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Show I rs,3 i, . , 1 t.. - " he U,7. THE DESERET . - HOW ininioin C.r' fpoinph' onheFatlflc NEWS 1 SATURDAY JtJNE tv . gumcnt-- farm-burea- Freight- I - ! es-ja- te -- -- -- Fef-eren- ce it -- sessors. . Y- Tells BEN HITE How He Took Up His Early ' Struggles. ' This Is the twenty-sevent- h article of The Deaeret News series on the early lives and struggles of prominent men of Utah. They are meant to be intimate studies, away from ths stereotyped 'biography, explaining bow these men got their start In life and how they rose to -- uch prominence -hey have achieved. They gave these interviews st the solicitation of Ths News, without cost to themselves; and thi publication of Aha ketches war undertaken In the hops that they might prove an inspiration and benefit to the rising generation. Thev are to be written by Mr. Ben Hite through special arrangement. He k. a trained newspaper man of long ' experience and takes full responsibility for the correctness of ths things set forth In these personal! -- . Is something simple, di- ly sure from the beginning that ore rect, Inexorable and Inevitable was there. . Struck By Panic. about theillfe f E. J. RaddaU I had" no more than got started which began with an idea when the panic of 1907 hit us and I he was a boy, and which carried on than can tell you It was some storm - to years the . slowly, steadily through weather. I had to meet payments on like a mountain stream grown to a my option as well as secure money for mine operations. I sold some stock river, gaining irresistible force as it here and some to a few friends I had neared its haven ths sea. Like the made In Milwaukee. These last are river "It broadened wtth vaster sweep istilL with, me, but many of my associates hsre gave up and quit. I stayed and more assured- purpose, losing Job over In Stockton and- put some of the turbulence of the begin- with my I cent every could rake or scrape Innings and 'gaining calmer potency, the Standard.,- - After seven years a cogent, unvarying power that has to of hard discouraging work we took brought him finally to his goal, the out our first car of ore, December, sole maker and heaviest owner of the 1918, which netted us 81,800. Up to one- - of the greatest 1918 we levied 19 and silver-lea- d mines of the West which that was the last. In assessments that year we ran has already yielded $11,000,000 to the Into the ore I had always been lookwealth of the world and is said to ing for and knew was there. I say I have only' started on its surprising knew it because I had always had c&rser of production. At the age of that firm conviction . that amounted sixty-five- ,rich. hearty and vigorous. to a certainty. It was a vast body of hs is fairfy content with this one grejt hig.h grde aUVer-lea- d ore and we are achievement and the confounding gtl mlning in it. I dont know how there Yet enemies. his and his critics much we have got It breaks out In Is still another ambition tugging at alt directions and gets better as we his heart strings which he will doubt- go. Since that original strike- - the less follow with the same dogged de- mine has produced $11,000,000 and termination that marked the history has only started. Froih 2 cents the of ths Tintic Standard. Unless sooner stock reached a high point of $7 and verified .by. compflete Justification of something, I think In 1920 his fixed convictions, he will pursue "Now, then, I have accomplished this Intense, urging thought until his what I had set my heart upon. I have hand falls palsied to the desk and his demonstrated a great mine and added brain refuses longer to function. He untold possibilities to the Tinttc disproposes to prove that the North Beck trict. I have much the same feeling will he a great mine, thus extending for the North Beck as I had for the the already formidable' distances of Standard,' and I hope before I pass the Tlntio mining district and demon- out to prove that there Is another strating It beyond all cavil or carp as great mine." one of the greatest mining districts His Early Lifer of the world. We talked about his early life. He For two hours we sat In his private office In .the Judge building. They was born in 1157, his father being In were two Intensely Interesting hours the coal business in the old country. for me as I traveled all the way from The whole family came over when he Stettin In Germany, through the early was 11 years old and settled at Wentx-ydecid- ed mining camps of Colorado to Durango ville, Missouri, where his dad took to in old Mexioo and back to some of. farming. .Young Raddats got what more recent mining days of Utah, schooling ho could at night and at 15 I came away with but the one convlo-tlo- n went Into a flour mllL Today he Is a short compact ipan give a man a fixed purpose In life and the confident, unfailing cour- of sturdy frame with an Iron-gre- y age to follow that purpose In spite of mustache and hls alert movements bedissua- speak the physical force that must all obstacles, ths sions of friends or the active antag- always have, been behind the Judgonism of foes, and he must Inevitably ments and determinations that sent He told me that the succeed. It ie a simple formulae but him forward. as sure lii ultimate results as grim boys In ths mill had a regular contest In which they stood In a death or taxes. basket and shouldered a An Idea Vindicated. sack of grain without tipping over. It It Is not so much the money con- required good muscle, but although cerned, he said thoughtfully, pulling he was lighter than most he could do away at hls pipe and looking out over It with the rest of theme the mountains In ths relaxed mood of It was about this time that he got a practical dreamer, as it Is the mak- the western fever and decided upon a ing of a mine, the vindication of an mining career, from which decision Idea or the proving of a theory, if he never thereafter departed. He you please. It Is a great game the win- bided hls time, however, working for ing of which will add to the total of a year and a half in a grocery store world jwealth and incidentally, ones In St. Louis, until at last hls chance own freedom from want although that came when hls brother fitted out' a with supplies for Denver. may not always be the actuating mo- cattle train to drive a team and after tive. The chief reward. I think, is He offered the exhilaration of matching your wits two months landed in Denver, Aug. 6, 1875. against Nature, attempting to solve The mining boom was on In Colorado the time locks on her vaults of treasure; It is a game that require chief- and young Raddats read every paper he could lay, hands on. Hs finally ly a fixed determination from which one cannot be turned aside, the cour- went Into the 8Hver Cliff district near In the vicinity of the age to face all difficulties and to pro- CanyonandCity worked for a time lp the ceed even In the face of ridicule. There Dorn, la no feeling akin to the sense of tri- concentrating mill In 77. At that time the miners were umph when you'hear the final tumblchinking the walls of their log cabins er fall and the door swings slowly with mud taken from the creek at open, or when you can say quietly Leadvltie. Someone . discovered that to your adversaries, Checkmate! carbonate of "In the case of the Tintic Standard the mud was 800 ounces in silver. running It was a continuous battle from the lead, went and wild rich brines camp start. My friends laughed In my faoe The Sam over came Moffatt In night. and pronounced me craxy when I cleaned up a fortune and H. A. W. bonded the. property In 1907 for $75, Tabor began hls spectacular rise with 000. They had produced over of the Little. Pittsburg In West Tintic, but everyone the discovery purchase of other mines that scouted the idea that there could be and the him an Immense fortune from brought ore iu East Tintic. J resulted the Brown Palace I fell in love with the ground the which, Hotel and other great structures In very first day I saw it, and I secured Denver and sent Tabor to the United an option on It that very day. The States senate. formation seemed to me to be Idenseveral years Raddats worked tical with that of the west end of the In For mines In the winter and prospected " Holds Memorial Services district, and I tell you I was absolute- - in summer, gradually gaining a comprehensive and practical knowledge (Special to The News!) of all kinds of mining. He and his MT. PLEASANT, June 10. Memorpartner ' finally located the Evening ial services were conducted Friday afeStar claim in Bonanza which they ternoon in the North ward chapel by Now that you hav- finished while. and cold tot $30,-00the Mt. Pleasant Service Star legion. cleaning the inside of your worked for awent on, to the Gunnison They A program of appropriate musical Gulch, Ruby Gulch, numbers was rendered by Miss Ven- -. home it is time to look to the country. Poverty soon but had put thcxmoney back etta Stanfield, Miss Amber Hanford, without rfurther kindly -- smile from and MIsa Gertrude Rolfson. Prof. C, outside. We do all kinds of Fortune.' L. Johns delivered the memorial decorating and painting. A sketch of the lives of tha In Old Mexico. tfhree Mt. Pleasant boys who made the In the meantime an older brother supreme sacrifice during the world war had gone to Old Mexico to take charge was read by Mrs. J. M. Burns. ' The of some .properties at, Guancevte in program of Interpretative dances presented at Moroni Thursday evethe state of Durango for the St. Louis of the Sor Stamping .company, of granite ware ning under the auspices fame. They heard' that this brother vice Star legion was well received was either dead or seriously ill and and netted a neat sum to the soldier memorial fund.- - Mrs. J. w. Cherry, the company asked E. J. to go down and Investigate. He did so and after president of the legion, has also announced the gift of $25 from Hie a long stage Journey south from ChTwentieth Century, club to the memorihuahua found hls brother Just coming ial fund.. from a hospital. He stayed on and acquired some Interests of hls own which he worked for nearly a year. Monday's Organ Recital. "It was the most primitive mining and milling I have ever seen. There! - Mondays Tabernacle organ recital were no nails or Iron tools to speak of program will be ae follows, with AsIn the country. Everything was wood sistant Organist Edward P. Kimball at DECORATING and rawhide. They dragged the ore . the console: out of inclines In rawhide bags with National ATnthem. whims, or men carried it up notched James Rogers Suite for Organ CO. pole with bags suspended from straps : across their foreheads.- "- They ground Brahms Slumber Song or 13 East First Souths the ore to a pulp in a patio mill Durand Ponsponette . . hitched ' tSa arastra, driving mules Favorite Mormon Hymn, O, My B. T. PYPER, Manager. In a circle, dragArr. by Organist huge beam around Father" ore until It was ging boulders over the An Old Melody . . ,.Arrt by Organist This reduced to plimes. they allowed Gaul Chant Triumphal . HERE -- " . - Tlntic-Standar- d,- well-mea- nt half-bush- el 120-pou- $200,-000,0- -- - iury in the . case of former deputy county treasurer, Hugh A. McMillln, returned a verdict of not guilty. The ' ballot showed six 'votes for so quittal and two far conviction. The second ballot Showed eight for ac quittaL , An- - audit of McMUUns accounts Is alleged to have disclosed a shortage , which aggregated more than $4,800. The specific charge on which he was tried was ths alleged defalcation of $887 on November 11, 1920. Several months ago he was arraigned on the charge In the district court but the - .. . . . iury failed Mr. McMillln denied on the witness stand that he misappropriated inja money, but admitted that he was not an expert bookkeeper and required assistance many times to re' concile his accounts, Of continuous battle and recurring disappointment. Friends and associates dropped out one by one dlacour aged, but Raddats Stayed with It, sub' Mr. Raddau as mining magnate and lime In the faith that he was on the track of the ore. John Westerdahl, financier. who was killed about a - year ago, to dry out to some extent after which contracted most of the work and also stuck through It all For some reathey mixed-i- t with manure for heating son purposes and drove cattle and mules were not yet explained the workings exceedingly hot and a heavy around to mix lt. . They repeated the For daye at a time they process several times until they could gas formed.enter the drifts. They had collect the amalgam which was packed could not to h.olst the ore three times through into the iron quicksilver flasks. They different the had rude stone ovens with Iron heatthe shipping, ing pans for steam. They inverted oreOnand hardly worth January 18, 1918 whlle 20'the; the flasks over holes in the steamer were down somewhere around-1and thf) quicksilver would run out to collect in the pan, leaving a silver feet on the Incline, Westerdahl phoned In, East drift shows a- few shin flask. - It was primitive sponge ln-tthat he had - struck to a degree but it did the business. some galena They went down a few We sent the bullion down to the Mexin the opican mint at Durango where Ameri- feet further and drifted posite direction wlth-the-- or can assayers finally reduced It- gradualRaddatx came back to Colorado In ly widening before them until they 84 and two years later, came to Utah found themselves In the great Tlntio for the St. Louis Stamping company Standard ore body that was and is which had silver-lea- d mines at Stock-to- n one of the mining sensations of ths and Ophir, where Raddats took West Since that time they have built a big 225 toil mill and 11 miles of charge of the Calumet, Muscatine and their own railroad from the mine to Buckhorn. All the spare money he could get hold of he put into proper- the main line of the D & R Q. Raddats's only break Into - public ties and is still Interested In those old life was his term as representative camps. in the fltst - state - legislature - from First Trip to Tlntio. Tooele county. He was a Republican "I made my first trip. to Tlntio In and defeated that staunch old Demo93,', he said, "and tried to get-- . crat. CoL E. A. Wall for the Job. bond on the North Beck. I failed then 'T have been president, manager but I got It later and have been work-- 1 and treasurer of the Tlntio Standard lng it for the past four years. Ws from the start," he said, "and I have have a shaft down 1,800 feet been content to confine my opera"During the Ely excitement In 1907 tion to one camp. There are other I went over there with a party of Salt great mine coming In Tlntic aa sure Lake men and met young John Bes as the sun shall rise and when' they of whose father had Tlntic, tlemeyer found they are good for genera-tlon- a been ah in that camp and ary had a number of claims. John told ' "I have always made It a practice me about his father's holdings and I not to say anything abbnt another was Interested. Shortly after I came mans mine, because I dont know. It back to Salt Lake they -- visited -- me Is nothing more or less 'than sheer and more to get rid of them than presumption for a man to attempt Tlnelse I to to go anything to pass an opinion on a property promised tic and look their ground over. the most thorough. Intensive I forgot to Interpolate In this story without study and observation. I believe I one of the things he did at Stockton know something about mines but I shortly after his arrival In Utah, but would not think of passing Judgment whloh should not he overlooked as It until I had taken weeks at examinathrows such a strong sidelight upon tion of every foot of it unless it was the character of the man who had nothing but a prospect hole. upon mining ae a career and "Brokers who do not know a mine who did not propose to turn aside, from a cliff dwelling send out reams He had had a varied practical ex-t- of matter telling all about properPerience but- - realised -- that he was ties thsy have never seen.-- It Is bad deficient In technical training. He practice and frequently does Incalcould not afford to lose the time for culable Injury to deserving properties a college course, so he set about or Injures the pnblle on worthless learning something of geology, assay- properties. What right has a mad to ing and surveying at the age of 80 pans an opinion on a property who years with private tutoring. He hag simply visited the mine office worked nights over the books and and who U not even a miner? his conidle moments built a during For the young man there Is no centrator at Stockton and another at greater game than mldlng and no Ophir. But to get back to Tlntic, the greater opportunity for reward than scene of hls ultimate triumph. As I have said there will be The Bestlemeyers took me over today. In many properties Tlntio, and Utah their ground' on Mineral Hill and I as a whole Is probably the greateirt was Immediately struck by the outIn state Union from the the mining croppings. He paused to pull down standpoint of potential a map and pointed out the great One might be lucky andproduction. strike a synclinal fold at Tlntic with one end bonanza right off the bat as has ocof the fold exposed in West Tlntic, curred many times buf it : usually where the great production hadeome takes long, hard years of effrom and the other end in East Tin-ti- e, fort. Given a desire to patient an learn, the location of the Standard. average and the will to ")Ve were up on the hill and I point- stay with Intelligence It, any man has a chance to ed to a flat below us, asking who make good at mining and when forowned the ground. Thats open to tune does come It comes with a rush. location,' said Bestlemeyer, Well, I'll locate It' I said, and I did, locating the four Copper QueenB on which our Number Two shaft Is now located and the largest part of the ere came from that ground. We went back to Provo where Bestlemeyer and hls partners lived and-- returned to Salt Lake with the signed paper for about 180 acres. The estate now comprises over 2500 acrea The first payment was $3,000, H, G. Snyder and Judge W. J. Snyder were In with me on it but subsequently the former dropped out. At that time the deepest working on the property was a 7 5 -- foot Incline. "I had made some Milwaukee friends while Inspecting some Alta property for them and they told me If needed help to come to them, jI ever needed help all right so I took' a and sold tripu back to Milwaukee bunch Of Stock which kept - he ng old-tim- er t , ART & WALLPAPER 4 it" Small Fire on Roof. - The burning of a pile of rubbish which had eollected on the roof of the Central building at Second South and Main streets called fire apparatus from all parts of the city Friday afternoon. No damage resulted. QUALITY i and: SERVICE -- Popular Prices' KENYON CAFETERIA " Downstairs Mata at Scesad Ssath Program Ira June 1 0, 8:00 P. Mo Quartet, Bmsaa AaMoa. Ploahrtl la ho famished hy 6Md O. VeeaUoti Robert Stafford Lloyd, Tooallot; Georgs Soxaghoaoi Deaglaa Hawktaa, Cornet. 1. Sax phone Solo, "Fantasia from Opera Martltana" .w, .Wallaoe 2. Plano solo, "The Faun . a mm t oo v ee eaWt l.yocal.Solo, "Lifes 'Mirror ' Ira R Uoyd. 4. Cornet Solo, "Fantasia from Tramp, Tramp, Tramtf .Qolda 6. Girls Quartet "At Throe Oclock in the Morning'5 Afton Papworth .Aliene, Minnie gad Both Ashton. 8. Saxapbono Solo, Concert Walts, "Lanet 7. Vocal Solo, "Out Where the West Begins" B. Lloyd, i,,. 8. Cornet BIG NOW ON . Saturday, Service With Dispatch - office is... Every modern office worthy of complete equipment nnd the kind of eervlc were prepared , to give. When you need of- flee supplies, of anysort pass the word to us over J the phone. , Baalaeaa aad Personal . Stationery, -- v . Solo, Tanlo 1 -- ' 3K PROGRAM Battle and Disappointment. The following years were a period ss. ' 1 -- -- Sale no- day and another the next day. Therenothing to Indicate a greater obllgatlon on the part of Hartwell than to furnish an automobile for this sorv-lc. and I apprehend that the oontract would be observed if be had three automobiles and "used any one of them for that purpose or servlet. The Unit- ed States, under the' contract, could not assert control of any machine. . It there had been any breach of the contract, it would have been a personal dispute between . Hartwell and the government, and the government could not have taken hls ear Under the contract, Hartwell was qulred to use tbs car only 60 hours week In government service. He as be pleased with It at other times. Whan a car Is used by ths govern- ment, the government has control ovof he -- UallPaper Under a decision rendered In tha f David L. Hartwell, driver of a mall truck In Salt Lake, t(f Federal Judge Martin J. Wade, mall carriers, who make deliveries with automobile will be under tha neeeaatty of procurWade hoard ing a state license-Judg- e the case whan presiding temporarily ha the federal court hero the early port of May. Hls decision was reeatvod yesterday by mall from Deo Molnoa, . Iowa. Hartwell filed a petition for a of habeas corpus alleging that ho being restrained from hls liberty by Chief, of Police Joseph B. BurbldgW He had been Arrested following big refusal to obtain a 1923 license for an , auto truck in which he delivers malL Hls action was based on a provision of the state automobile license law that automobiles owned or used by the United States are exempt from, license." this auto"Ths question mobile is used by the United Stated r within the meaning of the law, writes Judge Wade, In denying the writ., "The contract with Hartwell In no sense places the particular automobile under the control of the United State. In fact, the oontract obligates Hartwell to furnish no particular car. Any one of a half dosen ears might case-o- -- 0. to-b- After deliberating for four hours In vhlch time it took two ballots ths 4, -- How many pooplo rosily understand what servtca la what It msans to them and what It costa T . 'With vs It la onr stock In trade; It Is what wa have to eell, whether It bo the nss at a taxi, tha transfer of baesnso hr an ambulance call. It means comfort asd atconvenience to a patron abls any time, day or night, rain or shine, Won Sun, as. H( days snd holidays ,to call and know they will set Instant and --suable service la any of these liasa money to have men and aUShmobllaa always os (hs Job wait nt call and that Is why and randy Us anyone who appreetatee what wa era the for doles community should not confine their patroness of ns to os when rsslirrr they cannot sot anyone else, but sir no all their busito maintain ness Snd thereby help onr Mfh standard of service, which full share la wa believe, la dates Its the upbuilding of sue fair otty. K i ini Hit A .. J : Mimas ISWBIIJIIIIW - Traffid blireau yesterday- - petitioned the ; pufejjc-- ; utilities comrglesloii - tor permlnjhjn to have the principal, railroad vinV Vtah effect intrastate the reduotfqA recently ordered interstate ' interstate commerce commisby sion. . In 'Vtah the reduction in . freight rates will, notjnvolve any change in the rates on coal since the publicutilities commission refused to con cur In the order of the Interstate mww board when ,t authorised a blanket increase. The commiwlon to the blanket so far took exception as to- - refuse to allow increases on coal and iron ores. Consequently no reduction in rates on iron ores or coal are looked for. . . The commission has taken the petition. under advisement but the board is placed in a quandry as to how it premight act on the request. The lawwithvents any increase or decrease and out first holding a formal hearing be deemed consequently it would before necessary to hold thta hearing A solution ordering any reduction. by might, however, be worked out rethe raUroads complying with the quest without official orders. V. V. - TOfllEtn i ; UHSEISIHSS51 -- - eT -- KS - , Before the stte board of equalizo-- v tlon yesterday the Utah State Farm Bureau presented public records In refutation of data submitted by the v f railroads some time ego when they ' - contended that assessed valuation of railroads was greater In relation to . , cash value than that of farm prop- erty and other real estate In the coun-tie- s through which the roads parsed. Frank Evans, attorney u, for the -- tax was 'committee of the' a large number of but spokesman, ' farmers both from the state bureau . and county organisations gave evl- Jj dence and Joined in the discussion. present at the hearing tnclud "Those ed: Ephraim Bergeeon of Cornish,T. . president of the farm bureau; E. ' Capener of Salt Lake, and X M. Kirk-- x ham of Lehl additional members of T7 the state tax committee of the bureau; '' v v I , 'a - a. F. Doremus of Tooele, member of $ '& v Utah water, storage commission; C. G. Adney-o- f Coplnne, state rspre- - sntAtlve of Boxelder; Samuel O. White of Beaverr State Senator Southwick of Lehl; C. K Hawkins, l county assessor, of Provo; G. E. non of Centerville, chairman of the board Lof pommiaaloners of Davis count; as-J.L. Robison of Ogden, tormerly setsor of Weber county; C. F. Olsen ' of Cache, formerly assessor of Cache; - L. w. Hendricks of Richmond and W. W. Evans of Layton, . , . Assessments low. Tbs" Oregon Short line and the Los took the t Angeles A Salt Lake railroadshould be L j, their properties that stand F- same relation to cash the at "assessed i value as other property and present-e- d a list of sales together with the assessed value of the same property real . ' to show that assesaments oncontended was low. Ths bureau examples were .yesterday that these had been picked not representative and for the purpose of argument In re-Of buttal they presented a great deal data gathered by upwards of 800 "of the bureau over the ' ' state. ' Transactions presented by the roads "showed that assessed valuations on farm property in Beaver county were 41.18 per cent of cash value while - - DR. CHARLES CESTRE. Mr. Evans attacked the accuracy and Dr. Charles Cestrs of ths University completeness of the figures and presented counter data showing that as- of Paris Is among ths celebrated edusessed valuations were 112.1 per cent cators, whom the University of Utah of cash values at the present time. In Is bringing to ths campus for the BumThrough the efforts of Balt Lake county there .was not such mer school. Professor Walter A. Kerr, who spent s wide divergence as this. However, asthe past year in France, Dr. Ceatre has the tax committee contended that sessed valuations In the county wehe consented to deliver four lectures In -Salt Lake City, beginning Monday. pot 81.7 per cent, as contended - by Three will be given in English on the V railroad counsel, but 72.89. HoIsT Weber county values have great-l- y campus and ons In French at the Utah. His subjects will be Ths tel, decreased, the tax oommltteo-con-tende- d the "English No data was given hut be- French Revolution and lief was expressed that farm property Roman tie Poets. "The French Ideal In Modern and of Solidarity Equality In this, county was taxed at 100 per American. Civilisation as Mr. Evans Times, cent of its sals value. val- Seen by a Frenchman," and "France pointed to the decrease in rental After the War. The last named lecues of land In this county as indicatture will be delivered in French. ing a decrease In cash value. Dr. Ceetre was born in Burgundy the bureau , For Boxelder county school contended that assessed values were end was educated in the Latin 93.7 percent as compared to B0 per at Auxerrs. After studying at various cent claimed by the rallrfads. Data French educational Institutions hstowona ths first scholarship granted presented by the railroads In regard student 'by the ministry of at- - French i to values In Davis county wars to attend' Harvard tacked as misleading and Incomplete. public' education, when he took university' (1898-1898- ), Ctoarge Injustice Done, M. He returned .to A. his degree. - The point was mads that while the France and took his doctor's degree pricq put on land by a fanner wishat ths University of Paris In 1808. In ing to borrow money could with Jus- 1920 he was visiting professor at the assessment he used for tice purposes University of California and for the ' for that partlcslar farm, it was not three years has been head of the a Just way of' determining (value of past department of American Literature surrounding property. and Civilisation, at the University of William Bailey, chairman of - Hie Paris. The- - lectures of Dr.- - Cestre a to committee, brought the hearing are free to the public. close before representatives ftam ' eral of ths counties had given results ' He said that data Students of University of Investigations. presented by the railroads was not Mexico For City Depart ths boards data and that the committee was spending time refuting figures scant state board gave very that the Under, the direction of Prof. G. Oscar t consideration to jn fixing assessments. Russell' of Fhe department of modern Mr. Evans said that facts presented languages of the University of Utah, showed Just hpw much or how Uttls 29 students from the Institution left county records could be relied on this morning for Mexico City wbiere without additional investigation. will study during the summer at was mads by the state board they of Mexico. Dr, Anthe: to an Independent Investigation be- drew.University a.' Kerr of the department of ing conducted. More than 2,000 let-- ; archaeology was also wltti the group, ters had been sent out it was an- -' and in addition to the Utah students nounced and results of this lnvestlga- - there were more than 80 representatlon would soon be available. tives from 12 other western colleges, Inequalities in assessed values In including the University of California, different counties were discussed and Leland Stanford, Jr university, the members of the farm, bureau adrnlt- - Oregon Agricultural college,- - the, Oreted that in Justice there should be an gon State college, the University of equalise tlon. They also were ready Washington, the University of Nevada, to agree that In some Instances land Idaho Technical institute, the Unlvf-sit- y was not assessed at full cash value --otldaho.the Unlversity-oFNew wOille in others IF was greatly over Mexico, the University of Texas, ttie assessed. Reference was made to University of Colorado and the Brigi Cache county and Mr. Bergeson said ham Young university. ' that at his request, the county cominnow an were missioners conducting Service Star Legion vestigation. of the work- done by as- - 1922 BEGAN LIFE t-- Statements of Carriers is , Charged as Inaccurate and Picked for Puroose of Af" , . , 10 Oeorge C. Lloyd. O Mine" gah in fl The Program of KZN will commence' Promptly at 8 OClock. S |