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Show 1 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2 1920. Former Project Manager at I Valley Strawberry Strong for Irrigation. That the state of Washington has apthe propriated about 100.000 annually for to purpose of carrying on a work similar that being done by the Utah Water Storage association, and that the Utah legislature might well do likewise. Is the import of a letter from J. 1 Lytei to the executive committee of the Utah Water was forStorage association. Mr. Lytei merly project manager of the Strawberry States valley project of the United nation service, and had much to do wttn the construction of that project. of the he became project manager Yakima project of the eame service. He is a member of the executive committee of the Utah Water Storage association, and his advice has carried weight with his colleagues on that board. His letter follows: "I have a copy of Mr. Parker's progress satisreport of May 29, and note with faction that the work of securing Informain Utah, tion on new irrigation projects Salt Lake and Tooele counties It being continued. "I think the work your association is important and should be doing Is very extended. 1 believe it would be well to next request the legislature when it meets winter to make an appropriation, even If the for only a comparatively small one, work of the association, and In this way eventually to get information on record regarding the possibilities for storage and reclamation covering the whole state. "The state of Washington hat established a reclamation service end appropriates about 100,000 annually to carry on Investigation and development work. This bureu le now well under way and will eventually secure Information regarding all the Irrigation posslbllltlee in the state, besides assisting In the development of one or two of the beat Irrigation possibilities. "I get Into Salt Lake occasionally and will be glad to assist the association In any way that I can, as I shall always be very much interested In seeing UtaH go ahead. A 'careful study of the possible future development of irrigation works Is the surest way to show the hidden possibilities along this line to capital looking for a place to Invest." ly ( Scout Caravan Director Named for Trip to Canyon A miy TOPCCC TO W. & Jenkins, manager of the truck tire department of the Firestone Tire companys Salt Lake branch, has been of the Boy appointed commander-ln-chlScout caravan train which leaves for Bryce canyon and Zion national park on July 10, according to an announcement made last night. Mr. Jenkins will have of transportation details dursupervision tour, It is said, and his ing the nine-da- y duties will Include the decisions of departure and arrival time at each point on the Itinerary. Mr. Jenkins's services were secured through the efforts of the Utah State Automobile association, which has undertaken the provision of satisfactory transportation for the Boy Scouts. Mr. Jenkins was commander-ln-chle- f of the recent "Ship by Truck train, whloh y run from Salt Lake to made a Boise. Every car arrived and departed on schedule during this run. It is said, and travel conditions wers so adjusted that no serious mishap occurred to any car in the train. In addition to Mr. Jenkins as travsl director. the Firestone company are furnishing a repair truck to accompany the caravan without cost to the vehicle owners. Car registration are being reoelved dally, and all who Intend entering this train are asked to notify the automobile association at once. ef ten-da- . Salt Lake Visitor Reports Delta Enjoys Prosperity Frank Beckwltb, president of the Delta Commercial club, Is In Salt Lake attending the convention of the editors of ths Utah Press association. Mr. Beckwith reports conditions in Delta this year as very good. Ths town has sold Its sewer bonds of 40,000 and work will begin this summer. The beet acreage ie about 11,000 acres, with about an 80 per cent stand, he reports. Tbs first cutting of alfalfa Is already done, and ths weevil successfully overcome for thte season. Business conditions never were better in Della," Mr. Beckwith said. "The Delta State bank will build a fine 30,000 home at once; a new hotel Is In course of construction, and the largest number of dwellings are now under way In the of the town. The oountry district adjacent ip keeping up with the growth of tbe town. hle-to- ry Salt Lake Scoats to Hold Official Council June 29 The Boy Scout troops of Salt Lake will meet In an official council next Tuesday evening, June 29, at Liberty park, when Dr. Georgs Wharton James will give an outdoor illustrated address on "What Horses and Doga Did to Win the War. Troops will meet at the flagpole at T o'olook. Official scout exercises and community singing will precede the lecture. Boy Scouts of Salt Lake will assist in helping the old folks on and off street cars and on to the trains at the Saltair depot during the annual old folks outing today. Scouta have also been asked to have charge of the Information and service work during the National Education convention In Salt Lake in July. Troop 8 of Salt Lake has been awarded the 10 prise for collecting the most waste paper In the recent drive. The troop sold 161.88 worth of old paper, which wlU bo used to send boys of the troop on the scout oaravan to Zion national park, and also to help the troop fund. Each eoont received a percentage of the amount received for the old paper and the troop alee received a email amount for a special mess fund, which will be spent for specialties while on the trip. ViTHEN the first pneu- matic truck tires the world had ever seen appeared on the streets ot Detroit in July, 1911, people called them balloon The idea of putting a heavy truck on air was so far in advance of anything the automobile world had yet thought of that it took time for people to grasp it. Even today there is still a confusion in some peoples minds as to exactly cross-count- designed to meet trucking conditions and not merely market conditions 9 Before it produced the first pneumatic truck tires ever made , the United States Rubber Company knew that an overgrown passenger car tire would never solve the truck owners tire problem What it started with was an idea the idea of creating an entirely new kina ofa tire a truck pneumatic 0 -- 0 The US Nobby Cord of today is the pioneer pneumatic truck tire lineal descendant of the first of its kind brought out by the United States Rubber Company in 1911, after two rears spent in developingit There is a difference pioneering a tire and pioneering a market. be-twe- en cr t Tire Division Branch, 342 South State St Army Recruiting Captain Examined for Promotion Captain A. R. commanding officer in charge of Emery, the Salt Lake army recruiting station, returned yesterday from Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., after cdrnplet-n- f m ixtroinAtiou for promotion to major. Word hae been received by the Salt Lake station that it n men are making a hike frfmt New York to San Francisco, and will probably reach Salt Lake this week. The transcontinental hike Is being taken as an experiment and also to aid recruiting. CAR SHORTAGE HAMPERS COMPANY. Car shortage is responsible for Inability on the part of the telephone company to carry Out Its plana fur Improvement and extension of the evetem, according to Ben 8. Read, president of the Mountain States Telephone A telegraph company, who la a visitor In Balt Lake. Mr. Rej Says the company is at the mercy of slow freight movements, and that to get these It ts necessary to order fiom a year to eighteen months In advanoe. He is In Bait lake and has Just completed a tour of Idaho and Montana in an effort to the situation lined up so that orders get new material may g ia far In advance.for what constitutes a pneumatic truck tire. NOTICE OP ADJOURNED SESSION OP ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS' MEET. INQ AND OR INTENTION TO AMEND ARTICLES OR INCORPORATION OR WESTERN LOAN AND BUILDING COMPANY AT 8AIO MEETING. Notice to hereby given that at an adjourned se salon of the ltio annual meeting of the stockholders of the Western Loan and Building vompanv, to be held at the office of eald company. No. 4 F.aet First Booth street,' Balt Lake City Utah, on Mondar, the 12th day of July,' 1920, at eight o clock p. in , pursuant to at the close of an adadjournment taken of said meeting, he.d on journed the ltth day of April, 1920, the following resolution to amend the articles of Incorporates of said company will be Introduced, considered and voted upon, RESOLVED, that the articles of of Western Loan and Building lf lnor-porati- company be and the same hereby are amended by increasing the authorised n capital of eald company from thirty dollars to thirty-fiv- e million dollars, and tbe number of shares from three hundred thousand to three hundred fifly thousand, and so that section one of the fifth article of the articles of Incorporation of said company as and if amended will read as follows: ARTICLE FIFTH. Nectlon 1. The amount of capital stock of this torpors lion shall be thirty-fiv- e million dollars, divided Into three hundred fifty thousand shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each The balance of article five remaining gnd reading as heretofore. This notice of Intention to amend and of the holding of said adjourned session La given and published pursuant to an mll-!,o- t I order of the board of directors of said company. Dated at Salt Luke City, Utah, this 15th day of June, l:n JOHN T. WHITK, Secretary. - P4727 NOTICe TO BIDDERS. Contracts for county supplies, hooks, blanks, stationery end for publishing county reports, notices and advertisements. In accordance with the law, section 1421 and 1428 of the compiled laws of Utah, 126. ntrflre la hereby given that sealed bids will bs received by the county etiditor of Balt Lake county, at his office, room I f8 City and County building, Balt lake City, Salt Lake county, state of Utah, up to and including Wednesday, June for the furnishing of supbooks, blanks, stationery and for publishing county reports, notices and advertisements, as required from time to t'me for the use of Balt lake county, Utah, during the year beginning July L 1929. All supplies to be furnished a called for and demanded by said county and a bond for ths faithful performance of any such contract as may be entered Into must be riven by the party agreeing to furnish such supplies, In such sum as the board of county commissioner of Salt Lake county may determine. Ths said county reserves the right to reject any end ail bids or any part thereFor more detailed Inof and readvertlse. formation concerning the probable quancharacter of each Item of books, tity andand blanks stationery end of county reports, notices and advertisements te be required, applications may be made to 38, 1929, plies. K the county auditor of Salt bis offioe. -- ake oounty at M. C. IVERSON. (c) Installing tc. ' hydrant. specials, valves, d) Distributing and laying 8709 linear Auditor Balt Lake feet of vitrified clay or cement pipe In First publication Sunday, Junecounty. 20, 1929. canyon. All proposals mutt be made on form P8002 furnished by the town, and shall be acADVERTISEMENT. companied by a cashier check from a Suit Lake City or Provo bank, of 8 per cent of the total amount of bid. Said Notice te contractors: Sealed proposals for constructing a wa- check shall be msde payable to the town ter system for Orem, Utah, will be re- of Orem, and shall be sealed with the bid. Plans and specifications meg be obceived by the town board at the office of tained upot. payment of 1.00, from the J, I.. Snow Merc-tl'- ..om'--- v rein fiuoW, Orem, Utah, or E-Jseob, Utah, until I p. m. Thursday, July 1920. Tne loiiowing sppiuxHiialo amount, of Provo, Utah. The right Is reserved to reject ny or to be done: work all bide and to waive defects. . , , (a) Excavating and 18,000 cubic yards of tranche. backfilling By order of the town hoerd. RUBBJSL K. Clerk. HOMER. (b) Distributing and laying 199, Owl lin4 t ear feet of wire-woun- d ised iron pipe la stsea -- wood end to galvan- A. law P449T TRIBUNE WANTJ BRING RESULT |