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UTAH. 



$32,000,000. A new gold loan of 1,667,000, bear- 

 ing 5 per cent, interest, was placed in London at 

 7H. It was made a first charge on 5i per cent, of 

 the customs receipts, of which 45 per cent, were al- 

 ready pledged to pay the interest and sinking fund 

 of the consolidated debt. The proceeds of this loan 

 were employed to found the new Banco de la Re- 

 publica. The bank has a monopoly of the emission 

 of paper currency and of judicial deposits. It will 

 loan money on rural credit and also on personal 

 property as a mont de piete. The government de- 

 nounced on Aug. 1 the commercial treaty with 

 Germany, concluded for three years in 1892 and 

 afterward continued from year to year. In Sep- 

 tember public feeling among the Liberals and the 

 foreign element was aroused, and meetings were 

 called to protest against the establishment of 

 another archbishopric and two new dioceses. 



Revolutionary Uprising 1 . A plot to overthrow 

 the government was concocted by influential men 

 in Uruguay in conjunction with friends in the 

 Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul. Munitions 

 of war were collected and stored away during t\u> 

 or three years. It was intended to invade Uruguay 

 from three points on the Brazilian frontier and at- 

 tack the capital on Nov. 29. The Brazilian Gen. 

 Gumercindo Saraiva, one of the leaders, encountered 

 a government force under Gen. Muniz, and hence 

 the plan was changed. Being forewarned, the 

 government seized a large quantity of arms and 

 ammunition in Montevideo and arrested many of 

 the leading revolutionists on Nov. 27. Gen. Muniz, 

 who pursued Saraiva and overtook him near tin- 

 Brazilian line at Cerro Largo, was defeated and 

 taken prisoner in the battle that followed. Other 

 bodies of rebels were turned back by the govern- 

 ment troops, but at Durazno and Aparicio the revo- 

 lutionists gained numerous and important adher- 

 ents. 



UTAH, a Western State, admitted to the Union 

 Jan. 4, 1896 ; area, 84,970 square miles. The popu- 

 lation, according to the census of 1890. was 207.905 ; 

 the estimated population in 1895 was 247,324. Capi- 

 tal, Salt Lake City. 



Government. The first State officers were the 

 following : Governor, Heber M. Wells ; Secretary 

 of State, James T. Hammond ; Treasurer, James 

 Chipman ; Auditor, Morgan Richards. Jr. ; Attor- 

 ney-General, A. C. Bishop ; Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Instruction, John R. Park all Republicans ; 

 Adjutant General, John Q. Cannon ; Coal Mine In- 

 spector, Thomas Lloyd ; Fish and Game Warden, 

 John Sharp; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 C. S. Zane ; Associate Justices, George W. Bartch 

 and J. A. Miner all Republicans ; United States 

 District Judge, John A. Marshall : United States 

 District Attorney, John W. Judd ; United States 

 Marshal, N. M. Brigham. 



Inauguration of the State Government. The 

 new Constitution having been submitted, examined, 

 and found to comply with the conditions of the en- 

 abling act, the proclamation admitting Utah as the 

 forty-fifth State of the Union was signed by the 

 President on Jan. 4. Monday, Jan. 6, the day on 

 which the Territorial government terminated and 

 the State government was inaugurated, was ob- 

 served as a day of general rejoicing. The formal 

 exercises at the capital were preceded by a great 

 street parade of militia, soldiers of the United 

 States, fire and police departments, State and city 

 officials, secret orders, fraternal societies, local or- 

 ganizations of various kinds, and other citizens, and 

 was followed in the evening by an inaugural ball. 

 The inauguration was held at the Tabernacle. 

 After the proclamation of Statehood had been read, 

 Mr. Rawlins gave to the Governor, to be preserved 

 among the public archives, the pen used by the 



President in signing the bill under which Utah be- 

 came a State. The Governor, after taking the oath 

 of office, issued a proclamation convening the Legis- 

 lature in special session at 2 o'clock the same day, 

 for the purpose of fixing a time for the opening of 

 the first regular session. In his inaugural address 

 he reviewed the history of Utah, beginning with the 

 organization of the temporary State of Deseret in 

 1849, eighteen months after the arrival of the pio- 

 neers. This was designed to provide for the inter- 

 val before action was taken by Congress, and was 

 followed by the establishment of the Territory, Sept. 

 9, 1850, by the organic act, under which the govern- 

 ment was administered up to the present year. At- 

 tempts to secure Statehood were made in 1856, 1861, 

 1867, 1872, 1882, and 1887, when constitutions wen- 

 framed and memorials sent to Congress asking for 

 admission, but without result. The name Deseret 

 was given to the proposed State each time until 

 1SN'2. when that of Utah was adopted. 



Finances. The report of the auditor for 1896 

 shows that the year's receipts from all sources were 

 s'.i!T.537.45. The amount turned over by the Ter- 

 ritory was $23,935.46, making a total of $1,021.- 

 472.91. The disbursements for the year amounted 

 to $600.522.53, of which 576,054.83 'was toward re- 

 deeming warrants, $22,000 to the Agricultural Col- 

 lege, the amount received from the General Govern- 

 ment, and .$2.467.70 on court certificates, making a 

 balance in the treasury at the close of the year of 

 .<|-_ ) o. ( .)50.38. The floating indebtedness represented 

 in outstanding warrants was reduced nearly half. 

 On Dec. 31, 1895, it amounted to $201,434.70 ; at the 

 close of 1896 there were only $102,829.25 in war- 

 rants outstanding. The auditor's statement of re- 

 sources and liabilities shows an excess of resources 

 available on Dec. 31, 1896. of $142,895 63. 



The total value of property assessed for taxes in 

 the State is $107,292,083. The tax levy for the year 

 was fixed at 8 mills on the dollar. The valuation 

 of property of railway and street-car companies is 

 $13,336.775. 



The Legislature at its last session provided for 

 (lie collection of a fee of 25 cents per $1,000 on the 

 capital stock of each corporation incorporated after 

 the passage of the law, and the same fee for each 

 company filing with the Secretary of State amended 

 articles increasing its capital stock. These fees 

 yielded $6,888.90 in nine months. Another law au- 

 thorized the collection of a tax on the gross annual 

 premiums of foreign insurance companies doing 

 business in the State. This tax yielded $8,645.25. 



The sale of $200,000 of State bonds, drawing 4 

 per cent, per annum interest, and running twenty 

 years, was made by the State Board of Loan Com- 

 missioners June 1, at a premium of $3.212.50. 



Congress appropriated $42,356 for carrying out 

 the provisions of the enabling act. 



Education. The State University had 539 stu- 

 dents enrolled in 1895-'96, and graduated 44 in 

 June. 



In January articles of incorporation were filed for 

 Sheldon Jackson College, a Presbyterian institution 

 to be established at Salt Lake City. A beautiful 

 site of 80 acres just outside the city has been given 

 for the buildings. 



By act of the Legislature the school for the deaf 

 and dumb, theretofore conducted in connection 

 with the University at Salt Lake City, was estab- 

 lished as an independent school on the campus of 

 the old reform school at Ogden, with the added 

 functions of educating the blind. There are 10 pu- 

 pils in the department for the blind and about 60 

 in that for the deaf. The estimate per capita is 

 $250 for deaf-mutes and $300 for the blind. 



The Industrial School. The institution for- 

 merly known as the Reform School was, by act of 



