UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



the number of manufacturing plants in ton years, 

 while bank clearings expanded in 1901 at the 

 rate ot 15 per cent, per annum. 



Lawlessness. Several negroes were lynched 

 in Texas in 1901. The first case that attracted 

 the attention of the country was that of .John 

 Henderson, who had murdered a white farmer's 

 wife after attempting outrage, lie was tracked 

 by bloodhounds and was first taken by the police 

 to another county in order to prevent mob venge- 

 ance. The citizens of Texarkana, however, got 

 hold of him and brought him back, and induced 

 him to confess the murder. In the presence of a 

 great concourse of excited people in the court- 

 house square he was burned at the stake after 

 one of the lynchers had gashed his face just as 

 he had gashed the face of his victim. The coro- 

 ner's jury found that he had been justly pun- 

 ished, and the newspapers of Texas defended this 

 mode of punishing negro ravishers of white 

 women. The precedent was followed by the 

 farmers of Whitesboro in the case of a negro 

 named Abe Wildner. Attempts had been made 

 to assault several women in the district-, and one 

 was horribly maltreated and murdered. A con- 

 stable caught Wildner in the Indian Territory, 

 and as soon as he got him back over the line the 

 citizens seized him, bound him to a tree, and 

 burned him to death. 



UTAH, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Jan. 4, 1896; area, 84,928 square miles. 

 The population in 1890 was 207,905. In 1900 it 

 was 276,749. Capital, Salt Lake City. 



Government. The State officers during the 

 year were as follow: Governor, Heber M. Wells, 

 Republican; Secretary of State, James T. Ham- 

 mond; State Auditor, C. S. Tingey; State Treas- 

 urer, John DeGrey Dixon; Attorney-General, M. 

 A. Breeden ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 



A. C. Nelson; State Engineer, A. F. Doremus; 

 Coal-Mine Inspector. Gomer Thomas; Bank Ex- 

 aminer, Walter J. Beatie; Fish and Game Com- 

 missioner, John Sharp; Dairy and Food Commis- 

 sioner, Moroni Heiner; Commissioner Bureau of 

 Statistics, Charles DeMoisey; Justices Supreme 

 Court, James A. Miner, Robert N. Baskin, and 

 George W. Bartch; Board of Corrections, Heber 

 M. Wells, M. B. Sowles, George A. Lowe, and 

 Elias A. Smith; State Board of Land Commis- 

 sioners, Heber M. Wells, Byron Groo, T. D. Rees, 

 Herschel Bullen, and James A. Melville; Board of 

 Education, Joseph T. Kingsbury, A. C. Nelson, 

 William J. Kerr. and William S. Marks; Board 

 of Equalization, Robert C. Lund, John J. Thomas, 

 Thomas D. Dee, and Swen O. Nielsen; Board of 

 Horticulture, J. A. Wright, Thomas Judd, and 



B. H. Bower; Board of Health, F. S. Bascom, 

 T. B. Beatty, Martha A. Cannon, A. F. Doremus, 

 Frank B. Steele, S. H. Allen, and Willard Y. 

 Croxall ; Board of Pharmacy, C. H. McCoy, James 

 L. Franken, G. A. Fennemore, T, H. Carr, and 

 B. F. Riter; Board of Medical Examiners, 

 Ephraim Go wan, S. L. Brick, Briant Stringham, 

 A. C. Ewing, Elias S. Wright, J. C. Hanchett, and 

 R. W. Fisher; Board of Labor, Conciliation, and 

 Arbitration, J. S. Daveler, E. A. Wall, and John 

 Nicholson; Utah Silk Commission, Margaret A. 

 Caine, Ann C. Woodbury, Elizabeth Packard, 

 Rachel Siegel, and Maria E. Zundel; Utah Art 

 Institute, H. L. A. Culmer, J. T. Harwood, Eliza- 

 beth C. McCune, Mary Teasdel, Alice Merrill 

 Home, W. C. Ware, and G. F. Taggart. 



The term of the State officers is four years. 

 They are elected at the time of the presidential 

 elections. The Legislature meets biennially in 

 January of the odd-numbered years; the session 

 is limited to sixty days. 

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m Finances. f s -, 1|1X) . y Mj)) . 



dition ot tin- M . ,,. |, ,, .,,.!. j)|. r 



$552,9()9.<)1; outM.an I,,.,,,', ,j',./|,,,'i,.,| 



leaves a net balance r-'.itiU from 



till sources for the yeai >. ,,,, u | 



credit balance, $1,810,821.1 }-..! i ,, . ..!"ni"'on all 

 accounts in 1901, $1,200, 1 (>:;.'> 

 ury Dec. 31, 1901, $<>05,<>r>7.."> 



Valuation. The total H.sse^e.l , 

 the State tor 1901, according to tin- li; >;i .,j 

 State Board of Equalization, U-H-, *l IJ..Y.M ;:, 

 compared with $105,629,041 for 1900. Tl.<- ;--, 

 ment was divided as follows: Heal estate, U.:',7 t. 

 773; improvements, $22,901,955; personal proii 

 erty, $27,110,135; railway, car, and depot com- 

 panies, $14,765,439; telegraph companies, $99.499; 

 telephone companies, $205,687; net proceeds of 

 mines, $3,133,265. 



Banking and Commerce. The year was one 

 of unequaled business prosperity. The banks of 

 Salt Lake City, the financial and commercial cen- 

 ter, showed total clearings during the year of $180,- 

 937,431.21, against $120,070,182.20 in 1900. The 

 deposits were $18,335,522.92 in 1901, compared 

 with $16,747,874.96 the previous year. Loans and 

 discounts were $11,253,248.14, compared with $6,- 

 905,239.09 the previous year. Business failures of 

 all kinds during the year numbered 55, the assets 

 being $141,386 and the liabilities $386,554. In 



1900 the failures numbered 144, the assets being 

 $314,025 and the liabilities $978,482. 



Education. The general control of the public- 

 school system of Utah is vested in the State Board 

 of Education. This consists of the State Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, the president of 

 the University of Utah, the president of the Agri- 

 cultural College, and two other persons appointed 

 by the Governor with the consent of the Senate. 



The principal events of 1901 were the passage 

 of an act by the Legislature providing for a 

 school of mines, and the passage of a law for a 

 uniform system of county teachers' examinations 

 under the supervision of the State Board of. Edu- 

 cation. The object of the latter bill was to raise 

 the standard of' teachers. The scale of salaries is 

 being gradually increased as the school funds are 

 swelled by land sales and increased taxation. There 

 were 1,475 teachers employed in the public schools 

 Dec. 31, 1901. The average salary for men was 

 $65.80, and for women $46.20. The year before the 

 average salary was, men $63.70, women $44.36, 

 which was higher than for previous years. 



The total expenditures for common schools in 



1901 were $1,241,854.37, of which $337,932 was 

 spent in Salt Lake City. The school population 

 was 86,353. The number attending school was 

 76,543. The per capita expense varied from $23.42 

 in Salt Lake City to $5.64 in Wayne County. In 

 addition to the expenditures mentioned, the Legis- 

 lature appropriated $368.775 for maintenance. 

 buildings, and improvements of the University of 

 Utah, Agricultural College. State Industrial 

 School, and School for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind. 

 These appropriations are for two years. 



Reports to the State Superintendent of 

 Instruction show that of the 86,353 childi 

 school age. 77.472 can read and write. 



Agriculture. Official Government 

 give the following statistics on fann-produ 

 live stock for the year: 



Corn acreage, 8,459; yield per acre, 

 product, 169,180 bushels: average price. < 

 Wheat acreage, 176.895: yield l>cr 

 bushels; product, 3,697,10(5 bushels 

 55 cents. Oats acreage, 25,577; yield per acre, 



