none; assessed valuation in 1920. $1,372,755. Phosphate d'-poslts Assessed valuation valua-tion in 1917. $1,000: assessed valuation valua-tion in 1920. 01S6.185. Lime iiuarrics Assessed valuation In 1917. none., assessed valuation in 1920, $31,943. Sulphur deposits Assessed valuation valua-tion in 1917, none; assessed valuation In 1920. $22,530 Total assessed valuation for 191 1, $11,012,826. Tot:il assessed valuation for 1920, $22,616,748. professor Petersen's work goes Into considerable detail in explaining the method by which the valuation of the nonmctalllforoos mines of the state, under the amended tax laws of 1819, was made. Compulations,'' he says, Ln concluding conclud-ing thi part of ids report, "have been msdc of all Hn privately owned lands In the Mate, and the records, as roru-pleted roru-pleted by the survey, which have been died Mith the slate board as a pmt Of this report, show the position of thw coal seams in each legal subdivision th number of seams each contains, the thickness and relative position of t a !i seam, the available tonnage and the assessed valuation of each legal subdivision ln addition to the above Information, the survey has attempted, in a limited way, to collect data Kiving information which will aid in development develop-ment of new properties. This flata. covers In a very general way possible railroad sites, tram sites, sites for townslte purposes an dtho available water supply of ull tho streams In the district." Similar information is on file with the state boarei, aa a result of Pro-fessor Pro-fessor Peterson's survo, for a Urge portion of the publicly owned coal lands in Carbon county, in other coun-tlea coun-tlea it was found ltTi possible to iom-plete iom-plete UCh work during the past summer. sum-mer. In addition to the coal surveys ami valuations, accounts of which hav e already al-ready appeared from lim to time, Professor Peterson's report tells of Ihe valuations of other nonmetalllferous t mlnen In Utah. Computations as to some f these d-,u -its glv an accural" estimate of their amount for the first I time in print. Limestone cjuarrles operated op-erated in Cache, Tooele and Utah 1 counties are Included In the valuation as given above on the basis of the amount of limestone 'arh will probably prob-ably produce Concerning the potash deposits, the report callsVatteiTtion to the fact that only a small amount of the depOSltc Which aro in the Tusehar mountain: In Pluto county, has as yet been patented pat-ented He finds that 39S acres an held as patented lode claims, and computes com-putes thai they carry 43.000 tons of material that rvicht be considered v.i- uable for taxation purposes The fic- urea given in the laid' Include the total to-tal value of the patented ground and i equipment as well. I Phosphate deposits we're found in Icic'.i county, in patented ...i? i hum-to hum-to the OKtenl of 1375 acres-, along a sy !ire.il fold on which the con mer-dal mer-dal !ortlon ' the deposits lj. . in a seam five and one-half feet In thick-! ness. This i. computed to a depth of j"300 feet for taxation purposes and Is I found to contain 13.34S.O00 tons. ooo |