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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 206 tants justly claim, "The Queen City of Sanpete." The city has clean, broad streets; excellent water for culinary, domestic and irrigation purposes; splendid power for mills and factories; fine school houses and well-informed teachers; beautiful lawns and prolific orchards and gardens; elegant mansions, the homes of wealthy and energetic citizens; perfect electric light system; enterprising and public-spirited business men, conducting complete mercantile houses; modern and well-equipped roller mills: first class hotels; well conducted newspaper; solid and reliable banking institution; best market and mail facilities, furnished by a modern railway; well regulated lodges, representing the most prominent fraternal organizations; capable and competent attorneys, physicians and professional men; good churches and auxiliary societies; and all that goes to make up a commercial metropolis of a county like Sanpete. Irrigation being the first and most important investment in making a colony in the arid western section of America, was not overlooked in colonizing Mt. Pleasant. The lands were apportioned and afterward entered as homesteads, and water was supplied by appropriations from Pleasant creek. The municipal authorities took the responsibility of controlling and distributing the water, which was done at a nominal annual expense of only ton cents an acre in the field and twenty-five cents for a similar area within the corporate limits of the city. Acting under the general Territorial law concerning corporations, passed in 1884, the Mater owners have since formed different incorporated companies to protect individual rights and control the water sources of the supply. The which the capital stock of five irrigation companies in citizens of Mt. Pleasant are interested aggre- gate about $100,000, divided among the farmers. The Pleasant Creek Irrigation company was incor- |
