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Show TTT 1 lUs h (w Si 5 s one rk VEETISma SATES rates display adverting cent aa inch per issue "f7,lr inch by the monthIour Tran- tU : (o loeel advertisers. ' SJrTsi)) cents an inch per. issue, o per cent additional. No the tf ..rtwinp accepted Cor First pace readers rPJL, BROUGHT nu ity-flv- e ,MetI5 ceB p,r ,n6 tails of seven fti in stock. yt The Sun. Volume 8, Number 13 AN INDEPENDENT KsiucniiEnD rand r denomina-CWPS- 1 ia- - ffiOfc A FEDERAL BUILDING ID PRICf? g ap-itst- ly m y, nuiuli-cappin- r Pt ce . liul S .'ally, scats K 1 :1a )' ,iiv,nieii. m.lirsld . '' I chopiel . ; ) DOINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND NLWS ABOUT WRECK Carbon County League Ia City,.Colo., late likely To lastHurrying -. toJ. Canon went to the bedweek, Lloyd Function This Season. side of his brother. Jack IJoyd, who was suffering from injuries received activity has been in ev- in an automobile accident at that place ,,iderable idence already looking to a season of Wednesday of last week. Blinded by baseball for the Carbon county league bright lights, in meeting another car, this year. Lsically the team as constiLloyd missed a bridge crossing a dry tuted last year i almost intact. ditch, and the ensuing spill resulted in will be here, and a pitching staff must be picked ux Harold Leonard ia severely injuring him, his buek being at the managerial helm, and will re- broken. It is feared that h:t injuries ceive the able assistance of Boss "W. will prove fstal. The father of the Shiner. Financial affairs of the or- two Lloyds passed through Priee Sunnight on his way to his home in ganization this year will be sujiervised day Canon City from California, where he by the Priee Chamber of Commerce, visiting at the time of the accident J .Hex Miller being tlie actual offici- was to his son. ating lower. The ball park will need little straightening up, and arrangements have already been made to have will be with the team this year. While this work done. Some new screens for no actual steps toward organizing a the grandstand, with other minor re- county league has so far been taken, pairs, will lie attended to, and the other teams throughout the county are grounds will be put in good order. A organizing, and no difficulty ia antie-ijmte- d new set of uniforms has been ordered, as to a sufficient number of due to arrive any day. Equipment teams to affect a league. Sunnyside is needed will be on hand early. First organized. Castle Gate also is ready, practice was started by the locals last and gives in a list of players they have Sunday. The grounds were no in any to pick from the old familiars, Lott, shape for a workout, so the boys had Jacobahagan, Jones, Evans, ltudeen, to hunt up dry spots on the streets and Dugan, Burridge, Harrison, Watson, try out their throwing arms and their Huff, the two Aeords and Lake. Joretrieving eyes and legs. The actual seph Parmley is their business manand tentative list of players at pres- ager, L. E. A cord aeeretary and Harry ent available for the team is given as Lott the playing manager. Reid Pace, Bracken Lee, Lew Evans, Mohrland and Hiawatha are iu the Allen (Brownie) Brown, Bean Wilson, throes of organization. A meeting was Skinny Wilson, Levi Pike, Erin Leon- arranged for last night at which the ard and Jack Leonard. One or two Kingcoalers were to have gotten toothers are likely to be added to this gether. Nothing ran be given out defaggregation. initely at this time. Price ran take care of one nr two Helper did not have a team in the good men who ean pitch ball. Any such who may have their attention league last year and The Times of that brought to this condition are request- eity ia urging the boyi up there to ored to write to the management here. ganize and get into the league, comNone of the previous pitching staff plaining that the quality of baseball dished up for the ritizeni there last year suffered because of failure to get Jones at the council meeting last Tues- in the county organization. Price local management announces day evening appointed a delegate to the three main civic bodies of the eity that a big ojiening day will be staged even eclipsing all former efforts. the Chamber of Commerre, the Hiawatha does not rewrt any activand the Rotary club. The desired outcome from this action is that ity. Tbia does not mean that there will s joint committee may get in motion be no team there this year, but simply on the proposition and start a move to that they have not yet broken from present the claims of this locality for their hibernating shell. a federal building to the government Jerry Fitch, who worked in the Inv agencies through whirh results must for Price last season is hack in his old come. Possibly by getting all three 'f haunts down in Imjierial Valley, Coin. Mohrland will quite likely have to these organizations in line the matter will be kept awake long enough to struggle along without Kilhurn in the reach the desired consumatidn. let box this year. He is hack on his old every eitiyen put a little punch in the job at Magna, with the Utah CopKr ake up: movement coinjiany. MUNICIPAL ACTIVITIES IN GENERAL 1- for a government strue- - quarters. Then, too, the pres .tit lease local postoffice may will expire during the year, ami it is their bouse to jHrribed as civic pride in getting likely that future arrangements for of the room will beeome more and nmie aething to add to the appearance difficult. . kome town, together with the idea is fellow . other the Another Minor Nfcd. getting u be well uething for nothing it might Another crying although not the hh. ts finger in the pie. Coupled with greatest need for such a building is need of the of any encountered by all persons fhiu rthii, is course, having busnbm. for a room in which to conduct iness with the a deputy revenue collector co Here in Price business. established with headquarters for this postoffice sctnal crying need for a federal district in Price. At present far overhang any question in the county eomfiissionerg officing room at unci jdiog !iiiing something to the eity, of the courthouse, this official uses s desk e nn .Wring all that may be in eight, of which is chucked into one corner of the r jealousy over what the neighbors place. Should business take you your P jkj hive or even of the satisfaction there at such s time as the county offibut getting recognition from the gov-r- nt cials might be in session, or some other in any such form. Despite meeting being held in the room and which had' reach-th- e the lack of other facilities ner movements is such that util stage where both of Utah a na-- this happens frequently the collector ike to bills has no dace in which to receive senators you, r ippropriations to build a govern-ii- t and if your business is urgent yon is there in Price structure ulafc might have to stand out on the front no realization among the eit-steps in the storm to accomplish its in general aa to the real aetual transaction. This office is maintained 4 for the consummation of the pro-- !. here the 'round. It ia headquaryear Price lays quiescent, despite the ters for a zone comprising twenty-fiv- e Itiplieity of club organizations such thousand square miles almost a third iseomplish results in other towns of the area of the state of Utah. Inso far away, and we see Spanish cluded in its boundaries are the counEureka, Vernal, Brigham City ties of Uintah, Duchesne, Carbon, Lit-erGrand and San Juan. With only iuny other Utah communities get-- f a federal building, not one of a roll top for an office the local irk places lias anything like the use official has no storage room fur a supucd for such conveniences as has ply of the required blanks, awl ia obft Believing that public interest liged to lay them in stock in extremeujthing must be at an enthusiastic ly limited lots. The result of this conrh si a starter or pusher for any dition is that the business of his office resent, Tlie Sun will eideavor to is often held up awaiting s new nt s few of the pressing reasons ply ofome missing form. Closely alrthii city should make sn unre-rin- g lied to the needs of the revenue colleceffort and why the federal tor is the lark of an office for the summit should promptly respond United States commissioner. All that :ha demands of the community for has been said of the one may be apnibble house for the government plied to the other. A federal building utnents operating in Price. g in frice would remedy : U these carelessly, or without reali- difficulties. Then, again, Price of what was lief ore them, a re-- i: is a naturafmiter for all Kastrn and RMing of Price Chninbcr of Southeastern Utah, from which disJwee turned a colJ shoulder on a trict the forest rangers must tra'vl JaHnu l ooking to placing the or long distances every year to hold their istion la'liind this movement, the conferences generally to Provo or to wd icntiiitent being declared lost Ogden. With a federal building in lick of a seconding voice w l.en our would result I'rice much conve.-iiencpostmaster, J. W. Maclvnight of-d- it to all concerned. at the recent meeting in which Star Route Paramount (kimber of Commerce cLiplintical-'ote- d The paramount ncel, the one ufect-in- g to continue their activities in the largest number of jieoplo and 4 everything that wonll be to the 'best interests. That this cuuld a Kipulation scattered over the whole I certainly indicutes ttiat the of Eastern Utah, the almost absolute k of many must not ha mtircly necessity for a federal building here in if the requirement of the big to this nuibt paramount need of Price, district for not only Price city, government operated star route delivdistricts the whole country from Vernal to ering mail to the outlying is r.filiy interested in getting north, south and east of Price. Beyond tractors to the ability of private sirctuie n 1ric- of this service, the for care exigencies Not Our Greatest Need. the United States ostoffiee departservphough the local jxistoffice is iu ment has established the largest 7 distress for lack of room or oou- - ice of this kind in the whole world tor carrying on their daily with its ofierating .jenter at Price. in the cramped store room Serving the territory aa far as Vernal p In is a hundred and twenty miles to the tlejr preseut location, and ia milea wulh-war- d, phoned first because brought more north, to Emery, sixty and Sunnyside, nearly tbuy notiee of tho public, this is not .oat crying need for a federal miles east, this utility handles a stagfog- - A summary of (he difficul-- 1 gering quantity of mail. With very this branch will disclose that limited facilities for trsnsportati n wee is working in such cramped otherwise than the postal route these Ptas as to seriously interfere with outlying communities use the parcel I efficiency, and at the same time post for the bringing in of everything is owned png much extra work by handling imaginable. A largeat garage a small 'T Price, Pwd up mail over and over some by the government strucEvery Monday morning, cud one at Duchesne, while similar A siints. other at leased r7 times through the week finds tures are !l to bring in mail and exstacked up car siieeial to valla the against every evening, bedisadvantage of the liand- - press reaches Price unloaded during mid nd of course, to the public na ing set out here with a temporary set of fixtures the next day. With this service and I: s must always be installed in a the large amount of mail unloaded mail cars, it is necJoifice located in such a building from the through route upenton to star the not anything like the convni-"hic- h essary for mail at the could be arranged in a handle six or eight tons of in each segregating day T'y shaped and permanent room local garage routes. All the delivery, money order and and loading for the proper wp departments. Overflow mail en- - this work should be done at the post-offiinstead of at the gsrage. hut ?n the other activities end conditions at the local office "'Hilly interferes with the crowded daily op The business of the local make this imjswMble. At tlie present we has grown until it ia far writing there is piled up in the Kurage tons of parcel the stage where any commercial aliout fortyaccumulated because of bad loom is has which adequate for its housing, This mail is the lobby of the postoffice roads out on the routes. but the jiossible, he for the convenience of the given the best care for nail place not a is proper 'accessible at all hours. With garage from the hrnlt up fixtures as are pro--a storage. Smoke and fumes and the of place, m ojicrations tcmjKirary quarters there is routine o dirt naturally and dust uequate protection to the office more or less to tend a such place, u Present valuable and in large lie expected of the mail undecontents. The auount of make Mich handling ndled by Price postoffice sirable. With a properly equipped building all these objectionable ll-si'Il ! amlle justification for would disappear. Tliegarag features are nl K hnililing. Parcels iw then have more room for its 'rice patrons to the extent lnj.4 7L V-'i"'1,.1- 1.' this b ing delivery ilehe jJ- Mailed out from Price w'hes 28,406. Total weight batter runs to two hundred !.w tons, nr a'amt ihir-rel pounds daily. Money r-. i handled paying nnd re- about li third if a Rant i?. 7 ro?" postal receipts EV .o eighteen thousand dollars. arru,r serviee ' lees ertaldibed . 'Vrl" i t;s lirrrr!" ore of great advantage bv 'Cd !Tvt'. ;i 'it inns Vcluaf'd W- - " f tl'.H cuTtiiiMiti.re a:! this article. Mayor of Dc-isdl- y, NEWSPAPER AUTOMOBILE houM-cats- them off with a hatchet, he remarkWeek Ending March 81, 1923 ed with some pride. The teacher then fainted. BASEBALL IS AWAKENING PRICE MANS BROTHER HURT IN tlie spirit which handling the mail for these hoys ean gond question to seek an he arranged in the present crowded communities jnost t e HUNTINGTON, W. Vs., March 18. Go out and get some cattails, a teacher at Ensign school here instructed studeuta in a botany class Thurslad, whose name is day. A withheld, turned up with the bloody ja ITbooks of several : IN THE TAILS Lis-onb- Regular session of Trice city Tuesday night was another engthy meeting. The heaviest piece of work handled was the new plumbing ordinance, and the work of passing this document earned the session well iast midnight. This ordinance has keen ending through several regular and at least one secial session, and is in its final form a complete rode for the installation and regulation of plumbing fixtures and the control of their use through duly appointed city agents, t is the Lougest ordinance on the eity lawks, and due consideration of its provisions has been a real task for the mayor, the council, the city attorney and the water sueriiilendent. Its fuil text appears on another age of this issue of The Sun. Another little ordinance really an amendment to an old Cnun-l.'i- measure waa st teased thoough w'hirh the tax on doga ia made four dollars or two according to the sex of tlie animal. Beginning April 1st there will le a strenuous effort made to collect this tax, and it is expected to rid thf town of quite a few strays which will not be claimed. Pipeline Changes Coming. Considerable work wil be done along the eity waterline through Price Canyon during this spring and summer. Superintendent J. W. Plant estimates that ha will have a dozen men at work while placing the h castiron ipe at the river crossing just below Castle Gate town. The job will take about five or six weeks. Then further work in putting in the Armco iron pipe along the ujqier stretches of the line where some of the tile line now is becoming unsettled will be Jaken up with a somewhat smaller erew. Plant will oierafe a month or two bn these changes. Aa this work is all rather remote from suitable hoarding plaes, the city will establish a camp which can be moved, from place to (dace t ornamental .lights will be on stand- ard, with the wiring underground. All this work is U'ing pushed so as to clear Main street and get the installations in to avoid interference ilh any possible developments thut uiay couia up in connection with tha be comjvaviug should arrangement pleted fur bringing the eoucrete into the eity when the work starts on tha lighway between Price and Castle lii V . late. Dalton Wants Rodeo. Proimsing to again put on a two day rodeo relebratum at the July 'ourth holiday time, B. W. Dalton apiwared before tlie council with an oiler to oierate along similar liuca to the one conducted last year. In return or the granting of all concessions and irivilcges at tlie grounds and ark the whole )altou offers to rat thing without any exjiraiso to the There seems to he un idea that ity. it u up to the eity rouncil to see that a reliibral'ou is promulgated, and it also apears tiiat no confidence i elt that ex tense could lie made if tha city government itself got behind tlie qf-working arrsngeumt. tiy some like Dalton's is looked upon as A ife saver. However some of these new city dade would like to give eouie-on- e else a ehauee Jo get in ton this thing, aa there lias lieen more nr less i P. j- l is' er said ulmut turniuj the occasion over every year to the same promoter, who so far is the only one with nerve enough to offer a real self financing celebration. So the matter goes over until the next council meet. If the baseball club, the Boy Scouts, the Campfire Girls, the Chsmter of Commerce, the Rotary or Kiwauia, the Mutual Improvement association or the unconsolidated aggregation of curb liners wants to carry on a celebration, let them ajqiear boor the council on the first Tuesday in April and they will be heard. Some larilitate the efficient handling of ajqilications for concessiau at the these replacements. An outfit was ee ark have already been placed, evicured from T. P. Lamona at a eost of dently with the idea that somebody a hundred and forty dollars whirh will not named ie to eumluct a cekbnd ion lie suitable for the job. not at the exiemie of the Tlie castiron pi to 1m used in the which will put a crowd up ine changes will lie unloaded and dis- there to atronize their sales booths. tributed through an arrangement enWant Sewer District tered into with T. P. Lainons. Sixty-threDr. W. Winters appeared aa A joints, each weighing a thousand of jieople owning prop- representative pounds are in the lot. Lemons gets fifty-fiv- e dollars for the work. Plac- erty abutting along the north side of J street west of Tenth street They ing of the new fire hydrants which ask that their locality be made a sevbeen STILL COAL PRODUCTION BUI about hand on a lave u yearSLOWLY, er a line to he construetcd district, The over the city. proceeding requirstreet and leading down J along ed excavating develops that much of Tenth street to a junction with the steel laid the mains for pipe years ago ONLY LITTLE OYER HALF CAPACITY sewer line on Main. While a district particularly right along Main street has deteriorated to such an extent may be formed on petition of the ownof a third of the affected frontage that it must be replaced before any ers The Bun Special Service. it will require the protest from the Castiron be is laid. will and 20. and coal has been pipe paving March exports, WASHINGTON, D. C, flowing of two-thirof the front into storage. Until the next report on rat down where necessary. The world ownership Production of soft coal passed the to The the improvement. age stop mark during the week end- stocks is issued, it will not be known is not yet old enough to determine the ver and Rio Grande Western railway final limit on the life of this of with type certainty what the present level ed March 11th. The output ia placed ia the owner of property faeing along at 11,058,000 net tons, an increase of of stocks is, but it would probably re- piping when used for water mains. the entire length or tha proposed line The new hydrants are a much better 505,000 tons over the week preceding. quire putting another seven million both on J and Tenth streets, but The present course of production is tons into storage to raise consumers' type than the old ones. A shutoff the petition ia signed, it is claimed, by valve is being installed ahead of each strangely like that in late September reserves to the level reached at the fire frontage to acquire jurisdicplug, so that any needed repairs enough and October, when consumers were dose of the war . In reckoning up retion for the much needed improvement serves it must be remembered that con- may be made without shutting off the even purchasing in anticipation of a possishould tha railway people object. the water mains. ' from drain A sumers stocks can not be allowed to supply ble railroad strike. A further increase the sewer will also be provided to Cost of such improvement under the of 2,000,000 tons s week would be nec- fall to zero, because a certain amount to would have to be borne ia necessary to even np irregularities avoid danger of freezing from waste proposed plan and the big corporaessary, however, to raise the current the by property, when water the off be- in receipts from day to day. Tims shutting hydrants tion manner be mulcted of this in output to the level attained just may in winter.- All water connections made fore the mine strike of 1919. Produc- when storks fell to 20,000,000 tons ii a considerable proportion of the to new customers are installs now. tion is now much above consumption, June, 1920, the market waa highly unexpense. The legal procedure with meters. This ia an approach to and the excess is largely being accom- settled. to start the work will 1m taken, the waideal custhe where condition Preevery modated in storage by consumers. Operating Conditions. tomer would be served by measure ter committee being instructed to preliminary telegraphic returns indicate In contrast with bituminous pare the data for presentation at the coal, service. that on Monday and Tuesday of the anthracite is stored by the producers. councils next meeting. A petition for Eleectric Lines Rebuilding. present week (March 13th to 18th) No data have been published by the improvements to sidewalks up along loadings were 3fi,3tlA and 35,150 cars, producers since November 1st, at wjiir-Work has been begun in earnest on North Ninth street was referred to the respectively. The total for the two time 4.500,000 gross tons were on hand, the new electric lines. All poles are to street committee to develop whethr days 71,4o0 ears exceeded that on of which 40 er cent was domestic be taken from Main Rtrect. A line wil' the e1i tinners desired a sidewalk disthe corresponding days of the week sizes. ' On be run along in the center of the block trict for the construction of a new January 1st there were behind the bniblings on each side of walk or whether it was ildsired that a preceding by about 1,101 ears, indicatnet tons on the Lake Upper ing s further increase in production. Docks. Retail dealers on the same date this street, starting at the rear of the little work be dune to make lictter footUtah mines report a little more than had a Wee ter Lumber HmMiny on the north ing at siunll expense. supply sufficient for forty-fou- r 50 per cent of fulltime. the customers were call side and running up past City Hal rate at days Judge George Christensen, city atLoadings of anthracite reported by ing for coal in December. How much and a block or so farther east. Anoth torney, went up to Salt Lake City on the nine principal carriers continue to consumers themselves had in er line on the south side will start to arrange with the attorWednesday March ended week increase. In the the rear of the Savoy Hotel and run neys for Lyman and Pack looking to hot is is believe but it known, 11th a total of 37,903 ears was origiabout an far east as will the line on the transference of (heir lawsuit with by the trade to be less than normal nated. an increase over the week pre- factor of north side. Entirely new materia! I'rice city. This is the action in which the acis heavy thj importance cent. It will be put in the sections on both of it is sought to make the city ceding of 1,414 cars, or 4 er domestic cumulation of coke at pay a by these lines is estimated that the total production, from Ninth street to Sixth. goodly sum claimed to be due for encoke ovens. product and including mine fuel, local sales, In spite of the steadily increasing Poles, wires, transformers, all will be gineering services at the time of the the product of dredges and washeries, and will be put up before disturb building of Colton Springs waterline. production, the mine reports reveal no new,the was aliout 1,982,000 net tons. present lines serving the cus Through some bobble made last year ing significant transmrtation disability. tomers from Stocks and Consumption. the front. The new lines Price city lost the Tight to ask for a The railroads have everywhere Iwcn With rare exceptions, bituminous able to handle the coal offer J for nnd apparatus will lie of double the transfer of the ease to Carbon county., coal is not stored at the mine in the shipment, except iu the mountain dis- capacity of the present installation. In but the Salt Lakers are willing to comUnited States, and the consumers' re- tricts of Colorado, where tLcir task fact, with the release of the materia promise and carry on the action in serve against a possible interruption has been increased by severe weather. now serving the district to be covere Provo. Quite a few of this eity 'a forthe new lineR, it will be possible to mer officials and others are thus lik to supply consists of the coal in tran- The average loss ascribed to ear by make the lines all over the eity sit and the coal in storage at the point shortage, in the week of Mir;i ly to get- - a trip to Provo along about of consumption. Coal in transit in- was only 1.2 per cent of capacity. Tlie twice the caparity now in service. June, with all expenses paid which cludes the coal in cars which like ma- only strike of significance was the one Poles are now being set for the new will be niee. The city marshal, making advance terial in process at a factory can not in Kansas, which began on September lines. In the final arrangement (here will be no distribution lines on any ol: be completely withdrawn and that 30th. About a sixth of the rapacity for taking care of any preparations stored at intermediate mints, such as porting from the state remained clown the streets. Ilisrh tension lines are to rough elements that may float in with the Uper Lake Docks. The chief pro- by the Btrike. The dominant factor run down Ninth, Seventh and Fifth crowds attending the midsummer celstreets, with feeders branching to the ebrations, asks that the city lay in a tection of the consumers is the qu limiting production remains lack renters of the intervening blocks, from shpply of handcuffs, chain twisters, a which they as s class hold in stor- demand, which caused an average loss where the the date covered distribution to rustoinera gun or two, badges for extra jmiI iccmcn age. On January 1st, 35.6 per eent. of will lie made. Lighting on the streets and other needed wrsphomalia. About bv the latest government report, the Production of beehive coke contin quantity on the Lake Docks (classed nes to increase. From the shipments carrying no pole lines will be accom- eighty dollars worth of such materials tons. n was 7,200,000 by service wires, similarly to will 1m purchased. as in transit) carriers it plished originated by the of a customer. manner the the same date consumers bad 47,800,-irfl- ft ia estimated that principal the total output in Ou Main street supplying and on part of Eighth What 1ms become of the in sira?e. Since January 1st street the white way will be put in. has exceeded consumption sewing club that actually sewed? (Continued on page (.) CMC 4 sub-surfa- ten-inc- If n I- j tf! 'A A S. ?4 I. -- ds d lit. u: I. 1 ! 4 n h. nee-eme- ry p; 1 h the'--rellar- 1- ..t ft s (! ti li iF .A Ci iv ; ii in-ti- tv t. |