The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-06-24
utah STATE NEWS


and within ten days trusting for tn
roof win begin
Through Active work of the Verna
Commercial Club and the efforts o
congressman Don y. Cotton fedora
aid has been scured for the yenal
Duchesne road.
Sunday concerts at Saltair near Sal
Lake are In full swing again this year
II. Owen Sweeten and his band VII
play two distinct programs every Sun.
day in the season. The afternoon pro
gram begins Mt 80, the evening pro
gram at 1880.
Little attention is being paid by Gig
art smokers to the Southwick anti
cigarei bin which went into force on
June 8. Police and sheriffs are pass
ing the buck" as regards its enforce
ment In relation to smoking In public
places. Not single arrest has yet
been made
The state Road Commission has or
dered the Phelps Construction company
TO proceed with paving Of the road
from Hot Springs south towards Og-
den, and complete the mile yet 20 be
paved including the change in the road
at Hot Springs. to avoid crossing the
electric railroad tracks.
The work Of paving the business
part Of Trcgnonton Is now moving
rapidly. n large force Of men being
engaged IN moving dirt, leveling, and
placing forms for curblng. BY Friday
night the excavation of three blocks
win have been completed. Large trucks
are hruling gravel from the pit at
DeweyyiHe.
THE railroad into the Unitah basin
VIII be built former Governor Simon
Bamberger said recently on his return
from New York, but the presen is not
a propitious time, and this project
must necessarily await that time sure
ly coming when it viii be more poss-
ible to forsee with greater certainty
the economic future
Hundreds of farmers representing
every agricultural section of Utah are
registering their views with regard to
the program of national legislation
proposed by the American Farm Blu
rcau. The official blanks for register
ing the result of the voting were sent |
TO the county farm bureau officers
the state on June /.
Valuation of property in Duchesne
county not assessed by the state board |
If equalization is placed by the county |
assessor this year at $5,44S7, 537, as
compared with $6,34404S last year.
Decreases are shown in all the four |
principal groups of property classes,
he largest being in the valuation of |
livestock an important industry in that
0unty.
The water In Utah lake is constan-
y raising Accordingly to engineers
is higher now than ii has been since
800 when it flooded all the fields and
Dads near its shore. This will be
reat saving to the irrigation compan-
ar. The pumps will.not have to be us
for long while and maybe not at
II this year.
Delegations from Lehi American
or,z, PLEASANT Grove and Salt Lake
Jet with the County Commissioners at
merican Fork last week and asked
nat a good road be built up TO Com
unity Flat at the base of Mt. Timpan-
COS. The road built last year was
, step and did not prove satisfactorily
he heavy rains have washed most OF ]
away this winter, 1t is declared. I
Economists who have studied the
inject have come TO the conclusion
mt food production does not keep up
it'll the increase of population because ,
e have depended upon an increased
,reage to produce this increased pro ,
Iction. rather than an increased pro- ]
tction pr acre. Anything. therefore, I
at will increase the production of /
cd per acre will directly benefit every 6
sident of the Payson, Utah.
One of the most important pro-
sions of the livestock marketing plan
be submitted to the producers OF
tab and other farm bureau states !
the nation VIII be the establishment :
farmer-owned and controlled COM a
sSion Cos. according to informa- c
m received by the Utah State Farm 5
ireau. This was decided at the third s
Ssion of the farmers livestock mar a
ting committee of fifteen held in
licago recently.
Charles O. Erickson. mOrtorman on !,
e Murray car line and said to be one :,
the oldest employees in point of
rvice of the Utah Light & Traction r,
mpany, fell dead Monday afternoon a,
lille watching the baseball game on r.
e Tribune scorehoard.. Always an u
Dent fan. he Is thought TO have be- h
me unduIy excited at a critical. per- p
! OF the game. just when Salt Lake &c
Ide its winning run in the thirteenth o'
hing. Efforts were made at the time :,
revive him and he was later taken e.
the emergency hospital, where he 10
s pronounced dead. 81
Fire. believed to have been caused