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Show THE BUN. PEICE. PAGE EIGHT CONTRACT LET FOB BUILDING PLEASANT VALLEY DAM MOVING BAILROAD (Continued From m Pifi On.) part of thee goodly ure supplied ho embraced by previous irrigation and right. At Price th valley ojiena up and a couple of miles south of this city attains a width l'rum east to west of eight miles. It might be ! not only thia community, but our children and their children will look with approval on the foundations of property that you will ha va laid in an adequate water aupply. Agriculture Will Boon. Following up the legal and engineering ronclueiomt, the report also puts out e fine survey of the lands as crop producers. The soil is declared to tie of good quality for irrigated farms both physically end chemically. Wherever cultivated and irrigated abundant crops of the ordinary farm varieties have been raised. A considerable part of the laud has been proven to be well suited for truck gardening and fruit orchards. Alfalfa seed, potatoes, hay, wheat end oats are the croM that do remarkably well. Sugar beets so far have been raised only in small patches. Last year there were fifty trea. More will be put in this year. (In 1824 at tout eight hundred acres of sugar lieeta will be raised here.) Tets of this crop from various said that starting here the district covers imrtically a stretch of country eight by twelve miles. This takes its boundaries over into Kuiery county ftw something like three miles and from there it merges into lands under local irrigation systems. Starting from the spillway in Pish ('reek these waters must traverse the bed of the creek as far as Colton ierbais nine miles here to cuter the Price river for a ruu before touching the sections have conclusively demonfirst limits of the lauds covered by strated that the soil is well adapted the district at a sint a couple of for the industry. Exceptional oppormiles above llelier. However, most tunities are offered by the district for of tLe farms to reap a big benefit the handling of feeder cattle. The from these waters lie smith ot Price. adjacent coal mining canis are an Embraced in the Imundanes of the e,ver present market for large quantidistrict are some areas which already ties of produce and dairy goods, pracenjoy a full waler right under pre- tically all of which must at (ircscnt Five viously existing systems. Others have lie shipiied in from outside. fmrtiul ones varying from a amiill towns within the district present fracliou to almost full need. Still oth- about the same conditions. No dairy ers have at present no water at all. or poultry establishments of any conWith the oieration of the new system sequence now exist iu the district. in full awing all lauds in the district These iuterlying communities could tin which it ia laiasible to run water at consume most of the fruit, truck garall will receive a full allotment aa has den stuff, poultry and dairy products been already decreed to them iu ac- that could lie raised in the district. cordance with the owners' own re- Excellent railroad facilities supply quests and engineers estimates as to quick transNrtation for perishable the necessity of each iwrcel of land products that might have to seek an taken eieralely. No canals are fig- outside market. The project will open ured in the project since these in most excellent facilities for canning estabeases already exist. Figures to allow lishment and a sugar faetory. The how the liurden of payment will fall new railway contemplated to run on the landowners aa calculated by down into Emery county will rut the engineers show that fur each acre through a choice Mrtion of the lands foot of water allotted the cost will be right into the heart of the areas for the first year, eighty-fiv- e rents; which will likely develop into the sugfor the sixth veer, eighty-threfor ar licet section. the eleventh year, $2.07; 'for the fifteenth year, $1.77, and for the twenMalaya Build Homea on tieth year, $1.30. While storage rapacity of the reserPoata to Foil Tigera voir is rated at a hundred and sixteen An American who had seen service thousand feet, the actual water aa alabroad aa a consul tells of some inlotted must lie used as the basis for in the Orient The dwellings determining costs. The annual use of teresting water will lie just about sixty thous- ordinary Malay house Is built on posts and (actual allotment 61,787), thus from five to seven feet high, but sometime! measures add consider making the storage cost $12.50 for sble to safety the of the posts, this belength each eomiaring very favorably with other large projects in the ing particularly true of state, auch aa Piute, Sevier Bridge, districts. Strawberry, East Canyon Creek and 18As tigers have been known to leap feet from the ground, a lift of 'M others, in which the costa range from nine to sixteen dollars. No mainten- feet Is considered the safety limit fur prospective builders In such sections. ance rharga wil lie encountered e of the exjiense for operating dur- At best the Malay house Is a frail and ing the irrigation season to release the flimsy structure of sticks tied together amount of water as railed for from with rattan, thatched with palm leaves and walled with plaited bamboo or day to day. tree bark. It Is, therefore, sn easy Dirt Farmer Tails Story. matter fur a tiger to break Into a laving under the conditions of the house. Many tragedies, with a hungry past fire years without aid of the tiger as the villain, hive been recordwater from the eomnig supply, E. E. ed. In one esse a whole family, with Pierre recites experiences which are the exception of one man, was killed. undoubtedly typical of wlmt may be He climbed to the roof and thus riiected from the ocru;alion of these the notice of the tiger, but whs farms. It apiears that the elaiise of the horrified and helpless witness of time since the Isold election without the cruel sluughter of his relatives. any sale having been arranged has a belief that the directors Canine Intelligence were hesitant to go ahead with the fi"You run't ovcrestlmiile tlie Intellinancial oc ration, and in order to disof s declared Col. pel any idea that the landowneqi gence Telfair,dog," of Mountain View, Rulwould be put to an expense burden at his favorite hound beyond tlieir rapacity to meet, Pierce ing reminiscently In snapping feeiity at the pesputa in liis word to allow that no such enguged fears should lie entertained. Not writ- tiferous flies. When Towser was In Ids prime ha ten with any idea that the communication was to be published, it becomes had an uncanny wny of knowing In advet the more valuable as a real indi- vance the sort of game I was going to cation of the idea prevailing with the hunt For instance. If I left the house actual man on the ground. The Bun carrying a rifle Towser would dash for the woods and trail nothing but squirtakes pleasure in giving it to its rels. If I started out with a shotgun Towser would trail nothing but Thera aeema to be doubt In the minds of some people poealhly "One day I decided to pusxle the old Included ae to the ability of so I took down my fishing pole rascal, the lendownera In the Price Itlver Water Conservation district to pay tho and started to the river. It may sound bonded Indebtedness that will he Ingentlemen, but when I curred If the Pleasant Valley dam ia preposterous, built. As I understand the proposi- got to the edge of the yard I found tion It would mean a first mnrtRaae that denied dug scratching up fishing lien of from twenty to twenty-fiv- e worms for nisi" Judge. dollara an acre with Interest on that amount. The bonds to be retired in Scarce Article a twenty yesrs. Now. gentlemen. It will le easy. If you will have patience to At the club they were talking of follow me through 1 think T can prove genus and germ carriers. One memIt to you. I came to Price in March. 118. I ber maintained that kisses carried had about two thousand dollars In germs. Another considered paper money and aliont a hundred dollars money the chief offender. worth of household woods. Since that "Tuur opinions are merely vague time I have bought eighty acres of land of wiilrh seventy ere Irrigable. guesses," declared a third. "What Home of this was row end some parthave the scientists found out on the ly Improved. Alntut thirty-fiv- e acres I" In alfalfa. I paid from (SO to 802.60 subject Nolxxly knew. A college professor an acre with Interest of from 7 to 10 per cent on deferred payments for this drifted In and they called on him. ten-mil- e e; acre-foo- t, tlger-lnfeste- d out-aid- UTAH-EYE- BY FBIDAYL IDEAL AND THE V ACTUAL :: By H. IRVING KING 04 0 Xisetpat 0adical.) (t IMS. MsClan when said j that Gladys j Everybody Cuuimerford married she would marry j money. Why shouldnt they I Gladys j said so herself. So lure in a cottage for me," said Gladys. "I am quite sure uiy health woqjd suffer from a diet of bread and cheese and kisses." In fait, she regarded love as a very pretty conception of tlie poetic mind os something indispensable In the con-structlon of the plots of the novels she took out of the public library as an ' abstract proposition entirely delight- as a lor hut ful, working hypothesis murrluge entirely negligible, ller es-- : thimble pure uU were tilled with satis-laclion ut this display of commuu sense on the part of tlrtflr charming daughter, and looked forward with pleasurable anticipation to being supported in their old age by a dutiful in a style to which they had not been accustomed. Papa Cuuimerford felt that one pot- sessed of a daughter Imbued with such laudable ambitious should he given ev- ery facility and encouragement, and so j strained his financial resources in or- der that the exemplary young lady might mingle in that society in which wealthy young men of s marriageable age most abounded. And as Mamma Cummerford was an expert at designing frocks ot expensive appearance and j small cost, ss well as a person of great social tact, Gladys got along very well Indeed with every prospect of achieving her ideals. glia was sailing along with all soils set und colors flying toward the desired )wrt where tlie glided domes of opulence reared their shining heads beneath tlie sunlit skies of iierpetual prosjterlty, when something huppened horrifying to Gludys and perfectly appalling to her parents when they heard of It which they didn't until some time after their daughter liad mads her great and disastrous discovery. The prudent girl was hesitating as to whether she would marry Ralph Oraisby or Johnson Davenport, and her father was helping her to a decision by a secret but thorough Investigation of the relative financial resources of tlie two young men aforesaid when the catastrophe occurred. She could have either Ralph or Johnson there was no doubt about that and both young men were without any eeiwclally glaring vices, warranted sound and kind and easily broken to double harness. With regard to wealth, Pops Cununerford's Investigations showed them to be pretty evenly matched so evenly matched, in fact, that Gladys hesitated at making her choice. Had the monetary balance been decidedly on one side she could, of courne, have miule her choice at once. Rut things being as they were, ahe wus guilty of the weakness of consulting her personal preferences, or nt leust of pausing to ask herself If she hud any. And then she met Archie iHH : 1 J i j ; aun-ln-la- ! i I j j Welih. Spots-woo- d Distinctive Types In Summer Hats Original creations and copies from the' best foreign models make this display of Summer Hats truly a representative showing of distinctive types. That you will enAnd the prices will please joy seeing them w e are sure. reasonable. are extremely because they you Especially charming are Vacation lime Milliner'. these new Hats. You will sureely find one that will please (soft you. Bessie Kennedy, Millinery Main Street, Price, Utah. nnjutural alliance U Here was yet time. "Well, yes," replied Gla. s, "nrae-tlcally- . He aeked me If I thought I could be content to live In a smell house on s modest Income ss his wife, end I told him yes If thats what you mean. In the end Father and Mother Cummerford had to swallow their medicine, though they did so with wry faces, and Gladys and Archie were married and set up housekeeping In s very modest way, seemingly, and actually, very happy and contented with their lot. A year passed, and then one day Archie said: "Gladys, I have a confession to make to you. I have been deceiving you. "Archibald Webb P she cried, starting up. "Oh, I don't mean In that way I mean about my money." "Ah, that I Well, go on. Don't wake up tlie baby." "When 1 first met you, you told me frankly that when you married you would marry money." "I know It and then I foil In love with you nnd It was all off." "Hut. my dear, I wanted to test you, you see, to know that you married me for my self. As a matter of fact, I am a wealthy man. My Peruvian mines were s bonanza. Can you forgive me?" "Certainly I can returned Gladys calmly. But we mustn't be extravagant we must think of baby, you know, And so I did keep my word and marry money after all, didn't I She felt tliut something had d the first time site met him, but did not realise what It was. Then she began to suspect, and her suspicions caused tier great anxiety. No, no, she would not, could not have it so I But, struggle as she would, she at length became fully awsre of the fact that she was In love with him. Tills love which she bad so lung derided ss either a myth or a weakness had suddenly materialised Into living force rub-bit-s. which had revenged Itself for her forThe party out of power is generally mer neglect and scorn by taking en- the one most sensitive your-elvabout corruptire possession of her. She cessed tion in office. struggling and gave herself up to her fate, which fate she now came to consider a blessed one, nnd thanked her stars for the Indecision which bad saved her from accompli tilling what she bad been aiming at all her money and nut love. llow should site break the distressing news to her parents? She knew Just exactly how they would regard the mutter. They would regard a love marriage Just as she herself would have regarded It a short time before as a distressful exhibition of mental inilieclllty. Mustering all her resolution she took the plunge and told to Father and Mother Cummerford her direful tale. You can Imagine the exwhich followed. When tlie land, which you will notice la from "Ws were discussing germ carriers, plosion smoke had cleared sway and some two to three times the proposed bondWhat do tbs scientists ed Indebtedness. There Is a federal professor. fragments of coherence and calmness farm loan of a thousand dollars on have to say about kisses and paper had been gathered np from the wreck 7" part of this land at the present time. money so ss to make rational conversation Rash on hand and marketable eroim at Kinoes and paper money, ehT" Father Cummerford possible, will Just about balance present prices the professor. "The average to reason with his erring child. began this loan. Live stock, machinery. Ini echoed plementa and improvements I have scientist has had little .experience "Why, my dear Gladys, said he, out on the property Just about or a with either." in "Archie Webb Is the son of old Zenus little better than Iwlance the cash I Webb, who went bankrupt twenty had when I came to Price in 1918. Knew Her Dad Now. here la the point I wish to make yean ago. He left Archie nothing clear A small child was having her first not a penny and from all accounts Thia land has paid two or thiec times the proposed bonded inilelc.el-nea- a ride In a subway train. Suddenly the the young man has been a sort of In five years. Of course part of train passed over a switch and ths rolling atone ever since. He Is some the time I received war prices for my lights went out fur a moment sort of s mining engineer, I believe, prod nee, but the last two years have When they went up again, the little end has been knocking about the been lean enough for the most pessimistic. The land has produced more girl said: "Did you do that daddy!" world here and there only Just reDaddy denied It. turned to this country after a ten than this statement sets forth as there time has been Inevitable losses. For exam"Well," replied his small daughter, yean' absence, and doesn't appear to I second lost all the one crop year ple it's Juat tlie sort of thing you would have brought back any wealth with of hay on thirty acres and other losses do." him." which wontd only be tedious to mention. Another tmportsnt point Is that Oh, yea, I know, replied Gladys. this land has done this with present Hit "He says he Is poor, and everybody Reputation I Therefore Inadequate water supply.water to believe him. Rut that hat seems said tlie and you Prisoner," a magistrate, claim that given full right proposhave already been sentenced II times nothing to do with the case." twenty yearn time to payla thia a snnp. ed bonded Indebtedness for vagrancy, violent assault embes-- , "Hasn't, ehT cried Mamma CumNow, T hope you will understand the element, theft and so on. merford. "If it hasn't 1 should like motive that has prompted this letter. "Would you mind not sjieaking so to know whnt has. How fnr has this In It la by no meana boastfulness. I closing I wish to make a plea that you loud, your worship?" was tlie reply, thing gone? 11ns he proposed yet?" as directors of this district proceed j "My Intended father-in-laIs In court Mamma Cuminerfurd was Infused with boldly, having faith in yourselves and and you might my damage prospects. grim determination to break off this this community. Then I am sure that hap-Iene- r es South Sea lalanda Not aa Romantic aa Pictured Rhapsodlsts wko have been tantalizworld with ing a weary work-a-da- y Impassioned descriptions of the South Sea Islet as sn earthly elyslum, where toll Is unknown, the girls superlatively beautiful, tlie ten commandments unknown and where hibiscus blossoms auffles for feminine adornment, will henceforth have to tap other sources for Inspiration. scientific explorers have bubble burst the pretty mlnbow-liue- d breathed Into the dreams of such romancers as Pierre Loti, Frederick O'Brien and Lord Byron, says the Japan Advertiser. The last named wus one of the jdoneers In exploiting these fulry Isles. Ills poem, "The Island," sent thousands of credulous mortals seeking the Nirvana wliich he described as the home of Neulio, the belle of Ms masterpiece : font firHfuln.M of wife Rlt In th-IS.- South Bn girl w.a nil n wlf. Cold-bloode- d hr With no dlnirnctlng world to cnll Frym love; with no .nel.ty lo moK At th. bw tranlrnt Same Lord Byron, by the way, never ited those enchanted Islands. OS vis- School in Cattle Bruhl custle, a famous edifice formerly the country seat ot the archbishop of Cologne, Is to be occupied by several score of students attending a summer school arranged by the International Federation of Trade Unions. The students will come from all over Euro and will listen to lectures In German, French and English by leading luboritea on various phases of tbs labor educational movement - "Go Wett, Young Mml Although this famous cxpnsli Hones (hi generally credited to editor of the New York Triton t first used by John L. Souls hM the Terre Haute Express. Lttal editorial entitled "Hints Ton form" Greeley used the srsfq West young man, and grow q the country." After tbs nytq gained a wide circulation ml popularity as coming fra he himself reprinted the irtldi the Terre Haute Express anl that he was not tbs author ( to Proty Speahert Sfapyai The hitherto helpless prey ot I dinner speakers has found i vcqi Miniature tnffle to defense, modeled after tlie famous oss Fifth avenue, are being used os to ers tables In New York to art flow of oratory that begins it cigars are lighted and the wittm tire. Amber and green light! ww N speakers that their time li Is dfto red a while light expire, a full stop. Japan1 1 Forett Land Although Japan has a total p tlon of about 62,000,000 la w the slse ot the atate of Cal Honk thirds ot the total area of tto Is forest land containing 14W 000 feet of standing tlmber-s- bo ot tbs estimated timber supply United States today. Japu practicing forestry for (00 y Is one of the recognised the country. That s What I Call Good Lumber w0' at 9r.,aying a new one, take the enals. It may'save you both mofl J. C. WEETER LUMBER COMPANY Wes, Main Street HARDWARE i per ci fitt lest f Uh Tl lent Ifo I mm tv Uv tii ltd 1 Ine) lrffe ntt ebs a life-mar- rying to insrect our n "f!!!d ey and trouble. a Ithe presalon. ' grades are aways the chea.Pj est ethHongPrun ' tikes much extra labor to anything with inferior stuff! The complete job always gives so much too greater satisfaction, w a Price, Uh IWi lYi |