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Show EMERY COUNT OFFEB3 THE CAPITALIST Thousands of Acre of Fltu.1 EMEKY COUNTY OFFERS THE IIOMESEEKER Cheap Land and Water, Ideal Climate, Excellent School, Most Modern Convenience, Cash Markets, Beat Summer and Winter Range In Country Mult THE All the News of T VOLUME XXII. , NO. 52. TO ENTRY D ATTEND thousand live acres of land in Emery county, Including twelve thousand one hundred en Buckhorn flat and which have been withhold from development ty filings made under the Carey act in 1909, may soon be reestored to n entry under a recent decision of Spry, commissioner of the general land cffice, notice of which has Just been received by John T. Oldroyd, The decissuite land commissioner. ion tva.-- eontmunicated to Oldroyd by Gould B. Blalcely, register of the local I'nited States land office. It comprises twenty-twtypewritten pages and deals with tho whole history of the Buckhorn reservoir and of the Carey tct togregation of lands made undet an application filed twenty years ago. The segregation of 1910 gave the state and its contractor tea years in which to complete the project. This expired in 1320. In October the state filed an application for the extension of the period of segregation. In March, '1921, the general land office suggested thats such segregate 1 land as could not te reclaimed be relinquished. This was followed by an investigation of the project by C. W. Wells1, Carey a:t inspector, for the department of the interior. His report was submitted last March, and his recommenda-tiun-s are confirmed in the decision of COUNTY FAIR Plans for making the Fourth Annual Emery County fair, to be held at Castle Dale Tuesday, Wednesday t and Thursday, Sept. the biggest In the county's history, are proceeding nicely with those unexpected things that always ocour In carrying out pretentious plana of any kind rather more favorable to the commit, tee and the success of the event than is usually the case. ,, One thing that is absolutely assured is entertainment for the crowd every minute of the time. The racing program includes events with prizes totalling more than, a thousand dollars while miscellaneous entertainment of Various kinds, including some of the best features from the best vaudeivlle best features from the pircuitsf will serve to fill In with. In addition to these features there will be a balloon ascenson and parachute drop each day and a ferris wheel for the kiddies to ride upon and to lend to the holiday air. Tuesday the opening day of the fair has been designated as school children's day and a special admission charge of 15c each will be in ef- ect for that day. The regular admis. sion charges will be 60c for adults and 25c for children under twelve, the commissioner. The Buckhorn reservoir as at pres- with a small extra charge for grand ent constituted was built in 1889 by stand seata. There will be no charge W. J. Powell with a capacity of four for admission to the exhibition buildthousand held back by a ing. In the way of extra entertainment dam twenty feet high. Powell's filing included thirty second-fefrom Hunt, for the evenings, as has been the case Henry Jones of Provo, ington creek, as: well as the flow from in the past, on so many good wrest-wh- o Bull Hallow wash, which drains off who has put has put on so many good wrestCedar Mountain. The flat is describ. ed as favorably protected from wind3 ling bouts in Emery county in the and with good soil and a warm cli- past, has been matched with Jack mate, almof: extremely warm In sum- Wilson of Denver for Wednesday evemer, 'i he altitude is about five thous- ning, September 20, Immediately foland eight hundred feet. Title to the lowing the afternoon sports program. reservoir and related filings were ob- The winner of this match will meet tained by George A. Snow, James A. Royal Van Dusen, Salt Lake's pride, evening at the same time. Melville and John Taylor. Taylor Thursday Both will be preceded with matches wo theinterest hist of purchased Some forty-si- x thousand dol- some good preliminaries. New poultry, swine, and other outlars, of which thirty thousand was spent on the project itself, was expen- buildings have been constructed to ded in 1912, under the direction of better display the exhibits in these de. Lloyd Sigler, manager for the National partments. In the way of exhibits from the Savings and Trust company of Salt Lake City who purchased an interest farm, garden, and orchards, several in the project. Previous reports by communities are showing an interest representatives' of the state engineer's that threatens to crowd the main building beyond its capacity. office had declared the water supply In fact, additional accomodations for probobly ample. The Carey act segregation filing cov- the forestry exhibit and the educational department are already, under ered, as indicated, nearly twenty-fiv- a thousand acres. However, Sigler's en- way. Following Is the main matter gineers reported that twelve thousand contained in a letter sent out to every five hundred acres of this would be resident of Rochester precinct by Col. L. C. Moore, the llvewlre advisory irrigable at a cost of $430,000, and that the land would sell for a hundred and committeeman at that place, and is twenty-fivdollars an acre with the typical of the efforts he' and his people water on it. The soil of the irrigated are putting forth: Inclusive, are the "September area, it was seated, would be of exceptional quality and especially, adapted dates set for our Fourth Annual Emfor fruit raising. The "availability of ery County fair and, by request, the timber, coal and stone, together with management has set apart a space range land and low construction cost for the exclusive use of the Rochester per acre would make it a meritorious people. Now it Is up to us to show appreciation by makenterprise, capable of rendering a lar our loyalty andam sure with the propenterprise, capable of rendering a ing good and I large reward for the investors. The er spirit ot cooperation we can make Carey aot inspector, reporting this an exhibit that will be a credit to our year, made a study of the water supply county and one that we as a will be proud of. and particularly of the decreed rights "What will you send? Now don't on the stream, which had been passed on in 1S89 and 1914. These are found get the idea that you have nohing that to involve 392. 5 second-fee- t of the Is good enough give us the best you first flow of the Huntington river. have and it will be fine. Butter, eggs, Various computations' ai"e made from bottled fruits or vegetables, preserves, this decree with available data as to jelly, pastry, bread, chickens, pigs, Measurements of the actual flow of ducks, geese, any kind of livestock, or the stream a3 a basis, and the avail- fanay work of any kind. "We do not want a large amount of able water supply for the project each year, after decreed rights were satis- any one thinga sheaf of wheat, oats, alfalfa, or clover, a few ears or stalks fied and thus determined. An average of 13,697 acre-feof of corn, a peck of potatoes, a few vegwater a year might be available, on a etables just a little from each one bafi3, of which four years and we will have an aggregate that above the average and six belowtwo will be Sufficient. "Arrangements have been made to seepage loss in the canal to the Buckhorn reservoir, and allowing two acre-fe- call for your exhibit and to care for :ame while at the fair. I will thank of warer to the acre at the reseryou to let me know personally or by voir or one and acre-fetin the land, it is computed, that, with letter what you will have to send and the aid of Bull Hollow runoff, consist- I will see that it is called for at the ing very largely of floods from cloud- proper time." bursts, there would be water for six THRESHING NOTICE thousand acres or an annual use out of the reservoir of two thousand acre-feeAll threshing jobs of less than 100 In the ten years for which data are bushels will be charged as for 100 Extra long pulls will be available it is found that there would bushels. iave been no carryover in the reser- charged for by the hour. All seed and voir between 1912 and 1916, inclusive, cash work must be cash on compleand that the crops of 1915 would have tion of the job or seed be given in been a failure. The reservoir would payment. JENSEN & WALL have again been empty at the close of 1920. Other deductions are made to how that- five thousand acres Is an outside, figure on which to compute porary. A careful location of the water available. . It ib' further declared canal would probably produce the that "when all prior rights to the win- area. ter flow have been deducted from the 'The enginees figured a cost to r- flow of Huntington creek there would rigate ten thousand acres of (268,811. be nothing left for this project, as the This was with a canal earring a hun second-fee- t Desert Lake Irrigation company has dred and twenty-fif- e and been decreed a right to fill its reser- a reservoir of seventeen thousand fife voir to something over twelve thou-an- d hundred acre-fecapacity with a n t feet high. A dam from the wntef flow and dam such floods waters as are available in sixty feet high would give twenty-on- e excess of 392. 5 feet, and the decree thousand acre-fecapacity with but gives' the water users water for domes- little additional cost. The inspector tic: purposes during the winter. estamates that the cost will not be 30 "If cn!y sis thousand acres net are per cent more than at that time or to bo reclaimed," the commission suys, $403,220. and With a reservoir of thousand acre-fe'and not over 8 $ per cent of the best twenty-on- e and a land wf.l call for water, this project canal of two '"hundred second-fee- t will be about seven thousand acres. capacity will easily make the cost " It appears,' that the best land for the $500,000." It is on these findings of fact and 'project Is on Buckhorn Flat, which would be worth 50 per cent more the fact that "the principal diffculty when irrigated than othe lands. This appears to be to secure the money to flat will have a gross area of about complete the development" that the 12,103. 7 acres or some 5,103.7 acres inspector made his recommendations more than can be Irrigated, the pre- now carried into effect by the decision, sent canal til gnment being but torn- - of the commissioner. Some hundred twenty-fou- SEPTEMBEU , STRIKE THAT OPENED APRIL ENDS WHEN BOTH FACTIONS REACH NEW AGREEMENT 1 f o , acre-fee- t, et . . e 19-2- 1, com-muni- et ten-ye- ar et five-tent- et t. et acre-fee- , fifty-seve- et ' -- et ty Officials and Soft Coal Miners Sign Pact Which Again Opens Up Coal Mines In Many States; Men Rejoice Cleveland. An agreement ending the soft coal strike that baa been in effect since April 1 was unanimously approved by officials and miners in Jont conference hers Tuesday. between New York. Agreement operators and miners at Cleveland will result In a genital acceptance of their terms throughout the coal mining inend of the dustry, and a nation-widstrike, notwithstanding the relatively small representation of the operators at the Cleveland conference, officials of the National association declared here Tuesday. e Washington.-Le2lslati- con- by on HE on the situation until Tuesday. Each appeared . reluctant to break up the conference, but neither was Inclined to yield. f, .'. regulate distribution and prices of coal during the winter was declared Tuesday by Secretary Hoover to be necessary even though operations soon are to be started in the bituminous and anthracite fields. The suspension of work in the coal' fields now in the twentieth week has gress to so lowered coal Btoek, Mr. Hoover said that not even immediate anu' reasonably full production will remove the necessity of some measure of regulation during the nest s months, when the coutry makes its ' greatest drain on coal supplies. comThe federal coal distribution mittee the commerce secretary point-- ! ed 6ut,is functioning with voluntary, forces and as an emergency agency' and hence cannot continue to indefinitely. Mr. Hoove? also saw the need of imposition of, some statutory control of coal prices during the winter or otherwise coal, prices might become unduly high Price control by voluntary agree-- : ment, Mr. Hoover said has been sue-- , cessful in some districts, but In many districts of late Individual operators' have shown a tendacy to break away from the maximum fair price levels. Means of checking the price situa-- . tion resulting from competition be-tween railroads and public utilities for fuel were considered Tuesday by federal fuel distributor Spencer and the Central coal committee. Officials said the committee was working towards a policy of more special prL, ority orders for coal shipments to rail : roads and public utilities which would "lve such fuel movement a rlcht of. vav over coal moving under general, orlority. Blanket priority orders, It was an-- , noimced, have been Issued for the hhment of coal from the Alabama fields for the relief of railroads In thv Southwest running out of St. Louis; nd lines in Illinois running out of. ' Chcazo. Discussions of the coal price situs-- ; Mon bv the committee brought forth. he belief that it the railroads could "e assured of definite coal supplies s -essation of competitive bidding and' fbe withdrawal of purchases aeentv 'rom the mine fields might be ex- -' oected. National Troops Take Irish Territory' direct-distributio- . CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL I : We certainly started" ouf with a Sixty studepts regis tered tne nrsi aay ana every, one cf seme one else who will be here "tomorrow" or "next Monday." It seemed just like getting back home. No We felt like hugging everybody. like happier time than a we have had this week. Right straight we started arranging for a winter of work and fun. The athletk; coaches, both for girls and toys, are making preparations to outdo anything this county has over teen before. But. while we have muUe an excel- lent thowing in the number of students registered for full time hij.h school work this week, we want mors students in our school so &c to mafco doubly Bure the success." of the ttchool. Get your boy or girl of high pchool ag and standing into f.hooi: We have sufficient room and equipment for all and the courts given ao selected from the Utah high schoo1 course cf study. Twelve units of school- Tork the 9th grade aia required for high school graduation and we are giving courses in the divisions of educaton that meet thewe re boom this week. 'Viscount Northcllffe leu-in- Is Dead London. Viscount Northcliffe, noted British publicist, died Monday. It was stated that the cause of Lord JAPAN WILL NOT MAKE FORMAL Northcliffes death was suppuration, MOVE FOR EXCHANGE or the production of pus within the U. S. AND ENGLAND heart, which was followed by acute The death of no blood iwisoning. could have unofficial In other Action person O. Advance Final of Triple made a deeper impression in England K. by Italy and France Would than that ot Lord Northcliffe. The Bring Difficulties, Office news was not a surprise, as'the bulBelieves letins issued by the doctors tor, the week plainly indicated that their Toklo. For th present Japan will past was dying. patient i not make any formal move for exchange of ratifications, between her- No Verdict Reached on Labor Leader self, the United Stales and Grat Bri. Chicago. After more, than eighty tain of the naval limitations treaty hours' deliberation, the Jury in the signed at the Washington conference. building trades marder trial was disThe foreign office points out that charged Monday without reaching a should the suggestcn for ths plan be verdict. No indication of how the adopted and ratficttions exchanged be- Jury stood, was tlven to the court. tween the three principal signatories Fred Mad er, Dan J. McCarthy and without waiting for formal approval John Miller, the three defendants, tried strain this fall. by France and Italy, it would neces- will probably be cases The against "Big Tim" Murphy sitate amendment of the pact, which "Con" Shea, prominent Chicago and it Is explained here, would be a serlabor leaders, w9te previously disious matter. missed. The trial grew out of the Japan for the moment is resting on slaying of two policemen during the her oars, having ratified all the Wash- building trades "reign of terror" here. ington agreements, and she is waiting for President' Harding to fix a date Aircrafta Will Carry Mall for exchange of ratifications. The Washington. Concentration of the admiralty, however, is likely to press entire transcontinental air mail serthe cabinet to obtain early consum-mato- n vice In the Far Western states to of the treaties for financial move mail to the Facific coast Is planned by the postoffice department reasons. of transcontinental transportation Since receipt of the Associated much worse, Second Press dispatch from Washington to conditions grow Assistant Postmaster General Henderthe effect that the administration son told the United Press Mon-lay- . there would give serious consideration to any request for triple ratifica-- . Governors Invited to Bill Hearing The governors of Caltion, the vernacular press has adopted Washington. a similar attitude and is pointing out ifornia, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevathat the delay is subjecting Japan to da, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming will or be represented heavy expense in maintaining ships be asked to appear be started abont Septo at hearings which are destined for the scrap heap, 1 by the house committee In besides postponing her piam for gen tember of the Swing bill for flood procharge eral retrenchment tection to the Imperial valley. Keori gsnlzatlon of the committee necessiALLIES ADJOURN EARLY SESSION tated by the death of its cb&lrman, Representative KinHald of Nebraska, Ne Agreement Between French and is expected to result, in RepresentaBritish Premier tive Smith of Idaho being chairman, London. Tho allied premiers who Why Theory Is Untenable. have been discussing the German repApropos of the combined heat and arations question here since last Mon- crime wave In Pnris. French psycholday adjourned Monday without reach- ogists are reviving the old theory that ing any agreement or making arrangehigh temperature and. crime' go hand In hand. They Instance the violence ments for another meeting. Premier Poincaire of France and and cruelty of the Spaniard. Ignoring Mr. Lloyd George, the British prime facts that do not fit thwir theory. Why torminister were as far apart as ever in not look upon thea tyrants nnd natural Silmrln of turers products their views of the situation when the Sclentiflc-Amerlcaheads of the various delegations met. of the frigid air? They separated after a discussion of How Orange Grove Is Heated. two and one-hal- f hours without findSaving the citrus fruit from damaging common ground. ing frosts Is the aim of a California French officials at that time said Inventor who has produced a - huge they thought an agreement was Im- fan. or propeller, which Is mounted on a tower, says Popular Mechanpossible and that the conference would dissolve without having reached ics Magazine. An electric motor Is Inan understanding. stalled to drive the propeller blades, are so constructed that they which The French and British premiers draw the warmer air from above, and of with intention the reflecting circulate It parted throughout the grove. N Wil-'iiii- - IMS.' E HISTORY OF PAST r 1, Cil y . BERE-OPENE- ;Promlatn Bj-pi- RftTJ FICftTIDN GOAL STRIKE IS LAR E CROWDS WILL Lauds. y Prospects. Lnexhautiit best 'flnur, Ideal T.t-toriur Bugar Beet Fsetonua EMPIRE OF EMERY" AU of the Time CASTLE DALE, UTAH. SATURDAY BUCKHORN FIAT MAY Coal & : - e quirements. Let's double the sixty now regter- the end of the month. ed lout today, Never Lenna wind Calvin will be in, next week. The boys" chorus Went at it In fine Mr. Millet sure niakes 'eni style. ' sing. Mr. Williams. In talking to his Ait class used tne word "pernapa - aeverui times. After 'he clac'i Preston, wh' hadn't followed very attentively, asked "Who is this Per Haps you were talking about?" The boys are all trying to look Hk basketball fans around Mr. Izatt. We are sure of some real teams this yeav. There are only twelve In the senior class" as yet. The freshies hope t hold them thpre until after the class contests are over. : 20-fo- ORANGEVILLE The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis N. Johnson with anone boy other girl their eighth-wi- th only. All coneerned1;e doing well. A shower will be given Thursday by the sisters of the groom In honor cf Mr. and Mrs. Dean Peacock. Reid Cox arrived home Thursday nirht from summer school in' Salt " Lake City. School "started Wednesday with a full set of teachers and a good attend-an- de of pupils. , ': Mlv.s Inez Fullmer has been suffering from an attack of one kind of typhoid fever but is slowly improving Miss Fay Stilson returned Thursday pijrht from a month's visit in WattU with her sister, Mrs. Jesse Sitterud. Ihe students for college will leave soon for their winter's work- - Miss Julia Jewkes goes to Enow Junior col- lege in Ephraim and Cleon and Irene Fitt to the L. D. S. in Salt Lake City. The students for the Deaf and Blind school in Ogden will leave Monday. : Bottle Flies D D Killarney, the last nosl-importance In County Kerry the Irish irregulars, has been occupied by national army trooos. The occupation was preceeded by a brief1 engagement on the outskirts of the, town after which the Irregulars fled. Dublin. 1 Hon of held by Lodge Will Aid Leper Colony San Francisco. The supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias has voted to raise $1,000,000 by subscriptions ' from niembsrs to Improve conditions at the leper colony on the Isle of Culloa ia the Philippines. The lodge passed a motion to raise the fund on motion f O. W. Sperry of Honolulu, chairman of the Knights of Pythias relief committee. Mr. Sperry said the Ovt thousand lepers at the Cullon omf were being Inadequately cared for. OoveYnor General Leonard Wood's recent speal for aid for the colony was 4 one ot the things that inspired the Pyttlais to promise funds. To Be Sure. She Why did they Introduce those bathing girls? They donH further the story. He They are their own excuse for Fun. being, vuj dearv-F- Um , fPj .11 Umi l V, ti r grts .... 'v-vi.- .'-.- P . -' :("- - , , -- .!..-.- . IL . |