Show industries OF 0 UTAH uy lly gertrude spencer eighth grade cedar creek school awarded third prize in the essay contest when the people first came caino to utah they gave their entire attention to raising crops because it required iso long to bring food across the plains irto utah without the aid of 0 railways rall waya front from this time on agriculture has been the chief occupation owing 0 0 the excellent climate and the rich soil sericulture agriculture instill Is still a growing industry I 1 utah lias has more than twenty thousand farms faring much farming arming is done by the aid of irrigation our chief crops are ahei i hay ha alfalfa oats corn barley sugar I 1 beets rye fruits and vegetables before the pioneers entered salt lake valley mr bridger a trapper met them and told them they could grow nothing in such arid land as utah and offered them a thousand dollars for the then first ear of corn that could be raised here there are many arid lands which dry farming Is practiced in almost every part of utah steam and oil machines besides horses aid in the work 0 of cultivation horticulture a phase of agriculture is very important utah has a variety of fruits in the north temperate fruits and grapes are grown much of oc our fruit Is shipped to new ew york end other eastern markets the value ef cf fruit raising is more than one million dollars a year raising stock Is another important Indu industry str aile during 1912 the value of live stock was thirty six million dollars dairying Is carided on oil in many fertile valleys domestic animals are on oil the trams arams utah ranks very high in the raising of lioney honey bees important source of dealt is found foun d in her enormous deposits of oc minerals only a small part of hir resources are being developed there v would be enough ecal far home uses and to ship away aitay it if all tile the mines in it utah were worked last spring a rian man from pennsylvania who had been studying natural resources said that in a few years utah could have a philadelphia of iw own in 1912 our production of gold silver copper lead and zinc amounted to over forty four million dollars this increase is ia nineteen per cent over the previous year and is the largest output in the history of utah copper is the principal metal utah is one of thi the leading western states in the production cf CC silver the three largest mining camps are bingham tintic and park city the chief shelters smelters sm sai elters are at garfield murray midvale san juan and milford the refining of salt found in great salt lake is an all important industry manufacturing has grown the past r briod more than ihan any other industry over six hundred artices yrtl ert ices ces are made in it I 1 utah tall and new ones are being continually added utah has the material to manufacture and the demand is in crea creaig sg ng soon her exports will ij u x aeed her imports leading industry industry is refining metals she has six bix sugar refining factories and ranks fourth in the production ot 0 sugar other industries are creameries Crea meries canneries cotton and woolen mills shoe i factories foundries machine and flour mills |