Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, May 1996 During the spring and summer of 1912 James C. Hogensen toured the state hoping to organize Boys Potato Growing Clubs in every county. This project of the Extension Division of the Utah State Agricultural College (USAC) helped to fulfill a requirement that the division “provide agricultural and home science information to anyone not …
The Salt Lake Valley Smelter War
Jeffrey D. Nichols History Blazer, April 1995 Americans tend to believe that pollution is a relatively recent phenomenon and that concern about the problem only began to surface in the 1960s. In the first decade of the 20th century, however, farmers in the Salt Lake Valley united to fight against industrial pollution. Although they won the short-term battle, the larger …