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Show FACTS ABOUT UTAH The estimated population of U-tah U-tah for 1948 is 675,000. The Geneva Steel Plant is considered con-sidered the most modern steel plant in the world. There are 6!,4 billion tons of salt in the waters of Great Salt Lake. There are 2,000 miles of mountain mount-ain fishing streams in Utah in which 15,000,000 game fish are planted annually. There are 1,500 fishing lakes in the Uintah Primitive area in the Uintah Mountains of Utah. The Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City was commenced in 1853 and took 40 years to complete. The Brigham Young Monument was first erected on Temple Square close to the temple and was moved to its present site at the intersection intersect-ion of Main Street and South Temple Tem-ple and dedicated July 20, 1897. Brigham Young, the great leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, had 19 wives and 56 children. A total of 104,069 persons witnessed wit-nessed the Utah Centennial pageant, pag-eant, "Promised Valley", during the summer of 1947. The total population of Daggett County, Utah, is 564 (1940 census.) When the Bank of Vernal was constructed in 1919 all of the bricks were shipped in from Salt Lake City by PARCEL POST. There are 75 million barrels of recoverable oil in the mountains of oil shale in Eastern Utah. Kings Peak, the highest mountain mount-ain in Utah, is 13,498 feet above sea level. There are 4 Mormon temples in Utah, located at St. George, Logan, Manti, and Salt Lake City. More than 85,000 families occupy occu-py their own homes in Utah. i Utah is the home of the National Woolgrowers Association. The topography and climate of Utah are ideal for a thriving sheep and wool industry. Utah has two of the largest stockyards in the country one at Ogden and one at North Salt Lake City. Utah's major deposits of iron are in Iron County and Washington County. Gilsonite, an asphaltic substance, occurs in the Uintah Basin area of Utah and nowhere else in the world. Utah's Gilsonite is used to manufacture acid-proof paints, in- j sulating materials, preservatives, plastics and mastics. Thirteen thousand of Utah's 84,-990 84,-990 square miles contain coal deposits. de-posits. One hundred and fifty million tons of coal have been mined in Utah during the last 100 years. There are eighty-four commercial commer-cial coal mines in operation in Utah Carbon and Emery are the principal prin-cipal coal producing counties in Utah. Utah produces more than $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 worth of sugar annually. It is not uncommon for Utah sugar beet farms to yield 20 to 25 tons of beets per acre. The growing of sugar beet seed is an important industry in Washington Wash-ington County, Utah. Celery has been grown in Utah since 1878. I 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 start-ed in Utah 70 years ago at Davis County and the products sold at Salt Lake City markets. Principal fruit producing areas in Utah are Cache, Box Elder. Weber, Davis, Salt Lake, Utah and Washington counties. Utah maintains twenty-three cheese factories, five dried milk plants and three condensed milk plants. |