UTAH. 



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The report says that in the two years just closed 

 a total of 1,010,574 pounds of fish have been caught 

 in the public waters and sold in local markets, 

 representing a value of $68,391, and these figures 

 do not take in the catch made for private con- 

 sumption. 



Incomplete reports show that during the year 

 66,392 wild ducks were killed and sold, and that 

 724 grouse were marketed. These, together with 

 12,760 pounds of venison, represent a value of 

 $12,433. 



Owing to the avariciousness of market hunters, 

 large game animals once abundant, such as the 

 elk, antelope, and mountain sheep, are fast be- 

 coming extinct, and the same is true of sage hens, 

 pine hens, and various kinds of native grouse. 



Industries. There has been ample proof that 

 flour milling might become one of the most pros- 

 perous of Utah industries could an outside market 

 be found for the surplus. There are 75 flour mills 

 in the State, with a capacity for turning out at 

 least 2,000,000 barrels of flour in a year, and this 

 would mean the consumption of 9,000,000 bushels 

 of wheat, almost twice the yield, of the State for 

 this year. The mills stand idle a good portion of 

 the time, while the wheat is shipped out unground 

 or consumed at home as stock feed. Good judges 

 place the wheat crop for 1900 at nearly 4,000,000 

 bushels. 



Fifty-seven creameries are working in the State, 

 5 having been added during the year. The capital 

 was estimated at $200,000. Considerable new 

 capital has been added within the year, and the 

 output, including butter, cheese, and skim milk, 

 amounted to about $900,000. Considerable busi- 

 ness is still done in the old line of dairy work. 



The beet-sugar industry produced nearly 

 $1,000,000 in income during the year. Hitherto 

 the great sugar works at Lehigh absorbed most of 

 the beet product, a great system of piping having 

 been laid for the drawing of beet juice from out- 

 lying sections. New factories have started up, and 

 every inducement is offered to farmers for the 

 raising of beets. Even the pulp, which the fac- 

 tories resell to the farmers, has proved valuable 

 as a fattener of cattle. 



The industry has been stimulated too by the 

 prices offered by the Colorado Sugar Manufactur- 

 ing Company for next year's crop of Utah beets. 

 Manager McFarland has announced the following 

 schedule: Twelve per cent, purity, $4.25; 13 per 

 cent, purity, $4.58; 14 per cent, purity, $4.91; 15 

 per cent, purity, $5.25; 16 per cent, purity, $5.58; 

 17 per cent, purity, $5.91; 18 per cent, purity, 

 $6.25; 19 per cent, purity, $6.58; 20 per cent, 

 purity, $6.91; 21 per cent. 'purity, $7.58. 



In the last tw y o years sugar-beet raising has in- 

 creased enormously. Cache County alone yielded 

 6,500 tons of beets in 1900, produced on about 500 

 acres. The beets bring $3.50 a ton delivered on 

 the cars. 



An offer from the Ogden Sugar Company has 

 also raised the price of beets at home. A year ago 

 it paid $4.25 a ton; this year it offers $4.50 for 

 beets containing 12 or more per cent, of saccharine 

 matter. 



The tomato crop was unusually heavy, and the 

 canning factories were unable to cope with it. 

 Hence many farmers complain that contracts were 

 broken, and threaten damage suits. The factory 

 people say that some of the tomatoes were dam- 

 aged by frost. There is a call for more canning 

 factories. The figures for this year show 225,000 

 cases. 



For a Library. John Q. Packard has given a 

 tract of land worth $20.000 to found a free library 

 in Salt Lake City, and $75,000 to build with. 





Mothers^ Congress. The Mothers' Congress 

 held its third annual meeting in Salt Lake City 

 in April. Its discussions were full and interesting, 

 and the attendance at the meetings large. Kin- 

 dergarten work was treated from every point of 

 view. The duty of mothers in the matter of the 

 spiritual training of the young, prenatal influ- 

 ences, heredity, environment, and the relations of 

 the family, especially those of parents and chil- 

 dren, were treated exhaustively. The evening ses- 

 sions were especially large and spirited. 



Art Institute. The Utah Art Institute in it* 

 report says that the 31 lectures under the insti- 

 tute's direction for the purpose of awakening in- 

 terest in art have been productive of much good. 

 Many pictures were given to the institute. The 

 revenues were $3,409.40, and the expenditures were 

 within this sum. 



Monument. Utah's monument to pioneers, 

 surmounted by a statue of Brigham Young, was 

 unveiled by his great-granddaughter on July 25. 

 Near the base is a figure group representing an 

 Indian, a trapper, and a pioneer. The sculptor is 

 C. E. Dallin. 



Mormons. Reports from returned missionaries 

 seem to show that the gaining of converts to Mor- 

 monisin is a harder task in France and Germany 

 than in England even, and is easiest in Scandi- 

 navia. The latter folk held a jubilee in Salt Lake 

 City to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 

 advent of Mormonism into Denmark, Sweden, and 

 Norway. 



The ninety-fifth birthday anniversary of Jo- 

 seph Smith, founder of Mormonism, occurred 

 on Dec. 23, and was celebrated in the new Six- 

 teenth Meetinghouse, dedicated the same day, 

 and built on the corner of Fifth West and North 

 Temple Streets, Salt Lake City, on the site of a 

 log hut put up in 1849 which served for both 

 church and school. The new building was packed 

 with people, and among the old settlers was the 

 aged widow of the prophet. 



Irrigation. About the middle of December the 

 Utah Light and Power Company disclosed an ar- 

 rangement for constructing four great reservoirs 

 in the Ogden canon, which will furnish 10,000 

 horse power, irrigate 75,000 acres of arid land, and 

 supply Ogden with water. The water thus stored 

 would enable the power company to operate its 

 power plant the entire season up to its full capacity 

 (10,000 horse power) while irrigating lands in the 

 western and northwestern parts of the county and 

 adjoining portions of Box Elder County. It would 

 also give a water supply for a city system greater 

 than the one that now supplies Ogden. 



Unoccupied Land. It has often been said that 

 the most desirable lands of Utah have been settled 

 for years, yet each year shows great tracts of fer- 

 tile land reclaimed by irrigation. The State offers 

 an inducement of ten years' time for paying for 

 land, and because of this many intending settlers 

 on Government tracts relinquish their holdings to 

 the State, have the Land Board select the holdings 

 to apply upon some of the State grants, and then 

 contract with the State for the purchase of the 

 land on the easiest terms. In this way the State 

 is enabled to do an enormous amount of business 

 in the sale of lands for the benefit of Utah's public 

 institutions. 



Through the operation of the enabling act by 

 which Utah was admitted to the Union, four sec- 

 tions in each township, or about 5,760 000 acres, 

 were granted for the maintenance of the public 

 schools. 125.000 acres were ceded for maintaining 

 the university. 500,000 acres were allowed for es- 

 tablishing reservoirs, 200,000 acres for the Agricul- 

 tural College, 100,000 acres each for to help sup- 



