Show A few facts about utah we ve belle believe bellee e that it I 1 Is always well to gle rie our readers facts act of interest con berning our state tat or the community in which we live especially it if these acts facts reflect credit on the industrial life of the community we have before ue us some lew new and some old fact facts concerning our state which show the wonderful resource es s thereof and when we compare these facts with facie facts concerning other states we limelight re are justly proud of the comparison which throws thrown utah in the tile hilah the P a word utah ie Is cf of indian origin meaning dwellers of the tile red sand utah was organize I 1 as the territory of utah september 29 and was aa admitted as a state january 4 1890 the forty fifth state of the union utah area is approximately milea miles the square extreme breadth be ing 2 miles end and its greatest length miles utah population ie Is approximately there are in the state acres susceptible to agriculture of that number only acres are under cultivation utah soils are the deepest and richest in tho the united states exten extending ling in man many localities to a d depth th of 40 feet utah tali Is itie tl e birth place race of the great modern irrigation system utah has expended more than for tho the development of lion tion reservoirs miles ot main canals and 2000 miles of laterals have acre been feet built fhe file storage cAra capacity city of its reservoir system is more chark nearly BOO acres have been entered to be cultivated under dry farm method and there are two or tareo million acres yet to bo be entered under the enlarged homestead aeto act which permits any citizen to enter upon acres of dry land I 1 in the state utah produces mori mort sugar beta be ta to the tie acre than any other state the aver river age yield being 13 5 tons per acre abio the saccharine or sugar content of the beet is greater than in any other known locality estimated value of the 1919 sugar crop will I 1 ie e slightly in excess of there are ris a planted to orchards orchard CO sl over 1 er cent of which Is in apples and 23 25 per cert t in I 1 caches utah produce produces ime sixth of the alfalfa hay bay raised in the unite I 1 states and seven and one per cent of the sugar beets rali klug third among anion all the states in this lour I 1 our per cent of all the sheep in the united states arc are found in utah there are goal goats found in the state yielding an av annual clip of pounds of mohair valued at over the stae university vas P in 1830 1850 three years after the arrival of OZ the pioneer pio pun neen eert eighty eight per ent cent of the ree revenue nue is ex for educational purposes the tile percentage of illiteracy in the state i but 25 for whites it is only 0 4 per cent the annual death rate is 7 s I 1 per I 1 the yield of our farms per ye year arkis ft nearly of our livestock our manufactured products yield the egeli year the handsome et su of utah ranks second in the united states in the production of silver allver third in fit leal lea fourth in copper and sixth in 1 up to 1019 1919 tho mines of the nearly wit with dividends aggregating 2 nasf vall coal beds content tons less than one half of on one ier t cent has brn some of the finest building tone stone in the world r is found in utah granite sandstone and varied shades of marble te together gether with onyx and travertine are found in abundance almost every cerea known can be raided raised in this state tho the yield average in oats is in 00 50 bushels per acre barley 41 au a baht lv an u the yield of potatoes standa stands bocon socon 1 1 utah war the third state in the union to grant women Is a iffert if frage nell v i of cot aorl I 1 woo wool I 1 is found in its vast timber timbe r stet ee F luns which cocci an area of over acres the dov developed eloped water power Is i estima estimated fed at briare horsepower with more chaa tha m yet to be developed ther i are more than diw 1 04 manufacturing plants in fn the kate an I 1 e make practically cally everything tittle are approximately people employed in the adu industries tries of the state I 1 tah tab shoes were worn by of many ona none who your served ry with the theae A E P F utah produces enough evaporated milk each year to make an unbroken line of cane rang from salt lake city to london england utah is the cent center r of seenie scenic america we have zion national park which is considered to be the eidl of the grand canyon for scenic beauty he to loring gs of its rocky wall walls surpassing surp aMing even those of the canyon of the yellowstone Yellow tone canyon beautiful ogden canyon big cottonwood canyon provo canyon emigration canyon and innumerable beauty snots not so known oar our great salt lake or sea of salt ie Is oae one of the wonders word cra of the wo world its waters being so heavy that a human being can tan float on top of it like a 1 bar 1 of patent soap floating in a bath tab try to recall redall another pot spot where in an hour you p uld flit from the warm sands of the sea to the perpetual snowcapped mountains where la in dother hour or two could visit you t typical test western raining camp where hundreds of men and scores of team steam iovele a wrench tons of copper ore from the naked nuked ides sides of a mile high mountain every twenty four hour hours where in another hoar hour you could rest beneath a giant pine and ure the sportive vt rainbow aud and speckled trout from his lair IT CAN 1 ONLY BE DONE IN UTAH |