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Show - IF everybody has it in for you, thats no reason why you should take it out fail by trying to attend to Somebody else's business than by trying to attend to their own. MORE men VOL. on somebody else. Xin, NO. 32 ESTABLISHED 1910 PROVO CITY, UTAH, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1923 nn . , f NEW TIMBER INDUSTRY i Available Supply Goes to Millions T , Recent Estimates by Government Experts Show Great Possibilities for Utah Valley APOSTLESiOOT SPLENDID SPEAKER AT FIRST WARD Provo City and Provo river are to be the center of railroad tie production of the intermountain west in the near future, according to engineers of the United States forestry service. In addition, the watershed of the Provo will bring down millions of feet of rough lumber for building purposes. Under estimates made by the forestry department this timber can be logged down Provo river to Charleston, which is approximately the mouth of Provo canyon. on the head Fifty million feet of lodgepole pine is accessible waters of the Provo river. Through government and railroad tests this has been found to be ideal timber for. ties. This is only a part of a total of 550,000,000 feet of timber ready for harvest at this -- I of ' I J I inter-mounta- I- i i ;i l: ? - - ! in one-ha- lf e, saw-timb- er ' - guished Statesman and Church Official Appears t Meeting. training UP COMMITTEE MET SATURDAY Biggest Real Estate Deal in Intermountain Country Being Completed. Coming Steel sur- ! Unity to Scour AD Communities. day evening. Whether the professor is right in his conjecture would perhaps be hard The people of the Provo First ward to determine, but Provo was unmistakably lifted into the realm of the received a pleasant surprise last divine art in such a manner that the night when Apostle Reed Smoot ap- great audience that attended Fripeared before the audience as one of day's concert gave expression to its the speakers of the evening. It was feelings with hearty rounds of apnot generally known that Apostle plause following each number on the Smoot was in the city, and in ad- program. Professor McClellan drew his condressing the members of the ward clusion of Provos appreciation of he stated that he had been asked by music following the rendition of President Penrose if he would care Wagners classical Feast of the from Parisfal, which, to address a meeting in the Salt Lake Holy Graildifficult to understand, was although tabernacle, to which he replied that received with tumultuous applause. he would much prefer to go to his The opening number of the chorus of fifty of the best male voices in own ward in Provo. the west, under the direction of ProApostle Smoot expressed his pleas- fessor McClellan, was the "Chorus of ure at being privileged to again meet the Departing Pilgrims from Tann-hause- r, with his old friends and neighbors by Wagner. Following this in this city. He touched on the Dr. W. P.. Worley won his way into progress of the church and made ref- the heart of every one present by his erence to the growth of the church rendition of Verdis Celeste Aida in the city of Washington, D. C. He from Aida. His rich tenor voice stated that in the twenty years that was of the finest quality and he rehe had been in Washington that ceived a hearty applause which branch.- - of, the- - church found it brought lorth a seemad number. For the first time in several years necessary to move mtollarger quarters at least four times, and at this that Florence Jepperson Madsen, time there are 300 souls belonging Provos favorite contralto, has apto the Washington city branch of peared in public concert in this city was that of her appearance Friday the church. Smoot Apostle spoke reminiscently evening. As she stepped to the platof a time when he was a boy nine form she received an ovation. Her years of age he had heard Presi- first number was "Margaret at the dent Brigham Young prophesy that Spinning Wheel, by Franz Schuthe time would come when the voice bert. Her rendition was so beautiful of God through his children, would be that her admirers, and they comheard from one end of this nation prised the entire audience, applaudto the other. He told his audience ed for several minutes. She reBluethat he remembered how he had sponded with Cyril Scotts gone home and told his mother that birds Song (Opus 52, No. 3). This such a thing was absurd and he could number seemed even more delightful not see how such a thing would ever than her first one, and following a be possible. Today, he said, the radio prolonged demonstration of hearty not only conveys the .human voice, appreciation of her effort she grabut the sweetest tones of music are ciously responded with Annie Laurie. heard for thousands of miles. A number of appropriate musical Other soloists were Walter A. Walnumbers were furnished by the lace, bass, who sang with good effect The Two Grenadiers by SchuStrong sisters and Miss Kay. Immediately following the services mann. He responded to thewar-tim-hearty e Apostle Smoot returned to Salt Lake. round of applause with a song, That Truth Might Triumph. With practically every towrfi in Utah county represented, the work of town campaign the clean home-clea- n was fully outlined at a meeting held in the courthouse, this city, Saturday afternoon, over which Chairman Industry Gets Action. One of the most unusual contracts in construction business, and especially in the West, will be let in Provo in the next ten days. It involves the building of 100 houses, worth $2,500 to $3,500 each, within the city limits. The contract for the whole lot is made on the theory that the Provo City housing shortage is about to! get beyond the acute stage. In fact, there is no shortage, according to real estate men, there is nothing at all. The building boom is predicated' upon the making of pig iron at the site of the new iron and steel works of the Columbia Steel Corporation, midway between Provo and Springville. Not alone real estate men, but ordinary searchers for rooms. or dwellings will hopelessly admit there is no such animal in Provo. With i Lowry Nelsen preside.d. It is seldom that any civic movement receives the degree of interest as that shown in the present effort to rid every community of the county of an army of a thousand workers, due the unwholesome conditions with here by the! first of August, and no which they have been surrounded in rooms to let at the present, where the past. It was pointed out at this meeting are they going to eat and sleep? that the present campaign is de- HOUSING SHORTAGE signed to establish a new standard Thats a live question in Utah in economic and health-givin- g projects. The beautification of every county right! now. All the lots adhome and every community also is joining the steel site have been sold to be one of the objectives of the and a new addition on the south is committees efforts, and no stone will being put on the market. Some of be left unturned to reach the acme the purchasers are announcing their of cleanliness and beauty. intention of putting up buildings, but The correct method of planting the larger proportion are buying on sub-jfctrees and shrubs was one of the the early raise which for speculation discussed.,This important hasjajraady started.. Students of the the work was touched oh situation phase of who have already accountby Dr. M. C. Merrill of the Brigham ed for the present house say Dr. Merrill de- that the neW .comers will shortage Young university. have to live clared that shade trees should not in tents. j be planted too close together. He If it takes three months to. build thought that from 30 to 40 feet a house and five hundred families would be a proper distance so that arrive here in the next sixty days, the trees might be given an oppor- there will j undoubtedly be some tunity to develop in the proper pro- tents dotting the plains below the portion. He voiced the opipion that Wasatch as there were in the old as a general rule there are too many days. trees in proportion to the number of Work will start on the steel plant shrubs, and he urged the planting of site in another seven days, accordmore shrubs around the home. The ing to one of the officials of the comspeaker named a number of shrubs pany. April will see 200 men and that thrive in this section, and de- teams making the ground ready for clared that if properly planted there the blast furnace and the is nothing that lends more beauty to coke ovens. By there will be the surroundings han blooming 500 men working July on construction shrubs. alone, with a large force on railLee R. Taylor of Payson touched roads trackage that is necessary and on the plan of procedure in the clean- another of workers large contingent up work and offered many valuable who must furnish- the materials to suggestions concerning the best build with. In other words, Utah methods of disposing of the winters county must immediately prepare to accumulation of debris. house a thousand guests who have Amy J. Leigh, county home dem- never been here before. Another number that touched the onstrator, led in the discussion of The score of 300 lots sold in the (Continued on Page Five.) correcting the unwholesome condi- additions adjoining the plant site has tion of many outdoor lavatories been increased to 400. There is Belonging1 found in all parts of the county. She prospect of a deal that will mean the Block Y9 E. To urged the adoption of a uniform, transfer of whole blocks in the viB. Y. sanitary type. of Steel City. Junius Banks of Lehi suggested cinity A fire which lasted from 5 oclock In to building coke ovens addition The initiation of block Y club that a special effort be made to exFriday afternoon until 9 oclock Satthe rats. Mr. Banks cited urday morning destroyed a barn and members at the B. Y. U. is taking terminate cases where this pest is doing FRIENDS PAY FINAL the this to and many 30 tons of hay belonging week, customary about place James E. Daniels, former mayor of ludicrous stunts are being pulled great damage throughout the county, Conspicuous today among the and suggested that some sort of Provo, at Fifth South and Sixth East off. TRIBUTE TO DEVOTED candidates were two members of the prize be offered to the boys of the streets. an on to communities Mrs. various Ballif carry Algie Eggertsen Despite the fact that the entire faculty, extermination campaign. It was .defighting equipment was put into op- and Miss Alene Phillips,a arrayed In WIFE AND MOTHER eration a strong wind fanned the the fashionable garb of quarter of cided that prizes should be offered blaze from one section to another a century ago. The long skirts were for such a campaign and that essay and continued to renew into blaze matters of supreme Interest among prizes and prizes for the best kept Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah the smoldering hay. The men work- the students and Mrs. Ballif was homes would also be offered. camThe matter of financing the ed in relays throughout the night. given a round of applause for M. Dastrup, wife of Ephraim Das- on the rostrum befbre paign was discussed and County The loss is estimated at upwards of Commissioner James H. Gardner, on trup, who died here Thursday mornthe assembled students. $500 by Fire Chief Reed Boshard. ing, were held in the Provo Fourth At ts - ( , - Initiation University Solid South Unites on Roads Will Boost i Resigns L i Members of Ward Given PleasRepresentatives From All Parts ant Surprise When Distin- rus at the Utah stake tabernacle Fri of Utah County Working. in Fire Barn and Hay James 4 cultural One Hundred Housed in Single Contract BY MENDELSSOHN CHORUS Provos port the Jogs from the cutting op time. The forestry service has made erations to the mills. , the survey and has determined the In addition to the tie timber on logging possibilities of the Provo the Provo river chance, there is apriver. The survey was ordered from 20,000,000 feet of proximately now Washington on the theory r, 16,000,000 feet pole pine bet-)adopted by the service that It is and 1,500,000 spruce ter to cut timber than let it rot. It feet of alpine fir and 6,930,000 lin- is also found that by thinning out ear feet of prop material, that is at the pew generation of trees is pro- present mature and ready for harvest. The forest service is conductmoted. The researches to date indicate ing a study at the present time to that Provo stands at the central determine the approximate annual point of a new Industry. Companies. demand in the northern and central ,, are already negotiating and the pros-- Utah for the various timber products, pects are that Ialce. Utah, valley will jrhis study has developed, the fact be the next supply "point for rough that Park City alone utilizes one and lumber and tie timber in the million feet B. M. of saw timber and 110,000 linear feet of country. Here is a general survey of the sit- mining timbers per annum. A survey of the box material used uation as submitted by W. W. Blakes-lesupervisor of Uinta forest: re-- annually in Salt Lake and Utah ( counties is in progress at the presA rough survey of the timber sources within the Uinta National ent time. This survey, however, has 'forest shows an available supply or not been completed to date, but it merchantable totaling ap- has progressed far enough to indifeet B. M. cate that thousands of dollars are 550,000,000 proximately time. Ap- expended each year for the imporready for harvest at thif feet of the tation of box material which could 200,000,000 proximately timber is located in the Granddaddy be kept in the state by the use of our native timber products for this lakes and Rock Creek, country, and The re- purpose. Engleman spruce is a very is at present inaccessible. desirable timber for box material, maining 350,000,000 feet, however, and can and the demand for this material , is more or less accessible, be utilized in the near future for the oould be supplied from the forests of manufacture of lumber and other Utah for a number of years to come timber products. The largest, acces- if proper facilities were provided for sible body of mature timber is lo- its manufacture. Millions of linear cated on the head of Wolf Creek and feet of timber are consumed annuthe South Fork of the Provo river, ally in our Utah mines. While native and- is approximately seventy'" miles Utah timber is used to some extent, body the mining timber demand is largely northeasterly from Provo. This engle-mann of timber, which consists of supplied from outside points. Utah fir spruce, douglas fir, alpine perhaps has as much aspen timber as Destroys and lodgepole pine, contains approx- any other western state which will imately 60,000,000 feet B. M. of mer- no doubt will be utilized in the near chantable saw timber and is ideally future- in the manufacture of paper located for a practical sawmill opera- pulp.- Pulp wood is becoming very Daniels tion. The forest service is at pres- scarce in the northern and eastern ent engaged upon an appraisal of ap- states. feet of this proximately 6,000,000 timber. As soon as the appraisal has been worked up the timber will be WILL MAKE EFFORT advertised in the local newspapers. This'block of timber will be adverTO PROCURE BETTER tised for sale with the object in view of interesting sawmill operators. The Wolf creek timber contains some of LIGHTING SYSTEM the finest englemann spruce that can be found in any of the national forest states. It is of an exceptional Chairman Roy Boren of the street quality and if manufactured properly there is no reason why it cannot lighting committee of the Chamber be placed in competition with the of Commerce has called a meeting of coast product. Thousands of dollars his committee to consider ways and go out of the country annually for means of installing a more desirable the purchase of imported timber street lighting system for the busiproducts which could be kept at home ness section of Provo. "providing a sufficient public interest Members of this committee point can be created for the use of the to the fact that it has been almost a Utah timber resources to warrant the since a petition was circulated investments in milling equipment year and signed by all of the property necessary for the manufacture of owners from First East Street to high grade material. There is some- First West on Center street and from thing over 50,000,000 feet of lodge- Center Street to First North on Unipole pine timber on the north fork avenue. The petition toof the Provo river watershed, all of versity sysgether with plans for a lighting comis accessible at the present tem were presented to the city For the past several years mission. The matter is now in the The biggest road conference in the both the forest services, at its prod- hands of the city engineer and the will take place in ucts laboratory in Madison, Wis., and commission, according to Mr. Boren. history onof Utah 10. It will be an April several of the large railroad com- It is the intention of the committee Provo south for a solid of the expression panies have been conducting experi- to work to the original plans, and sensible, scenic highand seasonable ments to determine the quality of to exert its influence with the city the mayors All Utah. through lodgepole pine as a tie timber. These commission to the end that the first way commissioners county and and city experiments have resulted in several unit of the new system might be will be south of Jordan Narrows the of the railroad companies using large Proof invitation spring. the at present numbers of lodgepole pine ties annuThrough Commerce. of vo Chamber acally. The .Oregona Short Line Rail- Railroad responses already received the Man road company has tie treating plant unanimous. J. Hall, general foreman of the ceptation appears at Pocatello, Idaho, with a capacity emanating Recent propaganda ties 1,000,000 local for treating annually.' shops of the Union Pacific aroused has sources ultra-Utah was built exclusively for railroad system, has resigned his po- from This plant conUtahns the of most sition with the railroad company. Mr. the ire of thp treatment of tie timber. a question It appears to be shotacross Logging engineers of the forest Hall has not announced his plans for cerned visitors be shall conducted the whether future. He will be succeeded by investigations service have a desert or see the best of Utah in as to the probable cost of making the C. M. Chester of Los Angeles. eI,J comfortable fashion ad fget. Provo river a drivable stream. It hours, way to the coast in has been estimated thatto this cost will MISS ALICE L. REYNOLDS Charleston, not exceed $15,000 SPEAKS AT OGDEN they are in a hurry. about to lift up for Miss Alice L. The Southern Utah is operation practical Utah. Reynolds of the B. of conY. U. river timber addressed the Drama. Center its voice in the wilderness handling the Provo has conviction would be the construction of mills, of Ogden, Utah, on Saturday after- flicting claims. The the to at Charleston or noon last, her theme being the one-a- abided a long time, according moveyards, etc., either Present and Provo the the of e of river, play. Seventy-fivwomen were proponents at the mouth ment that' tourists should be direct using the waters of the river to trans- present to hear Miss Reynolds. saw-timbe- MUSIC COUNTY CLEAN- passes that of almost any city in America, was the statement of Pro fessor J. J. McClellan, following the concert of the Mendelssohn Male cho- j Lumber Industry. MUSIC LOVERS HEAR . ) ct v ' Southern-Centr- al ed through Utah instead of across it. They feel that a pleasant taste should be left in the mouth instead of bitter words on the desert. The road from Salt Lake to Payson through Provo and the towns that nestle along the Wasatch range is one of the wonderful highways of the United States. A hard-surfahighway takes the travelers down to Beaver county. He travels through an entrancing country and he comes ce to the gateway of the greatest undis- covered country in America. Travelers who have been over the world and who have Visited Bryce canyon, Cedar Breaks, Zion National Grand park and the northis rim of thelike this nothing Canyon say there collection of wonders In the world. The road through Utah that southern and central Utah boosters propose is the road south from Salt Lake to Milford, in Beaver county. From thence the traveler can go west to Baker, Nevada, and thence to Ely at any time of the year. Route After traversing central Utah with intriguing scenery on either hand with a good road, water and trees and gas at convenient intervals, the friend from other states can go into the wonderland of southern Utah, or he can turn west and reach Nevada and the coast lines teight hours sooner than the northern route. The loop route from Salt Lake and Provo to the Grand Canyon on either side of the Wasatch range will be exploited for the good of Utahns who do not know their own state. This is said to be one of the greatest scenic routes In America, butrsome motorists of Massachusetts know more about it than residents of Provo, h Fillmore, Cedar City, Kanab, or Marysvale. The Provo Chamber of Commerce proposes to crystallize the sentiment of southern Utah for what is southern Utahs due. There is general support for a Pan-guitc- get-togeth- er ward chapel Sunday afternoon with R. J. Murdock of the ward bishopric presiding. The invocation was offered by Professor C. E. Maw. The opening musical selections were rendered by Professor J. R. Boshard and Sarah Ramsey. The Johnson sisters also sang a number of selections appropriate to the occasion. The speakers who paid- tribute to the devoted life and splendid character of their departed friend were: t, Bishop Nephi Anderson, J. H. L. E.I Eggertsen, William H. Boyle, and Bishop Alfred A. Booth. the A large cortege accompanied body to its ,last resting place at the City cemetery. The dedicatory prayer was offered by Dr. H. S. Pyne. behalf of the commission, assured the committee of its fullest support. Among those at the meeting were Chairman Lowry Nelsen, Lillian D. Wilkins, Amy J. Leigh, Heber R. Taylor, Dr. M. C. Merrill and Edna Holdaway of Provo; James T. Gardner, Thomas Coddingt.on and Jesse M. Walker of American Fork, Junius Bank's of Lehi, Mayor Joseph Hanson, J. A. Brockbank. and John B. Thomas of Spanish Fork, Mayor Junius J. Hayes and Thomas Gleason of Pleasant Grove, G. L. Barron of Springville, Lee R. Taylor of Payson, W. J. Cordner of Orem, M. Dalton of Thomas Menlove of Spring Lake, Ella Wilkins of Lake Shore and A. E. Wall, Jr., of Santaquin. - Dur-ran- Ge-nol- a, and blast furnaces, the steel corporation has decided to build its own railways-within the plant site and its own power equipment. That means there will be one assembling yard from which the three tributary ,wl11 draw their business or material. bring furnish I 1 11? NEW TRACKAGE NECESSARY Ten miles is an easy estimate of the new tackage that must be laid down by three railroads in sixty days.1 Most of this will be on leyel ground and grading will be practically eliminated. Ties and steel are already arriving - in the Provo yards! From Carbon couDty comes t the newst that the new coal town of Co-- " lumbia is expectantly waiting1 the completion of the branch road from Sunnyside. Columbia will furnish the coking coal that will smelt the iron ore from Iron county. In Carbon county a new district will be born as the result of the new Iron and steel .industry. In Iron county the Union Pacific has "committed itself to important things. The branch from Lund to Cedar City will be under way as soon as the snow gets off the ground. The survey was completed last year and the ties and rails are assembled at Lund at the present moment. ,The Union Pacific now has three Imperative reasons why the Cedar City branch should be completed at the first possible moment, and the officials of the company do not hesitate ' to say so. A BIG PROGRAM FOR UTAH First They have laid a publicity foundation for the scenic wonders of southern Utah that reaches to the uttermost corners of the nation and will build the hotels to accom modate that traffic. Secondly They are committed to the marketing of Utah livestock, fruits and vegetables in southern California. Thirdly They must get their tracks in shape for the handling of at least 1,000 tons of crude iron ore a day by the first of next April. That ore jwill come from Iron Springs, a few miles west of Cedar City, where it will be dug out by steam shovels. It must be brought to Lake Utah valley. By April, 1924, the Columbia Steel Corporation will be turning out 500 tons of pig iron a day, the first time it ever happened west of Pittsburg. Humanity Can Find Examples in Trees, Says Speaker After the avalanche had swept down the mountain side, bending over the trees in their course, they insisted on straightening themselves and shooting upwards again, said te President G. H. Brimhall in his talk at the B. Y. U. this morning. This example of the trees, the president Insisted, should be looked upon as a guide to mankind. No matter how circumstances may bend us, we must follow our destiny and shoot up straight again. He spoke also of the good qualities of another tree, the sycamore, which has the native ability of clean- -' There is no place in ing itself. its bark for harboring , microbes. What a lesson for man to follow.!' four-minu- -- i Boys Come to-Tow- n Baby boys have arrived at tl homes of Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Sma and Mr. and Mrs. John M. Bestc meyer. Both mothers and the bab are doing nicely, and the fathers a whispering the good news to the friends, v--, Debt's Enact on tut Btooa. A blue light focused on a vein will cause tbe blood to concentrate, whili red will make It flow qnlckly. i |