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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05
COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS.

The census bulletin, showing the finan
cial condition of counties in the states and
territories has been issued, and as usual,
Utah makes banner display, maintaining
her excellent financial reputation. In 1850
the floating debt of the twenty counties in
this territory aggregated only SIS, 132,
which was confined to two or three coun-
ties. In the ten years the counties have
been increased by four, and the floating in
debtedness has grown to $74,110, the float
ing county debts of the other two terri
tories, Arizona and New Mexico, amounting
to s499, 1877, and sol SOS respectively. Our
floating county debt represents the gross
debt, while the gross county debt of Arizona
is s., 549, 697, and of New Mexico, 81 $50, S37
Our percentage of increase is 800, while
New Mexicos is 1,S46. The annual interest
charge in Arizona on county Indebtedness
is slO2,5l9; in New Mexico, $Jl,S22; in
Utah, 81, 652
1t is an interesting table which is pre-
scented of the indebtedness OF counties by
and percentages Of each In this table
Utah occupies position highly compliment
tary to the county administrations Neither
in 1880 nor in 1890 was there dollar Of
bonded county Indebtedness Two states
are with US in this respect, Rhode Island
and Vermont. The only other state which
shows no such Indebtedness in 1890 is Con
necticut, which has paid off its county
bonded debt of S64, 500 since 1880. Illinoi.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05

THoRNBURGH noticed suspicious actions
and went at once to Judge POWERS and
Mr.. WINTERS and expressed his suspicion,
while others talked of the curious actions
OF the unknown presiding Judge Of election.
One hundred and forty three men, who
were shown by the record evidence to have
been registered and to have voted at the poll
that day, came forward and swore that
they voted, or endeavored to vote, the Peo-
pies ticket. But only 12S votes for the
Peoples ticket were found in the ballot
box. The defendant had stood over the
ballot-box with tickets in his hand had put
into the ballot-box all the tickets it con-
tanned; had taken the ballots therefrom
and counted them; and no one else had
done anything with the ballot-box. Now,
if "the defendant done nothing wrong, who
dids For the testimony of AS witnesses
was not even called in question by by the
defense, as these men are well known
and reputable citizens.
Mr. GREENMAN is United States COM
missioner.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05
THE DEFIANT COUNCIL.

The city council is knocking off dollar
or two from this PERSONS assessment and a
dollar or two from that ones, evidently
hoping to satisfy the people that 1t desires
to be lenient and not hoggish. If the coun-
ell entertains any such idea it is fooling
itself and rot the community. Taxpayers
representing fully IS per cent, OF the prop
erty in this city have asked the council to
either reduce valuations or lower the rate
of taxation. The petitioners did not make
the request for fun. They were in earnest.
When they said the valuation was too high.
they meant it. When they asked for relief
from burcensome taxation, they were not
ioking. BY their petitions they say to the
council that in their Judgment the
city should not collect from this COM
munity in the form of property tax
the sum of $4,000, and they mean 1t.
When they requested the reduction of the
rate TO y mills they said to the municipal
authorities that $4,000 was all the money
from city taxes that the government should
spend this year.
The council may imagine that it is bigger
than the entire community and can defy the
latter with impunity, put never were mer
guilty of greater mistake. For a few
months the council may ride on top and DE-
as it wills; it may be reckless, grinding, in
considerate and defiant: it may disregard
the rights of individuals and bear dowr
upon and Cypress the community, but the
day of reckoning will certainly come. ant
all too soon for the oppressors. The peopl'
are mighty and supreme. They know how
to punish their oppressors and how to SETTLE
with their servants who disobey them.
Right now let US warn the councilmel
that the course they are pursuing in thi
tax matter will make them odious in thi
community and cause them to be hated ant
despised by everybody. The fun of extort
ing from the people few thousand dollar
to be squandered for high salaries as ser
wants for political work will be brief AM
will be followed by a despicable Oblivion
most terrible to endure.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05
A UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER.

citizen who stands by and sees or notices
anything savoring of frauo or irregularity in the
conduct of an election and does not Immediately
call attention to the fact is not deserving of the
elective franchise, and his after assertion in re-
lation TO such facts should be viewed with sus-
ricon.
These are the words Of United States
Commissioner GREENMAN in ruling that
ALLEN, the man charged with ballot box
stuffing, should not be held to await the
action of the grand jury.
A man accused of crime should not be
held, unless accused on the spot and at the
moment Of the commission of the crime, is
the logic of GREENMAN.
Those who saw suspicious actions and
did not then and there have the suspected
wrong doer arrested, should lose their
right TO vote, says this learned expounder
of the law
If men do not complain at once of any
crime they suspect, then they should be
viewed with suspicion, If they afterwards
testify to fact of observation, is the
opinion of this wise Judge.
Let all citizens note, in the opinion of
this expert legal light, who is actually
holding the position of a United States
commissioner, that If they or any of them
hereafter happen to notice anything
savoring of fraud at an election, and do
not Immediately call attention to it, they
are unworthy or the elective franchise -
There has been no election out of the
three last held in this city, at which things
s.savoring of fraud' have not been noticed
by Mormon, Jew and Gentle, Peoples
party or Liberal. Ergo, says GhEENMAN,
there are no people in this city who are
worthy of the elective franchise.
Now, we do not say that GREENMAN is 8
blockhead; we merely write down his care
fully prepared words, and ascertain theil
full meaning.
We do not say that he is unfit to be
United States commissioner; we merely
call attention to his exposition of law
We have not used a scriptural phras,
and called him "a fool;n we have merely
given publicity to one of his rulings.
We have not said that man wht
has so little conception of the worth of the
elective franchise as to say that whoever
fails instantly to report strong suspicion
should lose tat right, is unfitto be clothed
with judicial power in republic; we only
exhibit his breadth of reasoning.
We do not say that the commissions
who writes, s'the evidence does not disclosi
the fact that the defendant done anythiny
wrong" has had his early education neg
lected; we merely call attention to what he
wrote, for it might be libel in Utah to init
mate that United States official is Hitter
ate.
We do not care to assert that commits
sioner is a poor reasoner, who thinks tina
because ''alarge majority of the witnesses
when questioned. admitted that their bal
lots were deposited all right while onl.
'ssome five or six gave evidence of wha
they deemed to be lrregularity in the man
per Of receiving and depositing ballots,
therefore 1.-THE defendant done nothin,
wrong:'' it is simply our duty to recor,
the public rulings Of United States com
missioners.
But as to the facts in the case. Mr.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05

THE DOWN town organ labors to prove
that the affairs of this city are managed
this year six times better than they were
last year, by showing to demonstration
that the city expenditures are six times
greater than heretofore. We admit that
the expenditures are six times greater, but
we do not admit that the city is therefore
six times better managed, or the people six
times better off, on that account Non
seqiftttr, as the lawyers would say, lit does
not follow" Having shown that expendi-
lures are six times greater, there now
needs corresponding proof that the city
is six times better managed. This is the
only stone wanting in the Liberal argn-
ment structure, but it is the keystone,
without which the arch falls
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05

THE PEoPLE's party, when it retired
from the governmental control of the city
six months ago, left in the treasury the
money to pay for the corporations share of
the joint public building and to carry on the
government until the years taxes were col
lected. The money has all disappeared, not
a foundation stone of the building has been
laid, and the city is borrowing money to
meet the ordinary running expenses. Isn't
this record to be proud ofs
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05

ranked No. l in $780,, and No. 2 in
debredness of sll, 467 $50 for 1890, a decrease
of 10 per cent, in the ten years. Kansas
has dropped from No. 4 to No. /, her
bonded county Indebtedness being Sl4, 229,
675, an increase of 90 per cent. Oregon
has the highest place among the states,
being No. AZ in the list, with bonded
county Indebtedness of $4,000, decrease
of per cent, and rise Of one point in
| rank.
In the matter of floating county indebted
ness Utah held the favored place in 1880,
but has now dropped to No. 81 in a total Of
A states and territories listed, North Caro-
lima rising from No. II in 1880 to No. Al.
Colorado takes first place with floating
Indebtedness of Sl,355 ,S37, the increase
being So per cont. Idaho has increased
her floating county debt 22l per cent, the
total being s462 .095, and the new states
rank being No. IL. Montana has de-
creased her floating county debt 81
per cent, and Wyoming has in
creased hers 2l2 per cent, bringing
the total up to S462, 4S2. Rhode Island is
the one member of the family of states
without dollar of county Indebtedness.
Next to Rhode Island proudly stood Utah
in 1880, in the table showing the gross
county Indebtedness, our place being No.
40, the highest in the list, We have
dropped two points, Vermont taking the
place Of honor with a total county debt of
| S., l54, the decrease in ten years being "a
per cent. Kansas stands No. l, Illinois
No. 2, and New York No. 3.
The table is certificate of honesty
economy and wisdom on the part of the
county governments of the territory. Lei
us hope that the showing to be made ter
years hence will be equally creditable tt
the local administrations.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05
You Take No Risk

IN buying Hoods Sarsaparilla, for it is
everywhere recognized as the standard
bnilding-up medicine and blood purifier. 1t
has won its way to the front by its own
intrinsic merit, and has the largest sale
of any preparation OF it's kind. Any honest
druggist will confirm this statement. If you
decide to take Hoods Sarsaparilla do not
be induced to buy anything else instead
Be sure to get Hoods. SO
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05
BUCKLEN,S ARNICA SALyR.

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corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. It is guar
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refunded: Price 25 cents box. For sale
by A. G. Smith & Co.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05

THE TAXPAYERS are looking in vain for
the holes into which s270,00o of their hard
earned money has been poured during the
past six months
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05

We have no theory; facts are good
enough for US, The actual practice that
we find to prevail in trade, that it is best
to import more than we export-give less
than we get-in order to get rich, we merely
accept as an established truth; we have not
sought to prove this by any theory, and we
are free to admit that 1t has only the facts
in its favor
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Entered at the Postofice at Salt Lake City,
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05

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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-06-18

extracted and cleaned and how simple the ma
chine must be to supplant hand decortication.
1.-The syndicate used ordinary scutcheIs with
water Jets, after the plan of the w E. Death pat
ent; they found that the rotting and decortica-
tion by hand was the best and cheapest, as there
was no waste.
"The bark separated from the stalks, as above
described is passed through wringer with five
pairs of rollers, and one peed table roller. Five
pairs of rollers, five inches in diameter are placed
as follows-(the upper ones coated with rubber,
like laundry wringers). An endless apron runs
from thesolated roller between the five pairs,
carrying the unwashed stuff upon it thinly spread
out: The rollers are four feet long, and revOve
at the rate of forty times per minute; water is
supplied from three inch rotary pump, although
q two inch pipe supplies the water to the pump;
the jets of water from the pipes above, change
the position of the fibre upon the apron, each
time it passes through q set OF rollers. The ma
chine and pump require three-horse power. 1t
takes ten hands to decorticate thus ton of
clean fibre can be washed in ten hours.
81 do not bring the Sparmannia into notice
a new plant, on the contrary have cultivated it
more than twenty-three years upon the shores of
Lake Neuchatel, and it has been known to Euro
pean horticulturists for seventy years more;
however, up to the present time only italian
scientist has recommendedit fibre plant, and
tits only since thesyndicate has begun operations
here that have found out it's inc Alcuable ad-
vantages a fodder plant, my attention being
called to it by the avidity with which the horses
and oxen employed to haul it from the hill side.
fed unon
"The flowers, for which it has been grown for
the last seventy years, very pretty, and afford
the finest honey
1.-The Sparmannia is very hardy, and when all
other crops here look faded and roasted from the
hot waves which getfrom the Kalahari Desert,
it looks as fresh as bed of lettuce at it's best.
"Of all the crops 1 have ever SEEM including
tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, tobacco, sesame,
jute fax, hemp, wheat, ginger, rice aloes, corn,
ETC., it loooks best, and is undoubtedly of the
most profitable agricultural products in existence.
1t makes excellent hay, and would, doubt,
make the very best of ensilage, but for this we
have no use, as we can cut it green all the year
round"
Villa Franco, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-06-18
For THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT
Another Way Of Making Beggar-
Weed HaV.

My experiences in making ''beggar-weed"
hay leads me to somewhat different con-
illusions from those of Mr.. Borden, quoted
in the AGRICULTURsT of the 18th inst.
With me beggar weed coming up in
June will be too large and woody in Sep
TENDER to make into hay. 1t will grow
from four to six feet high, and unless very
thick from three-eighths to three-quarters
of an inch through at the butt. 1t is true
the best time to cut it is when it is in
bloom, and the best time to cure it is in
September, as it is impossible to make
good hay during the rainy season. [
have found, too, that it is liable to heat
and get musty if not well cured.
My way is to cut it dOwnfrom the mid
die to the last of July, according to the
growth, and let it lie on the ground as a
mulch. 1t will spring up again from the
stubble with from one to several shoots
from each stump, and wiIlin September be
of the right size and the right stage of ma
turity to make good hay. find that Gu t
when it is immature it is too loosening to
be fed alone.
have found the best way to cure when
cut by hand is to cut in themorning when
the dew is on as it cuts easier then,
rake and cock it up in the afternoon; let
it lie until the dew is dried off the next
morning, then open the cocks, not spread
ing very thin. Rake up and get in early
in the afternoon, before it begins to cool
off and absorb moisture.
This | think is very nearly the me thod
followed i'll making clover hay, and pre-
serves most of the leaves. The leaves dry
much faster than the stalks the first day,
but while in the cock at night absorb
moisture from the stems and do not drop
off when the cocks are opened in the morn
ing. When a moving machine is Used it
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-06-18

In estimatin the commercial value
OF fertilizers the chemist adopted virtu-
ally the New Jersey schedule OF prices of
chemicals with few notifications. The
retail price of chemicals upon which is
based his estimate of the commercial
value of fertilizers is as follows:
SCHEDULE OF TRADE VALUES FOR FLORIDA.
Nitrogen estm ated as ammonia in am
monia Salts, dry and fine ground fish
meal and blood ............1 II cents
Nitrogen estimated as ammonia in fine
ground bone and kage........... 1876 I"
Nitrogen estimated ammonia in cot
ton seed meal and nitrogen estimated
as ammonia in nitrates .................... IL 90
Nitrogen estimated ammonia in
fine medium bone and tankage. 1917
Nitrogen estimated ammonia in
coarse bone and tankage and fish
scraps ..
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-06-18

is better to cut in the afternoon, let it lie
until the next noon, and follow the same
course as if cut that morning. 1t will
be better cured than when cut in the
morning. Thelying over night in cocks
is essential to insure holding the leaves.
BENZ. N. BRADT.
Fruitand, Putnam County, Fla
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-06-18

1t must be remembered that the esti-
mates given above are the approximate
retail values of New York City. 1t was
at first intended to compute these values
for some point in Florida like Jackson
vile. This however was found to be i'm
practicable. The varying conditions of
commerce, methods OF transportation
and other influences so generally com
picate the freight problem, that it was
deemed fairer to all concerned to make
the estimates for the chief commercial
city OF the country. In general way
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-06-18
The Value of Fertilizers.

This is a subject that can never become
thread bare or hackncyed to the people of
Florida the mystery is solved and
satisfactory answer given.
What are our commercial fertilizers
worth?
When we pay $40 per ton for an article,
do we get $40 worth or only twenty?
These are the questions that must be
answered.
In attempting to throw light on this
all important subject, State chemist
Robinson admits that he is laboring I'M
der difficulties In this connection he
says:
In entering upon the latter branch of
his duties determining the commercial
value of fertilizers) the chemist may as
well confess that he does so with great
diffidence and a sincere distrust of his
ability to satisfactorily deal with the in
tricate and embarrassing problems
which the estimation of the values of
commercial fertilizers involves. Those
who have given most thought and atten-
ton to the matter are least inclined to
be dogmatic. 1t is a subject upon which
the agricultural chemists of the world
are by my no means agreed. Indeed, the
more the subject is examined the more
it's difficulties appear. At many of the
Agricultural Stations of the United
States q fixed value is assigned to am
monia, to potash and to phosphoric acid
in it's various forms, without reference to
the source from which they are derived.
By this method the estimation of values
becomes a simple matter of multiplica-
ton. 1t is believed by the writer that
while this method has much to recon-
mend it on the ground of simplicity and
ease of application, it is at the expense
of substantial Justice. The chemist
claims that while the "trade value
of the fertilizers is easily determined, the
actual manural value OF the article is
more difficult to estimate. He says that
the manurial value as we'll as most of the
CFuuo IHdUefldS uSeu Ill compromising
fertilizers is largely dependent upon the
fineness with which they are ground.
One OF the most important items of the
cost of ground bone, tankage, fish scraps,
phosphate rock, ETC., is the expense of
reducing the material to powder, and the
finer the grinding the greater the cost
The added value in an agricultural sense
at least fully keeps pace with this. and it
is quite obvious that any estimate OF
commercial value which leaves out this
important consideration is to that ex-
tent detective and misleading
In continuing the subject Mr.. Robinson
says:
cit will not therefore be considered a
very aggravated case of real or assumed
modesty if thechemist confesses his utter
inability to literally comply with the en-
act1nent which requires him to give with
his full analysis if any brand OF fertilizer
required the statement of the CONNER
cial value of each ingredient, which valu-
alton will be uniform and not above the
net value Of such ingredients. Omnisci-
ence might accomplish this, nothing else
And as the State Chemist is not a. COM
mercial expert and claims only ordinary
intelligence, with some little skill in his
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-06-18

Nitrogene estimated ammonia in
horn shavings, leather waste, shod-
dy garbage ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Pbosphoric acid soluble in water or
ammonia citrate "available ............ Sc
Phosphorc acid insolube. in fine dry
ground fish, bone and tankage....... g
Phosphoric acid insoluble, in fine
medium bone, fish and tanka ge.... ="
Phosphoric acid insoluble, in coarse
bone, fish and tankage. "
Phosphorc acid insOluble in medium
bone, fish and tonnage.
Phosphoric acid iDsoluble, in fine
ground rock phosphate. 2 a"
Potash in high grade sulphate and in
forms free from muriate. ................. 612 "
Potash in Observation-Disclosures. Az q"
Potash in muriate.. Observation-Disclosures. Az "
In submitting his list of values thu
State Chemist Acknowledges that it is in 6
measure detective for the reasons above
given. We partially reprint it herewith
for the guidance of our consumers: