The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26

From Fish lake over the cone of
Cave to the Pah Van range, from the
green pastures of Redmond almost to
the strong boxes Of Baldy's mineral de-
posts, more than a thousand square
miles Of land, is Sewer county. The
great concaVe of landscape is Sewer
valley. The groove in its center is the
Sewer river
Sewer county's resources, latent and
developed, are varied and inexhaust-
ible. Her products of field and range
and mountain and river are manifold.
Her present riches are untold, and her
future unreliable. She raises cereals,
fruits, vegetables, live stock, hays,
hades and her share of Utah's best
crop.
Within her borders are mines of
many metals and minerals, hillsides of
many timbers, creeks and lakes OF fish,
wild recesses of scenery and game,
springs of water, hot or cold, and
worms of moonshine, two days old. She
boasts fine horses, fat cattle Mckinley
sheep, beautiful women, brave men and
numerous dogs This year, more than
any year before she has wheat in her
bins. hay IN her lofts, stock on her
range, money in her pocket and miners
i'll her mines All her vantage points
cannot be detailed: it can only be said
in general that for many years Sewer
has aspired to be the fairest county
in the south, and banner one of Utah,
and that with the daWning of 1898 her
optimistic eye sees more clearly than
ever before the fruition of her ambition
towards this centurys cleaning. Now,
for some Of the facts and figures that
found this hope:
Last year Sewer county's assessed
VALUATION was $1,524,S03. From this sum
should be deducted $4,000 for mort
cages, and $4,000 for transitory stock
assessed, leaving an approximate val
uation of 81. 415,S03. This year the cor
responding figure is $1.793.S12, an in
crease of $S7S, 009 in valuation in the
last II months.
In the beginning of 1897, when the
powers that be assumed control of
county affairs, they found Sewer about
$1,000 in the hole. In the beginning of
1898, after all outstanding warrants
have been paid, there will he left a
cash balance of 5000; thus the prima
facie condition on the first of next
month Will be $4,000 better than on
the first of last January; but, in the
meantime, the county has sold $1,000
worth OF bonds, SO the real increase is
Just about $1,000. Next year that sur
plus will be partly applied to the build
ing Of a 81 900 county jail in Richfield,
AONSNSONt
the court house, finished in 1892, at a
cost of about $4,000.
The total acreage of land owned is
69,S29, at an average assessed valua-
ton Of $40 per acre, and the average
value of town and city lots is 5000.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The report of Jacob Madgeby, county
superintendent Of public schools, is
quite encouraging. Up to June 80, the
date of the report, the total receipts
from district taxes, state apportion-
ment, county fund, tuition fees and all
other sources, aggregated $21 1913 The
county schools are, therefore, $1,320.99
better off in 1897 than the year before.
The outstanding Indebtedness incurred
this year, UP to the time of the super
intendent's report. was $5S4.O4, and the
total indebtedness of the various dis
tricts was $40, 553.61, of which SIG, 452. 50
was bonded, and $3,101.11 floating.
The value of school property, as list
ed in Mr.. Madgeby's June report, was:
BulIdlngS 49, ..--..--.-$ 4O,y56 DO
FURNITURE. ............ 4,S32 81
Grounds ....-. .......... 4,l66 50
Apparatus 4,loo 80
Iolal.: $500. ..:...S ~, las ~
To do the Sewer schools justice, it