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Show DAILY UTAH aven though a million dollara la waiting: for exifiidlture, jet the work cannot be taken up only ax coiniiiione permit. These fai t are overlooked and the IK impatient few. not seeing their early anticipations realised, at once begin 11 tiding fault and criticising. The situation. however, when fully made known IS to WORK WHICH GOVERNMENT the public at Urge, cannot fall to NOW CARRYING OUT. meet with commendation, if it Is generally appreciated that systematic, Ara Baing Inves- business-lik- e progress is being made Many Othar Projacta along many lines. of tha Baginning Panding tigated The reclamation Conatruction. engineers are on trUl before the whole country. A single failure of one of the great works might A F. Phillip, the Tribune Washing- bring to en end the whole scheme of his paper the government reclamation. ton correspondent, sends Every step this in mornings is being carefully weighed and safepublished following, STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 1901 22, IRRIGATION WORKS ID SMS guarded, and the work is progressing issue: The great Interest of the people of on broad lines of safetj, permanence the whole country in the government's and substantiality. trork of reclaiming the Great American desert is manifested by the thousreands of Inquiries which are being ceived at the office of the chief engineer. For the better understanding the Tribune J And Vicinity of those interested, from F, H. obtained correspondent Newell chief engineer of the United The funeral of CoL Theodore States reclamation service, the followthe mining man who ing statement concerning the progress was killed in the mine at of the work and a brief description of Park last Thursday, was held from City now being considered: the projects the family residence yesterday afterThe engineers of the reclamation noon. service are engaged In investigations in The Twelfth Infantry will leave Fort all of the arid states and territories. Douglas Wednesday afternoon for San Their reports bring out clearly a fact Francisco and sail thence for the commonly recognised in other work, that the projects most popularly urged Jesse A. Shafer, 23 years of age, was are frequently found, when given full found dead in his room In the Fritsch study, to be least worthy. On the oth- block afternoon. Death was yesterday er hand, careful reconnaissance work caused by an overdose of carbolic arid, has developed unexpected and favor- which Is supposed to have been taken able opportunities for irrigation work. to relieve pain. A note written b the "In the beginning of 1903 five proyoung man after he had taken the fajects were favorably reported and rectal dose was found lying on a chair for first consideration and ommended explained that he had taken the Careful work on several of these has, acid to alleviate his sufferings. Fearhowever, developed points of weakness, ing that he had taken an overdose, so that early construction may not be Shafer wrote the note to explain that justified. he had not intended to commit suicide. The projects which have been widely exploited are: On the Truckee river in TO MANUFACTURE RUBBER. Nevada, on the Salt river in Arizona, on Milk river In Montana, on Sweetwater river in Wyoming, on Gunnison Company Will Bo Organized to Establish a Factory in Salt Lake river In Colorado. "The first two, namely, those In NeCity. vada and Arizona are under construction and favorable progress Is being John Beck, who discovered rubber In made on them. The next, that on Milk a plant common to most western states, returned Saturday night from Denver, river, has been found to be surrounded with engineering difficulties and where he has been arranging for machinery to be used in the extraction complications regarding rights to water, so that progress is slow', and it and manufacture of rubber, says the Mr. Beck had little difficulty may be found wiser to take up some Herald. in' other work in Montana In order to securing the necessary machinery, and says he Is preparted to begin the achieve early results. The Sweetwater of rubber as soon as he manufacture In to project Wyoming has been found be Impracticable, as at first outlined, can organize a company to take hold of hut a better reservoir site on the North the enterprise. Ptans are already on Platte below the Sweetwater has been foot for the Incorporation of a comdiscovered, so that a larger scheme of pany with a capitalization of $1,000,- development may be worked out in the 000 in this city, and It Is not unlikely future. The Gunnison project in Colo, that within a vear'Salt Lake will have a rubber factory within her rado Is In a somewhat neutral condition. The. engineering difficulties are borders. Mr. Beck will not disclose the name found to be very great and the amount of arid lands reclalmable less than ant- of the plant, but says that It Is found icipated. TJie attitude of the people, In targe quantities In most of the westand their promises to have ern states. The rubber can be extracted from the roots of the plant at a not been entirely fulfilled. In summing up the conditions which trival cost He declares that every surround these five projects, It may be 2,000 ponuds of the plant roots contain aid that the first two are turning out fully 200 pounds of high grade rubber, well; the second two are dubious, and and that the rubber can be extracted at an expense of not more than 15 cents the fifth, neutral. Meanwhile examinations have been pushed elsewhere and, per pound. The market price for rubber is at the present time $1 as might have been expected, a number f projects of great merit have been per pound. While in Colorado, Mr. Beck says, found. These are being quietly worked out, avoiding, as far as possible, pub- he had several good offers for &ls disA Denver syndicate wanted to lic discussion until they have been covery. finance the enterprise, provided that brought to a stage where they can be be located at Denwould the factory definitely passed upon. The lesson has been learned that it Is desirable to ver. A town in Colorado, situated near avoid expressions of enthusiasm re- the Utah line, offered Mr. Beck a bofactarding any particular scheme until Its nus of $5,000 if he would erect the at that place. He has both propoutlines can be fairly established, since tory ositions under consideration, hut pretaction is sure to follow the emotloi fers to have the factory In this city. If Exploiting of such great enterpriser a company cannot be organised here The announcement in the spring to take charge of the enterprise, one of i90l that five projects had been seleci for apecial the Colorado offers will be accepted. consideration has led It has been estimated that $15,000 criticism because these projects Wi be required to erect a rubber facwill uot found In all respects as desired, a 0Tne men who tory In this city. Beck is confident that were widly enthuslar he can raise the necessary amount and about them are now pessimistic to have the factory in operation wuse the impossible expects has not been in less than a year. talned. in the beginning of the yi The plant can be secured at an ex04 there are a dozen good proje on hand, but pense of not more than $20 per ton. It every effort Is being mi can be packed away and kept without by the repartment of the Interior damage for an Indefinite period, thus Prevent these being "4 widely Insuring a supply tor the factory durexploited until they hi n more ing the months when It would be Imthoroughly consider reat works such as practicable to secure the roots on acthese, which count of snow and ice. UMtined to last for a hundred yei When asked concerning the quantioannot be thought out in every del n a feW ties in which the plant Is found. Mr. minutes. Dlsapoplntme Beck replied: r inevitable and unforseen dlffic There are enough plants growing M U1 always arise. Any targe li In the west today to pave all of the atlon m ork requires months and ye streets of the western cities with rubpatent toll, even after the contra 1 ber." lot. It makes no difference h uch money a available, the progr THE ATHLETIC GRIP. e work Red a by physical ,.t ona Por Oh, how did dimpled Dolly Gray example, in the case o Catch such a beautiful beau? tunnelonly certain number She learned It. dear, at basketball, n n or at the head, and no m , To, catch and not let go. whether the funds are on Baltimore News. hand, nte of progress is fixed by The International Brotherhood of 'eiava,,abl tor the workmen. ' rUe t0 In foi Teamsters gives one of its most enterthe Puttlng dati can only taining balls at Conley's, Wednesday han n j "hen the river Is low. , February 34th. SALT LAKE Bru-bac- k, well-kno- Daly-Jud- ge Phil-lippin- . full-fledg- ed first-cla- ss 1 over-adver- tli W SALT LAKE LETTER (Special Corro-- i fr rhe RECITAL ilUiUlUUliUiUiUlUlUlUlUlU JU iUiUMtJUlUJUMUUUli? SALT LAKE CITY. Feb. 21. It looks as if the mayor r.ad the best of it In the fight between his office and the Republican members of the city As Is quite well known. council. sent a list of appointees Morris Mayor to the city council for confirmation, which list was promptly pigeon-holeThe executive evinced a disposition to be fair with both parties and Included both Republicans, ns well as Democrats. It so happens, however, that the Republicans are not of the e right kind to please the Johnson crowd; they havent the brand, nor the ear marks. Resides It was proposed to remove Frank Hines, superintendent of water works; F. C. Kelsey, city engineer, and M. R. StewInasmuch art, health commissioner. as these three departments have many employees who may be utilised to good effect on convention day and Just previous to election, It will be seen that the Republicans feared losing some prestige. Horace H. Smith, having resigned from the board of health as Its clerk. Mayor Morris selected C. M. Jackson as his successor. This action on the part of the mayor added fuel to the fire which was smouldering and caused it to burst forth Into flame. The health commissioner declined to accept Jackson as clerk and called in one of to take charge of the other emploj-eethe office. Jackson stood firm at his post and went to work. As a result there are two clerks, one de facto, and the other pro tempore. Meanwhile the mayor got busy. He secured an opinion from the city attorney which statee d. Kearns-ISruc- s unqualifiedly that the executive has the power to appoint every clerk or assistant In every department, the head of which is appointed, subject to tbs consent of the council. Also that the mayor Is alone the proper person to select all assistants, or laborers, or skilled mechanics In every department provided by ordinance or otherwise. Acting upon that opinion the mayor has ordered the discharge of all employees- not engaged by him and will substitute new men in their places. at a standstill, except In so far as quirt work on the side is concerned. Thr forces are doing most of ihcir work on the outside of the cii .uni in other counties. The Kearns people are currying on a quiet campaign. J. J. Myers, city food inspector. Is just back from a canvass of Siiiqiete, where he lubored with the brethren and Little Willie Wantland is trotting around town endeavoring to discover something tangible enough to Little Willie report to headquarters. has been a very faithful worker tor the Kearns forces. He haunts offices and talks to people on the corners incessantly in an effort to obtain Information to jiack over to the office on the corner. They do say that during the last city campaign the Odell jieople made He was monkey of "Little Willie." presumably ail Odell man and hung around headquarters and talked of how "we" would do things to Knox and Janies, when all the time he was W'lth the- Knox people. The Odell people detected him and one night held a caucus at which they formulated a bunch of bogus plans and pledged every mother's son to secrecy. The scheme worked, tor next day the Knox people were discovered buttonholing probable delegates and advising with them against doing anything In accord with the fake plana outlined at the fake meeting. "Little Willie was iinii-Kear- Interest in the Smoot case seems to have died out here for lack of attention. The city press lias almost ceased to mention It, although the departure of E. B. Crltchlow for the seat of hostilities may awaken the slumbering scribes to a sense of duty. However, while the newspapers have not said much, the principals are working and the Smoot forces are endeavoring to ascertain who are the witnesses for the other side, In order to counteract In the selection of the men, and possibly women, who will be subpoenaed in Smoot's behalf. . WHITE BELLE SQUIRE SEAL Champagne PIANIST. Recital by THOMAS RADCLIFFE Will be found. The most widely and favorably known as well as the greatest selling brand of PIANIST. S 2 Congregational sf Church Chumpugne In the world. J MsnsaMHaaB Distinctly PROGRAM High Quality How to Listen to Piano Music. Generalizations concerning mu-- 4 sic. Essentials of music. Repetition a necessity. Example funeral march Chopin. ! F. J. Kiesel & Co. What Form Moans in Music. E wimple of the highest toyin Moonlight Sonata Beethoven. Example of song form Home Sweet Home Tliulberg. DISTRIBUTORS Comparisons of Music. Splendidly Like a Picture Scherzo in E Mendelssohn. Like a Poem Nocturne in G minor Chopin. 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Building You will notice this Bear Lady has one of our cages on the seat by her side, and she seems quite fond of it It Is no trouble to show them if you will only ask to see them. Boyle Hardware Co. I JOHN A. BOYLE, Manager. Wash. Avs. J mhmmhmhmhmm Corner 24th SL and Adams Ave. Convlentljr located for Transient! and persons siring Splendid Table Board only. Large, Well - Lighted Sample Rooms. TERMS momentous x I sf Where repsentailves from the world powers confer and adjust j To Piano Music j JOHN PIXOREE JAMES !. burton Virginia . How to Listen j THiimas The news that Perry S. Heath has resigned as chairman c! the Republican national committee did not come as a sudden shock to anyone here. It was entirely expected, because when Senator Hanna passed away all chances of Heath remaining as secretary were eliminated. Heath has probably done a very wise act In taking the step, because without the friendly presence of Senator Hanna he would hqve doubtless been forced to get out sooner or later. - frj DAVID ECCLKS Several days ago the Zang saloon was raided of a Sunday by an officer In plain clothes, who detected the bartender In the act of selling a citizen not only a drink, but a bottle to take away with him. The citizen, who happened to be no less person than the county clerk, has been on pins and needles ever since lest he be haled Into court as a witness tor the city. It Is an embarrassing position to occupy. $ TEe S 29 FEBRUARY IN sf Diplomatic Circles MONDAY EVENING fooled. generally are endorsing the position taken by the mayor. Last fall the voters declared in favor of a change. The Republicans are endeavoring to prevent the will of the people from being carried Into effect. mmmmmm $ d ns Wonderful Nerve. Is displayed by many a man enduring pains of accidental Cuts, Wounds, Meantime the heads of departments Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Sore feet or stiff have held a bunch of meetings, the joints. But there's no need tor it. last of which was on Saturday, the re- Bucklen's Arnlcal Salve will kill the sult being reached that a lawsuit will pain and cure the trouble. It's the best be had to determine the mayor's au- Salve on earth for Piles, too. 25c at thority In the premises. Of course Jesse J. Driver's, druggist It is expected that at the next meeting Office supplies and stationery go this of the council the mayor's appointments will be turned down pending a week at 40 per cent off regular price. determination by the courts. The city Ross Book Store. attorney has rendered an opinion In Jackson's case that he is the clerk of the board of health and entitled to the compensation fixed by the ordinance. 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