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 AREA, POPULATION, INSTRUCTION

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Area, Population, Instruction.— Area, 84,990 square miles, of

which 2,806 square miles is water. The area of the Indian reservations in 1919 was 2,389 square miles, and the population, 3,048 Indians.

Census population on January 1, 1920, 49,396.

The ]>opulation at the date of each of the Federal censuses was : —

Tears

Pop. Per sq. mile Years Pop. Per sq. mile

1880 143,963 T8 1900 749 34 1890 210,779 26 1910 378,351 45

In 1910 the population by sex and race was :

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White

Negro

Asiatic

Indian

Total

Male .... Female

193,118

174,465

691 453

4,064 1,570

196,863 17»>.488

Total.

366,583

1,144

2,501 3,123

373,351

Of the total in 1910, 65,882 were foreign-born, of whom 18,083 were English, 3,963 German, 4,039 Greek, 7,227 Swedes, 1,657 Irish. In 1914, 3,387 immigrants arriving at United States ports gare Utah as their desti- nation. Of these 934 were Anglo-Saxon, 908 Latin, 136 Slav, 768 Greeks, and the others were Jews, Mongolians, or cosmopolitan.

Of the total population in 1910, 46*3 per cent, was urban. The largest city is Salt Lake City with a population of 118,110 according to the census of 1920. Ogden in 1920 had 32,804 inhabitants, and Provo, 10,303.

Latter-day Saints form about 75 per cent, of the Church membership of the State. There are Catholics, Presbyterians. Methodists, Ba; Christian Scientists, and Congregationalists in small numbers.

In 1910 the percentage ol illiterates in the population was only 25. the number being 6,821, of whom 3,636 were foreign-born. School attendance for 20 weeks annually (10 consecutive), in large cities 30 weeks (10 consecu- tive), is compulsory on children from 8 to 16 years of age. In 1918 the 642 public elementary schools had 3,449 teachers and 110,193 enrolled pupils; 43 public high schools had 471 teachers and 10,097 pupils. A State normal school had 853 pupils in 1916 and 34 teachers ; it is maintained in connection with the university. The Latter-day Saints (or Mormons) also main- tain a Church Teachers' Summer "School, which in 1915 had 15 in- structors and 234 students. The same church also has missionary corre- spondence schools, which in December, 1915, had two instructors and 148 correspondent students. The University of Utah was organised 1850, and had 129 instructors and 3,431 students in 1918. Utah has a school of arts and sciences and a State school of mines. The Utah agri- cultural college (founded in 1890) has 86 instructors and 1,196 students. Both of these institutions receive annual grants from the State. The Mormon Church maintains the Brigham Young University at Provo, organised in 1875, which in 1918 had 75 instructors and 1,263 students ; the Brigham Young College at Logan, organised in 1878, which in 1919 had 35 instructors, and 800 students ; the Latter-day Saints' University at Salt Lake City, organised in 1890, had 47 instructors and 1,280 students ; also 7 academies scattered throughout the State having 81 instructors