Show J POST HOLES AT FIVE DOLLARS Residents of Taylorsville Raise Price Prom S2 Post holes are valuable commodities down about Taylorsville The present market price Is 5 asked with no bidders bid-ders and a group of Taylorvllle farmers farm-ers are making a strong effort to corner cor-ner the supply The scheme received n severe setback yesterday however from the County Commissioners Some time ago the Telluride Power company was granted a franchise which permitted them to erect poll sand s-and string wires along the highways north from Provo At some points this highway so closely resembles the surrounding sur-rounding farm land that It takes an expert to tell where the pasture stops and the highway begins When the route of the line was laid out Alexander I Lee and other farmers maintained that It would cross their lands and they wanted to exact pay for the privilege priv-ilege In some way they got the Idea that the County Commissioners were under obligations to pay them 2 a pole poleThen Then the trust bee got Into their bonnets They argued that they had a monopoly In post holes and the power pow-er company would have to come to terms So they got an ultimatum written It Is said by Attorney Oscar W Moyle which they oil signed demanding de-manding that the County Commissioners Commission-ers pay them 1 Instead of 2 a pole This communication was read to the astonished Commissioners yesterday County Clerk James was directed to reply that the board had never made any such offer did not Intend to make any and that Lee and his friends must keep off the highways and place no obstacles In the way of the company In the setting of Its poles Thus the poor tiller of the soil Is crushed out by the capitalistic octopus and Infancy the post hole trust IB killed In Us |