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Show IgT" . : j i Everything in Mineral, Agriculture and Horticulture I Ti . . IImbning endustry f No slate in tlio Union lias bo many diversiiiert in--3 orc-tfi as has rtnli. Thcro is everything in Utah in !ibo wav of mineral, tho precious metals as well as u.V jjj, 1):,scr. East.urn people look upon Utah as a mining 1 ifatc ovclusivolv. but they have no contention of. " flint those mining interests are, what the product is, the .Ifvhlonfls abrogate, which are the produc-J produc-J ft gi mines, ami where Ihcy are. A story about Utah s Mineral wealth would All a volume. Ulhons upon mil-of mil-of dollars have been paid in dividends. The co"m? fountain rnnes arc filled with mineral, rujsilver-lead properties aro in Alta, American I-oik, 'tfP Sir Cottonwood. Park City, Tintic and btockton dis-i& dis-i& feels; cohl in the Marysvnlo and Mercur districts; S Ippei" in Bingham and Beaver districts Bingham he-CW he-CW !fe the third jjrefflest copper camp in tho wor d. I he H fop Creek district carries all kind of mineral. Dm-at? Dm-at? ftnL from these districts the first half of this year 'H moo ! ouS T1' Sn.dic0no8oSoo nlnint to tho amount for the year excccdinfi S000,0q0. J-lndinL he present, year, Utah will have paid in W?ViSoml8 to shareholders in its. mini.-,- properties, n"? th! industry was started in the state, nmoty RnTlievera output of the metal mines of IBJi fo? ?hoB three years, 190(5-7-8 was $40,000,000-m $40,000,000-m year indicates a much larger output. Here is tho -, iiveraL'O output for tho years named: !&$ld.W96 ounces, value $ l, o ft opper, 57..103.134 pounds, value 3S,?S?,??9 mHill 120,262.250 pounds, value H'lOO iflS- Sine' 0,27.1,550 pounds, value Cicksilver! S25 flasks , 3o,5o0 iffiT There are a number oE dividend payers in Utah. fere is the list, with the amount of dividends paid hod'm' to -Tnlv .15. 1909. They tell a wonderful, siory or j -tWrliat. the 'great, mountain ranges in Utah yield:- Tft UTA1L DIVIDEND PAYERS. rj' Current. pn'n Total M o, , DiVyCn(l5, - Since l0 hlwk- Date Amt. .Jan. 1, jio Wife i of of 1909. 1909. ndffi. Pav't Div- afenrMH. : mh"? 11 2.500 h.ctll t nei " ' v.'.v. 675 000 ih SuS Burcisa v v.v. :: : i : : : :: : : : : : . - 2,91 7,700 Jcntury -3 (''0,00, U'on. Mercur T'oToo-- " 7olimi Con ',.',-( jfirauo' Julv20 SO.OOO 560,000 1,030,000 s oiorau, . !U ... . 2.925,000 -S-.hid"c' '.. 225,000 alv West July .15 5'i,000 108.000 5,9S6,000 tftxK M. Co -.15,000 ' tfrolui'llill ' 1,S50.000 ! Icmini-Kov 2,000,000 :5rand Cciit - 3,35S,000 (Traml Culch -J.S00 ,, h Selena 7.1,000 OlAHo'rn Silver L 5,722.000 ,tfftfoa Blossom ruly 25 80,000 232,000 232,000 P'-aAti Mammoth 63,073 ,3ranimoth 1 2,240,000 ;riaxfield .S 1 1 18.000 Slay D:.v :....! 33S.000 igMi. View J.. 12,552 m A'ewlioHSP ! 600.000 Sg6l'K ' 1 14.062,50.1 ;fl0SRptro J.. ' 65,ooo " ,iPuiitcv i I J 1.050,000 , nrfKbrcn-H. .. ! 152,500 !;,JBilvor King I 10.525,000 ' V'Bil. King Coali -luly 3 JS7.500 750.000 J'.396.U08 - i(iu. Con luly 20 51.000 36S;Suu '444,000 -;.';Baoramrnto 30S.OO0 iiphlvaior ' 6.000 iculirfft Swansea : 287,500 nis rigwansca '. 331,500 OD'JifiLver Shield 4,500 iorcstVitro 18.000 at (SB. S. Mg Co 7,S3.9,i:;5 Dlnclo Sam I '2S5.000 alDdiptah . . ,Kcb. 151 3,000 1 3,0001 291,000 luedi'U'tah Con iApr. 11150,000 300.0001 7,050,000 atKUlah Copper !.I 'ne 301362,975 1725.950 1,088,925 dswtoctoria I I j 182.500 iOifwankep Con !(.. 157,500 STONE AND MARBLE ' No stale in tho union has a greater variety of buildinL' 5tono than has Utah, and the quantity irf inexhaustible. "Within ten miles of Salt Lake are quarries of rod and white sandstone of tho finest quality, qual-ity, and, which has no equal anywhere. There aro mountains of granite and of limestone. Onyx, which cannot ho equaled for beauty and color is found in seven of. the counties; there is marble in various colors and at Pelican Point, on Utah Lake, a quarry of black marble has just been opened up which is of the finest quality and grade to bo found- in the world. Slate of high grade is also found. CEMENT INDUSTRY Utah has two plants for tho manufacture of cement, ce-ment, one in Salt Luke City, the other in Weber canyon. can-yon. The output from these plants this year will aggregate 030,000 barrels, aud the industry gives em-plovmcnt em-plovmcnt to 250 persons. The demand for this product, is extraordinary. There are a number of buildings in Salt Lake built, of reinforced concrete. The Tribuno mcchnnical department, occupies the first concrete building constructed in the west, and the first absolutely fireproof building ever erected in bait Lake City. It might be mentioned that the manufacture manu-facture of e.cmcut in the United States in 1907, the last, avnilablo figures on the subject; was fifty-lour million barrels, and this was sixteen million barrels short of the demand for that year, GrYPSUM DEPOSITS Imagine a bed of gypsum one mile thick and S00 feet wide aud this will give you an idea of the land plaster fields of Utah. For this one bed is being worked. Tt is located, in .lunb county, near Ncphi. This one deposit, if there were no others m the state, is enough to supply the world for ages. OIL INDUSTRY Tn Washington and San Juan counties are the developed de-veloped oil fields of tho slate. In tho first, named county, near Virgin City, the first well was sunk aud oif was found at a depth of 700 feet. This was in 1907. This well is producini; about forty barrels per day. The field is being opened ami several wells aro now being bored. In Grand, county, near Jilufis, two wells have been bored, one of which has proved to be a gusher. Oil experts declare that southern Utah will bo one of the greatest of oil fields. CLAY PRODUCTS Four years ago Utah ranked thirty-fifth in the list of slates bv value of clay products, the product ot 1905 amounting to $122,091. There wore forty-five establishments es-tablishments here, with a capital ol ,0,000 invested, with nn average number of employees ot 32u. o?.' there is a million dollars invested and the output this year of 1909 will exceed a million dollars, the clay "products include brick, fire brick and pipe. Ihc brick clays aro found in every county in the stale, and Jic brick produced are of the best qualitv. There arc--Tcat beds of kaolin in various parts of the st?tc: Die clav from which pottery is made. Kxpcnments ana tests niude with this clay show that the finest of wuitu pottery can be produced. SMELTING- INDUSTRY The greatest smelting center in the world is tho Pall Lake valley. There are four great smelters m operation op-eration in the' valley--ono at Bingham, near sao mouth of Binghnm canyon, which is so near the valley that it can be called in the valley. Of tho threo in the valley proper, is the American Smelting and Ivo-fining Ivo-fining plant at Murray with a capacity of J200 tons per day: the United States, at Bingham .Junction, with a capacity of 1000 tons per day: the American Smelting and 'Refining company, at Garfield, with a capacity of -i000 tons per day; tho Yampa. at Bingham, with a capacity of 1000 tons per day; in all. 7200 tons per day. Jn addition to these, the Utah Copper and the Boston Consolidated havo concentrating plants at Garfield, with a daily capacity of 9000 tons, and the Coppcrton plant at 'Bingham, of 1000 tons daily. In Tooele the International Smelting company is constructing con-structing a plant with an initial capacity of 2000 tons per day, which will be increased to 6000 to 10,000 tons daily. There is also a smelter at Eureka, the Tintic Smelting company, with a -daily capacity of 1100 tons; tho Majestic plaDt, in Beaver county, capacity ca-pacity 500 tons daily; and the smelter at Ogdcn, with a capacity of L000 tons daily. At, Park City there are five concentrating plants, with a daily capacity of 1400i tons; at Mercur there are two mills in operation, with a. daily capacity of 1200 tons, with a slimes plant attachment. In tho Cactus district, at Newhousc, is a concentrating concentrat-ing mill with a daily capacity of 1200 tons daily. At Lark, in tho west mountain district, is a mill with a daily capacity of 2500 tons, aud tho Utah Apex with a concentrating plant of 500 Ions daity. Bo-sides, Bo-sides, these there arc a number, of smaller mills throughout tho state. Tn thirty-one years of metal mining, that is, from January 1, ;1877, to December 31, 1003, Utah has produced pro-duced in precious metals $il0,21S,397, as follows: Gold $ 6.1,856,614 Silver -. 196,470,039 Lead ' : 79,GS3,427 Copper 72,203,317 Total i . .$-110,218,3117 Jn the metal mines of tho state, an army of men is at work, viz.: Park City district 2,000 Mercur district; 5. .000 Tintic district 3,000 Beaver countv district . .I,o00 Bingham 5,000 Salt Lake company smelters 5,000 Deep Crock district . 300 Alta district ' 200 Total .... 18,000 The discovery in tho Bingham district of porphyry deposits, nn innovation in mining has been inaugurated inaugu-rated to meet existing conditions, steam-shovel system has been applied which has resulted in the removal of mountains and the most profitable mining in tho west, the installation of tho more modern mills and furnaces in tho world and the culling to Utah of tho most eminent metallurgists in the world. In tho baser metals the iron deposits of Utah are the greatest in the world; there arc mountains of iron, and of astounding purity. The county of Iron is a verilablo body of iron, and with largo deposita o coal in close proximity, will make it not only the Pittsburg of the mountains, but tho greatest iron producing region in the world. This ore is magnetic and hematite. It is practically inexhaustible. Two hundred different; classes or kinds of minerals aro found in Utah. The more valuable are: Agato. Alabaster. Alum, in varieties. Amphibol, in varieties. Anglcsitc, or lead sulphate. sul-phate. Antimony. Argentiferous Galena. Argcntitc, or sulphide of silver. Arsenic. Alacamitc, or chloride of - copper. Azuritc, or copper carbonate. car-bonate. Basalt. Bismuth. Bitumen. Blue Vitriol. Bog Iron Ore. Bolo. in varieties, Bornilc, or purple copper. Bosjcmanite, or manganese mangan-ese alum. Calamine, or tine silicate Calsito, in varieties. Ccrargyrite, or silver chloride. Cerusite, or lead carbonate. carbon-ate. Chalcanlhito, or copper sulphate. Chrysocolla, or copper silicate. sil-icate. Cinnabar. Coal (igitic and bituminous). bitumi-nous). Copper (native). Cuprite, or red coppor ore. Emholite, or chlor-bromid silver. Feldspar, in varieties. Freislebinilo, or gray silver sil-ver ore. Galinitc. Garnot, in varieties. Gilsonito (Uintaile). Gold (native). Gray copper ore. Jlorn Silver, or cy rangy ran-gy rile. Hydrocuprite, or coppor ore. Iron Ochres. Iron Pyrites. Iron Vitriol. Jasper, in varieties. . Jet. Kaolinte, or porcelain clay. Lignite, in varieties. Letnonito, ia iron ore. Mngnisitc. Macasite, or while pyrites. py-rites. Miargyritc, or white ruby silver. Mien, in varieties. Mineral Wax. , Moss Agate. Muscovite, or white mica. Nitre, or saltpeter. Nitro-Calsitc. Is'itro-Glauberite. Ochres, in varieties. Onyx. Opal, in varieties. Opalize.d Wood. Pickeringitc, or magnesia alum. Prase, or green quartz. Pyrites, in varieties. Pyrolusite, or mngancse . ore. Pyromorphite, or lead phosphate. Pyrozenc, in varieties. Rose Quartz. Smithsonite, or tine carbonate. car-bonate. Smoky Quartz. ' Soapsfone, in varieties. Selcnite, or transparent H3'psum. Silicious Sinter. Silver (native). Soda, carbonate. Specular Iron. Stephanile, or black brittle brit-tle silver ore. Sulphide of Silver. Sulphur, in varieties. J'calites, in varieties. Tetrahodritc, or gray copper cop-per ore. Tinsitc, or tiuo oxide. Topaz, white, yellow or blue. Tufa, in varieties. Velvet Coppor. Vitrious Copper Ore. Volcanic Glnss. Volcanic Scoria. Wad, manganese ore. Wulfenite, or molybdato of lead. IRRIGATION i . Utah was the pioneer stalo in irrigation; 351. canals for irrigating purposes have been constructed. To maintain an aero of land costs 30 cents per aero, per annum. Tho cost of the irrigating canals is approxi-mately approxi-mately $-1,000,000, and they irrigate about 650,000 acres;- There is one government project in the. state the Strawberry Valley, which when completed will irrigate irri-gate 60,000 acres of mesa and bottom land in Utah county. Th'o reservoir will impound 110,000 acrc-fcct of water. This water will be carried through a tunnel tun-nel 18,500 feet long, with a capacity of 500 second-led. second-led. The cost will bo $1,000,000. Tho Hatch town reservoir, with a diverting dam and canal, has been constructed in Garfield county, tho work being completed this year. t has been built, under the direction .of the state land board and will irrigate 6000 acres. Tho cost was $12G,900. Another project under the direction of the stato board is the Pinto project, near Marj'svalc, which will . irrigate 20,000 acres. Its cost, when completed, will be about $450,000. It will not bo finished for two years. Tho Prico river project, which will irrigate 20,Q00 ae'res of land. s Tho Oasis Irrigated Lands Companv project, which will irrigate 43.000 acres, aro enterprises completed and under yt'ay by private capital. If; might be mentioned in connection with this that the first National Irrigation congress was hold in Salt Lake City in J892, at which congress agitation was started which ultimately result od in the action of congress which has brought about the great governmental govern-mental irrigation projects. ARID FARMING When one looks at the returns of the harvest of grain in Utah, 75 per cent, of which is raised upon dry land; when ho considers that this crop returned in the year 190S to Utah farmers the sum of eight million dollars, he will realize that dry farming is a fact, not a theory. In aiding this industry Utah maintains main-tains six experimental stations, and once each yoar sends out oxperts from tho Agricultural collego to instruct in-struct farmers in this way of caring for arid farms. Twenty-five million acres of land iu Utah can bo reclaimed re-claimed by arid or dry farming. UTAH r Utah has an area in square miles of " S4.990 Total acreage ia state 54,393,600 Extreme breadth, miles 275 Extreme length, miles 345 Land surface of stato in square miles is... S2,184 Land surface of stato in acres is... 52,597.760 Water surface of state iu square miles is... 2.806 Water surface of stato in acres is 1,-795840 Is the eighth largest stato in the Union. Was admitted, to the Unioa January 4. IS9G. Tho New England states can be -cut out of Utah and still have enough land to make tho states of New Jersey and Maryland. State flower is the sego lily. Population, estimated S40,000 Number of families in state 75,000 State rank according to population 43 Two-thirds of the population are engaged in agriculture. agricul-ture. Forest reserves in tho stato cover 7,436,327 acres. The revenue to tho state from these reserves for the vear ending June 30, 1909, was $32,681.49. Horticultural products in 1903, worth $ 1,700,000 Grain crop 8.000,000 Dairy products ; 2j200,000 Pouftrv and eggs 650,000 Sugar beets 1,900,000 Wool 2:520.000 Sheep number 3.115,000, worth 30000.000 Livestock industry 3 7,936.000 Assessed valuation for 1909, approxiraately.,175,000,000 SCHOOL SYSTEM Utah spent," in 190S the sum of $2,329,965. This is $23.62 per capita. The value of school property in the state is "$4,-7S5.417.34. "$4,-7S5.417.34. School attendance is SI, 535, while the school population popu-lation is 9S,660. The expenditures for the public schools during the twelve years last past, that is, since 1896, when .Utah became a stale, were $1,429,010.62; Ihe school attendance attend-ance has increased 11.5S5, almost 1000 per year; school population has increased 19,267, or 1(500 per year: the valuation of school property has increnscd $3,398,-505.89, $3,398,-505.89, over $283,214 per year. Eorty-eight new school houses we.ro erected in 1907- HH 1908, costing $709,152.95. During eight years IhbI BH past, school houses erected coat $1,730,4(33.23. BH High schools of tho state give from one to five yoarB Hfl eourso of instruction, and have 2343 students enrolled. BH Tn tho higher institutions of learning is the Uni- Ifl veraity of Utah (tho value of tho university property Ifl is $1,000,000), at Salt Lake; tho stato normal school IB at Cedar City; the slate school of mines, in Salt Lake; BH the Agricultural college at Logan. Text books aro furnished free by the stato; the av-oragc av-oragc cost per pupil is 76 cents. Thcro is a uniform state course of study. B According to the census of 1900 Utah has 3.1 illit- cratcs in cver3f hundred of population. Bl This statistical table for the biennium beginning wJ July 1, 1906, and ending June 30, 1908, tell tho story in brief of the common school system of Utah: Hl 1906-7 j 1907-8 Hj Number of school districts - 293 Bfl Number of schools cg'j B Number of superintendents 34. H Number of male teachers 54 jH Number of female teachers 1.562 'B Total number of teachers 2'106 Total number of school . ' BB . board members 979 BB Average salary of male BB teachers per month $go 03 Average salary of female B teachors per month $53.61 Avcrago length of school term in months .70 Number of pupils in state.. , 05,803 98,660 Number of pupils enrolled. . 79,978 81 535 Average number of pupils in daily attendance 61,132 66,485 Number of pupils in the first grado ... 8,612 0,757 Number of pupils in the eighth grade 4,951 4,992 Number of eighth grade IB grade graduates 2,995 3 139 Number of high schools 3 '33 jH Number of high school grad- WM , "ates 304 326 Averigo cost of books per Amount of stato nppropn- . at ion . $ 459,854.40$ 505,139.20 Amount of county tax for JH fichools 226,789.52 '355,752.97 IH Amount of local tax 723,823.08 859422.68 From other sources 791,020.20 609,791. 6"G Balance on hand from last Mm report 262,219.32 293,501.05 HI County superintendent's Mm salary 13,760.05 10,08-160 Total receipts 2,477,466.67 2,633,692.1-1 Expenditures MM Teachers' wages 1,032,802.07 1,085,840.87 HI Text books 69,740.79 75,68S.02 HI County superintendent's HI salary 13,760.05 10,0S4.60 WM Amount paid on new school , houses 289,0S7.44 299,591.9-1 BB Amount paid school tms- BB t tecs 36,977.69 35,158 56 UM All other contingent ex- , penses 741,597.60 823.601. .08 H Total expenditures 2.183,965.04 2,329;965.97 CORPORATIONS D . Corporations are assessed. Tho property of corpor-ations corpor-ations in Utah is assessed at $3S,973,92S.S7. TlltH valuation, fixed by the stale board of equalization, is. Kailroad companies $26,374,037. Oil Telephone companies 1.520,535.00 Telegraph companies '283,600.00 Light and power companies 3,189,211.00 Express companies 143,561 00 'anal companies 302,165.00 Private car companies .... 320,437.00 Mining machinery and improvements... 2,743,255.00 Net proceeds of mines 4,297,127.67 Total $3S,973,92S.67 CHURCHES ' H While the Latter-day Saints have the largest num-ber num-ber of churches and the largest following in the state, other denominations are represented. jH The Catholics havo twelve churches. B The Presbyterians, tho oldest denomination in the state, has in the synod of Utah, sixty churches, sixty ministers, and 3500 communicants. Protestant Episcopal church has fourteen missions and churches. ,B Methodist Episcopal church has numerous churches and missions. B Other denominations have buildings and missions fll throughout the state. B |