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stated that, during the six years in which they 

 had heen in use, these boxes had produced 

 $23,215.47. Fifty-six scholarships had been in 

 force during the year, and the sum of $8,160 

 had been paid on account of them. In accord 

 with the wish, several times expressed by pre- 

 vious General Conventions, the Board of Trus- 

 tees had undertaken to secure the foundation 

 of a memorial church in the city of Washing- 

 ton, D. C. They had succeeded in obtaining 

 subscriptions to the amount of only a little 

 more than $6,000, and therefore reported that 

 they had been forced to the conclusion that 

 neither the times nor the disposition of the 

 Universalist people were favorable to the 

 further prosecution of the canvass. Report 

 was made of the prosecution of mission-work 

 at Lawrence, Topeka, and Delphos, Kan. ; 

 Lincoln, Neb. ; Black River Falls, Wis. ; Des 

 Moines and Iowa City, Iowa; New Orleans, 

 La. ; Albany, N. Y. ; and Chesapeake City, Md. 

 Mass meetings had been held in six of the 

 "Western States during the winter. Nearly all 

 the State Conventions had resolved to hold 

 such meetings. The churches throughout the 

 country were reported to be strongly infused 

 with the spirit of revival. 



A meeting of the Universalist Historical 

 Society was held in connection with the meet- 

 ing of the General Convention. The society 

 had been in existence some thirty years, but 

 was organized anew in 1874. It possessed a 

 library of about 1,500 volumes, which is de- 

 scribed as " a wholly unique collection." It 

 was the purpose of the society to make a col- 

 lection of all the works of every kind that 

 exist or shall appear in regard to the doctrine 

 of universalisin. The society desired to pro- 

 cure a valuable library of Greek, Latin, and 

 French works pertaining to the subject, which 

 exists in Paris, and a collection was taken up 

 in aid of that object. 



The annual business meeting of the Woman's 

 Centenary Association was held in connection 

 with the meeting of the General Convention. 

 The treasurer reported that her receipts for 

 the year had been $18,554.33, and her ex- 

 penditures $678.72. The amount of $16,014.- 

 65 had been appropriated in special gifts, and 

 there remained a balance on hand of $1,802. 

 A collection of $103.75 was taken in aid of a 

 building-fund for a chapel at " Good Luck," 

 N. J., on the site of the church in which John 

 Murray preached his first sermon in America. 



UTAH. For details of government, popula- 

 tion, etc., see the previous volumes of this work. 

 In the San Pete Valley, ninety miles south of 

 Salt Lake City, are extensive deposits of coal. 

 This is a lignite of superior quality, and prob- 

 ably of cretaceous age. The coke from it, 

 though inferior to that of the Pittsburg coals, 

 can be used in lead-sinelting furnaces. Valu- 

 able deposits of the precious metals occur in 

 the two mountain-ranges between which the 

 Jordan flows, viz., the Wahsatch on the east, 

 and the Oquirrh on the west. These ranges 



are traversed by canons, usually narrow and 

 precipitous, opening into the Jordan Valley, 

 and affording access to the mining districts. 

 The Utah Southern Railroad, with several nar- 

 row-gauge branches, furnishes transportation 

 to the smelting- works in the valley, and to 

 Salt Lake City and Ogden. The principal 

 mining districts are as follows : Parley's Park, 

 Big Cottonwood, Little Cotton wood, and 

 American Fork, in the Wahsatch Range ; Bing- 

 ham, Dry Canon, Ophir, and Camp Floyd, in 

 the Oquirrh Range ; Yintic and West Yintic, in 

 the Yintic Mountains ; and South Star, North 

 Star, San Francisco, and Lincoln, in the south- 

 western part of the Territory. The ores are 

 chiefly argentiferous carbonate of lead and ga- 

 lena, with some copper-ore in the southern dis- 

 tricts, and in a few localities ores sufficiently 

 free from lead and other base metals to be suc- 

 cessfully reduced by the Washoe process of 

 stamping and pan-amalgamation. The value 

 of gold, silver, and lead produced in Utah since 

 1868 has been estimated as follows : 



In 1875 there were also produced $102,148 

 worth of copper, $26,878 worth of iron, and 

 $400,000 worth (50,000 tons) of coal. The 

 number of acres of land under cultivation in 

 1875 is reported at 347,750 ; bushels of wheat 

 raised, 2,775,000 ; barley, 397,500 ; oats, 589,- 

 000 ; Indian-corn, 300,000; potatoes, 1,807,000; 

 tons of hay, 175,000 ; pounds of wool, 1,000,- 

 000; value of all agricultural products, $8,- 

 236,022; of manufactures, $2,803,985, nearly 

 half flour. The value of imports into the Ter- 

 ritory, chiefly merchandise and manufactured 

 articles, was $9,150,851 ; of exports therefrom, 

 mineral and agricultural products, $6,435,858. 

 The following table gives the mileage of rail- 

 road in the Territory : 



Number of Miles In 

 Lines. Operation. 



American Fork 16 



Bingham Canon 20 



Central* Union Pacific 226 



Summit County 8 



UtahCentral 87 



Utah Northern 80 



Utah Southern 78 



Utah Western. 25 



Wahsatch & Jordan Valley 10 



Total : 500 



The assessed value of property in 1875 was 

 $23,289,180, and the Territorial tax $58,222- 

 .95. The amount in the Territorial Treasury on 

 January 1, 1874, was $35,655.47; receipts dur- 

 ing the following two years, $104,539.23 ; total, 

 $140,195.70; disbursements during the same 

 period, $139,662.46; balance January 1, 1876, 



