Show BUSINESS to abere ere wag waa something peculiarly mil musical in the twittering of the birds bird this morning some sort of a note that seemed to swell out ont their little throats larger than usual they seemed to bo be trying bryin 0 to tell thal thai spring had come and were singing praises in their own way because a long and and severe winter had past man rejoices with the birds that winter is gone renewed energy seems to possess his soul and everything of a business nature looks look brighter 1 when winter holds out sa as it b has as done this seison every one seems to get discouraged while the snows of february were falling nearly every day and the sun r was obscured more than halt the time business was dull real estate could hardly bard y be disposed of at any price no ono one cared to hire help and bills simply could not be collected A few days of sunshine will wear off that feeling and business will assume renewed activity As spring opens up and men begin studying 10 the business prospects for the abo coming season they see sea what great opportunities we wa have here in utah one can follow almost any avocation that may suit his bia inclination and f lad find it remunerative wei we are not confined to agriculture alons alone as are some of the low level states just I 1 east of the rocky mountains droughts have no terrors bors hara in utah farming is ia a sure busi business nass and we can raise almost everything known to the temperate zone neither are we confined iaone alone to mining as they are in portions of colorado and montana mining and farming harmonize hai m onize monize well lere here while one man swings his pick far on tho the mountain top mining the pr precious bous i metals another in the valley below use the shovel and the hoe boo raising supplies thus our two leading industries bring us great prosperity whoa when both are worked yet either in caso case of ebe che others fa failure ilare gives us as ireat opportunities for prosperity ad as exist in other states mining this year will bo be a little dull drill but bat more attention will thun then be given to fruit rais raia ing an industry quite sadly negle neglected t ot late ye arsand to farming utah will be prosperous this thia season reason 1 provision provi provE tion ion in the law for aa assessing ss essing a i tax for other than the running ex f P benses e odthe of the schools in cities that have not bonded and the law supposedly guards against running mooing in debt Th through some oversight the last school board ignored this pro vision vision of the law and without due authority borrowed money they hy had no right to do this and it is is questionable whether the present board can legally devote the taxes of the people to paying the interest on that indebtedness if the district kad had bonded then it would have bien baen entirely different in fact bo hooding riding is the only way provided for raising money 0 ay in cities in case it is needed zo for r other than the running expenses of the schools and herein we feel to censure the list last democratic le legislature democrats claim not to legislate in favor of the theland I 1 and bol bolders bold dars yet they have done it in case of cities of the first and second class country districts are allowed to vote a special tax not noi to exceed two per cent on every dollar for building purposes if cities want to build new school houses they are required t to 0 boud bond no assessing of a special tax is allowed in their case it seems BOOMS to us some shrewd capitalists go got that provision in the law the only property they care to lend money on any way is is in the cities few capitalists care to lend extensively to country districts hence they allowed those districts to build their ashnool houses bouses without borrowing money but the cities they tave have got secure it if the latter want to build they have to bond what think ye of such a law enacted by a party which poses as the special opponents of bond holders J TD D JONES has been re appointed probate judge ot utah county and yesterday he bo qualified if civil service it is worth anything with democrats that means that judge dusen BEBEY will have to walt wait two years before he gets tho the position he has been working for under the now new administration tra tion we can say for judge JONES thava that a more energetic and capable probate judge utah county ha has never had we are glad for his bis re appoint appointment mehi as are republican cans gene generally ralls FA the tha school board wrestled agair again last night with tho the financial question I 1 all the members appear to be in for strict and wise economy somo some of them are not talking much about it but instead are doing a good deal oi of thinking and making necessary hinves TIM fully merses the t peculiar situation jn in which our dis dig ir 4 n sr tv l 1 ax aia |