UTAH. 



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The National Guard numbers 1,080 men, di- 

 vided into 803 infantry, 143 cavalry, 111 ar- 

 tillery, and 23 signal-corps men, organized into 

 22 companies. The Guard was enrolled under 

 an act of the last Legislature the provisions 

 of which call for " not more than 3 regiments of 

 infantry, 2 of cavalry, and 2 batteries of light ar- 

 tillery." The Territory not having had an or- 

 ganized militia for many years, a credit of $75.- 

 000 had accumulated under the act of Congress 

 which makes an annual appropriation for the 

 National Guard, and of this amount $72,000 has 

 been expended for uniforms and equipments. 



Industries and Products. Articles of in- 

 corporation of the largest business and general 

 commercial company in the Territory were filed 

 in September. It is called the Utah Company, 

 and has a capitalization of $10,000,000. The 3 

 largest stockholders are the foremost men of the 

 Mormon Church. The objects are these : 



To buy, own, hold, use, sell, lease, and otherwise 

 dispose of real and personal property of every nature 

 and kind, including the capital stocks of other cor- 

 porations; to make and execute contracts for the 

 building and equipment of railroads, telegraph and 

 telephone lines, bridges, and other works, both public 

 and private, and to receive in payment for the same, 

 stocks, bonds, or other securities, or money ; to obtain, 

 use, and deal in grants of rights of way, water rights, 

 water powers, and easements, and to generate, vend, 

 lease, and deal in electric powers and franchises ; to 

 manufacture and operate mills and machinery ; and 

 to do a general contracting and financial business. 



The report of Wells, Fargo & Co. on the 

 value of metals produced in 1894 credits Utah 

 with production amounting to $7,202,588, ex- 

 plaining that it is to be taken only as an ap- 

 proximation. 



The " Rocky Mountain News " credits Utah 

 with the production of 56,427 fine ounces of 

 gold and 0,659,798 of silver. The production 

 of gold in 1893 was 41,293 ounces, and of silver 

 7,196,300 ounces. The copper product is valued 

 at $53,308, and the lead at $951,804. The coal 

 product in 1893 was 463,400 tons. A copper 

 plant and smelter were completed this year at a 

 cost of nearly $2,750,000. 



The Utah 'Sugar Company had produced over 

 4,000,000 pounds of sugar in December, and it 

 was estimated that the amount would reach 

 5,000,000 pounds before the close of the season. 



Amnesty. A proclamation was issued in 

 September by the President granting pardon to 

 those that were suffering deprivation of civil 

 rights in consequence of polygamous practices, 

 excepting all who had not complied with the 

 conditions contained in President Harrison's 

 proclamation of Jan. 4, 1893. This gave the 

 pardoned an opportunity to register for the 

 election. It was contended by some that the 

 proclamation was more far-reaching than that 

 of President Harrison in 1893, and by others 

 that it was substantially the same. A test case 

 came before Associate-Justice Bartch of the 

 Supreme Court of the State, in the case of a 

 man under indictment for an offense committed 

 after Nov. 1, 1890. President Harrison's procla- 

 mation granted amnesty to those who had not 

 broken the law since that date ; and while the 

 defendant did not lay claim to any benefit from 

 that pardon, he claimed that he came under the 



terms of that of President Cleveland. The jus- 

 tice overruled the plea. 



The Industrial Army. This body of men, 

 on its eastward journey, was taken into the Ter- 

 ritory by the Southern Pacific Railroad again-) 

 the protest of the Governor and camped at Og- 

 den about 1,200 strong. The Territorial militia 

 were called out, and the police of the city were 

 re-enforced by 30 of the police of Salt LaTce 

 City, and the army was kept within certain pre- 

 scribed limits. The Union Pacific Railroad hud re- 

 fused to take them forward except at regular rates. 

 Proceedings were instituted in the courts by the 

 Governor in behalf of the Territory, and the 

 army was finally moved forward. The Governor 

 said in his message : 



It will be observed that the issue joined was 

 whether the Slate of California, its authorities, State, 

 county, or municipal, could organize or encourage 

 and aid the organization of its dependent paupers, 

 criminals, and idle, dissolute classes, and with assist- 

 ance, connivance, and corporation of the new South- 

 ern Pacific, crowd them into stock cars as if they 

 were cattle, swine, or sheep, without adequate cloth- 

 ing for protection from the severe inclemency of the 

 early spring; without money, food, medical attend- 

 ance, or supplies; transport them beyond their 

 borders, through the State of Nevada, to the end of 

 their lines into Utah, and there clump them with im- 

 punity as charges and burdens on the latter, without 

 liability upon the part of the carrier, knowingly doing 

 it, or the party preparing it to be done. 



The Utes. The movement to transfer the 

 Southern Utes from Colorado to Utah failed. 

 In November about 900 Utes left their Colorado 

 reservation and entered Utah, doing some dam- 

 age in San Juari and Grand Counties. An ap- 

 peal was made to the Governor by the authori- 

 ties of those counties, and he dispatched a request 

 for United States troops to the Secretary of the In- 

 terior ; he also sent arms and ammunition to the 

 settlers. Gen. McCook sent an officer to confer 

 with the Utes, and they were persuaded to return 

 to their reservation. They disclaimed having 

 had any warlike intentions, and professed to 

 have been hunting for game. 



The Enabling Act. The bill for the admis- 

 sion of Utah as a State was introduced by the 

 Territorial delegate in Congress in December, 



1893. It was referred to the Committee on Ter- 

 ritories, was reported favorably, and passed with- 

 out division. On Dec. 18 it was read twice in 

 the Senate, and referred to the Committee on 

 Territories. It was reported with amendments 

 and a recommendation for its passage May 17. 



1894. It was placed on the calendar, but was 

 called up out of its order on July 10 and passed 

 without division on the 13th. The House con- 

 curred in the Senate amendments. The original 

 bill provided for the necessary preliminaries to 

 take place in 1894, so that the Representative 

 and Senators could be elected and take their 

 seats in the last session of the Fifty-third Con- 

 gress. But the Senate amendments changed 

 the dates so that those officers may take their 

 seats in the first session of the next Congress. 

 The delay in the Senate made necessary the 

 postponement of the elections for delegates to 

 the Constitutional Convention. They were elected 

 in November, at the regular Territorial election, 

 and will meet in March, 1895, to frame a State 



