American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1914-05-16

..,. $500 isVuVs Understandable
3 500 "i'""'"i''s'
Estimate Value Per Acro % an
,'auu ny glasses. Cultivated, 500 TO
|~nV, irrigated, $40 to $3.50: unirri-
sa'ed' $40 to S75. Uncultiyated--ir-
I'gaiable, per acre, $l0O. swami. $40
10 500; alkali, $50 to $75.
friccs Asked for Land In Cultjys-
uoh' -'ects, 500 to $3.50. potatoes,
Slbo 10 S22b; grain. $75 to $50 I'm
irrigated, $40 TO $50; alfalfa, 500 TO
f-VV' bottom iscadow, $50 to 500;
upland meadow other than alfalfa.
Sloo TO Sl25; fruit, 1925 to $3.50; pas
lure range land, 81 to So.
Minerals.-Clays Fire at Clinton.
annually 5000 tons. at Fairfield an
nnally, LOO tons; twelve men, aver
age wage, S2.75 Brick: Fire. pot
ters' Limestone unlimited. building
stone unlimited gravel unlimited.
FISH, Timber Etc.-Fish. Two
men make business during winter
mouths and secure an average wage.
Ihls resource is practically unlim-
tied
Industry.
- ""''u'''-- bdHu III CULTIVATION,
yield per acre from grain; Irrigated
~ bushels; unirrigatcd, II bushels.
Alfalfa; Irrigated, 3 to so Bects.
500 acres; IL ious per acre. Pota-
toes: 200 bushels. Meadow, other
than alfalfa, three tons. Pasture
lands, sl.5O per month; two acres per
head. Oak Hollow, 5000 acres, six
acres per head
Cost per acre of Growing Grain.-
Irrigated T12; uuirrigated SIS. Beets,
$50 TO s35; apples. s25, pears, $50;
prunes, $40; peaches, $40; small
fruit, si5 TO $50.
Livestock. Horses aud mules. 1000
az 800; dairy cows and common cat
tic, $500 at $40, sheep, 5000 at So;
hogs, 200 at IS; poultry, 10000 at soc
per chick
Lehi Roller Mills.-Expenses wheat
bought Lehit $4,000; outside, $780,
600 labor, $4,000, maintenance, So
00o sacks. $1,000. Products Flour,
1,sSO,O0O; chopped products. 1000 900:
other products. 100000.
Brick Making. Yard output, 200, 600
at $S, total $1,000; coal used, ninety
tons. S3tO labor and maintenance.
81 900.
Ironing Tables.-Madc, 200, $1,000:
material produced here, cost of SELL
ing aud maintenance, $4,000; mater
iaIs, $4,000
For Schools.
Obtain from pupils the following.
Number of persons in family, average
family five: Grown males, 1,062:
grown females, LIZA; male children,
oy2; female children, 702; total, 1910.
fiome.-Brick 1872; frame, 1893;
adobe, 1872; total, 1872 Average num-
Der of rooms. SIX; furnishings, aver
age, S5Sl; expenditures for year for
support of church, $l5.156.6b, (S23.3S
per family. Living expenses, per IA
mily; Food, $320.i5; clothing, $240.-
so; rent or cost maintaining where
home Is owned. S4S.
Business and Commerce for 1913.
Amount of products sold direct,
$il5.34g.S0 through house, $i25.000:
nonresident buyers, $l4S,000.
Amount of products bought direct,
1881 1853: through local house.
SS39,S67, nonresident sellers, $780,
900.
Cost of--Buying, s3.37716. per
cent; selling. $44,b72,Si, Is per cent;
rotating, S0S,vjz.o',
Number engaged in work OF buying
and selling. 1880; whole time, 100;
part time, 10.
Profit retail. and per cent; $685.
6i0.l2: proiit wholesaling, $4,000
Labor.
Number Employed. factory,
i14; total wages per month, $24,956;
average monthly wage, $3.50. aver
age wage per day, s2.42 for 332 per-
sons
Home Life.
Number of families owning home,
4iS: renting. ga; having cold water
I'm pipes. 3l4; hot and cold water In
pipes, IL bath, II; doing own work,
oyD; having help of girls in outside
employment, %; having holp. no out
side employment. 20.
Women Having Studied.-Domestic
science and art, 102; literature, 203 I;
music, $50; history. 1859, politics,
$50. art, 1913.
Number of families having music In
home, 3li library in home, 1874; maxi
| Ing own clothing, i52.
Roads and Transportation.
Public highways, 267 miles County
roads (gradcd earth partly graveled
45 miles, Cost of construction with
culverts and bridges. $500, Cost OF
maintenance. S175.
Public district roads. 200 miles APP
proxmately, Graded, IL miles, Cost
of construction, including culverts
and bridges, $500. Cost of mainten'
ance. $3.50. Not graded. lSS miles,
Streets, ~ miles. Graded earth, Is
miles, Cost OF construction. $500;
cost of maintenance, $3.50. Gravelec
streets, three miles, Cost OF con
struction. $500; cost Of maintenance
800. Ungraded streets, six miles ap
proximately.
Railroads. d, & n, c., eight miles
$. H., l.. a. a. S. L., main line eigh
miles Branch, nine miles Inter
urban. eight miles
Sidewalks, approximately, % miles
Paved. 5.l7 miles; graded and gray
clcd, 90 miles approximately.
school Administration.
Number and description OF schoo
houses. Number Of schools In Lehi
Ave- one high school, pressed brick
ten rooms, old style; ole gramma