Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-15
MANY Weber Orchards Affected
And Fruit Industry OF Entire
State Threatened.
AFFAIRS OF WEBER COUNTY.
,ty Council win Not Make Special
Assessments for Parking Sidewalks
--Dcath's Rccord--NcWs Notes.

OGDEN. oct lathe extent Co which
tbs sam Jose scale s. spreading and
ssrqging the fruit crop, especially the
sprIes cannot De- fully estimated at
tbe present time. c.. A. Hickenloopor
of lne state board Of horticulture yes
terday afternoon appeared before the
boarI Of county commissioners for the
nuruose OF bringing to its attention
the tlct that the pest is so extensive
among the apple crop that the work
OF attempting TO exterminate it by
county Fruit Tree Inspector Rasmus-
sen I7 entirely too much for him alone,
and asked the board TO grant the ap-
poiuUnent of "a deputy for at least -
DAYS TO assist in the work. The re-
0ue-t was granted and Mr. Rasmussen
Mill make the appointment the CONF
pen 4ation 20 DE 50 per day. Mr.. Hick-
uioopcr reported that "a large per cent
F The apple crop of the county Is In
fotcd with the scale TO a greater oil
hs. extent and the pest is by no means
limited Co Weber county. There are
over 15 merchants in Ogden who have
infected apples for sale at their place
of business. also some other kinds OF
fruits lie says they are innocent In
the sale of the fruit as they do not
know of the existence OF the scale and
when the matter has been brought 10
THEN attention they have shown a Will
meress to destroy the infected fruit
and to do AN they can 90 assist In eX-
terminating the scale. IL ts, as rule,
The farmers who raise apples and other
fruits as secondary business that
have the infected fruits. ass the orch
ARTISTS who make &C "a business % grow
fruit keep Jhis pest under control He
made tho furfrer significant statement
that unless some radical measures are
used 90 destroy the scale he would not
o.. surprised ~ the entire state was
Cuardntined against apples.
The FIRST step to Doe taken by Mr.
Rasmussen and his deputy win be 20
visit am the merchants ana fruit deal
cls. both retail and wholesale and in
euect their fruits and where any OF the
scale Is found they viii insist on the
apples being aiken to the crematory
aud destroyed. III these Same measures
are carried out I'm other parts Of the
state and great precaution Is used then
the scale can be eXterminated.
WEBER COUNTY AFFAIRS.
ONerseer OF poor Joseph stanford
submitted his report showing an eX-
rcnliture of S151.45 for the quarter end
ine sept. 30, 1907.
j. u. Anderson. OF Salt Lake. against
whom Bishop Taylor made a com
plant of his failure 10 support his
aged mother appeared before the
board. and was very indignant because
OF The complaint against him. claim-
ing that 10 was not true, hut Com
missioner Mckay questioned him as to
whether he had contributed one cent
during the past six months TO her sup
port and he admitted he had not. but
instead the county has been allowing
his sister 5000 per month TO assist in
their maintenance. Anderson was
peprimauded for his apparent neglect
and promised the board that he will
see that his mother is properly sup
ported In the future
The work. Of fencing ogden canyon
at the dangerous points Is progressing
very satisfactorily and will be COM
pletcd ian "a short time
Some improvements I'm sanitation at
the county jail were ordered made.
Commissioner Madsen assured the