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Show LIURf TJT'H t The Utah Statesman Is Endeavoring To Give a Correct Record of Public Affairs Without Regard to Party Lines ; V LfL VOL. NO. 8. NO. 11. Hatchtown. Dam Failure Starts States Bad Luck In Reclamation Efforts Colonization Plan Falls When Earthen Structure Is Washed Away. Snipe Hunters Get Hard Jolt In Gem State Effort to Get Rid of Piute Project Successful. Proves BOISE. Idaho An act making It a misdemeanor to throw dgareta out of automobile was signed by the governor Tuesday. The bill wii passed l.y the leglalaturo with a view to reducing fire hazards in forests where careless autoista have . been known to start fires. Simlllar statutes are in effect In neighboring states. Utahs The amt or Utah took two ortli into the realm of auto will reclamation, and henceforth probably let I'ncle Sam um discretion about this oubject. There were two atato reclamation projeflta started and - the atalte seems to be trying to let go of tho second and last ona of theso now. Tho other passed out of tho otate's hands some time ago. It was away back In tho dim twenty distance of moro than years ago that the idea was ahould state go the that Into tho reclamation work. Accordingly In 1901 the llatchtown project not far from Pnngultch was started and later the Piute reeervolr. Not only did Utah establish and finance the reclamaa tion projects but put through colonisation plan for tho Hatch-tow- n were There proposition. 5700 acres in ths Hatchtown pro6 land was sold for Tho ject. an acre. Tho auto Invested about 1260,000. Each project was undergoing tho usual hardships which go with tho opening of new land but the Hatchtown was beginning to see the light of day when a Mt of dam end hlghwater took out tho were left several hundred farms without watts. This was in Ills. a on Tho oettlsro had coma In payment plan and those who kept np their payments eventually got a good portion of their outlay back but others took their looses and moved out. This was one protho state of Utah had ject ......at oodwhich W .of flrlaUy behind Another Effort. efforts out went dam tho After were mads to supply tho settlors with water but this did not provo entirely a succeee and eventually tho remains of tho Irrigation eys-tewent to private persona. The Hatchtown colony, however, a thing of the past. Ths work on tho Pluto project was carried on between tho years 1101 and 1912. Wills this project as a project was a failure there was a lot of land brought Into tax cultivation and placed on thomors Ths 3te has spent In Aliw TIute than a mIHIon dolars was no project. Thereoccurred at Hatch there ouch as rough town, but tho going was and only th strongest sunrttmd. enthwly not yet has This property taned out of tho hands of the Mate os will he seen farther long la this article. Also Bought Stock, In Tho state alos took a flier owned s9mo stock In privately New Hope projects, the theso did and the Green River butsame trouThe not pan out wall. ble occurred In these project Which was common to all Irrigatime. Raw tion projects of that Insufficient land, raw farmers. long capital, poor equipment, hauls and low prices, were the rocks which dashed toono househopes of mors than to carve holder who sought west. homo for himself In the successful jjwiy of ourin most today ths farming regions fmllures of the have wltnciwdThose days, bow earlier times. ths eves seem to htve gone with todays tho people of them-selvepioneer, and more able to protect from tho economic wblcH overcome many ot tne pre i con-reiv- 110-$1- m be-ea- rn I111 sto Waltar K Hadlock, of Ogden, formerly deputy bank commliwlon-e- r, will be bank commissioner, replacing Beth Flxton; Charles M. Milt" Croft of Morgan, Is on tho etai board of public utilities, replacing Thomas E. McKay; Fronton U. Peterson of Provo, replaces himself on tha stats highway board; Frank Page Stewart or Balt Lake, and Edward H. Snow of Si. Georgs succeed themselves on tho stato board of equalisation; Hard-o- n Supreme Court Seeks Dates On Bennlon replaces himself as commissioner of agriculture; O. F. MeBhane of Cedar City remains on the Induetrlal commission; Sebron W, Golding of Price will eontlnu as head of tho department of registration and J. Arthur Mscham of Logan will eontlnu os slat fUh and game commissioner, George M. Bacon succeeds himself as stale engineer. John O. McQuarrie continues ns insurance commissioner, Theso name were among which Governor Georgs H. Dern has sent ths senate for con- Utah River Case WASHINGTON, D. C. Before 76-e- the United States supreme court passes upon the validity of the claim of tho auto of Utah to the bed of the Colorado, San Juau and Green rivers, where they flow through tho eute. It wanta more light as to tho facts and ths law. and to that end today appointed Charles Warren, former aeelsUnt attorney general, as special master to take evidence, and report hla with recommendation of finding decree. Tho recommendation, however, will be taken under consideration by the court, and It will formulate IU own decision whan it has the master's report and other evidence and argument before it. The court empowered Mr. Warren to conduct hearings where and whan he may deem proper, with, powes.to surrynniv end ,wp pel ths attendance of witnesses, giving him a free hand In tha conduct of hla inquiry. It ie quite probable a. material part of tho hearings and Investigation win be conducted In Utah. All of which moans that there can he no determination of this cam before. the next term of court. If firmation. The complete list of appointments follows: lit. For members of ths soard of trusts of tho Agricultural College of Utah: (6 years) Frank B. Stephens, Bolt Lake City li;; Mrs. Burton W. Musser, Balt Lake City (a); Walter E. Granger, Cedar City; Frederick F. Champ, Logan (x); John E. Griffin, Newton (x); .David Wangsgard, Ogden (x). For member of the stato hoard . tor M. Boyden. Coalville; R. Caine, Logan; John hy'aov- - Hanson, Btrlngham, To serve for tho unex-plre- d term ending April 1, 1931. roused by tha resignation of David F. Smith, Elmo Irani, Moroni. For commissioner of agriculture: Harden Bennlon Balt then. (6 years) Lako City. Junior HighSchooIs Juniperus Utaheiuis, Friend of the Pioneers,' Likely To be Designated as State Tree Before ' End fo Present Session. Rural Junior high schools, according to a statement hy tho department of tho interior, March 7. re growing in favor In all parts of the United States, but serious limitations are imposed on them because of failure to provide building space and material equipment through which the desirable special activities as media of Instruction are mnde possible. The full text uf the statement . Juniperiia Utahensls. variously referred to as Utah cedar, Rocky Mountain Red Cedar, Rocky Mountain wtaitn cedar and Utah Juniper, will be the official tree for the State of Utah. If the Flercy bill which has passed the house of repfollows: survives the last day's According to Bureau of Educa- resentatives ' tion BuleMn, 1929. No. 28, Depart- rush in the Utah ticnale. If the bill will it take alongits place passes 121 ere ment of the interior, there Junior high arhonls represented In side of the Fego Lily, tho blue flag a study made of buildings and and the beehive. A Real Pioneer. equipment of rural Junior h'gh schools. Junlperus I tahenato Is ronsld-- ! The committee which made the eredbymnnyas the ml emblcin of study points out eight qualities os the state as far aa troea are con essential to any modern high earned. Junlperus Utahensls, building comprehensive- - . dy offspring of the desert, wss par- convenience rise. flexibility, eafc'y, tlculsrly a part of tho life of the healthfulnesa. expansiveness, scon- - early Utahns. Utahensls, body and omy and efllcUncy and aesthetic soul was kindred to the gnarled fitness. pioneers who fought the hardships Of the 131 rural Junior high of tha west and conquered the It are housed in separate ert sail of Halt Lake valley. The buildings; HL' elementary schools; 46 In bulldli-gdements, and the 222i? har-scho- ol . The Great Seal Of The State Of Utah Adopted April 3, 1199 by the legislature of the special and First regular session of the State of Uloh Bt pat Luka City. In January. February, March and April, 1196. The original seal coat 665 and was dwlintil by Harry Kdwnrda. The Compiled Laws of Utah, 1917, explains tho Great Seal aa follow: "The Great Seal of the Stale of Utah ahall be two and one half Inches in diameter, KK JSJ.'TiS. tho lolkiwioB story about Hatch were JV I 'Industry:' erected with special reference lecture.' on lo Junior high school work, and the Is a beautiful tree, not Projects Waited. Utahensls gowingse'iii!: ,d ths land board firet one of theso wss erected In possessing the lordly beauty of ftaurls 'U ths yearths1901 the bee I h,'a funds then In ths some of Its cousin elsewhere, fmt dacldsd that As to the materials used In the rBih. haring the wild beauty Reservoir fund should bs used for cnvir- 6 of i these buildings, which Is typically western. It de- tho construction of permanent rnnatruction cent of .11 school, reporting Accordingly, n'J?J rcsorvolra Waning In several thtellemwere brick; 4.7 per cent Its windswept abodes but screpts gallon was made d the words 'The resulted In a trick and concrete; 9.1 per cent of same rules when allowed to Great Sealportion, these of the state which r. of the State of Utah,' coun-t19.1 cent, ronrrete and stone; Garfleld In per life. chosen less arduous s site being with the figures '1996' at the 1.9 per cent, stone; S.6 per grow Near At Hand. about 20 miles from Pangulteh. flame;concrete and brick, and 2 per Utahensls to base." of chief value The this selection subsequently became cent, cent, concrete. project the known sa tho Hslchlown lay in the fact that. It Mountain therefore. Is really y The type of building Is wss pioneer near ul hand. While some le- isny one ofCedsr, "The contract for ths construction a doxen Junipers which a most wa canal ' regarded nd generally dam still us the that tree, tells rwrvolr of the In the western states. for Junior high school gends on 8!xth East street in grow let July 19. 1907. The d.m was work: however, Four Varieties. of those reporting standing was tho Halt Lake City, solitary sre four varieties of I he Ther completed In November. 1909, and rnly 1R were 62. In this part of the valley, sentinel tho canal early in 190. and comIn three-storUtah. Covering the conone and Juniper 21, yet it Is s fact that Utahensls was state below nine thousand feet we "Tho work was begun tained four stories. end ths nearest not and the far sway, supervlelon under being find Utahensls. At the higher eie pleted On account of the health prohand, was the most used. Fenc- - vstions we find Junlperus scopu- direction of Caleb T. Tanner, then the gymnasium la considered st to 0 lot and fire seemed j ing stato engineer, with Joaeph Jen- gram. ,orenii very similar to Utahensls. an essential feature of the Junior sen In actual chargo of ths work. high school. About 60 per pent of f Utahensls In those days although , Then there is tha Juniper bush were , for In used of the trunks which abounds in the state. This Ths plans and specifications Jen- those considered In this study are many the building of cabins. the Junlperus communis. The tho work were p revered by with symposium. seems considerable 6 I There e son and McLaughlin under Mr. povlded fourth is Junlperus Fcventy-nlnper cent ef them about the great family sperms, species Tanner's supervision, and tho con- are provided with auditoriums, the single seeded Juniper, are The Junipers in This tree is found tract for ths srtual construction with varying seating rapacity. 60 of Junipers. boart per cent having a seating raparlty closely related (o the cedar and In ths stats. The woodoccasionally the mon as entered Into by tho state spedl-flralloit common called are and usually Is red parlunce the ths discloses that plans Incidentally, of less than 300. cedars. The true redar. Thuya, osperhia. submitted by Mr. Tandost of the Junipers, while the Taken as a whole this eludy bears the have while cone, Junipers wood of is ths whitest, Utahensls of the shows ner wars approved hy ths board that the buildings berries. The berry bears avldsnce But ths name rad cedar is sp and hs was authorised and InJunior high schools must be rone a evolved from and ot to having both, whllo Utahensls has plied structed to proceed with tho work, carded ns Inadequate. or twice stcrllo cones have the distinction of being called both and given full power to do nny and classrooms with provision for mass once red and whita cedar. The wise all things necessary to the end of awtrnhly pnd for physical cdu a been found on orethe Junipers. merely relics person, therfore. will not refer to characterise ths great mijer These, however, securing the construction of s tSton are no There Is ages. the state tree In the common ity of ths schools. A bars innjr of the hygone and permanent structure. lt t me but will stick to the sciencook- true cedars In Utah. Thuya pilosshewn further that Mr. Tanner lly make some provision for labor-sloris. of western true abounds In ths tific name. Junlperus utahensls. hod s clause put Into the contract ing and for s general science Techlnrsl Description. Not mar than one school northwest, with northern Idaho with Mr. Brlnton that he, as stats Charles Mprague Sargent of Har In three can be regarded aa har- having a goodlv representation of trees. Tha Yard these university, gives the follow Rocky (Continued on Pago Four) ing adequate housing provisions 1 J1. - : ?'"' left-hsn- TVXrS one-stor- one-stor- y: ry two-stor- y: mnno-confusi- rsl r. 4 For members of th governing th Utah Art Institute: Here is a typical Utah scene allowing Junlperus Utahrnsis, which may he decreed the atate tree by. the time thle Is printed. At the lower left la a vase of the Sego Lily, the etate flower. At tho right la the state flag, blue with a gold border, with the Mate eoal in the center. Note also tho state eeal alone. At the top. left to right Mrs. W. U Wetherbce, who presented the atate flag to Governor Mabey In 1922; Evan Stephen, author of the atate song; Mrs.. Anna T.Plercy, author ot tree bill now In the senate. Growing In Favor eatls-fucto- Lawrence Richard. Riverton; Bountiful. s Clb55rrlni' tbit ths parson Ths (x) means Is succeeding himself. With on or two exceptions these appointments take effect April I, I Utah, We Love Thee board of (2 Btewart, yean) Lecompte Ksysvllle; Joaeph A. F. Everett. Balt Lake City; Miss Rena Olson. Balt Lake City; Fred W. Hodgson, Logan; Mies Elisabeth FlMOerald, Sego Lily Chosen State 8alt Lake City. Flower in 1911; Song' Selected in 1917. Land of ths mountains high, Utah, we love thee! Land of the sunny sky, Utah, ws love thee! . 'Far In the glorious west. Throned on the mountain's crest. In robes of statehood dress, Utah, so lovs thee! For state bank commissioner: yean) Walter H- - Hadlock, 1 4 Og- den. For state bank examiners: 2 "Utah, We Love Thee," by Evan years) It. S. Jones. Jr., Balt Lake Stephens, was selected the state! City (x); Chesley Barton, Murray, eeng for Utah In 1917. The selec-- 1 for member of tho stato hoard of Columbia's newest star, Utah, wa love thee! was msd by legislative reso-- 1 corrections: (4 years) Bamnel W. tlon Thy lustre shines afar, Utah, we love thee! lution, hence the song does not Btewart. Balt Lak City (x); Jsm'-Bright In our banner's blue. Among her slaters true. find Its place In tha statuto books I vers, Jr., Balt Lake City, She proudly comes to view, Utah, we love thee! aa dots the sego Illy, "Utah, We' For members of the hoard (f Land of the Plppeers, Utah tie lore three!. Love Thee." was written trustees or the Utah 8tste School Grow with tho coming years. Utah, we love thee! oner Utah became a state. shortly It had for the Deaf and tha Blind: 1 With wealth and peace in store. To fame and glory soar. stood the test of time years) Dr. L. U Dalnes, Balt Lake already evermore, Utah, we love thee! when it was adopted a ths official City (x). song. Evan Rtephcns, the author j For memebrs of th stats board (Words and music, Evan Stephens) and romposer, residoa at 1996 Btat of education: 16 years) John C. technical description of Utahensls: western foothills of ths Wasatch street. I Provo Swenson, is): Joshua Leaves opposlts or occasionally Mountains, in eastern Utah to Lak Cltv. Balt in 1's, rounded, moetly without southeastern California, northern gold fringe. On its silken surface: Green.wood, To serve for th unexplred term glands oh the back, acutr nr often Arisons, western Colorado, and within a circle of gold to the state 'ending 1931. caused 1. by Un April yellow-greesouthern Wyoming: In acuminate, light Neseal of Utah, dona In natural col- - resignation of Oscar W. McConktc rather less than 9 In. long, per- vada often doecendlng central Into ora In the hand embroidery. The rr. M. J. Macfarlan. Cedar sistent for many years, the elongat- valleys and forming open stunted work to un excellent example i t City. ed and of forests at elevations of about 6,000 this type of leave re-' needlework, the For state engineer (6 years) young shoots passing gradually In- feet; more bundant and of larger vere s de of the niece being almost ! Georgs M. Bacon, Balt Lake City to the arerose leaves or more vig- size on arid slopes to elevations of aa as rront. A the perfect heavy orous shoots and seedling plants 3.000 teel above the sea in dense gold cord nnil tusscls will he (x. For members of the stale board Flowers Btsmlnale with 4 op- nearly pure forests. attached when the flag to properly or ternale their stamens, posite on mounted n staff. (Continued On Fag Three) connectives rhombuldal; scales of I Description of tlie Mate Flag. The State Flag. the pistillate flower acute, spreadTh state flag of Utah to de- Laws of Utah, 1911. ing, often in pairs. Fruit Ripenclared to be a flax of blue The school children of Utah wer ing during the autumn of the secwith" gold liordwuh Thi rilled upon to docld which of all recetoedfram3nmerLLi ringed ond season, subglobose or oblong, quest wita N'Lw folIowln In native flowers would be most th worked natural marked by the moro of lees prom-le- Hylan o York f on mep ,h blue appropriate os the stats flower. The red- of our state emblem which ws, to r?1,0, tips of the flower-scale- s, R0 Lily wo chooen Inasmuch as dish brown, with a thick firm occupy a place in a natrlotla ns-- 1 "J.1!' shield: above Hi II was th root or tuber of thto epidermis covered with a glaucous radsalong with the union? flan h 7? Knl,r ,M bloom and closely Investing the of other elates In the ?nd lh'on " American plant, which saved th Utah Upon r,e r,th outstretched wings: (he near from otarvallon during the thin dry sweet flesh. In. by I found that in. fong, with 1 or rarely 2 seeds: 2.664 of the compiled laws of Utah top ot ,he shield pierced with six esrly spring of 1949 when they had arrows acuta-ly acute, crosswise; upon the shield run out of Provisions and their ovate, 1917, described th state flag anii conspicuously angled, marked nearly to the that tho flag which we had was un,,,r the arrows the word "In- - crops had not matured, 3 In. pot made in accordance with this dutry," and below the word Inspeg by the hllum. The plant grow on every long, with a hard bony shell, of th statute and that w dustry" on the center of th shield brush hill and to known by Its ' membranaceous pale brown Inner did not have a state flag. stem and leaves from An 1 beehive; on each side of the grsss-llk- e oeed-cna- t, and 6 coyledons. artlcla to thto effect was placed in beehive, growing sego lilies; below I which th bloom arises. When Twenty Feet High. be beehive newsnaoera and near the bottom fully expanded. It is the local with a result. A bushy tree, rerely exceeding that several uf the shield tbs word Utah," symetrlcal In outline and to whit- -, 20 feet In height, with a short us- to make and organisations offered and below word "Utah" and en striped with mottled green and the donato to th stale 2 some eccentric times trunk ually nn official state flag. Several the bottom of the shield In fig- - tinged with purpl above, end feet In diameter, generally divided eketrhes were submitted and ths. urea 1147." with the appearance below In a largo bearded anJ near tha ground by Irregular deep sketch received from the Oliver O. !of being bark of the shield. There spongy spot near the base. Th fissures Into brosd rounded ridges, Howard Relief Corn of the Grand shall be two American flags on flower measure about an Inch ard many erect contorted branch Army of th Rsoublle was considplscrd crosswise with the a half aach way. Tha three petals forming a brosd open head, slen- ered th beet and tbeir offer wad flagoslaffs flags so draped that they win proj- era tapering, der light yellow.green branchiate accepted. ect beyond each side of the shield, and InaUy spread outcovered after tho falling of tha Flag Presented. heads of the flagstaff appear- wards. the leave with thin light On May 6th. 1923. Mrs- - W. U in front of the angle's wlnr "Bego" Is a native Indian name, scaly berk; more often with num'beebte. Patriotic. Instructor ing Btjjj (i,a bottom of eseh staff erous stems spreading from ths and there to a legend among cur O' J vr ground and frequently not more peering over the face f the draPrl Utah Indiana which to similar to than 3 feet to 10 feet high. Bark the shield; below the the otory of the children of Israel rrl,r l! ,n, ' shieldsbelow in. thick, ashy gray or About and flags end upon th end ths mnnne. It Hi said that cn sometimes nearly white, and bmk flair 'and a?! th" fi,'r h,u YJ great hauls In morning after en into long thin persistent scales. tima alnoL the Around th entire design a narrow which hundreds of red warriors tt t, frag-anWood Ught brown, slightly had bean slain, that the battlefield with thick nearly white covered with thousands ef for 1923-3- 4 Report emblem. official Governor Charles fuel for used locally largely Great flowers. Th these llttl and fencing. The fruit la eaten R. Mabev ' accepted th flag Spirit showed his Red Kona to dig Utah State Flower. by Indians fresh or ground and behalf of tho state. and sat tho tuber of th plant and The Oliver O. Howard Relief baked Into cake. save themselves from starvation. Hint ri button. Tlw Sega I.lly, corps eannot lie given too much Th Indiana then made a pact to Distribution In th desert reg- pratoo for the patrlotle spirit which fight no moro bottles where the ion between the Rocky Mountains prompted them In conferring thto Adapted bv the legislature ef tbs Sego Lily grew and thus It was and th Rlerra Nevada, where It Is fitting tribute upon thto state. Tha flag to made of heavy dark State of Utah. March 19. 191!, that peace and prosperity was esthe most abundant and most gen Chapter 97, Section 2, Session tablished among the Uto Indiana crally distributed tree, from the Uue silk, edged with three-inc- h s God-guard- ' n, long-point- 13-2- ' tto.L nt 1- -3 1- -4 -- lon ln.-l-- -i sage-eerti- d, ) heart-shape- sharp-pointe- d, d, red-bro- '' h: fg sap-woo- d; "I. t u t .1 1 |