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Show THE PAY WITH WHICH IS CONSOLIDATED THE INDEPENDENT REPRESENTATIVE OF PAYSON AND SOUTHERN UTAH COUNTY. A STRICTLY VOLUME THIRTY CITY FAdG PAYSON, UTAH, 0 NEW PROBLEM GLOBE-HEADE- JULY IS THURSDAY, R 1918. NUMBER American Barrage FORTY-FIV- E JUAB COUNTY IS AFTER FOR SECURING ELECTRICITY STRAWBERRY WATER Government Negotiatiating with Utah Light & Power Conceded Company to Lease Power Plant-C- ity to Pay Price, But Government Now Asks More, Delegation from Nephi and Mona Meet with Government Reclamation Officials and Ask for Canal to be Built from Diamond Fork and Siphoned Across Spanish Fork Canyon. or Will Lease to Corporation. therefore, approximately equal to the operating expenses, disregarding the esti depreciation of the property, mated for the year at $3,880.00. With the increased sale of power to the City of Springville, and the probable sale of power to the Denver &. Kio Reclamation Grande shops at Thistle, the ginss the Government Service it became necessary for income for the fiscal year 1919 may reach $14,000.00, or sufficient to covet Ijhem to build another power expenses and de probable plant to furnish electricity for predation. operating the rates under the If construction work. The canal present contracts are increased, this completed, the Government en- would no doubt be somewhat e contract ceeded. tered into a three-yea- r 4. There are certain conditions, with the above mentioned towns connected with the continued however, to furnish electric current for of this plant with increased operation the price of one cent per kilowalt load for commercial purposes which hour.. Alng with the other should receive careful consideration towns Payson assumed the con- Service from this isolated hydraulic tract, purchasing her power from plant will be subject to some unaxoid the Government plant, abandon- able interruptions, and if the opera tion of the plant is to be continued ing her own plant which was indefinitely, an source of auxiliary then insufficient for the capacity power will ultimately be required, demanded. necessitating an additional investment The price to be paid the Re- of $.30,000.00 or $40,000.00. The watei clamation Service was entirely in the Spanish Fork Fixer contains a amount of sediment at times, their own proposition, the city large xvhieh is very destructive to the xxear conceding to their request, and ing parts of the turbines, and the cost a second three-yea- r contract was of maintenance of the machinery, entered into and will terminate theefore, may exceed the estimat. 5. The plant has been adxerlised in the very near future; bul it seems that the Service is just for lease, once in 1910 & and once in 1917, the Utah Power Light (lout beginning to discover that the pany being the only bidder in each revenue does not cover the run- ease. Roth bids were rejected, as they ning expenses of the plant and is xvere considered too loxv, but nftei making demands for a raise or negotiations with the company, a agreemnt has been reached leasing the power plant to ihe tentative whieh under thp company offets a Utah Light & Power Co. of $825.00, xx 1th pro rental monthly A proposition, which is importionate reductions if the amount of printed below, was submitted to xvater delivered to the plant is less all the towns using the Govern- than lf0 second feet.' A copy of Ihe ment current, by Mr. J. L. I.ytel, proposed contract or lease, setting forth all of the conditions, is attached project manager, in the fore part hereto. The lease is for a ten year of March last, and since v that period, with the option resting with lime many meetings have been the United States to renew the lease held by the various 'administra- under the same conditions for an ad tions and much discussion en- ditionnl term of ten years, and option tered into regarding the proposi- resting with the company to purchase the plant at any time during the 20 tion. vear period. Believing that the negotiatons 0. Whether the plant is leased or in detail would be interesting not, it will be neopsary for. the Re to many of our citizens we have elamation Service to increase the been permitted by our city fath- power rates to the various towns as present contracts expire and it is ers to publish them. On account the believed that the new rates should of the matter covering a good be such ns will receive the approval of deal of ground it will be contin- the State Public Utilities Commission. 7. Tt is requested that you eon ued for several weeks. All interthis contract and submit your sider ested in the welfare of the comcomments xxithin the next two weeks munity should become acquainted as by that time it is the intention to with this vital proposition forward the contract to the Seere'ary these columns. of the Interior. through Any comments you The matter has not as yet been care to make will be submitted at disposed of and negotiations are that time, with the reeontmendat ion still under way. Following is of the Reclamation Service. Yours truly. Mr. Lytels proposal: .1. 1.. LYTKL, F.nclosure. Provo, Utah, March 11, 1918. Project Manager.' Mayor and City Council, City of Payson, Draft of February 7, 1918. Payson, Utah. Department of the Interior. Uniton O.ontlemen: States Reclamation Service. Stinxv 1. During the last two years, t lie berry Valley Project, Utah. of the be to future question policy This Agreement, made in connection with the Span- nineteen hundred pursued in pursu and , ish Fork Power Plant has been under ance of the Act of .Tune 17. 1902 (.32 consideration by the Reclamation .3881, between the United States and the alternatives of contin Stat., of America, hereinafter styled the ued Government operation for sup United States, bv .T. ,, I.vtei, Project plying commercial power and the leae United States Reclamation of the plant to some satisfactory Manager, thereunto Service, duly authorized operating company have been consul and subject to the approx al of the ered. Director of the United States Rcela 2. The plant was built, primarily, niation Service, and the Utah Poxvei to supply power for the construction & Light Company, a corporation or of Strawberry Tunnel, since at that and existing tinder the laws ganized time electric power could not be se- of the State of , and doing busi cured from any other source. Shoitlv ness in the State of Utah, hereinafter after the plant was placed in opera-tion- styled Contractor, its siirohnr-- . and a contract was made with the assigns. City of Spanish Fork, and power supWitnesseth: The parties coxenant plied for commercial use. Contracts and agree that were subsequently made with the City Atiele 1. The Contractor, under of Payson and the .Village of Salem, penalty of a bond in the penal sum ot. and recently with the city of Spring Ten Thousand Dollars ( $ 10.t tOfl.t it 3 ville. Since the completion of the conditioned upon the full perfomanee construction work, the income from of this contract xx ill, according to the sale of power has been insufficient attached sepcifications made a part to pay the additional cost to the hereof, lease from the United States project entailed by the operation and the Electric Poxver Plant noxv in ' maintenance of the power plant and stalled and in operation on the canal transmission line. In order to put the of the United States near Spanish t h other propplant upon a sound commercial basis Fork, Utah, together it is necessary to increase the sale of erty listed in said specifications. This power and in most cases to increase lease is to ruu for a period of ten the rates at which power is sold (10) years from its date, the United under existing contracts. fates reserving the right to renexx the "3. During the calendar year, 1917. lease at any time before the expita-tiothe gross income from the sale of of said term tin lei the ame con power was $9,419.95, while the ad- ditinns for an additional petiod of ditional cost of operating the power ten (101 years. plant over and above the cost of operating the irrigation system was The income was, about $9,500.00. l Continued on page 8) The city of Payson, as well as Spanish Fork, Salem and Spring-ville- , have a new problem to solve with regard to the seeming of eleetrie power. When the Strawberry High Line Canal was constructed by Sep-vice- , i -- A The Backbone of the Nation The Smaller Cities, Towns and Are Where True Villages Citizens Live. Final Settlement on What They Do, Their Work and Efforts Are Recorded by the Country Press. Two Men from Eureka Arrested Threshing Problem At ihe July monthly meetingEarly Monday morning, July 1918. Probation .Officer H he loeal Farm Bureau agreed 'll. and City Policeman O. Roper to accept the price L. Wilson arrested two men from count v committee on Eureka, who gave their names as u.r the present year. The county i;av ai!(1 Alvar Limdevall, end 24 25 south the that and years of age, for oon-x- f igent reports ihe county agreed upon $8.00 frihuling to the delinquency of two j'11'1 girls of Payson 16 per hundred for barlev and oats, tears of age, by keeping them tnd $1100 per hundred for wheat, 'out upon the streets after nine ibis was to- include only an ope- - o'clock p. m. Sunday evening, The men were placed under rating crew of three or four nieu. The price having been set by heavy bonds by the Probation Ihe county, it was necessary for Officer, to guarantee their appear-oti- r loeal to adjust the problem ance before Judge C. M. Nielsen, of hoard and pitchers.' At a of the Juvenile court, in Provo, special meeting called by the; The law makes it a crime for local officers all of the threshing any person over the age of 18 s crews responded with representa-- years to keep or have any thor-lnil- c oul a one. stnect, After upon ally any except ough consideration it was agreqloi pubic place within the state Utah after the hour of 9 that the threshing crews should clock n furnish their own board and for p. m. and before 4 oclock this f cent per bushel or a. m. of the following day. There approximately $4.00 per day j. ire too many male adults from would he added to the county -I years and up, many of them married men, keeping being price. The pitching problem was not'oung girls from 14 to 18 years so easy to solve. Several of the T age, out until early hours of the morning, for no good re-representations absolutely to furnish pitchers and all Pse. The Juvenile court authori-o- f the threshing representatives ties are taking a determined argued that the advantages were Maud against such action, and in favor of the fanner furnishing hereby serves notice upon all uch that severe the pifehers; because farmers j' Not them. awaits 6 would when not quit punishment pitchers will the adults he handled, oclock came, neither would to!(-"lthe juveniles will he called of three he off the stack smok-jbii- t f tv suet adion, ing at one time; furthermore, a1'11 to account better clean-uand feeding job and if Iheir delinquency is due to would result because the farmer neglect on the part of their par-i- s engineering the whole proposi- - ntx they will he punished, tion. All of the crews were willing that pitchers should accompany the machine, hut they were to he employed hv the farmer and paid by him. This proposition was accepted by the Bureau officers because there seemed to1 Y;,ter samples taken through-b- e no alternative. Fitly ceitis i,ut the season thus far show that per hundred will lie ihe price 4i' t ho percentage of silt carried in pitchers, making the total price, i1P xvater of the High June canal about 12c for wheat. Farmers is somewhat less than a year must and exchange ago, and that which is carried work to' not so coarse and heavy. A where necessary Inei-on Ibis ! recent carry program. inspection of Sixth Water dent a y the price might he re-- j canyon shows much less erosion iu the exchange of work. Liking place this year and indi-l- t was further agreed, follow-- ; anted that the main part of the ing the suggestion of Markisand troubles in the High Line the ihreshing crews, the farmers 'canal are past, for 1 tali, that a settlement tor! The1 crops in the High lane threshing should he made on the unit are much better this year ground when the job was finished, than we have ever had and it is In the event that cash is not lesiimated that the total value of ready the machine crew are cn- - the crops will reach one million titled to the grain, eight bushels dollars ($1,000,000,00..). Those mi the hundred. This proposition ho took up farm units on the makes the cash settlement very cst side of the West mountain attractive. air feeling well oxer their sucWith the present prospects for cess this year. They estimate grain and the two liberal conces- their heat crop will average sions the Bureau has granted jthirtv bushels to the acre. source that it could possibly he Up to the present lime approx-pe- r liaxc the right 1o expect and de rent of mutely seventv-fivs mand job. No kaiser 'the xvater for the High Line unit heat should he found in the 'has been used, and economy straw. should he practiced by all in the of their remaining xvater Use supply. The area of lands needing re safe drainage in the High Line unit again this year. It your patriotism isis increasing to he hoped that a workable xolnlion for this drainage prob-Buy V. S. S. Today ill be found in the near m I'. - , juve-tion- 1 ,? one-hal- j i pur-fuse- d 1 law-breake- rs p . xx xx xx c first-clas- xx You Prove at Home ! xx future. The great masses of people in the United States are in the country towns, cities and hamlets. They are the ones who form the backbone of the country. The big daily newspapers are always full of what is going on in Hie so-call- large cities, and forgelful that in the smaller towns ihe real citizen of the country lies, the one called upon to do the most for his country. Close to the smaller towns are the farms and ranches and these combined js the field that ihe country press must cover. In these live the men and the women, citizens who are a'ive, vigorous and doing the work of the nation, and their representa. tive to the world, telling of their needs, is the country newspap r. No other paper or journal can do this. If the paper is well supported merchants, farmers, by both county and municipal officers, it can and --the private-citiz- en, the community as truly represent alive. being If it is not well supporied, then the community is represented as being dead, not up to the scratch and going backward. The country newspaper is the true indicator of a community, and when it breathes a healthy tone, the whole world knows of delegation of representative citizens from Nephi and Mona visited the goxernment reclamation office at Provo last week for the purpose of investigating the feasibility of securing water from the Strawberry valley reservoir, the means tor getting such xvater to be through a proposed canal to be built from Diamond Fork, siphoned across Spanish Fork canyon and run parallel xvith the Strawberry High Line canal, 200 feet higher, to a point near Nephi. The delegation had an extended conference xvith Project Manager J. L. Lytel, regarding the matter, and made very strong appeal for xvater through any source that, it could possibly he secured regardless of the cost. Another proposition was suggested by the citizens whereby the water could be pumped from the Strawberry High Line canal. It xvas suggested that the west and south Goshen valley lands could he taken care of by water form the Nebo reservoir, the reservoir getting its supply from high waters, supplemented by Straxvberry water. The proposed new supply of water would be used for irrigating several thousand aeries of good land south of Nephi whieh would increase the land production to a very large extent. The delegation made , plain that tke people of that section are de- DAnlfmt nn Lias wa4a xVX. m a, fuAn TVUI VtUtVt the canal from Sevier river or the Straxvberry. Mr. Lytel assured the citizens that a thorough investigation would be forthcoming when they submitted the proposition in to the government, xvriting agreeing to pay the cost of the investigation. Judging from the enthusiasm exhibited by the delegation, and it. the fact that they considering If it eritici7.es, it is for the good arc to pay a good price xvilling do of all. When it praises, it says for the water, there is very little better next time. but xvhat our neighbors A town without a paper is jdonht on ihe south xvill secure Strawrated as nothing in the eyes of xvater. the world. The better the paper berry the better the town. And a newsRed Cross Notes paper can be better only in proportion to the support it receives. This is the third of a series of The ladies in charge of the articles on the needs, ideals and sewing room wish to announce future of the country newspaper. that for the the sexxnng The next article will appear in room will he present open Wednesdays, an enrlv issue of The Paysoniau. Thursdays and Fridays, from a. m. to 4 p. m. As soon as 'there are enough ladies attending Storage of Butter the rooms xvill he (pen on other days. We have material and Butter is not a good article to directions for the refugee dresses store. It must he in absolutely now, and are expecting some for well made in other garments soon. We also IVesh condition, all. The at it to ihnve more yam. Come and do order keep methods are suggested: not your hit, but your best. 1. Wash all the buttermilk out, The measurments follwing be make a brine strong, to float an must observed: Sweaters egg. sterilize a crock, place butter should measure from 1512 to 20 therein and cover xxnth brine. inches in xvidth, from 23 to 25 This will keep about 3 months inches in length, and good 11 for tabic use and about 8 for inches on the double in the neck. Socks should measure good 112 purposes of cooking. 2. Wash all the buttermilk incites in the foot, 14 inches in out, pack solidly in sterile crock; length of leg and 4 inches in cover xvith thick layer of salt. xvidth of foot. Toes should be This xvill probably keep about 6 very smooth and comfortable to 8 months. Lay the sxxeatcr or sock on a These are suggested by Mr. smooth surface and do not Bingham of the Dairy Depart- stretch when measuring. ment of the A. O. Red Gross Secretary. ! Messrs. E. B. Parry, Carl Keeler, Fern Grey and Mr. More-for- d will launch a fine fishing boat on the Straxvberry reservoir next Saturday, xxdiieh they have recently constructed. Numerous fishing parties are enjoying the excellent sport at the reservoir these days. There are al present fifteen boats on the water. July 18th xvas the date for the third payment of 35 per cent on your third liberty loan. you paid it? Do it now. Have A fashion note says that Nexv York xvomen, to shoxv their pat-rism. are wearing silk instead of xvoolen bathing suits. Thats il right if they stop at showing ot their patriotism, |