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.s ,.ct Fo,. 10- NO-. Ut" ......... S. I f .... t (Re.tsod fob . 1993) 0III1o . 11J024" '18 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Nat;onal Reg;ster of H;stor;c Places Cont;nuat;on Sheet Section No. ~ Page ~ Crescent Ele.entary School. Sandy. Salt lake County. UT efficient management of tax money tha~ to demands for consolidation and centralization of schools. Utah's re~ to these movements during the Progressive era gained national attention and its concern for the welfare of children in and out of school was evident. In the late 1930s a national trend toward increased state funding of education helped to improv~ of teachers. 4 HISTORY OF SANDY: The first half of the twentieth century was a period of transition for the city of Sandy. The mining, smelting and small farm era was being replaced by a more diversified economy. In some ways the town still resembled the earlier predominantly agricultural community founded by Mormon settlers in the 1860s, especially as the "boom town" economy created around the mining industry waned. The population of Sandy remained around 1,500 for the four decades between 1900 and 1940. 5 However, the city was defining itself as the political, economic, civic and social center for a major portion of the southeast Salt Lake Valley. This period of Sandyls history laid the groundwork for city's eventual transformation from small town to suburb. While the dominant force in the economy of Sandy during the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s was undoubtedly that of mining, the local agricultural community had not ceased to develop. A series of wells and ditches were dug beginning as early as 1869 to supply the city and smelters, as well as farms, with water. In 1880 the Salt Lake City Canal was dug through the area and in 1883 the East Jordan Canal reached Sandy.6 These and other sources of water aided greatly in the establishment of the local agricultural economy which saw Sandy through the mining boom and subsequent depress ion / ~ .____- Powll. A.K •• editor. Utah History EncyclOP.dla. Salt Lak. City: See continuation sheet U of U Press. 1994. pp . 153-55. 'Bradl.y. 205. Th. population totals In Sandy for census years 181!O to 1950 are as follows: 1880 - 4881 1900 - 1.632: 1910 1.716; 1920 - 1.208; 1930 - 1.436; 1940 - 1.487; 1950 - 2.095. 'lIln. ' Ball •• 279.