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  Utah - LoveToKnow 1911
The vegetable crop in 1899 occupied 24,042 acres, or 3.5% of the acreage of all crops, and its value was 81,250,713, or 15.2% of the value of all crops.
In 1908 the richest producers of gold were Salt Lake (60,872.63 oz.), Juab (58,679.17 oz.) and Tooele (41,969.96 oz.) counties, which produced about nine-tenths of the total for the state; in Salt Lake and Juab counties the principal source was copper ore, but in Tooele county almost all the gold was from siliceous ores.
The beet sugar industry is one of growing importance in Utah: there were in 2900 3 refineries, having a daily total capacity of 1100 tons of beets; in 1905, 4, with a daily total capacity of 2850 tons; and in 1909,' 5, which treated 455,064 tons of beets and produced 48,884 tons of sugar.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Utah   (7938 words)

  
  utah - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
The constitution of Utah was enacted in 1895.
Utah is one of the Four Corners states and is bordered by Idaho and Wyoming in the north, by Colorado in the east, by New Mexico to the southeast across the Four Corners, by Arizona in the south, and by Nevada in the west.
The population of Utah in 2000 was 2,233,169.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/utah   (2844 words)

  
 Geology of Utah
Generations of geologists have chosen to study geology in Utah because erosion and climate have exposed an extraordinary diversity of rocks and geologic structures.
Utah's landscape exposes a variety of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks, more than 500 mineral species, and fossils of widely diverse lifeforms including worms, trilobites, shellfish, corals, fish, dinosaur footprints and bones, and plant and animal remains, including ice-age mammoths.
Utah's varied geologic history endowed Utah with a remarkable array of geologic resources, and uplift and erosion have made locating and exploiting them relatively easy in some areas.
historytogo.utah.gov /utah_chapters/the_land/geologyofutah.html   (2409 words)

  
 Highest-income places in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The highest-income places in the United States are usually considered to be in the Northeast; forty-one of the 100 highest-income counties by per capita income are located in the Northeast (including Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia in the Northeast designation) and forty-six by median household income.
This is a list of the 100 richest places in the United States, regardless of population or number of households.
These rankings are typically not used when describing the richest places, because locations with very small populations may have high per capita incomes due only to a few high-income individuals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richest_places_in_the_United_States   (413 words)

  
 richest places in the united states - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Per capita income is usually used to rank the Richest places in the United States.
The wealthiest region is usually considered to be the Northeast; forty-one of the 100 richest counties by per capita income are located in the Northeast (including Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia) and forty-six by median household income.
100 richest places with a population of at least 1,000
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Richest-places-in-the-United-States   (311 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Conditions In Utah, by Thomas Kearns.
Utah, the newest of the States, to me the best beloved of all the States, appears to be the only one concerning which there is a serious conflict with the country.
Utah was admitted to statehood after, and because of, a long series of pledges exacted from the Mormon leaders, the like of which had never before been known in American history.
Utah, secured her statehood by a solemn compact made by the Mormon leaders in behalf of themselves and their people.
www.gutenberg.org /files/14661/14661-h/14661-h.htm   (9108 words)

  
 Chapter 28--Bancroft's History of Utah 1540-1886
This, the pioneer line of Utah, is the only one which has preserved its original identity, and that it has done so is perhaps due to the fact that it forms the main connecting link between the route of transcontinental traffic and the principal distributing point for the country.
In 1883 the bonded debt of the Utah Central was $4,900,000, of the Utah Eastern $400,000, of the Utah and Northern $972,000, of the Salt Lake and Western $1,080,000, of the Sanpete Valley, $750,000.
Returning to Utah in 1857, he took an active part in promoting the home industries of the territory; he was also travelling agent of the church, assisted in emigration matters, temple building, the coöperative movement, and was, in brief, one of Brigham's most trustworthy agents.
www.utlm.org /onlinebooks/bancroftshistoryofutah_chapter28.htm   (12823 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Who runs Utah?
Utah is a state of 2.2 million, but a couple of dozen people call the shots here.
From his office on Utah's Capitol Hill, Leavitt had been working on solutions, too, but with the mighty three-spoked wheel of power cranked into motion, the road was quickly paved for answers.
Utah is unique in its power structure — no other state has 70 percent of its residents identifying with one religion.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,270018446,00.html   (1048 words)

  
 CURRENTS Winter 2004
In 1995, Utah was 5th nationally in the amount of state and local revenues it spent on education.
The richest members of the community offered their guests "deep sea fish from China which retails for $10 a pound," oysters, snails, and clams, as well as the more common roast pork and chicken.
Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History, published last year by the University of Oklahoma Press, is written in an engaging style and is marvelously informative and thought-provoking.
history.utah.gov /news_and_events/currents/past_issues/winter04.html   (7275 words)

  
 Logan, Utah Dateline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Utah State University is one of the fifty-one Land-Grant schools designated by the federal government as the institutions of higher learning in the respective state for the development of the Federal program of education included in the Morrill and Nelson Acts.
Utah has produced only three artists who might be called "expressionists" and "all were associated with the Logan group: Henri Moser, Everett Thorpe, Howell Rosenbaum." In 1929 he became the "Art Supervisor" for the Cache School District where he was affiliated for over twenty years.
It was the first nursing training school in the state of Utah to require high school graduation of all its applicants for admission.39 In 1926 the north half of the hospital was built by the budge family and the name was changed to the William Budge Memorial Hospital.
www.logan.lib.ut.us /library/archives/loganhist.html   (17399 words)

  
 Utah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Utah is the center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church), of which approximately 60% of the residents are members.
Spring is the wettest season across the north while late summer and early fall are the wettest times in the south and winter is the wettest season in most of the mountain areas.
The record high temperature in Utah was 117 °F (47 °C), recorded at Saint George on Friday, July 5, 1985, and the record low was −69 °F (−56 °C), recorded at Peter's Sink in the Bear River Mountains of northern Utah on Friday, February 1, 1985.
www.cheapsafari.com /search.php?title=Utah   (3033 words)

  
 The Ultimate Utah Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
In 2004, three proposed amendments [1] were put on the Utah election ballot, including the controversial Amendment 3, which defines marriage as a civil union between one man and one woman, and provides no legal recognition for other forms of civil union.
Most of eastern and southern Utah receive 12 inches (300 mm) or less of precipitation per year, while many mountain areas receive more than 40 in (1000 mm) per year, with many areas receiving up to 60 in (1500 mm).
The record high temperature in Utah was 117 °F (47 °C), recorded at Saint George on July 5, 1985, and the record low was −69 °F (−56 °C), recorded at Peter's Sink in the Bear River Mountains of northern Utah on February 1, 1985.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Utah   (2895 words)

  
 Utah Trivia & Tidbits Page 12 - American Profile
Among Utah’s national forests are Dixie in the southeastern part of the state, Sawtooth in the north, Ashley in the east, and Fishlake in the southwest.
Utah is the home of a longtime champion blue spruce tree in the Ashley National Forest in Wasatch County.
Utah’s fourth governor, Simon Bamberger, became only the second Jew to be elected a governor in the United States, when he attained the position in 1916.
www.americanprofile.com /tidbits/utah/p/12.html   (1275 words)

  
 Temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Masonic temples are meeting places for Freemasons, who, though not members of a church, follow some religious practices.
An important aspect of the temple design is that it is intended to lead from the temporal world to the eternal one.
Shown here is the Tirupati temple, the most visited temple in the world and the second richest religious shrine after the Vatican.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Temple   (1082 words)

  
 Senate Votes and Positions Descriptions
Most years, it is the place where greater than 100,000 caribou gather to give birth and raise their young.
The publicly owned wild places of Utah, managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), are world-renowned for their spectacular beauty, with deep, narrow red rock canyons, fantastic sandstone arches, tremendous open vistas, and wild rivers.
Utah’s BLM wildlands provide homes to at least two dozen endangered or sensitive wildlife species, including the desert bighorn sheep, cougar, peregrine falcon, and the endangered desert tortoise and Bonneville cutthroat trout.
www.americanwilderness.org /reportcard/senate_descriptions.htm   (1343 words)

  
 Historic Utah - Utah Travel Planner - Bed and Breakfast Inns of Utah
The history of Utah is as varied as the landscape of the state.
Also within the park is the This is the Place Monument, raised in 1947, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Mormon settlers.
Utah shares the Monument with the state of Colorado, and houses an active dinosaur quarry.
www.bbiu.org /travel_history.html   (2578 words)

  
 Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ::: Press
The publicly owned wild places of Utah, managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), are world-renowned for their spectacular beauty, with deep, narrow redrock canyons, fantastic sandstone arches, tremendous open vistas, and wild rivers.
Utah’s BLM wild lands provide home to at least two dozen endangered or sensitive wildlife species, including the desert bighorn sheep, cougar, and the endangered desert tortoise, peregrine falcon, and Bonneville cutthroat trout.
Introduced by Utah Rep. Wayne Owens in 1989, America’s Redrock Wilderness Act represented the original citizens’ proposal for BLM lands in Utah.
www.suwa.org /page.php?page_name=press_facts_arwa   (484 words)

  
 Angus Deaton
Worst of all (even though it is not really a state) is the nation’s capital, the District of Columbia, whose age-adjusted mortality rate is half again as high as that of (for example) Utah, a remarkably healthy state, populated to a large extent by tee-total, non-smoking, and caffeine-shunning Mormons.
Because fls also earn less than whites, places with a substantial fl population are places with high income inequality and high mortality rates.
When we look at each race separately, both whites and fls die younger in places where there is a larger fraction of fls in the population.
www.princeton.edu /~deaton/downloads/letterfromamerica_apr2002.html   (928 words)

  
 Hunting down ghost towns a passion for many in the West   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
We may not have the Parthenon, but a place such as Frisco is a reminder of the inevitability of change, death, and our small place in history.
Old Utah mining towns such as Silver Reef, Mercur and Ophir were often located in the mountains and far from water — areas otherwise inhospitable for a settlement.
Though there is a plaque off Utah 21 commemorating the town and the area is public property, it is hard not to feel that you are someplace you should not be.
www.bouldernews.com /livingarts/travel/07pghos.html   (1086 words)

  
 The Henry Mountains And Surrounding Deserts | Utah.com
Roads other than Utah highways are either gravel or dirt and not all are regularly maintained, making them unsuitable for some automobiles.
It is one of the geological show places of the Henry Mountains, exhibiting the transition zone between the intrusive bodies and overlying sedimentary rocks.
One of the richest uranium deposits in the region is found in Shitamaring Canyon.
www.utah.com /playgrounds/henry_mtns.htm   (1261 words)

  
 The Nature Conservancy's Great Places Network: March
Some of the poorest countries are among the richest in biodiversity -- a fact conservationists can’t afford to ignore.
Place your gift membership of $50 or more by 9pm EST on Tuesday, May 9th, and you will receive special rush delivery -- and remember Mom will get a year-long subscription to the award-winning Nature Conservancy magazine.
You are receiving this message at eparker@tnc.org as part of your membership with The Nature Conservancy's Great Places Network.
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 Utah State Information Links Symbols Capital Constitution Flags Maps Song
Utah is the only state that produces gilsonite, a pure form of asphalt used in dark colored printing inks and paints, oil well drilling muds and cements, asphalt modifiers, foundry sands additives and a wide variety of chemical products.
Utah is the country's leading producer of molybdenum and potassium salts.
Coal, petroleum, natural gas and uranium are prevalent in Utah along with some of the country's richest deposits of oil shale and tar sands.
www.netstate.com /states/links/ut_links.htm   (464 words)

  
 GORP - Zion National Park, Utah - Environment
Zion has the richest diversity of plants in Utah—almost 800 native species.
The entrance to the tunnel is one place to keep your eyes peeled: in winter 1996 there were six reported sightings of bighorns there.
Already in place is the first part of a greenway trail, the Pa'rus, that shields bicyclists and hikers from traffic.
gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_national_park/ut/env_zion.htm   (443 words)

  
 Frisco, Utah - Ghostown With a Ten Year High
Located in Beaver County, Utah are the silent remains of the once booming mining camp of Frisco.
Frisco soon developed as the post office and commercial center for the district, as well as the terminus of the Utah Southern Railroad extension from Milford, some fifteen miles to the east.
In 1982, Frisco's kilns were placed on National Register of Historic Places.
www.legendsofamerica.com /UT-Frisco.html   (925 words)

  
 CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM : Utah IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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GINI coefficient climbed from 25 to 35 by the mid-1990s, one of the
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 Conditions in Russia, by William H. King, senator
This was the former capital of the Ukraine, the richest agricultural section of Russia.
I visited this room and saw the rude platform which was still in place, with a few chairs thereon; and over the platform were red banners and flags and streamers with appeals to the proletariat of all the world to unite.
At another place I recall asking a gentleman as to the manner of conducting elections, and he stated that the communist leaders would send notice to workingmen and others that there was to be a meeting and that their attendance was desired.
www.geocities.com /rayendi/conditions_in_Russia.html   (20622 words)

  
 Chapter 21--Bancroft's History of Utah 1540-1886
Soon afterward the judges were instructed as to their duty in an official letter from the attorney-general, and were ordered to confine themselves within their official sphere, which was to try causes, and not to intermeddle with the movements of the troops—the latter responsibility resting only with the governor.
Among the principal attractions was the temple block, surrounded in 1860 with a wall of red sandstone, on which were placed layers of adobe, fashioned in imitation of some richer substance, and raising it to a height of ten feet.
Two years later the request was granted, and the territory of Nevada was cut off from Utah, its eastern limit being fixed at the thirty-ninth meridian, but extended by act of 1862 to the thirty-eighth, and by act of 1866 to the thirty-seventh meridian.
www.utlm.org /onlinebooks/bancroftshistoryofutah_chapter21.htm   (11305 words)

  
 Articles - Kennecott Copper Mine | Utah.com
Like many places in the West, it was the influx of mining labor that helped bring about a surprising ethnic diversity.
In 1903 the canyon's miners were consolidated into the Utah Copper Company, which in 1936 became the Kennecott Copper Company.
Geologic scientists chart the present and future boundaries of the pit and gauge which layers of rock have the richest deposits.
www.utah.com /schmerker/2000/kennecott_mine.htm   (1461 words)

  
 House Votes and Positions Descriptions
For more than twenty years, people in Utah have been working to add the last great blocks of undeveloped Bureau of Land Management (BLM)- administered public land in Utah to the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Approximately 33 miles across by 66 miles long, the San Rafael Swell is located in Central Utah and marks the northern boundary of Utah's famous red rock desert country.
The publicly owned wild places of Utah, managed by the Bureau of Land Manage-ment (BLM), are world-renowned for their spectacular beauty, with deep, narrow redrock canyons, fantastic sandstone arches, tremendous open vistas, and wild rivers.
www.americanwilderness.org /reportcard/house_descriptions.htm   (2185 words)

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