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from Congress a grant of sixty acres, subse- 

 quently increased to ninety-two, on the Fort 

 Douglas Military Reservation, immediately 

 east of the city. The state legislature has since 

 given over $800,000 for building purpo 

 has arranged for an income by a state tax. The 

 university is organized into schools of arts ami 

 sciences, education, mines, medicine and law. 

 The summer school is even more largely at- 

 tended than the regular winter session. The 

 faculty numbers about 110, and the student 

 enrolment is over 1,600. There is a library of 

 45,000 volumes. 



UTAH LAKE, the largest fresh-water lake 

 in the state of Utah, lying in a valley between 

 mountain ranges, thirty miles southwest of 

 Great Salt Lake. Its greatest length is about 

 twenty-five miles; it is from three to twelve 

 miles wide, and covers an area of about 150 

 square miles, at an altitude of 4,505 feet above 

 sea level. Mountains surround it on all sides, 

 and it receives its water from streams descend- 

 ing the slopes of the Wasatch range. The out- 

 let is by the River Jordan into Great Salt Lake. 



UTE, a branch of the Shoshonean family of 

 North American Indians, who at one time occu- 

 pied the central and western parts of Colorado, 

 the northeastern section of Utah and a portion 

 of New Mexico. In 1879 government agents 

 endeavored to persuade the Utes to turn their 

 attention to agriculture; they were supplied 

 with the necessary implements, as it was 

 realized that the vast regions used by the In- 

 dians for hunting could not be permanently left 

 open to them. A spirit of mutiny arose among 

 them, and the local Indian agent wrote to the 

 Bureau of Indian Affairs for assistance. A body 

 of soldiers under Major Thornburgh was sent 

 to the White River agency in September, but 

 the advancing cavalry was attacked near Milk 

 River, and the major and thirteen of his men 

 were killed. On the same day the Indians 

 killed Meeker, the agent, and his men. An- 

 other force under General Merritt arrived at 

 the agency later, and Ouray, the chief of the 

 White River Utes, made such promises for the 

 good behavior of his tribe that no attempt was 

 made to punish the murderers. 



The Utes have since sold most of their lands 

 to the United States government, and now live 

 on a large reservation in Southwestern Colo- 

 rado. They number about 2,000. 



U'TIOA, an ancient North African city, 

 which, tradition says, was built by the Phoe- 

 nicians in 1100 B.C. It was situated at the 

 northwest end of the Gulf of Tunis. Like all 



Phoenician settlements, it acknowledged the 

 rule of Carthage, but the two cities were nearly 

 equal in power. By submitting promptly to 

 Rome in the Third Punic War, Utica gained 

 some Carthaginian territory and was proclaimed 

 capital of the African province. Cato killed 

 himself there in 46 B. c. when Caesar triumphed 

 at Thapsus. Later, it was the residence of a 

 bishop, and it maintained its ecclesiastical su- 

 premacy until destroyed by the conquering 

 Arabs in the seventh century. 



Related Subjects. The reader may consult Jn 

 this connection the following articles in these 

 volumes : 



Carthage Phoenicia 



Cato, subhead Marcus Punic Wars 

 Porcius (95-46B. c.) 



UTICA, N. Y., a manufacturing city in the 

 eastern part of the state, situated on the Mo- 

 hawk River and on the New York State Barge 

 Canal, fifty-two miles east of Syracuse and 

 ninety-five miles west by north of Albany, the 

 state capital. Utica is the county seat of 

 Oneida County. It is served by the New York 

 Central, the New York, Ontario & Western, the 

 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the Adiron- 

 dack & Saint Lawrence and the West Shore 

 railroads, and by the Utica & Mohawk Valley 

 electric line. The city is pleasantly situated on 

 elevated ground, and is regularly built. In 1910 

 it had a population of 74,419, and in 1916 of 

 85,692 (Federal estimate). 



Utica lies in a section of the state where 

 dairying and the growing of flowers and hops 

 are the chief industries. The city is the ship- 

 ping point for large quantities of cheese, fruit, 

 flowers, especially roses, and manufactured 

 products, and is widely known for its superior 

 woolen, cotton and knit goods. There are over 

 twenty knit-underwear mills here, in which 

 about 7,000 people are employed, and the value 

 of their annual output is estimated at $20,000,- 

 000. Other important manufactures are hot-air 

 furnaces, steam-fitting apparatus, marble prod- 

 ucts, paving material, machine-shop products 

 and firearms. 



Utica is noted for the number of its benevo- 

 lent institutions. It is the seat of the State 

 Hospital for the Insane, the State Home for 

 Aged Masons, Saint Elizabeth's, Saint Luke's, 

 Faxton's and City hospitals, Saint John's, Utica 

 and City orphan asylums, Saint Joseph's Home 

 for Infants, a home for the friendless and one 

 for aged men and women. The educational in- 

 stitutions include Utica Female Academy, Utica 

 Catholic Academy, a training school for teach- 



