The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-07
STATE FARM IS
TO Be At LEH|
Smoot Crowd Suffers Defeat at the
Hands of the Combined
Opposition.
PENNINGTON FAILS TO WIN
JOINS WITH LOGAN AND OTHERS
TO BEAT PROVO.

Apostle Reed Shoots forces on the
commission appointed to fix the site OF
the new central Utah experiment. sta
ton suffered defeat through cOmpro-
mise yesterday that located the farm
at what is known as the Lehi site, mid
way between Lehi and American Fork,
in Utah county. The Smoot forces
could muster but five votes for Provo
on the second ballot, which decided
the contest.
The first ballot stood: Spanish Fork
3, Provo 3. Lehi 3, Pennington z.
The second ballot stood: Lehi Z, Pro-
Vo 5. Pennington l.
Although the contest was decided by
secret ballot, the attitude of each mem
Der of the commission is understood
fairly we'll. The following will be
found a close guess at the lineup on
the second ballot:
For Lehi-W. s. Mccormick, George
c. Whitmore, E. r. owen, J. A. Nc
Allister, Mrs Susa Young Gates, Thorn
as Smart, DR.. P. A. YOder.
For Provo-William Spry, John De-
Grey Dixon, w. D. Candland, w. H.
THAN, Lorenzo StOhl.
For Farmington-H. n. Hayes.
The supporters of Lehi as shown by
the above, include all the members of
the board of trustees of the Agricultur-
al college with the exception of Bishop
Stohl, and with the vote of DR.. YOder
added The only member of the land
board shown to have voted against
supporter of Pennington. He is the
only Democrat on the land board.
This Settles the Contest.
Yesterdays action settles a contest
that had been pending before the COM
mission for more than six months.
Originally Weber Davis, Salt Lake and
Utah counties We're in the field Com
mittees of the commission visited the
sites offered in all the counties, and at
length eliminated all but Davis and
Utah. The fight between the two coun-
ties was warm. Both counties offered
several good sites. The commission de-
cided that the Pennington site was the
most suitable one in Davis county.
Utah county kept three sites in the
field, one at Provo, one at Spanish
Fork and one at Lehi.
Arguments in favor of the Farming
ton site were that it offered all that
could be desired in the way of location,
soil conditions and water supply, and
that Davis county had never received
a state institution, while Utah county
had one of the leading institutions.
SmOOt and his Heutenants lined up
promptly in support of Provo, the SEN
ator's home town The Agricultural
college trustees resolved to defeat Pro-
vO, if possible, as they believed the To-
eating of the farm there would result
I'm the domination of the farm by the
Brigham Young university, a Mormon
church institution, and the gradual
crowding of the Agricultural college
out of the field of dry farming and hOr-
ticulture. The act of the legislature
creating the new station provided ex-
plicitly that it should be a branch of
the state experiment station at the Ag-
ricultural college and the college board
Of trustees determined to take an atti-
tude which they believed to be in de-
Tense of their rights under the act
With the exception of Bishop StohI, all
the trustees voted against Provo, as
shown above.
It is likely the Agricultural college
trustees would have been as we'll sat
isfied with the Pennington site, but a
compromise was found necessary in or
der to defeat Provo.
Yoder to Be.in Charge.
Control of the matter passes now to
DIR. P. A YOder, director of the state
experiment station at Logan. Utah
county donates the site to the state
DIR. YOder will select sixty acres of
land about midway between Lehi and
American Fork The exact description
Of the site will not be known until DR..
YOder makes his selection. The site
will contain loan, clay, gravel and sand
i'm distinct areas, and VIII have one
secOnd-fOOt of water available on the
ground. This provision insuTes the
farm against loss of irrigation water
through evaporation and makes it GER
tain that the full second-foot viii be
available for the use Of the farm at all
times
An appropriation of IS. 600 is available
for the establishment of the new sta
ton. Experiments win be conducted
with orchard garden and field crops to
determine the most profitable kinds
the best varieties of each kind, the best
cultural methods, the proper use of ir-
rigatiOn water, the possibility of
adapting imported varieties to Utah
conditions prepare ton of products for
market, preservation by drying can
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