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Show americaic fork citizen Office Alpine Publishing Company Building- -t- -Phone 85 A PROGRESSIVE, INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION Entered in the Post Office at American Fork, Utah, as second-claw, matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 per year in advance. Advertisement jra'tes : Display, 30 cents a column inch. Lega notices and readers, legal rate of 10 cents per eight-point line per in ertion. Want ads. Rate 2 cents per word each insertion. Payment must accompany advertisement. A. F. OAISFORD, JR ...EDITOR THE INSIDE AND THE OUTSIDE OF THE OIL BUSINESS For allium t a year there a Ihmmi lniu li proheHymg tliat oi Mtocks were going uk A big ri. a bull market, developed last 1 autumn in number of stocks. It diln't iilelude oil, but the prophecies that oil, was going up in a month or two continued. With Nome tins and downs and side shift, the bull market continued through the winter ami spring. Still it didn't .include oil, although the oil prophecies kept right on blooming. .Maybe oil. shares are .going up! .Maybe they aren't, April broke all records in the daily domestic consumption of gasoline. With an average of more than 27 ,000,000 gallons a day it was a bit better than :100,000 gallons a day over August, 1924, the previous record month. No doubt, the warm weather months will see a still greater increase. There are 17..r00.000 motor cars and trucks registered in the United States. More than 10.000 new ears and trucks are being put on the roads every day. They must have more gas. . The oil business is a great industry. Just outside the oil busi ness there's another -considerable activity, not a part of the oil business busi-ness but masquerading as such. The outside imitator is the peddling fake or other worthless and doubtful oil stocks. Any person contemplating con-templating giving his money a ride in oil should get into the oil business where he inay have at least a speculative chance for profit, and not throw it away in those outside endeavors, whose principal efforts are to peddle rotten, get-ri'eh-quiek promises and not produce or handle oil. If the year-old prophecy that oil shares are going up in a month or two and maybe they will and maybe they won't finally 4oes materialize, it will be the holders, of oil shares in the recognized, established oil companies who will receive practically all the profits. - The- holders of share, in. the imitation, oil business will, as usual, get nothing. THE INVESTMENT SIDE OF THE RADIO The American people now spend one-fourth as much a year for radio as for shares. Last year manufacturers of. radio did a business busi-ness of approximately $550,000,000. This year's radio business is estimated at $450.(HK),(XK). In addition to keeping about 17,000.000 motor vehicles and 9.000.000 talking machines going we now have several million radio receiving sets in operation. ! Ko one knows how much money is invested in radio. From all indications it must be enormous. The amazing thing is that most of this development has come about within the last five years. Last year during a considerable period the country saw a new radio manufacturing company born ami a new radio stock offered to the public daily. A lot of people are going to make money in radio, just as a -lot of people have made money in automobiles and talking machines. ma-chines. The people who are going to make money in radio, however, are not those w ho, rush in blindly simply because the radio, however, looks promising, and with no knowledge of conditions in that business busi-ness or the risk they must assume. , Last year, out of about L!0 companies engaged in making radio sets six companies did half of the business. That means that some companies fared poorly. Some have had to quit.' This year others will be eliminated. What is happening in the radio industry is common com-mon to the early years of every line of business. Every new business busi-ness venture entails a risk that the average small or modest investor cannot afford to take. The average person, who would be inconvenienced incon-venienced by loss and who has not the time or the training to make a thorough investigation, will make more money if he confines his investments to the stocks and bonds of companies of proved stability and eamiiVg power than he will on the "ground floor" of companies whose future is vet uncertain. i What One Mother Did One customer of this hank a motlier- -is splendid types of mystery to the verv moderate sending several daughters womanhood -to college. JIow this can be done is n neighbors as) these people arc o circumstances. That mother has foreMg!:r and the ability to put off little pleasures n order to enjoy huge ones later. i Foi long year she kept! adding to her savings sav-ings account "Our Edn ath'ii Fund," she called it, and it was a joy to behold her radiant radi-ant face when the first bank look was filled with entries. Had this plan not ! followed those laughters could not have 'been educated. The load was so great that it had to he spread over many years. We recommend this course and invite your deposits. . Save $3 a week and in 10 years you will have $1,918.92. The Bank of American Fork 33 Yean Successful Banking J A STRONG BANK EDUCATION PAYS The cash value of a four-year school course is .'I.'I.IHM, and $72.-000 $72.-000 the cash value of college or technical training, according to a recent re-cent study by Dean Everett W. Lord of the College of Business Administration Ad-ministration of Boston Fniversity. Dean Lord has issued charts xhovving the maximum earnings of the average uutraiued man. as Wonderful Toast it's the all pure milk recipe that makes it better 1 U - compared with those of the high school graduate, and of the college or technical-school graduate. The untrained man. he finds, beirins work at 14, reaches his maximum income at J10 reeeivinw ,,n th average less than $1200 a year, and has earned by the time'he is GO. about $45,000. During t lie four years that would have rivim him lugh school education he earns not more than $2,000. The high-school graduate coes to work at IS. rises to v I,,,,,,,, income of $2,200 a year at 40. and has earned bv the tim l. ; ;n about $78,000. By remaining four Vt'ii Vs in hi frli.kihrwt at on im mediate loss of $2,000 he has increased hi total earnings by $::1.XH), The college or technical-school L'taduate beirins at . i-;w a maximum of $6,000 at 60. and earns in all about 1:MM)0 American Fork- Sheep and Poultry Center of Utah (Continued from page t) yearly business of S.ViO.OOO, anil ranking among the most modern business houses of the state. Jl good local newspaper.' A Jarge sugar factory only-one- and one-half miles from the business center. Numerous well equipped garages and service stations. A soft drink Bottling Works. And the best of all in the way of an asget, a community of law-abiding, progressive people with a healthy ToTnTiranTrypIrit a spirit that puts over the things that are undertaken. Two important branches of industrial indus-trial activity which has brought em-' ployment and wealth to the community com-munity are Sheep and Poultry. Some twenty-eight iien'areengaged in the sheep industry owntnsr in the aggregate about 60,000 head of sheep, the wool dip for the spring of l'.2"i averaging eight and one-half pounds per head making a total of over half a million pounds, which at the pre vailing prices brought the owners ap proximately $.22d,0OU. The lamb crop from these sheep will amount to 4-",tiOO head and the estimated amount that will be realized from the sale of lambs will be $.'?7".,-000, $.'?7".,-000, making a sum total for lambs and wool of $600,000. The local sheep men owning in con- nnction with their Cocks several thousand acre of grazing lands, and pay a considerable' share Qf the-state and county taies. They; employ regularly over 100 herders who re ceive an average wage of $85.00 per month and board. .",'-," .,;.. v v The business men. also the farm- a. . . I 11 ft.. ers generally prom mwriany uj reason of the many thousands Of dollars dol-lars per ,year distributed j by 1 the sheep men. . The other industrial actlvltiesjnen- tloned, vis .'that of poultry raising for err oroduction. Is different from the Sheep Industry. On account of range conditions and the amount of money necessary to properly embark in the sheep business, the number of sheep men is necessarily limited. In the poultry business the man or woman of small means as well as the more wealthy may successfully embark In the business. 3 t In American Pork over two hundred people are engaged In egg production on a business (basis, owning flocks or white leghorn hens ranging from a few hundred up to several thousand. The industry Is one of recent origin but has made wonderful growth, and American Fork is known as "The Poultry Center of the State." Today 150.000 white leghorn hens are to be found in American Fork and Immediate Immedi-ate vicinity, and more than $200,000 was realized by the local poultry men In 1924 for eggs alone. The poultry men are learning to properly feed their flocks and are producing super ior eggs, running on an average of 33 1-3 per cent extra and 47 per cent selects as closely graded at the local plant of the Utah Poultry Producers' Association a showing hard to be equalled in any part of the country. Generally speaking' the local poul- trymen are in excellent financial con dition, notwithstanding the high price of feeds. 159,000 baby chicks have been shipped Into American Fork this spring and are being successfully raised, which augments well for a continuation of the Industry in its high standard of success. To further illustrate the progres sive community spirit prevalent, Am erican Fork has undertaken a four! year beautifying program under the' direction of Prof. Emil Hansen of the Utah Agricultural College. New" lawns have been planted, buildings land fences painted, hundreds of choice shrubs hare been purchased and set out on public and private grounds, hardwood trees mainly of uv iwiKai iUBDie and L. varieties have been plant.??1 principal streets. aod the .pJ beautifying ha. taken POuZ' the people. , WMett An Improvad Street intern in-tern is being installed by d J Power and Llrht c somejll.000. A new flrv an4 J " station, steam heated and lighted, will be built this ,um2? the new central park u k., 1 proved. American Fork la d(k, be one of, the beauty ;9n1,. state; ' 01 ' ' ., A. V. WATKIN3 LAWYER rur- Utah D. E. OLSEF Watch Maker and Jewefe Plain and Fancy : .Engraver. ' American Pnrb- n.! - a.f um All Work Guarantee Always at your Service with Pep Gas and vico oils ; Tires Confections and Campers Supplies COBBLESTONE SERVICE STATION R. Thompson, Prop. A:' tin . Double Loaf, 15c At Your Neighborhood Grocer's Ask for It. ROYAL BAKING CO. Salt Lake - ERNEST PAXMAII Teacher of Voice and Piano Open fr a limited nr.i:iler of students. i ' ' '"" 7"' Here Fridays - Studiir at t- ---' - Mis. Emily Paxman's South Center Street j O |