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Show 47 Table l20 The Amount of Monies Extended from the Beginning of the State Farm Loan Program to 1920. Year $ Amount of Loans Extended 1897 $ 0 1898 0 1899 Both 1899 and 1900 combined 1900 19,856.00 1901 52,997.66 1902 86,011.00 1903 * 1904 45,499.00 1905 60,667.00 1906 37,011.00 1907 16,502.00 1908 71,347.50 1909 46,353.00 1910 26,788.00 1911 13,971.00 1912 228,282.00 1913 636,957.70 1914 514,580.00 1915 624,837.00 1916 418,942.00 1917 Both 1917 and 1918 combined 1918 1,972,032.00 1919 2,005,680.00 1920 1,124,735.00 Yearly total of loans extended unavailable. The farm loan program was heavily utilized during the period under study and the decades immediately following. Eventually it made more money available to individual farmers than any other program used by the Board of Land Commissioners or other agencies of the state during the period it was in use. The state's interest in the program had lasting repercussions for water development, because it allowed many farmers to undertake individual or small group projects All information in Table 1 was taken from the appropriate ( relevant years) " Annual Report of the Board of Land Commissioners," State of Utah, Public Documents. |