Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-01-21
UTAH STATE NEWS

gres, ,ds held In Salt Lake, January
IL and Is.
The state industrial commission has
decided to buy $500 of the $4,000
issue of public library bonds of the
city Of Springvllle.
Utahs thlrty.six canning factories
produced 1,414,104 cases of vegetables
and fruits valued at approximately
$6OOO,OO0 last year.
The state mental hospital at Provo
received twenty-three patients during
December of last year and discharged
thirteen. The hospital now has &C.
patients.
With total valuation in excess of
$34,OOO,OO0, the livestock industry of
Utah Is now rated as the second
largest in the state, mining leading
the list.
Vilate Bergener, years of age. and
Clyde Bergener, years of age, child
rem Of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bergener.
met death in a fire that destroyed the
Bergener home at Park City.
George Washington Baker, Sr.,
builder of the first dwelling house in
Cache valley, and Agnes Richards
Baker, celebrated their sixteenth we'd
ding anniversary at Mendon, January
IS.
In the accredited herd list just is
sued by the department of agricul-
ture, Utah ranks twenty-second in the
states with thirty-six accredited herds
and 377 once tested free herds of cat
tie.
OF 1886 cases handled in the last
two years by the juvenile court at
Ogden only forty.nine were sent to the
State Industrial school, according to
the report of Judge Sullivan submit
ted to the governor.
Beet. sugar manufactured in the
eighteen factories in Utah in 1920 az.
gregated 153,200 tons, with an aver
age extraction of 11.40 and an aver.
age sugar content, based on the
weight of the beets, of 1871
The estimated total value of crops
grown in Utah for the year 1920
excluding sugar beets and including
apples, as compiled by the bureau of
crop estimates, of which NJ NJ. Justin
is the statistician, is $34,O72,OOO.
The Utah-Idaho Sugar company's
plant at Spanish Fork has completed
the most successful run in It's history.
Since the opening of the plant on
October 5 there has been an average
of 500 tons of beets sliced daily.
Twenty-Five self-dumping gravel
wagons and other road work equip
ment have arrived on the ground ut
Delta for use in connection with the
new state highway from Delta to
Holden, distance of thirty miles.
The total valuation of taxable
property in Utah in 1919 was $692,-
i6j,S7s and that of 1920 is S717,3OS,-
81, gain of S24,S41 ,443. Livestock
valuations in 1919 were $40 .6l7 ,932
and in 1920 they are $34 ,213, $50, II loss
of SS,404, 552.
Leaving note that he had chosen
In preference to re-
maning alive since the death of "his
PAL Tom," who died on January 10,
1919, james Michigan committed sui
eide Saturday night at Salt Lake by
inhalng gas.
Potatoes were grown on 1900 acres
in Utah in 1920, with Il yield of 1914
bushels per acre, n total production OF
=, 29S0OO bushels and value Decem-
her of S2,63S,00O, or 50 cents per
hushel, as compared with Sl,37 per
buShel in 1919.
a charge of so plate will be made
for the dinner of stew, cocoa and
bread which will he served at the
Weber club January -, according to
plans being worked out as the Ogden
contribution to the fund for the starv-
ing children of Europe.
one hundred and ten gallons of
ralsin mash, three stills, a quantity of
white mule" and brew In various
stages of preparation, together with
the men responsible for the manu-
facture of the liquor, constitute the
harvest of the sheriff'S office as the
result of raid nj Nernal.
The finished product of Utah cement
plants will reach $3,50O,O00; flour
mills S2,0OO,0OO; knitting factories and
wooden mills, S1,5OO0OO; packing
plants, $9,OO0O0O; salt, S5O0,000;
bakeries, S3,5O0,OO0; leather goods ST.
100000; brick and other building
blocks and thing, $7,OO0,OOO.
OF the fifty-three girls who have
been paroled recently from the state
Industrial school at Ogden, twenty
four have been married, and the at.
torney general has been asked to de-
eide as 10 whether or not these girls
still are under the jurisdiction of the
school ms they were before they were
married.
The value of the 1920 sugar crop
In Utah is estimated ut $20,OOO0OO.
Approximately $27, 100000 has been in
vested in the properties. 1t took $500
office and factory employees, 10000
farmers and $4,000 acres of land Ia
produce the 100000 tons Of beets
necessary to make the TO-, 800 tons of
refined sugar.
The people of Greenriver are or