Show i I I Statistics Pertaining I To Our Great State More than 85 families occupy their I own homes in Utah Utah is the home of or the National Wool growers Association I The topography and climate of Utah are ideal for tor a thriving sheep and wool woolI Industry I Utah has two of the largest stockyards In the country one country one at Ogden and one oneat oneat oneat at North Salt Lake I Utah's major deposits of iron are in Iron county and Washington county an substance oc occurs occurs oc- oc curs In the Uintah Basin area of Utah and nowhere else In the world Utah's gilsonite is used to manufacture acid acid- proof paints insulating materials preservatives preservatives pre pre- plastics and mastics pre pre-I Thirteen Thirteen thousand of Utah's I square miles mile's contain coal deposits One hundred and fifty million tons I of coal have been mined In Utah during the last lash years i j i i There are four eighty commercial coal coalmines coalmines coalmines mines in operation in Utah Carbon and Emery are the principal coal producing counties in Utah Utah produces produced more than worth of or sugar annually I It la is not uncommon for Utah sugar beet farms to yield 20 to 25 tons of beets per acre The growing of ot sugar beet seed Is an Important industry in Washington county coun coun- ty Utah Celery has been grown in Utah since 1878 Utah supports more than 40 flour mills Principal dry farming areas in Utah are Cache Box Elder Salt Lake Juab San Juan Sanpete Sevier and Tooele counties Truck gardening was first started in Utah 70 years ago at Davis county and the products sold at Salt Lake markets Principal fruit producing areas in Utah are Cache Box Elder Weber Davis Salt Lake Utah and Washington coun cairn ties Utah maintains twenty-three twenty cheese factories five dried milk plants and three condensed milk plants |