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Show 212 HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. saw and grist mills, creamery, and flouring mills, do not exhaust the natural power, which could be increased many fold if necesconcerns, consisting- of electric light sary. Mt. Pleasant is located near the primitive forests of Wasatch mountains and numerous sawmills are utilized in cutting timber for domestic and export purposes. In former days before the laws were so strict and rigidly the enforced against timber cutting, no less than a score of mills were kept rutting continuously during the summer season in manufacturing lumber, lath, shingles and general building timbers. Many citizens find employment in logging and hauling timbers to the mills and the lumber and finished product to the home market. The numerous elegant mansions and commodious business blocks hare been constructed of home material and are perpetual monuments to the policy of Utah colonists in utilizing home resources and employing home laborers. Although the present city has been erected from native forests, the area is practically undiminished and the natural watersheds remain to protect the winter snows against a time of necessity for irrigating the fields of the valley. The thrifty and industrious people of Mt Pleasant are chiefly en-aged in agricultural pursuits, having over 10,000 aires of land under cultivation, and. raJ^in^L^min, iia^v_and_puta-kM>s. In early days the farms were practi- cally one co-operative field, but during the past few years holdings have been fenced and many small areas are devoted to modern intensive cultivation, yielding immense returns. Fruitgrowing and gardening were individual neglected for many years, under the delusion that the climate was noi suited to general horticulture, but the city is now filled with proline trees and vines and welltilled and profitable gardens. Pee keeping has naturally |
