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Show OMB No. 10024 - 0018 NPS FOri 10- 900-a Utah Wo rdPe rfect 5. 1 Fo r.at (Revised Fe b. 1993 ) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. ~ Page ~ Crescent Elementary School, Sandy, Salt Lake County, UT The community was also seeing a great deal of civic development. The city of Sandy was incorporated on September 26, 1893. At the same time, thirteen city ordinances were "passed and approved."8 Though most of these early ordinances defined punishable offenses, the city founders also made provisions for the naming of streets, taxation, voter registration and animal control. By 1911 the city was managing its own water resources and had a volunteer fire brigade of twenty-five, complete with two fire trucks. 9 Utah Power and Light began servicing Sandy in 1913, and by 1914 the city was managing a park and a cemetery.l0 Economically, the city was changing dramatically. The depletion of the mineral resources in the Alta area and the loss of the smelting and sampling industries had changed the economic structure of Sandy City significantly. Moreover, a series of national and local depressions beginning in 1893 and continuing to the onset of World War II had made small-scale single-crop agricultural enterprises nearly impossible. ll Sandy farmers had an especially difficult time, needing to overcome the additional challenges of water scarcity and the arid, sandy soil. Fortunately irrigation methods improved steadily through these years, and several Sandy farmers were able to successfully continue to raise hay and grain. A few farmers converted their fields to the raising of sugar beets. A "beet dump" was established near the railroad tracks, and Sandy beets were shipped to a West Jordan sugar factory, founded in 1916, and processed by the Utah/Idaho Sugar Company.12 Another successful agricultural industry was poultry. The Draper Egg Producers Association was formed in 1932. 13 However, despite the success of these specialized agricultural industries, most farming in Sandy during the first half of the twentieth century was purely subsistence level. -X- See continuation sheet ) l (- M4 87-93-. 'R-iCh' 'S anborn Map. 1911. " Bradl ey. 58-59. " Utah's Hi story. 46 5-466. " Ri ch. 169. " Ri ch. 169. |
