Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-30
President StohI Of the College
Board Does Not Anticl-
pate Trouble.
MATTER IN WlDTS0E's HANDS.
Latter win Come UP From Provo
In a Few Days to Talk Over
Institutions Future
Trustees Announce Willingness TOE
New President 10 Make HIS
Own Realignment,

TIE task of making plans for n"xt
vnar,s work at the Agricultural coli
1ees 10 TO begin, at once. President
7 orepzo stohl of the board OF trustees.
lees .bis morning for Brigham city, ard
,be newly elected president, DR. John A.
,ridtsoe. VIII come. up from Provo with
In a few days TO confer with President
gtohf as 10 needed changes.
THEIR conclusions ms to plans for
rrogrcss will be rapidly put into action,
as the new board is strongly In favor
OF The movement which DR., wldtsoe
represents. When asked as to his plans
This morning President Stohl declared
that at this time he did not care TO
give out any statement
1.-THE future policy of the college, he
said. lis very largely in the hands OF
lor. Mldtsoe. but BIO Is one of the most
thorough scholars In America, and an
expert without peer In matters per-
tanning to agri culture and agricultural
chemistry
His studies have been more far
reaching and exhaustive than those of
almost any other man In the west, and
have every reason to believe that he
will do much for the college, IN working
up plans to make it fulfill the purposes
ZOE WHICH " N3ih tSthull5kiou.
rs A YOUNG MAN.
President Stohl OF the board OF trus-
tees comes Into the respon slble position
Mt the age OF 81 years. EIe ts q young
man Utah horn and Utah raised. who
while, perhaps. he Is not so well known
to the older men OF affairs in Utah. he
has been very Industrious in the past
10 years, and has had good deal of
busine ss experience. To his new re-
sponslbility he brings this to bear In
addition to q vitality that has not yet
been shaken by advancing years. Mr.
Stohl is now Vice president OF The Bcfle-
fetal Life Insurance company. Ha
founded the First National bank of
brigham City. Is owner of the Brigham
city WOODEN mills is o. part owner OF
she Stohl Furniture company dfrec-
tor In the Utah Arid Farm company,
and has just finished putting In larse
fruit orchard fin Boxelder county,
President Stoh1 has until recently re-
sided In Brigham city, and he is grad
uate OF both the university and the
Agricultural college.
Another name that will rapidly
come into prominence In the new
alignment of faculty members at the
Agricultural college. is that OF Prof
u. E., Ball. who succeeds r. A Yoders
as head of the experiment station
Prof Ball Is now absent ON leave in
the east. completing his studies for an
advanced degree. This VIII be Sc
Cured in June. after which he Will
return to take up the work Prot. fO-
cer leaves 1t was In this. post that
DIR. NVidtsoe first became fam Gus as d
Utah worker In arid soils, and his bull
letlns became the working basis for
many experiments throughout the
state When the disagreement with
President Kerr came, and Prof. Widt-
soc left the college he continued his
experiments a a private farm in Dog
valley. near Nepht and this farm has
been one of the great successes an
Utah dry farming. Incidentally II has
caused the organization OF several
other dry farm companies In the Ne.
phi and Sanpete vallies- Prof Ball
vas an assistant 10 DR.. Widtsoe In
the work at the college, and AFTER
ills chief left. he took Leave of alb
Bencc TO continue his studies
NOW IN OHIO.
Prof. Ball Is native of Iowa. and a
graduate of the Iowa State Agricultur-
nj college, which he left In 1895, He
spent the nAxt three years in the Colo
RADIO Agricultural college, as assist
ans professor of entomology, after
which he spent n year In the Ohio
state university, pursuing graduate
course, before coming to the. Agri-
cultural College OF Utah. He is now
at the Ohio state institution, where he
Is candidate for the degree of Ph. ID.
1T IS expected that other appoint-
ments 10 the faculty. to take the place
of retiring III sinbers, VIII be ihane
With In "A few Weeks