The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-30
VALUABLE DATA
ABOUT OUR STATE
Statistician Haines Submits Re-
port Filled With Interest
ing Figures.
WONDERFUL RESOURCES
OF UTAH ARE SHOWN
What Has Been Produced
Within Its Borders During
Past Two Years.

State Statistician II. 7. Haines oil
Thursday submitted his biennial repor
TO the governor. The report is vol
luminous one and contains u vast amount
of valuable data 1t is perhaps thu
most complete report that has been sub
mitted by the bureau. Here is re
sumo of the document;
There arc $4,000. 900 acres OF land with.
in this state susceptible OF farming, and
less than one-tenth OF that amount Is
actually under cultivation.
Carey Land Act Projects.
About one third OF the requests foI
information received by the bureau con
Germ Utah lands; hence the bureau rcgu-
larly sends its reports to different librar-
les throughout the country. The projects
taken up i'll Utah with date Of each and
the amount OF acres involved arc the Iol-
lowing; First, Lake Bonneville. 1891
second, Beaver Land. Irrigation & Power
company, Milford. 10000 acres; third
Oasis Land Irrigation company, Milard
Steess project Emery county. 1855. IL
acres; fifth Buckhorn Irrigation com
pany. Price, 2s,SS9.S7 acres; sixth. r. II,
so,sso acres; seventh. D. B. Mackintosl
project Millard county. 10000 acres;
eighth. Uintah Realty 6 Investment COM
pany, Uintah county, % 600 acres; ninth
Washington county. $4,000 acres; tenth.
the Green River company, Emery county,
$4,000 acres. Other Carey act projects
are under way.
Reservoir Projects.
There are two reservoir projects IN the
state: The Hatchtown state reservoir
project, Garfield county. 1000 acres: cost
of reservoir $3.50. 600. price of land $40 to
$50; the Piute state reservoir project.
IL ..c
voir 100000. Private capital controls a
large number of other irrigation projects.
and the United States government Is
constructing the Strawberry reservoir
project, the reservoir OF which holds $780,
600 acre-feet.
Enlarged Homestead Act.
Under this act permitting a person 10
take tax up $50 acres OF arid land. 1874
pally in Beaver. Milard. Box Elder. Iron.
Juab, San Juan and Tooele counties.
though land in sixteen counties has been
taken. Since the United States land Of
nee was established in Salt Lake City
1S $50 homestead entries have been made.
607l under the desert land act. The pub
lie lands OF Weber. Cache and Davis
counties are practically exhausted.
Dry Farming,
The present year has been trying to
the dry farmer. as the precipitation from
January l. 1910. TO July ] was only 2.4s
inches. while the year before il was 9,2S
inches. Cache county has long had the
best results In dry farming, Juab coming
yield per acre was 26 65 bushels and the
cost OF producing $3.50 per acre. The
unappropriated public lands in Utah sur
veyed and unsurveyed totaIed on July l.
1910. 36.396,41z.
Canals and Reservoirs.
are accessible. yet there are in canals
OF the total capitalization of s104 449. 225
the canals having cost s7.5ss.29l to con
struct The length of the canals Is
21s1 miles: the cost of maintaining them
in 1905. s247.525: the acreage irrigated
in 1905 was. 6s@.aS7. This covers 80
showed an estimated cost of $780,
go; annual maintenance. $16.5T0.
Forests and Timber.
Utah has thirteen forest reserves; Ash
ley. Cache, Dixie. Fillmore. Fishlake. La
Sal. Manti. Minidoka. Nebo. Pocatello.
acreage of these is 7.436.327: of this 5SI,-
116 acres have been alienated or let for
pasture. etc. leaving net forest acreage
S Ser Is ee eo total ns sa%s total Of ras is % Of
the timber cut in 1907 was Slo.GI3.3S: In
1905. s2o.912.5o; in 1903, sls,943.44, The
gross receipts from the forests In 1909
We're: Grazing fees. sll3.413.05: timber
sales. s19.996 IS; trespass. s2S4.27, spe-
cial use. s66l.26
Government Works in State.
There are 1925 miles of government
telephone lines in Utah and 1878 miles
OF government wagon roads. During
1903. 1889 cattle and horses and 944-
5S4 sheep and goats We're grazed OH the
national forests. During the year end
ing July. 1910, s+oo.744 was spent in
s71.so for the poor. eight saloons
were granted licenses by counties, the
total number Of other saloons being 354.
The wool clip for 1910 was l9.451,000
mounds PainEf O00 mn fpr he n
before,
Land and Industrials.
The surveyor general SURVEYED dur
ing 1910, .5l ,os6;S7 acres of land; all in
Of the value of ss57'5ss at the ' ovens. ns
The farm products in 1919 were of this
etc. 2o,sSs.O56 Utah flour mills ground
2.24l;sS7 bushels OF wheat il 1908 and
in 1909. 2.3s7,9l3 Candy of the value OF
si,i3a.ise d; & was produced in 1910. GS per
factories produced s253.ll9 in 1908 and
s2Il .soa IN 1903: canneries. ss4s.595 in
1908: knitting factories; s2s1 4s6 d9o9);
companies. s1sl.739 G909: breweries
sl.3l3.s44 u9o9l: and sl,200.37S 190S):
cement. ss47.o9o $1,000: salt sI3o.O72
tlSo3); packing houses. $3.50. 900 G910).
Mortgage Indebtedness
The mortgage indebtedness of Utah.
same date previous year. S64 ,SSS O9
There are ninetyeight newspapers and
ma Hazines in Utah.
J The Immigrant aliens in Utah In 1909
Were 2Io2. nf which u we're Armenian.
Chinese. l54 Slavonian. l0l Dutch. 63j
English. 244 German. 3SS Greek. 1872
Italian tnorthl, i4g Italian tsouth). 210
Swedes and 16 Welsh.
salt Lake building permits In 1910
were 81. $4,000. as against $s077. 020 the
previous year The marriages in 1903
in Utah numbered $500 fhe pear hofora
APO; the divorces IN 1908 were $50; In
1908 they were 493.
CHARLES HOLMES AGAIN