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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 399~ Utah and command a ready sale everywhere. Many sawowned by Moroni people, have been operated in mills, the canyons in the past years, until the laws on timber cutting were so strictly enforced, and some of the best citizens have engaged in lumbering. Mining has never engaged the people of this city to any great extent-, exc( pt in outside camps, but more or less prospecting has been done in the West mountains supposed to contain gold and silver." Moroni people have always been much interested in education and in consequence have maintained good public schools at the most convenient points in the city. Several students have been prepared for higher educational institutions and some have won honors at homeand abroad in the highest classes. The present population numbers about 1,800, and several first-class schools are taught during the school years. In politics the city is Democratic, having been controlled by the People's prrty, previous to the general organization of the national Among the most prominent men who have filled important county and State offices from Moroni are:, lions. J. L. Jolley, member of the Constitutional convention; Aaron Hardy, member of the State Legislative Assembly; Will L. Irons and Mons Monson each serving as County Treasurer on the Kepublican and Democratic parties. tickets respectively. The Sanpete Valley railroad was built to Wales in the early days of coal mining and later abandoned and a track put down to Moroni and this city made the terminus. This stimulated foreign shipments and gave the place an impetus to financial prosperity. Car shops were constructed here and local men employed in conducting the general work of the railroad company, and Moroni was made the distributing point for mail to all Southern cities and towns. Since the completion of the road to- |
