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period are summarized as follows : Maintenance. 

 $1,000 per month: manual training, $6,000; new 

 buildings, etc., $12,000 ; total, $42.000. 



Deaf, Dumb, and Blind. During the past two 

 years there have been 108 pupils in the school, of 

 whom 90 were deaf and dumb and 18 blind. Of 

 this number, 17 pupils came from Idaho and 1 from 

 Wyoming, and for each of these non-resident 

 pupils the school received $250 a year. There were 

 5 graduates 4 boys and 1 girl ; 2 others are work- 

 ing at the carpenters' trade taught them in the 

 school. 



Insane Asylum. The number of patients con- 

 fined in the asylum as reported was 276, of whom 

 146 were males and 130 females. The cash on 

 hand May 1, was $9,086.16. On Aug. 31 there 

 were 284 patients ; admitted during the month, 6 ; 

 total number under treatment, 292 ; total number 

 discharged, 7; cash on hand Sept. 1, $675.11 : re- 

 ceived during the month, $2,040 ; disbursed during 

 the month, $2,320.34; cash on hand Dec. 31, $491.- 

 50. The actual expenses of the biennial term, end- 

 ing Dec. 31, 1898, was $79,831.78, and $22,016.68 of 

 the amount appropriated by the Legislature has not 

 been drawn. 



State Prison. A pipe line 9,300 feet long, with 

 a reservoir of 80,000 gallons capacity, now brings 

 pure water to the prison. The sewage is conveyed 

 away by a flume 1,200 feet long, and is used for 

 fertilizing. During the biennial period 3,753 saddle 

 cinches and 7,601 dozen pairs of knit socks were 

 made by the prisoners, besides all the clothing of 

 prisoners and insane patients. The cash receipts, 

 besides State appropriations, were $16,597.12, and 

 the net profits $2,987.84. On Dec. 31 there were 171 

 prisoners, at a net cost of 39 cents per capita. The 

 total appropriations asked for by the Board of Cor- 

 rections for the ensuing two years are $658,47 for 

 maintenance, $52.942 ; for gratuities to discharged 

 convicts, $2,000 ; for alterations, etc., $10,905. 



State Board of Health. The new State Board 

 of Health was organized March 10, 1898, with rules 

 and regulations for the inspection of cattle and 

 their detention in quarantine as follows : 



" No animals driven or shipped from infected 

 districts within the quarantine lines defined by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture shall enter 

 the State of Utah unless they shall first have been 

 inspected at the points designated by the State 

 Board of Health, by an inspector of the State of 

 Utah, and found to be free from any contagious or 

 infectious disease or fever ticks; provided, that 

 cattle may be shipped through the State on the con- 

 dition that if found to be infected with splenetic or 

 Texas fever, they must be placed in quarantine 

 pens when unloaded for feeding and watering. 



' Inspectors having inspected animals from the 

 quarantine district prescribed, and having found 

 the said animals free from all contagious or infec- 

 tious diseases and fever ticks, shall issue a certifi- 

 cate of health. 



"All cattle offered for shipment without a certifi- 

 cate of health from the said inspector shall be re- 

 garded as infected, and must follow the rules and 

 regulations hereinbefore stated. 



"The expense of inspection, as herein provided, 

 shall be defrayed by trie owner or owners of the 

 animals inspected." 



State Land Board. The first actual sale of 

 agricultural land in Salt Lake County by the Land 

 Board consisted of 1,960 acres for the sum of 

 $5,537, about $2.83 an acre. Nearly all the pur- 

 chasers paid one tenth down and the balance in 10 

 annual payments with 5 per cent, interest. There 

 were 892 applications filed, with a total acreage of 

 school sections of 58,356; value of improvements, 

 $101,599: value of land, $248,379. The total 



school lands vested in the State was reported to be 

 1,439,342 acres ; number of acres sold, 1,642 ; left 

 vested in the State, 1,437,699. During the year 78 

 applications to lease grazing land were received, 

 representing 109,417 acres. Eight leases, repres- 

 enting 19,483.12 acres, were made at an ap- 

 praised value of $1,963, the resulting rentals 

 amounting to $255.30. The expenses incurred in 

 1897 were $11,639.21, of which $4,768.91 was for 

 selecting and appraising lands and $6,870.30 for 

 clerks, office supplies, etc. 



Agricultural Products. The amount of wheat 

 reported was 3,190,740 bushels, value $2,169,703 ; 

 oats, 838.355 bushels, value $276,657 ; barley, 183,- 

 520 bushels, value $82,584; rye, 42,696 bushels, 

 value $29,777; potatoes, 783,364 bushels, value 

 $235,009 ; cotton, 155 acres, value $4,305. 



Live Stock. The annual report gives the num- 

 ber of milch cows as 56,698, value $1.017,729; other 

 cattle 358,293, value $4,933,162; sheep 1,998,441, 

 value $3,036,830; hogs 53,790, value $293,382; 

 horses 71,178, value $1,207,941 ; mules 1,648, value 

 $40,264. 



Sericulture. A new industry, sericulture, is 

 fully established in the State, and a law passed by 

 the Legislature places a bounty of 25 cents a pound 

 on all cocoons raised. The bill also provides for 

 the appointment of a Silk Commission to examine 

 cocoons for which bounty is claimed, to furnish 

 eggs to the people, provide a market for the silk, 

 and furnish information on all branches of silk 

 culture. The commission has organized classes in 

 sericulture throughout the State. Most of the silk 

 produced is used by families in the State for knit- 

 ting, sewing, etc. The amount paid for bounties 

 this year was about $500. 



Mineral Products. Early in the spring the 

 Intel-mountain Salt Company's refinery burned to 

 the ground, and in May this company was consoli- 

 dated with the Inland Crystal Salt Company. As 

 the Intel-mountain Salt Company had a lease on the 



Blant of the Nebo Salt Manufacturing Company of 

 ephi, the salt industry is now confined practically 

 to the operations of the Inland Crystal Company. 

 At the close of 1897 there were 106.000 tons of salt 

 in stock, and in 1898 28,000 tons of all grades were 

 marketed, as follows : Artificial rock refined salt, 

 10,000 tons at $10 a ton ; crude salt for stock uses, 

 3,000 tons at $3 a ton; crude salt for other pur- 

 poses, 11,500 tons at 75 cents a ton; artificial rock 

 salt, 400 tons at $8.50 a ton ; mined rock salt. 1,000^ 

 tons at $1 to $1.50 a ton : and sulphurized salt, 

 2,000 tons at $8 a ton. The sulphurized salt is 

 a new article of manufacture, and is in great de- 

 mand for medicinal stock purposes. The value of 

 the 28,000 tons marketed was $136,000, and the cost 

 of manufacture, $42.000. 



In 1898 52,000 tons of lime rock, for the use of 

 smelters as flux, was marketed about the same 

 amount as in 1897. 



The total amount of pumice produced during the 

 year was only about 144 tons, a marked decrease 

 from 1897. The output of sulphur was 337 tons in 

 1898, against 1,095 tons in 1897. 



The lithograph stone, a new building stone, has 

 come into notice within the past half year, and 112 

 tons have been marketed. 



The yield of gold, lead, and copper was greater 

 than in 1897. The yield of gold in Utah since .Ian. 

 1, 1898, is computed at 94,900 ounces; of silver, 

 7,544,722 ounces; of lead, 90,346,100 pounds: and 

 of copper, 5.333,638 pounds. The gold yield of the 

 De Lamar Mercur mine, not included in the above, 

 was 11,200 ounces. With the money value of gold 

 at $20.67 an ounce, of silver at 60 cents an ounce. 

 of copper at 11^ cents a pound, and of lead at $3.75 

 per 100 pounds", the total value of the mining pro- 









