The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-01-20
UTAH STATE NEWS

Utah Irrigation and Drainage con-
gress was held in Salt Lake, January
II 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.
Utah's thlrty-six canning factories
produced 1,414, 104 cases of vegetables
and fruits valued at approximately
$6,OOO,0OO last year.
The state mental hospital at Provo
received twenty-three patients during
December OF last year and discharged
thirteen. The hospital now has 662
patients.
With a total valuation In excess Of
34,OO0,OO0, the livestock industry of
Utah is now rated as the second
largest in the state, mining leading
the list.
Vlate Bergener, years Of age, and
Clyde Bergener, years of age, child
rem Of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bergener,
met death In n fire that destroyed the
Bergener home at Park City.
George Washington Baker, ST.,
builder of the first dwelling house in
Cache valley, and Agnes Richards
Baker, celebrated their sixteenth wed.
ding anniversary at Mendon, January
ms.
In the accredited herd list just Is
sued by the department Of agricul-
ture, Utah ranks twenty-second in the
states with thlrty-slx accredited herds
and 377 once tested free herds of cat
tie.
OF 1916 cases handled In the last
two years by the juvenile court at
Ogden only forty-nlne 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 ag.
gregated 153,200 tons, with an aver
age extraction Of 11.40 and an aver
age sugar content, based on the
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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 statlsticlan, is $31,072, 600.
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 there has been an average
Of 800 tons Of beets sliced daily.
Twenty-Five self-dumping gravel
wagons and other road work equip.
ment have arrived on the ground at
Delta for use In connection with the
new state highway from Delta to
Holden, n distance OF thirty miles.
The total valuation of taxable
property in Utah In 1919 was SG92,-
466,S7S and that of 1920 is SIT, 3Os.-
32l, gain of S2i,Sil,4 43. Livestock
valuations In 1919 were S42Gl7 .032
and In 1920 they are $34, 2l3,3S0, loss
OF $S,4Ol,552.
Leaving note that he had chosen
self-destructlon in preference to re-
naming alive since the death of "hls
pal, Tom" who died on January 10,
1919, James Michigan committed sui
eide Saturday night at Salt Lake by
inhallng gas.
Potatoes were grown on 1900 acres
In Utah In 1920, with n yield of 1914
bushels per acre, total production Of
3,29S,0O0 bushels and value Decem.
Der l Of $2,63S.OOO, or so cents per
bushel, ms compared with S137 per
bushel In 1919.
A charge Of $40 plate will be made
for the dinner Of stew, cocoa and
bread which will be served at the
Weber club January "a, according 10
plans being worked out MS the Ogden
contribution to the fund for the starry
Ing children Of Europe.
One hundred and ten gallons Of
raisin 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 sherlff's office as the
result Of raid at Vernal.
The finished product of Utah cement
plants will reach $3,5OO,OOO: flour
mills $2,OO0,0O0; knitting factories and
wooden mills, $1,5OO,OOO; packing
plants, $9.0O0,OOO; salt, 5000
bakeries, $S,5OO,OOO; leather goods 81.
100000; brick and other building
blocks and thing. S7,OOO,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 10 de-
eide as to whether or not these girls
still are under the Jurisdiction OF the
school ms they We're before they were
The value Of the 1920 sugar crop
In Utah is estimated at $4,000 600.
Approximately $27OOO,OOO has been in.
vested In the properties. II took $500
OFFICE and factory employees. 10000
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