UNIVERSALISTS. 



UTAH. 



755 



Whole number of State conventions, 23 ; of 

 Sunday-schools, 659, with 60,757 teachers and 

 pupils; of ministers, 722, with 8 licensed lay 

 preachers; of church edifices, 765. Value of 

 pariah property, above indebtedness, $6,978,- 

 110. One minister is reported in each of the 

 States and Territories of Arkansas, Alaska, Mis- 

 sissippi, Nebraska, Tennessee, and Virginia, 

 and two ministers reside in Colorado. One 

 church organization exists in Arkansas. Four 

 societies, 31 families, and 1 church building 

 and 3 " Union " meeting-houses are returned 

 in Mississippi. The denomination has a church 

 building at Richmond, Va., which is valued at 

 $10,000, but which it does not use. One or- 

 dained minister is preaching in Scotland, as- 

 sisted by several laymen ; several church or- 

 ganizations have been formed in that country, 

 of which those at Dunfermline, Selkirk, and 

 Larbert are particularly mentioned ; a church 

 has been built at Dunfermline, and a Univer- 

 salist book and tract depot has been estab- 

 lished at the same place. The Universalist 

 faith is also preached at missionary stations in 

 England. One biweekly and 5 weekly gen- 

 eral newspapers, 3 Sunday-school papers, 1 

 quarterly review, and 1 annual Register, are 

 published in the interests of the denomination. 

 The Universalist Publishing House, at Boston, 

 Mass., owns the titles and copyrights of 125 

 volumes. One of the schools of the denomina- 

 tion which has been reported in previous years, 

 the Liberal Institute, at Jefferson, "Wis., is no 

 longer in existence, having passed from the 

 hands of the society under the foreclosure of a 



* The families are estimated in the parishes which make 

 no report. 



mortgage. The 11 remaining institutions, of 

 which 5 are classed as colleges or universities, 

 and 6 as seminaries or academies, returned in 

 1877 a total of 87 professors and teachers, 886 

 students, and assets valued at $2,289,000. 



UTAH. Governor Emery, in his message 

 submitted to the Legislature on January 15. 

 1878, says : 



Since the meeting of the last Legislature, the af- 

 fairs of the Territory have continued, in most re- 

 spects, satisfactory. The general health of the 

 people has been good, and peace and order have 

 prevailed throughout the Territory. 



Agricultural crops have been abundant, and the 

 husbandmen have been amply rewarded for their 

 labor. 



The mines, in their further development, have in- 

 creased in positive VHlue, and, where energy and 

 skill have been displayed in working them, promise 

 large returns to their owners. 



Many which but two years since were regarded 

 as mere prospects of doubtful worth have grown 

 into well-developed mines of great value. 



The facilities for milling and smelting have kept 

 pace with the product of the mines. Several exten- 

 sive establishments have been erected for the re- 

 duction of ores, all of which, I believe, are in suc- 

 cessful operation, and afford additional employment 

 for a large number of men. 



Already attention is being directed to the vast 

 coal fields of tlie San Pete country, where are to be 

 found immense veins of bituminous coal of superior 

 quality for coking and ordinary uses. The day ap- 

 pears not distant when these mines will furnish fuel 

 for the smelting of our ores, at a cost probably of 

 one-fourth the money now paid for Pennsylvania 

 coke. This event will mark a new era, giving fresh 

 impetus to our mining and smelting enterprises. 



The finances are not unsatisfactory, there 

 being no great indebtedness above the amount 

 due from the counties ; but some plan needs to 

 be adopted for the settlement of these out- 

 standing accounts, which embarrass the treas- 

 ury. 



Under its present school law every religious 

 denomination in Utah deems it necessary to 

 furnish schools for its children, while but one 

 of these denominations receives any assistance 

 from the public treasury. In Salt Lake alone 

 more than thirty thousand dollars are annually 

 expended for private tuition. This amount of 

 money could furnish schooling for nearly the 

 whole number of children in the city ; whereas, 

 under the present arrangement, it procures in- 

 struction for only about one-fifth of the entire 

 number of the school age. 



It is urged that the Legislature provide more 

 effective methods for the capture and convic- 

 tion of the men who drive out of Utah an- 

 nually large numbers of stolen cattle and 

 horses. These depredations prove a great ob- 

 stacle to the extension of grazing, to which 

 vast areas in the Territory are adapted. 



On the subject of polygamy, Governor Em- 

 ery addresses the Legislature as follows : 



The majority of the people of this Territory be- 

 long to a religious sect Known as the " Latter-Day 

 Saints." I do not intend to discuss the merits or 

 demerits of this new religion, but to refer to one of 

 its distinctive features polygamy. Tins system of 

 marriage has continued here for thirty years, and 



