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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH I 1 and economy bills during the session. Senator Frank Evans will also Introduce a public utilities bill and there will be a flood of other bills in 'the Senate to amend existing laws, It Is asserted. The mucus selections for positions in the Twlfth legislature were as fol- E NOVI III SESSION 1 i lows: Senate. TWELFTH SESSION OPENS WITH Secretary W. S. Dalton, Salt I.ake. DEMOCRATS IN FULL CON. Minute Clerk John W. Geiger, Salt L&ko TROL IN BOTH HOUSES Ji, Docket Clerk J. F. Holbrook, Mlb UCCh. lard. Jed Woolley. Sergeant-at-Arm- s C.iator Funk of Cacho County Chos-o-n Davis. feji aa Pesldent of Senate. While Engroslng Clerk Mrs. Bessie M. ml i J. Frank Tolton of Beaver la t B'b? Mattingly, Salt Lake. Speaker of Houee. Mailing Clerk Mrs. Orson Riser, north Weber. I Miss Amber Committee Clerks Salt Lake City. Both branches of Hansen, year Box Elder; Miss Ella McMur-rln- , e legis-werthe twelfth session of the Utah hot Cache, and Miss Lillian Anderi organized by the Demo son, Salt Lake. He.kture crats In less than an hour at the Watchmen Rlaldo Merrill, Garfield, ry t and Paul Walton, Salt Lake. opening meeting on January 8. House. In the lower bouse the organlza- was effected unanimously 'by ac- - Speaker J. F. Tolton, Beaver. tion jr 8 clamatlon, every member having been Chief Clerk Adam L. Peterson, We elected on a straight Democratic or ber. 681 Minute Clerk Miss Anna Melrer, fusion ticket. Three holdover mem-- i j Salt Lake. bers of the upper house offered a fee Docket Clerk Frank Rlppon, Sumn r ,!k,fcle resistance to almost every mit. submitted by the majority, but N. J. Nellsen, Sergeant-at-Arm- s nea 1 ( , the end voted that the action of Cache. eaten majority be sanctioned unanl- Engrossing Clerk Edward Hanson, Cache. '( jusly. 18 Mailing Clerk Miss Anna T. Crea-ge- r, Senator J. W. Funk was elected loB Salt Lake. a president of the upper house by Chalain George Billngs, Utah. ordlnjjyote 0f 14 to 8, the Republican mem Assistant Sergeant at - Arms lei! bers having caucused as solemnly as George Webb, Washington. though in control, and selected Sen Messengers E. B. Hawkins, Utah, e coi stor Don B. Colton of Uinta county and George Beeson, Grand. ;ht it as their candidate for the presidency, Harrison Edwards, Doorkeeers nmlci Representative J. Frank Tolton of Sanpete and Edward Parry, Iron. Thomas Rees, Wayne. Watchman rant Beaver county was elevated to the Janitor Andrew Newton, Juab. s, wsi speakership of the lower bouse by Committee Clerks Mrs. Annie Wy song, Weber; Miss Maud Fosgren, f el It Is generally believed that early Box J. Pratt Duke, Wasatch; Elder; nstitj i .lon will be secured on the prohibi-- e Miss Hattie Peters, Box Elder; Miss coi U n and public utilities measures, Jane Q. Kimball, Salt Lake, and Miss itioni The state-wid- e prohibition bill to be La Von Chandler, Salt Lake. 1 vem submitted to the legislature will proMembers of the Senate. Achibald Bevan vide that the sale, manufacture and First District of intoxicating liquors in (D.), Tooele. landli possession Second District James W. Funk allt 1 the state shall be prohibited, Richmond. (D.), Grain reset Two exceptions are made. Third District Richard Strlngham scientific for be obtained alcohol tb may jf (D.), Woods Coss. twee and mechanical purposes and fer-i- . Fouth District Joseph Chez (D.) mented wines for sacramental pur- and W. J. Parker (D.), Ogden. Fifth District James W. Clyde ls le! Poses by application to the district (D.), Ileber City. ett, E eourt. Sixth District George H. Dern jce g Medicinal purposes and physicians W. W. Armstrong D.), C. L. Olbe will not (D.), recognized. vere( prescriptions son (P.). Wesley K. Walton, (D.). in ones ancU. Having intoxicating liquors Salt Lake. Evans Fank (P.), of infraction an deemed is tide possession Seventh District II. T. Reynolds tionJi the. law and the right of search and (D.), Sprlngvllle; J. H. Wootton (IL), seizure Is granted, American Fork. ie(1 b across the state line Eighth District Daniel Stevens jj Sending liquors Into Utah for purpose otherwise than (D.), Fillmore. te(j (j Orlando Bradley in the bill is deemed an Ninth District nt0DI specified faction 08 tlie law- - One ls barred (D.), Moroni. Tenth District Quince Kimball from giving intoxicating liquors away. . ' Fanguitch. Bootleggers and those having liquors (D.), District William Seegmll their possession are not distin-- ' lerEleventhKanab. I181 (R.). guished under the law. The penalty Twelfth District Don B. Colton Is One and imprisonment for the first , (It), VernaL offense and penal servitude for the Members of the House. second. First District Wynn L. Eddy (D.), is to Brigham City. j A commissioner of prohibition be employed at a salary of $4,000 Second District George Y. Smith iment (D.), Smith field; Joseh El Caidon fear jfrom n,e public utilities measure will (D.), Logan; W. W. Jones (D.), Welle' U,uf' provide that the commission shall be vllle. Arch McKinnon L'd ta( Third District composed of three members whose sal-r- e (D.1, Randolph. thf lry phall be $8,000 a year each. Fourth District D. L. Boyle (D.). The commissioners are to be ap-st- Ogden; J. S. Campbell (D.), Ogden; D. D. McKay (D.). Huntsville; J. G. pointed by the governor with the rice and consent of the Benate, and Widdlson, J. (D.), Ilooer. n at- may be removed by him for cause, Fifth District James S. Hopkins he In only two commissioners shall be of (D.), Coydon. Sixth District Francis IL Naldei pital the same political belief. 4 th( The commission Syracuse. shall havq the (D.), Alex Bevan Seventh District--J. rates, service (S.), Tooele. power to regulate type- charges, tolls, conduct and business of Eighth District Joseph G. Bywater letter my railroad or public utility in the (D.), Elizabeth J. Hayward (D.), R. It shall have the power to W. Young, Jr., (D.), Charles M. ?spot- state. sen, 1 cause systems of accounts' to be es-- Hecker (D.), Robert E. Currie (D.), J. 4 tablished and cause' utilities to file W. McKinney (D.), J. T. Raleigh (P.), 111 be schedules of rates and reports on Grace Stratton Alrey (D.), Salt Lake; Garfield: Thomas their business as often as the commis-rese- r Daisy Allen (D.), ' P. Page (D.), Riverton. ilon may require, Ninth District J. MBoyden (D.). ilroad Corporations to come under the Coalville. 3 of the rommlsslou are Tenth District George A. Fisher upas common carriers, pipe line companies, (D.), Heber. Eleventh District O. H. Berg (D.), It lagag companies, electric companies, 1 willtelephon and telegraph companies, Provo; Edward Southwlck (D.), Lehl; water companies, smelting corpora- Alma Greenwood (D.), American Fork; cold storage Lorenzo Argyle (D ), Lake Shore. warehousemen, te Twelfth District L. W. Curry (D.), coal and oil companies, ce-I- Vernal. an rs ment companies, flour mills, sugar comThirteenth District Oscar Cazler sop. panics, packing houses, creamery and (D.), Nephi. companies and salt' comt0 canning Fourteenth District H. R. Thomas ,( mand, Panics, and all other corporations (D.), Wales; J. H. Mace (D.), Gunniwhich the commission may find to son. Fifteenth District Ftank T. BardatiaTe contl of a given business. nett D.), Storrs. from southern the Representatives 0 the L. WillSixteenth District-Ne- phi of the state are to make a hard Q j. part Dale. Castle iams (D.), n ln the legislature to have f the Seventeenth District F. B. HamHch nt appropriations made by the mond (D.), Moab. e the Jointure to complete the Grand Eighteenth District J. E. Ileppler 2 500,-- c6von highway, which it is proposed (D.). Richfield. EYank Pratt shill run from Salt Lake south to the Nineteenth District Grind Canyon of the Colorado by way (D.), Hinckley. .j.. ot dar City, St. George and the Arl-On- e Twentieth District J. F. Tolton the on BtTlp ftn return fry way of Kane, (D.), Beaver. District Reuben De Twenty-firs- t arleld. Piute, Sevier and Sanpete wltt ins (D.). Marysvale. t - I propo-ieMc'io- 1 ad-eco- - -- e. anB suf-tha- countles- - Tfr southern legislators District Sylvester one the most important Williams (D.), Thurtber. subject to be threshed out before the John King District Twenty-thir1 001 legislature. (D.), Escalante. I As the Democrats have planned it, District George W, Twenty-fourtek Senator C. L. Olson of Salt Lake will Decker (D.). Parowan. 8 88 Introduce Arthur Pax-ma- n District the public utilities bill and Twenty-fiftacI' St. George. (D.), jEenator Joseph Chez will Introduce the David D. District Twenty-sixtJW 'state-widprohibition toil.; Whether Rust (D.), Kanab. 88 rare will be any changes in this plan Twenty-seventDistrict George J'0t certain. Senator W. W. Arm-k88- A. Adams (D.), Montlcello. s Yrng of Salt Lake county will Intro Twenty-eightDistrict O. V. Billfd no a number of proposed efficiency ings (D.), Duchesne. . . to at r? Pocket Boots for Fishermen. Bing-J General Work, A pair of rubber boots so light that lames, lienr Doctor Dubson has gone in n elk they may be rolled up and carried ln uplift work.", the pocket Is principally designed for it i ; So he fins. the use of amuteur fishermen, says the :ed ini $nes he specialize?" stat' d. lie seems determined to mnke Scientific American. For wading ago- - all? classes of society ns uncoinfort-lsslo- through strennm they ore worn over able ns possible." Birmingham Age-ped- the leather shoes, affording all the protection of the heavy boots without the Herald, inconvenience of the latter when on atlott tho wny to and from the fishing rture, Depends. ground. The boots arc made of Iegt fls bolting a refining process, pa?" gum, fashion lined and have an pure elea-ti- c Hissed fThat depends, my son, whether it thus around the top, fitting tight!) Uuue In flour mills or at the table." leg. nthce The cam 8 Twenty-secon- d d h h e h 1 h t :":, fj D al The farmer should study conditions causing poor drainage on his land and find remedy for it then he should plan drainage system to overcome the trouble wettest and most difficult to handle, furrow or stakes, it will save muchg and It Is necessary that construction time, when It Is desired to begin By JOHN T. STEWART, C. E. tiles. of be carried on during the wettest seaEngineer, University sons. Consequently, the contractor Any drnlurge system should be Minnesota. should base his calculations as to time planned with reference both to the T IS not an uncommon and methods on the worst conditions. work It Is to perform and to Its future thing for a landowner to To let a contract to the "lowest bid- maintenance. assessExpense should not oe fight a drainage or In of bis experience securing accurate data on spared der, regardless ment, on land which has a market value of from equipment. Is often to Invite serious which to base the plun. disappointment and loss. It Is well to mulntaln the shnllowr $20 to $30 per acre, and to are expensive same time Delays, especially, the almost at system. In use before the aslandowners, for not only Is money In- tile are luld. These surfuce-draln- s buy another tract of vested In Incomplete work, but often- sist In quickly clearing the land of similar land, at the martimes a fuilure to have the ditch com- water from heavy rains. In amounts ket price. His desire Is to acquire more acres, under the false plete at the time fixed means the loss for which It would not be economical of a crop. In the drainage of swamp to provide tile of sufficient size to do Idea that his prosperity will be deland, which cunnot be plowed until tho work so quickly. In Minnesota, noted by the amount of land ln his after the work Is completed, It means spring floods are often carried off by possession. He does not realize that land one acre of thoroughly-drainedelay of one or more yenrs before the surface drains before the frost Is cultivation will be a paying Invest- out sufficiently to permit the with may bring him a greater Income, ment With scarcely an exception, to work. Time spent In opening sur- half the lubor and expense of cultivawhere losses have accrued to agricultion, than two acres of the undralned tural Interests through the delay of a land; or that it could be acquired at the cost of to the year In the construction of proposed acre. This extra land drainage works, these losses huve been Is purchased with the Idea that land greater than the cost of the Improvements. The attempt to save one or values will rise. As the real value of two cents on the cubic yard for ditch land Is regulated by Its Improvements and productiveness, the landowner ing, or on the rod for tile trenches, by whose only object is to acquire more giving the Job to a man, often becomes an expensive proacres, rather than to improve the land an "un Is bis ceeding. Better pay more to a comin already possession. desirable citizen," as he expects to be petent man, fend be sure of a good Job, completed on time." the gnlner through bis neighbors im A FARM PROFITABLY TILED. The kind, size and completeness of provements. field three systems of the drainage works needed In a given On thie The idea Is popular,1 especially work were the methods of necessary. This the tile doing drainage locality, among the owners of wet lands, that demust be with which two and the the costs, shows advantage drain' water adjusting removal of the by surplus In putting What can conditions. local termined the by neighbors age would be of great benefit to the In a line of tile. An obstacle to Is good practice ln one place may state or community at large. While not be practical ln another. The chartrivial aa a line fence should not bo this Is true to a certain extent, and munity.. All of these benefits are Illustrated acter of the ground, surface slopes, permitted to prevent economical while wet lands belonging to the pub-all of and valuu land, raised, crops drainage. The owner of thie land on the subject Jn a have bearing says that tile pays for Itself every is consideration first the any locality year and that $200 expended on tito an outlet or channel by which the wahas raised tho value of tho 80 acres . ter may be carried away. Ia some $1,000. localities nature has provided such an s Is not, therefore, lost, even outlet In others, it may be necessary to later Introduce Intended Is It when bnnd togethfor several landowners to er and construct a channel, of suf- an underdrainage system. The Individual farmer with small ficient size and depth Mo serve as the main outlet of a network of ditches means should first select the area tho which will give relief during wet tiling of which will drain the most In a rolling years. In many parts of the state, land at the least expense. OBTAINING TRUE GRADE LINE BY GRADE LATH METHOD. where such outlets naturally exist "or country, where sufficient fall can he g The line of eight le five feet above the grade line and parallel to It By are already completed, crops have suf- had for outlets near the surface, or tho lath etakee at the cidea and lining up the crose lathe the grade fered from an excess of water In the without expensive open ditches, small la dug. Immediate vicinity, for the reason that tiles can be used around the sides of , may be fixed before the trench from the cultivated fields drainage areas outlettlng on a hillside ln the case of the state farm referred the water 11c may be justly held chargeable with or at the edge of a slough. This could not readily escape. Consequenttheir share in the cost of Improve- to; and the management feels that ly, for complete drainage. It Is neces- method often Improves large tracts at Imments, the facts do not Justify the In- they fully justify the cost of the sary to have, on the Individual farm, small cost, and as the Improved lands It the without should provement, considering state pay ference that the a thorough system for collecting the Increase In productiveness, funds will alL The correct Idea, ln raising funds value of the land reclaimed. to the be supplied by which the tile lines The planning of a drainage system water as it falls and carrying It for drainage works. Is that the acre can be extended, connected, and the main outlet more directly benefited Is the acre to should be done with the same carefulthe expensive mains finally put Jn. This is Unless the flat very ground ness that Is bestowed on other Immethod has been used In many of the pay the expense. can be drains location of proposed When a large building Is Is best tiled countries. In some instances determined the Many landowners will oppose a provements. when best ground to be constructed, an architect Is con A heavy It has been twenty years from the laydrainage Improvement for the reason all free from vegetableor growths. that the ditch will. In part, be located suited, plans are carefully drawn,mateweeds may cause ing of the first laterals to the complegrowth of crops on their land. They will do this, even the details are looked Into, and and high places tion of the last main. look to low high rial Is selected which will be suitable low. places In the face of the fact that from A field freshly plowed or sown Immediately after construction, pros of their land, for the locution, the climate and the Is ln the best condition for locating vision should be made for annual to A drainage Improvebecause It Is too wet, produces only purpose for which the building should lines of drainage. If such a field Is maintenance. Inabout half of what It should, In the be used. During Its construction, a heavy ment, properly carried out and mainafter examined Immediately see that the details are car ordinary year. They actually prefer spectors will be little danger of tained, will add its Inltlul cost to the rled out and the requirements of the rain, there a half crop loss of to stand the yearly a mistake ln locating the lines, value of the land and pay a dividend making specifications enforced, regardless of or more, rather than allow once marked out by a on the original Investment the fact that the contractor may be If these are at wet land of this to part to be occupied by a ditch which would losing money and cheaper materials enao thoroughly drain the whole tract might be used. .But ln drainage such evidences of care the that It could be cultivated up to the terprises, Ht. are too often pulnfully lucking, even banks of the ditch. te.92 be as cost or the though great greater The benefits accruing from drainage of a large building, ln are well Illustrated in the Improve-n- t than that S6 S 72.89 acres. many cases an engineer is employed of small a of farm, mej on a a route which drain - to stake out purchased by the state of Miubeen selected only because It Is nesota. Six hundred and fifteen dol- has supposed to be the best one. No lars were spent In draining this farm. examination Is made for another route The land had been bought ly the state or outlet; the area of the watershed riLYAk. . VtSPigg. As a result, the Is not measured. 80Roossize of the ditch Is determined by u mere guess. Time may develop the DIAGRAM OF A LINE OF LEVELS. fact that the best route was not selected, and that the ditch was too lnrge or too small, and consequently does BEAVER AN EXPERT WORKER poles, four or five feet long by an Inch or two thick. These they Iny not perform the work satisfactorily. A ditch, being Improperly located, either Little Animal Excela Lumber Jacks as crosswise, filling all crevices with mud. The heaver digs up mud with his does not drain all the land It should and Is a Prize fore feet, then holds it close to Ills pr It Is expensive to construct and Dam Builder. breast with his fore legs, swims to maintain. One that Is too large will not clean Itself properly; while one "The most expert lumber Jack Is In- where he has started tits dum, and, that Is too small will not carry re- ferior te the beaver as a He having deposited It In Its proper pluce, quired volume of water. cuts down trees In the most scientific beats the mud down with his puws not with his tall as has been believed." A drainage system, open or underway. He cun fell a tree so It will fall and works that It St Nicholas. by gravity, ground, toward the pond where he wishes to may removo the water there must be construct his home, thus saving hima sufficient fall; that Is, a sufficient self unnecessary work. Comparison. "Dr. Isaiah U. Scott, Methodist bishand continuous descent, from a level "After the trees are felled the consomewhat lower than the lowest point struction work begins. He works chief- op of Africa," said a Methodist divine, Map of a Tile Drainage System Used on the land to be drulned, to the point ly by night, for he Is a nocturnal prow- "collected ln Monrovia a great deni of In Wisconsin. where the water Is discharged from ler. The moon Is his lantern, the valuuble ethnological mutter. "Talking about cannibalism one day. for the specific purpose of cultiva- the outlet It Is a common practice to quiet of the night his Inspiration, his Scott declared: ditch from a a start Bishop cost 72.89 acres slough and $7,053.15. drainage bis hatchet The are tion. chisel, sharp teeth "Your cannibal Is not wicked. Ho Out of this area there was used for at practycally the sume depth as the and his little paws are his means of as you and I go to highway purposes, four acres; non- bottom of the slough. Such "drain- conveyance, tils spade, his hammer an t eats other people to church order not will as the Improvejiluiself give satisfaction, his trowet. His hard, tint, hutrless productive lnnd In sloughs, five acres; age will not be lowered, and and scaly tall is a propeller when for he has been taught that he will acten acres producing half a crop, equal ground-wate- r land, to five acres; or the bed of the slough will continue to swimming and a balance when he is quire the virtues the bravery, beauty, In what not of all those acres. This le swampy. For satisfactory draina total of 14 cutting timber, for he stands on bis wisdom and eats." must whom he be costthe dowto 59 of age, acres, deep hind legs while gnawing trees, left a tillable area in the lowest laud, and of sufBishop Scott chuckled. "The beaver Is a strict vegetarlnu ing the state $120.72 per acre. A sys- enough "A savage cannibal, he ended, "Is a to and breadth ficient the was depth, of Introduced, carry and his diet consists chiefly tem of underdraining barks, water without an overflow. chap alongside of a civilized of acres and five water shoots saintly The the tender which plants. by " like or backbiter. acres ten and the lie bark most which carpentry furnish the trees tlve land In sloughs, . In a in business Itself; and likes are the cottonwood, poplur, elm, which produced half a crop, are made masonry, Severs. Toe contracts satisfactory for results, to the boxelder. Tho and willow, birch, aspen equal In productive qualities Doctor-vYo- ur hushund needs some same area of the other tillable land. should be let ln similar nmnner. The hark of the ouk, ash and hickory he restore him. to as exercise shown ln his bidder's In Is thus area competence, not eat. does good cultivable The total Mrs. X Like playing golf? "To flood low ground, the beavers creased from 59 to G9 acres, The re- record In connection with similar unDoctor More violent than thnt. turn to the furm. then. Is $1,297.20. at dertakings, should be taken Into con' sometimes have to build a dam ex Mrs. X I have lfj I'll send him a emit of $015; or a net gnln of $082.20. slderatlon as well as the size of bis ceedlng 50 feet In length. They usual to make a few purchases at the down bhl. curve out acres with additional It the ten fuclng ly lay words Jn other Is In soil a Ditches of are at the built farm The foundation bargain counter during the rush hours.. usually dug frave been added to tho Aflrl-cultur- al cost of ouly $01.50 against $120.72 per ucre, paid for tlllublo lund and in the original purchnse. But tills added value of $082.20 does not represent all the benefits which have come to the farm from the Introduction of undurdralnnge. The disappearance of the sloughs, and of the superfluous water In other places, permits the division of the land Into regular, and therefore more easily .cultivated fields. Such Adds, having now uniform soil, can be cultivated In less time, and crop rotations can be arranged to better advantage, thun where the land Is broken up by areas. A dry, loose soli can be worked more easily than a wet, sticky soli. Furthermore, a field which ln some seasons Is productive, and In others by reason of excessive moisture, may be more detrimental to the farmers success than swamp lnnd ; for such lands are often plowed, planted, cultivated, and then the crop Is destroyed by an Influx of water; nonwhereby not only are they made productive, but labor and Beed are lost Drainage not ouly removes the risk of such losses but Improves the landscape by substituting broud, areas for such as are dotted with sloughs, breeding frogs and mos111 odors from quitoes and giving forth dead fish and decaying vegetation. It Is a first step In good and, as a permanent Improvement, It Increases the value of all neighboring lands, and benefits the entire com- luy-In- open-ditc- h non-cultiva- d one-thir- d one-hn- lf newly-boug- tile-drai- poorly-equippe- d fully-cultivat- ed e road-bulldln- r H"" face-drain- eet-tin- one-four- th three-fourth- one-fiftiet- h th H-t- . ;tly -- Tree-Felle- rs tree-felle- r. 111 non-tlllab- water-clmun- el , e |