Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1914-05-01

The more important of the letters
enclosed with the above follows. The
other one is the printed circular sent
uniformly to the various assessors
and county commissioners of the
state:
"Salt Lake City, Utah, April %,
1914.
"To the Members Of the Board of
County Commissioners, Parowan, Iron
county, Utah.
"Gentlemen.-I received today a
letter from your county assessor,
James C. Parry, informing me that
you practically ignored the requests
of this Office to afford him assistance
to fully and properly gather the ag-
ricultural statistics of your county for
the year 1918, as contemplated by the
laws of our state (title 76, chapter a,
Revised laws Of Utah, 1907.)
81 think such action is simply de-
plorable, in view Of the fact that the
State of Utah and it's citizens are pre-
pairing to spend one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars at the two Panama
Pacific ExpssitianG "a be held in Cali
ifornia next year, for the purpose of
telling the three or four millions Of
people who will gather there from all
parts of the world, that there is such
county as Iron in the state of Utah.
in the United States of America, and
that such county is within less than a
days ride by rail from the two expo
sition grounds; that such county is
one of the best agricultural sections
in one of the greatest agricultural and
horticultural states in the Union, a
state that is credited by the Govern
ment of the United States as possess
ing the deepest and richest soils,
that yield more barley per acre, more
wheat per acre, with one exception;
more potatoes per acre, with one ex-
ception; more oats and hay per acre,
with three exceptions than any other
of the forty-seven states of the Union.
At these expositions the state purpos-
es to tell plain facts to millions of
people, hundreds of thousands of
whom will go there with a view of
seeing and studying exhibitions of the
resources of the country, for the sole
purpose of obtaining knowledge of
where is the best place for them to
| find home and the safest place in
which to invest their means.
"The people Of the State of Utah,
who best know this state, who are the
best acquainted with its great resour-
ces, its superb climate and other
things, considered worth while when
the proposition of a place wherein to
spend their lives is at stake, know
that mere recital of facts concerning
Utah will compare more than favor
ably with anything that can truth
fully be said about any other section
of the United States.
But the state wants facts and has
thus prepared a way TO obtain GER
tain of them. One is the way to
which called your attention, i. e.,
the gathering of agricultural data by
the county assessor This matter is
made part of his regular duties and
is an important part of such duties.
If his combined duties are so great
that he cannot properly attend to all
of them, there is no provision Of the
law that renders it Illegal for the
county commissioners to provide the
assessor with sufficient help to enable
him to perform all of such duties.
The state itself pays part of the ex-
pense of the county assessors work
and part of the expense of gathering
agricultural statistics is proper
charge against the state.
"In view Of the several considera-
tons named above, and the further
one that the state, through its legis-
lative bodies and the conservation
commission, has been exceedingly
kind to Iron county, don't you really
feel, upon earnest thought, that your
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