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Show OdO HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. issued in payment, the canal being- eight miles in length, with a depth of one foot and three feet wide oh the bottom, costing $4,000 or more. In this work as much as eighty yards of rock had to be moved to construct a rod of ditch. The natural facilities are favorable for fruit-growand mixed farming. Experiments in sugar-beet growing show that this new industry could be ing, gardening made profitable in the fertile fields of this mountain-pro- tected district. Many farmers are also engaged in stock- raising and woolgrowing and the financial income of many other larger towns in the The wheat yield is enormous, hay produces abundantly and all cultivated crops return large profits on the labor invested. Mayfield has a good future and an increasing and happy population, surrounded by peac and prosperity. The present officials of the precinct are: Arthur Tf. Campbell, Justice of the Peace; George T. Balle, Constable. The school board consists of Mads P. Soreus.m, president; Parley Christiansen, treasurer, and Annie E. Lund, secretary. Ole C. Olsen was the first bishop and Mayfield equals that of county. the present one is Parley Christiansen, with C. R. Nielsen counsellor and Frederick J. Christiansen second counsellor. rs. Ole Olsen is president of^the-Eelief Society. Mayfield furnished a member of the Constitutional convention in the person of Hon. Parley Christiansen, who served with distinction to himself and honor to the people he represented. first M & |
