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Show 4 i The Post is Provos Popular Newspaper! It' Carries all the News ot Provo and Utah County White its News. Subscribe Today tor Provos Booster y Weather Forecast. Unsettled but generally fair weather tonight aud Friday; warmer tonight. -- PRO jNUMBER129 VOCITY.-UTAH.rTHU- RSD 191 2r AYr-FEBRUAR- Y-29, VOLUME 4 -- THE PROVO TO BECOME-TERMINA- L FOR RAILROAD TO COAL FIELDS MIRCIAL CLUB AT Big .Advertising and The Railroad will cost Five Million Dol- lars and Coal Lands Cost the Purchas-- ers Like Amount: Want Coal for the Pacific Coast Trade. ' s Following - closely Governor. Spry a report thqt a large iron foundry andiiron smelting company is looking for a place on the shores of Utah Lake to erect a great iron works, comes the announcement that Provo will shortly become the junction for three great roads and the terminus for a new railroad which will be built from this city south to Springville then up Spanish Fork canyon to Thistle. From Thistle it will go south for a short distance, when will again tak,e a south- v the road - easterly direction- - through. Huntington canyon and over ,to Mohr-lanBlaekhawk and Hiawatha. The company has bought the Castle Valley, Western Fuel ;and . Blaekhawk companies,. also other independent coal companies in the ? Emery county coal belt. alley Thepri eeai4lbfc-Ca.sUet- y . Goal companies for stock, which 1 was taken over by William G. Sharp of the United States Smelt- ing, Refining and Mining Company, with headquarters at Bos- tori, MassT; amounted to $750,000. He purchased the Blak Hawk ZCoaL Mine stock at a price said to be $60,000, and took an option on the Consolidated Fuel stock in the sum of $1,200,000, also assuming the responsibility for outstanding bonds as follows: Castle Valley Coal C mpany, $1,200,000, knd the Uonsoi dated Fuel Company $800,-00d, . . 0. ' ' out on have born put Surveyors The propose the "new rail - road from this fcity to Hiawatha, and upon going over conditions very carefully they reported to the promoters of the new road that it would cost $5,0p0,000 'to build a railroad from this city into Mohrland, Emery , county.: The road could be built at a grade of one per cent to Hilltop, and- pot to exceed two per cent to Iliawa- tha and the most difficult points. This line into' the very " heart of Utahs greatest coal district is of . national importance, as it will open these coal fields to the mark- eta of the world. The line will be run ninety miles and the alti- tude at the highest point will be 9,000 feet The outcropping of 1. . the great coal belt are first encountered at Hilltop and may be traced, for 175 miles to the north and south through the state and - the outcroppings are even foundto extend almost as far south as Mexico, but the Utah coal fields 7 far surpass anything alon line. The coal fields are from 18 to 32 feet in thickness and extend at great lengths which will make coal mining very profitable to the company that - imiids the roqL The Utah Coal Railroad, as it will - fje .known, will connect with the ' Cactle Valley Railroad at Mohr-rtan- d and make a continuous line through fho coal region into Price. Iuntington Canyon, noted for the great coaLdeposits, will be tapped and the outlet will be made into the prosperous agricultural district of Emery county and the traffic from the, district will materially aid m keeping up the expenses of the new line.-- , There is little doubt that - the work on the new road will be commenced within a very short time, as the United States Smelting and Refining Company and the Davis interests of West Virginia - - pas-Reng- er X Provo is right on the verge of an era of prosperity such a3 it has never before known and if projects now under consideration go through, as thfeyin all probability villTthe residents"' of this city may look for this town tp' double its" population within the next ten years." The big interests headed by the United States Smelter, Refining and Mining Company, with the Harriman interests, are going to build a railroad with' Provo as the terminus md headquarters to the vast coal fields ofi Emery County. This will bring employment, to hundreds of men in Provo, and railroad shops for the entire road wiUlTndoubtedly be built within the limits of Provo City. It is also a known fact that a strong combination of financiers have been looking over the ground around Utah Lake for the purpose of erecting a great smelter and iron works which will naturally contribute thousands of dollars annually to Provo. . With the opening of the new railroad for the Emery County coal fields, Provo will be come the junction for shipping coal to the Pacific coast to supply the demands of the coaling stations in California. It is also probable that the iron works will supply rails for the immense amount of railroad building that will necessarily be going on in the State of Utah within the next five or ten years. This great industry will stimulate agriculture and with the opening of the Strawberry Project and the development of the Utah County land and water, Provo and Utah County are destined to beIT , come great factors in this Intermountain region. are backing the ileal IL is be-- : lieved that the deal has been made in order to furnish the Ilarriman interests with coal direct and for that reason Provo has been chosen as the terminus for the coal road: It is also conceded that the big coal supplies of the Pacific coast are becoming exhausted and great fields must be opened in order to fill the demand at the big coaling stations of the Pacific coast, as the opening of the Panama canal will make the southern Califomia the greatest coaling stations in Amerieac-T- o supply this coal the great fields of Utah vyill have to bo tapped so that there can be no doubt bu( that the spielter and the Ilarriman railroad- interest fjiave combined' to reach these fields." The Company jomaosT SUIHG1ST: - s PRATT BOY STILL IN JAIL WAITING . FOR OFFICERS TO ACT Irvine Pratt, the 17 year old boy who threatened to kill his younger brother with a butcher knife late Monday night,' is still being kept in custody and the ficers are trying" to determine Whether the boy should be sent to the Industrial School at Ogden or the State Mental Hospital. For several years the boy nas witb.-mentaL- g de rangement and about two years ago he was sent to the State where he received trial and later was released. The officers are inclined to make a before thorough investigation of lad. the they finally dispose -- DR. J. B. SUMNER WILL SAKE CHARGE OF FARM J. B. Sumner, of Bloomington, Nebraska, - has .arrived in Dr. Provo to take charge- of his big farm, on the Provo Bench. Dr. Sumner has a splendid .orchard and anticipates a splendid income from it. - s. E HI Afyer a WAS GREAT will Likely Thp Big Furniture House Must Make Room for Get a Franchise to Enter New Purchases Salt Lake ( The big celebration af the First Ward ends Tomorrow evening and thejmccess vjtli whiehjthebazaar las been conducted is verygrati-- f y ing"To all. Tonight a free program will lie given and a number of musical selections wilt be rendered. To morrow- - evening Professor Osmond of the Brigham Young University will entertain with a program ;of readings. The committee desire to thank the public generally for the support and patronage given them. SOCCER FOOTBALL TEAM WILL ENTER LEAGUE SERIES THIS SEASON ' At Arrangement, night between of the Knight Woolen Mills and the Provo City Soccer football teams it was decided to enter a team state league championship, The team entering will be known as the team Knight Woolen and will be a representative organization of the players in this ' city: The Utah Association will hold meeting in Salt Lake tonight and Ppovo will be represented by M.J. Bradley and Hadyn Long, a. meeting last Mills-Prov- v- ' tee appointed to Tepresent the stockholders of the Salt Lake and Utah Valley Interurban Railroad Company? met Tuesday with the state commissioners of Salt Lake a City .with reghrds to securing franchise into Salt Lake ' City. After explaining the franchise to the Salt Lake board and stating that the road wonld be of great value-t- o the city, he members were informed by Mayor Park that the franchise had already been placed in tho hands of the commissioner of streets and the commissioner would take it up with the .legal council just as quickly - as possible as the Salt Lake people would be interested in the new 'system? ' - After meeting with the Salt Lake board of commissioners, George C. Whitmore of Nephi stated that should the company .be given the franchise to go south on First West street the line would probably run directly south on Tenth South street then, west to the Red Wood road and south " through Granger, Taylorsville, West Jordan, South Jordan and Riverton to the point of the mountain. From here the line would be extended to the east and through Lehi, American Fork, Pleasant Grove and into Provo, continuing south it would go through all of the principal towns -- SUCCESS representatives ,1 Messrs. Joseph" B. Keeler of Monday Commencing I next will Brothers S. morning Taylor Provo, A. J. Evans of Lchq J. one of the bigest sales- - ever open Macbeth of Payson, and $torge of John C. .Whitmore of Nephi, a commit- started by the institution, in order to clean up their 'stock anil make k I - TAYLOR BIOS. more room for the great shipment furniture that has been ordered from the east President T. N. Taylor of the firm went east early in the year $md spent much time in tho great wholesale houses where the very best articles are manufactured. Within a very short time carloads of furniture will arrive irf Provo. - Advertis Ing matter has been sent from one end of the county to the other announcing this sale and from the present outlook, there .will- be a great rush at the Taylor Brothers store, on Monday morning. of new - AUTOS TO BLAME FOR EMPTY PEWS . SUNDAY MORNING New York Pastor Also Criticises Comic Supplement and the Aw- ful Pictures They Contain Each Week. , Membership Camgaign wilLbe Started:: torBoost Provo and Utah County; -- Club needs More Members. Two Teams Will Play at Home and One on the Ontside is GREAT FURNITURE REECE The jury in the ease Persson against Joseph Reece of Payson brought in a verdict last night of no caise of action, considering that Reece acted as an officer when he assaulted Persson oq the night of July 21th, 1910. The evidence brought out by the defendant went to prove that the peace of the people in the neighborhood of Persson s home had been disturbed, and that in no less than two instances the explo siorv of giant powder had greatly people agitated and disturbed-sicand the mayor had- been ciflled to ' quell the., disturbance. Thia-i- s of the ending probably furies of difficulties that came about through some differences of opinion during the administration of Mayor Reece of Payson. hecn-aufferin- t STAYS who will look ests."' o after their inter- J In order to give the local fans soccer ball the Knight Woolen Mills will place a- - team -- in, the field to play against the Provo team. V THE WOMENS CLUBS OF PROVO WORKING FOR CLEANER CITY ery lively argument about an hour last evening lasting a vote was taken in the Commercial dub to detei mine whether or not the dub should remain in the UtalHVrrbpment"Lcague"Tor" the coming year, and a decisive vote was east in fartir of remaining with the big sfate organization. When the club met two weeks ftgo William M. Rnylanee was appoint- - ' ed to( investigate the work of the . League, and went to the meeting last night prepared to show that Utah County had received an unlimited amount of advertising from that source. This report was received and caused the mcmv bers present to look with . great favor on the organization, and for an active campaign ofadvertis-in- g for the - county and Provo City to back up the work done by the league. The advertising committee was instructed to get busy and draw up plans for this ' campaign, in order to have advertising matter and literature1 ready to- submit to the club at the next meeting, when arrangements will be made.. for printing large quantities of boost material with wrhich to advertise the beauties andJ'esoureeV .ot Provo properly. The largeafhouur of undeveloped land along tha shore of Utah lake, the great fruit belt and 60,000 acres coming under the Strawberry waters will open the way for thousands of people to come here and build homes, hut it is necessary for -these things to' be made public in order to draw the attention of homeseekers. To this end the committee in ehargo of advertising and promotion will work. As the membership of the Cum- racreial club is small and there are many people who should belong to the organization, a membership campaign will be started, and every farmer, fruit grower, dairyman and business man who should be a member of the club will be invited to come in. There are two classes of membership the resident and the and an effort will be made to get im:n- bers to come in under one of these - -- non-residen- t, -- ' Big Meeting Will Be Held on March 8th to Arrange For 'a memberships. Just before the meeting ad--, General Cleaning Up of City; last night the question of journed To Meet at Commercial Club. good roads came op, but as the hour was late the matter was left The Ydies club of Provo have oyer until the next meeting, when--- a joined together for the purpose of discussion will probably be tak-- 4 getting a movement" started to en up for bonding the county for clean up the city and have called the benefit of road This building. & meeting to take place at the movement was ' started by The Commercial Club rooms at 2 :30 in Post several months ago, and very the afternoon of March 8th. At active interest was taken in tha that time the clubs will undoubt- movement. the commitAlthough edly have a plan worked out by tee were heartily in favor of good . which the city may be cleaned up roads could not Bee their way they for the spring. Realizing that clear at that time 'to" bond the there is much to do, the womens for highway building. county organizations of the city have commenced the work early, and from their statements they in- georgeIattesson MUST PAY DIVORCED tend to work until Provo can justWIFE MONTHLY ALIMONY The Garden ly claim its name, V City of ytah. A J NEW YORK, Feb. 27. SpeakThe Fight for the Sabbath alliance today in the Presbyterian building, Rev David G. Wylie, pastor of the Scotch Presbyterian churyh, blamed 'Automobiles for many empty pews on v Sunday The automobile craze is destroying our Sabbath, and Sunday automobiling is one reason the George Patterson after spend.u not churches are better attended, ing, leu days, in.,, the county jailar far-sou- th W Nephi?-whi- ch DrrWylTe saTL'IIe" also criticised FORMER RESIDENT COMES awaiting hearing on the charge would be the terminus of the road. the awful comic pages, declarTO STUDY FRUIT RAISING of abandoning a minor child, was FOR BIG SANPETE RANCH taken before Judge Booth yestering they- - were not fit for children. Mrs. W. II. Daniehlson, the field day, where he promised to pay JOHNSON GLASS & PAINT COMPANY EXPANDS secretary of the alliance, gave an He Also - Bought Two Hundred $12.50 per month toward the supaccount of a crusade she has been Thoroughbred Chickens to Take port of the child. Upon this to the Livingston Farm, Where promise the court suspended senconducting in Newport, R. I., with Glass The Johnson Paint and of the the He Will Introduce Fruit Trees. tence until the 20th of April. clergy; the removal announces Company of its paint shop to the new build- trying to get the society there to entertainWilliam Hill, of Car- PROVO PRESSED BRICK ing just completed on West Cen- desist from elaborate on ments bon a SELECTS NEW BOARD former aod resident Sunday. ter street next to the old Sharp county of to came the is an Provo, This barns. city yestersimply Livery SALT LAKE ROUTE The stockholders of the Provo day, where he will remain for a expansion of this firms business, MEN VJ5IT.PROVO few days to study fruit raising, Pressed Brick Go. met last uiht as the store will remain. where it J. II. Manderfieldassistant pas- after which he will go to Sanpete and elected the following board of is. With the Spring trade coming room to handle of on and the lack senger and freight agent, and county to superintend Judge Liv- directors to serve Tor two years: the work in the store, the com- Traveling Passenger Agent W. II. ingstons big farm. He has pur- Thomas Boardman, S. 11. Belmont, Clayton, pany will occupy the two build jLee are in Provo today in the in chased 200 thoroughbred chick- H. G. Blumenthal, ens to take with himinto Sanpete. and W. P. Clayton. tote rests of the Salt Lake Route. ing on '4 ex-sher- rv |