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UTAH. 



_._- in the State, $87,361,254; total value of 

 live stock taxed, $7,238,085; number of animals, 

 1,835,051; total assessed valuation of all rail- 

 roads in the State, $11,914,287; value of street 

 car companies alone. $350,327 ; value of telegraph 

 lines, $92,058; telephone property, $144.720; tax 

 levy for State purposes, 4i mills; for schools, 3 

 mills; making a total of 7 A mills. 



Beet Sugar. The Utah County Factory, at 

 Lehi, paid the farmers in 1899 for beets $243,000. 

 The average was 4,400, and the tons produced 52,- 

 025. The report for the year ending March 1, 

 1899, showed that 43,111 tons of beets were 

 worked last year, 11.49 per cent, of sugar was 

 extracted, and 9,999,950 pounds of sugar was pro- 

 duced. The sum of $191,120.84 was paid for beets, 

 $38,421.20 was paid for labor, and $58,318, or 

 25 per cent., was paid in dividends to the stock- 

 holders. The sale of sugar and pulp, including 

 sugar on hand, amounted to $510,437.90, an in- 

 crease of $95,000 over the previous year. The 

 chief item of expense was in putting in the Os- 

 more process for extracting the sugar from the 

 low products. This yielded a profit of $19,000. 



On Oct. 20 the first branch sugar factory to 

 be built in the United States was opened at 

 Springville, 24 miles from Lehi. The juice is ex- 

 tracted from the beets at the Springville branch 

 and piped to Lehi through a 5-inch pipe. The 

 Ogden factory the past year paid to farmers 

 about $150,000 for beets delivered at the factory. 

 About 3.000 acres were devoted to the raising of 

 these beets, and the number of tons harvested 

 was about 31,000. The pulp sells readily to the 

 farmers at 50 cents a ton. Farmers report it as 

 a very satisfactory fattening food for stock. 



Bounties. Summit County's clerk sent a veri- 

 fied claim against the State for reimbursement 

 for half of the amount of $1,234.02, paid in May 

 and June for scalps of destructive wild animals. 

 Deducting $5.25 for bounty on 7 coyotes, the re- 

 mainder represented the premium on 81,958 squir- 

 rels at li cent each. 



The claim of Utah County for bounty paid on 

 muskrats, gophers, pelicans, fishhawks, loons, 

 squaks, fish ducks, and English sparrows for the 

 first six months of the year amounted to $877.32. 



Irrigation. After ten years of labor, the 

 Hill's Canal and Irrigation Company completed 

 its task, in April, 1899, and about lOloOO acres of 

 land, the most fertile in eastern Utah, will be 

 reclaimed. A vast quantity of water is yearly 

 permitted to flow into the Gulf of California by 

 way of Price river, which this enterprise will 

 employ in the upbuilding of Castle valley. 



Crops. The growing of alfalfa seed has be- 

 come an important industry in Utah. Fifty dol- 

 lars an acre is easily made in raising seed for the 

 market. In 1898 125 car loads of seed were 

 shipped out of the State, which, at 5 cents a 

 pound, netted the farmers $187,500. The demand 

 came from all over the United States, and from 

 France, Germany, and Australia. The value this 

 year of the seed produced is $200,000. 



" Alfalfa honey " commands the highest price. 



Sorghum is produced in Utah. The value of the 

 output is about $50,000. Wine, cider, and vine- 

 gar show an output of $50,000 more. Dried ap- 

 ples, peaches, plums, and apricots are worth from 

 $50,000 to $75,000 a year. 



" Utah beats the world for potatoes," is an old 

 saying that has never been successfully chal- 

 lenged. The annual production is about $400,000. 



The yield of wheat for Utah in 1899 was 3,736,- 

 454 bushels, the yield per acre being 20.7 bushels. 

 The yield for 1898 was 5,105,184, valued at $2,- 

 756,799, the yield per acre being 28 bushels. 



The Utah factories canned 90,000 cmSM of to- 

 matoes this year, a case containing 24 cans of 2 

 pounds. 



I tah oats averaged during the past six y .n - 

 34.6 bushels an acre, worth $12. The year* Is'.ts 

 shows the highest yield, also the highest average 

 value, being 39.7 bushels, worth $15.09. 



Dairying. In 1890 there were 3 factories in 

 the State; to-day there are about 60 modern 

 butter and cheese factories, representing an in- 

 vestment of $200,000. The factory output in but- 

 ter and cheese during the year was estimated at 

 $700,000, and the by-products of these factories 

 skim milk and whey at between $100,000 and 

 $150,000. 



Fish and Game. The Fish and (Jame Warden 

 shipped 110.000 mountain graylings from Klk 

 qreek, Montana, to the fish hatchery near Mur- 

 ray, Utah, in June. In 1898 150 small bass fry 

 and 200 spawning fish were taken from I tah 

 lake to stock private ponds in the State. 1'y a 

 proclamation of Feb. 10 the President of the 

 United States set aside a reserve of 75,000 acres 

 of land known as Fish Lake plateau in Sc\ ier 

 County. After June 15, midnight, the law pro- 

 hibiting angling for trout expires, but fishing in 

 closed streams is unlawful. A new hatchery \\a- 

 located in June on 5J acres of land in Big Cot- 

 tonwood cafton. Elk. antelope, and mountain 

 sheep are nearly extinct in the State. The feath- 

 ered wild game, except the California quail and a 

 few Eastern quail, are rapidly disappearing. The 

 Dixie quail are found in larg** number* in Wash- 

 ington and Kane Counties. The pheasant or mllcd 

 grouse, the prairie chicken, and the sage hen 

 are becoming scarce. There were 130 arrests for 

 violations of fish and game laws, and 104 convic- 

 tions, in 1897 and 1898, with $457.70 fine 

 ported. 



Insane Asylum. The number of patient- in 

 the asylum Sept. 30 was: males, 153; female-. 

 148; total, 301. Admitted during month: males, 

 2: females, 3; total, 5. Under treatment: male-. 

 155; females, 151; total, 306. Discharged during 

 month: males, 3; females, 4; total, 7. Remain- 

 ing Oct. 31: males, 152; females, 147: total. 2W. 

 Balance on hand Oct. 1, $153.04; received during 

 month. $3,143.06: disbursed, $3,097.45; balance on 

 hand Nov. 1, $385.58. 



Laud. The amount received from the sale of 

 land during 1898 was $196,319.29; amount in- 

 vested, $419,688.35; on hand for investment Jan. 

 1. 1899, $37,265.95; number of preferred claini- 

 filed, 1.936; number of acres offered and -old 

 April 9, 636.11; number offered May 14, 5.000 

 acres, sold 1,880; number offered Dec. 1, in Iron 

 County, 16.939 acres, sold 560; offered in San- 

 pete County. ir..UM.!i5. sold 2.513.44; offered in 

 San Juan County, 32,659.63 acres, sold 2,400 ; num- 

 ber of acres of school land appraised for the year. 

 102,655.19, value $122,821.31. Eastern Utah 'i- at 

 last rid of its greatest plague spot, the notorious 

 " strip " that lies between the Uintah and the 

 Uncampahgre reservations, one and a half miles 

 east of Fort Duchesne. When the sui*ve\ s were 

 made for these two reservations this strip of land 

 was left out of both, and later became a kind of 

 no-man's land. It is triangular, 3 miles IOIIL .11 

 its narrowest and 6 miles at the widest point. It 

 contains vast deposits of asphaltum. During the 

 year 106 applications to ha-e were filed, covering 

 127,846.33 acres of land, and from these 71 1- 

 were executed, embracing 66,698.63 acres, the ap- 

 praised value being $86,458.85, and the annual 

 rental $1,742.56. 



Militia. The 250 men of the Utah artillery 

 sailed from Manila for home on July 1, leaving 



