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Show 34 F ar A. C. U. Student I'll the personnel Quarter bids fair to make even war of the Utah numbers exceed those of peace. ehould be af-- , Representative Families. f eated In many ways bV the war. Those familiar with the state can Iraft and volunteering have taken recognise a stodqqts county or bis an many of Us tipper classmen, for the cestors The county by his name. college has always prided Uself on its Maglebye naturally come from Sevier mature students and on its Benedict county; the Redds, from San Juan; club which asually has about 40 mem- th Whites and Twitcbel from Beavthe from Iron; the er; Joneses, bers, On the other hand the freshand Chlpmans, Ktrkham man class is the largest and best from Taylors, Utah; the Lees,, from Nelsons the and Summit; inLowry ever entered the that has from the Austins, Nebeker stitution. TMi lhort practical courses, and KEmery; earls from the shores of Bear the correspondence courses, and tha Lake; the Barbers asd Thatchers, from Cache; the Hugheses from Davis, extension lecturers are more tn de- the Wests, from Weber, while it is mand than ever, for now Is the time fair guessing that the Madsens, Olsens and Nelaens from Sanpete and for speedy preparation for the serfoua that Gwonfredcome Jones and Annie Evans b trainees of life, were born in Maiad. Ail these well , Utah families and many other Military drill has become the most j known are represented at the It. A. C. They popular course at the college because show that the student body has some students know that faithful work in of the best plonesr blood in its veins this llne'ls an Imperative duty as well and represents well the great stock of the state. as a valuable training which may andAs farming industries outside Influences the! raise them above the rank of private. U. A. regards C Is quickly encircling the War is not a wholly unmixed evil for world It has one correspondence stuin one in York and New dent City it has put a serious directness into the both of whom are ork of collegians which Is apparent Shanghai. China, tn their being guided by M every band at the U. A. Cr studies in animal husbandry. Three The student body of the U A. C. nephews of Mtrxa All . Kuli Khan, consul general for Persia in the United is an interesting study as representaStates, are students at the college. of as well state as tho whole tive of Two years ago their uncle gave the baccalauredte sermon at the college with The entire Intermountain country and was then sofavorably impressed a few foreign students to 'give "a c with the work of the institution that air to the campus and show be wished his nephews to share in its that Utah is doing her part in educat- many advantages and carry the pracback to Persia. Persia has ing the world and Influencing sur- tical arts poets end philosophers acenough colthe states. Although rounding cording to him and needs dry farmers Lake students from Salt has many and irrigation experts. lege The college has registrations also and Ogden the largest part of the from California, Canada, Virginia, 0 cent, about per stpdenta. probably Idaho, Wyoming, - Color ado, Mexico, comes from the country towns and vil- Illinois. Arixotmr- Oregbh and lows. Thus the students of tire college replages. Every county in the state resent all phases of Utah life and yet Piute and Grand was represented comprise enough representatives from by November this year by registraoutside the fctate te give a valuable tions. Emery county alone sent 24. broadening element -t- o- student life And the registration for the winter and to show that the workof the. Many Combinations. interesting to note the elective studies of some students. One young woman te studying French and farm motors, tha first that she may become a more efficient private eecretary end the second that she may take an em, listed brother place on the rmben next summer. Another te etudymg French so ae to write to her soldier sweetheart in France sod home economics so that she may make him a good wife after the war. Many students are working their way through college. Four young women work afternoon in the telephone office. One young man, who two years ego drove three cows froth Ogden to Logan so that he might support himself by their milk and increase while studying, ha become an expert photographer as well s chemist and te abandoning On tha milky way for the camera. on Saturdays alt through the fall 44 students over aeen have might working in the Cache valley orchards and beet fields. Several young women take theoretl-- f cal work In home economies at the college In tho morning and apply it in Logan hornet in the afternoons and evenings. On of th football men It Roy-lanc- - t I -- - aggi-egat- SolomonavlU Arison Deo. 2j Houses built In part from the house-hol- d debris of some race, the history , of which no on has any knowledge, j te a peculiar feature of this village Fragments of pottery, very numerous in certain localities, become mixed tn the adobe day of tha large bricks of which ths houses art constructed, serving ss a sort of binder Thus any householder may stand by Salt th walls of his domicil and for a beau" t knifed d buttery 1 and i f husbandry course ia the morningafter) - fashioned Perhaps of works Hi a butcher shop In the as a com. noon. Th "autoraooile class of stu- - years ago. tn the low foundation momffone u U. dents has not yet Invaded the possible to find one or mnre Student subscriptions tins' year is quite rude In mortars the which of sme i to the Liberty bonds and tho Friend du:r prehistoric housewife ground ship fund for the eoidlers showed only" con. three subscriptions of five dollar. r a of water-jaTh J Moat of them majority of ths ran from on to two dollars. For th friendship fund each families is one of the ancient ollas. . student tried to give ths result of one made of pottery, some over two feet In height, hundreds of which have - day's work. A typical A. C. student te Heber been dug up tn perfect condition in this I well established that from j Meeks, a senior from Kanab. who te valley. It now president of the student body. He the Rio Gila those ancient residents 1 come from a stock country and was took water for irrigation, as trace of I first attracted by th animal husban their canals have been found by mod! sam utility. Above dry courses offered by the college. A ern builders of the this village the foundation walls of j he has fulfilled s three year1 mission I in the southern states he te a mature their communal houses extend for sevI type of student and much Interested eral miles, thus prompting the first iin. debating, writing.. and-- commercial : Mexican settlers to call the T work. Last year he was editor of the Ciudad Vleja, meaning an ancient vil- Buxser. The presidents of th various lag. I' 1 " 1 j OtMWi KlKKffMH i , -JhCUfOttlt - PtESUiH STUDENTS - tttiK. of- Tie ' - fStE - t.JT.C - Acres f 'Laid lFr It explained by the fact that the more land board had investment In notes was necessary in order to protect the also a right, which has not yet expir-- Ion of the board that the expense bond In force of 14 081.741.17; interests of the state. It was not de- ed. in the waters formerly stored in would be out of proportion to the valuable land usually are sold, while while there waa on hand, available sired, however, to interfere unneces- the Hatchtown reservoir, which went amount of land it would recover. Efthe leased lands are a a rule rang ,for an additional sarily with the rights of farmers who out some year ego. Negotiations are forts ar hinder way to reach a satis,uth investments land and prior to 1904 leased at an 18514,404 43; making a total of have lands under the project. Confer- under way fo oh of these right and factory agreement with the settlers board ad- - ences were held with all Interests con- two prominer t projects are competing and water users under that project tend which '148.79 state th 6 1 cents an rental value of i ministers in Its various trust fund and it is that a solution On involve taking tha water from The state te now using its primary cerned, acre. This Increased during the next . investment of nr le will be fonad by hoped which the rights of the Bovier at the Sevier Bridge dam,' water rights and rented water rights state; funds decade to 1 cents an acre, while for . municipal bonds, school district bonds; the farmers under the canal to water and conveying it along the Sevier for their benefit, and they are furfrom the dbect flow of the th 97,109 acres on which leases were Irrigation district bonds; city imprtrv-grant- from the Price river will be protected, high hne canal to a stretch of terri- nished warrants; and production from that fertile terri- tory beyond Delta, where fertile land river. COQntF warranU; during 1914, th rental value mnt reservoir fund warrant notes of Oerey Act Project be continued. tory of proven possibilities awaits only wawas almost 79 cents an acre. state of Utah, and farm loans. ter to make it richly productive. Own-er- a Practically nothing has been done Plato Project. Of those fund that for the public of land in that territory are al- with Carey act projects during th Land Prices Advance. On the Piute project, which Includes school system Joi the State te by far ready forming an irrigation district year, with the exception of that of the the states big dam on the Sevier d Of 54. 11,097,400 the adlargest, totaling have sales under Delta Land A Water company, derivthe new tew. Similarly prices also n canal system of consida little more than vanced in value materially during this amount ing Its water from the Sevier river or 1313.8(1.79, was then swatt- erate extent covering lands extend-4n- g Big Project. Propose Under that project the settlers are new from Joseph welt past Richfield, statehood. Prior to 1904 the sales of ing Investment. nd acnp on their tend the Mate this year has continued a Another bid for the earn water Is proving the lands brought an average of 11 14 an It may be mentioned. Incidentally, ay title to the water which being made by the district known as quiring stem of to wi the Improvements acre at public auction, and 1.45 that these funds are in the actual and diversion dam which will the Levan ridge, soutn of Nepbi. where will ultimately place the project In reqube already large cents an acre at private sale. During custody of the state treasurer, when tbs expenditure of about 3(9,999. dry farm crops are their own hand The grown. Thin te Th appropriation for experimental treas- eanal te are state The invested. not and they the next decade the cokreeponding fig- urer. by arrangement with various being made large enough, to woukl Involve n high d territory, deal well of which the state land board the waters of four canals which by which tha ures hacj advanced to 11.94 an acre at banks of the state, derives 2 per cent carry has several, was not continued unusers already water present now one arother for about 29 der the Gunnison reservoir would use by tbs last legislature, with the result auction and 12.79 at private sale; interest from these fund but sucb mile parallel Been have startNegotiations the state's storage water., and the wa- that any activities in that line projectfunds of ed. and are while during 1911 the sales of offered interest goes to the general meeting with ter they are now using would be ed came perforce to a halt. the Mate, rather than to the state all for four to favor, had sale advanced at to lands companies transferred through n long high line private Institutions which were the benefici- merge their water In the The of 1917 for various one eanal to tha Levan ridge. Tha project reasons legislature canal 13 47 an acr For several year now, aries of the land grant On the other taking It oat as was not particularly generous In ac- Involves government aid. as at present in and required, Inboard has land the its when for the land appropriations the board has sold no land at leas hand, cordance with their right and shar- outlined, and the estimated cost varies vested the money, it usaally draws 1 ing the expense board, and the result te that member of than 12.10 an acre. and from 33,999, U 31.999,999 enlarging anywhere of the board predict that, if the state's cent Interest, which goes to the maintaining the canal. This it te ar- 090. Since statehood, according' to the per work te to be handled, the various maintenance of the institutions con- gued would save both water and exIn the meantime, with regard te the funds appropriated for K by the legilatest available report of the land cerned. pens slature will be in the red" before the , project, the board has With regard to the Investments It board, that for the fiscal year of The state still has a surplus right Hatchtpwn decided not te rebuild the dun next legislature has concluded its sea- the while said be In formerly the may that, was Plate which not canal storage, and there 1s that was washed out. It is the opin-- 1 sloua 1911, printed until in board invested somewhat several months plater, certificates of Jand bond it has of late years devoted alsale or patents have been granted most all th funds available to farm for 2,933,91.75 acre of .which the loan These draw 6 per cent Interest, and under th! rues of the board muM sale price was 11,298,014.95. be for more than 50 per cent of The same report givee the tojal of not value of the land ofthe state land unsold af 2,246.548 84, of feredappraised as security, exclusive of Improve: which 1,215,190 84 had been offered ment The state itself, particularly hi of the state. for sale but had not been sold, while the general anfund of borrower extensive also been 1,911,178 was the estimate placed on book of the year dealing ord of the adventures of Smith and temporary loans from the state land ME constant groerth of the city it the amount of land that had not been board. When the present administrawestern history te written hte intrepid body of early American It e found tnto office tion came offered for sale. The volume also contains forcefully reflected by the busiformer Utahn, Prof. IL C. nexplorer In notes states of the total of 1400,000 of of wonders th the description ness handled by toe courts and The administration of the lande reDale, formerly on the faculty Yellowstone of the land board, drawNational the possession antedating park, offices of record. During the maining In the control of the state, ing 5 per cent Interest. This had been of the Agricultural College of Uta the first hitherto known, description and of the funds derived from the sale increased to 1850.009 by December 1 of and now n member of the1 faculty of by 15 year Neither Ashley nor first 11 nmnths of to year 1917 there of such lands as hare been disposed of. this year, with the collection of taxee toe University of Wyoming. Prof, Smith were illiterate trappers but edu- wer 1,375 law and equity cases filed with scientific minds and in toe 1917 it Vaa expected that these ctxnt to UUh tftcr spending cated mentnterewted the principal of which te let out at In- for Third judicial district court tn the progress of reduced, loans would be materially yow it Harvard doing graduate ardently in Salt Lake county. During the terest, but must Itself remain Intact, thereby releasing mors money to he work In geographic knowledge. and Immediately be-history tiro work based his Professor Dale has year of 1913 there were 1.741 r te a duty of the land board. This in- disposed of as farm loan Ithe cases source of filed. detailed ESS ; study volve it will be seen an immense Remove 15,090 Restriction. are drawn The civil division of the citv court j te called toe Explore- - ?UnT 1911 maunused banking or trust company businea hows a rerarkable growth. Although j tUm. and toe PiscoverTof manuscript fnm. The former administration ia The total collections of tha land board mad a role that ho loan on farm Routo to the Pacific. It te pubhshSl terial preserved In to archive of toe it has not been In existence nearly as Missouri Kantoe Historical 15909. as more to IMrlot court, ttpassed than the Arthur society, by H. for long be should Clark lands for the fiscal year already referred to company in wtu however, a large balance Cleveland, Ohio, in n limited edition sas Historical society, tbs Academy ef the latter institution this jrSar lit, ths were 11,229,357.52, say, iq round num- There Coast Pacific when 759 ef elsewhere. and 11.009.909 number history, of cases filed. Dec. r. ikg. copies which will on hand mors than be there was a total of 24,253 com bers, a million and a quarter dollars ths present land board took offlc sufficient foe ell the publichardly libraries and in the wem where the book will ex- Geographic Discovery file in toe district court, and 24.12! en of annual bssines which was not benefiting the state in- cite raphy. much interest end clear up many fils in ss explained above. Ru stitution city court. Thera were The author throws much new light filed in ths Land Board Receipts. disputed point the court during ths first present land board, therefor re on of te the th South n It account of toe first overland pas discovery 11 months tity of 1917. 3.992 eases ar This was segregated Into collection ed the 15,909 restriction. the Overland trail. Great Salt Lake. a of expedition to the Pacific memlwes by 3,142 against the for meantime ths year of 1914. th In different route to that followed in gen- Bridgera pas toe Yellowstone Nafor the interest fund which went In the first 11 months of the year board, as soon as th weather per- eral by Lewis and Clark. tional park, northern California, end there The to tha benefit of the Various schools the expediwere on ths large 13,399 documents filed in mitted. got very busy tion of William Henry Ashley in Oregon. The progress of the discovery and state Institution of 1321,212.74; number of applications for loans that offlc the South Platte, across what and of geographic knowledge of toe the county recorder's up involved and collections for the principal fund were pendliig. Their work lands of- to now northern Colorado tn the dead west previous to Ashley and Smith to againstand14.711 for the same period ef 11.351 191( the for last year. of whiter, over the continental divide, analysed at length on the baste of the visiting sad appraising of 1814.144.71. To place the office on a fered ss security. The result to that and toe perilous canyons of latest researches and of much new bast fees for filing of document Something of the nature of the busi- the balance on hand ha been very Greenthrough river In rudely constructed manuscript material. Professor Dale in toe recorders office were Increasness te shown by a tabulation of the materially reduced during the present boat and finally still further d has conducted extensive in ed. Also te to the victnity of the Great Salt western cartography and researches the strict economy exercised by collections for principal funds as fol- administration. Of course, receipts interprets comth various funds are constantly the Lake, forms toe first stage tn the early geographic knowledge of the G. H. Isiau v. county recorder, reduclows: ed and the fact defltit tn 1913 to 37,473 35 as utilization of the fa- west on the basis of early map There ing in, but tn spite of this reduced discovery mous overland rout te California. been had te also against 314.197. 97 for to year 1914. Land sales certificates ... .1149.411.14 balances careful discussion of toe to From the Interior basin, in 1824 contributions of lead 1 There were 2,740 marriage license December Investment Collections ... . 471.178.17 by Ashley and Smith to More- Jedediah Strong Smith pushed on western 8 471.41 about half a million dollar wued by the county Hatchtown project sales.. ' deck during cartography. across the and deserts of Utah were the and 3 Nevada first 11 months of this year over. pending, Piute project sales applications The work contains to 14,18 life of 1.208 07 had been reported on by members of and over the 8terras to 8an Gabriel Ashley, whose importance only to Miscellaneous sources ... 2.273 compared for exth correae ee San Diego toe first American of interest the board, which when allowed by the and has hitherto been scarcely sus- sponding period of 1914. This shoes 81mtlar)y, collections by land. Journey- plorer an board would still further materially to reach California funds show; increase of 484. Also th only life ef Smith, north to the Stanislaus river, he pected. Land sales . 81,618.10 reduce the balance on band, and loci, ing the Sierras end retraversed who deserves to rank with th foreLease rentals 23.354.50 dealally increase th revenues of the recrosscd most American to explorers and geog- long after Smiths deserts of Utah and Nevada to the visit to California Investment collections 218,116. 90 state institution , ' Great Salt Lake These two expedi- rapher The summer rendezvous, likewise fruta Hatchtown project . ...... 140.55 tion form The Dam. Price River together Far Trade, n single old enterprise 11.130 12 print, is fanciful but typieL Piute project . th discovery of the central Much fresh and oa toe history Axhley established the rendezvous s Miscellaneous . One of the moot knotty problems southwestern 451.91 route to toe Pacific. A of the Americanmaterial end British fur trade a large scale as means of conducting board during second expedition confronted hava the that carried Smith, the is included. The development of this the fur trade. Th The 1911 revenue, as seen by making the Canyon of Lodors whit man, the year came as the result of the fu-industry W discussed on the basis of well illustrates the perils encountered a compilation-fro- m the above table break in the mammoth dam of the California an( Oregon.entire length of the factors geographic In which de- tr Ashley tn descending Green rivet was 1491.150.07 from investments; Price River- - Irrigation company. termined Its growth and the progress The Gallatin map that the The Original Narrative has never been ft 1451,171.40 from land sales;' 121.154.59 Carbon county. It happened of attendant narrative In discoveries. Ashley wan- printed stnoe It first appeared in th The vivid in hands gives the board had already placed from rentals; 141,794 21 from the of Its attorney a loan of 1 199,909 made detail a thrilling account of hte re- derings of such men as Manuel t transactions of the American 'AntColter. Ezekiel William Journey. There have been the iquarian society in 1834. It te surPiute project; and 19.222.11 front the to the Irrigation Lands company, and markable but four descents of Green river to be Astoria n James Bridger, Thomas prisingly accurate and far surpasses subsequently taken over by the Price recorded with any degree of Hatchtown project. minute- Fitzpatrick, Etienne Provot, William many that followed It. River company, which was to bf . It may be said here that under the repaid In 14 equal annual Install- ness and this te th first and most Sublette. Donald M Kenxic, Alexander Professor Dale has spent shout eight ef toe four. The existence Roa and Peter-SkeePiute project on November 30 of last ment Of these twe had been paid, detailed Ogden srsilears in th preparation of hi hock of this narrative waa not even sus- trered and their share in has travelled over much of th were du the or two but three and progress ind all there had been sold year, 1141.43 pected until Prof. Dale ran across tt of discovery decisively estimated. came the break In the daaa In territory he describee on foot or 0 to archives of th Missouri Hisacres, of a total value of 1303.01 10; Then horseback had His enthusiasm for hi W" While the company also primary torical lilnstrsUon The Smith narrahit Jact, his scholarly method and qnd under the Hatchtown jmjcct water rights In the river, and the tive has society. never before been published The I frontispiece the mkp first discovery of rare Journals make hh 4.711 41 acres, valued at 1153,981.11, dam was used only for storage pur- In English. The two Harrison G. Rogonook 8ml,b somewhat d unique addltioj ers Journal TJub poses in a waterway of kept by th clerk of Land Board Investments. , toe route to to far from large collection ce! tarn and irregular runoff, tt was Smith s expeditions to California, give Sf Atote? ThS mili-'- 1 " brel ,xx hich careful and frequently exciting rec- - te from an treat of Utah biotwf. 'The same report showed that the felt by the board that a foreclosure early wood cut made aot before 1347. 14.598,-avera- ge -- ed riv-ar.- one-tent- h, three-cornere- i ly New Book on Early Utah By Former Utah Professor Court Records Show Steady Gtowth In County THE ; herto con'kn ? 1824-18- Tn October 1SS9 we made our first farm loan in Utah The farm was located In Cache County. In the 28 years which have elapsed since then no Investor purchasing our mortgage eecurties ha ever lost a dollar. ' and our treatment of our farmer borrowers has been such that our business has grown and grow and is now, and hua been for many, year the business of its kind in the Empire, big-ge- in We are financial correspondents of the I'nlon Central Life Insurance Company, with amrsts over 1120,000,000 00. Our main olHoee krams Funding, halt lake Oitv. I tj$,. Hufm gonna Rulkjlng, oOico, Farm Loans . . n- Miller & Viele -- sun-dri- j ff approximately 62.400,949 acres, it may be . estimated that the grant, to th schools of ths state alone comprised something dose to 6,404,444 acres In addition there were grants for ths University of Utah, th Agricultural college, deaf and dumb asylum. Insane asylum, institution for th blind, normal school, miners hospital, school of mines and similar institution Terms of these grants differ, and there are some matters relating to mineral and coal bearing lands that are still in dispute. But enough has been said to show that the stats land board as trustee control th rental or sale of an Immense area In the aggregate. The enabling act permits the state to sell these tracts as demand may arise, but requires that the proceeds from such sales shall be held intact, and that the Interest from such fund and th rental from such state tends as are leased, shall be a permanent Income for th Institutions designated. Up to the beginning of the present year abqnt 1,150,000 acres of these state lands had been appraised, show-in- k an value of approximately 14.600,000 to which might be added almost 1500,000 appraised as Improvement Lease were tn force at the beginning of the fiscal year Just ended totaling 188,000 14 acre the rental value from this source being 111,44.11. The amall leasing vain of th lands Building Erected Out Of Household Debris 1 pt portion ef the state In which the land boards affairs would be more strictly under hte Individual guardianship. Amt of Statu. The land surface of ths state being te r.tiud7n7uk.-nl- i the-colle- ITH th sxceptioa of th .United States, th biggest landholder in the state of Utfch judged either by the amount of land held or .its value te th state Itself. The possessions of state are administered by the M; ths state board of land commissi on era Many Important matter regularly deof th board, mand th attention among which are the Hatch town state reservoir project; the Flute state reservoir project; various Carey act projects and proposals and applications and proofs of settlers; leasing of state tends In national forests; and the leasing of other state lands; the right of tho stats to various school sections T Involving tn many Instances adverse dalms at the United Btates landof-flo-e under homestead, mineral claims, T etc.; experimental well work; Utlga- I ; tioa In tho courts and in the federal j Jand department affecting the stat title to coal lands; investment of grant fundsfpubllc sales; private sales; ap-- j p raise Is, farm loans, etc. With the new administration a new board cam into office. The I I land changes, however, did not extend far Into the office force of the board, . and It may be said that there were i, j probably only a few more than the ordinary changes in the personnel of of ths board, when the new f the staff i men came tnto power. The new land , board organised with R. E. Davis, of j Millard, as chairman; Arthur Kuhn, as secretary; Richard Jones, j fcj ef Ogden, of Heber City, N." P. Ipson, of Beaver, , ' and Christian Willardsen, of Ephraim, ' ! as member. 'Early In the year they J apportioned the work, Mr. Kuhn, of course, remaining in the office, whf th other four members each took ear college clubs are all students whs lift themselves above the mam by thaie executive ability or by their arhoiar. ship. Such are Miss Caroline Wyatt, It. president of tile Home Economic dub; Hutme Nebeker, 1$, editor l the college weekly: Serge Balhf, jj president of the Commercial club, and Ebeneser Kirkham. ll, president of the Agricultural dub. These club presidents com from such remote corners of the state as Kanab and Laketown and show that tha collet is a most democratic Institution and recognizes ability, no matter where h . comes from. college te highly esteemed abroad as well as at horns. , pre-ar- I aru , west-war- ..... k .....1 ... ......... n K |