The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-24

Inc popuLdlOA VI y I0lH 10 liz" "DOUN
100000.
The yearly productions may be summar-
lied as follows:
Vegetable and otler garden products l5y00G
Cattle, 100000 head, value ------------ ll!5hUO
Horses, $4,000, head, value ------------ lO0OlOJl
Sheep, 2 10000 head. value ------------ 100000
Swine, 10000 head, value 5OO,O1
The annual yield of farm and garden
products, and profits of stock-raising and
of the wool clip is estimated to be not less
than SIS, 304, 900.
The manufactured articles for 1855 are
valued at about S90O0,00O.
The output of the coal mines of Utah last
year exceeded in value over :! ,0O0OOO.
The output of precious minerals IN 1888 at
sea-board value was $40, 993,S Sl.
The total business transacted in the ter
ritory, exclusive of railway and telepraphic
business, amounted to something like Sl3O,
100000.
The transactions in real estate in Salt
Like county alone for 1885, as they appear
by the records of that county, aggregated
$3.50. IS.
There are /, 14O miles of railway in opera
ton in Utah, and several new lines in
course of construction and projected.
Telegraph lines connect all the principal
settlements, and the telephone and electric
light are extensively used in the larger
towns.
The real estate is valued at not less than
Sll0,0000O0; the aggregate OF property IS
placed at $3.50, 900, 900, exclusive of mines,
which are untaXed.
The records of the land Office show that
there have been, since its opening in 1869,
Sl57 homestead entries for total acreage
OF lO,O02, Sos acres, and II ,056 presumption
filings for 1926, $50 acres; cash entries
numbered 3,297 for 1923, S29 acres, and desert
- F,,-E +ir,,1N
culture 1,05l, for 127, 500 arces; a total Of
81, 1874 entries and applications for L, 300, 55l
acres.
The private ownership Of lands in the
territory is generally in small tracts. The
average is not to exceed seventy acres to
each owner. The territory is conspicuously
free from land monopoly. The people gen
orally own their own lands, holding titles
from the government.
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.
The manufacturing interests are varied
and of increasing magnitude. Among these
are -four mills, Woolen-mlllS, sawmllls,
planning mills, papermills; clothing, boot
shoe, hat, glove, hosiery, silk, broom, brush,
sash, door. and molding factories irsn,
glass, soap, glue, chemical, furniture,
cooperage, refining, and smelling works !;
foundries, potteries, machine shops, lime
kilns, brick-yards, cement-yards, etc.
MINERAL RESOURCES.
The mineral deposits include gold, silv err
lead, zinc and copper, the finest marbles,
white and colored granite, limestone and
various building stones; there are also an
timony, sulphur, gypsum, manganese, and
beds of asphaltum, ozokerite, ochers, be-
sides petroleum, natural gas, etc. The
precious metals have yielded during the
last seventeen years the sum Of Sl34, 1892, 63O,
i -. -, rvzI
permanency. The coal beds and salt de-
posits are practically inexhaustible, and
new discoveries of valuable minerals are
made every year.
SCHOOLS.
The territorial legislature has provided
a system of public schools and for the sup
port thereof, which is summarized as fol
lows, the particulars being taken from the
statutes of Utah and from the report to
Congress for 1888 Of the commissioner of
schools appointed under the provisions of
the act of Congress of March 3, 1887:
There are twenty-four counties in the
territory, in which there are 344 school
districts, and in these districts there are
400 public schools.
There are GAL teachers and assistants. and
of these forty are non-Mormons
The school population between the ages
c. six and eighteen years. is 81, 943. of
Mormon.
The number of scholars enrolled is 80, 9SS,
OF which 80. I'll are Mormon and 2,267 non
Mormon: Com. Report, PIP. 9, TO-
HOW SCHOOLS ARE MAINTAINED.
These schools are supported as follows:
Bv a territorial tax of mills on the dol
lar for payment of teachers. Trustees are
elected by the taxpayers in each district,
and these trustees are authorized to levy
and collect an additional tax of one-fourth
of / per cent. for general school purposes;
and by vote of majority of the tax
payers in any district further tax, up to
per cent, may be assessed and collected Tor
school purposes. [Com. Report, PIP. 2, "a:
The value of district school property is
S542, 1921. (Ibid., p. r.
The amount paid for school teachers and
appliances for schools for the year ending
June 80. 1888, was 1898, 0S5. (f0td., p. 49,
The text books used in these schools are
as follows: Bancroft's readers; Harring-
ans graded speller; Appleton's elemen-
4o,-4- ao.7 hiorhor- yeOo79Ohips. SDPngPrlan