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Herculean efforts of the people of Cedar, the f i r s t building, which is now the Library Building, was ready for school work by the fall of the second year. Some time in 1880, the grading on the railroad had begun, the Los Angeles and Salt Lake route having decided to extend their road to the coast. The grading was finished the next year, hut the ties and rails were not laid until nine years later. A station was built at Lund, and the first train came through the County in 1899. With the coming of the railroad a new e r a dawned for the people. The County revenue was increased, the shipping point brought closer, and the relationship with the outside Since that time, the County has had a world broadened. period of steady, rapid growth. Both farms and mountain land were taken up more rapidly, and the sheep and cattle industries rose to great prominence and became the chief source of wealth. When the Branch Normal School a t Cedar City was changed to a Branch Agricultural College in 1913, with the Agricultural College at Logan as i t s mother institution and especially after the f i r s t Farmers' Roundup held in 1914, an interest that i s still growing was awakened in scientific agriculture. In 1903 the City of Cedar bonded itself for eleven thousand dollars for the purpose of building a water system. The water was taken from the creek through ditches to a settling tank. This system was the f i r s t one south of Provo. although M t . Pleasant put its system in about the same time. The people of the community contributed most of the labor for the establishing of this system. Because the water drawn from the creek was impure, the town was visited with a scourge of Typhoid Fever, which resulted in a great number of deaths. When the citizens became convinced that their water system was the source of the infection, they immediately undertook the extension of the system to the mountain springs. The first extension, made in 1910. took in White Rock Spring No. 1. It was seven miles long and cost nine thousand dollars. Since that time, seven other springs have been added. The approximate cost, up to the present time, has been 540,700. Twenty thousand dollars of this was raised by bonding and the rest by general and frontage taxation. These extensions insure a fine and unexcelled water supply. It is interesting to note that in the year after Cedar City established i t s first water system, i t also voted prohibition; t h u s , making this attempt to substitute water for liquor for drinking. It was the f i r s t town in Utah to "go dry. " Parowan City's water system was installed during the years of 1913 and 1914 at a total cost of about sixteen thousand dollars. This system has been enlarged some during t h e past year. The pipe i s made of cement.
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| Title | Mayors of Cedar City |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K.; Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Subject | Mayors -- Utah -- Cedar City -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- Politics and government; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City. |
| Source | Mayors |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/mayors.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 535.cpd |
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