April, '15] 



TITUS: CLEAN TOWN CONTEST 



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A CLEAN TOWN CONTEST 



By E. G. Titus, Logan, Utah 



This movement has been carried on to some extent in other states 

 and has been supported by mayors, officials, boards of health, and so 

 on, but we intended it to be a state contest. A year ago we started 

 work upon this Utah contest and on the first of June, 1914, we had 

 fifty-six towns entering the contest. These were divided according 

 to population, Salt Lake and Ogden being of course the largest. In 

 the next class, 3,500 to 9,000 towns, three out of the four in the state 

 entered. The next class 2,500 to 3,500, seven towns entered out of 

 eleven in the state; in the next class, 1,500 to 2,500, ten towns out of 

 sixteen entered; Class ''E, " 750 to 1,500, eleven out of twenty-eight 

 entered; and in Class 'T, towns under 750, there were fifteen out 

 of thirty- eight that could have entered the contest. We had a fairly 

 representative number of towns in the state entered. A number of 

 prizes were offered by the L'tah Development League. In a number 

 of towns that went through the competition there were also side prizes 

 for better lawns, best appearing lots, best flower gardens, best equipped 

 places in the business section of the town, etc. 



The following are the final scores of the towns entered and scored: 



Class ''A": Cities of 25,000 and over. 



Ogden 73 



Salt Lake 70 



Class "B": Towns of 3,500 to 9,000 population. 



Brigham 70.6 



Provo 64 . 6 



Murray 46 . 5 



Class "C": Towns of 2,500 to 3,500 population. 



Lehi 71.7 



Spanish Fork 62 . 5 



Springville ' 61.8 



Richfield 59 



Park City 59 



American Fork 55 . 5 



Nephi 41 



Class "D": Towns of 1,500 to 2,500 population. 



Manti 82 . 5 



St. George 70.5 



Beaver 70 



Smithfield 69.3 



Cedar City 65.0 



Richmond 52 



Pleasant Grove ^ . , 51 



Ephraim , 43 



Bountiful 40 



Payson 35.1 



