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and 1.749 students. Total expenditure on education (1918), 5,356,554 dollars.

Charity. — Apart from almshouses and asylums for imbeciles there are 13 benevolent institutions within the State. Eight of these are hospitals, one of which belongs to the Federal Government, one to Salt Lake City, and one to Salt Lake County. The State has an institution for the deaf, the dumb, and the blind, with 146 inmates in 1915 ; an industrial school with 141 juveniles under its control, and a mental hospital with 536 patients in 1915. There are three orphanages and various other charitable in- stitutions (including seven hospitals) provided by private associations or religious bodies. On January 1, 1916, the almshouses had 219 pauper inmates. In 1915 the counties spent 196,311 dollars for relief of indigents.

Finance. — For biennium ending November 30, 1 920, the revenue and expenditure were : —

Dollars Cash on hand, Nov. 30, 1918 ..... 1,505,512

Receipts, 1918-20

Total .... Total disbursements, 1918-20.

Cash on hand, December 1, 1920

24,942,209

26,447,721 24,546,535

1,901,186

The estimated assessed valuation, 1919, amounted to 675,000,000 dollars. The bonded debt of the State on November 30, 1920, amounted to 3,435,000 dollars.

By the State Statistician the total value of all 'property in 1915 was estimated at 674,290,211 dollars.

Production and Industry. — The area of unappropriated and unre- served lands within the State on June 30, 1915, was 28,076,285 acres, of which 13,545,799 acres were surveyed and 19,818,442 acres unsurveyed. The State contains 7,430,084 acres of state forest in 1917. In 1910 it had 21,676 farms with a total area of 3,397,699 acres, of which 1,368,211 acres were improved land. The total value of all farm property in 1910 was 150,795,201 dollars.

In 1920 the chief crops were wheat, 5,366,000 bushels ; oats, 3,143,000 bushels; potatoes, 3,298,000 bushels; hay, 1,265,000 tons. Maize, barley, and rye are also grown. Much attention is paid to vegetables and fruit trees. There is a considerable live-stock industry. On January 1, 1921, the numbers were : horses and mules 148,000, milch cows 108,000, other cattle 473,000, sheep 2,245,000, swine 103,000. The wool clip (1919) yielded 15,800,000 pounds of wool.

The State is unique in the diversity of its metal production, particularly of precious and semi-precious metals, having valuable mines, chiefly gold, silver, copper, and coal. Other products are manganese ores, gypsum, petro- leum, sulphur, zinc, and salt.

In 1910 there were 749 manufacturing establishments employing 1,660 salaried officials and 11,785 wage earners. Their aggregate capital amounted to 52,627,000 dollars ; cost of material in a year 41,266,000 dollars ; value of output 61,989,000 dollars. The statistics of the more important industries in 1910 are given in The Statesman's Year- Book for 1916, p. 619.

There are no navigable streams, but singularly good facilities for trans-