Show OUR farmington lettjr LET buffalo island is no doubt the name that the big island west of as and north of garfield will in the future bear aa the small herd of bukalo buffalo have proven that toe the largo ranch near Ga gadfield field is too insignificant a home for the freedom loving monarchs mona rohs of the plains william walter manager of tho the island improvement company repaired the cattle shute near the salts salt works list last week and drove the herd as far as the stock yards near bountiful last friday but thi the fierce looking and fiercely acting mou mo convinced him that the preparations for shipment were not substantial enough so they were corralled at the yards and the railing aron d the boat has been made higher and other improvements prove ments made they are being loaded goaded today one of them jumped over the fence and several horsemen are having a regular buffalo chase after him there are four bulls bull four cows and four calves a number of blacki black polled angus cows will be crossed with them to increase the herd and hasten a sup ply of robes for the market other animals will be procured aud and placed on tb atre island and the investment will no BO doubt be a paying one to the enter enterprising pria company it certainly will be an incalculable addition to the attractions of utah and the public will be pleased tor learn of effort of ate the e in preserving kerving pre a few of we film remnants nants of what was feared would oon be an extinct race of animals an imala five and a halt bat feet of had fallen last winter by this time but we have only had 46 inches dealt out to us up to date since the first fell I 1 st at november 16 and inches of rain all the good sleighing we have had was waa from december ath to the ice has frozen every night since dec except jan aud and feb ath WORK AT ME GAS the american gas company have their plant from lake shore nearly early one mile et east within about yards west of the county road and only onix a few yards south of the line be tween sea farmington and nd Cent centerville erville they began their new well on january and are now down about jt feet they put down feet of 12 1 noh am casing mg then they changed to 8 laeh ir if amp impracticable practicable to drive the 8 inch down to 16 the body of gas they will use 6 then sk a casing the large outside casing anding to la first used to td admit of t the ae hext size site being driven without so much iasi resistance stance from friction as would result bom driving one sice so mady hundreds idt bt feet in the earth the derrick is 74 feet high the hammer to is a long bar f iron weighing about 2000 lbs IDS most bf S f it lie is inside the pipe that is being driven I 1 raises about five feet and cornea comes down 40 to 60 times a minute the drill to is about lbs ibs in weight gas is used in the engine for fuel conveyed through a one brie inch pipe from one of the wells near thi the lake th the e lower part of the derrick is sided up tip with lumb lumber er and warmed and in the he night kept 4 as well as warmed with a portion of the gas burning in a large open sheet iro i pipe two shifts of two oxen men each constitute the laboring force and night or sunday they do dd not stop the progress of the work about feet was sunk near the lake but the quick sand made it difficult working ond and their pipe breaking the company concluded to move to their present jo cation nearer bearer the mountain TWO VITAL QUESTIONS two important questions are confronting us that are not apt receiving as much attention as an should be applied to them ern a scarcity of health and a scare 44 or money the former question was forcibly brought to my attention few days ago by lieving hearing a man a little over forty years of age who had bad used aged tobacco over twenty years I 1 talk ing to some boys about twelve to sixteen years old who were smoking brooking he described the pains pal OB in his chest shortness W af pf breath etc that he be bad acquired by osing tobacco and urged them to abandon the practice before it was practically too late to d do 9 so why legal jal measures church discipline or flome more stringent efforts are not adopted than tire are now being enforced enforce i to 40 check this alarming danger to society is a problem I 1 am unable to solve some parents say their children use tobacco until they fairly get accustomed to it before they are aware of the fact P thus proving that they have neglected to cate catechize chive them on imbor important t subjects other parents are indifferent and too many fathers find they can not dot use much influence in po to the wt fact that hat they bey use t he weed d th themselves em selves so borne nie may say that last laws enacted on this subject would be inconsistent and arbitrary but I 1 fail to see it lo in that light it is a conceded fact that the children of parents who use tobacco are frequently sufferers on account of their parents using it 14 and it seems that laws protecting sop society lety from such physical ills would de a stop step towards the higher civilization we are or should be aiming to attain an important factor in accounting for the scarcity of money I 1 think is the craze for insuring both life aud pro perty I 1 under understand that over 40 per mouth month is being sent out of the territory by bi men who have taken out life insurance policies if one fourth of that amount would come back by reason reason of death losses being paid the low lose to the territory would not be so heavy but I 1 dont believe we got get that much back or anything like it it may be wise in some cae oases as to insure but a great many of our towns are losing hundreds of dollars in hard bard earned cash more every year now than they ever did by fire |