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Also Uzaramo. Uta (ū'tä), or Utah, or Ute (ū'tē), or Youta. [Pl., also Utas or Utahs.] A division of the Shoshonean stock of North American Indians, embracing 15 tribes, which formerly occupied the entire central and western portions of Colorado and the northeastern portion of Utah, including the eastern part of Salt Lake valley and Utah valley. On the south they extended into New Mexico, occupying much of the country drained by the Rio San Juan. In the northeastern part of their range they intermarried extensively with other Shoshonean branches, as the Shoshoni, Bannock, Paiute, and with the Jicarilla Apache. The Uta are now confined to reservations, and they number in Southern Ute agency, Colorado, 985; in Ouray re 2,839. See Shoshonean . serve, Utah, 1,021; and in Uintah reserve, Utah, 833. Total, Utah (ū'tä or ū'tâ). [From the Indian tribal name.] One of the United States (the 45th). Capital, Salt Lake City. It is bounded by Idaho and Wyoming on the north, Wyoming and Colorado on the east, Arizona on the south, and Nevada on the west. The surface is mountainous and plateau, including the Wahsatch and Uintah Mountains and part of the Great Basin. The Great Salt Lake is in the north. The silver and lead-mines are important. Utah contains 27 counties, and sends 2 senators and 1 representative to Congre . The inhabitants are largely Mormons. This region formed part of the lands ceded by Mexico in 1848. The Mormons settled here in 1847-48. Utah was organized as a Territory in 1850. The Mountain Meadow ma acre of Gentile settlers by Indians and Mormons occurred in 1857. Disturbances in 1856 led to the sending of an expedition of United States troops to Utah in 1857; the Mormons submitted in 1858. The Edmunds Act of 1882, followed by supplementary legislation, punished and discouraged polygamy in the Mormon Church. A large Gentile immigration has taken place in recent years. On July 17, 1894, the President signed a bill for the admi ion of Utah to the Union as a State ("enabling act"), and it was admitted in 1896. Area, 84,970 square miles. Population (1900), 276,749. Utah Lake. A fresh-water lake in Utah, 28 miles south of Salt Lake City. Its outlet is by the Jordan into Great Salt Lake. Height above sea-level, about 4,400 feet. Length, 23 miles. Utatlan (ö-tat-län'), or Gumarcaah (gö-mär kä-ä'). The ancient capital of the Quiché In dians of Guatemala, near the site of the modern city of Santa Cruz del Quiché. It is said to have vied with Mexico in splendor, and was fortified with great skill. Twenty generations of chiefs or "kings" reigned in it. (See Quichés .) It was destroyed by Alvarado in 1524. Usipites (ū-sip'i-tēz), or Usipii (ū-sip'i-i), or Usipes (ū-sī pēz). [L. (Cæsar) Usipites , (Taci- tus) Usipii , Gr. (Strabo) Οὕσιποι.] A German tribe first mentioned by Cæsar, who describes Ute. See Uta . Uzziah was "De Optimo Rei publicæ Statu, deque Nova Insula Utopia." It was translated in 1551 by Ralph Robinson, and by Bishop Burnet in 1683. The name "Utopia" has given rise to the adjective utopian with the meaning of impracticable' or 'ideal,' especially as applied to schemes for the advancement of social conditions. Utrecht (u'trekt; D. pron. ü'trecht). 1. A province of the Netherlands, bounded by North Holland, Zuyder Zee, Gelder land, and South Holland. Area, 534 square miles. Population (1892), 229,054.---2. The capital of the province of Utrecht, situated on the Kromme Rijn, at its division into the Vecht and the Oude Rijn, in lat. 52° 5′ N., long. 5° 7' E.: the Roman Traject us (ferry). It is a railway center, and has manufactures of cigars, chemicals, etc. The noted Cathedral of St. Martin consists of a spacious choir and transepts of the 13th century. The nave fell in 1674, and was not rebuilt: thus the fine west tower, 338 feet high, stands at a distance from the existing church. The vault ing is 115 feet high, and the proportions and details are excellent. Utrecht is also the seat of a university. Its medieval bishops po e ed great power. It was often a residence of the German emperors, and was an early seat of the States-General. Population (1900), 104,194. Utrecht, Peace of. The peace concluded in 1713, through several separate treaties, between France on one side and Great Britain, Holland, Pru ia, Savoy, and Portugal on the other, and acceded to by Spain. With the subsequent treaties of Rastatt and Baden, it put an end to the War of the