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 * rowspan = 2 |Counties.
 * colspan = 3 |Registered.
 * colspan = 3 |Voted.
 * Men.
 * Women.
 * Total.
 * Men.
 * Women.
 * Total.
 * Salt Lake
 * 14,083
 * 13,328
 * 27,411
 * 13,102
 * 12,802
 * 25,904
 * Utah
 * 5,921
 * 5,922
 * 11,843
 * 5,649
 * 5,650
 * 11,299
 * Cache
 * 3,112
 * 3,210
 * 6,322
 * 2,946
 * 3,085
 * 6,031
 * Box Elder
 * 1,759
 * 1,548
 * 3,307
 * 1,677
 * 1,466
 * 3,143
 * Davis
 * 1,175
 * 1,327
 * 2,502
 * 1,133
 * 1,277
 * 2,410
 * Carbon
 * 986
 * 511
 * 1,497
 * 937
 * 477
 * 1,414
 * Uintah
 * 851
 * 683
 * 1,534
 * 796
 * 622
 * 1,418
 * Iron
 * 743
 * 672
 * 1,415
 * 708
 * 646
 * 1,354
 * Washington
 * 690
 * 752
 * 1,442
 * 690
 * 752
 * 1,442
 * Piute
 * 409
 * 264
 * 673
 * 399
 * 246
 * 645
 * }}|Morgan
 * 408
 * 387
 * 795
 * 398
 * 378
 * 775
 * Rich
 * 404
 * 289
 * 693
 * 398
 * 286
 * 684
 * Wayne
 * 342
 * 302
 * 644
 * 318
 * 309
 * 627
 * Grand
 * 285
 * 135
 * 420
 * 263
 * 129
 * 392
 * Kane
 * 280
 * 341
 * 621
 * 219
 * 285
 * 504
 * San Juan
 * 123
 * 61
 * 184
 * 106
 * 56
 * 162
 * 31,571
 * 29,732
 * 61,313
 * 29,738
 * 28,486
 * 58,198
 * }
 * 219
 * 285
 * 504
 * San Juan
 * 123
 * 61
 * 184
 * 106
 * 56
 * 162
 * 31,571
 * 29,732
 * 61,313
 * 29,738
 * 28,486
 * 58,198
 * }
 * 28,486
 * 58,198
 * }
 * }

It will be seen that in five counties the registration and vote of women was larger than that of men, and in the State a considerably larger proportion of women than of men who registered voted. Women cast nearly 50 per cent. of the entire vote and yet. the U. S. Census of this year showed that males comprised over 51 per cent. of the population.

All of the testimony which is given in the chapters on Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho might be duplicated for Utah. From Mormon and Gentile alike, from the press, from the highest officials, from all who represent the best interests of the State, it is unanimously in favor of suffrage for women. The evidence proves beyond dispute that they use it judiciously and conscientiously, that it has tended to the benefit of themselves and their homes, and that political conditions have been distinctly improved.*

Governor Heber M. Wells at once carried into effect the spirit of the constitution, adopted in 1895, by ap-