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Show UTAH FARM STATISTICS There are 21,676 farms in Utah. The approximate land area of this Bf..fe i3 52,597,000 acres; 3,397,000 acres are in farms and 1,368,000 acres of the land in farms are improved. The average size of a Utah farm is 157 acres. The farms cf this state represent a Cupiud investment of $150,795,000. The farmers of this state own H'U8,000 worth of implements and other farm machinery. The value of the domestic animals, poultry and bees on the farms of this stale is $28,781,000. The average value of a Utah farm is $6,957. UTAH STATE INDEBTEDNESS Utah state debt - $ 1,4:!0,')00 National debt - - l,028,90o!oOO World's debt - - 42,000,000.000 Washington, D. C. Sept. -The United 3tat.es deparment of commerce and labor has just completed a report giving the indebtedness of the dilierent states of the Union, the nation and the world. The data contained in the com-piliation com-piliation relate to the year 1)12. The stale debt of Utah is shown to be $1,430,000 that year, compared with $9,000 thirty years previous, which is an increase of $1,421,000. The per capita state debt of this state in 1912 w;'S $5.62 and 6 cents in 1880. At the present time about four-tenths of one per cent of the population of the United States is in Utah and four-tenths of one per cent of the total debt is credited credit-ed to this state. |