Show I i I SINGLE BEET SEEDS Experiments Being Conducted at lehi by Dr C 0 O Townsend of Agricultural Department Lehl April 14 Dr C O 0 Townsend of Washington D C is In Lehi to continue the time government experiments in its effort to evolve eole a single germ beet seed s cd It is well known by sugar beet heet growers that all beet seed contains several germs each and correspondingly sends up from two to four plants each which en eu entails entails tails more or less expense in thinning the crop for but one plant must be left in each place The doctor commenced about six pears ago ot select seeds with but a single germ These were planted and the th beets produced were used to produce seed The single germ flowers Clowers were with pollen from similar flowers Clowers and sed thus produced etl was used to produce beets bets which the following year were again used usei for mother beets This line of experiments experiments experiments ments has been kept up for several years ears earson on the Saratoga farm near Lehi Lehl and Dr Townsend says that his experiments though necessarily very slow have been successful enough to justify him in think thinking thinkIng ing lug that he will ultimately ultimate obtain a species which will send forth but a single plant and thus save millions of dollars each year ear to the farmers The rhe doctor has planted single germ seed and also set setout setout out jut single germ mother beets on the Saratoga farm this spring and today toda left for tor Garland where he is also conducting similar experiments He lie hopes also to see with the aid of the government the time time come when America will not send to Lo Europe for her sugar beet Seed A meeting of the miners of the Lehi Lehl Mining district was held in the City Hall Monday and reelected T J Wadsworth as mining recorder The south boundaries ies were also adjusted to conform to those of the North Tintic and Camp Floyd districts Considerable activity has Ims recently de do developed eloped in the tho fire clay cIa deposits in the Five Fhe Mile me pass pas between en Rush and Cedar valley lilley on the Lehi Lehl Junction branch of the th Salt Lake route The Time Giant Fire Clay c has recently shipped twelve car carloads leads loads of clay from their property prop eft to Salt I Lake City This company has bas besides an immense vein of ordinary ordinal fire tire fireclay fireclay clay five feet of the finest crucible cloy clay cia which is a rare rore product They The nave have re recently recently negotiated for the delivery delhery of 1000 tons of the fire clay to Salt Lake parties and will probably run a spur to their mine I IThe IThe IThe The Austin Brothers rind Jesse Knight have organized the Min Mining Mm lIn lInIng ing company and sent William Austin and Albert Schofield into Nevada to pros prospect prospect poet locate and purchase claims for the tIme company compan Feline and Dalton the Sugar Trust representatives with headquarters headquarter In Sugar City CIt spent several days da s in Lehi Lehl this week looking over the Lehi Lehl plant and making recommendations The Th Lehi fac factory factor factory tory tor will spend in making im improvements improvements here this summer chIef among which will be the installation of ofa a R new pun pan several new net elevated dumping bins and practically the building of an aim entirely new pipe line Une connecting the cut cutting cutting cutting ting stations with the Lehi Lehl factory fa too Leon Taylor Talo of Sugar and Miss Ruby Brown vere were married last Tuesday They leave leae today toda for Sugar City their thel future home Mrs Irs Della Delia Lott removed to Grand Junction Cob Colo yesterday where her bus hus husband band holds a responsible position WILh with the Grand Junction Sugar company compan Mrs Irs Lott was accompanied by Gladys Glad South Southwick Southwick wick Willard Johnson and wife of or Idaho Falls Fails are visiting relatives in Lehi Lehl Mr Ir and Mrs Irs Walter Valter Webb of Sugar City who have hae been in Lehi Lehl for the past month returned home today toda One hundred and fifteen students of the primary grades of the public scholls pre pro presented a cantata in the opera house yes yesterday yesterday and evening to picked p houses Isaac Goodmansen of lona Idaho s spending a few ew Jays days with friends hero here Mr rr Goodmansen is on his return home horn from Mexico Francis an architect and Prof Proto J 1 T Wonton Worlton orlton of Sugar City Cit visited Lehi this week to g get t data for the construction I of a new school building which will willbe willbe willbe be erected in the Idaho town this sum suni summer summer mer mner Lehi Lehl has the most modern school building in the state stute outside of Salt Lak Lal City S SE E 31 M Jones J Tuesday from Bla Idaho whore where wh re he has been heen for br Ill two weeks superintending su som improve improvements ments meats being made in he the sugar factory Alfred Gurney and Miss Hattie Hattle Hat le Losee Los e will be married in the Salt Lake temple next Wednesday |