Cox Rock Products and Sanpete County have completed a land swap that officials say will benefit both parties.
The land, located in the Centerfield area, is not valuable for growing potatoes or alfalfa but is rich in a commodity farmers abhor - gravel.Sanpete County received about 24 acres of Cox Rock Products land in the exchange. "It contains enough gravel to take care of us into the foreseeable future," Commissioner Keller Christensen said. And that's a considerable amount of gravel because Sanpete has more than 100 miles of county roads to maintain.
In the exchange, Cox Rock Products was deeded about 21 acres of county land. It's in three small tracts and is adjacent to some other company gravel pits, and so will enable Cox to avoid moving its equipment around as it mines the material it uses in road building and other construction projects.