URUGUAY. 



UTAH, 



771 



public debt. The public debt amounted on .Inn. 

 1. is'.n. i 1 pesos. 



('ommi'rrc. The total imports amounted to 

 in 1MM. of which :.. 177.000 |H-- 

 ie fnun (Ireat Britain. ','. l7(i.(MMi pe-os fn-in 

 M4, 000 pesos I nun (Jennany. l>-J(i.ouu 

 from Spain, 1, (>."), (11)0 pesos from Itra/il. 

 Ml pesos from li:,l\. l.-'i^OllO pesos from 

 Dentine Republic. !fJS.<l,M> pesos from the 

 I'liiled States, 7:'.r,.ooo pesos from Belgium, *,'0!i.- 

 sos from Cuba. 1*27,000 pesos from Chili, 

 pesos from Paraguay. ,'">.<>; K > pe^os from 

 Portugal, and 20,000 pesos from other countries. 

 The total exports amounted to 86.9Q8,OOOpeSO8, 

 of whieh i5.-.'S4.(i(H) IK-SOS went to Franco, 4,!ii;i.- 

 OM) pe<os 1,1 (Jreai Mritain, 4, 71 ','.000 pesos to 

 Hra/d. ::.580,000 pesos to Belgium. 2,472,000 

 pesos to the Argentine Republic, 1,849,000 pesos 

 to I he United States, 1,473,000 pesos to Ger- 

 many, :><;.', 000 pesos to Italy, 848, 000 'peso-, to 

 Cul.a. 2-J7.000 pesos to Spain, 184,000 pesos to 

 Portugal, 168,000 pesos to Chili, and 178,000 

 10 other countries. The principal exports 

 wen- wool of the value of 8,207,000 pesos ; hides 

 and skins. 7,684,000 pesos ; meat, 8, 501, 000 pesos; 

 extract of beef, 2,135,000 pesos; animals, 1, ."><)!),- 

 000 pesos ; tallow, 1,504,000 pesos; hair, 410,000 

 pesos. There were 1.092 ocean vessels entered in 

 1891. of 1,429,601 tons, of which 658, of 1,154,- 

 477 tons, were steamers, and !>.V.I vessels, of 1,288, - 

 049 tons, cleared, of which 685. of 1,074,08(1 tons, 

 were steamers. (For communications, see the 

 " Animal Cyclopaedia" for 1891.) 



I' T.VH, aTerritory of the United States, organ- 

 ized Sept. 9, I860; area, 84,970 square miles ; 

 population in 1890, 207.905. Capital, Salt Lake 

 City. 



Government. The following were the Terri- 

 torial officers during the year: Governor, Arthur 

 L. Thomas ; Secretary, Elijah Sells ; Treasu- 

 rer, Josiah Barnet ; Auditor, Arthur Pratt ; 

 Commissioner of Common Schools, Jacob S. 

 Horeman : chi"f Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Charles S. Zanc ; Associate Justices, Thomas J. 

 Anderson, John W. Blackburn, James A. Miner. 

 Juiluv Anderson resigned during the year, and 

 President Harrison appointed (i. V> . 1'artch to 

 succt ed him, in January, 1898. 



United States Marshal Ellis II. Parsons re- 

 signed in September, and was succeeded by 

 Irving A. Benton. 



I iminces. The receipts of the Territory for 

 1890-91, the last biennial period reported, were 

 $1,477,140.81, and the expenditures, $1.500,- 

 $18.80. 



Classification of Population. A census bul- 

 letin recently issued gave statist u s of population 

 of the Pacific States and Territories, by which it 

 appears that of the 207,905 of population in 1890, 

 1 lo.-lfi:: \\-ero males and 97,442 were females, the 

 excess of males- being 1 :!,<>*,! I. The native li,.rn 

 numbered 154.841, again-! .":'.. 0<>4 foreign born. 

 The total number of colored | >ersons in the Ter- 

 ritory was 2,006 ; this includes Chinese, Japanese, 

 nnd civilixed Indians as well as persons of African 

 descent. The proportion of foreign born to 

 native born people in I'tah is less than in Mon- 

 tana, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada. Washington, 

 and California. And her colored population is 

 less in proportion to die whites than tnat of any 

 of the Pacific States and Territories. 



The total number of children in Utah between 

 the ages of Hve and seventeen was 67.4 1 

 whom 62,463 were native born and 5.002 foreign 



bora. 



The number of males of militia age in Utah 

 that is. from eighteen to forty. i: inclu- 



sive was i:,,i;'!. of whom 80,040 we,,, native 

 born and 15,074 foreign born. The total num. 

 ber of males of voting age in Utah was 

 54.471. The percentage of aliens in I'tah who 

 speak the Knglish language i> larr; r than in any 

 other of the Pacific States and Ten-it 



The Capital. A preliminary re | ort on the 

 industries of Salt Lake City for the year ending 

 May :!l, 1890, gives the following statements: 

 Between 1880 and 1890 the number of industri< s 

 reported decreased from 52 to 45, and the num. 

 ber of establishments reporting from 166 to 1 -I'. 1 : 

 the amount of capital increased from $860.4l~> to 

 $2,658.676 ; the number of persons employed, 

 from 928 to 1,997; the amount of waives paid, 

 from $425.587 to $1,276,219 ; the cost of mate- 

 rials used, from $812,736 to $1,665,877 ; the value 

 of the product, from $l,610,lo8 to $3,864.4ii-.'. 



The population was 20.768 in 1880 and 41.848 

 in 1890. The assessed valuation rose in the ten 

 years from $7,801,325 to $58,9.26,924, and the 

 municipal debt from $67,000 to $500,000. 



Education. The average number of children 

 attending the public schools of the capital was 

 (i.iisti. and the original enrollment, 7,247. The 

 school census shows a tola I number of school age 

 of 10,519, of whom 6.805 arc Mormon children. 



A Chautauqua assembly for Utah was inaugu- 

 rated in August at Calder's Park. In the same 

 line of work the faculty of the Brigham Young 

 College, at Logan, have prepared for a non-resi- 

 dent college course leading to a diploma. Courses 

 of study will bo laid down and examinations 

 held in various parts of the Territory. 



The Agricultural College, at Logan, adver- 

 tised in December a free course of lectures on 

 practical agriculture, to open in January, and 

 continue with three lectures a day, for ten weeks. 



A suit was brought by the trustees of the 

 Agricultural College to comix;! the auditor to pay 

 them $16,250 of the $05.(HH> appropriated by tho 

 Assembly in March. The money was also claimed 

 by a board of construction appointed at the time 

 the appropriation was made. The decision of 

 the court was : ''That neither the trustees nor 

 the intervenors are entitled to a writ of mandate 

 against the auditor, and the judgment of the 

 district court must be reversed and the case re- 

 manded with directions to dismiss the applica- 

 tion of the plaintiff and tho petition of inter 

 vent ion." 



The first Arbor Day in the Territory was 

 observed, April 2, as a legal holiday. 



Territorial Institutions. The repairs in the 

 Lunatic Asylum were completed late in the year, 

 the blacksmith shop finished, and a contract let 

 for putting electric wires into the new apart- 

 ments. 



The expenses for tho year of the Women's In- 

 dustrial Christian Home agnrejjated $8.995.88. 

 This taken from the annual appropriation of 

 $4,000, leaves a balance in hand of $4.67. Tho 

 average number of inmates during the year has 

 been -JO ; that is, from 5 to 18 women, and from 

 12 to 15 children. 



