Show move for clean towns Is great success report james H walli inspector of alie state board of heille has returned from an inspection trip into the dixie country where he checked upon the clean town contest he gives an excellent account of the conditions at aa compared with the conditions at the tune of his last visit into that country a year this was especially noticeable in at george where the sini tary conditions are much improved he says he found the almost free from weeds and brush fences in better repair corrals cleaner and 30 per cent of the homes connected with sanitary plumbing lack of proper water supply ie the greatest menace the injectors inject ors have found on their tripe but at st george mr said this condition was much improved and an ani i other extension to cost to furnish water to the people in the eastern part of town is contemplated the city council has purchased a block of land for a city park and a hilf block for a public playground bt george has also contracted for a street sprinkler the best evidence said mr that the people in the towns all over utah are taking alie contests seriously is evidenced by the fact that the residents of these towns have swatted the fly practically out of existence flies were never so scarce as they have been this year and alie people take special pride in showing their homes and surround ines the factory which started this paring is deluged with orders for its article and cannot get enough hole aub to lp it going to full capacity fhe academy under prof woodward ansa remarkably heavy enrollment this benr it ie doing excellent work in music ind is preparing some operas under alio direction of professor hirmon in which billiu of salt blakc will appear in the title role at hurricane I 1 visited their new roller mills and found it mod arn in every I 1 saw cheit which hid been raised on the dry ineas about li verkin on alie virgin river and which went over thirty five bushels to alie acre chis and progressive city is arranging for the erection of a ie to be completed by spring this little community ins really done wonders in the vvan of pil improvement and has laid the foundation for a solid and vigorous city no own has had such hard luck to get a start the question of domestic water supply has finally been successfully solved b a es tem of sterns for each home these cisterns are well built of concrete with an average capacity of gillons about 1500 pounds of cement being required to build one and having to be hauled over nin ty miles from the nearest point these cisterns are filled twice a beir when it is time to fill them all the ditches and literals laterals late rals throughout the town are cleaned out thoroughly and then the all day long into the orchards in the night time when all is still the cisterns are filled the batet is analyzed at intervals inter vils throughout the season and so far has been found perfectly safe at toquerville they arc going to equip a large two story stone build ing with machinery for a canning plant to be owned by the same people who are so successfully operating the leeds cannery and which has ben turning out large quantities of dixie fruits and vegetables two large stretches of farming land are being brought under culli in the vicinity of hurricane and toquerville and in several other directions there are evidences of growth and expansion the excellent raids built by the inmates of the state prison in the most dangerous and inaccessibly portions of alie dixie country have been of incalculable benefit to that part of the state As a result a can leave bt george one morning by auto stage service and be in salt lake at 6 the next morning by tram herald republican |