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Show Friday, April THE OGDEN POST used; and 1!), 000,000 duct feet of conduit will be provided for underground lines. Over 17,400 tons of bare cop-tPublished each Friday by The 0) wire and 5.000 tons of galvanized den Post Printing and Publishing com- iron wire will L needed, in addition to 34,750,000,000 conductor feet of pany, 2428 Kiext-- avenue. d wire in cables. matter OcEntered as second-clas- s Tho construction program contemtober 17, 1D27, at the post office at plates additional cirOgden, Utah, under the Act of March cuits in various parts of the country, 3, 187!). and progressive development and improvement of local telephone facilper Year ities Subscription Price: by the various Bell telephone companies in their local territories. The Ogden Post lead-covere- long-distan- ce 21-0- 0 Telephone 365 r I Six Presidents Come From State of Ohio er WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3- - Of the twenty-nine- Presidents, twenty-fiv- e were elected. Four succeeded from the office cf and were not later dected. These were Tyler of Virginia, Fillmore of New York, Johnson of Tennessee, Arthur of New York. six were citizens Of the twenty-fivof Ohio at the time of their election; four were citizens of Virginia; three were from Massachusetts; three were from New York; two from Tennessee; two from New Hampshire; one from Pennsylvania; one from Indiana; one from New Jersey. Washington took the oath of office as President when he was 57, He was the first of the Virginia line of chief magistrates. John Adams and John Quincy Adams, father and son of Massachusetts, were elected when they were Cl and 57 respectively. Jefferson and Madison of Virginia were each 57 when elected. Monroe of Virginia was 68. Jackson of Tennessee was 61 when elected; Van Burcn of New York, 54. William Henry Harrison of Ohio had reached 67 when he was elected. Harrisons age stands as high water mark, ijnly Taylor of Louisiana and Buchanan of Pennsylvania, after Ilarrisoas ime, had reached their sixties when elected. Taylor was 64 and Buchanan i5. Folk of Tennessee was one of the youngest (49) when elected. Pierce of New Hampshire was even younger vice-preside- rate-makin- g. , -- Arent Allowed Here Vv:v nt e, WHAT PRICE INVESTIGATION? The country has spent $30,000,000 CONTRACTOR PROTESTS and the railroads have spent $05,000,-00-0 SPECIFICATIONS in attempting to value the railIn a recent issue of a local news- roads for tho purpose of paper, Gibbons & Reed, Salt Lake That' $125,000,000 has had to go into contractor, takes exception to the Og- an investigation of which less than den City and Weber county commis- 10 per cent of the work has been sioners specifying concrete exclusive- done. The whole matter is now in litigaly for the Wilson Lane and Harris-vill- e highway connections. This ob- tion and will probably be in that conjection to concrete from Gibbons & dition for years. But even if the inReed comes as a surprise. This firm vestigation is completed, and the litihas put down considerable concrete gation ended, the valuation will not paving in Ogden; it has been good be worth much as a basis for rates, paving and at prices which were a for capital must have a return if it great saving' to the city over previous continues to go into any enterprise, contracts. In Salt Lake City, at this and that fact will have more to do time, this company is placing concrete with rates than any commission's arpaving, as we arc creditably inform- bitrary valuation. Besides, capital is ed, and it will be no hardship for the only one item in the cost of transporcompany to bid on the type of pave- tation. Tho investigation is in reality a ment specified by our commissioners. The superiority of concrete for factor in making rates higher, for heavy-traffi- c pavement has been thor- the railroads must earn the millions oughly demonstrated right here in Og it costs them and they have only one den and Weber county, and the com- way to earn it rates. 48. missioners are justified in specifying Lincoln of Illinois was 51 when that type of pavement It is pop THE IEOl'LE OWN elected. Grant, also of Illinois, was Gar-iel- d corn- - AMERICA ular belief that there is only 46. Ilayes of Ohio was 54; etition in the pi ice of concrete pav-n- g of Ohio 49. Cleveland of New Tho people of the last 20 years than in any other, as there, are have been industriously swallowing York was 47. Benjamin Harrison of more contractors with concrete mix- the corporations," declares a Indiana was 55. The second time ing equipment than any other type. industrial economist. "Step by Cleveland was elected he was 55. It is anticipated that Gibbons & Reed McKinley of Ohio was 53 when first the public the common people will be among the bidders on the pri Step to whom so much oration has been elected. Roosevelt of New York was paving jobs, and they will not devoted has taken over ownership of 46 when he won an election for four e discriminated against in any man- the corporations, until in his own right. Taft of Ohio today we have rears51. Wilson of New Jersey was ner. was a new social structure. e The commissioners know what is we not building up a 'new ifl, Harding of Ohio was 55. Are of Massachusetts was 52 when wanted, and it is evident that they do socialism tho ownership by the many not propose to ball" up the situation of our great pioducing and service elected in 1924. by asking for bids on substitutes agencies? And basing that new sosomething they do not want. It is cialism on the sound foundation of TAXPAYERS ASSUME LIABILITY evident that the black" people are no capitalism and private initiative, we UNDER PUBLIC OWNERSHIP more satisfied with the situation than have 20,000,000 investors to show how Two important conclusions can be a cheap car dealer when he sees a great is our democracy of business. drawn from a recent news item statcompetitor sell a high class car. It Three to forces have a that helped judgment of $13,000 was ing is just a case of a man wanting a bring aboutgreat new democracy of the awarded this a village of 400 popagainst better article and willing to pay what corporation, to of a man killed in business a widow the to ulation keep is asked for it in .a competitive mar- straight even if it were inclined y a wire falling from path ket. to step aside. decayed bracket. The village owned mass is One is another .he electric system, and was without ownership; DURCII CREEK SHOULD the need of public goodwill, which nsurance coverage for such cases. COME IN mass production intensifies; the third The firBt conclusion is the obvious Burch Creek residents who are op- is the interdependence of business on one that insurance is a necessity of posing annexation to Ogden City business, so that reputation for fair iresent day life and industry, and that would do well to consider the advan- dealing and honesty is of prime im- any community carrying its own intages to be gained before committing portance. surance when a risk is present, is themselves. It would be well to conUnder corporate forms the oppor- making a mistake that will very probsider the matter of installing individ- tunity was opened for the people of ably react sooner or later on the s. ual water conveniences to say noth- the nation to make a 'social recapture is case it In this particular ing of supply. It would be well to of tho tools of production The work- easily imagined what payment of so or sep ers own the tools of production to- arge a sum will mean to the small compare the cost of tic tanks in comparison with the cost day. The people knows that it the pub- lopulation. of sewers. It would be well to com The second conclusion, not so obaider sidewalks, electric street lights, lic is the real owner of America!" vious, but of equal importance, is that street crossings and fire and police the danger of such a judgment against MACHINE METHODS protection. a community could only be present unMost people rave against taxation, IN FARMING der a regime. Pribut after all we get more for our tax A group of Icwa farmers who keep vate ownership has gained the public dollar than any dollar we spend. The careful books say that the average esteem it has today by giving splendid man who doesn't believe this state- farm horse costs them $98.24 a year, service at reasonable cost, and by doment has not informed himself on the including feed, labor, rent and inng everything possible in the directerest on their investment. The tion of safety and insurance of the subject. horses averaged 892 hours work in public against loss. Municipal ownerHELD ADVERTISE 1926, and 820 in 1925, and farmed, ship fails to have the same interOGDEN per horse, 23.2 acres of land in 1926. est in building up public confidence The modern crawler type tractor that ownership has, because personal The American Legion Drum corps has, through conscientious effort, will deliver horsepower at a lower interest, incentive and liability are built an organisation that Ogden can cost for every item of expense feed, lacking. be proud of. At numerous conven- labor, interest, storage. It has speed The $13,000 judgment against the tions during the past nine months it in the critical times of seeding and village, and the loss aggregating milhas thrilled tho Ogden visitors with harvest when a little delay means lions which Los Angeles will have to its rythmic patriotic marches. The damage or loss of crops. The little pay because of the St. Francis dam tractor, now built on the crawl disaster, differ only in the amount. people of Ogden have a right to be garden track-laying er or type, is fairly rev- In both instances, absence of personal proud of its showing. All of these demonstrations have re- olutionizing gardening and smal responsibility encouraged loose ceived high praise from the conven- acreage farming. The machine age in farming has artions assembled. The drum corps has instilled in the minds of the visitors rived. Cost cf operation is having to BONANZA MINING DAYS farmer that Ogden is surely a live town to be figured, wheie the old-tididn't think much about it. Just as PASSING INTO HISTORY have such an organization as this. The Portland Gold Mining company For two years the members of the the successful industrial plant is on of Colorado Is preparing to make exbaMs whermachine to a labor save and have trained, corps today Ogden Colorado can boast of one of the finest drum ever possible, so must the successful haustive tests of and trumpet corps in the country. To farm eventually adopt machine meth- ores at its new Victor mill. It wil' be in competition with the larger ods where one man can do the work treat ores yielding only $2 to $4 ton from various mines that can procorps it must have more and better of two. duce an enormous tonnage, and wil' No farm relief law formulated can equipment. The time has come for it to ad- take the place of efficiency in opera reck to prove that even these cheap vance, and tha people of Ogden should tion, and farm relief laws cannot turn ores can be profitably mined. Metallurgy and mining have made respond by attending all functions back the hand of time to the day when strides in the past few extraordinary wooden plows were used with a yoke sponsored by the organization. beyears. The old bonanza daya are Tonight it is giving a dance at the of oxen. steam-shovovershadowed later the by White City Gardens. A large crowd ing plugging days, when quanat this dance will help advertise Og HIGH MARK IN HIGHWAY tity and trained skill are better than den. CONSTRUCTION mere luck. Rond construction in 1928 will The mining industry, by improving PHILIPPINE SUGAR least equal and probably slightly ex- methods of mineral extraction, is doRESTRICTION ceed the highest mark recorded in any share and more to conserve its ing To place a miximum limit of 500,-00-0 preceding year. resources. our natural tons on sugar imported from the federal-ait Programs of state and Philippines would not reduce present highway systems include new con ? importations but would simply pre- st ruction of more than 20.000 miles vent Philippine sugar produced with of surfaced roads and about 8000 miles cheap labor from ruining our home graded and drained. In addition, sugar industry. Last year 473,674 maintenance and repair work will be tons of sugar were shipped in from done on at lea.it 2 10,000 miles of state the Philippine Islands. This was highways. new high mark. Funds available to state highway Our beet sugr.r industry is of vnst departments are fully 25 per cent importance to American fanners. In greater in amount than last year, 1927 they received $55,000,000 for amounting this year to $750,000,000. their sugar beet3 alone. Other bene-fit- Expenditures by county and local from livestock operations and ini units will swill the highway total to proved yields in other crops in rota upwards of $1,30(1,000,000. tion with sugar beets equalled at least Widening pavements is becoming a fixed feature cf highway improve$100,000,000. Limiting Philippine sugar imports ment programs, tions to 500,000 tons a year would work no hardship on sugar producers GREAT NEED FOR now operating in the Islands. On the UNDERSTANDABLE other hand it. would prevent the 'Is- TAX I.AWS lands from becctning a one-crcounWhat this country needs now more try and would stimulate the univer- than anything else in the field of AWNINGS sally accepted pxinciple of crop diver taxation is a simplification of the sification. tax laws, common-sens- e thinking, DON'T TOT OFF lh order-in- g coupled with efficient and intelligent BETTER TELEPHONE of comfort till administration. Involved laws am SERVICE rules governing taxation have cause the hot weather is upon you. The Bell Telephone System will much dissatisfaction. You'll avoid hurry and delay spend more than $400,000,000 for new The individual should have some and by ordering your awnings in In facilities idea 1928. equipment of how much tax he will have to plant This is the largest construction pro- pay, without having to time. atan employ gram ever contemplated in telephone torney to aid him in the making o Well send an expert to your history. When we consider that this calculations. Our courts today are is more than the entire cost of build- crowded with tax home to measure and estimate. questions and intering the Panama canal, a slight idea pretations of tax laws. This creates now before our workWrite can be obtained of what this new an element of which is uncertainty become rooms too busy. construction rcaily means in better very disconcerting, both to public of telephone service to the public. ficiaN and to taxpayers. Our tax laws should be simple and flans call for 950,000 telephone poles, which wculd bo sufficient to understandable so that ail of tho peoDAN WADMAN construct over 23,000 miles of pole ple know what arc all of they paying 2329 Kitse! Phone 3(9 me with 40 poles to the mile. More the time, says the California Taxthan 1,000,000 cross-arm- s will be payers' association. EDITORIAL Truck Shirkers 27. loot Hf RAHAM BROTHERS trucks are pioneers in the forests near Ethel, Washington, where they start the logs rolling from trees to furniture. The giant logs are hauled seven miles to the milts on trailers attached to Graham Brothers one and a half ton trucks . The trucks average eight trips daily, a great part of the journey being over the crude wooden runways shown in the photo . The insert shows how, logs are loaded on the, trucks by cables. ijr well-kno- Cool-Idg- , high-volta- be undertaken by the commission this year, and the total cost of the entm project to the state will be less the $100,000, it is estimated. complete the work on each, and on the third section they have 350 calendar days. Raleigh & Lang of Salt Lake Construction and the Reynolds-El- y company of Springville were the sucContractors who are to build the cessful bidders for these jobs, and the Carmel contracts were awarded to them on states end of the Zion-M- t. 17, the day the bids were opento notified been have begin April lighway ed. work by Saturday, May 5, it was anCarThe states eHd of the Zion-M- t. nounced at the offices of the state mel is about 16.5 miles in highway road commission Wednesday. On two length and the total cost of its consections of this road the contractors struction will be approximately $427,-00- 0. This is the largest project to have 220 calendar days in which to Park Highway Work to Start Work on the park service's the road is progressing rapidly, it ii reported, and it is expected that tint end will be practically completed h the fall of 1929. The portion of tk road being built by the park sens is only a Tittle more than eight mile in length, but will cost approximate $1,200,000, all of which is being bom by the federal government. . end ge AN BLOOMINGTON DOME, UTAH U. S. G. S. Petroleum Reserve No. 7, Next in Number to Tepot Dome , Naval Reserve No. 6 tax-layer- cess-poo- ls public-ownersh- OIL COMPANY MID-AMERIC- i- yv - . x Vf-;'-:.- . ; vy v t ' : T ' ) 1 : ' v - , lev'- , , ?$-- ' 1 . .. ,s ' V : - . ' ' r ' ' . ..S ip - -- 1. r t .. r V i .'S J , v- . - .. ,. . . - .. , jr-?-i- - v":- . low-gra- de el Description, Equipment, Development Test well, located on Bloomington Dome, five miles from St George, Washington county, Utah, is now down to the depth of 1450 feet, with showings of gas and oil. Geologists predict comfeet mercial production of oil at 2,000 feet. Fifteen to twenty-fiv- e of hole is being made per day with only 500 feet to drill before reaching objective; and should oil be brought in at that point, the stock will be worth many times the present selling price. - Opportunity Is Knocking Here is the opportunity to join with a group of Utah business men in an effort to prove the Bloomington Dome and this field so great in oil possibilities. op hot-weath- STOCK FOR SALE er Limited amount of stock for development of this particular well is now offered to the public. This company is not selling stock for profit it is selling for development. Your money will go into the hole in the ground, and this is no joke. There are no salaried officers. MID-AMERIC- AN OIL COMPAN? Room 323 Kiesel Building, Ogden, Utah E 3 |