Wednesday, March 16 Nice day Read and go down town March, 1949 Know Your Utah Summary of radio broadcast given by Jesse P. Rich, over K. V. N. U. January 10th, 1949, on Know Your Utah week. Utah was admitted to the Union January 4th, 1896, being the 45th state to be admitted. It has an area of 84,990 sq. miles or a little over 54,000,000 acres. The census of 1940 gave the population at 550, 310. The present population is estimated from 637,000 to 675,000. In size it is the tenth largest state in the union, the following states being larger in the order named Texas, California, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming and Oregon. As to its rank in education the Iowa State College has put out a book by Hughs and Lancelot, called Education, Americas Magic, wherein it says on page forty, regarding the rank of the several States in Education, Utah has first place among the States by a wide margin. There are two Universities, The University of Utah, with an enrollment of about 8,000; the Brigham Young University, with an enrollment of 4,000 to 4,500, and the Utah State Agricultural College, with an enrollment of about 4,000 to 4,500; a Catholic School in Salt Lake City, St. Marys of the Wasatch; a Sectarian School, Westwinister College; five junior colleges, the Dixie College at Sa. George, the Branch Agricultural College at Cedar City, the Carbon College at Price, the Snow College at Ephraim, and the Weber College at Ogden. There are also two Area Vocational Schools, one at Provo and one at Salt Lake City. There are 1,194,578 acres of irrigated land, 560,000 acres of dry farm, and 5,547,429 acres of range and grazing land, with 25,411 farms and a population of 104,459 living on farms, according to the 1940 census. There are 29 counties in the State, San Juan County with 7,781 sq. miles being the largest county, and Davis with 275 sq. miles as the smallest. It is estimated that about one third of the population is in Salt Lake County, about one third North of Salt Lake and about one third South. The cash income from the sale of livestock and its products in 1945, was 5,701,000 and from the sale of crops in the same year 35,275,000. Including consumption on the farms and Government payments the farm income for 1945, was figured at 133,108,000. Arizona is the only state in the Union which produces more copper than Utah Utah produces about 30 per cent of the copper produced in the United States. It is second in the production of lead, fifth in the production of zinc, third in the production of silver, and first in the production of gold. In 1945 Utah produced over 28 per cent of the gold produueed in the United States, which was a third more gold than was produced by the State of California. Of the five basic metals named in 1945 Utah produced about one fifth of the entire production of the United States. In that year it produced more iron ore than all of the other Western States. More than one seventh of the area contains workable coal deposits, and the supply of salt is almost inexhaustible. Bear Lake County just over the line in Idaho, and Rich County, Utah, and surrounding territory is said to be the greatest Phosphate beds in the world, and now we are coming into the production of oil. There are two National Parks, Zions and Bryces, and nine National Monuments. Its beauties are among the wonders of the world. Sixth Season Starts For Philadelphia Orchestra THE WORLD RENOWNED Philadelphia Orchestra, under its noted conductor, Eugene Ormandy, recently inaugurated its sixth season of broadcasts over the Columbia network and KSL with an eight week series. As in past years, Harl McDonald, composer, commentator and manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra, will be annotator for the series, which is currently being aired on KSL at 3 p.m. Saturdays. The programs, broadcast from the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, will be made up of great masterworks of the orchestra repertoire. On March 19, the program opens with the Overture to Wagners Die Meistersinger, and includes the mysphonic suite Scheherezade by Rimsky Korsakoff. By its extensive tours throughout the United States, its weekly vists to neighboring cities, and through the wide sale of its Columbia records, the Philadelphia Orchestra has become one of the most beloved musical organizations in the country. During the past week alone, the orchestra has visited Chicago, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Toledo, Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. An unprecedented event in the history of the group is its first transoceanic trip this spring. Mr. Ormandy and his 110 musicians sail on the Parthia May 13, to give 28 concerts in the British Isles. The first will be in Liverpool on the day of arrival, May 22. In addition to ten concerts in London, the orchestra is scheduled to play in Sheffield, York, Birmingham, Leices Wolverhampton.