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Show The Highland Hoy of Bingham, is the second largest dividend payer in the state, with a record for the past Tli (Yatei'nial-Etirek- a Lu $10,090,-00- 0 of $750,000. year of uiv LK.ckcd out. A large increase in the output of the There ar 12.000 children attending mines of the stale is predicted for 1003, aclmol in Suit Luke City. and a number of new shippers will be Sail Lake jobbing houses did a busi- added t.o the list ness oT $27,235,000 last year. The wheat yield of the state for the Receipts of the Sail Luke poet office past year is placed at 3,000,000 bushels. for the year wore t .111,77(5. US. Wheat raising has been abandoned in Salt Lake business houses paid out many localities lu favor of beet grow UTAH STATE NEWS in lust year. Ogden sirri't ruilw;g,s carried 3,500,-00- 0 pMissengf-rduring the year. Utah farms yielded mure than to their owners Inst year. At the slate fish hatchery 3,354,000 trout were hiiteiu-- iluihig the year. Salt Luke rousumed .'l.'t'l.ooa tons of r, coal lu .1 ul I.ikM tons daily. I't.ih R product for 19. 1 was less than tin previous year by $314,110.70. I tab's per prodiiel for lOi'l is 3i,- vuliidl at $1, 2 ,051. 53. 3.t,a.'ij i'lee volun.eof intlgden during MO is estimated at $15,4oii,iH'0. The anneal payroll of the railroads and business houses of Ogden is $1,000, $6,547,852 K'.tl.'irifK Park City in 'lies during i I j I -- 000. follows: (Quincy, Silver $.is7.m-i)- ; King. 190,871 ounces of gold $3,945,-$03.5- 7. More than 33,000,000 pounds of sugar was manufactured in Utah the past season. Utahs lend product for the past year is 3,000,000 pounds above the record for 1000. At the Union station in Ogden during the year 103,831 pieces of baggage were bandied. The total assessment of property of nil kinds in Utah for 1901 was $113,-$90,75- 1,3ui),(hj0; IhJy-Wes- t, exj.eiidi turesaiiioniited to $1,31 ,596.35, leaviug i(j3',:iii'.).!7 in the treasury at beginning of the year. Park City mines produced 50.900, 000 M)iiiid of ore last yc.tr, of which the Silver King and produced about ?u,uuu,0ii each, the Ontario 45, 000,000 aud the Unincy 40.0t).0)0. It is estimated that the Silver King at Park City, has ore enough blocked out to last twelve years at the present rate of production, while the has a ten years supply iu sight. During the year Tinlic produced 2,303,993 pounds of copper, 377,216 ouucva of silver and 8,960 ounces of gold. Lead ceased to be a factor, falling from a production of 406,000 in D.iiy-We- Utah produced paid (ri t (trio, $11,1)1)1.. . I lie total reee!;its of the state treas- 1)rer for u.ii were tl74,,.i,ii.33 and the 1 last year, with a valuation of lfw'1 in dividends, ;ipKirtioned as ; husiin-Ksdim- w $3,000,000. ui-.i- -- dragged me into It whether I liked it or not; then I wouldn't be worried as 1 am this minute, by a sppeter In the distance of a red beaded sister-in-lawho la a regular Nobody from Nowhere. I didn't care to make her acquaintance in the first place, when you wanted me to take her up. My wretched mistake came about that day I met you and you suggested that 1 Invite her to go with us on our clipping out excursion, ue. suae she was having a bad time of it at borne, with her stepfather. G. V. dropped in that evening and took tea with us. and I foolishly mentioned what you had said, and he aud Tom were. Just daily enough to fall right in with the plan. They said If she never had any gooj Unit: It would be a nice thing to help her have one for once. 1 said I didn't see how we could take a gill like her; we were all paired off comfortably, two and two. she never bad an admirer of her own, as far aa 1 knew; she would just have to tag around after Uncle John anl Aunt Alice, who were to chaperone our said why hadn't she any party. G. admirers. I said she was so awfully plain, and her folks werent anybody; her stepfather was a cranky old exranchman and hadn't got rich at the business, either, and her very name was a freak Perielope Dusenberry. Tom said, Oh, well, ask her anyway, and Ill keep a friendly eye on her now and then. And G. V. said, Yes, ask her. and Ill relieve Tom occasionally If he finds the Job too much for Mm. So I cou&n't get out of it, and there we are. But she wouldn't have gone half an inch of the way if I had had as much sense as a red ant I'll tell you why In my next letter. Disgustedly yours, Utah's mines paid dividends to the amount of It. 891, 3 '5 in 1001, an increase of $1,03 1,335, or almost 00 per cent. The 10K) dividends amounted to d 3. st Daly-We- st 1900. During the year it waa demonstrated that Utah has great deposits of coking coal, aud the production of coke Salt Lake City at present has sn amounted to 50,607 tone duriug the area of 473 miles. There are 380 miles year, an increase of 40 per cent over of streets. 1900. Salt Lake police made 2,343 arrests in 1901, and Pines amounting to $15,508 were col levied. Utah produced 3,347,373 tons of coal last year, an increase of about 15 per cent over 1000. Ogden police made 1,700 arrests last year, and fines amounting to $11,397.75 were collected. The Inland Crystal Salt company, produced 30,000 tuns of reGned salt during the year. The value of Utah's copper 'prodnet for 1901 exceeded that of the previous year by $1,254,080. The output of the silk industry for the year is valued at $3,004, under unfavorable conditions. Park City mines produced 2,375,475 pounds of copper last year compared with .Mil. O' id for 19w. Utah 1ms R6. 353 school children, and $l,o.Vi,721.70 was expended last year for educational purposes. It is estimated that there are 315,000 head of cattle in the state, and they are valued at $6,588,009. During the past year 160 divorce suits were tiled in the Third district court, Salt Lake county. There are fifteen hauking institutions in Salt Lake City with an aggregate capital of $3,003,000. Bingham's biggest producer, the Highland Uoy, it is claimed, has about $9,000,000 of ore in sight. The number of pieces of mail matter handled daily at the Salt Lake post estimated at 65,000. silver product Utah's office is for 1901 amounted to 11,538.502 ounces, having a market value of $.1,915,922.45. The total value of Utah's mineral net for 1901 is $10,070,735.55, an roil p increase over 1900 of $1,008,305.91. Over 30,000,000 pounds of gilaonite has been taken from the mines of Uintah county since they were opened. The production of the Pleasant Valley Coal company has increased from 87,500 tons in 1883 to 1,350,000 tons in . 1901. The silver product of the state for ounces more than the increase of almost an year, previous 1901 ie 1,331,694 one-- Ui lrd. The mines of the state produced lead to the value of $3,051,960 lest year. The number of pounds produced waa 98,709,000. It is estimated that 20,000,000 pounda marketed was wool by Utah aheep-me- n of last year. The aheep industry brings to the state about $3,000,000 a year. Salt Lake bank deposit December 31, aggregated $18,335,523.92, an in crease of more than $1,500,000 over The clearings for the year 1900. totalled S1S0, 937, 431.21 as oompared itb $120,060,182.20 for the previous year. The Independent Crystal Salt com' pany manufactured 26,570,500 pounda of salt last year. It lias let contract! for a new mill to cost $25,000, which will have a daily capacity of 175,000 pouuds. The Consolidated Mercur, at Mercnr, paid dividends amounting to $375,000, and met other unusual expenses which brought the total to more than half million. Its daily output liaa averaged 800 tons. The alfalfa seed product of the state for 1901 waa 1,500,000 pounds, which was produced ou 4,500 acres of land. The wholesale price of seed for the crop is placed at 6 ceuts per pound, giving a value of $90,000. The daughter of Oscar was drowned of Caincsville Thompson in a water barrel last week. The little one stood on a box to get a drink from the barrel, fell in and was not discovered fur so hour afterward. e business failUtah had hut ures during 1901, with assets of $141,-3(- S and liabilities of $396,531. In 1900 the failures numbered 141, with assets of $.114,025 aud liabilities of $978,483. Tim failures were fewer than any year in the last ten. John II. Gee, a recent arrival from Salmon City, Idaho, and formerly resident of Moherly, Mo., suicided in Salt Lake City last week. Gee bad been in an extremely morbid condition for months on account of being a suf ferer from epilepsy. William A. Build of Salt Lake was found lying in the street on the morning of the 2nd and the police gathered him iu as a common drunk. Later in the day it developed that lie had been drugged and rot) tied, his ussailant hav ing made good his escape. Hay Leephain, aged 18, and Norley Ilall, aged 16, were skating on Utah Lake near Lake Shore, Friday last, when without noticing the danger the e boys skated together into an in the ice, and before assistance could reach them both were drowned. The past year has been a recod breaker on the Salt Lake Stock exchange. During the year 24,834,664k shares of slock sold for $16,760,860.45. as against 5,156,495 shares and $3,526, 809.34 last year, the increase being 19, 664,169 shares and $14,234,051.11. After au illness of only four days, Walter F. Philips, a Mormon missionary of Park City, died of pneumonia on December 14th, in the Hawaiian islands, where he waa sent last July. He waa attended during hia illuea by hia"wiff, who la also a missionary. The annual report of the chief of lire department shows the Salt the that loss.hy fire in that city during the year 1901 reached a total of Total amount of insurance involved, $975,500; total amount of insurance paid, $170,849.30. Total number of fires, 116. four-year-o- Eiii!c!i of Letters. BY HATTIE WHITNEY. (CopyrlgLt, 1901, by Dally Story Pub. Os.) Glen Alder, August 3d. Dear Jen: Dont ever ask me to do a benevolent thing again, for I won't. I wouldn't have done it this time if you and brother Tom and G. V. hadn't iug. $30,-000,0- 00 vi-- A ld lift.y-fiv- Floretla. Glen Alder, August 6th. I pened. The original scheme was that 1 G. V. anJ were to take turns helping Penelope Dusenberry have a good time; and the lltl.e girl Uu't bad company, at all, if she Is freckled; she can suy inoie original things with less talk than any girl I know; so I put in tay best licks for her entertainment me just as luuoctut as su amiable oyster, when all of a sudden I found Flo going demented with rage, and G. V. and ZtilKe (my Zellie!) strolling about together and getting entirely too spoony and moony. That's when I wanted to maul George. And oh, how my sweet Z. snubbed me, and acted like a bad tempered spitfire of a kitten; fortunately, sbe overdid the business a little, and it let in a glimmer light to my oid brain. She wouldn't have been so spunky to me. Just on G. V.'s account. So when 1 found her weeping all by her lone, on a log in .he edge of the caniilng ground, I sailed into the consolation business like a duck. She said nhe w:is crying because a great woolly spider frightened her, and I diplomatically swallowed the spider fiction, and pilt my arm around her to protect her from tiny And 1 give you my more spiders. 1 had haven't a lucid interval word, ' Dear Jen: That Dusenberry girl of yours Is repaying my kindness by getting around poor Tom as fast as she knows how sly thing; and always so excruciatingly amiable to me, and so grateful to me for giving her this little bit of fresh air and streak of sunshine gush! Tom says she ie not so bad looking, now that she Is havtntfvg good time, blundering old moth he Is: she'll have him in a wink. I'm disappointed in everybody yes, everybody. The country air or something else has turned the whole set into driveling idiots. Here were Tom and Zellie Waters as good as engaged before they came here, and I asked Zellie Just on purpose for Toms benefit, so they would settle It definitely, and now heres Tom blundering Into that minxs web. and os for Zellie, I used to consider her amiable and artless, if she didn't have much of a brain In her silly head, but I believe now, she's as deep and wily as an old sea serpent, and has had her eye on G. V. all the time, although she knew I had settled it long ago that he and 1 were kindred spirits. Shes Just been fooling Tom and watching for a chance to snap G. V. up, and Tom, like the exasperating old mole be Is, Is letting her spin her webs while he goes around trying to make that Dusenberry fl ight have a good time. I wish there weren't any men. Flo. Glen Alder, August 14th. Old Chum: How goes the camping, Fve heard that say you? Slap-ured-hend- ed red-head- ed p. air-hol- $314,-110.6- 3. Weeping alone on a log. duty performed made a rainbow in the soul, and I reckon it does, but the performance of it, or rather the of It like to have got me Into an elegant mess for a little while. Flo haa repented of her good deed forty times a minute, but then Flo's very good deed wasn't performed cheerfully in the first place. I'm afraid I might have effaced my rainbow at one time, by mauling G. V., If I hadn't reflected that that wasnt the most approved manner of settling a rival in these days, and besides I might get licked, myself. But I didnt even have to! rail him out, as it hap- ce new dress fusied up so; It'll be rather 27 for a g'.rl who is getting along to Penelope. since. And she bad been Jealous of Pen. Dusenberry! As for G. V., the shoe may be on the other foot now, and he may at this minute be laying for me, ready to do some mauling himself. Poor old boy, I hope he wont be desperatee enough to wind up his earthly career because I've got Zeliie back. Of course its tough on him, but he ought to bear up, and reflect that he can still be a useful citizen and do some little good in the world, If he can't have the only girl any fellow could want. Yes, the camping's a humming success. Tom. Glen Alder, August 20th. Dear Old Dick: Congratulate me, but don't ever ask me what 1 saw in her to admire, etc.; I dont know where the charm is, and I don't try to fathom it All I know is that the other girls are to me like faded out dimity beside some quaint, rich, ori ental silk compared with this Penelope, the girl with red hair and yellow Bpecks in her gray cy.s. Flore' ta says I she doesn't know how to dress. had she how know don't that may be; on a thin black dress today, mull or calico, or swlss I don't know what stuff it was made of. but It made her hair look like twisted copper with gold in the curves, and her complexion (between the freckles) like the petal of a rose. She has freckles. I always liked best those crisp looking speckled apples that were a little tart but sweet and flavored like the very breath of an orchard in the fullness of blossom time. 1 was a bit afraid Tom was about to lose his head, just at first, and I found my anxiety wan shared by Zellie Waters; poor, dear little girl. She always reminds me of a nice, plump, It sweet, insipid little sped cooky. was clearly my duty under the circumstances, to chase after her for a while, and get old Tom jealous. If he really loved cookies as much as hs had professed to me to do. And it brought him after us with a scowl on that round, blooming face of his, that made him look as much like the Wild Man of the Woods as he could, with that cherubic countenance. Well, I was willing enough to play quits, and he's got her now, and Ive got Pen, and ail the world is a big, sweet flower. Our fair Floretta doesnt seem to take much interest iu our affairs Tom's and mine. If wa try to tell her anything about them, she says her feet hurt her. aud goes in the house. I used to think she was a mighty nice girl, until she seemed somehow to have gone into a pickling process. I may like a very little bit of tartnees, but I want a heap of good, wholesome sweetness along with it. Our outing Is drawing towarda a rlose. I must go and take Pen for a walk to Silver Spring, so this is the O. V. finis for now. Glen Alder, August 29th. Dear Jen: I couldn't hardly read your last letter, it was so scratchy; why don't you write a little plainer? I shouldn't think you'd want your your years. Yes, were going bark home. Uncle and Aunt aren't in any particular hurry, and Tom and Zullle don't want to go, but 1 made such a fuss they all had to agree. Those two make out and out fools of themselves about each other, since thoy have managed to find out their own minds. I cant stand it. You needn't write any more here, as we are going bark sn soon. As ever, Florctta. I may as well tell you, for you'll hear it soon any way. G. V. aud that Ienelupe Dusenberry are to bo married this fall. Keeommcnd me to a red headed girl who looks as simple as a cow for deep, underhand duplicity; especially if she's as plain and common looking as a cabbage. Of course it doesn't matter to me; J wouldn't have him, if he asked me. P. S. WATER IN SIMPLON TUNNEL. A Flood Delays Work for Number ol liny. Several weeks ago there was a fall In temperature in llio Simplon tunnel, now in process of excavation through the Alps. The part of the tunnel reached was exactly under a mountain lake, and It was wondered if this fact had anything to do with the reduced The workmen are now temperature. in the central portion of the tunnel, about 10,000 feet below the mountain being peaks, the usual temperature about 104 degreea Fahrenheit, which, of course, is too hot for comfortable means, however, of working. By water sprays, and the most thorough ventilation the heat is considerably reduced. A few days after the fall in temperature had been observed the workmen struck a vein of water that began to flood the south gallery. The work was stopped and a part of the men had to run at a lively rate to escape an uncomfortable wetting. No serious embarrassment resulted, however, for the flood was overcome in a few days. Such delsys have not occurred aa often as it was thought might be the case. They occasion no anxiety for the reason that the work, now more than half completed, is considerably ahead of schedule time. As compared with the earlier tunnels cut through the Alps, the rapid progress in the Simplon tunnel Is regarded as extraordinary. It is due to the fact that the machinery In use Is much more effective than that employed In the St. Gotthard and Arlberg tunnels, The present enterprise has the benefit, also, of the large progress made In engineering science in the past decade. New York Sun. , Japan's Fatrolenm Industry. The American experts sent to Japan in 1897 spent six months In an Investigation of the oil regions. It was said that they returned to America convinced that the oil was not sufficiently plentiful to warrant being treated with expensive machinery. Deports of a different nature are now coming from Japan. The British Board of Trade Journal prints a report by Mr. lleutiers of the British Consular service, in which he says that the petroleum industry has reachdimensions. Nearly ed considerable the entire supply comes from the Province of Echigo, on the west coast about 200 milea nearly north of Yokohama. Pipe lines transport the oil from the wells to refineries at the seaport towns of Nagoaka.. Niigata, and other places. These refineries, though small, will, it Is asserted, bring tbs oil up to tbe American standard. It Is proposed to construct a pips line through the mountain valleys shout 200 miles to Tokio for the purpose of starting the refining Industry there on a large scale. Petroleum Is also found in Yeso, the northern island, but though the supply there is said to be abundant nearly all the production, which now amounts to about 19,000,000 gallons a year, comes from Echigo. UiU(t Spreading. Eagllsh From time to time for many years there has been more or less said and written about a universal language, and several attempts have been made to build up one that would take the place of all tongues, but no progress has ever been attained. While Volapuk and kindred artificial languages have been launched, talked about, studied by a few persons, and soon relegated to the shelves of the philological museum, there has apparently been a language growth that promises to become universal. This fact is emphasized by the compilation of recent postofflee reports from all of the countries where letter writing is known. This compilation showe that the postofllcee of the world annually distribute 12,000,000,000 letters, and of these 8,000,000,000 are addressed in English, 1,200,000,000 In German and 1,000,000,000 in Freneh, and all of the other languages have less than 2.000,000.000 between them. These figures show that the English language promises to become the tongue of the nations. |