Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-06-19
Pays a Splendid Compliment to
Our Excellent SchoOl System,
INTERESTING COMPARISON
Utah,, Great Department store some
thing Of Mining aud Farming
ny irrigation.


state: lnr..
The number OF adult male population
Of q years Of age and upward 10 every
100 children of school age between the
age of ana Is years in Utah Is 'iJ'
In New Jersey the number OF adult
male population Of q years and upward
is 1886 to every 100 children of school
age.
The number of children from to il
years OF age to every 100 OF the popu-
lation IN Utah Is 1915 The number Of
the same to every 100 population hi New
Jersey Is Is, showing that there are ~
more children IN Utah In each lOO
OF the population than In New Jersey.
There Is an impression that utahs
population IL recruited by emigration
from foreign lands According to the
census Of 1900 Utah had 222.s12 native
horn inhabitants and 531 Of foreign
birth. Total, 1851 The percentage
CT foreign-bo Inhabitants IN Utah IL
1874 per cent According to the same
census the foreign. born population OF
New Jersey amounted 10 92s per cent.
According to the report Of the United
States Commissioner OF education,
Utah expended for public schools dur
lnr 1901 per capita of total population
y4I2: New Jersey during the same PEE
r'cd expended $S.72 per capita OF total
population, or 81 less for each person In
The State than did Utah.
From the same source the figures
showing the illiteracy In Utah and New
Jersey ara obtained as follows. Utah,
native, l.2 per cent; foreign, 4G per
cent. New Jersey, native, 2.3 per cent;
foreign, 1874 per cent. Utah expended
1914 cents per day, or s25.07 per year for
each pupil, New Jersey expended l73
cents, or Ss24s per year for each pupil
In the public schools. The number Of
school days per year In New Jersey Is
somewhat greater than In Utah. The
percentage of pupils III private schools
IN Utah Ia 1855 per cent, In New Jersey
l2b3 per cent Seyenty-fve per cent OF
The population of Utah Is Mormon"
One Of the great department stores Of
the United States Is lions Cooperative
Mercantile Institution Joseph +.
Smith, president Of the Mormon"
Church. Is also the president OF this
store. It's cash sales last year amount
ed 70 nearly A000.OQo. II has wholesale
t|iib ttRui anu IL HitN Dt
said that Ii deals In everything. IL also
manufactures boots and shoes and
rough clothing. IL has agencies
Throughout this section Of the country.
Its drummers penetrate every remote
settlement. The Mormon merchants
VINO buy at Wholesale are Inclined to
patronize this great commercial con-
Germ OF the Church first. The people
who purchase goods over the counters
also throw all the trade they can 10
the institution OF their Church. Ac-
cording to the latest statistics there
were 3iS,S24 communicates In the Nor
mon Church. This gives their big
store wonderful clientele.
utah II one OF our greatest mineral
producing states. Among the minerals
silver Is king. the value Of that product
during 1901 being $6,SQi, slG.iS; in gold.
ySsis,SOS.6l; lead, &c. ,96750: copper,
ss.!9V.2atSS: total mineral products,
81. s0s. S3457.
one OF the great mining towns OF the
west u Park city, 2S miles from Salt
Lake city II IL situated In the noun
Palms at an altitude OF 1900 feet above
sea level and is a typical mining town.
Here is located the great Ontario
mine At the last report si4. OOO, 900 had
been taken from this mine since Il was
opened. II Is not being worked as much
now as In former years. and last year
only $4,000 in dividends was taken
out There are 100 men employed al
the ontario mine at the present time.
The mine In this camp from which
The most money Il being taken at the
present time is the Silver King. This
Is the mine that gave TO Senator
Lhomas kearns his enormous fortune.
ne Is now one of the millionaire Sena-
tors OF the United States. II was but
dozen years ago when Senator Kearns
was working as miner al $3.50 per
day. A part OF the time he was what
is called shift boss. He purchased
INTO the then undeyeloped Silver King
mine and after It's apparently inex-
haustible deposits we're revealed Thorn.
as kearns discovered that he was a
millionaire. Associated with Mr..
kearns In this mine Is Mr. David
Keith.
y The Silver King employs 400 men and
It's payroll amounts to $4,000 per
month. II pays dividends Of 500 900 a
month and an extra dividend OF 800.
wv each Christmas, or total OF 81. 300
200 per annum. Altogether. 5000. 900
has been taken out Of the Silver King
mine.
Senator Kearns has large interest
IN new mining property very near the
Silver King called the Kearns- Keith
mine, which promises to rival the sn.
yer King as producer.
8 The DAILY West is paying property.
II paid last year In dividends 81 275 600
The mine belongs TO the Bambergers
a prominent Salt Lake City family.
While silver Is the principal metal
mined at Park city the ore carries con
siderable gold. 80 that these mines are
gold as well as silver producers While
Utah ranks high as a mineral produc.
ing state. IL ranks still higher as an
agricultural and stockgrowing state.
z utsh contains a total of j4357.920
sores Of land. or A92s square miles
only little more than one-third Of this
vast area has been surveyed. When
this Is said IL can be appreciated what
vast area Of the state is unsuryeyed
snd practically unexplored
Farming In Utah must Se carried on
BY Irrigation. The rainfall Is not sufi-
Client TO grow any kind Of crops The
great difficulty In many Of the large
valleys Is the securing Of sufficient
water FOR irrigation purposes. Where
water is obtainable, however, the irri-
CATION has been established over the
land, It has become very valuable. The
New Jersey farmer would consider two
u three hundred dollars per acre very
high price for land for agricultural pur.
poses. But u Is not an unusual thing
or land that Is Irrigated and under
cultivation TO bring that much per acre
n Utah. And at such a price farming
IN Utah Is very profitable and pays n
big Interest on the investment
There Is no better proof than this Of
he fertility OF the land here. The soil
: a dec0mposed lava, full Of alkah.
which is completely neutralized when
water Is applied, Vast capital has been
invested here IN irrigation schemes.
Irrigation is generally carried on by
companies, who dig a canal and estab-
ish lateral bitches extending In every
direction over the farms they are 10
rrigate. They may charge the owner
" the land certain price per acre for
'unHing the water through his land aud