The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-05-16

Estimate Value Per Acre of ali
Land by Classes Cultivated, 800 to
$780, irrigated $40 to $3.50; unirri-
gated, $40 to SIS. Uncultivated--
rigatable, per acre, 800. swamp, $40
to 500 alkali. $50 to SIS.
Prices Asked for Land I'm Cultiyn.
tion.--Beets, 800 TO $3.50; potatoes.
$3.50 to S225; grain, SIS to $3.50. I'm
irrigated, $40 to $50; alfalfa, 800 TO
$780, bottom meadow. $50 to St00:
upland meadow other than alfalfa.
800 to 1925; fruit, s125 to $3.50: pas
ture range land. SO to Sc.
Minerals.--Clays: Fire at Clinton.
annually $4,000 tons; at Fairfield, an
nually, 1000 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
months and secure an average wage.
This resource is practically uniim-
tied.
Industry.
Agriculture.--Land in cultivation:
yield per acre from grain: Irrigated
10 bushels: unirrigated, II bushels.
Alfalfa Irrigated, to g. Beeis:
500 acres; 13 tons per acre. Pota-
toes: 200 bushels. Meadow, other
than alfalfa. three tons. Pasture
lands. $3.50 per month two acres per
head Oak Hollow. 5000 acres, six
acres per head.
Cost per acre OF Growing Grain =
Irrigated. s12; upirrigated, SO. Beets,
$40 to sS5; apples, SIS; pears, $50;
prunes, $40; peaches, so. small
fruit. s45 to $50.
Livestock Horses and mules. 1000
at 800; dairy cows and common cat
tie, $500 at $40; sheep. 5000 ut IS;
hogs, 200 at IS; poultry. 10000 at SOC
per chick
Lehi Roller Mills.--Expenses wheat
bought: Lehit $4,000; outside, $780,
900; labor, $4,000; maintenance, S.
600; sacks, $1,000. Products: Flour,
l $4,000; chopped products, 1000. 900;
other products. 100000.
| Brick Making.--Yard output, 900, 900
at So, total $1,000; coal used, ninety
tons, $340; labor and maintenance,
$1,000.
Ironing Tables Made, 200. $1,000;
material produced here, cost OF sell
ing and maintenance, $4,000; mater
ials, $4,000.
| TOT SCmOOISs
Obtain from pupils the following.
Number Of persons In family. average
family five: Grown males, 1862 /;
grown females, liza; male children,
SOP; female children, 1927 total, $3.50.
adobe. 1872; total, 1872, Average num-
Der of rooms. SIX; furnishings, aver
age, 1881; expenditures for year for
support of church, $15,156.65, ($233s
per family. Living expenses, per IA
mily: Food, $320.75; clothing, $240.-
so; rent or cost maintaining where
home is owned. $4S.
Business and Commerce for 1918.
Amount OF products sold direct,
s4l5.349.S0; through house. $125,00O;
nonresident buyers. $14s.000.
Amount OF products bought direct.
1887, 1859; through local house,
1888, S67, nonresident sellers, $780,
0O0
Cost of.-Buying, $3,37Il6, per
cent; selling. $44.572.S4, Is per cent
retailing, $53.992.89.
Number engaged In work of buying
and selling. 1870; whole time, 100;
part time, 10.
Profit retail. Z and 8 per cent; s23,-
64O.12: profit wholesaling, $4,000.
Labor.
Number Employed.-Sugar factory.
| f74: total wages per month, $24, $3.50 I:
average monthly wage, s52.60; aver
, age wage per day, sac for 1872 per-
sons.
Home Life.
Number OF families owning home,
AS; renting. 274; having cold water
In pipes, 3l4; hot and cold water In
pipes. II; bath. II; doing own work.
$50; having help OF girls In outside
employment, 30; having help. no out
side employment, 90.
Women Having Studied.-Domesti
science and art, 1902; literature, 900;
music. 2S9: history. 1863; politics.
$50: art. 1903.
Number OF families having music In
home, 3l4; library In home, 33t; max
Ing own clothing. 462.
Roads and Transportation.
Public highways. 267. miles. County
roads (graded earth partly graveled.
40 miles,. Cost OF construction with
culverts and bridges, $500 Cost Of
maintenance. SITS.
Public district roads, 200 miles ap-
proximately. Graded. IL miles Cost
OF construction, including culverts
ance. $3.50. Not graded, 1888 miles.
Streets, q miles. Graded earth, Is
miles Cost OF construction, 1900;
cost of maintenance. $3.50. Graveled
streets. three miles. Cost OF con-
struction, $500; cost OF maintenance,
500. Ungraded streets. six miles APP
proximately
Railroads.&c.. G. r. c.. eight miles.
S. L., l.. A. a. s. L., main line eight
miles. Branch. nine miles Inter-
urban, eight miles
Sidewalks, approximately, As miles.
Paved. SIT miles; graded and grav-
eled, 20 miles approximately.
School Administration.
Number and description OF school
houses Number OF schools in Lehi,
five; one high school, pressed brick.
ten rooms, old style; ole grammar
grade building. eight rooms and GYM
nasium; one primary grade building,
eight rooms; one Franklin rural pri-
mary grades, two rooms; one Sego
LILY rural. primary grades, two rooms.