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Show BASKETBALL GAME game basketball HIGH - DAVIS v&. DAVIS HIGH vs. WEBER WEBER Friday Evening, February 20 Friday Evening, February 20 BUFFALO HEADS MASS MEETING TO BE EXHIBITED Mayor John W. Thomley has called and Kaysville owners of Layton a mass meeting for Friday evening, heads and buffalo buffalo mounted March 27, for the purpose of discuss'robes been have invited to display their ing the playground movement and at Stock show which collection the Fat other public measures. There art will be inthe North Salt I.ake at given many public matters of intense This stock an at date. yards early terest to the' people of Kaysville, and collection of robes and heads is, perthe public playground is not the least the United in the States finest haps, of them. and will attract much attention. DRILLING OPERATIONS BEGIN The C. Ford Seely Oil and Gas company will begin drilling operations on their lease on the Oscar Barton farm, a short distance southwest of Kaysville, about the middle of next week. The concrete anchor block has been completed and the derrick will soon be ready for stringing tools. Jack Bard, an experienced driller arrived from El Paso, Texas, yesterday morn- ing and has taken charge of the work. MISS BESSIE PORTER DIES Miss BessiePorter, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. N. Porter, formerly of Kaysville, died at the home of her parents in Salt Lake City, on Saturday of last week. The family have many friends in Kaysville who sympathise with them in their bereavement. The K. K. K.s will present A Bachelors Elopement at the Kaysville opera house February 23. A matinee will be given at 3:30 and the evening performance will begin at 8:15. A The health conditions have so improved in the wards of the stake that we believe it will be safe to resume public gathering's on Sunday, February 22. It is expected that priesthood meetings, Sunday school and ward meetings will be held on the above date at the usual hour. The High Priests Quorum .meeting will be held in the amusement hall at Kaysville on Sunday, February 22 at 2 oclock p. m. All priests are expected to be present. The Sunday School conference has been postponed until On Wedneay afternoon at the Swan home on East Locust street, the daughters of Mrs. George Swan en h tertained in honor of her Sunday, March 7. birthday. A delicious luncheon was Priesthood union meetings will be held at Kaysville on served at which Mrs. John W. Thomley Sunday. February 29. and Mrs. Seth C. Jones poured tea. The rooms were tastefully decorate Your brethren, with cut flowers and a magnificent HENRY H. BLOOD, bouquet decorated the dining room EPHRAIM P. ELLISON, table. Those present were: Mesdames H. J. W. Thomley, J. II. Blood, J. FRANCIS H. NALDER. Sheffield, W. II. Mansell. Ada WilPresidency, North Davis Stake. liams, Robert Green, S. C. Jones, G. W. February 19, 1920. Underwood, W. P. Epperson Martha Weaver, Francis Bone, W. E. Smith, Christopher Layton, J. G. M. Barnes, A, M. Barnes, Susannah Robins, WilMEETINGS RESUMED A BROKEN ALIBI liam Allen, B. F. Yaunt, J. H. Layton, Next Sunday, February 22, all Shoe manufacturers are constantly Emma Galbraith, E. M. Bagley George church meetings will be resumed in justifying the high prices of footwear W. Swan. ward. Sunday school and Kaysville byjdaiming a greatjhortage in hides. will be held at the church meetings On Friday afternoon at 1:30 oclock The Reflex publishes the following fighour. usual sheet Nephi L. Morris, chairman of the ures from the monthly dipping In the Kaysville tabernacle, at 3 issued of the AgriDepartment by adUtah Educational campaign, will oclock p. m., immediately after the dress teachers and others interestec culture, that the people may know sacrament meeting. Doctor Sumner in the new educational movement. A1 there are great supplies of hides, both officer of Kaysville, Gleason health interested are invited to be present. for common and fine shoes, available will for men only, a address meeting at this time. on the subject of sanitation. Every Clearly the present prices of shoes male resident of ward is Kaysville are brought about by curtailing protot be in attendance at this meetduction and profiteering.' The clipping urgd FRANK HYDE, ing. follows: Bishop. Increased stocks of hides and skins on December 31, 1919, compared with NO SKATING ON STATE ROAD the same date in 1918, are shown for The attention of the city council has the principal classes, with the excep.called to the practice of roller been tions of sheep and hog skins, by the on the state highway within skating Marmonthly report of the Bureau of of Kaysville City. limits the kets, United States Department of Notice is hereby given by the city Agriculture. council that boys and girls are forbidIncreases in percentages were: Catden to roller skate on said highway. tle hides 11.4; calves, 31.9; kipskins, By order of Kaysville City Council. 70.9; horse hides, 135.6; horse fronts, JOHN W. TIIORNLEY, Mayor. horse butts, 92.1; (whole), 1, 3jj3.8; kangaroo or wallaby,' 196.6 goat, INTERESTING CURIO FOUND' 126.9; kid, 116.3; cabretta, 126.5; and IN WELL AT CENTERVILLE buffalo, 801.1. Decreases included: In well being dug on the Cheney a Horse shanks, 39.5 per cent; deer and North Centerville, last week, a elk, "29.1; sheep and lamb, 35.4; pig ranch, wood of about six inches long and hog skins (pieces), 40.7; and piece out at a depth of 412 feet. was dug strips, 17.5. With a few exceptions was The well preserved and piece the December, 1919, figures also show with an intense burned of it increases over those for November 29, splinters the wood was that flame, showing 1919. knot. a pine Total stocks on December 31, 1919, probably was sent to th University of It included: Domestic and foreign cattle Utah, and Dr. F. J. Pack, head of the hides, 7,206,511, classified as follows: declared that it Packer green salted, 3,389,022; country geology department, had been washed down out of the hills green salted, 1,062,035; dry and dry at the time of Lake Bonneville, carried salted, 95,312; foreign, 2,660,142. Tot- out some distance from shore, and then als for calfskins were 2,059,794; for sinking to the bottom had gradually kips, 1,107,891; goat, 15,981,468; sheep been covered by the silt carried down and lamb, 9,138,679; and cabretta, by the mountain torrents. Judging by 2,092,029. the age of the glacial period in the eastern United States, which paralThe Kaysville Canning corporation leled the existence of the great westis in receipt of government seeds from ern lake, Professor Pack has estimated Senator W. II. King. All who wish that the probable age of the piece of wood is twenty-fiv- e thousand years. may receive the seeds free. Carrying a Ton a Mile for less than a Cent Freight rates have played a very small part in the rising cost of living. ! Conference Notices sixty-four,t- i Other causes the waste of war, under-pro- duction, credit inflation have added dollars to the cost of the necessities of life, while freight charges have added only cents. . i The average charge for hauling a ton of freight a mile is less than a cent. A suit of clothing that sold for $30 before the war was carried 2,265 miles by rail from Chicago to Los Angeles for 16& cents. NUMBEIt"21 19. 1920 FEBRUARY KAYSVILLE. LAYTON ANI) FARMINGTON, ITTAII THURSDAY. VOLUME XIV EIGHT COUNTIES OFFER GREAT FIELD FOR IRRIGATION With an estimate that there are nearly 500, 0W seres of land in Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, Morgan, Summit, Wasatch, Utah and Tooele counties acre-feet- Provor iver at mouth of ; can- Ogden river at yon, 318,222 acre-feemouth of canyon, 228,600 feet. The report contains a discussion of the various liighline canals will be necessary, it is said, one such canal being located at the mouth of the Weber that can be irragated and made procanyon with branches leading north ductive, A. K. Parker, chief engineer and south and the other on the Provo for the Utah Water Storage associat- at an elevation near the old Bonneville ion, has ju-published his report of shurejiue to continue. across Jordan w t; -- t ater supplv' and investigations of most of northof possibilities storage ern Utah. The work began on August 15, 1919, following the formation of the association which was brought about folwater lowing the unusual drouth-aThe summer. last report in shortage made along broad general lines, a number of the principal sites and the canals reservoir storage that must be constructed m order to affect a comprehensive saving of all available precipitation that falls in the teritory considered. If developed it will mean one of the greatest reclamation schemes in the West. mi Objects Outlined. As fated in the report, the object of the investigation is to leam all possible of the water Rupply, lands irrigable, and ways and means within possible reach of water from the WeberrJordan and Provo rivers. The entire area embraced within the eight counties now represented in the Utah Water Storage association is vitaly concerned in this matter of irriEach gation and its possibilities. county is equally interested to leam the truth of what may be possible by a proper use of available water situated than others, and necessarily will derive greater benefits, to learn what is of practical accomplishment is of vital interest to all and well worth the cost. Area by Counties shows that possible lands to he irrigated under the Ogden river ami lower Bear river give a net area of 56,610 acres under Weber river The report 134,245 avares; under Provo river and Jordan rivers, including Cedar valley, 247,160 acres. The whole extent of the eight counties concerned, as well as a large area on Bear river and Blacks fork in Wyoming, was personally visited and looked over, special inquiries being made locally as to promising sites for reservoirs and all thus learned of were visited. Discusses Hites The report then takes up these sites in order, beginning with the Yellow creek dam and reservoir on Yellow creek, a tributary of Bear river, which joins the stream just below Evanston. The boundary, line passes through the reservoir, the dam being in Utah and the larger part of the reservoir In Wyoming. This is one of the largest propositions considered and the most costly. It is proposed to bring the water to the head of Echo canyon. The Ix)st creek reservoir is proposed near Devils Slide, which would imof water at a pound 8000 acre-fecost of $350,000. Utah-Wyomi- et Narrows. The proposed work would run into several million dollars, but it is the' corn fusion reached that there is great need for continuing the work of the Utah Water Storage association. Such is absolutely necessary to promote, in the greatest degree, the future development ami interests of the state, and especially the counties now considered. "TIT FOR TAT Some two years ago, John G. M. Barnes of Kaysville, one of the prominent Democrats of the state, took as his guest te the Jefferson day banquet in Salt City, Dr. G. I). Rutledge, an uncompromising Republican. The political grilling the Republican M. D, got on that occasion got under hia epidermis and he resolved to get even if an occasion presented itself. The long awaited opportunity came with Ike the Lincoln day banquet, given under the auspices of the Lincoln dub of Salt l4ke City on the 12th of thia month. On that occasion Mr. Barnes was the guest of his Republican M. D. friend and the M. D. saw to it that his Democrat friend had a seat directly in front of and facing the speaker, Governor Harading of Iowa. The first use made doctor of his Democrat friend, by after being seated at the table, was to paRs him the ripe olives, thinking, perhaps, they might have been poisoned by the emisarries of the opposition party, and if there were grounds for the suspicion, he figured Mr. Barnes would bo wise to the fact and refuse Doc was therefore to eat thereof. relieved of all suspicion when Mr. Barnes helped himself and ategener-ousl- y of said ripe olives. Apparently Mr. Barnes enjoyed the speech very nuch, as hfe applauded generously on several occasions, but subsequent events indicate he was not as well pleased as appearances indicated. Indeed, he appears to have been hard hit. Mr. Barnes took to his bed and has not yet appeared at his office, but we are happy to state, will be fully recovered ere the week is out. Notwithstanding the fact that his Republican M. D. friend had invested two dollars and fifty cents to use him for an olive tester and treated him to a political grilling, which put him down and out, Doc" was called to Mr, Barnes bedside and through all his sickness was under his care. Kaysville Democrats think it a mean trick on the part of the doctor to invest two fifty tot put a man to bed and then charge him profiteer prices to get him out, while Kaysville Republicans, remembering the grilling the doctor, received at the Jefferson day banquet, call it good business. te e Lake f The Echo dam and reservoir was Drowth conditions prevail these suggested on the main Weber river days over the Salt Lake valley. The of a mile above where nights are a little cold, but the days Echo canyon joins the Weber. With are bright and sunny. There is very a depth of 105 feet of water the lake little snow in the mountains and the would extend up to Coalville, covering reservoirs are not half full of water. an area of 1333 acres and giving a Taken all in all, the weather is much of water. too fine for this time of year. storage of 62,000 acre-feThis dam and reservoir Is estimated at $2,500,000. Indications point to the wisdom of making this site as the THIRD FORCE APPEARS main dependence for storage water. AGAINST PROFITEER The Beaver creek dam and reservoir, on Weber .river, just-aboTeoa and below where the Weber receives the heavy flow from Beaver creek Is considered by the report to ' be loo 1333-Acr- three-quarte- rs Now the freight charge 13 22 cents and the suit sells for $50. The cost of the suit has increased 20 doTtar. Ths freight on it has increased only 51 cmnta. et Other transportation charges enter into the cost of the finished article carrying the wool to ths mills and the cloth to the tailors but these other charges amopnt to but a few cents THE UNIVERSAL CAR more. The $10 pair of shoes that used to Z.sell for $5 goes from the New Eng land factory to the Florida dealer for a freight charge of 5?S cents only one cent more than the pre-wrate. - - line of business wayin every - activity.-Fo- r all- - trucking- purposes in the cityand for all heavy work on the farm, the Ford One Ton Truck with its manganese bronze worm-driv- e and every other Ford merit of simplicity in design, strength in construction, economy in operation, ar - X The" Ford ' One TonTruclc is a profi table'""" beast of burden and surely has the right of Beef pays only two-thirof a cent a pound freight from Chicago to New York. low ds ve J v j I purchase price, stands head and shoulders above any otherTruck on'the market. Drop in and lets talkitoverand leave yourorder for one. - American freight rates are the lowest in the world LAYTON -- AUTO CO.: P Phone 83 ; 1 i Qhis advertisement is published by the dissociation ofdJlaiLiccxy Gxccatives huio tit irtformzf.km cmtwrmnf rmlrtad tituaiion may Uitraluri 5y kniinf to Ht AasoctsUwn cf Jlauvoy - Extculica, 61 Broadway, AVw costly for development. The Bates dam and reservoir on the Provo between Hailstone and Woodland was also considered too costly to be available. Deer Creek Dam Deer The creek dam and reservoir on the Provo, between Charleston and Wallsburg, needs special consideration, according to the report. This dam would give depth of 115 feet of water, the reservoir covering 1741 aerfes and would hold 83,000 acre feet of water. This is considered one of the best sites on the Provo. The Rockport dam on the Weber is passed up as impracticable. 7 A number erf smaller dani sit3were considered and many of thorn passed unfearible..,,The.Magpie dam site on the upper Ogden river comes .in or special mention,, . . Water Yicld Shown The average general yield of water of the Weber and Provo rivers being a mean of the years 1?11 to 1913 h: Weber river at Davlls Slide, 447,738 , Fori. --1 -- It would fieern. the davs of. the., With profiteers are numbered. the farmer organized and labor in the trades lined up to (tet action "through legislation," now comes"' the great Middle Class Union a reality at last.-Milto- n L. More-- . house of New York City is the founder cf the union Five mil- Hon by 1911 Isa members i,i goLt w i sbe They hope to wor farmer and labor equalizing living com.tw.. " -- , |