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Show A Happy New Year A Happy New. OF HAVES COUNTY REACHES VOLUME XII Year KAYSVILLE, LAYTON AND FARMINGTON UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2571916 SUGAR COMPANY MAKES UP NUMBER 25 UTAH POWER AND LIGHT CO. BALANCE ON SITE OF PLANT A year ago last March a hen ths tory site and an indebtedness of Layton Commercial club .went out to $6,000 was carried over to be collected secure the plant of the Layton Sugar from the crop of 1916. Many of, the company, it was found that several beet growers protested against the communities in the state were bidding continued collection of the, assessment, for the location of the factory. When Suidthe site committed to attempted it was found that bonuses were being help out with the' indebtedness by offered the commercial club deter- seeking donations from business men mined to offer a site for the plant and not engaged in beet growing. A cona committee was appointed to work siderable amount of money was raised out a plan for securing and making by the committee, but there was still a payment for the same. After deliber- protest from severat of the beet growation the committee came to the con- ers. Notwithstanding several of the clusion that the money with which to growers paid their additional assessmeet the payment could be secured ment out of this years crop the sugar from the beet growers in the district company decided to put an end to the by a voluntary assessment of from 25 controversy by paying for the site to 60 cents on each ton of beets grown indebtedness from the funds of the for the factory. It was argued that company, which was accordingly done. the 21 cents per ton would be no loss All .(he growers who have paid their to the beet growers, from the fact that 1916 assessment have had the money 25 cents per ton had been charged the refunded to them and the matter is growers for freight to the sugar fac- now fully settled. The sugar company tory during the past years. The plan officials say they never asked the of the committee was adopted and the site committee for a bonus and factory secured "and" the assessment erected the factory on the strength of was collected on the crop of 1915. The the proposition made, but rather than crop of 1915 proved a very light one have hard feelings and misunderstandand the assessment was not sufficient ings prefer to thus settle the matter f to meet the payments due on, the fac for all time. EXPANDS; STORY OF PROGRESS uJIje llnfauij Printing Whats back of the button? What combination of men and mamake it chinery and natural resouu-epossible for the homes and stores and mines and factories scattered over a territory three hundred miles m extent 'and with a population of over river BTltTaho has the most direct and mportnut influence upon the prosperity" nd comfort of the people in the Utah and Idaho territory served by the company. The development work on Bear lake and Bear river was tarted several years ago and it not electric pet completed. The extensive opera250,000 people to secure light, heat and power instantly, by tions of 1916 include the work of dredging on the outlet canal, connectmerely pressing a button? Day or night, m fair weather or ing Bear lake with Bear river to a destormy, this rlectne service is at the gree"" where only maintenance work instant command of over a quarter of will be necessary in the future. Two a1 million people throughout, south- canals carry the flood and excess eastern Idaho, uorti-uapd central waters of Bear river into Bear lake Utah and western Colorado. each year where these waste waters are stored untij required to keep the foitns back the buttou?" of Whats flow' of the river up to normal, for the one of the most interesting and ' of the great indus- benefit of irrigated lands dependent trial awakening that has come to Utah on the river for their water and for atid her sister states during the past the operation of the companys power houses on the river. few years. The outlet canal, from the lake to It is a story of the creating and dethe river, is the means by which the veloping of a modern and unified sysstored-u- p water is carried back into tem of power plants for Bear river,. the generating of sufficient electrica homes stores and To the to augment the work of this outlet supply energy and the mines and mills and factories canal the Utah Power & Light comof this great and rapidly growing ter- pany has this year constructed on the ritory, together with the construction edge of Bear lake a large pumping and extension and' maintenance of station known as Lifton. This pump-in- g distribution station is a notable piece ol work. and transmission splendid is built on the edge of the lake as it which electrical the energy system, by ia carried to the cities and towns, the where no solid foundation exists. farms and villages and mines of the There was nothing but quick sand and region. clay for miles around and the foundathe meantime it is possible that all It is a story of the rapid perfecting tion for the heavy machinery of the street car lines will be open for traffic I of one of the largest public service or station and the enormous suction and I by Friday night. ganizations in the entire west the discharge tubes had to be carried down Conditions on the Centerville line Utah Power & Light company, with in this soft material to a depth of showed little improvement during local offices and representatives in al about 45 feet. The caisson, which was Wednesday, and there is small prob-- 1 cities, towns, villages and rural com used for sinking these foundations, I ability that the Holliday and Sandy munities in the wide territory through was the largest open caisson used for lout southeastern Idaho, northern am lowering bridge foundations and simlines will be open before Saturday. Because of the interruption in street central Utah and western Colorado ilar underwater works. The lifton car service, Murray and Sugarhousel which it serves. pumping station has five electrically and5 con-1 158 A received their total of cities first Wednesday towns, operated pumps, each driven by a 750 mail Lake are of the from Salt the rural communities served Slgnmenta horsepower induction motor and each by postoffice since Monday. Also the first Utah Power & Light company capable of pumping 300 second feet of mail to reach Salt Lake from those throughout this territory; 45,383 rest water. Power for these pumps Is suppoints - arrived yesterday. The ex- - dehces are connected to the line of the plied by a transmission line from the change of mail wastBfide possible j tompanyptha total number! custom-throug- h Grace Power- - station! - Bear- - river. ers served is 58,379; over 40 power The power is transmitted at 44,000 the use of motor trucks. cold the weather, Despite extremely plants, scattered -- throughout this volts and stepped down to 2300 volts the interurban lines and steam rail- - region, are operated by the company, for use in the motors. roads, except the Union Pacific, oper- - in addition to the great transmission It was the dredging of the canals a tod trains Wednesday in pretty good lines, local distribution systems and connecting Bear river and Bear lake shape. The Park City branch of the the large number of local office organ- - by the Utah Power & Light company ' in 1915 that enabled sufficient water Denver & Rio Grande wa4 opened izations maintained. ' Tuesday nighty after the train to Park It requires over 70 hours of travel to be drawn from Bear lake during City had fought Bnow near .the Sum- - by train, from the most northern to that year to save the crops in Cache )nit county line for more than ten the most southern part of the and Gentile valleys, and the construcNo service to Park City was tory served bjr the Utah Power & tion of the Lifton pumping station ihad oh the Rio Grande. The worst Light company, therefore constitutes an extra safedrift was near Summit and filled a In the four years the Utah Power guard in the years to come, in the ascut about twenty feet deep. & Light organibation has been oper- - surance that a sufficient supply of Some trouble was experienced on ating in Idaho, Utah and western water may always b6 sent down Bear le Provo, Ileber and Bingham Colorado, has brought river for the irrigators in the terri1 s Gtompmtij -- 0uharribrrfl of 3Bifl!Mi Srflrx ullfr ttfceltHi p A Prnspmnts 10X7 Nnu Brar hydro-eloctr- ic STORM DISRUPTS TRAFFIC AND UNION PACIFIC PAYS BONUS) formance of the duties of the emAND FURNISHES FREE INSUR- ployees occupation, consiting of half EMPLOYEES pay while the employee is disabled and ANCE TO ITS confined at home with a minimum of $5 per week, and a maximum period weeks and with an addiIn addition to the news conveyed to of fifty-tw- o lt Battling' desperately and wages for a the press this date by telegram re- tional indemnity of52half in weeks if it apfurther period of Lake City and the garding the bonus to be paid to all pears that the employee has become country succeeded Wednesemployees of the Union Pacific Sys- totally and permanently disabled for tem whose salaries do not exceed life, subject to a maximum disburse- day. in breaking, to a considerable exment of $2,500 on account ofany one who $1800 per annum, we are today in reillness or any one accident; All the tent, the grip of the storm king communication of the following ceipt foregoing insurance and benefits will had held almost undisputed sway for Mr.' V: office II. the of hours. more than forety-eigPlatt, he payable in monthly installments. through The life insurance will be payable and general manager, With the loosening of the grip here addressed to Mr. E, E. Calvin, .presi- to beneficiaries designated by the the storm took a fresh grip on western plan contemplates an ardent Union Pacific and Oregon Short rangement with a responsible insur-anc- e Wyoming to such an extent that the Line railroads, Omaha, Neb., from company to issue life and acci- Union Pacific, for the first time in dent R. S. of chairman policies called for by this plan, twenty years, was snowbound in that Lovett, Judge thj: board of directors. Union PadfieSys-tem- . until and unless the 'railroad com- state. The chief trouble was expershall hereafter conclude to issue New York City, which concerns a panies certificates of insurance themselves to ienced in the vicinity of Laramie, and new and liberal insurance-p- l antobe throughout thedayreeerding-tore-port- s, names, forms in for with force on Unibn Pacific all not a train moved between LarSysput particulars tem lines, from which all employees, ages, beneficiaries, etc., will be issued amie and Rawlins. Nineteen trains of all employees Vrhose s&larie"ao not exceed $4,000 for the information as soon as the necessary details can be were held up at various points because per annum7 will derive benefit. worked out, but in the meantime, the of the snow blockade. The Telegram is as follows: insurance will become effective JanNone of the Union Pacific connecindividual tions from the east reached here yesthe whether 1917, 1, uary New York, Dec. 21, 1916. policies can be issued by that date or and the indications are that the E. E. Calvin, Omaha, Neb. not, arid the life insurance will be pay- terday The board of directors of the Union able to of the delayed trains will not ardeath first if legal representatives, Pacific, at a special meeting held beneficiaries the should, occur before rive in Salt Lake until some time toapproved, effective January 1, are designated by the employees, Other railroads operating into 1917; a plan that has been long under While the power to amend or annul en- day. Salt Lake, however, made considerable consideration whereby every employee tirely the insurance plan is necessarily of the Union Pacific Railroad com- reserved by the board of directors, headway in the battle against the pany, Oregon Short' Line Railroad since it is a new departure, yet we are storm and passenger trains on the company, and confident in the opinion that it will main lines were brought into the city Railroad and Navigation company, never be necessary tJ discontinue it. schedule. who has been, or shall be one year in The object which the directors ex- pearly on the service, and whose compensation The Utah , this Light & Traction comto and accomplish by hope does not exceed $4,000 per annum, re pect insurance is to afford employees of pany was the chief sufferer. Service branches, but the regular passenger about the unification of a score or tory contiguous thereto. gardless of age or condition of health, the Union Pacific System the satis- to the outskirts of Salt Lake was service was s although the more electric companies; it has performed, and without any discrimination, shall faction of as so New Unit at Oneida long knowing that, demoralized throughout Wedwere a little off schedule. Theduced scientific management, erected be provided at the expense of the comadly financial some in are the service, they One of the new, large hydro-electrpany and free of cost to the employee, provision, although comparatively nesday and, under favorable condi- Jtah railroad, operated by the Denver j new power houses, provided for the the following insurance so long as he small in some cases, has been made tions the officials of the company do ri Rio Grande and constructed by the extending from storing pf enormous I quantities of power stations & remajns in the service, subject to the for them and their families against not expect to have all lines in opera- Oasllegate to Black Hawk, Hiawatha Power Light company since its' waste waters; constructed long trang-an- d Utah definite regulations to be issued, viz.: the misfortune of death, injury and illis the station at Oneida Mohrland, is expected to be ready mission lines; erected modern substa-o- r organization First, life insurance to the amount ness. It is a measure prompted by tion before Friday or possibly Saturin Idaho. During 19,16 river on Bear of one years full service Thursday morning. It has tions and has carried economical and wages with a mini-rau- good will o ward the employees and day. been of $500 and a maximum of their families whose welfare is borne this station has completed and a Snow sweepers were used until the een snowbound since Christmas day. dependable electric services to many second $2,500, the benefits of this insurance constantly in mind, and whose Each of service. into unit put steel brooms were worn short and The Provo branch of the Salt Lake towns, to include those retired after January mining districts and rural com these units have in establishing the success of made a capacity of 11,070. practically useless; in fact, touto also was opened Wednesday. munities where electricity had never 1, 1917, upon pension. these properties is greatly appreKVA. The water a heels of these two Second, accident insurance covering ciated. every sweeper was put out of commis- dttle trouble has been experienced on been available before, under present conditions, total disability resulting from injuries (Signed) R. S. LOVETT, , sion until new brooms were provided. the main line of the Salt Lake Route The past year 1916 has been one units arei m the Chairman Executive Committee. of performance of the employees The snow was packed so tightly that on account of the snow, and the only of the most developing 24,000 horsecapable important in the history occupation, consisting of half pay durpower of electrical energy and the stathe sweepers made but little headway. snow trouble on the Western Pacific 0f the Utah Power & ing disability with a minimum of $5 company, Light tion is built with provision for installMrs. C. A. Epperson entertained in Every available man was put to work and Southern Pacific has been in the This Per week, and a maximum period of year has witnessed extensive third unit at a later date. lw. years, and for certain permanent honor of the birthday of her husband with picks and shovels in an effort to Sierra Nevadas and has been so slight progTCgs on Beveral of the companys ing a injuries resulting from such occupabefore the clear of during J916inaug- tracks the that been arrival have trains passenger oper- j most important projects looking to the tional accidents, such as loss of Teg or on Saturday evening. Cards and a stathe storm, now active in the northwest, ated practically on time and freight j utilization of the natural resources in urated operations on a srm, the half pay indemnity to luncheon were the features of the and which in any event for periods it is predicted will reach traffic haa been moved about as usualthe territory it serves. The company tion at Cove on Bear river, just below the Grace station.' fixed, the maximum indemnity evening. Those present .were Dr.juid Salt Lake about Friday. months. extended its service to a number any accident to be $2,500. Mrs. G.D.Rutledge, Mr. and Mrs. J. The Utah Power & light' company . With the cessation of winds in jhas Fort Douglas still is marooned inso hrd, sickness insurance covering B. Cooley, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Epper- far as street car service is concerned northern Idaho and southwestern Mon- - 0f new comm unities, and large sums already operates a power plant at noth illness of at least one weeks durof money have been expended in re-- i Wheelon on Bear river and Diamond ation And also injuries resulting from son, Miss Gertrude Fletcher and Miss and has been since Christmas morning. ana, the Oregon Short Line was com- - congtrucyon work in cities, towns and Drill accidents not occurring in the per Estella Epperson. The soldiers, however, have succeeded lelled to begin a battle against ex operations have been carried out ruraj districts where service had been for several months past to determine in breaking a trail through the snow tremely low temperatures. The lowest previously established by the company. the condition of the river bed at thi3 so that teams may get to town for temperatures were recorded between Uteh and Idaho towns which, Spencer, Idaho, and Butte, Mont, andduring l916 have been added to.. the point and see if suitable foundations supplies. . can be secured for a high "dam that The thermometer registered 10 de ranged from lS to 31 below zero. Nojcoramunjty served by the previously will permit of the development of a new above snow zero 6 in S$lt Lake at iell Wednesday in that sec- company are grees followg; Benjamin, and tion reoclock Wednesday morning and the winds were light Offigreat deal more power at WTieelon, as Honeyville, Mendon, New- - well as mained low throughout the day. At cials of the read expressed the opinion effecting the saving of a great ton, Clarkston, West Jordan, Bear tost deal of water which is now lost night it began to recede further and at night that conditions, insofar as Bancroft, Lava Hot 10 oclock the mercury had backet the operation of trains was concerned, Spring8 and LundL The company ha3 through seepage. Transmission Lines down to 8 above zero. The low temper-attire- ' t tmJy" 'frozrthe"si?'oir ''a little The company fias considerably "exSwum uah er & $ coljtdistril,Ho tems in rarminlttOT DISCOMMODES PUBLIC GENERALLY unceas-ingly,'Sainter-mounta- . ht vice-preside- nt I ! -- J to-da- y, terri-hour- Oregon-Washingt- on s. 1 -- y intro-train- ic -- I m The-compa- ny. new-pow- con-un- ue defi-note- ly er - ' -- 1 3k"MA aid r Buy a FaYd the balance in the bank 7Sd we'oti h aadput' Think it over, and ask yourself if it isn't pretty good advice.- - LAYTON AUTO CO. LUCIUS LAUDIE, Manager DONT FORGET? harder and made the effective UEtf o: brooms a practical impossibility. As men to wield picks and shovels shovels began to fail to meet the demand, the street car company resorted to the use of salt in an effort to thaw the frozen snow. Tons of salt were, sprinklet along the Warm Springs line with view to making it possible to operate the cars as far' as the West high school. The came method of procedure was followed on other lines and if the supply of salt, men and picks anc shovels holds out and the predicted storm fails to reach tfcff section in m wtks il tended its transmission system during 1916. One of the most important features of work has been the construction of a 130,000 volt line from Spring-villUtah- to Helper, Utah, which carries electric energy for the operation of the coal mines of the United Fuel company and the Carbon Df C0QIb'y- - ker, Montpelier, R.chmond, Newton. States Fuel company. In connection with ths nnUT' Smithfield, Wellsville and Clarksfon of energy for the operatl 1 construction work car- - supplying -- a T01' of the coal mining prcpcrtl 3 various zP. " y U company during the of these I ffcreM1,ed companies, the Utah Torcr C past 'ear c furnishes c.. been brought tepsive and suffering Light importan, projects. 0f Vice tocompany towns the h of Mortlir. I' these the development work carriec (Continued bn Page Eight) Jon around Bear lake and along Bear (Continued to Edltcrud I'. ) tlart, yestwday morning, when tke and Waltofflaf Darin - th. rapstered 20 Mow zero. aUo aMe to temporlt Tb. l,w tender. tore retarded to, a pany- m, reUet Beverj mDnicipal plaMs who hld rob,e -- - continoona on the Salt Lake themost Strrvlirv . New street Iigktinir systems have SU!lf district been inetalle-.- I in Salt Lake tomely coId-.eaCity, Par. ri'T. w ' I e, - ait U.er r Tr' m,V -- |