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Show TIIE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH Jweb June ; : News Notes Lino in it's m Prtvilsg to Utah PARK CITY Utah's coal produc. tlon last year waa 4.312,409 tons, val 137,000,000, usd at approximately Ths Industry employ 7300 persons and represent an Inveatment of f known. But. one day to I9'4 l he Colorado river went on rampage poured over the valley and Into a driedup suit bed until a bike sixty miles tong and now known as the Sutton sen the bottom of ahlth I 287 feet below sea level. w..s formed lie Uncle So ttt went to the resrue made tils river behave The combat belween them created mtiloti wide In forest ainl tliua the world learned of the Inqierlul valley. The overflowing river had covered the lund with sill which made a good Abundant soli. Irrigation followed crops of alfalfa, grain and other prodof Now liuudred ucts spiieured. miles of canals and ditches carry the water from the river to many thousands of these thirsting acres which fluid t required only this transform this dried up waste Inio one of the outstanding valleys of the world and startle the nation with their productiveness. Fruits, vegetables, bees, poultry, dairying and live (dock followed and grain and million ol dollars' worth of crops are produced yeurly where nothing of value grew before all because of the overflow of the river which threatened to lie a disaster but turned out to be a hooo to disguise. I RING IIAM Metal ores mined In Utah during 1927 reached the high total, of l.03fl,000 tons, valued at $74,341.000. From this crude ora 351, 300 tons of finished metal were derived. PRICE Financing of the repair work on the Scofield dam will be done by Carbon county, and the Mate board examiners will reccommend to the t legislature that an appropriation exceed $25,000 be mude to 0f Carbon county for the monrt.jn,buri-fy expended on that work, (0ALVILLE There wa an In- tha Summit q 3()o0 farm bureau wool clip for 192 Pf-x- j J j e yetr. Thi, year's prWlnr clip is now being shipped out. There is a total of 13,500 fleeces. The pool was contracted with Eismann brother at 34 2 cents per pound. waa the largest OCfDEN May sheep month in the history of the Ogden Union stockyards, there being 300,89 head hundled during that period. Practically all of these Jamba came from California. The next highest month was May, 1927, when 2b2,-00- 0 head of sheep were handled. Most PANUITCII spectacular property losses of this section recently were those of Joseph Adair and J. Scott Haycock respectively, each of whom lout sheep in electric storms. Early one morning lightning struck in a small flock of Mr, Adair's sheep that were bedded for the night at his ranch and killed the entire flock of sixteen. MT. PLEASANT Equipment of will be used commission road the state The National Catholic Shrine in debris near deposited away clearing the luitnuculute in Mt, Pleasant by floods the THE shrineat ofBrooklund. bridge of District down the canyon as the reColumbia, now building, promises to coming back in the be the lurgesl Catholic church on the sult of cloudbursts farther announced was it by recently hills, Western hemisphere 403 feet long and Presand 23 feet wide. Its massive dome Henry II. Blood, chairman, ton G. Peterson, member, of the state 00 feet In diameter rising 254 feet, its slender enmpunlle or bell tower road commission. OGDEN Mayor Frank Francis was towering skyward 332 feet Romanhost recently to a number of Salt In Interior of Style. Exclusive esque Lakers who come to the city to inspect adornments and urt works of faint Wright field, Ogden's contemplated lous value, the cost of construction new airport. Thisr is expected to be has been set at $.'i.hhuxx. The crypt unexcelled lo our laud, opened officially on June 30, on the it Is claimed a veritable forest of first delivery of mail by air to this Falls, rare marble columns gnthired from city over the Salt Lake-Greall parts of the world. Is to contain Mont., route. Arrangements are also IN chapels, with a main altar ami will being made to hold a big celebration In itself be a noble cnthedrul with at the airport on this ocoasion. PROVO A. O. Garrett, instructor seats for t.Mxi persons Its relllng, capable ot sustaining a weight of ap- in botany at the East Side high of proximately I.IKNI.ikki pounds, will Salt Lake, recently visited Assistant supinirt the main floor which will County Agent W. F. Smith visiting Inseat some .(mu persons. The foundathe orchards of Utah county. tion stone, set September 23. 1!2U. vestigation of a new disease, which was the occasion of one of the greatis showing up in the county, and which est religious ceremonies ever held In the local inspectors have found diffiAmerica. cult control, will be made by Professor The entire world has been searched Garrett. The new disease is found Thus roughly lopped Into the shape, the dia- for embellishments, one of the m ist especially on the cherry trees, accordmond Is cemented to the end of a metal tong," outstanding of which will be a huge ing to W. F. Smith. thus fixed beyond the possibility of vibration, the reproduction In mosaic of The iui OGDEN At a luncheon meeting of tong is clamped into the arm of the sawing ma- maculate Conception" from the pope. the Exchange club in the Hotel Bigechine adjusted to operate for only the required The statue of Our Lady ot Washinglow, Clyde C. Edmonds, general manaton selected as patroness ot this distance, and the cutting begins. A disk of of the Utah Poultry Producers ger the hardest metal alloy known, national shrine Is to stand In front Cooperative association, spoke on the measuring .004 Inch In thickness, revolving some of It anu present the first appeal to poultry business. He reviewed the rathree thousand to four thousand times a minute all visitors. pid growth of the industry since a Erected as an everlustlug monu and charged with olive oil and diamond dust, bites of American Fork farmers group love metit the Cathof enthe Into an saw evidencing stone. a such It takes the slowly founded the cooperative movement in America of olics for Mary Immacutire day to work through one carat of diamond, as far, about, as across an ordinary pencil lead. late, It will proclaim "The glory ot 1922. Mr. Edmond3 predicted that The smaller facets are ground off on a horizontal God. the power of goodness of Ills the shipment of eggs from Weber Divine Son, the love of the Hull county through the association this disk of iron, charged with oil and dust emhoddi year would be double that of last year, in this comparatively soft metal to offer frlctio.1 Spirit, and the Intimate anion ot Mary and revolving two thousand four hundred times a ; Immaculate with the Blessed Trinity which will mean two carloads a week. DUCHESNE J. II. Young, repreminute. the bureau of public roads; E. senting a made fit to Platinum settings are particular C. state road maintenance Knowlton, stone, riatinum comes to the jeweler In a butengineer, and Reuben Simpson, diston, so called because of the rounded shape given Cactus Apples for Candy trict engineer, after making inspection It by the crucible of Hessian sand in which the San Fernando, t'alit.. Is a Near of the road from Duchesne to Dead Ox hot metal is cooled, or rolled out in a thin sheet. Platinum for rings is again rolled between two large farm, devoted to the raising of flat have recommended that it be acwheels grooved to allow square openings between cactus apples, the pulpy product ot cepted and taken over from the contractors, A. G. Young & Co, Maurice them Into rods approximately as thick as the band j ,le d ie sIlttcles of the familiar desert plant. The apple Is usetl for the Housecraft, bridge of a ring; it is with them the rraftsnmr works. engineer for the making of Jellies and candies, or is state, recently inspected the two bridgThe rod is first bent round around a mold of a eaten in its natural state. It has a favor-Thi- s prescribed finger size. , For a wedding ring it is sweet taste, and is about 80 per cent t es over Strawberry and passed on now them. is a soldered together with palladium, kindred metal, water. An acre aby project of land will produce complete except a little structure work which melts at a few degrees less than 3.309 de00 or 000 boxes of the apples, whVh in the City of Duchesne. grees Fahrenheit, the melting point of platinum. j were a box Inst sea BEAVER All past record for the When the setting is wider than the band. It must son. selling for $1.23 Popular Mechanics Magazine be built up of another piece of platinum, fixed in production of trout fingerlings will be broken at the Beaver fish hatchery thi3 on wires and securesoldered with band the place Shakespeares Vocabulary ly. The ring is rounded and openings are made year, according to Fish and Game The wealth ot Shakespeares vo held taut with a saw, no thicker than a horse-haiWarden Cy Davis, Since its estabbetween the ends of a brace the shape of a flatcabulury, says Sir Johnston Forbes lishment, the hatchery has shown an tened When a box" opening must be made for Robertson, Is staggering, it consists increase each year in the output of a stone, a hole is bored through the metal and the of 24,000 words, compared with Mil In 1927, something like fingerlings. saw strung through. The craftrmnn is guh!d only tons 17,000, the Bibles 7.U0U, Hom750,000 eggs were hatched, and by by his eve, a pair of tongs for measuring the ers 9.000 and Dante's 5.800. Shake-stonimproved methods of handling this to he fitted and the artists design on tissue sPeare actually used more words than will show an increase this year of or celluloid before him. any other known author. Of these nearly Lakes and streams were used 'mL'ew,,rds anfl 5uK) "uli The modern diumond-se- t in the vicinity of Parawan and Para-goonwedding hand is D e "Hamlet there are 420 grooved nil the way around, the bottom of the have already been planted with early hatches. The Little reserperforated to allow an opening for the bottom of each stone. The finest of our modern voir and High Low lake and rearing carved out engraved rings are also hand-madpons have received all they will carry. with a mechanical, perpendicular bore that is PROVO E. S. Hinckley, secretary guided by hand. of the Utah County Fair association, When the ring has been washed In water and said recently that various improvepolished on a rapidly revolving buffer, it is ready ments are planned for the fair grounds to be set. The smaller stones are beaded into and vicinity, which .will make the fair the box opening prepared for them by of September 27 to 29, next, bigger invisible but nevertheless secure projections and better than ever. In addition to pushed down over them from the surrounding a new livestock barn, to be ready for platinum. When the stone Is large it is set in fine daw, so that it may stand alone in its beauty the 1928 fair, it is announced that city and reflect light from as many sides as possible. water mains will be extended to the and Is set off only by a body guard of smaller j built In the building, including the livestock barns shape of the letter S set with geometric simplicity in the shank the road flpproaches the stream and pens. This supply will also run of the ring. Such a ring, and an accompanying ut an Two rI ,,ht angIe (n(,t Bl(i to the municipal golf course. wedding band set with stones to match, are the , la desirable to cross theanle, stream at municiple tennis courts will he June, 1928, version of these age-olsymbols et a right angle with the channel ' love and marriage. life-givin- g cmmmfwrnvrrAarrj By LOUISE M. COMSTOCK MIOEVF.lt heard of a June without weddings, or a June wedding without an eluborate trousseau, of rice, Mendelssohn's pound wedding nmrcti and a ahlny ring for the fourth Anger of the hrldeT Of al the tradltlona aurround'ng the ancient and honoratde rltea of tnarrlnge and there are many, from the tell tale ring and button in the wedding cake to prophecies of romance between the mnld of honor and the beat ninn the tradition behind the wedding ring boaata the greateat antiquity aa well aa the wldcat practice. Tide fuct may explain why the Jewelry aymhola of marriage today combine' the materials we hold choicest, and are the products of InAnlte luhor and skilled craftsmanship. As fur back as we can trace the marrluge ceremony In history, through the varying ruHtoms of periods and races, we And that the ring Is the one thing constant In It This ring Itself has changed, from a pluln and somewhat heavy band crudely hammered out of Iron to Its Intricate and artistic modern form; It has served as a pledge of affection and a plight of troth as well as a mark of actual onion; brides hare worn It on wrist and thumb as well as on the fourth Anger; but It has remained a symbol of love and Adelity, and an accepted part of the marriage ceremony. The poet Swinburne claimed thnt Itebekah was the Aral bride to wear a wedding ring. Though It more likely was an Iron bracelet that Isaac gave bis heaven-selectebride, the tombs of Syria and Egypt and the relics of Greek and Roman civilizations give evidence that the custom arose among the early people of Asia and Egypt and passed from them Into Europe. The married woman of Egypt wore a ring set with a tiny key to symbolize her custodianship of her husband's house. The Roman matron wore a similar ring, curved with tiny knobs to represent the keys to her husband's estate, or with a seal with which she sealed the doors of the wine closets against thirsty servants. With all my earthly goods I thee endow" Is apparently as venerable a part of the marriage ritual as the ring Itself. Two thousand years ago It was customary to engrave the nuptial ring with pretty sentiments, even as it Is today. An ancient Greek ring bears characters which translate Honey, and many a bride of the classic period wore a band Inscribed "faith immortal" or with the names of herself and her lover.. The bride of the Roman tribune wore a ring engraved with the star or crescent that was his insignia; Jn the ruins of Pompeii have been found rings engraved with two clasped hands; and Martin I.uther gnve his bride a ring adorned with the symbols of the church. The custom of wearing the wedding ring on the fourth finger of the hand may again be ascribed to the Egyptians. It was a common belief among them that a nerve ran directly from that fiqger to the heart The Romans, who believed that this nerve was a vein, continued the practice, and there have been few deviations from It The English maid of two centuries ago may have chosen to wear her wedding band on her thumb, hut that was because fashion in her day demanded such an ornate affair that the customary finger would not carry it The dusky bride of India wears her wedding ring on her thumb even today, but to her a ring Is necessary only during the first sis weeks of marriage; after thnt it is remelted and shaped Into a more pretentious orna- a at d ment. In Egyptian, Hebrew and very early Roman literature the ring given by a youth to the maid of his choice seems usually to have been merely a pledge of love. Its use for the plighting of troth has been definitely established as early as the Second century B. C. In the Second century of n the Christian era that stern churchman berated the women of his time for wearing any other ornament than the ring given them by their future husbands. The earliest German governments provided thnt a check be made on those who gave engagement rings to determine that reality should succeed romance. Both Chaucer and Shakespeare mention the interchanging of rings as a promise of marriage. The same ring served for both betrothal and marriage until a comparatively recent date; Indeed, it was not until the Cromwellian era in England that the custom of buying two rings became common among those who could afford It. The trend today seems to be towards more and better rings, for It now has become common for the groom to receive a ring in a double ring ceremony, and there Is considerable evidence thnt men will soon begin to wear engagement rings as well. While the exchange of the wedding band has long been customary In Germany and other European countries, and was for centuries an essential part ,ef the Greek church ritual, It has received new Ter-tullia- Impetus from the modern spirit which claims perfect equality for both parties in the union. Ovid, Roman poet of the First century, wrote of a ring soon destined to encircle the finger of a beuuteouB girl, a ring having no worth except the love of the giver." He sang obviously of his beloved Coriuun, and of a ring of little intrinsic value. For, until shortly after his time, rings were of Iron, brass, silver, agate and other materials, but seldom of gold, and even after the First century gold rings were worn only by the wealthy. The early Italian craftsman Benvenuto Cellini wrought In gold with consummate skill, but he worked only for popes and kings. With the invention of plating processes, gold becume a practical as well us the most precious metal, and was adopted universally for the wedding ring. Not until 1900 wns the substantial wide gold ring replaced by a narrower and more ornnte bund of platinum, today considered the most durable, beautiful and malleable of metals. The Jeweler designates as an engagement ring one of which the part encircling the finger is narrow enough for a wedding ring to be worn beside it True to Its tradition, the modern engagement ring Is elaborate, the original key replaced by a diamond, the paradoxical symbol of innocence and power. The modern wedding ring Is either carved with orange blossoms, ivy or oak, or set with tiny diamonds. Diamonds are pure carbon sort of sublimated white coal. Being carbon, they have a grain like that of wood, which Is, to the Jeweler, their most important characteristic. For the grain of the diamond, technically described as its lines of cleavage, allow this substance, which is so hard it can be cut only by another diamond, jto be manipulated in a way otherwise Impossible. Diamond cutting was once a tedious process, the rubbing of two diamond surfaces together by hand until the proper planes were attained. The angular chunks thus eliminated were wasted, whereas the modern method of cutting by machine preserves them to be cut into smaller stones. machine It was by perfecting a diamond-cuttinso accurate that the minute stones used so much Jewelry, often so small that today In stone-paveit takes from 100 to 400 of them to moke up a carat in weight and an ounce requires 13 H4 carats that New Tork city, about the time of the World war, succeeded Amsterdam, Holland, as the diamond cutting center of the world. Even though so that modern machinery Is almost one man can superintend as many as 20 machines at once, diamond cutting is still a laborious process, in which the slightest miscalculation may mean disaster and in spite of rigid economy almost 60 per cent of the original stone is lost. The rough stone must first be subjected to expert examination to determine its greatest possibilities. Once the lines of cleavage have been decided upon and flaws located, the exjiert scratches on the surface with another diamond the lines on which it should be split. The cleaver next adjusts his steel wedge along these scratches and strikes upon it with a mallet. I'pon the direction, force and snap of his blow depends the future value of the stone. g d fool-proo- - I r, l j j one-fourt- h. ah word--groov- four-almo- i , d |