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Show TRU T H. will not be so much heard of in politics on Monday with a dividend of $4,000 or 1 cent a share on its capital stock. as formerly. ' ft ft Bill Glassman, it is said, proposes to make public the announcement of his candidacy for Congress in his paper about April 1, and to take advantage of the opportunity presented to state that by the terms of an agreement made when the legislature was in session, he is the logical candidate and entitled to the support of the party. Bill is going to have a hard row to hoe. If Booth is properly bathed and groomed he will come up outof Utah county with a mess of delegates, while Livingston is working the sheep herders down south for all he is worth. Then, too, a whole lot of people want George Sutherland : re-elect- and, taking it all in all, the Ogden man is up against the real thing in the fight. ft ft Mort G. Taylor is an applicant for a ft ft Speaking of the Thunder mountain district, Joseph H. Hutchinson, superintendent of the Trade Dollar mine at Silver City says: Thunder Mountain embraces more than 100 square miles of mineral-bearin- g territory, and as several mountains are included within its scope, I expect to see at least a dozen different camps established during the year. The early birds are already congregating at the various starting points, and nothing can stem the tide that will commence rolling that way during the next few weeks. ft ft a stockholders meeting of the At Mammoth Hill Mining company, held at Provo on Monday the following directors were elected: C. E. Loose, Peter Stubbs, I. S. Jones, J. C. Graham and W. H. Freshwater. The directors organized with Peter Stubb, president; C. E. Loose, vice president, and E. L. Jones, secretary and treasurer. ft ft- The Sunshine mill has been put in operation and is said to be working position in the Revenue Department with station on the Mexican border. He has the endorsement of the state and county Republican organization, and that of Senator Kearns and Perry Heath. So it is very likely he will se- very satisfactorily. cure the place. Taylor is at present ft ft employed as solicitor and collector for Another payment of $15,000 has been the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone made on the purchase price of the O. Co. K. mine at Milford. ft ft ft ft It is said that the county Republican The Park Valley Exploration comorganization is making an effort to se- pany of Ogden filed a certified copy of cure another place for Peter Johnson, its articles of incorporation in the office the Danish statesman. The county or- of the Secretary of State on Monday. ganization knows a good thing when it sees it, and there is much at stake this The company is .capitalized for $50,000, divided into shares of the par value of fall and Johnson is needed. 10 cents each. The officers are: R. F. MINING COMMENT. Hunter, president; C. F. Whipple, and O. A. Moyer, secretary treasurer. and company owns the The Mayflower Mining company ha9 Luck Strike Nos.The 1 and 2, Autumn Leaf let a contract for a 100 foot drift from Nos. 1 and 2, Pine Nut Nos. 1 and 2, the bottom of the incline. In the Veta Grange Nos. 1 and 2, Sunflower, course of the drift the management Mugwump, Roxy B. and Wild Indian at claims, in the Park valley district, Box expects the vein will be encountered a depth of 250 feet below the old work- Elder county. ft ft ings. Daly-WeThe Mining company deft ft A twenty foot vein of copper ore as- clared a dividend of 40 cents a share or on Wednesday. saying $100 to the ton, is reported in $60,000 ft ft the property of W. F. and J. N. Butt, The Sioux and Utah group of claims near Simpson Springs. at Tintic have been sold to A. J. Unft ft Very encouraging reports come from derwood, for $175,000. The money is and the deeds the Lucky Swede in the Boulder dis- to be paid in six inmontns escrow in Walkers been put trict. The incline is down 70 feet and have bank. a contract has been let to sink it 100 ft ft feet further. of the Old Colony stockholders The ft ft & Eureka Mining company held their The shaft in the Savannic in Arizona annual meeting on Wednesday and is down 200 feet in the vein with a large elected the following officers: P. A. amount of ore in sight. H. Franklin, president; Oliver ft ft L. A. Amsden, The Mammoth mill at Tintic, has W. C. Johnson, treasurer. been shut down temporarily for repairs, secretary; G. H. with Twomey, form the These, ft ft directors. of board is Dusseldorf ft ft sanguine very Manager of immense an time Articles short incorporation of the New that in a very body of ore will be uncovered in the York Gold Mining company, with a the Comstock of Park City. capitalization of 150,000 shares of the ft ft par value of 25 cents per share, were The stockholders of the Bullion Beck filed on Wednesday. The officers are Fred L. Mining company held their annual George A. Land, president; Edward L. Hall, the Davis, meetidg on Monday, and and secretary, and these with treasurer of W. old officers with the exception James Campbell and Sheldon C. Land, F. Snyder who retired from the direc- are directors. The company owns torate and whose place on the board three mining claims at Tonopah, Nev. ft ft was taken by J. A. Cunningham. The The Venus Gold Mining company, officers are P. T. Farnsworth, presiof 500,000 shares a with dent; Joseph F. Smith, vice president, of the capitalization par value of $1 each, has filed and treasurer; M. C. Morris, secretary; of ircorporation with the articles who with A. S. Hyde, P. T. Farnsworth The officers are: John clerk. county Jr., H. C. Lund and J. A. Cunningham F. Hittle, president; W. L. Scott, form the directorate. C. T. Candish, secretary and ft ft j and these with R. L. Wolf, treasurer The Yankee Con. company declared William H. Smith, A. Palm and A. W. a dividend of $25,000 or 5 cents a share Boyer, form the directory. The company owns the Goodwin, Pioneer and on Monday. Volunteer lode mining claims in the ft ft Stateline district, in Iron county. The May Day also came to the front . . vice-preside- nt, st - Hey-woo- d, vice-preside- re-elect- ed vice-preside- nt: nt; vice-presid- ent; BOARD OF EDUCATION FINANCES. DEATH OF W. T. DINWOODEY. There is something seriously wrong with the Board of Education of this of it. city, or at least with a majority For the past two years the cry came up in the spring time that the schools would have to be closed a month or six weeks before the expiration of the regular school year period, because the Board did not have funds to carry on for the full term, and now a similar condition confronts the public this year. It is stated the Board will be about to be $20,000 short to enable the schools maintained until the usual time when the summer recess begins. In view of for past experience and what was done the Board last year in a financial way, there is no earthly excuse for this. The late legislature passed a special act enabling the tax levy to be raised so that the Board could borrow $30,000 to comin June, plete the school year ending 1901, and hive sufficient funds to pay off that indebtedness and successfully maintain the school system for the present school year. In making up the fra levy for the schools the figures were juggled so that as muen money as possible would come into the coffers of the Board, and for the sake of their children and the cause of education the people, while making some wry faces, stood it patiently and paid the high rate of taxation, expecting that the extraordinary measures of last year would put the school finances on a sound basis for the future, but now they find things no better this year than they were last. The loan of $30,000 from McCornick & Go. has not been paid, and there is no money with which to pay it. The revenues for the year amounted to nearly half a million dollars, and there appears to have been unwise if not reckless expenditures somewhere. It is of salaries in teachers, certainly not the for they are not only not exorbitant, but are too low. It is charged that the committee on buildings and grounds spent large sums of money without the authority of the Board and exceeded the estimate for repairs to buildings and so on by something like $20,000. The estimated needs for repairs was $15,000, and the actual expenditures over $35,000. There are also ugly rumors to the effect that certain members of the Board and their friends were to some extent the beneficiaries of those expenditures. For the honor of the Board and the city Truth hopes that these charges are without foundation in fact, but the thing has an ugly look and should be investigated. Then there is the long projected and much needed school building at State and North Temple streets, which has been on the carpet now for two or three years, but which so far has not got beyond the state of a hole in the ground, and there appears to be no money to go on with it. The city council made a generous trade with the Board of Education for the site at the northwest corner of State and North Temple, and it was a good site, but no sooner had the Board obtained the title deeds than it traded it off to the Francis Armstrong estate for a hole in the ground adjoining it on the north. This hole was in some places 30 feet deep, and it took so. much money to fill up even a portion of it and partly lay the foundations that no available cash was left in the building fund to go on with the erection of the structure, and there it has lain without a stroke of work having been done on it for months, and there is no telling when there will be funds to go ahead with it, and the schools are crowded to neighboring overflowing. The Board of Education has ated from the best conducteddegenerpublic body in the state to one of the worst, and needs a thorough shaking up. The death of William T. Dinwood-.which occurred at San Francisco on Thursday morning cast a gloom over the many friends and acquaintances of the deceased in this city and great sorrow to his family and relatives. He was the son of Henry Dinwoodey, aQ old and greatly respected citizen of Salt Lake. Will was very popular and was in every way an exemplary youn man and it was very sad that he should hae been cut off so early in a very promising career. He was but 32 Years of age and had from all human appearances a bright future made happy iQ the possession of a charming wife and two lovely children. For some months he had been in poor health and his demise was not altogether unexpected. To his bereaved wife and boys and his aged father and brdthers and sisters the sympathy of the community generally goes out. Ben Stephenson, son of the late Colonel Stephenson, is in the city. iBSiia Why. notue thi best lanmlry tup aodVeeureatfraet ivepraniuirit 'free ComljletecataldjTTJifiW over 300 premiums that imqy be secured by saving the . wrappers, fufrtfshed Send free upon request y name a on postal yout card, and we will mulybia ehecatalogue Mdrtih VrMflum Dqpf.t Thi Cudahy Packing Company, South Omria.JUb Diamond "C" rate by all Soap 'fo Grocer |