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Show ; . ' V ' ' , ' - t ' i" ' r' . ' lt '". .... v .j. i. " S,r .... :.", ; THE PRESS-BULLETI-N VOLUME 48 BtNGHAM C ANYON UTAH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16,-1-9 18 N13MBER 14 LETTERS FROM SOLDIER BOYS There is a never ending interest In letters from the soldiers. They are not like a "twice told tale ringing in tho dull ears of a drow&y iron," but each one of them is brim full of news which the people at home never tire of reading. There is a: ways some-thing new with the men at the front and each succeeding letter is anoth-er chapter in a thrilling and jinf Snlsh-e- d drama. In oivr letters today we first give one from Captain fEugene Green, brother of Judge John C. Green," who graphically relates the experience of a flyer back to the ene-my lines. His letter which was writ-ten to his brothef-J- s as follows: "Since I heard from you last I have been attached to a night bombing with the French Hying corps and like the work very much better than tho day raid. I did not mean to say "heard from you" 1 mean since I last wrote you. I think I have al-- , lotted to the French for quite a while to come and 1 like it well. The Frem h pilots are all experienced fellows a'ld varv cnnrl flvern Thpv treat thp th fi ways the searchlights, always the barage. We rarely make a trip with-ou- t losing some poor fellow who lalU in tflames or who has motor trouble which obliges him to land A forced landing we call it. We do not know the fa,te of those who land alive. , Perhaps they are made visonera. per-haps they are smashed In the dark-ness where they attempted to come down. ; Night flying is much more difficult than day work. We use no lights and fly entirely by the compass. Once in awhile some of our fellows get lost and land miles' away from our airdomo,1 sometimes In Switzer-land or Holland. It is a funny game to be sure. So much different from other pames I have participated in." ( The following is a letter from George Gavnletas who is now sta-tioned at Manila, P L, written to a friend here who had sent him a copy of The Preos Bulletin: "The copy of The Press Bulletin you sent me received today. "You can't imagine how glad 1 was to get a copy ot the home paper at last. I thank you very much and I never shall forget you7 because you are the only one who remembers me, and this is the first paper I got since I left. I get along fina and like army life, but I ftel-ecr- beinve they did not send me Into the right country so I could do my little bit. But 1 should worry. I am going to ask for u transfer "over there" and I think I'll get it. We go on big poxades , on July 4th and all tlie troops of the American officers, who arj wiltli me and myself, very splendidly jinU hap-nil- They also respect us for we have many times been put to very severe tests and have played the trame with them. To gaiti ihe re-spect of these brave fellows means more to us than an insln . e comment by some writer of fiction who at-tempts to. deceive the American pie about the things we try to ac-complish.. Their flattery and their praise contains only empty words. "A night bombing raid over tbe lines is very exciting and equally as terrifying when one is not seasoned to It. Directly we cross over the Unee the 'Huns turn their searchlights , on and play the white streak of liht across the sky; moving it very V.owly and deliberately in the direction where the sound of. the motor is heard and meanwhile they set tip a rery in-tense barage and1 the. hrapuel bursts att wouid. us. IPerhapa one of ur fellows ts caught-l- a the glare f the searchlight and then all of thi . s terles are directed at him, but if he banks or dfvea a little he escapes the' light. ' They fire very intensely, md apparently becomes-- very much exas-perated if they are unable to shoot om of us down In (flames. We go on over the lines to some town perhaps dxty or eighty miles in the interior,, and as we pass over each village they shoot at us. When at lact the squad- - Island will be in it As you know thJ Is very, hot and we drill only i two hours a day. Is wish I cruW-writ- a little better than this so I could send you more thanks for tiio pupet, "I am proud that I have such e friend who remembers , me when n. I am many thousands of milea away. Two mall boats came in today with 3S00 bags of mail, and I expected half doeen letters and yours is the only one I got, while thevotber boy a had three or four and omeW or aeven.. And tnlnk of it. j have written ,t a couple of dozen letters' and so far I have received three or four. All my friends must forget me but you.: t do not want a friend to aend me any money or anything. Thanks to Uncle Sam, we have all the money that wo need and more, lots of clothes, good food, and In general we har? move and better of everything than ' auy .other army in the world. But all the poldier boys want letters from home ron arrives at the objective we break up our formation and circle arouu-- l the town, looking for the munition plant airplane factory chemical works or whatever our objective is,, and then sight with our bomb sights very carefully so as to make our bombs fall, true. W9 seldom miss our target even though we J.mb from an altitude of 15,000 fe I or three miles high. "Meanwhile we arj under a very intense bombardment from the anti-aircraft guns, and hcn fall and an Intense fire and .pbsion comes, they fire at us even more desperately and reck!ensly. The re-turn trip back across the lines is a re-petition of the Journ- - y across. Al- - or s paper from home once In awhile ! "I am going to the post school th's week. Then I'll be able to write you better letters, because now, as yo-- i ( see, I can't write so good, and I am J afraid that you do not understand my .writing. " I ."I have seen that the old home town is leading on both drives fo- -. Red Cross 3nd liberty Bonds, and I I am glad of 1t. Also proud that I am ' from such a town that leads all the United States towns of like size for the work of liberty. ; "Send me the (Bingham IBulM'n once in awhile, if you please. Tell the ' Greek consul, bello for me. if you happen to see him again. Also all of my friends." iRIlY MI OF UTAH COPPER SIB BIG IK Report Issued From The Office Of General Manager Gemmel Shows That The Utah Copper Company Made A Substantial Increase In The Output Of Metals During The Second , Tho second quarterly report of the , Utah Copper Company for 1918 was given out from General Manager It. , C. Gerumel's of lice this Week. It shows a total production of over 62,000,000 pounds, with a net profit of nearly nix and one hai; million dol-lars, and a net suriila of nearly two and one half million 1 liars. :Th re- - ' port signed by President C. M. Mac-Ne- il and Managing Director D. C. Jackling is as follows: ' . The gross production of copper contained in concentrates for this quarter and the preceding quarter ia shown in the following tables: - - Second Quarter 1918 kS . . April ........ ..... .16,690,893 pounds . May ...............17.294,291 pounds - June ...... .17,779,609 pounds ' Totals . .&1.764.7S3 pounds Average monthly pr;.V::;';xt - ' r ' ,14IU 094 hnnnJa ' First Quarter 1918 January 12,W3,280 pounda February 11,994,990 pounds March ........ . , .16179,831 pounda , Totals ...........40,788,171 pounda Grand Totn! ..,..'! 3,596,057 pounda Average monthly production --v ' . , , ' 13,59,0C7 pound In addition to, toe above, there was t .a u.Ui. ot 6,4 pounda of copper 1 contained In precipitates from the lea;) ;ng plant and 422,848 pounda in ore shipped direct to the smelter, making the total gross production for ,the quarter 52,724,053 pounda aa com- -' ptared with 41,276,7!0 ppnis,ior lh- - ' 'previooa, quarter. v ..., . t, During. the9erlo4 taere wa treat-- . . ed at both plants a total of 3,2n,90ff tons of ore, being 703,200 tons more ; than for the preceding quarter, when . ' 2,498,700 were milled. The average grade of the ore waa 1,2535 per cent copper, as compared with 1,2218: per cent copper for the first quarter and the average recovery was 64.49 per cent as compared with 66 80 per cent ; ' for the preceding quarter was prlnci- -' pally due to the unusually large ton-iiag- e treated, the daily average bing jThe average cost per pound "of , net copper produced from eoncen- - trates for tho quarter was 14.S48 cents, while the coat per net pound for all copper produced from concen-trates, crude ore and preciu'tatei was 15,047 cents, aa compared with 15,484 cents for the previous quarter no credits being made to costs .In either case on account of lnoine from gold or silver or ml ; ellareoua sources.1 The gold and silver in org and concentrates during the quarter amounted to j:!95,81fi.20, and the mis-cellaneous Income amountei to f -- 188.83. .The items combined aru equal to 1.308 cents per net pound of copper produced. ;.. The slight decrease in costs for the uncond finarter rs comnared to the first is misleading, unless it is un-derstood that this is due entirely to the differences in tonnage and out-put for the two perlodR, the latter having largely excesdrd the form or as to both items because of winter wathf-- r Interference with onerntns during tho fjrst quarter, as is usual end expected at the mines during tho ' '::t' ' norths. All of the element of expense entering into conts were greater for the fc"""! qaurter than the first A general ad-vance In wages "Was effective for the full second quarter, but :'or only a nortlon of the first. Cost of xnp-plis- s of all sorts advanced moter'n'lv and the general Increase In freight . rates hnd some effect durfne: June." I '"(Continued on page 51 siiiMlllppi iFOitEUiljliCOLUISItl Phoenix-Sal- t Lake Stage Line Asks For Franchise And Con-solidated Line Enters Protest A Number Of Witnesses Are Examined The Commission Will Visit Bingham 'Before Rendering A Decision. A delegation of Bingham . people ! r were In tSalt Lake, Tuesday, In the Interest of the proposed new stage line from Phoenix to Salt Lake City, and in the interest of the Consolidat-ed line, operating between here, and Salt Lake, and other lines operating in the canyon. They appeared be-- , fore the utilities commission and of-- j fered evidence-- pro and con on the matter at hand. ! This hearing was the result of an application of Joe iMeych and others i prominent business men of Phoenix, - for a franchise to operate a stage line between Phoenix nd Salt Lake City1 by way of 'Bingham. When application! - was made the Consolidated line en-- 1 tered a protect against the granting of the franchise, claiming that their line afforded ample accommodation for the traffic and that, there was not enough business to support the new line, and that in' case two lines were in operation neither would receive ad-equate patronage and that the ser vice would necessarily be poor. The proposed new line in Its appli--' cation of course set out that the ser-2-s vice rendered by the old line was not satisfactory and pointed out the many ways in which It was deficient and promised if it were granted a fran-chise it would be operated in strict accordance with the rules and regu - lationa of the utilities commission. The hearing Tuesday was conducted before Hon. Joshua Greenwood, presi-dent of the Utilities Commission The SPhoenlx-Sal- t (Lake line .was represen--B- 4 ted by Attorneys Hanson and Bice, and the Consolidated line ty Attorn-ey General Dan P. Shields. Ia addi-tion to these ltoea there were present representatives of the Motorcycle line and the. iBingham livery A.uto IThe, both of which operate cars and vehicle to Copperfield and Highland Boy. Their objection was against fur-ther stage lines operating directly in the canyon. first witness for the new line wsui .Ton Melich. He stated that there 7 was a damand and a strong one for t a stage line from Phoenix to Salt ' Lake. He stated that the proposed line would open a station and operate a stage line in accordance with the regulations of ihe commission, that they would not carry more than seven passengers to a car, that on no occa-- - ; sion would they carry two passengers In tho front seat with the driver, that his company was financially able to render the service and he felt sure that there would be no shortage of passengers for the service the com-pany proposed to give. He also stat-ed that he waa a merchant and did not at present own a car and that he waa not wanting to secure the line in . order that he might have a place for his car, but for the better accommo-dation for the people in his coinmun- - - itv ard in the canyon. During Mr. Melich's testimony Judge Greenwood stated that the stage lines were not record of the traffic He said that at times during. the day and on special occasions the traffic was congested. But that frequently they operated cars without a single passenger. The s Consolidated line, he said, was at the present time operating (IS cars, but in view of tho fact that the traffic does not Just'fy the use of this num-ber application will be made to the commission to permit the company to reduce its number of cars to 12, which he said, would be ample to care for the business. , IMr. Anderson, president of the Mo-torcycle Stage line, which operates in the canyon testified that there was already too much service to the ad-jacent points in the camp. He sub-mitted his records and said that his company maintained a regular sched-ule whether there was passengers or not. . ' permitted by the law to carry a torg--. er number of passengers than, the number for which the car was made to carry and that if a company vio-lated this regulation it was liable to lose it franchise. I The next, w'tnesq for the new line was iC. . MeNeely who testified to what the people in the camp said con- -' cerning the old line service Then Joe Dolahey testified about the lines opersting between IBingham and Cop-perfield and 'Highland Boy. This was ' the last witness for- - the new line and those opposing the new stage present-ed their testimony They had ouite a number present and their testimony was entirely different and decidedly contradictory of that offered by the promoters of the new line. - The first witness for the Consoli-dated line was Mr. Culver, who stated at the outset that he was manager of , that line. He testified concerning the operation of the stage line. He said that there was not business here suf-ficient to justify the establiHhment of another line. He stated that it was necessary some time ago to increase tfc ra-- e- to $l ?0 for a single trip and $2.50 for a round trip, that the facts concem'ng the revenues were sub-mitted to the commission and that they found it necessary to grant the raise In order that the solvency of hnnlnaal mflrlit llA mfljln tnltl pA Ttft Air. rinen e.na oiner representa-tives of the iBingham Lfvery Auto line testified that they maintained a regu-lar schedule regardlesis of the number of passengers they carr-- ' When the evidence was all In Mr. Rice of the counl for the Phoenix Company asked that a decision be de-ferred until the testimony of C. L, Countryman could be had. The oppo-sition admitted that Mr. Countryman would testify that the. service was un-satisfactory, but Judge Greenwood de-cided that it would be necessary to make a more thorough investigation cf the situation ?nd in order to do this the commission would have to vlsit Bingham and talk It over with the people here. j It wis also brought out at the hear-ing that none of the stages were com-plying with the commission rules re-lative to the matter of publicity with the exception of the IBingham Livery line. That company carries its sche-dule in the local paper and has also distributed cavds containing this in- -' formation. , - The Rules and Regulations of the Commission in the section - entitled "Rule VIII, Loading (a)" says, "No owner or operator of any motor ve-hicle, owned and operated by the au-tomobile corporation, shall be permit-ted to carry thereon a number of pas-sengers in excess of the rated seat- - said that the company operated its cars on schedule time and carried the passengers who applied, that they did not overcrowd the cars, that eight was the maximum number of passengers hauled lp one car and if nine or more applied for transportation at the sche-duled time for leavtng Bingham or Salt Lake the load was divided and two cars were dispatched. He said that on one occasion about the Fourth of July he did take nine passengers In rr.e 'a", hut lhat this wasmutually agreeable with the passengers them-- ' selves, and that there' was ample room in his car to care for them. He sa'd that the average load carried by thenars was between four and five and this, he said, was shown by the lng capacity of the vehicle aa design-ed by the manufacturer." The day following the hearing a representative of the Consolidated line took occasion to notify us that the stage would carry no more ex-press for The Press Bulletin, although It carries great bundles of express every day for the Salt Lake papers. This paper has paid the Consolidated for every package of express either received or dispatched and we sup-pose the Salt Lake papers have done the same. We also presume that the notice given us is general and that the ctage line will quit carrying the Salt Lake papers to Bingham. If it does not It will be discriminating in favor ot our competitors. YOUNG MEN COMING 21 MUST REGISTER v'''-- v rv- - :W.-. All young men attaining the age of 21 since June 5, 1918, and before ; August, 24, must register on August 24 at the .Bingham Commercial Club (Rooms. 'By order of the Local OraCt Board, District Number 1, Salt Lak-e County. CAtNIHD IHAISBIIIGHAIil Mayor Q. IB. Kelley has received a letter from Col. William C. Webb of the 145th Field (Artillery In which ap-preciation 1b. expressed for the splen-did contribution Bingham and the entire camp made when the band vis-ited thfs camp in July. In connection with this it is Interesting to note that this camp contrlbufed 1003 to the band while the contribution of tho entire state was $12,000. This shows, that the community contributed more than one-twelft- of the total" amount. The letter to the mayor is as follows: ' - ?''f Dear Sir: On behalf of myself nnd the regiment, I want to take this op r'ortr.nlty to express to you our sln-cer- e thanks for and appreciation o vour staunch and loal support of our band in its recent concert tour of the state.' Due to your efforts and to the ef-forts and enthusiastic of the various public officials, commit-tees and of the state, this trip waa a wonderful success, not only In a financial way;; but also jn the spirit tt aroused on the hearts of mirTtafr boy "when' they "learn that their State is standing loyally back of them In their fight for Dem-ocracy. ' " "' . On accdunt of the fact that they .re leaving in a very short time for duty overseas, 1 would ask that you convey to the public oBficlals, com-miftse- s and whom you know had a part in making this concert tour a success, the sentiments expressed In this letter, ' ' Rfncprolv. , WILIjTAM C. IWEI3D, Colonel 145th Field Artillery, FAREWELL RECEPTION FOR B. E.WILLIS Tuesday evening 'the' leaders and Sunday School children of the Bing-ham community church gathered at the parsonage to express to Air. B. IB. iWillls their appreciation of his efficient leadership in Sunday School work. Upon this occasion Misses Stevens and Pautz, deaconesses, were made welcome to the church and their labors in IBingham. - The boy and girls had a good time with games while the : adults spent a pleasant evening m conversa-- tion and song. : . We are aorry to lose Mr. Willis from our community and church, but are very proud to think we can send such a splendid man to hel pthe fight-ing forces of Uncle Sam's . great ar-my.'- V'.-- A sterling silver identifieatlon plate was given iMr. Willis by the Sunday School, t After light; refreshments had been served, all departed, wishing Mr. Willis God's richest blessings in his new task. f j Increased wages for railroad men and patched pant? for paragraphers, I The pacifist has just about become the dodo bird of humans in this coun-try- . . SWIMMING PARTY A swimming party waa given at the high school gym Thursday night of last week. Those attending were, Mr. and IMrs. ert Hocking, 'Bob Burke, (Ben Treloar and Misses Sarah Davis, Clesta Paul, Daisy, (Maisle and Pearl Adderley, Delia Coakley, Cecils Geffen, 'Mary Culletox, Miss 'Kindred and Mesdames (Minnie Zlon and Cora Hocking, Jim Youngberg, Ren Nich-ols, Kenneth Borgart, Ray Lemons iP. R. Lemons, Henry Pease, Earl Mar-tin, Tom Blales, Phil Culleton, Jr. Af-tp- " the wim a luncheon was served at the home of 'Mrs. Burke. SCHOOL POPtlLA-I- II WM300 The school population in the Bing-ham district shows an increase of 200. There are now more" than "1300 chil-- ' 2 of school age in Ingham," Cop. perfield and Highland Boy. The low-er grades will bo crowded and doubt-eesslon- s will likely be necessary in many of the rooms, P. S. iMarthakls of the h'gh school zfaculty is now in tho army and l: stationed at American Lake, and It is not likely that tHemer P. Christen-se- n will have charge of physical edu-cation tliis year, ai he has offered hie services to Uncle Sam. It Is not yet known who will fill the vacancies. COUNTY COUHT MOTES G. Cgata nnd K. .Mlrraby, charged with gambling, were both fined $25. Y. Mojya, G. Nashumaya, T. Mennia and C. Shllrow, charged with gam-bling were dismissed , ' Pete Marikes and Nick Shutovivis, garoblinp. continued until next .- A. Fndow" charged with gambling, not rullty. He was found in the building where gambling was go'ng on when the officers entered. Howev-er he eetabliahed the fact that h was only there to collect a bill. M. iHerJogaraa, K. tMalseo, I. Ino ,and K. Ionomato, charged with gam-bling, were fined $35 each. ' John Unanivlch, !Mat Frnnich, Sam. nrr.kuliek Eiul Mike Mnntto were fined a tctal cf ,i!00 (for garobi'ng. ; .i"iin evanten, disturbing the peace, $25. N.'cl; Man.-ikls, charged with hav'nn l'mior In Hs possession, continued until next week. ' ' - . .. Mrs P'ajm Wathurn, charged with having l'quor in her possession was dismissed. Another case which attracted con-siderable attention and comment was that of Grace Travers. charged w'th stealing a beautiful Mttle wrist watch from f. DeSantes. The defendant Is a tennant at the Europe rooms and the complaining witness, who was ihe owner of the watch, Is a tensorial ar-tist at Highland Boy. He tetif 'ed that the girl went to his room in High-land Boy while he was away and took the watch. She testified that he brought the watch to her apartmentr, at the Europe and gave It to her and hew taHtnnnv vn pnrrdt.nrnl pd bv other witnesses who were present In the 'Europe at the i me the trrnslVr was made; From the vi'l mce sub-mitted the court ifound that the was not guilty of larceny, the watch to he and tixe.l ili-- j plaintiff with the cost. The case will probably come up for a further-- hearing in tho civil court an the plaintiff is contemplating tak-ing out a claim and delivery for the property." The attorneys say that , tbln will raise a fine point of la--v 'n- - volvlng the question of eonshie-nt'-- n. In order to make a transfer of p.onor--, ty valid a consideration munt hi . i shown, and in legal parlance tUtre j are' twi k.'.ndst of con' il r at !n : and valuable. 'A valimb'.o conald tion Is reducable to a money and a good conf IderatVm l that or lo,re and affection. So the ci-- il if-tio- n will doubtless be one of interest. 13 SONS IN THE ARMY AND 17 DAUGHTERS ' . IN WAR WORK . - . ! John, Ward, a nesro. of Goldsboro, ' North Carolina, has thirteen of his eighteen rods iu the Ninth and "Tenth United States Cavalry, while , his seventeen, daughters are busy with war work. The facta are vouched for by. S'hcrat tt. v IH. Edwards, of Wayne County, dl which Goldsboro is the county sep.t. Word also prob-- ably holds the record for quadruplet's, says Sheriff Ed- - P wards, who gives the record " thus; , , Ward was born April 21, 1836, ' at Goldsboro. He was ' married three timen and his lat wife is now living. Ills first wife bore h'-- fifteen children, four at one time twice, three at one time twice, one at a time once His sec- - ond wife bore him two at one time twice, three at one time once and five one at a time, f His present wife has borne him eight, one at a time. His first wife lived six years and three weeks after marriage, his second wife, eight years and six months - CARNIVAL IN TOWN .The chief attraction in town this week is the carnival of the Superha Amusement Ccmpnny. It is locatcil below the Rio Grand depot and in being visited by a large number of people. The carnival s n M and Is furnishing an abundanro of amusement for the people o' the camp. One of the features wh!ch H ; attracting much nttention and riv't' ing much comment is that of the g'r.rt snakes. They are monnters U'-- e j read about in story books, Arnb'au j Nights, and so on. - TO N COURT NOTES H?"'-'- Allen, diarged with abscond-ir-n 4 !"jui'r: behind an unpaid hr, bill, when brought into court pwd the bill and all costs. Splro Praggastls, charged with and battery was fined $50. 'The iMonrrch Theatre treat' d itt patrons to a novel attra"t'rm W.!i'" day when it had a trio of bears f help make, the pictures mrc tnf"-- ; esting, The bears were educated nntl performed a number of Interestlm; ' antics for the audience SCHOOL, ANNOUNCEMENT' High school and iunlor h'gh school students call at Jabes' Book Store or j Woodrlng's Drug Store, for the "An-nouncement circulars," of the Bing-ham High School. UTAH STATE FAIR WILL HAVE A GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT THIS YEAR The Utah State Fair for 1918 will be a magnOcent patriotic demonstra-- : t!on. It will show. In a measure, what tho grand old Stale of Utah has been doing in the production of food stuffs. Uncle Sam is sending a great gov-- . ernment war exhibit which will be worth coming many miles to see and i w'll have official reprenentativea on the grounds at all times. If you have an exhibit to make, now is the time to fill out the encbnrd en- - try blank and forward it to us: Please dnot wait until the last moment as late entries can not possibly bo han-"lope- d entry blank and mail it to this office. One Bwnllow does not make a .sum-mer, nor does one submarine make a i blockade. The time to worry about a coal shortage nnd to do something la now nnd not next winter. |