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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-11
nRY FARMING CONGRESS.

President Fisher Harris of the Trans
Missouri Dry Farming congress, which
is to be in session here from Jan. %
to Jan. 26 inclusive, announces that a
large attendance is already assured.
Mr.. Harris has had assurances from
many states that they viii be repre-
scented in force. The government is
sending out some of its best experts to
address the meeting, and the general
excellence of the program is conceded
by all who have seen it. The Herald
hopes the Salt Lake congress viii be
the best ever held by the organization.
The Importance of the dry farming
movement can hardly be overestimated
There are in the arid and semi-arid
states many hundreds of thousands of
acres of land that cannot be brought
under irrigation, either by the govern
ment or by individual and corporate
enterprise. 1t is to the work of MAX
ing these broad acres productive that
the dry farmers are addressing them
selves. By means of experiments con-
dividuals it has been ascertained that
dry farming is possible over a large
area of country that has heretofore
been regarded as absolutely barren.
And it must be said that the science
of dry farming, as a science, is as yet
in It's infancy. Hardly a beginning has
been made, but that beginning is so
promising, so full of assurances of fu-
ture improvement, that the movement
has attained rapid glowth. An exhibit
of cereals and fruit raised on dry farms
is being prepared under the supervision
of experts, and the public is promised
some agreeable surprises. Grain of
various kinds will be shown and other
products that are equal to the products
of irrigated farms.
The object of the congress is set forth
in the official call issued by President
Harris. They are stated TO be:
THE consideration of the best meth
DDS of rendering the lands OF the semi
arid west productive where ditch irri-
CATION is impracticable. The deter
mination of the best agricultural meth
DDS where crop and live stock farming
is practicable. To encourage the es-
adjustment of experimental farms to
determine the limitations of scientific
soil culture and seed selection; these
farms 10 be operated under the direc-
ton Of state and federal experiment
stations or private enterprises. To as
sist the prospective settler in every
practicable way TO determine what land
under scientific soil culture methods is
susceptible of crop production. To en-
courage the use of every conservative,
practical method for developing the
semi-arid regions of America"
1t is up TO the people of Salt Lake
City to see that the congress is prop
erly entertained, that the delegates are
given a good impression of the city and
Of the state. and that there is appre-
citation here of their efforts on behalf
OF the western country.
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Nife Among the Indians


The skin dressing of the Indians, both
buffalo and deer skins, is generally very
beautiful and soft. They stretch the skin
either on frame or on the ground, and
after it has remained there for three or
four days. with the brains spread over the
fleshy side, they grain it with a sort of
adze or chisel.
After the process of granting. though
the skin is apparently beautifully finished
1t passed through another pIocess-that of
smoking. For this they hang the skin on
frame in a smokeproof house or tent.
The fire is made at the bottom out of
rotten wood, which produces a strong and
peculiar smell. The fire must be smoth-
cred to make the smoke.
The grained skins must be kept in the
smoke for three or four days and after
this the skins will remain always the
same, even after being wet, which does
not belong to the dressed skins in civili-
zed countries.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-11
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
HOW INDIANS TAN DEERsKIN

5714-Walter L. Wilding, Salt Lake.
Vivian Little. Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-11
TRAIN SPEED.
New York Tribune.)

A special train on the Great Western
road in England recently ran 1884 miles
in exactly five hours. its average speed
being nearly 52T miles an hour. The
achievement was q neat one. but is not
comparable with the performance of the
Twentieth Century Limited, which COW
ers a distance nearly four times as great
at the rate of 54.3 miles an hour, and does
so regularly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-11
THE IMPORTANT WORK.
(Life.l

Who is that thin, starved-looking little
woman who hurries by here early every
morning and hurries back late every even
ing?'
''She? Oh, she's a school teacher. She
gets about $40 month for handling a
rOOmful of children"
And who is that big, fat, well-dressed
man who strOlls by here now and then
smoking good cigar and looking at ease
with life -
He? Why, he's an inspector of ash
barrels or something like that. He gets
500 q month from the city -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-11
OUR DWINDLINe ARMY.

The regular army is dwindling at a
rate that is causing its officers and the
war department the gravest anxiety
A major of the Nineteenth infantry re-
ports that there are just So men in the
four companies composing his battal-
ion and that 2s of them will be dis
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-11
DEFIN ED.

Burglar Trust Manager.-''You will be
required to turn night into day; to throw
aside all sentiment: to enter the house of
the best families regardless of their feel
ings; to act the hypocrite, and if neces-
sary to go to jail"
Applicant.-"Cm. You don't want an
ordinary burglar. What you want is
newspaper reporter
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-11

William Jennings Bryan believes
Uncle Joe" Cannon is to be his oppo-
nent in the presidential derby 1t is
evident that Mr.. Bryan wants some
thing easy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-11
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
Warmer.
The METALS.

Silver. 54s4c per ounce.
Copper (casting). 13Isc per pound.
Copper (cathodes). 1890 per pound.
Lead S35S per 100 pounds
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Total Copies of The Herald
Printed in December. 1907.
ADJUSTMENTS TODAY.

Salt Lake-Matinee and night, Prim-
roses Minstrels.
Orpheum-Matinee and night vaude-
vile.
Grand-Matinee and night, "a Thorough
bred Tramp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17
HAGADORN HALL,
CHICAGO. ILL.

M my f"o" 70" NO NJ" 'ss%s hove
confounding the above impressive address
rlav be There is advantage amid the several
disadvantages of a chirography such mine and
that is. that however ilegible it may be- it is at
lea st not asilv forgotten
As YOU have not vet looked at the signature,
You will ina CINE | am sure. that | have married
millionaire and am living in a manor house But
You will be mistaken. l am still Your own fond
KATY Crotchett, and have not changed materially
since | wrote YOU three weeks ago. Yet great
deal has happened: among other things. my
arrival at Hagadorn Hall This is. as l have in
s;nuated not a house. 1t is only boarding
house. though quite impressive As for
NE. live in the hall bed room, and there is l am
bound to confess nothing baronial about its dimen-
SONS.
You will wonder why | left Grand Detour. Nv
dear got hearing the flies buzz Nothing
else happened. l assure vou There we sat.
patient gentle, proper souls in pretty place,
and grew few zinnlas and little corn, took
at grammar school. married anybody that
happened to get up energy TO call few times and
to inconspicuous deaths. Fortunately.
the cemetery picturesque. believe we were
t-ile picturesque ourselves. vt any rate. that
the adjective l sionalv hea I'd applied by
proud persons touring the country in automobiles.
and also by appreclatlve art students who came
down in punches and painted and ems.
fired up my engine so to speak and induced me
t. haul my freight Il dom know how came to be
SO railroads.&c. since in Grand Detour we not only
have locomotive. but hope to
one You know we had dreams but the rail
road as well fine old Rock River. made
grand detour. and did for quite) We
| said left to znnias and our corn and
slender basis have sometimes thought ourselves
artistic and agricultural: but really nothing
the first letter of the alpha bet that. We
drag at the tail end. tell YOU
But to return to the students. They
down something more than a dozen souls, and put
up at the inn, and sat under trees and umbrellas
and painted They quite polite and friendly,
and got far with of the girls as be almost
confidential.
My dear, she doing things! Her pictures
were little gems. She stood a good chance, she
said to get certain scholarship which would send
her Europe year. At first | thought |
didn't like her. | doubted if she understood the
true of woman-lf she could cook, and do
beds and keep the pantry shelves clean, and make
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17
Drawings by Maud Russell Tousey

her shirtwaists. and trim over her last years
hats l put it to her pointblank. She had large.
sad. gray eyes, with little, yellow humorous lights
in them They looked as if they held not only un-
shed tears but unlaughed laughs. Both the
tears and the laughter got in them when l asked
that question.
oh. YES she said. II can do all those things
| come from little town like this where all the
women cooking for the \ good many of
the have left and made something of them
selves: but the women have been fond of their old
homes and their old associations and their mothers
graves and they have sta yed right where they
born. Now there almost two women to cook
for each man; perhaps l should be quite statistical
IT l was to say that there woman and three
quarters to make tea biscuits and grdde cakes for
each l could make good tea biscuits and
griddle cakes any of them; but it seemed like
encouraging the national dyspepsia to cook such
surplus of hot breads. SO | got out. / seemed to
have ideas that were not adequately expressed by
grlddle cakes OF these silly little pictures
l make don't express me either, I'm beginning to
think that maybe expression isn't possible But
anyhow. I'm trying my best.
THEN she looked at me several seconds without
saying anything, and | got perfectly scarlet
All l could say was:
Yes. l know"
Well then" she said why don't YOU get out
too,
Everybody would be terribly scandalized." /
That will help their circulation she said in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17

that low droning voice Of hers. You'd think, t
hear her. that she the mildest hammered woman
that ever swept kitchen out. She DISCUSSES al
her electrifying ideas with that sweet don't care
little voice
I'm afraid l said. that my aunt would IL
horribly lonesome
You live with her.,
Yes She's father and mother to me
My dear take my word for it. Your aunt would
love to go with YOU. How old is She:
Sixty.
Has she seen anything of the world.
She has not been to Carca ssonne. said l. hoping
she knew the poem She did. She repeated par,
Of it and her voice had beautiful lazy odula .ions
I'm growing old. I've sixty wears,
I've labored all my life in n
In all that time of hopes and fears
I've failed dearest wish gain.
see full well that here below
Bliss unaloyed there is for
My prayer will neer fulhment know
l never have seen Carcassonne'
| never have seen Carcassonne.
You see the CITY from the hill
1t lies beyond the mountains blue
And reach must still
Five long and weary leagues pursue.
And to return many more.
All had the vintage plenteous grown.
The grape withheld its yellow store =
l shall not look Carcassonne,
| shall not look Carcas>onne'
They tell me every dav is there
Not nor less than Sunday gay.
In shining robes and garments fair
The people walk upon their way
One gazes there castle walls
As grand as those of Babylon:
n Bishop and two Generals
do not know fair CarcasSonne'
do not know fair CarcaSsonnc.
HOW beautiful | murmured.
Not bit of it. said the girl : vt least. its
good enough poetry; but its the worst possible
sense | don't believe in that sort of paralysis
say, if you want to anything, see it. II you
want to go anywhere. go! Of course don't mean
that YOU to go if it actually makes Others suffer
but the chances that it will not It's likely to
berate others as we'll yourself. | never was one
of those that believed in rotting in some cabbage
patch in order to lift the mortgage from the old
homestead-not bit of it! I'd rather get out and
make a new home. Use your energy, that's my
religion. Nothing comes from stagnation.
Now, can tell, by just looking at you. that
you are geared up to pace your neighbors know
nothing about. You're not going to be able to sit
around till some sentimental fellow comes along
Arizona republican., 1908-06-16
MESA ]
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|. The third of the large armatures and castings to be installed in the power-house at Roosevelt left Mesa yesterday morning on the sixty mile trip to the dam. A team of sixteen horses was used to carry the immense weight of machinery.
 There will be six of these arma- lures installed and each will be pro- pelled by a turbine wheel and alto gether will furnish approximately 5000 horse power, the turbines having ca- pacity of about 500 horsepower each. The transmission line which will con- vey this electrical power to valley points has been completed to within a short distance east of Mesa; and the immense steel poles which will sup port the four cables have been hauled to the different points along the line, where they will be erected. This line strikes the country road which lies one-half mile north of Main street, running parallel with it.
 The concrete foundations and power house are being completed as fast as the different dynamos arrive and are ready to place in position. It is eX- pected that this line will be ready for operation in a little more than a months time.
 Mesa will soon be enabled to draw upon this source for its electrical sup ply; and it can be used for many household purposes.
Arizona republican., 1908-06-16

CT just when it is most needed to ma
 ture crop oe grain or start another crop of hay along, it is worth many times that much to them. The fact that the plant has been in constant op- eration for the past thirty days is pret- ty conclusive evidence that it is a pay ing proposition to the rancher.
 The writer spent an hour very pleas antly the other night in looking over the plant while it was in operation A finer set of machinery it would be hard to imagine. Within the past few years a number of important improvements have been made. The machinery used is the most modern and the entire plant is lighted with electricity gener- ated by it's own power. Engineer Carl who has full charge of the plant, is a capable engineer and the machinery is at all times kept up to its best efficiency. The plant is neat and clean and shows the result of care and understanding, not only in it's gen eral appearance but in the manner in which it runs.
Arizona republican., 1908-06-16
FOWLER NEWS.


 Fowler. June II.-jSpecIaI Core spondence of The Republican Miss Kate Miller, who has been staying with Mrs. H. E. Smith. near Phoenix, spent Sunday with home folks.
 Friday morning. MT. Woods died at the home of MT. Daniels, in the west end or the valley, where he has been working for some time. Dr. Hughes stayed with him Wednesday night en- deavoring to keep him alive until his mother could arrive from Tucson. She came up from MaricOpa Thursday morning and was met by MT. Wickie of the ostrich farm. who brought her out in his automobile.
 Mir William Mann, who has been very sick, is reported to be somewhat better.
 MT. Cole and family drove to the river Friday night and enjoyed a fish fry.
 Nr. and Mrs. J. c. Hawerton are parents to a baby girl since Friday. Mir Hawerton works for Mir George Kay.
 The Baptist Missionary society held it's regular meeting last week with Mrs. George Kay.
Arizona republican., 1908-06-16

terian church gave social at J. o. Reeds pavilion There were straw berries, ice cream and cake. Finan- cially it was a great success
 Mrs c. w. Platt was out to the Monarch mine a couple of days last week, seeing the new mill run.
 Mrs. NJ. A Roberts was a Phoenix visitor on Thursday and Friday of last week
 Mrs. Annetta Collins was a Phoenix visitor.
 The Baxter Opera house VIII De soon ar interesting sight to strangers in our little city, the lower joist now being down, and this coming week will see it raised with the rafters on. Our young people are anxiously waiting for the opening exercise. MT. Baxter has not yet decided what he will open the house with.
 Wickenburg is making history Thursday night, June II. was. as the merchant would say, a red-letter day in the history of the town, and to the members who took part in organizing the Wickenburg Tri-County Board of Trade an historical event. From the time the temporary chairman opened the meeting until the organization, the speeches of the permanent chairmen. E. $. Jones of Wiekenhurg, Salome and Rouse, and the remarks of the diff ferent speakers were to the point. But the remarks of Secretary Geo W. Cowgirl of the Phoenix board of trade. were particularly instructive The or Sanization was perfected according to his suggestions. The executive board. which consists of nine members, does the business of the organization, and they expect shortly to start cam paign of education about our resources around Wickenburg. E. S. Jones, pres ident. and r. A. Mueller, secretary. will be pleased to answer any com .munications in regard to our district.
 HASSAYAMPER.
Arizona republican., 1908-06-16
VENICE OF AMERICA

"Venice of America'is fourteen miles from Los Angeles.
 The most unique Beach resort on the Pacific coast.
 Among it's many attractions is the largest dance pavilion in the world, the largest skating rink in the world and the largest and finest bath house and plunge on the Pacific coast. Open all thes time.
 One of the advantages that Venice has over resorts is the fact that one can secure at a most moderate cost, beautiful and attractive villas and bungalows ranging from seventeen dollars and a half to thirty-five dol lars month, which includes light, water and laundry. These villas are situated on the Venice canals, con- near to the ocean.
 Venice is also well supplied with first-class restaurants at popular pric- es and every thing that goes to make up for high class Seaside resort.
 Those who wish to bring teams, will find first class stable accommodations at moderate prices.
 Perhaps one of the greatest attrac- tions of Venice is it's equitable cli- mate. From May until November, the hardly varies.
 To those who wish to secure a pleasant summer vacation for moderate costs, Venice of America certainly should be it.
Arizona republican., 1908-06-16
MCKfNBURG LAUNCHES
 HIS BOARD OF TRADE
Other Events Illustrative of the Pros- perIty of tke Town.

Wickenburg, June 13.-(Special Cor respondence of The Republican, "A new corporation was granted papers to do business in our section of the county by the secretary of the terri tory last Thursday, called the Wick enburg Mining and Development com pany. organized by Harry Klawins, MT Dupuy and l. T. Hosey. MT. Klawins and Dupuy came into Wickenburg on Saturday to do some preliminary work before starting actual develop looking prospect.
 [ MT. Humphrey and partner were out examining the Vulture a couple of days last week.
 Charles Meller, Jr., and Dave Bren- neman were in from MT. Mellers property at the Blue Tank district on Saturday and Sunday.
 E. l.. Bumpus, state commander of New Mexico and Arizona of the Mac cabees, came to wickenburg last Wednesday and from the list of names he has now it looks as if he will or galize tent with a membership of from thirty-five to forty This is one of the best fraternal orders in the country.
 o. H. Mott and wife came in from the Eagle Camp and went to Phoenix for a. few days
 Mrs. Earl Smith and baby went to Prescott for the summer
 Ladies Aid society of the Presby-
Arizona republican., 1908-06-16
WATERMELoNs PLENTIFUL.

Early varieties of watermelons' are beginning to arrive in town in large some of the best specimens brought in so far having been those raised by the Power brothers at their ranch in the lower Lehi district, and those of R. Van Meter, who is engaged in intensive farming,
 No attempt has been made as yet to supply other than the local marke cts, but the Powers brothers, who devote large areas to the cultivating of this melon, expect to begin shipping at an early date. They raise several varie- ties, among them being the Florida Favorite, which is given the prefer ence on account of it's fine shipping qualities. In flavor it is the equal to the finest of the melons produced at Rocky Ford, and always commands a ready market.
Arizona republican., 1908-06-16

Brewers and wine growers are com plaining of the falling off in the con- sumption of their goods in Vienna. and particularly the brewers. From figures recently published it appears that the Viennese in 1907 drank 1,750,000 gallons less of beer than in 1906, and 10000 gallons less of wine. and this in spite of the fact that the population increased by 10000. About twice as much beer as wine is drunk. there having been. 27,s60,0 900 gallons of beer consumed in the year, against 13,45S,00O gallons of wine. The fall ing off in the quantity of beer con- sumed is relatively much greater than in the case of wine The de- crease is said to be due not so much to the growth in trade and conse- quent reduction in the spending ca pacity of the working classes.