| Show SANPETE THE election successful BUSINESS A ii HINT ABOUT BARNYARD barn BAnN yarl yari F ires firns ETC ETC philip hurst esq writing from fairview sanpete county on the ath of au august ut gives ives some interesting facts r regarding iaan llin the condition of things in that southern granary of the mountains he says Weare wc are having general good health crops look well but are late and unless the good weather holds out well in the fall some ot our latest grain on wet ground may not mature grass on the range and in the meadows is above the average we had a very quiet election polling votes for the peoples ticket out of a possible 2315 2313 many of the regis registered dered voters vere away f from rom home at work in the saw mills our mercantile co coop op has just paid aid ald a divi dividend tend of 12 per cent in ferega merchandise and carried 13 per cenito cent to the capital stock for the last six months month ear car this thia S company was organized in june 1869 and the books show it has paid in 15 i years 1058 per cent in dividends while the stock Is worth to the dollar our sheep coop co op organized in 1871 has paid in wool or carried to the capital stock an average of 25 for every years business the ile last one being ay 7 in wool wooi and 25 stock this was not cash but the same kind of dollar as the one invested both companies have paid taxes and tithes on their business and never have had occasion to call for an assessment I 1 notice occasionally in your paper leports of fires destroying hay and grain stacks it if there is plenty of water and help heip at hand considerable can be saved from what may look a total loss after aften a nire fire has gone over the surface of a stack the ashes to some extent smolder the fire nire fird we have found that plenty of water will cool the outside so that work can commence whereupon the kopcan top can be removed then cut down with a hay bay knife carrying away and extinguishing the fire on the outside we have ast tried the above plan and saved one quarter of the haystack the part in the n middle iddle in tolerable good condition while another quarter was carried off damaged with water and smoke but not so bad but cows comin coming home from the range would eat it thinking the above plan may be of advantage to others I 1 have reported our success |
