EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS.
In 1870, according to the United States census report (taken in Utah by non-Mormons), Utah's enviable record stood as follows:
| School attendance, 5 to 18 years. | Illiteracy, cannot read or write, 10 years and upwards. | Paupers. | Insane and Idiotic. | Convicts. | Printing and Publishing Establishments. | Church Edifices. | |
| UTAH | 35 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 19 |
| UNITED STATES | 31 | 26 | 31 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 17 |
| PENNSYLVANIA | 30 | 10 | 45 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 14 |
| NEW YORK | 21 | 9 | 59 | 23 | 12 | 7 | 12 |
| MASSACHUSETTS | 25 | 12 | 55 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 12 |
| DIST. OF COLUMBI | 27 | 40 | 23 | 35 | 9 | 11 | 8 |
| CALIFORNIA | 24 | 10 | 41 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 9 |