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UTAH. 



ganic act of the Territory requires their ap- 

 pointment by the Governor with the consent 

 of the Council.) Chief Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, Charles S. Zane ; Associate Justices, 

 Jacob S. Boreman and H. P. Henderson. The 

 office of Superintendent of Public Schools 

 was abolished by the Edmunds-Tucker law of 

 Congress, which came into force March 3, and 

 the office of Commissioner of Schools substi- 

 tuted. The Territorial Supreme Court ap- 

 pointed P. L. Williams to the new office in 

 April. Previous to March the office of Super- 

 intendent of Schools was claimed by Williams 

 under an executive appointment and by L. G. 

 Nuttall through election by the people. 



Population. No enumeration has been made 

 since 1880, but estimates place the number of 

 people in the Territory at 200,000. During 

 the year 1,500 Mormon emigrants, chiefly 

 English and Scandinavian, were added to the 

 population. A total of 4,158,743 acres of pub- 

 lic land had been taken for settlement up to 

 June 30 out of 11,711,118 acres surveyed. 



Finances, The Territory has no public debt, 

 but, owing to the veto by Gov. Murray of the 

 appropriation bills passed by the last Legislat- 

 ure, the expenses of the Government for near- 

 ly four years are unpaid, and a large amount 

 of outstanding warrants are in existence, which 

 can not be redeemed till the Legislature of 

 1888 makes the necessary appropriations. For 

 the year ending Jan. 1, 1886, the Territorial 

 receipts were $193,628.56, and the expendit- 

 ures $129,445.94. The surplus had increased 

 before the end of 1887 to over $200,000. 



Education. The number of children of 

 school age in the Territory for the school year 

 1886-'87 was as follows: Of non-Morrnon par- 

 ents, 6,868 ; of Mormon parents, 46,225 ; to- 

 tal, 53,093. The University of Deseret, which 

 is supported by the Territory, contained at 

 the close of the year 231 pupils in all depart- 

 ments, 149 males and 82 females. There is a 

 normal department connected with the uni- 

 versity, to which the Commissioner of Schools 

 annually appoints forty students, and a de- 

 partment for the instruction of deaf-mutes 

 established in 1884. A new building has been 

 in process of construction since 1881, when 

 $20,000 was appropriated therefor. This sum 

 and- over $35,000 additional obtained from pri- 

 vate subscriptions has been expended, but a 

 further sum of $30,000 will be needed. 



Insane Asylum. This institution, at Provo, 

 greatly needs enlarged accommodations. The 

 number of inmates during 1886 averaged 63 

 daily, the cost of support was 70 cents per 

 capita each day, and $16,028.75 for the whole 

 institution for the year. The number of in- 

 mates in April, 1887, had increased to 78. 



Penitentiary. The sum of $50,000 was ap- 

 propriated by the Forty-eighth Congress for a 

 Federal penitentiary at Salt Lake City, the 

 construction of which was not begun till late 

 in 1887. The penitentiary buildings now at 

 that place are inadequate. On the last of Oc- 



tober they contained 215 prisoners, nearly half 

 of whom were confined for polygamy and 

 similar offenses. 



Manufactures. The aggregate annual value of 

 the manufactured products of the Territory 

 amounts to $8,726,500, giving employment to 

 3,573 persons, and capital amounting to $4,- 

 468,350. There are 120 flour-mills, 8 woolen- 

 mills, 75 brick-making firms, 43 wood-working 

 establishments, and five knitting-factories, be- 

 sides breweries, tanneries, shoe-shops, found- 

 ries, salt-manufactories, and other industries. 



Agriculture. A careful estimate shows that 

 the wheat-crop of 1887 was about 3,250,000 

 bushels. The crop of oats is estimated at 

 1,250,000 bushels, some farms yielding 85 

 bushels to the acre. About 600,000 bushels of 

 barley were raised, and 500,000 bushels of corn. 



Mining. The following is a summary of the 

 mineral product of the Territory for 1886 : 

 2,407,550 pounds of copper, at 6 cents per 

 pound, $144,453; 208,800 pounds of refined 

 lead, at 4-63 cents per pound, $9,667.44; 48,- 

 456,260 pounds of unrefined lead, at $58 per 

 ton, $1,405,231.54; 5,918,842 ounces of fine 

 silver, at $0.9902 per ounce, $5,860,837.34; 

 10.577 ounces of fine gold, at $20 per ounce, 

 $211,540; total export value, $7,631,729.32. 

 The total for 1887 is almost exactly the same. 

 The coal product for 188(5 was 161,439 tons, 

 valued at $347,134 at the mine; for 1887 there 

 was a slightly increased output. 



Constitutional Convention. Early in June a call 

 was issued by the leaders of the People's (Mor- 

 mon) party for the election of delegates to a 

 constitutional convention at Salt Lake City, to 

 assemble on the last day of the month. In .this 

 movement, designed to inaugurate an agitation 

 for the admission of Utah as a State, an effort 

 was made to enlist the aid of the Gentile popu- 

 lation, but without success, and the Convention 

 remained, as it originated, entirely a Monnon 

 affair. It continued in session seven days, and 

 drafted a Constitution, of which the following 

 provisions, in view of their authorship, are the 

 most noteworthy features: 



SECTION 3 (of Article I). There shall be no union 

 of church and state, nor shall any church dominate 

 the state. 



SEC. 12 (of Article XV). Bigamy and polygamy 

 being considered incompatible with a " republican 

 form of government," each of them is hereby forbid- 

 den and declared a misdemeanor. Any person who 

 shall violate this section shall, on conviction thereof, 

 be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand 

 dollars and imprisonment for a term of not less than 

 six months nor more than three years, in the dis- 

 cretion of the court. This section shall be construed 

 as operative without the aid of legislation, and the 

 offenses prohibited bv this section shall not be barred 

 by any statute of limitation within three years after 

 the commission of the offense ; nor shall the power of 

 pardon extend thereto until such pardon shall be ap- 

 proved by the President of the United States. 



It is further provided that section 12 shall 

 not be amended or changed unless such amend- 

 ment or change " be reported to the Congress 

 of the United States, and shall be by Congress 

 approved and ratified, and such approval and 



