Show biennial report of state statistician the biennial report of 11 II L haines alte commissioner of immigration migration I 1 on labor and statistics was filed this morning with the governor the document covers an all immense amount of ground involving much libor and extended research the report states that the system by which the commissioner was obliged to gather the agricultural statistics is is not sufficient to secure the best results this is because county asse ors who are required to do this work do it at a time when nhen they are li listing ting property for taxable purposes the cammi commissioner lioner holds tint that the assessors ought to have nothing to do with the gathering of agricultural statistics and that the blanks containing the same ought not to be accessible to any taxing officer in that way nay the truth may ho be the more readily reached lie s in the matter of immigration the department is not able to accomplish much except to answer correspondence and f furnish information where land can be obtained with cost of the sime same and facilities for irrigation or presence of water and furnish furni sli information as to crop yields in the various counties the commissioner finds that thelast the vast majority of people inquiring about land are people n who ho have liae no means to fulfill the necessary for instance in erecting doelling duelling du elling ellings of proper character on the land to be Be secured cured people should have means to erect d ellings set up fences suitable out buildings for stock and other purposes forthe for the purchase of machi machinery nerv acquirement of water rights means for c iring for crop bones wagons etc involving an outlay of from 1000 to 2000 ninety per cent of inquirers according to the report ha have hae e no means to do this the commissioner belie believes es it would be advantageous for the state to own the lands of the state to build suitable living plants build dams and resen reservoirs airs etc I 1 for worthy settlers not having money to do all this themselves and if necessary to loana good settler a little money with which to get started in life the funds thus advanced and the expense of erection of buildings could be refunded to the state he be suggests ii ith interest at stated periods the corn com in baates that either he or his representatives have been in ex every cry city village and hamlet in the state to see that the pro visions of the minimum wage nage law were carried out and over cases were handled liand led it was found feces pary to bring only six em cases into court of which five suits were won uon and one lost one case reached the supreme court the commissioner has collected over oer for girls who whose e wages were in arrears one girl thus secured and several got 75 each elch there are women and girls in various arious occupations 0 over er the state operating ng under the law and 6 per cent of these are under the age of 18 12 percent arc are over 18 and 84 per cent receive 87 7 50 and over for a work days wages contrary to apprehension in some quarters the minimum wage nage has not become the maximum wage nage and the law is gi giving ing satisfaction the commissioner recommends that the minimum wage nage law be so changed as to make it an rn offen offense e to dibe discharge barge a girl who is a prospective complainant or after she ma mav have brought complaint he also asks for suitable legislation to make it obligatory on the part of employers to pay py discharged emp employees loees within 24 houss bouss after such discharge disc harget or within 48 hours after an employee leaves of accord therom the com r asks for suitable factory inspection involving inquiry into sanitary conditions and safety de vices he ile advises strongly the establishment of frev employment agencies igen cies bythe by state tate ind nd i understate under staff su supervision cervisi on to save ekum fi for work from the grasp of conscience conscienceless les shirks sharks who pose a i employment agents and systematic systematically aliv rob men i coking employment the cammi lioner calls call attention to the fact that utah sur surpasses pases other states in the production of barley bets and alfalfa seed per acre and holdman holds an enviable record in wheat output as well uell as being the banner state in oats by the report the year 1914 is shown shoun to have been the banner year from an agricultural standpoint the i production of wheat alone having been bushela greater than in 1913 A proportionate increase is shown in practically all other agricultural products the report adds that the farmers arc are alive alte to the wisdom of raising more wheat having sown more acres of wheat last fall than the previous fall in this connection the report shows that out of acres of land susceptible to agricultural cultis culli in the state three fourths is bet et virgin soil the report show that 94 percent of the timber areas of utah arc are embraced within national forests and that the estimated timber therein is thousand board feet of saw timber and cords of juniper aspen and pinyon pine the total valuation of saw timber and cordwood is placed at 18 6 water pon power er ic I 1 sources are outlined in the report also a paper entitled pre present ent and future hydro elec power development in utah by guy E sterling civil engineer underground water supply in some sections of utah a paper by paul L INI windsor of the utah agricultural college id is contained in the report other papers prepared especially for the report are as follows irrigation in utah dr franks S harris utah agricultural college dry farming in utah dr fred B hams harris utah agricultural college the alfalfa industry in utah george stewart utah agricultural college the pre present ent status of the fruit industry in theSta the state teof of utah W H homer jr president of the state tate horticultural commission the poultry industry prof byron alder utah agricultural college conditions and prospects of the dairy industry in utah ben R eldredge Eldr edgo agent of dairying of the dairy divi bivion divion ion of the united states department af agriculture state wealth in bird life 11 prof J 11 paul university of utah big game and birds claude T barnes the report also includes papers paper 3 on education by prof F D dames dairies utah agricultural college horace H cummings general superintendent of mormon schools and the rev ren herbert W president of westminster ter college A H thiessen section director of the united states weather bureau has prepared a paper entitled froat in utah the recent clean town contest in in utah and its benefits are received in the report including the standing of ton towns ns which participated because of the early exhaustion of the copies of the last biennial report mr haines has determined upon an aisup of at least 1500 copies of the present report POEM ON UTAH commissioner haines lepor report t includes the following poem written by bi mrs ruth may fox of tins this city and reproduced under the title utah utah I 1 a land of peaceful themes of happy homes and childrens dreams where youth endures and death lone long waits ere old age passes through his gates fair utah the bleating sheep the lowing line kine the luscious fruit on tree and vine her cliffs and peaks her forest hills her brina ann sea her laughing nils rills Be lepeak bespeak peak a wondrous utah broad beau beattous tous vales of fertile soil invite the sturdy sons to toil to turn them into waving fields of 0 yellow grain the harvest yields ields abundantly in utah girded with iron her loins of gold bent with silver siler her shoulders bold A thou and vears lears iier her col cool will shed warmth and cheer round hearth stones red in utah upahl queen of the Rocki eLAI 1 on her breast she wears nears the ley key to the mighty west engraved upon her massive wall columbia first and first of all see utah glorious utah I 1 the report is a most comprehensive document covering pages of typewritten matter and giving a wealth of general valuable alu able information about the state n with ith its N varied arted in industries duties signed articles on dr farming on irrigation on dal dairying ra ing churches schools institutions of all kinds and a ast abt array of data in form of tabulations be speaking an amount of labor hardly short of the herculean now that the report is out the commisa commissioner ioner and his untiring painstaking agRi assistants stants and collaborators feel as though they entitled to a commissioner mist ioner haines and his force include himself A L toone of north ogden deputy commissioner mrs elizabeth Ni bielon elon and miss louetta Tu etta brown deseret news |