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Show THE "RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH j : : 0. By : . ROADS Irrigation Water W. Israelsen, Professor of Irrigation and Drainage, Utah Agricultural College Many, water users, attorneys and cnglners urge that the measurement of irrigation water f vital importance to western progress. In nearly every phase of industry and commerce men pay for commodities and services In proportion to the amount received. For example, when we buy coal we pay a certain price per ton; when we send the produce of our (arms to the distant markets we pay freight In proportion to the tonnage; when we travel on the railroad we pay a fare based on the distance traveled, and when we purchase land we ' agree on the price and then carefully measure the area. Some irrigation projects now eharge Irrigators for water delivery in proportion to the amount of water used and many more will doubtless find it advantageons soon to do so. The West is experiencing a rapidly growing need for water measurement The late summer stream flow in many localities is fully appropriated and further irrigation expansion must come through storage. Flood waters stored in reservoirs at a high cost must in many cases be commingled with the natural stream flow of late summer in order to convey it to the lands that need irrigation. Ana, strange to say, usually the stored water looks, tastes and smells just like Che natural water, especially after they together splash andgurgle down the canyon trough. Moreover, since neither the stored nor the natural water is branded or marked, there remains only one possible source of identifying either, namely to measure them at the points where they hre is-o- il BREAK mixed and where they are separated. But by who mind how are these measurements to be made By the unskilled but honest layman? No. his mistakes, tho unintentional, may cost some one thousands of dollars ; by the skilled but easily influenced fine-fel- . low- - no his intentional errors may be equally as costly as those of the layman. The measurements must be made by a well trained thorough one having deeply plant ed into his system a love for being square, and also one having a real back bone. And then with such a man provided with proper engineering equipment such as weirs, orifices, steel tapes, ' ' cales, rubber boots that reach the hips, and precisely caliberated current meters the measurement of water is of great advantage to the water user and to the entire western public. For the irrigation company it replaces speculation with security concerning water costs, and it assures the enjoyment of vested rights, r- It helps the farmer determine what becomes of the water he uses; whether or not much of it creeps away in the dark of the deep soil underlain by porous material ; it protects the owner of lowlying land from having his land water logged Because it prevents excessive irrigation by his neighbor higher up; and finally, of great importance compared to these and many other benefits of water measurement; it is a factor of vital importance in the continued protection and enjoyment of the irrigators water right. For these and many other reasons it is advantageous to measure irrigation water. land values in the united States and LAND VALUES . B. Brossard, Agricultural Econo- Utah. Farms always find without exception are subject to fluctuations mist, Utah Agricultural College Many of the estates accumulated in value from year to year and from by farmers have been made largei.v decade to decade. There is no unithrough the rise In the value of land formity of varation, but there are rather than through farming opera- general tendencies which over a period of years may be studied and analtions. Tables 1 and 2 show the changes in yzed with profit Table 1. Avenge Value of Land an Acre in the State of Utah and In ths . United States as a Whole, 1900 to 1920 (U. S. Census Reports) . . ' ' During of Table 3. Tsar price due to an anticipated rise In the price of farad products. At present some lands ore held at prices which the productions of the same land will not pay Interest on. One reason is because of anticipates increased economic productivity of the land or anticipated price increases for agricultural products. Index Numbers of Prices of Farm Products and of Land Valuos In the United States Pro! Index of Prices of Ta m 1916-141- 0 Land Pets. Trly.l Chg. 909-13- Values 00 Pctg. Chere Yrly. X- Labor Statistics Bui. No. 290 and U. 8. D. A. Yearbook, Land val "es are obtained on March 1 following the yeat shown on the stub of the tabulation; figures may be regarded as representing approximately values at the close of the year indicated rather than average ; tor the entire yeer. Lands ross in value until 1920 when of land are not made is that owners The greatest increase are holding for values in exchange values felt waa In 1919 hud the greatest decrease which maintained In 1918 and 1919, In 1921,. The values of land did not too high for a purriso as high relatively as did ' the which values are ' on at the make" to interest chaser In 1917, prices of farm products. when prices rose &o per cent over present prices of farm products. Ileal i 1918 prices, land values rose but 13 estate' will change hands more readily per cent above the 1910 values. Land when these values are adjusted on Tallies In 1919 were not as high re- a new basis lower than at present latively as were the prices of tnrm or when prices rise sufficiently to : products, yet both were higher than make it possible foT a purchaser to make interest on the investment out at any other time. reason that more exchanges of the productions of the land.' Uj & Bureau of 1921, respectively. i . to determine tbe value of land. The "WHAT DETERMINES THE VALUE OF LAND acre which gives' the highest yield in product is not always the most B. B. Brossard Agricultural valuable. The acre nearer market , (By Economist, Utah Agricultural College) may be more valuable than the one in agri- that yellds more bounteously. The Many people interested s culture and economics are asking value of land is affected by 'economic as 'well as natural what it is that thomeelves determines the value of land. In the or physical factors.. Any factor that now common parlance of the overage affacts the kind or the amount of the citizen it la said that the supply and products of land such as climate, soil and topography or the prices receivdemand for land determine Its f ' ed for the products when said, tends ve. ' to reflect tills effect in the values of What ths sverage person thinks of s supply and demand are the acres the land. a Interest Rate ' Factor market-bidder- s Determining which deterand the mine price of land and not the more The simplest formula and also the causes basic one in calculating land values nnd fundamental deeper which determine the value of land. is that the value of an acre of land diThe wise man wants to know what is equal to the net annual income vided current the of rate Interest by dethe underlying factors are that on well secured land loans. It is termine land values. seen from the formula that easily Value Determlnd by Productivity either an increase in the net annual The value of land is determined income or a decrease in the Interest by. its economic productivity. By that rate tends to ' Increase the value of Is meant not alone the kind and land. The ' converse, of .tnis is also mount produced per acre but the true. Indeed any change in the In terest rate tends to affect land va: ftet value of the total productions. The prices if (arm products help ues. multl-tudlou- and-other- s , . - x ROAD-BUILDIN- IS BEST OF ALL MARKS G Fiscal Year 16,000 Miles Federal-Ai- d Roads Were 1922 -- -- - St. Paul iWomari Says Stomach Trouble Is Gone and She Has r., Gained :. 1 0 Pounds. $ Tanlac has1 meant health and hap. Prepared by the United States Department ..i of Affrloulture.) All records for road construction in piness to me, and I think It has no Mrs. : Albert Raping the United States were broken during equal, d declared resident of 29 E. 10th the fiscal year 1922, .according to the annual report of the bureau of public SL, St. Paul, Minn. I w?as so terribly run down my 'roads. United States Department of housework seemed like a mountain to Agriculture,During that period roads and me, and lots of times I had to give up miles of federal-ai- d more than an equal mileage of high- and rest. I was nervous, weak, and headaches and awful dts-z- y ways without federal assistance were had splitting spells.' My stomach .was so badly constructed. . highly-respecte- 10,-00- 0 ' From the viewpoint of federal-ai- d progress the year divides itself Into two periods, one before and the other "Flying Sets" on the' Newfoundland Banka. 'Prepared by the National Oeorraphla divisions maintain public politicalWashington, X. C.) There has been talk,, again of New schools. Instead, religious denominafoundlund joining Canada. To many tions have charge of schools in proporresidents of tbe Bnited States prob- tion to their membership, and funds are furnished to these schools by the govably this discussion raised a point on ernment 'Practically the only unifywhich they had somewhat hazy ideas that there are two distinct British ing activities of tbe government are in realms, not one, In the portion of North the laying out of studies and in tlie America above the Canadian border. giving of examinations at stated ' . , . ' Probably the fact that Newfoundland periods. Development of Ita Towns. . . has Insisted on standing, alone while The development of towns In Newall the other British possessions of North America have united to form foundland has been dictated first by tbe Dominion of Canada is largely economics and geography, and later by due to sentiment tlie pride that New- engineering, in a more striking way foundlanders have always had in be- perhaps than any other large region Newfoundland exing able to boast that theirs is the in North America. senior British colony, the first of the isted for centuries after its discovery children of the motherland to make merely as a place to dry fish. There was no settlement, only temporary .use its home beyond the seas. .. Newfoundland had Its settlements of the beaches and rocks near the coast as early ds the Seventeenth century When settlements did develop, they and was a British colony were naturally along the coast and exwith a governor when Canada was isted primarily to afford supplies tor New France, South Africa was in,the and otherwise to facilitate the fishing hands of tbe Dutch, and not a single industry. Buck of the coast the land white settler had landed In Australia. was unknown or known to consist .in The Island has a geographical posi- considerable part of bare area; of rock d Man barrens. tion of great Importance, for It largely and blocks the broad gulf Into which the confined bis operations to the fringe St. Lawrence river widens, and which of tbe island, and less than forty years forms Canadas front door from Eu- ago, nearly 400 years after Its discovrope. Moreover Newfoundland Is tbe ery, it Is said there ' was not a dwelling closest part of North America to the fire miles Inland. Tbe map of the British Isles, being only 1,640, miles country was almost like that of Arafrom Ireland. It is natural that the bia : a narrow rim of carefully mapped first cable should have coast, with the entire central portion been laid to tlie jihores of, the island practicallblank. But this, situation, was materially al1858', and) that lout of 17,cablea now crossing the north Atlantic il Brat tered by th construction a ffew decades touch American soil either' on: Newi ago of a railroad, mans chief modern foundland or Its neighboring Islets.' weapon In : subduing the wilderness. And when In 1919 airplanes finally con- Tbe road was flung In su arc through quered the Atlahtic It was from New- tbe beart of the island connecting SL foundland that both the American and Johns, chief port near tbe southeastern extremity, with the British machines took off, Newfoundland has an area of mors in the southwest, closest town to ths than 42,000 square miles, and is there- SL Lawrence ports of Canada. Along fore practically half the size of Great this railroad have sprung up the only towns in New Foundland. ' Britain. Excepting only Cuba, which Flno In Pises for Sportsmen. It It Is exceeds the size, barely largNewfoundland is a sportsmans paraest Island of tbe western hemisphere outside polar waters. With Its cliffs dise: In numerous streams near the of brown stone rising 200 to 300 feet, coast salmon fishing la unexcelled. broken here and there by, deep fjords .These fish average ten pounds in and bays, Newfoundland bas,a bleak jyelght gnd. numbers have been caught and barren appearance which belles weighing 25, 30 and even up to 40 conditions In many' parts of tbe rolling, pounds. Hotels are numerous in the timbered Interior. Along, a number of fishing country close to the railroad. the streams are fertile valleys in Back from the salmon country, the which agriculture and stock raising interior streams and ponds swarm with flourish. trout In the woodlands and on the Fish the Chief Industry. barrens are largff herds of caribou In late years mining, stock raising, or wild reindeer. Prowess In cariboo the manufacture of wood-pul- p and bunting is measured by the prongs on A thirty or "a newsprint paper, and a number of the stag bagged. other industries have been developed forty? is good; but the hunter who In Newfoundland, but throughout Its bags "a flifty has accomplished somemore than 400 years of history the thing as distinctive as tlie golfer who central story of the island might be holes out In one. told in one word : fish. Boston and So little is known In detail of largs Massachusetts have felt deeply in- parts of interior Newfoundland that debted to their sacred cod, but aft- the exact regions to which the caribou er-all that important creature came migrate in winter and summer have not from tlie Newfoundland bank, and been definitely ascertained. however-valuabl- e It has been to New , To a considerable extent since lta England, it has meant Tnuch more to colonization, Newfoundland has meant Newfoundland and through New- SL ' Johns. Affording' an excellent - . foundland to Great Britain. . harbor, 'dose to the cod banks, SL A good case could even be. made JolihS waters early became a much for the cod as a claimant for a place frequented anchorage' for fishing vesnaval 'watchdogs, and its on the British ; for that sels 'and lowly fish In a. way laid the founda- shores a convenient place for drying tion of the world-wid- e British empire; stages." Soon It was as well the central outfitting point and banking center Before the discovery of Newfoundland Britishers were of little Importance as for Britains part of the great fishing seafarers. The great wealth of cod' Industry of the banks. The harbor tells its story unmisfish which John Cabots finding of the Island disclosed immediately drew the takably to the voyager today. Wh&U men of tbe British Isles out of their ing, and fishing craft dot Its waters. , On the outskirts of the city are plants insularity. The next year after the discovery-1- 498 for the rendering of seal oil ; and near a fleet of Devon fishermen the wharves establishments engaged in crossed tb$ Atlantic and returned load- packing the cured cod. ed down with fish ; and from that time i - Sailing into SL Johns ope gets, too, on for centuries " the annual crossing thestory of Newfoundlands geographic and recrossing of the Atlantic took and geologic features. Two buttresses place.- .The British kings looked upon of bare granite almost meet at the harthe voyages of thousands of men to bors mouth, typifying the numerous d inlets of the Islands and from Newfoundland as the best coasts. The city has grown kind of training for seamen and deliberately discouraged the settlement up.anotlier steep and largely bare hill of the Island in order to perpetuate at the harbors- head. The principal the fishing from a British base. Great thoroughfare Is along the waterfronL Britain quickly became a seafaring SL Johns, might In fact, be called a nation; the navy grew; and with its .one street town. All other thoroughgrowth the British empire spread fares are subordinate to the street around the world. parallel with the harbors edge, and them that strike up the hillThe Newfoundland of today has a many-o- f government In general somewhat like side are so steep that they can be that of Canada. It Is not a crown negotiated' only with difficulty. As an responsible observer has put 1L the town Is a colony but a colony with a governor general appoint- reformed fishing village, dignified by ed by the British king, a premier, and government buildings. Near the top of tlie hill, too, stands forth an Anglican a parliament of two houses. Its edncutlonnl system is unique cathedral, its towers high above the . Neither the central government nor rest of the city. , y. , after the passage of the federal highway act. The first period was a season of great construction activity, during which the greater part of the work of completing the 10,000 miles was done It was also one of almost complete stagnation with respect to the Initiation of projects. When the'year opened there was an unobligated balance of $13,793,544 of the federal-ai- d appropriations, and the projects Initiated since the beginning of the work aggregated 85,402 miles. By the end of October, 1921, the unobligated balance had been reduced to the lowest It had been $11,714,328, since 1918. Only two states at that time had a balance of more than to draw upon for new projects, and a number were so reduced that their balance was not sufficient to pay for another mile of roadT : Just before the passage of the federal highway act the mileage submitted by the states bad not grown during the fiscal year, but had actually diminished as a result of the withdrawal and substitution of projects. The total mileage proposed was only 85,379 miles, as compared with tlie 35,402 miles of four mitiths before. Immediately upon tbe approval of the act th -- out of order almost everything I at would sour and I suffered terribly from gas, heartburn and a distressing smothering feeling. I could not sleep night my back ached terribly, I lost weight Is till my clothes didnt fit, and was ' a generally wretched condition. But now I get real Joy out of caiv Ing for my house. Since taking Tan-la-c I have gained ten pounds, never have Indigestion and all my aches and pains are gone. I take pleasure Is recommending Tanlac. Tanlac Is for sale by all good dru gists. -- Over 35 million bottles sold. Advertisement. Transmission. Sue He actually blushed after he Lou had kissed me. My dear, you. shouldnt .apply your rouge so thickly. Judge. V . Dld you ever hear of a doctors telk Ing a rich man that there was no hops for him? Cmoglhr - Following FLU d Chock it Today! WITH scrub-covere- trans-Atlant- As prices of farm products rise, land t slues tend to rise; as prices fell, land values tend to fall. These are general tendencies. The rise or (all in land values, due to the variation in the prices of farm products, usually lags behind the rise or fall in the prices of the products of the land. Sometimes, however, land rises in DECLARES TAKUiC BETTER The Measurement of FOLEYS i non-coast- - . coat-of-an- . much-indente- d. rock-ribbe- Wt Ettmhlimked WATCH THE BIG 4 ic SfanacbKidney$-Heart-I2v- Cement Road. . Initiation of projects took on new life and In the months of March and June reached the unprecedented total of f 250 miles a month. At the close of tho year tbe submitted mileage la 39,940 miles, 4,538 miles greater that) at the close of the preceding fiscal year. At the .(dose of the preceding year projects completed aggregated 7,469 miles, and there were 17,978 miles under construction, which were estimated as 60 per cent complete. In one year the completed mileage baa grown to 17,716 miles, an Increase of more than 10,000 miles, and there still remain under Construction 14,513 miles which are estimated as 56 per cent complete. The federal aid earned by the states on completed and uncompleted projects amounts to $194,560,135, of which $166,911,552 have actually been paid. The total length of projects In all stages. Including those which have been completed and those which are In the stages preliminary to construction, Is 89,940 miles. cr Keep the vital organa healthy by regularly taking the world tandardremedy Car kidney, liver, bladder and uric add trouble LATHROPO Haarlem oil FThe National - i2 11 Remedy of wnwf fa centuries. At all druggists in three rises. Guaranteed as represented. Leek ter the name Cold MmU ea Wf brauU HMft m inriurtan f & vHt tadlspenssble in aB cases of Distemper, Heaves and Influenza, Coughs, Colds, Worms smong horses and mules. Used and endorsed by leading stock farms, breeders and drivers of United Ststes and Canada for thirty years; Sold in two sizes at all drug stores. Ths roads brought to completion during the year average over 200 miles for each state. The greatest increase In - completed mileage Is in Texas, which, has added during tlie year 933' miles to Its completed highway. ArkanGRANULATED LIDS sas, Georgia, Iowa, ' Minnesota and Weak eyes made strong. Satisfying results North Carolina, each with an Increase guaranteed or your money refunded. of more than 500 miles, and Montana $1.00 for this guaranteed treatment. and 'Wisconsin, with more than 400 Itis-Re- al Co. Remedy made notable toward advances miles, Sll Americas Bank Bid. Lumi City. Met the goal of a completed highway sys- 05OE EITESO ' tem. A number of smaller states, such as Louisiana," Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, made very substantial Increases In proportion to their size. ; The largest payment of federal aid. during the year also went to Texas,, which received . from the government $5,915,046 and earned nearly $200,000. more. Other; large payments were, made to Illinois, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania, each of which received from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 or more during tsstmsKzxGsxAKsnxr SAQKXfl - . tbe year. i... i . ' v Much License Fee Money. The Pennsylvania' state highway - department has received $400,000 thus far ia revenue for motor vehicle license applications for 1Q23. More than 40,000 licenses have been applied for. - Issues Maps of Roads. The provincial minister, of roads of Quebec Issues a map of roads of that province, the first, of Us kind ever is sued in Canada, and which is of greai Interest to motorists, especially from, the United States, tma fitTamomm w MttDrtakThatQidcuid & Make Yfju . 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