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Show OTRSAT WORK. Thay are Gathering Information for the Bureau of Statistics Which Will be Published. 5000 COPIES FOE DISTRIBUTION. Wiien the Statistics are Compiled They Will be a First Glass Advertise" ment for Utah. One of the laws passed by tho territorial terri-torial legislature last March was an act ber of smelters and stamping mills, average cost of reducing ores, number of hands employed, wages paid, tons reduced, and" number of nature and capital of nil new business enterprises and incorporations of the preceding year. Also the selling prices in the principal markets of the various kinds of produce, fruits, stock, annual products and leading articles manufactured manufac-tured in ihis territory. And the secretary of the territory shall caused to be printed on or before the lirst day of December in each year of the compiled statistics received from the territorial statistician 5000 copies for distribution by himself and the statistician, stat-istician, a reasonable number thereof to be given to the various chambers of commerce and kindred organizations and each county of tho territory. creatiug a bureau of statistics. It is to secure information for this purposo that Assessor Lynch and his deputy assessors started out yesterday and began to work. When the information shall have been collated from all counties of Utah it will be of unestimablo value. Then the true population of the territory terri-tory and all of its industrial, commercial commer-cial and other enterprises will be made known in detail. As 0000 copies of the compiled statistics will be printed far distribution, they will prove an advertisement adver-tisement of great worth to the territory. terri-tory. It is to be hoped that the people will not hesitate about imparting to the assessor the information he may desire, as it is of the utmost importance that the work of the statistic gatherer be through. With tho hearty co-operation of the people who have a pride in the prosperity of their respective county and the territory, terri-tory, tho result will convince the outside out-side world that Utah is no mean country. Tha Taxt of the Act la. Bo It enacted by the governor and legislative assembly of the territory of Utah: That a bureau of statistics is hereby created, and the territorial librarian li-brarian is hereby .juiade the territorial tatistician. who shall receive an annual an-nual salary of six hundred dollars iu addition to his salary as territorial librarian. li-brarian. It shall be the duty of the territorial statistician on or before the first day of January of each year to prepare and cause to be furnishod to the county clerks of the several counties for delivery de-livery to the county assessor, as-sessor, suitable blanks lor the collection of statistics. The several county assessors and their depties of this territory shall at the time of taking the lists of property for taxation, procure from each person per-son required to list property in their county a statement of the number of acres he has had undor cultivation during dur-ing the preceding year, t!.o number of acres irrigated, the number of acres he has had under enclosure for pasture, , the kinds of orops and the respective acreage thereof, the amount of product of each respective crop during the preceding pre-ceding year. Tho number of gallons made of wine, cider, vinegar and sorgum; number of 'pounds made each of butter, cheese, honey and dried fruits; number of hives of bees, pounds of wool shorn; number of milch cows, cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats and swine, over six months oil. owned ou the 31st day of December of the preceding year. Any person who is required by this act to give information and refuses upon proper request so to do shall be subject to a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $H) to be recovered by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction jurisdic-tion upon esmplaint of any person be- fore such court, and it shall be the duty of the district or county attorney of the proper county to prosecuto such suit at the expense of the count) for tho use ot the school fund of such county. Each county assessor shall accurately compile, foot up and return to tho county clerk of his county at the time when he returns the assessment rolls, a tabulated statement of the foregoing statistics. Also a carefully tabulated estimate for the preceding year of the amount that has been expended. In each town and city in his county and throughout his county for buildings, build-ings, private and public respectively, amount expended for public works, t he number and kinds of industrial concerns, con-cerns, with the number of people employed em-ployed and the amount of wages paid, the value of their plants, the amount and value of their annual product, horse power employed, how acquired, whether by steam, water or other means, capital invested, the number of stores of each kind in each town, city and county, capital invested, amount of animal sales, number of employes, wages paid, population of each town and city in his county and the population popula-tion of his county. The assessors and their deputies shall receive such compensation for the services ser-vices herein required as the county courts may determine.. And each county clerk shall without delay forward such tabulated statements and estimates to the territorial statistician who shall compile tho same, and on or before the first day of October transfer them to the secretary of the territory. The territorial statistician shall also and at the same time furnish the secretary secre-tary further statistics of the territory showing the number of miles ol railway rail-way main lines and sidings, miles of street railway and kinds of motive power with mileage of each, number of companies engaged in each kind of mining, capital invested, number of hands employed, amount of wages paid, annual output in tons and value, num- |