Annual income from stock raising, about $2,000,000, though grazing interest perhaps not so important as in neighboring States and Territories.
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Gold, copper and silver found in Wahsatch Mountains, the metal found being mostly silver. Gold production, 1882, $190,000; silver, $6,800,000.
Production coal, 1882, 250,000 tons; principal source of supply in valley of Weber river.
Ranks third in silver, and seventh in salt, an inexhaustible supply of the latter being furnished by the lake.
Population, 143,963: male, 74,509; female, 69,454; native, 99,969; foreign, 43,994; white, 142,423; colored, 232; Chinese, 501; Indians, 807
Territorial elections annual, first Monday in August; congressional elections, Tuesday after first Monday in November; number Senators, 12; Representatives, 24; sessions of legislature, biennial, in odd-numbered years, meeting second Monday in January; limit of session, 60 days; terms of Senators and Representatives, 2 years each.
Voting population, 32,773: native white, 13,795; foreign white, 18,283; colored, 695.
School population, 43,303; school age, 6-18; number colleges, 1.
Legal Interest rate, 10; by contract, any rate.

