Irrigation in Utah . AN IRRIGATION BEAR RIVER CANAL, SHOWING SPILLWAY. Development under the Co-operative System. 33 Immediately on the close of the war the irrigator droppedhis gun and seized his spade, with the result that the censusreport of i860 pictured Utah as the most prosperous of theterritories. At that time the value of real and personalproperty in Utah was estimated at $5,596,118, the value ofimproved farm lands at $i,333,335> o^ farming implementsat $242,889, of live stock at $1,516,707, and of manufacturesat $900,153/ It is worthy of note in this connection that upto da
Irrigation in Utah . AN IRRIGATION BEAR RIVER CANAL, SHOWING SPILLWAY. Development under the Co-operative System. 33 Immediately on the close of the war the irrigator droppedhis gun and seized his spade, with the result that the censusreport of i860 pictured Utah as the most prosperous of theterritories. At that time the value of real and personalproperty in Utah was estimated at $5,596,118, the value ofimproved farm lands at $i,333,335> o^ farming implementsat $242,889, of live stock at $1,516,707, and of manufacturesat $900,153/ It is worthy of note in this connection that upto date but one case of suicide had been reported, and thetable of pauperism revealed but one person receiving sup-port as a pauper, and only eight criminals. Wages weregood, averaging $2 per day for common laborers and $35per month for domestic servants. Merchants, the credit ofwhose customers was based on the co-operative canal andthe intensive farm unit, were esteemed in eastern tradecircles as among the shrewdest and the most successful in
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