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Show OUR SUITES GILL FOE FACTS ON Oil Prosperity of Commonwealth Common-wealth Attracting Attention Atten-tion All Over Country. ASKS FOR STATISTICS Commissioner Sends Out Urgent Request for Information Infor-mation of Value. 'I'n- ! ii i.i rj-1 for muni. 'si t'.i-li of 1 i a Ii'm ti.l iit rial pron-s from eaM.ni 1 "H'm-. i. ,. publishing interests have 1 n mi Ii,::,imi ihai II. T. Haiii'-'b. iuiii-m iuiii-m h, -doner (i' i ,,. bureau of jmmigru lIum. I'''"-!' and Mail.-iics, iiuw engaged in com-piling com-piling his hh-nnial report, has been forced 1 " I rii 1 1 ;ui ;iilv:iirc stal enieut covering ' ' "' year id in-Ht the call for inior- nailtm. TIuh il.MiiaixJ for farts, accord-ing accord-ing hi ( '(tinniiss.lun.-r Haines, indicates the nccrsshy for the publication of the l.jO(J i -1 1 1 : 1 1 ij u a 1 cop ics of llu: biennial reporL witii'h llu- Icl.-le lure in going lo he rc-il'ii-'i,',! U p.-ui j,f; rllt-. Under the law t ;'l h'"t n! tla- publication or from lifji) to j-'nti volumes Hi' his report Is authorized. Tin: mux i muni dues, not cover even the regular mailing list to other states and libraries. t'i his n(h;inrp statement covering the S'-.iv li'lii, which appears In the Hall-road Hall-road 1 ud 1 look, 'oiiinils.sioner Haines I 'regress emblazons the If'lil indus-tnai indus-tnai icrurd of Utah in neurly all of i h,j a-. ( i vil ie.s in which its citizens Hie rnd, Kirst iii importance is the metal tninint; Industry, which has outdistanced outdis-tanced all previous records nearly 70 per cent. Kor instance, in lit 15, our I -I ev ions he:-1 mining year, we produced pro-duced .sold, silver, copper, lead and .'in- akinr to the value of $..",,000. uoO, and in l!'lt the ulue of the same metals a mount s lo $!7.fiiM)lufifl. T "f h h mini's for the year ll'lti have paid ln,-j.0n- in dividends. Products Are Diversified. Agriculturally, wc slipped a little in our pro-lii-tion of grain and hay, but rah.ee! .'i0 per cent more potatoes than in 1 91. "i, a ud -III per rent more supsir beets. V foil si iy on peaches, pears and early ga rden I rui I , but came strong with Hpples and prunes. Al-l Al-l oget her our orchards a nd fields for KHti produced ?:!;i.0i'nt,00n; our dairy cows about $1.000.'.inu; our poult rv ftt.snft.nno. Livestock grower u have marketed nhout worth of stuff, besides wool that brought The sugar campaign in the fall started with eleven factories, compared com-pared with eight, the previous year, on 941 .OOO tons of beets, against 6L'a.-204 6L'a.-204 tons during 1915. The estimated lfli sugar product inn is 116.400 tons, as against $fi,nn tons In In IP 15 our ma nu fact u red products, prod-ucts, which included mot a Is, were valued at ? 10,000, 000, whereas the total in 10 1 6 whs in excess of firtfi.OflO.ono. IjTah Ranks Third. Nineteen hundred and slvteen was the banner sugar year, In which Utah displaced Michigan as the third state in rank as a. beet-sugar state. Heretofore Here-tofore Colorado was drat, California, second, Michigan third and Utah fourth. In five years we expect to displace dis-place California, and later- give Colorado Colo-rado a hard chase for first place. In 1017 we expect to have sugar factories operating in Box elder. Cache, Millard. F.mery. Panpete and Htah count les. and the sugar companies com-panies are now contracting with farmers farm-ers for next season to pav ?7 per ton for beets, as against ?" heretofore. So great has been the growth of our beet-sugar industry, and the crop t-o profitable for fanners, that nearly every community now without a s-u-5r factory is clamoring for one. "We grow more, beets to the acre than does any ot her state, and with the sugar factories w ell distributed and within a short hauling disrance to nearly all our farming communlt les, they are on? of the best cash crops and their growing has stimulated the farming' industry all over the state. |
