GANNETT.! INDUSTRIES. 1 9 
Utah are practically all owned by their occupants, leasing systems 
being almost unknown there. The value of the farm products was 
estimated at nearly 17,000,000. The live stock owned in the State 
consisted of 100,000 horses, 300,000 cattle, and 2,400,000 sheep. 
The principal crops produced are hay, of which nearly 000,000 tons 
were produced; wheat, of which over 3,000,000 bushels were raised; 
and oats, the product of which was L, 388,000 bushels. Besides these 
a large amount of fruit and of vegetables, principally potatoes, is 
produced. 
The manufactures of the State are confined mainly to its two prin- 
cipal cities. Salt Lake and Ogden, and are extremely varied in charac- 
ter. The gross product of the manufactures of the State in 1890 was 
about $9,000,000, or about one-tenth of 1 per cent of the manufactured 
product of the country. Half of this total comes from Salt Lake City. 
The mineral production of Utah ranks high, especially in the pre- 
cious metals and lead. Its gold production in 1896 was $1,900,000; its 
silver production 8,827,600 ounces, having a coinage value of $1 1,1 1 o, !<;:>; 
its production of lead amounted to 35,578 tons, mainly derived as a 
by-product from its silver ores. The mines of the precious metals are. 
for the most part, located in the Wasatch Range, southeast of Salt 
Lake City, and in the Mercur district, in Utah and Tooele counties. 
The last is a newly opened district and gives great promise for the 
future. 
The copper production of the State was 3,500,000 pounds, and its 
production of coal 116,627 tons. The coal is mined mainly in Carbon 
County, just east of the Wasatch Range, on the line of the Rio Grande 
Western Railroad. 
The latest estimate of the wealth of the State was made in L890, in 
connection with the Eleventh Census, and showed $340,400,000, or 
$1,637 per capita of the population, proving Utah to be one of the 
wealthiest of the States in proportion to its population. 
The State debt at that time was of trifling amount. The receipts 
from taxation on account of the State were $2,300,000, and t lie expend 
itures $2,254,000. 
