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Show I SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH Review of Utah isu" Industries This Is Our. Winter of Test Ogden EItVING food is a cal problem for each Prices community. and definite rules for every one cannot be formulated. It Is a duty for each one to eat only so much as is necessary to maintain the human body nenltliy and strong. This winter of 1918 Is the period when Is to be tested here in America whether our people are capable of voluntary Individual sacrifice to save the world. That id' the purpose of the organization of the United States Food Administration by voluntary effort to provide the food tlmt the world I ' ' ON J Knit Goods, Mackinaws, Sweaters, Underwear, Etc. 4 Will Last a Few Days More. Due to the mild winter, we are overstocked, therefore we are offering Special Low Prices This Month to Reduce our Stock. 8) $ Fonnesbeck Knitting Wks. &&&&$ University News Letter The second semester begins this year at the University of Utah on February 4. Those that have the matter of 'registration in charge are looking forward to an unusually r To enrollment. large meet the nfeds of new students many special cources are being offered; among them several war courses. Also there are many other courses that begin normally at the mid-yea- , So it will be possible for newcomers fh belY mid-yea- r. Life's Pleasures ' Join the growing number of young men who have a savings account in our care. HYRUM STATE BANK GOOD LUMBER IS ' AT THE BOTTOM of success. Low price smay help some, but its the fine quality of our lumber that brings our customers back time and again. It pays us to sell good lumber. It will pay you better to buy it. It lasts longer and is more satisfactory to work up. Try us with an order and youll come back when you mant more. Smith Bros. Lumber work on February 4th, with practically every advantage that those have who register at the opening of the school year. Full provision is being made to take care of mid- are bestowed by destiny upon those who have the judgment to practice frugality and foreDont spend all you sight. earn on the passing show. Good things come To Thoso Who Save Now. Co. LOGAN AND HYRUM, UTAH. school graduates who to continue their school may desire work without a loss of a full semes- year high ter. President John A. Widtsoe of the University of Utah was in attendance last week at the big Agiicul-turn- l Round-uat Logan, and was one of the principal speakers. ' He delivered an address before the Utah Irrigation and Drainage Congress that was meeting in conjunction with the Farmers Round-uand Housekeepers Conference, on arid farming. He said in part; Out of the desert will come the conquest of the earth. Those great areas under rpinless skies, with enough water for irrigation and enough rain for dry farming, will feed the earth. Utah pioneered in irrigation in this country. But today there are big problems that demand solution if Utah is to mains tain her lead.. of the land surface of the earth is under low rainfall. The time has come when these regions will save mankind. President Widtsoe was elected president of the Utah Irrigation and Drainage congress for the ensuing year. Howard R. Driggs, professor of education in English at the University of Utah, left last Friday on a y lecture tour of the Middle West. After speaking at Lincoln, Nebraska, and at Omaha, he will deliver a series of lectures before the East Iowa Teachers Association. p p Two-third- ten-da- Subscribe .For The South Ca:he Courier JOB PRINTING to cts from the sugar 5000 acres of land is to be thrown open to homesteaders. From a horticultural standpoint, 1917 was one of the most productive years in Utah, every branch of agricultural production showing unprecedented Increases and record prices. . fac- railroads, factories and domestic purconposes. For tea years radical servationists have held up waterpower development in this country and are even delaying such measures at this critical time. Salt Lake The Western States to are double their Machinery Co., ADMINISTRATION capacity. is Ogden A $10,000 warehouse tto be constructed here. Salt Lake $19,076,00 is the 1917 value of Utahs crops. Europes Meat Supply Must Come The fact that Utah has large suFrom America. gar factories and that the farmers in 1917 received millions from them for beets appeals to state pride and Warring Nations Have Depleted Live is a big argument for the encourStock at Enormous Rate, Fvei agement of the industry. Killing Dairy Cattle For Food. Moab The convicts are doing splendid road work in Southeastern American slock breeders are being Utah. asked to conserve their flocks and Times Moab The Grand Valley herds in order to meet Europes tre- and First National Bank have a fine mendous demands for meats during new home here. the war and probably for many years Salt Lake The Utah Idaho Sugar afterward. grants permanent employes Company The United States food adminis2 cent bonus on yearly saU per tration reports that American stock workmen who stayed all aries and raisers have shown a disposition to inthe season, 10 per cent of in with the government through of the live nations supply their wages. creasing stock. 52 carloads of machinGunnison is better Germany today probably ery and steel on cars for sugar facothwith stock than live any supplied tory which is to be built here. er European nation. When the GerUtah starts 1918 with $2,670,966 man armies made their big advance in the treasury. into France and then retreated virKanab has a building boom. tually all the cattle in the invaded Predictions now are made that 1, SOO, 009 territory approximately head were driven behind the German copper output this year will far exlines. ceed that of 1917 and that a period But in England where 2,400,000 of unexaimpled prosperity awaits the acres of pasture lands have been turn copper industry after the war. ed into grain fields the cattle herds Utahs mining output increases 3 5 are decreasing rapidly. One of the reasons apparently Is the declining per cent during the past year and maximum price scale adopted by the the total value of gold, silver, copEnglish ns follows: For September, and cadnium arsenic per, lead, zinc, $17.70 per 100 pounds ; October, $17.28 ; was $114,987,720.33 which shows November and December, .$16.08 ; Jnn-lar$14.40. The effect of these prices what mining means to the state and was to drive beef animals on the mar- why it should be encouraged. ket as soon as possible. Meat packing industry of Utah has In France the number of cattle as stock raising. stimulated well as the quality have shown an oil Future supply to. be mined' like enormous decline during the war. coal. head of had France Where 14,807,000 Development of the Uintah cattle in 1913, she now has only Basin shale and sands is to be exa decrease of 16.6 per cent. A refinery is planned, disAnd France is today producing only pedited. one gallon of milk compared to two tillation processes are being examinf and gallons before the war. ed and rapid development is predictDenmark and Holland have been ed. forced to sacrifice dairy herds for beef Salt Lake Plans are being made because of the lack of necessary feed. to reforest City Creek Canyon. Close study of the European meat The Silver King Con. Salt Lake situation has convinced the Food Adwill increase its capital to $1,000,000 ministration that the future problem $1,064,869 will be distributed to of America lies largely in the production of meat producing animals and the schools of Utah. dairy products rather than In tha proUtah produced nearly 245,000,000 duction of cereals for export when pounds of copper in 1917 as comthe war will have ceased. pared with 240,275,222 in 1916. A 2 per cent increase in quality, but in value. The over $12,000,000 BRITISH GOVERNMENT Utah Copper Company produced apHELPS PAY FOR BREAD proximately 80 per cent. Eureka The Tintic output was There has been much misunder- $210,000 in a week. , standing about the bread program In Salt Lake A new power plant is England. It is true that the English- to be erected on Duchesne, an outman buys a loaf of bread for less than 0 an American can, but It Is poorer put of electrical energy will be horsepower. bread, and the British government Is paying $200,000,000 a year toward the Utahs sugar industry has grown cost of it. to such tremendous proportions, its All the grain grown In Great Brit ain is taken over by the government distribution each year of money to at an arbitrary price and the Imported farmers and laborers has become so wheat purchased on the markets at great, its constant upbuilding has the prevailing market price. This is furnished such progress as to keep, turned over to the mills by the govern.machinists and other exment at a price that allows the adul- builders work that thisline of acat perts terated war bread loaf of four pounds to sell at 18 cents, tlie two pound loaf tivity has become one of the wests at 9 cents and the one pound loaf at 5 most momentous enterprises. Exact cents. data regarding 1917 beet crop, opIn France, under conditions some- eration cost of factories, and total what similar, but with a larger ex 1917-1- 8 of sugar campaign output traction, the four pound loaf sells for been has not but there compiled, yet 16 cents. HERDS ARIMO BLOCK, NORTH MABN STREET, LOGAN G canning factory is tories furnishing feed for thousands of head of livestock. Salt Lake The Utah Wyoming Oil Company is to begin operations " In San Rafael field. It is now announced that to conserve coal, universal electrification of Great Britain is proposed for the needs. U. S. FOOD A be built in Ogden Valley. Salt Lake The Portland Cement Company has taken out a second $50,000 building permit in a month. Salt Lake The Denver Oil Exchange will open a branch here. lo- 1-- y, one-hal- 11,-27- In making its fight on iteers, as it calls all big the League farmer In bad for no class ited so much by the war. Non-Partis- an war profbusiness, puts the has prof- are estimates that Utah companies are operating factories in 7 western states will distribute not less than $10,000,000 to farmers. This is th9 best argument for encouraging this great industry. |
