Show SYRACUSE wheat is very low iu in pi ice only bria bringing ing forty seven cents a bus bushel liel on oil thursday of last week the cle directors I 1 i r L actor s of the davis weber co canal cuin company pallY met to decide upon what proposition to make the hooper and plain city people who had previously expressed a desire to become owners in the reservoir on oil canyon crook creek L B adams E P ellison tind and jesse I 1 smith were appointed a committee with power to act to confer with those parties the proposition is that il if alio tho afore mentioned parties will build the reservoir dam fifty foet feet higier higher 01 that they can have water equivalent to that which the reservoir will now contain the state ell engineer gincer e estimates sti mates that the second fifty feet of dam will store ahr three cc times as much water as the first fifty in case they desire to build the dani dam seventy five feet ili higher ni bior they aro are to be entitled to a little less than two fifths of the water stored the estimated cost of constructing construction the fifty feet is or seventy five feet the cost of construction of the ori original n inal dam was placed at about 00 for each cubic feet of water stored the high school taugh t by T J obrien closes today quito quite a n umber number of people are still busy making 0 hotbeds liot beds for tomato plants the local cannery has contracted to pay the farmers 3 8 per ton for their tomatoes this season A number of parties who wanted to grow tomatoes for the cannery were turned away as the cann cannery e ry had as many acres as it could handle quite a number of acres of cucumbers have been contracted 1 but it is understood that no contract has yet been made with the fruit growers bishop cook is steadily improving proving and is expecting Z to attend quarterly conference at bountiful the fall grain looks splendid and the indications are that there will be an abundant harvest this year A family by the name naine of spencer of salt lake city have purchased the john kill king 0 place and moved into the house this week wm win IL miller liller the apple king who has been laid up all winter with rheumatism is just beginning 13 to got get around again D C adams is setting out several thousand young 15 trees again 0 this spring 0 they are principally bartlett pears in this district which includes syracuse and hooper over acres of su sugar suar C ar beets have been contracted with tile the 0 ogdon i don factory fred walker lias has the foundation laid for a new cottage some of hc file fa farmers have had potatoes planted upwards of two weeks it is expected there will bo be great activity on the part of mining i men on antelope Ante lopo island this summer considerable prospecting in and development work was done last year but it is expected that still more will be done this season at one time thile it was feared that complications would arise over land matters between the miners biners and the island improvement co but fortunately au amicable settlement was readied reached so all legal barriers that were liable to impede progress niss in in C matters have been renio remo od ed home missionaries simmons aud and roberts spoke hero here in ing 01 sunday their remarks were very much appreciated by i those present the lucern that james G wood planted last fall is looking g fine mr wood has owed forty acres abis spring and nl will put in sixty more inore before arrn wi instead of paying payin a tile tho directors of th alie 0 cannin cann iii fat fa tory decided to invest list last years carnin earnings 0 s of the concern in further improving za tile the plant so it is the intention to install a anew now boiler I 1 build a shed for tho pickling pi elding vats and to make some I 1 laborsaving improvements on tile alio interior of the building tile the stork stock is all owned by bya a dozen local residents who are pretty well to do and who have the tho welfare of the town at heart so they willing lill to forea forego 00 the drabin drawing ai of interest on oil their money so that the plant could be made to render the public still better service |