The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-05
Expose by Tribune of Methods
Adopted by Land Board
Hurts.
RICHFIELD REAPER
HAS ST0CKH0LDER HIT
Raves and Rants Because Eccle-
siasts So Order, but Don't
Know Why.

state board of land commissioners OF
Utah which has been printed an The
Tribune has gotten under the hide OF
the several members and ex-members
of the board; in fact, the probe insert
ed by The Tribune has cut into the
quick flesh, and there is a loud and
prolonged cry from those who are hurt.
Ex-members of the board are howling
loudly in order to distract attention
from them. Down at Richfeld is print
ed the Reaper, and If The Tribune g
information is correct former member
of the state land board is stockholder
in the paper. This member had 10 do
with the Piute project, and the Hatch
town project, both Of which are white
elephants on the hands of the state.
In its last issue the Reaper prints the
following:
What Reaper Says.
What is all the stir which The Tribune
is Kicking up about the state board of
land commissioners? The gentlemen
composing that body are all honest and
competent men. In private life they all
stand head and shoulders above The
Tribune writers. In the conduct OF their
office no set Of men having such large
sums OF money to handle could nave been
freer from scandal than have the pres
ent state land board members. No one
has any just cause for its attacks on the
land board. There must be some sinis-
ter motive behind it all. The writer on
the Piute project last week only told
enough OF the story TO cast suspicion on
the work OF the land board In this mat
ter. and as in other cases. a half truth
Is the meanest kind of n lie.
Is it possible that The Tribune Is de-
of a frny mi foil inc IN,
the paper descends TO questionable meth
ods to force such patronage2 Any paper
that Will employ such a writer as tho
man who wrote up the Piute prolect Is |
no better than the scribe. and OF him the
least said tho better for the olfactory
nerves OF the community
The Hatchtown and Piute projects arc |
both great reclamation projects, and |
there has been no squandering of the |
public funds nor has there been any fav- |
oritism played in the contracts for the |
two projects named.
The facts as to the delay In complet- |
ing the Piute project were within reach |
OF the Piute scribe had he desired TO |
obtain them. but, in line wish tho policy |
Of his master The Tribune. he fought |
shy Of the facts and wrote only what
his puny brain could grasp and what his
master ordered him to write The screed
was as unfair as The Tribune articles
about Utah usually are.
II the Reaper had read the stories
which The Tribune printed about the
projects named it would not have made
such an ass of itself as it has in the
article quoted.
Might Call on Neighbor.
Perhaps the Reaper might obtain
'ome information by asking resident
If Sewer county some questions re-
yarding former members of the board
which might be difficult of explanation
- I
arge loans, made to irrigation com.
'anles by the state land board. Per
laps 1T may bo all right, but on the
ace of the returns it looks queer. How
nd IT happen that just after loan of
'l0o,oOO was made to an irrigation
ompany by the state land board that
member of that board would, soon
liter the loan was made, be elected
director in selling company which
vas formed to dispose of the lands Of
he, company to whom the loan was j
made, and would receive 5000 per
lonth salary as such directors The
seaper might start an inquiry that
7ould be prolific of information In its {
wn locality. There is an old maxim
bout people who live in glass houses.
Tribune Never Unfair.
AS to the statement that The Trib-
ne story, was as unfair as The Trib-
ne articles about Utah usually are -
he Tribune might ask whether tba
Tory giving facts and figures abomt
ever county, printed in The Tribune a
Mhfch e last. was unfair. This story
.. half a page told in detail the story O
tne county, In which was also de. I
liled the great gypsum deposits of tbe
99unty; of the marble made of cement. c
the great salt deposits; of it's prea{ S
lermai springs at Monroe; of it's mar o
e md; of It's great coal deposits: of
$ Ideal climate; of the edncatiopaI II
iVantages 1T possessed: and of it's l
any other resources. The Tribune
ks the Reaper the question: Was -
at story unfair? o.
!, Utah tour in May and visited Rich, T,
'ld was the story printed in The Trib. L
lie about the visit there, and about III.
z meeting held In the tabernacle nm.
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Why No Mention? ..
Ihere has never been printed in the hi
,,aper line or Il word from the m,ny ST
lnmns OF matter which The Tribune ,e
$ printed exploiting Richfield and IL
vler county, nor of the many kind IN
'rds Inc tribune has uttered about Fl
people. The reason Is well known Ss
ere the Reaper to do so, it could nor
en- deliberately lie to its readers as We
does when 1t saws that The Tribune ne is is
-u nnfalT In its articles about Utah W.
ne Tribune is fair. If the stories do
lnted in its columns showin@ +ho III
'okedness, the cussedness, the man
stances of law breaking and crim,cs ha
nmltted by ecclesiasts who confroI liz
pers like the larger part of the iTtob wv wv
lte press were not true, why is i cee,
II the courts are not appealed to; til,
n lion lnll ~ Jones tried it. Result is Al
own. The fact is that The Tribunc rel
he only fair paper in Utah: il L,pute nr;ntc RIG
u.s. 1T is the real friend of Utah. Un un