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UTAH. 



Commerce. Uruguayan foreign commerce has 

 developed as follows, reduced to millions of 

 dollars : 



The following Uruguayan products were ex- 

 ports: Cattle, $800,000; jerked beef, $2,858,- 

 000; preserved beef in tins, $37,000; extract 

 of beef, $894,000; hides, $4,842,000; skins, 

 $816,000; tallow, $1,237,000; wool, $4,998,- 

 000; horse-hair, $185,000; bones and bone- 

 ashes, $110,000; fertilizers, $316,000; ostrich- 

 feathers, $54,000; grain, $712,000. 



The American trade exhibits the following 

 figures : 



Tariff Changes. The revised customs-tariff be- 

 came operative on April 1, 1888, the modifica- 

 tions being slight, ad valorem duties being 

 raised from 30 per cent, to 31 per cent. ; goods 

 under schedule No. 2, from 47 per cent, to 48 

 per cent. ; and No. 3, from 43 to 44. On the 

 other hand, the 6| per mille was abolished, and 

 the number of articles entering duty free nota- 

 bly increased. 



Viticulture. Under the provision of an act of 

 the Uruguayan Congress of 18SO, gold medals 

 were awarded to Pascal Harriague, a French- 

 man, and F. Vidiella, a Uruguayan, as the 

 first and most successful viticulturists in the 

 republic. The growing of vines has been ex- 

 tending rapidly during late years in Uruguay, 

 and is giving the best results. The Viticultural 

 Society, founded in 1887, with a capital of 

 $100,000, has acquired lands along the Central 

 Railway; vineyards have been laid out, and 

 100,000 vines were planted in 1888. 



Earthquake. During the night of July 4-5, 

 1888, there were, for the first time in forty 

 years, two violent shocks of earthquake at 

 Montevideo, the direction being from north- 

 west to southeast, the shocks extending over 

 fifty seconds. The shocks were felt at sea, the 

 phenomenon coinciding with great cold and a 

 terrific snow-storm in the Cordillera, at Uzpa- 

 lata, and at Baliia Blanca in the province of 

 Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, 39 south 

 latitude, where for the first time a heavy snow- 

 storm occurred. 



UTAH. Territorial Government. The follow- 

 ing were the Territorial officers during the 

 year: Governor, Caleb W. West; Secretary, 

 William 0. Hall ; Treasurer de facto, James 

 Jack ; Auditor de facto, Nephi W. Clayton. 

 (In January the Governor sent to the Council 

 of the Legislature the nomination of Bolivar 



Roberts to be Territorial Treasurer, and Arthur 

 Pratt to be Territorial Auditor ; but that body 

 refused confirmation, on the ground that the 

 Governor's right of appointment was in dis- 

 pute in a case pending before the United States 

 Supreme Court. Late in March, after the ad- 

 journment of the Legislature, the Governor 

 again made the same nominations, he then 

 having full power of appointment till the next 

 meeting of the Legislature in 1890. The Gov- 

 ernor had previously, in March, 1886, ap- 

 pointed the same persons to the same posi- 

 tions; but Treasurer Jack and Auditor Clayton, 

 holding by election of the people, had refused 

 to yield up their offices, and the litigation, 

 which has not yet reached its end in the Su- 

 preme Court of the United States, resulted. 

 The appointees of March, 1888, were again 

 refused their offices by the de facto officials as 

 before. About the same time they brought 

 suit against the latter, demanding payment of 

 salary from March, 1886, out of the appropria- 

 tion made by the Legislature in January for 

 the salaries of the Treasurer and Auditor. The 

 determination of this suit will depend upon 

 the decision of the United States Supreme 

 Court case.) Commissioner of Schools, P. L. 

 Williams ; Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Charles S. Zane, succeeded by Elliott Sand- 

 ford ; Associate Justices, Jacob S. Boreman, and 

 H. P. Henderson. During the year the Terri- 

 tory was allowed, by act of Congress, an ad- 

 ditional judge, and John W. Judd was ap- 

 pointed to that position. 



Legislative Session. The Twenty-eighth Terri- 

 torial Legislature assembled on January 9, and 

 remained in session two months. One of the 

 earliest measures passed was a deficiency ap- 

 propriation bill, to meet expenses of the Gov- 

 ernment, for several years unpaid, owing to 

 the veto of appropriation bills passed by the 

 previous Legislature. Several new institutions 

 were provided for a Territorial Reform School 

 in Weber County at a cost of $75,000, an 

 Agricultural College, and an agricultural ex- 

 periment station in connection therewith, in 

 Cache County, to cost $25,000, and an Institu- 

 tion for Deaf-Mutes, in connection with the 

 University of Deseret, to cost $20,000. The 

 sum of $85,451 was appropriated for the com- 

 pletion of buildings at the University of Des- 

 eret and to pay "debts of the institution pre- 

 viously incurred. For the purpose of meeting 

 these extraordinary expenditures a board of 

 commissioners was established and directed to 

 negotiate a loan not exceeding $150,000. The 

 bonds for this loan were ail taken by a Denver 

 bank at a small premium. 



A gift of land from Salt Lake City as a site 

 for Capitol buildings was accepted at this ses- 

 sion, and a commission appointed to submit to 

 the next Legislature plans and estimates for a 

 new Capitol building. 



The general election for members of the 

 Legislature was fixed in August, 1889, and bi- 

 ennially thereafter, the first meeting of the 



