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Show UTAH'S RESOURCES. Booklet Issued by State Commission for Exposition Contains Valuable Data. Gives Figures that Do Not Lie. Record Re-cord of Marvelous Progress and Development. "Utah A Place of Abundant Opportunities Op-portunities for Prosperity in Business, Industrial and Home Life," is a title of i litt'c booklet issued by the Utah commission for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. The pamphlet a compendium of information about the state, its resources, its development. develop-ment. It is illustrated throughout and has a neat cover, bearing, in tin:, a picture of the Wasatch peaks and the scgo lily. The photographs of the more prominent buildings give one an idea of the architecture of the state. The text is a comprehensive summary sum-mary of Utah's unlimited resources. Here arc a feu sentences sc'cctcd from the fifty pages of the booklet: During 1908 thirteen Utah mines paid aggregate dividends of $5i5377i6. and this is but n fair beginning which will be eclipsed in 1909. The International Smc'ting and Refilling Re-filling company is building in Tooele -county, thirty miles from Salt Lak Gty, a p'ant that will icost $8,000,000. During 1907 and 1908, 3,812,000 tons of coal were taken from Utah mines, the retail price of this product exceeding exceed-ing $21,000,000. Iron county has the greatest iron deposits in the world, A Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania expert estimates the body of iron ore in one section of this1 county at 400,000000,000 tons. Heavy Bank Clearinqs. The bank e'earings in t 1 past five years 1 904-5-6-78 aggregated more thn $1,300,000,000; the savings deposits depos-its of the ipcoplc at the end of 1908 aggregated $15,000,000, or nearly $42 per capita, and have been augmented considerably in 1909. The jobbing trade in Salt Lake City in 1907 and 1908 exceeded $50,000,000 for each year, while Ogdcn came c!oa.e to $25000,000 for the saunc period. Utf'i has 21,900 farms covering a co ined area of 2,114,364 acres; th'js is out of an approximate cultivable area of 20,000,000 acres. The value of farm, fruit and gard- H en crops in 1908 exceeded $30,000,003; in addition to this, the wool clip and range stock sold realized more H than $7,000,000. At present thcr; W is morc than $20,000,900 pri- H vntc capital invested in irri- H gtition works in Utah. (This docs H not take account of the government H projects.) H Sugar and Grains I Beet sugar. Total acres planted fl 1908, 31,580; paid farmers for beets, $'1837,750; value of refined sugar, 4 cents per pound, $4,095,000. I In 1908 there were in Utah 408,(160 head of cattle, 122,347 horsos 411111 mules and 63,618 hogsy an inorenfic wf fl 50 per cent in five years. I In 190S Utah had 2,857,314 slice,), M with a total value of $11,143,525, an. I -M a wool clip which brought $3,000,000. H In the year 1908 Utah had 27,66s ,' acre of land devoted to horticulture, ' with a product valued at $1,693,000, or an average of $61.16 per acre. The wheat yield of Utah in 190!$ was 6,072,220 bushels, bringing 78 o 90 cents the bushel to the growers; 75 per cent of this was shipped ;o points outside the state. Outs, 2,11b, 920 bushels, ranging at about the same price as wheat. Barley, 326.910 bushels. Corn, 360,160 bushe's. Ry 78,000 bushels. Potatoes yielded 2,0-40,000 2,0-40,000 bushels, at a ma'rkct value of , more than $1,000,000. Utah .dairy products in 1908 exceeded ex-ceeded $2,000,000 in value; dairy farm property exceeds $5,000,000; annual butter product, 6,000,000 pounds, and cheese, 2,000.000 pounds. The output of honey in 1908 was r. 5000,000 pounds. The value of poultry and poultry products in 1908 was approximately $6000,000. Purimtil-e ijnjt eight years $1,736.-4,s3 $1,736.-4,s3 has bcjaif WJftn&Ja jahjjstare for new school bul 1ffijHiItuJ-tion 1ffijHiItuJ-tion of public school propbtnyin ig$$ was $3,398,565,89. IHlHIMHi |