Bits of Utah Information
Utah mines have paid a little more than
$80,000,000 in dividends.
There are 2,135,000 acres of land under irrigation, with
10,000,000 more that may be irrigated. About two-thirds of
Utah's population engages in agriculture.
Utah produces annually about 265,000 barrels of salt.
There are 7,424,792 acres of national forest in Utah; and for
the year ending July 1, 1908, they brought $32,152 cash returns.
There are 8,000 miles of public roads in Utah; 3,000 of them in
the mountains.
Population of Salt Lake City, 1908, according to E. L. Polk &
Company, 112,346.
Salt Lake City streets are 132 feet wide.
The building front of each block is 660 feet.
No congestion, no darkness.
Business street surface all asphalt no cobbles.
Salt Lake has 150.054 miles of paved sidewalks and 50 miles more
are being constructed.
Area of Salt Lake City (including reservation), sq. miles 47
Miles of streets 330
Miles of streets graded, 311.35; and paved, 18.65
Railroads entering city 6
Miles electric street railway 105
Miles public sewers 106
Miles gas mains 90
Miles water mains laid 167
Capacity of water supply per day (av.), gals 39,000,000
Electric Street lights 663
Daily newspapers 5
Church bodies 15
Church buildings 44
Volumes in free public library, January 1, 1909 . . . 33,140
Acres in Liberty Park 100
Acres in Pioneer Park 10
Thermal and mineral springs 4
Public schools 27
Teachers in public schools 464
School population 20,114
Per cent, in attendance 94.2
Value of school property $1,461,897
Cost of City and County Building $955,000
Cost of Mormon Temple $1,326,241
Annual death rate per thousand 13
Tax rate, State 5
Tax rate. State school 3
Tax rate, city, mills 13
Tax rate, city schools, mills 9
Tax rate, county 4.5
Tax rate, county schools 2.5
Tax rate, State, city and county, total mills 37
Assessed value Salt Lake City's real and personal property
$48,896,349
Index
Source: Sketches of the Inter-Mountain
States, Utah, Idaho and Nevada, Published by The Salt Lake
Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1909
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