good nurseries, producing fruit, shade and ornamental trees and other plants are a feature of no little importance among our industries.

As Salt Lake City is more or less dependent on all industries, not only of those prosecuted within her own limits, but also of the tributary country, it will be interesting to note the agricultural progress of the Territory. Farming is carried on much the same as in the East, with the advantage of irrigation, which relieves the farmer of all anxiety as to the probability of rain to freshen his crops. There is never any danger of drought, and an official analysis shows that the irrigation streams of the Territory contain a higher percentage of nitrogen compound (the essential element of plant food) than does rain. This will partially account for the immense yields on irrigated lands.

Every variety of agricultural products of temperate regions thrive here, and many of those of the semi-tropical, developing to surprising size and perfection. There are immense fertile districts or valleys in Utah, where the plow has never entered, which only await the arrival of railroads and irrigation to develop them. The agri

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States and Territories. There are few of the necessaries of life that cannot be raised or manufactured here.

The matter of education in Salt Lake City has been given the thoughtful consideration consistent with the importance of the subject. The Salt Lake City Board of Education was elected in July, 1890, pursuant to a statute of the previous March, consolidating the city into a single school district, and providing for the election of two members of the Board of Education created by the law, from each of the five precincts in the city. The Mayor was ex-officio President of the Board. The work of education the first year consisted in classifying the pupils, grading their work and establishing rules of procedure. The schoolroom accommodations were found to be lamentably deficient. The former system, which had laid the city off into twenty-two separate and independent school districts, had resulted in the building of small structures for the schools, and the accumulation therein of comparatively few of the school population.

In many of these schools tuition fees were charged. Naturally the school work was not as good as was desirable; but improvements were constantly made, so that by the close of the first school year the people were a unit in approval of the good work done by the Board. $600,000 was placed at the disposal of the board in the latter part of 1891. The greatest part of this has been expended on the development of the educational department of the city. In every district new, commodious and modern schoolhouses have replaced old ones, or are now in process of construction. Each scholar is furnished with all necessary books at the city's expense. It is in every sense of the word a free school system. The high school is equipped with a well-selected library and with the advantages the school possesses it is only the industry and proficiency of the student that regulates his promotion from the pre

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paratory department to the senior graduating class of the high school.

In addition to the above enumeration we have the University of Deseret, accessible to all students of both sexes over fourteen years of age. Here may be received an education equal to that of any of the State universities in the country. It also embraces a mining department, a school for deaf mutes,

an extensive library, an art gallery and various other auxiliaries. The languages are given special attention.

All Hallow's College and St. Mary's Academy for boys, and St. Mary's Academy for girls, were founded and are maintained by the Catholic Church. Their respective courses include every thing from the preparatory to the collegiate, besides bookkeeping, shorthand and stenography. Gymnastics and calisthenics are other features of importance.

The Latter-Day Saints College, maintained by the Mormons, the Salt Lake Academy by the Con

gregationalists, Salt Lake Seminary by the Methodists, Collegiate Institute by the Presbyterians, St. Mark's and Rowland Hall, a first-class boarding school for girls, also admitting day scholars and controlled by the Episcopal Church, form, with those previously mentioned, a combination affording unsurpassed facilities for acquiring at first-class education. There are also kindergartens, manual training schools, two commercial colleges, besides numerous private schools. The Sunday schools are noted for their excellence and efficiency.

In addition to the Deseret Museum, there are the Deseret University Library, the Pioneer (one of the largest in the city,) Odd Fellow's, Firemen's and Salt Lake Free Libraries, embracing a choice collection of literature and a law library. All these are free, or accessible to responsible subscribers.

The Utah Normal College and Conservatory of Music, now in course of erection at South Brighton, a beautiful suburb of Salt Lake City, is a nonsectarian Normal Training School and

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Conservatory of Music for Utah and the inter-mountain country. The Board of Directors are Dr. R. A. Hasbrouck, President; J. C. Wolfe, Vice-President; J. W. Newbern, Secretary and Treasurer; W. T. Eddingfield, Principal of the Normal College, and C. F. Stayner, Director of the Conservatory. The building will be the largest and handsomest structure devoted to educational purposes west of St. Louis. It will be built of Utah stone and brick. In dimensions the college will be 248 feet front, 133 feet in depth, and four stories rising to a height of sixty-five feet, with a central spire ninety-six feet in height, and smaller spires on either end seventy-four feet in height. A clear title to a large amount of property immediately surrounding the college has been transferred to the association free of charge. In addition