Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-02
UTAH'S WEALTH is GROWING
Total Of Taxable Property is Assessed
at $500, 0Oo,O
OGDEN MAKING BIG STRIDES
Population Nearing sO,Ooo--BriIIiant
Prospeet--srnoot Act Encourages
settlement and Development
81 Productive Acres.


OGDEN. Jan. -I-Tspecial. THE statistics
OF county and state officers prove that this
region is advancing ~ wealth and that the
resources are being developed in most
encouraging way
The taxable property Of Utah for 1910 IS
placed at approximately S2ooooo,ooo OF
which one-tenth s. in Weber county. the
county seat OF which is ogden.
Property IL assessed at one-hah % one
third its actual value At that ratio,
tTtah's actual property value IL shown TO
be about t50oOoo0oo.
when Utah was admitted as a state in
1895. the assessed value was only about
one-half that Of tie tsxable value Of prop
erty today.
weber county has doubled its assessed
valuation Of property within that period
and nearly al Of The Increase has been
within the city u Ogden,
The sssessots Official report 10 the state
staustioian credits Ayeber county With:
Horses and mules Sssa
sheep E,as. Jf-
Swine. i.25Te
In horses ana sinep Che showing Is
creditable. hnti with ms natural advsn-
taees in this coGnfS Ger swine raising. the
figures in that bsAnph Of the live stock
industry prssehy : tegrettable neglect OF
a rare opportunity figs can be grown on
alfalfa and faftehed on sugar beets' and
there is an absence Of cholera In this dis
trfct and vel this industry IL only indif-
ferently followed.
q wei informed dealers tu i've stock main
tain that swine in Utah are more profitable
than sheep even when the sheep herds are
ranged on the public domain.
ogden Grows siztE Per Cent.
Deasn,s ponuIation. reported by the
tbirteentb census as $3.50. is an increase
Of 90 per cent The Titan Deaf and Blind
school. located in this. city was eliminated
from the total also a big percentage OF the
Aranscient ponulation 81 the hotels WIN
the state school included and all transeients
not enumerated elsewhere. placed on me
ia ogden would have been credited with
nearly 1900
This place Is fast approaching the 5000
marx and. II sihe country generally does
not drop into the rut Of dsspond in the
merit six months and drag with II the most
progressive Of cities. by this time next year
ogden win have 5000 or more
smoof Act BeneficIaI.
The sn,oot act. or what is better known
as the enlarged homestead law. has per
acres have been taken up under II and
a new era in dry farming has been opened
For those unfamiliar with the new law
the following salient features are pre-
sentef
The enlarged homestead act provides
that %tisre. IA fidB are eligible for designa-
ton. entry may be made by the home
steader without the necessity OF residence
thereon as Is required in the old home
stead act To be eligible 70 such designa-
ton. Il must be shown through examina-
lions conducted by the governments field
men that there Is not sufficient water OBJ
tainabIe for culinary and ordinary house
hold uses without unreasonable expense
The first lands examined were in Box
elder county Homestead land was gone
over In search for water and II the con-
Nsitions were such that the land could
be entered DispatchinE his field men "a
Boxelder county in April Of 1909, Chief
George f. Hair OF the Tenth field division
forwarded the data CLEANED from their
examinations 70 the Department Of the In
terror in Washington.
Designations were eagerly awaited by
4 thousands who desired 90 take up land
Z under the new act Late in June Of last
year. the flrst list was returned from
washington. Many had watched land
which was peinE examined anu A4SSANu
10 the land office when the designations
were made TO find II this land was in
cluded They had picked the parcels o.
land they wanted. Following the arriva
Of the first list OF designations, others
were coming every few days and the land
office was kept busy giving descriptions
and answering the questions Of those whS
desired 10 take up homestead. The firsi
list OF designations included thousands Of
acres Of lands in Boxelder and Tooel'
counties.
The following list shows the lands ex
amined TO date under the enlarged home
stead act. Rather than 80 70 the trouble
and expense OF making surveys certain
OF the lands are designated BY the name
OF two counties. This is in case wher'
the lands were located adjacent to the
county line and a survey would have beel
necessary TO determine the county eacl
parcel was In.
hoAeioeF sfssF- ssss.1 ?
Beaver and Willard ........,.........le e els Z
Carbon .-.-.... ~. 4haAsp
Garfield and Piute .-.......-......... s., sl6 7