Identifier: utahfactstoprove1905egn (find matches)
Title: Utah: facts to prove that the youngest of the states is progressive and prosperous /issued by the Utah Commission for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition held in Portland June 1st to October 15th, 1905
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition Portland, Or.) (1905
Subjects: Lewis and Clark Expedition Centennial (1905)
Publisher: (Salt Lake City: s.n, 1905).
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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distances be-ing from 82 to 100 miles. 53 Where Farmers are Trained. PGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.—The State main-tains an agricultural college at Lo-gan, and, in connection, two, agricul-tural experiment stations and six exper-imental dry farms. The 119 acres com-prising the college grounds are occupied by 20 build-ings, where 600 students receive instruction under 58teachers, in the following branches: Agriculture,domestic science, commerce, engineering, generalscience, manual training, domestic arts, mechanicarts, agronomy, horticulture, veterinary science,stock feeding, poultry raising, stock judging, entom-ology, irrigation and farm accounts. The inclosuresare partially occupied by horses, cattle, sheep, hogsand poultry and most of the ground is devoted toexperimental farming. Free bulletins, detailing thework of the experiment station are sent to farmersor others. The entrance fee to the college is $2.50and board and lodging may be obtained by studentsat from $2.50 to $3.50 a week. 54
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Latter-Day Saints University. Agricultural College, Logan, University of UtaH, Outlook for the Bread Winners. WAGE EARNERS.—There are in Utah 12,000wage-earners engaged in manufacturingpursuits, 6,700 engaged in mining, millingand prospecting, 2,000 employed at the smelters,2,500 in coal and hydro-carbon mining, 7,485 intrade, 3,591 on farms besides a great number inbuilding and by the railroads. The industrial pop-ulation of the state is about 40,000. Wages.—Unskilled labor is paid from $1.50 to$2.50 a day. Skilled labor commands from $3 to$6 a day. The miner gets from $2.50 to $3.50 aday, drill men from $2.75 to $3.50 and car men andmuckers from $2.50 to $3.00. In the smelters wagesrange from $2 to $3.50. An eight hour law is inforce which forbids under-ground miners andsmelter hands to work more than 8 hours a day.In the building trades, among the bridge and struc-tural iron workers, electrical workers, cigarmakers,printers, plumbers and other craftsmen remunera-tion ranges fro

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