Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — OUR FORTY FIFTH STATE. [ARTICLE]

OUR FORTY FIFTH STATE.

'Utah Adds Another Star to Old Glory’s Blue. By a few strokes of his pen Grover Cleveland made operatic e the bill which provides for the admission of Ltah ito’the Union as a State. By the conditions of admission this, fortyfi th State, will have full powers of statehood upon the commencement of the next session of Congress—that is, she is to send no Representatives or Senators to the present Congress. Utah, with an area of 84,476 square miles, had in 189 a population of 207,600, which was greater Ihan that of either Delaware, Montana, Idaho, No th Dakota. Nevada or Wyoming. Utah is divided into twenty counties. Salt Lake City is the capital and largest city. Utah is divide 1 into two paits by the Wahsatch mountains. The west part belongs to the great basin, its waters having no outlet to tho ocean, while the eait part is drained bv the Colorad > River of the "West. This river is formed by the junction of the Grand and Green, and flows southwest into Arizona. West of the Wahsatc i Mountains are several lakes, of which those with no outlet are salt or alkaline. The largest of those and the most famous is the Great Salt Lake. South of this lake. Into wh eh it flows through the Diver .loidan, forty-five miles long, is Utah Lake, a sheet of pure fresh water abounding in fish. In tho valleys the climate is generally mild and healthful, with little snow. On the mountains the winters are severe and the snowfall is more abun ant. Much of the soil of Utah is iertile, and by thorough irrigation can be made to produce good crops. But the plains in their natural state are for the most part hard, dry and barren and frequently covered with a sa ine incrustation. ” Tho principal agi ieultural products are wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and other root crops. Apples, pears, peaches, plums and grapes grow well. Grazing is conducted on a larger scale than is agriculture. Ulah so ms part of the territor ; acquired fr m Mexico in 184' 1 . It ‘ was settled in 1847 by the Mormons under Brigham Young. Utao— named from a tribe of Indians of that name—was organi od as a Territo y in 1850, and embraced 21:0,196 square miles. Within its limits were portions of what have since become Co'orado, Wyoming and Nevada