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Show I PEET IN THE EAST. H The following Is a brief sketch of H the lecture given by V. S. Poet, of Utah, at the Pyno Poyno Adult H School, Tuesday night, says the Cam-H Cam-H den Dally Courier. Tho subject was "Utah and Her People." H The stato of Utah has an area of H 84,970 square miles, or about twice the H size of Pennsylvania. It Is nearly H square and its boundary lines run with H tho points of tho compass. Utah is a H part of tho great Rocky Mountain ta- H bio land. Its lowest clovatlon Is about H 2,800 feet in tho southwest corner of the state. Its highest is over 13,800 In H tho Wasatch and Oquirrah Mountains In tho northern portion. Of tho 52,000,- 000 acres of land, 40,000,000 Is grazing H land; 5,000,000 Is water and barren, or H snow covered peaks, which aro devoid of vegetation, and about 1,000,000 will H ultimately bo used as first class farm-H farm-H ing land. Tho great salt lako is about H GO miles wldo, 90 miles In length and H a very shallow 'body of exceedingly H clear water, which contains over 22 per H cent of salt and twelvo other chemicals H or solids. A bath In salt laleo stlmu-H stlmu-H latcs and invigorates, and Is so dense, or heavy, that ono floats llko a cork. H Great salt works havo been established H nlong tho shore, whero tho land is H level. Dykes aro built around an en- closuro and tho water from tho lake H pumped into it, which is rapidly evaporated by tho sun. This H process is kept up all summer and by fall they havo their basin filled with several feet of solid salt. This crude salt Is refined, and tho sodium, magnesia, carbonato of soda and other products usually pay for tho refining, H which loaves tho salt a clear gain to tho rcllnor. Much has been said by eastern papers that Salt Lako is rap idly drying up. Utah, llko many other parts of tho country, has wot and dry periods. In 1870 Salt Lako was nearly as low as It is now. In 1889 it wns 15 feet higher than now. This last winter H there has been more snow and rain than any winter slnco 1888. Salt Lako H having no outlet, can nover dry up, as It receives tho water of tho Bear tho Jordan, tho Weber and tho Ogden rivers, with many smaller streams. The mountains of Utah contain all tho minerals known to geologists, In paying quantities, with tho exception of tin. Tho output of gold, silver, cop- per and lead for 1895 was over ?2ii,- 000,000, the dividends on tho same over ?G.OOO,000. In southwestern Utah the almond tree blossoms In February. Cotton. raisins, white grapes and qther tropi- cal products aro grown. New YorK boasts of her apples, New Jersey her grapes, Deleawaro her peaches, Ohio her pork, Illinois her horses, Iowa hor cattle, Colorado her potatoes, Wyom ing her sheep, Minnesota her wheat, Idaho her prunes, plums nnl pears, Washington her cherries and straw- berries, Oregon her sugar beets and al- falfa. All of those are producod In abundance by tho farmers of Utah. Tho eastern states' farmer, If he wants a fow days' recroition or ro-t hlos off to Watklns Glen In New York, or Glen Onoco, In Pennsylvania, anl ho looks upon the ravines ns wonder- ful works of nature, and they surely are, yet if Watklns' Glen or Glen Ono-I Ono-I co could be placed In Ogden Canyon, IP . i they would look like a baby carriage in a passenger coach. In Utah, 90 per cent of tho people own tho fBrms they live on, and 8t per cent are free from debt. Utah stands third in education, although al-though tho youngest state. Her unl verslty and agricultural colleges are tho best. o |