The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-06

ions are given herewith
STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION.
H. B. No. 80. by Bernheisel, incorpo-
rating the state fair, the association
to be known as the Utah State Board
OF Agriculture. The bill provides:
There shall be 4even members who
shall be elected as hereinafter provided
The state shall be divided into seven
agricultural districts, for each of which
one member shall be chosen by the
qualified electors thereof, at the gen
eral election for state officers in 1896
and biennially thereafter. The term OF
Office for those members shall be two
years and until their successors are
elected and qualify. Provided, that
for the year 1896 the governor shan,
bv and with the advice and consent OF
the senate, appoint board, one mem
Der from each agricultural district.
The charter Of the Deseret Agricultu-
raj and Manufacturing society is re-
voked and the laws pertaining to said
society repealed. All property held in
trust or otherwise. with all papers,
books and records of any nature that
are now held by the Deseret Agricul-
tural and Manufactu society, pass
TO the Utah State Board Of Agriculture.
All contracts entered into by the DeS-
society shall be faithfully fulfilled by
the Utah State Board of Agriculture.
The board shall hold an annual exhi-
bition at Salt Lake City to be known as
the Utah state fair, of such aSricul-
tural products. stock and Utah manu-
featured articles as, in their opinion,
viii be best calculated to stimulate the
people of the state to industrial pur-
suits; and shall award premiums to
the best specimens of such articles or
animals in such manner as they see
fit; and shall annually publish a list
of what they will consider entitled to
premiums and fix the rate and award
premiums as they shall deem proper.
Provided, that other articles or ami
mails than those included in the list
shall be admitted and premiums
awarded for merit
The board shall collect and publish
Information relative to the most ap-
proved methods of cultivating the soil
and of increasing crops: varieties of
crops and their adaptability to the soil
and climate of the state; the best meth
DDS and processes of irrigsti ton; the
best methods Of breeding am feeding
livestock; the best feeds and feed
stuffs; the best methods of dairy prac-
tice; the best fruits and their proper
handling; and any other matters of
general interest and benefit TO the ag-
riculture of the state
The board shall further provide for
the detection Of attractions of the ag-
licultural laws of the state and aid the
prosecuting officers in the enforcement
of such agricultural laws
The board shall also have charge of
the farmers institutes of the state.
and each member of the board shall
be eX-ofhcio superintendent of the
farmers institutes in each of his re-
spective districts.
The members of the board shall re-
ceive four dollars per day for attending
r2cetings of the board and for such
otner work as may be necessarily re-
CURED for the performance of their
duties. Provided that no member shall
receive more than one hundred dollars
IN any one year for his services. Each
member shall receive ten cents per
IilAe lor each mile actually and neces-
Sarlly Travelled in carrying on the husi
ness of the board. The board shan f71
the compensation and prescribe tho
duties OF all other officers and en-
ployees Of the board.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS
Members of the board shall he an
PortiOned among the several co,1ntie.
of the state as follows:
me counties of Rich and Cache shall
constitute the first district and he ~
titled TO one member.
Inc counties OF Box Elder Weber
Morgan and Summit shall consttr1Jfa I
one member
The counties Of Davis, Salt Lake ard
Tooele shall constitute the third dis
frlct, and be entitled to one member.
The counties Of Utah and Wasatch
shall constitute the fourth district and |
be entitled TO one member.
The counties of Saupete Juab NT;1
lard and SEWER shall
NTH district and be entitled 10 one /
member
The counties of Beaver, Iron. Wash /
ngton, Kane. Garfield and Piute shall I
constitute the sixth district and be en- /
titled 10 one member.
The counties OF Uintah. Carbon. FIN
cry. Grand, Wayne and San Juan shall I
constitute the seventh district and be /
entitled to one member.
THE MINING BILL.
II. B. No 95, by Mr.. Radeatz-An art
providing for the manner of locating
quartz and placer mining claims;
Section ]. That on all mining claims
hereafter located. a discovery of min
eral bearing rock, vein, lode. creVice
or deposit shall be necessary. and is
hereby required to be made within The
boundaries of such lode claim.
Sec. ,. The length of any lode claim
exceed fifteen hundred feet along the
vein.
Sec 8. The width Of any lode claim
may equal, but shall not exceed. three
hundred feet on each side of the cen
ter OF such lode; provided. that when
phe locators have set stakes, posts or
monuments as described in section ,
of this act to indicate the line of the
vein, ledge or lode, such stakes. posts
or monuments must be taken for the
purpose of such location, to mark cor
rectly the line thereof. and such line
must not afterwards be changed so as
10 affect rights acquired, or interfere
with any locations made subsequent /
thereto.
Sec. A. 1t shall be the duty of the
di5c0verer to locate his claim by post
ing at the point Of location, on the
surface, plain sign upon a stake or
notice wi hin q monument of rock.
containing the name Of the lode. name
of locator. date Of discovery and the
number Of feet claimed in length and
in width, along the lode. a general de-
scription Of its location and the min
ing district, county and state.
Sec. .. The discoverer shall. within
ten days after the date Of location.
mark the surface boundaries of such
a claim by establishing at each corner
thereof and at any angle in the
side lines and at the center Of
each end line, substantial 3
post. each hewed on the side
facing toward the claim. On the bewn
side Of each one Of these posts shall be
marked the name Of the claim II be-
resents.
Section e.-The locator of any mining