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Show rr KICK if you dont gat The Poet every Tuesday and Friday, KICK. Dont wait.'? Kick to the right man, the Manager. toUTZXl tozjxaztT -- -- Tonight and Wednesday fair; not much change la temperature. PROVO CtTT, UTAH, HUMBER IGT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1914 VOLUME 6 PROVO RESER VOIR COMPANY TO BRING IMPORTANT SUIT PRESIDENT VAIL OF AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY GIVES UP WESTERN UNION PliJVERJATEHGHTS- :- KI BE SEniEDIII . COURT V i rt w -- J vand L, V x V I TIBER -- .A vY idiysieianj-bas-rcported-- w u For the third time in last quarter of a century the of the Provo -must river go to court and there have the questibn of water rights on the river set-tied once more. Each decade of time has brought about changed conditions, nd "with each change the "water has be- come more valuable and ita service must be for a greater number . of Jeople. The thousands of acres of arid lands yet within the borders of Utah County, to say noth- ing of the vast areas m bait Lake comity must in time . produce crops for the main- tenance of the ever increasing population of this section, the state and the United States. During the past ten years. engineers have been at work determining the duty of wa- ter to the soil' This hag made the old systems of flooding the land absolete with - the modern successful farmer and has called for the readjust- ments which must be made by the courts of the state. "water users " t i ' Our registration of vital statiy ties shows the following r Births, in Provo" City during the year, males, one hundred and fifty; females, one hundred forty-seveThe deaths, exclusive of those which occurred at the State Mental Hospital among ita patients and those of the Utah County In; firmary, were :Males, sixty-nin- e and includfemales, Beventy-threing deaths of the two institutions named were, males one hundred five, and females, ninety-tw- o Contagious diseases quarantined during the year were as follows: Scarlet fever,- two; smallpox, eight; diphtheria, four, with one death; whooping cough, seventeen; measles, two hundred fifty-fouwith sevendeaths; chicken and "Ih followpox, twenty-fiving reportable diseases but not quarantined : Typhoid tjfever, twenty" with one death ; pneumonwith twelve deaths ; ia, sixty-eighand tuberculosis of the lungs one death. In the department of food inspection, I desire especially- - to call yonr attention to the work done with the of Dr. Arthur A. Vance, in the repeated examinations of milk samples from the two principal dairies distributing milk in this city. The samples were collected from time e, ( , - This peaceful settlement of ,a controversy which . might have dragged its way through the courts for years as a distributing factor in business jwas the cause an immediate botierYeeTing in of up man the financial centres of tee councon- - try. The part played by , P Mortrolled. Rather than stand a suit gan & Co. in this settlement is not under the Sherman law. which iknuown. They are believed to would likely have been brought by have been the power behind be attorney general, Mr. Vail has j American Telephone Company in 'consented to sell the stock ot the itg efforts to buy up independ-m- t throughout the telegraph company held by the companies ' . try. company. President Vail of the American .Telephone andTelegraph Cpm-Do- n pany and Attorney General Mc-h- e Reynolds are chiefly responsible for the agreement by which the r, e, -- and are very much concerned over the matter. t, I COM- - ccun-telephon- river is inthat will change present conditions on the Once more the Provo volved in a law suit river from the present plan to an entirely new basis and every corporation or individual owning -- & right to water from the river is affected. The suit i8 brought by the Provo Reservoir Company of this city to settle the rights and claims of each company to water Jr; in the Provo River. According to the complaint, which will be filed nextYViday or shortly after, the Provo Reservoir in Company names a defendants the Buit the cities of Provo ' and Heber and the towns of Midway and Charleston, also over fifty canal companies and Corporations - 1913. - KE . n. ville are having qnite a time getting a judge. S. D. Johnson was fleeted to the position last election but would not have the place. The county commissioners then appointed Willis K. Johnson to the place, but after he had looked into the matter for a short time he decided that he was not jjj the for judic-- . ial honors .so refused the posi- tion. Once more the commis- sioners got busy on the fam-- " 1$ jjy tree 0f the Johnsons, and i this time .they called upon C. Johnson. .Yesterday was appointed to fill the place refused by two broth- - TRI-STA- : A,sale-o- f Herewith submitted is the annual report of this department for the year ending December 31, The good people of Spring : a, - Gentlemen JOHN HARDING . DIED HERE LAST - KNIGHT COMPANY HAS HEARING ON WOOLEN MILLS FREIGHT CASE The Knierht Woolen Mills hag bepm--ttearjng efore Commerce the interstate Commission at Washington, D. C., and Manager String- ham has been heard m the SUNDAY NIGHT rtn0vlfaw j. AboveHeberCity; . .. year as follows! Provo City, Utah, Jan.24, 3914, To the Ilonorablr Mayor and City Commissioners, Provo, Utah 1ST JOHNSON ELECTED; 2ND JOHNSON REFUSED; . 3RD JOHNSON GETS IT the- - the for " 4 SSb - BELT The Dairies in Utah County Are Good, According to the Physician, But Care Must be Contin. ued by Dairymen, Provo River May ' Yet Become Motor Power Bringing Mil-Dr. Horace G. Merrill, the city lions of Feet for 0 1 Timber From St Hundreds of People are Made Defendants, Cities, Corporations and Individuals Must Shaw Their lnterests in The River. Ifl- W- PROVES VERY 1, v. . P RATE DEATH , 'timber on the forest reserve in western "Wy- oming just consumated and for 125,000,000 board feet of lumber will have a very im- portant bearing on the tim- ber at the head of the Provo. At the time of the inspection of the river last.summer the forest officials reported that . the Provo river was one of the best timber - driving streams Wpected and that the Utah rake would make an excellent landing place for the logs sent down during the water period. The - distance for driving the timber is only 70 miles, while in Wy- oming the distance is 120 .miles. When the timber was checked up the officials esti- mated it at 106,000,000 board feet. 1 - --- . The sale has just been consummated of 125,000,000 board feet' of timber lying in western Wyoming. Thig is the largest sale of Service in timber by this section in a good many year.-Th- e timber consists principally of lodgepole pine, with small amounts of Englemann spruce, Donglas fir, Alpine fir and limber pine. The initial stumpage price are $2.75 pef thousand feet for saw timber, 84 cents for hewed railroad ties, and $1.50 per thousand feet for material which is made into fence posts, mine props, mine ties, and similar products The purchaser, it is underatood has a contract with the Uhlfcago & the-Fore- st . ',Nortliwe.tfrn railroad to deliwr the da.ryoian aad an avara-- e aBd.400CO0 lelwem Officers and Teachers From the these various tests gives fhe fol- - a and it has been stated that citi- a Joh year Jardme Three Stakes of Nebo, Utah and riveted re-lowing results: Cherry Jlill dairy, tbe railroad company will erect a zen Provo Passed to Assemble $ Will averages butter fat. four per cent; plant for the purpose of giving fere Alpine Feb. 1st, at ward evening, Sunday jdirt content as shou-- by the sedi- - treatment to the ties for the pv.r-- ' Sunday for Important Sunday iment test each time, fairly South street, big- them. .. ! clean, bacterial count per cubic poseof preserving of old age and general debility, of the products of this matter, and laid before the , centimeter, two millions, IT WHO tiftm Sent 281830 at sale involves driving them. a diswood Dairy Average but- V . in thej1 Commission Edge facts the tance of approximately 120 miles. vNext Sunday morning the Sun-- Trowbridge, England- - Joined the fat. 3.75 per cent: dirt content -case jter of the western roads now Many day school workers from the Al-- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Tba railroads hauling wool , as shown by the Rediment test operate their own treating plants. e aaeh time, fairly clean; from the eastern markets to pine, Nebo and Utah Stakes will day Saints in 1849, and labored for The ties are , impregnated with cubic two fount discentimeter, per ,ial at the Brigham Young some time as a local missionary in Provo are charged with zinc ehlorid, creosote, or fused nine hundred thousand. the local .miMJon im-Utahof ne in zine most of rate at about to come the one for the "mating gainst University England, me to sav that the dirt 3.000 ehlorid, The' figures in company. and the cost of treata of-tcontent of the milk a.s shown by ment s day, possession company 10 to 34 cents per tie from m the history jof millsTin SaTt Lake, and also at c The- - eutting of- lies on- a in er. purchased by you for depnrt-,men- t, scale from the vast bodies of double the amount to ship Light Company and other inter- the, three stakes, Members of the Provo as cloth designer and lodge is by far the most import. Sehool other General wool west the does on sites east capacities. it that Board, Sunday ests holding power and other timber on. the pola pine ant test Vhich milk is subjected es far as the Utah market is more than A thousand stake superintendents, stake presi- - He leaves a wife and seven chilriverr .of the Provo river and to, that clean milk is good milk. should follow, now that the and thus seriously individuals who either' have priprae anchthat our dairies, while they. vate rights oiHinterests in the caof lodgepole use of'the tieability compare most favorably-vit- h nal companies. ' treated ties is demonstrated of other communities, should pine those Provo four years ago the Such added development of Reservoir Company was formed to Utahs resources will be welcomed the more especially because it bring under cultivation about would stimulate both the timber twenty thousand acres of arid land in Utah and Salt Lake counties. and wood preserving industries. The establishment of a large treat It purchased the Blue Cliff Canal Companys rights to water in the the department work will be taken ENOW VERY " DEEP ing pkut along the Provo river, Provo River, the Pony Steel up. Short addresses and lessons near Provo, would be instrumental in timber sale .opera- Springs, the water of the William will be taken np and discussed. C. A, Ericksen of Santaquin firgt inter.Ktnte 'garne 0f the sea- - lne wil1 these minute tionsincreasing session will afternoon all At the Enoch the rem7ve Springs, estate, in this I1 Wright region, giving Particles ; milk once oontaur Valley meet in the Stake Tabernaele, came to Provo Saturday morning r6n. The University of Montana Little Springs, Round to hundreds of men and Creek andiome other interests where members of the general on business for the Nebo National ehamninns will line up against the lnntpd cannot be made clean by encouragement" to such an instr anv srf,n'n8r. nr filtering process tntion along the Provo. The company Sunday School Board wilLdeliverJMdnlng Company ancLreports con- - B. Y. U. team, and the outcome might well be considered by the game will settle pretty j The following four terpis are the commercial clubs. then went to the head of the river addresses to the officers and ditions favorable for great aefiv-lo- f milk accord-da- y Some of the and formed a great reservoir of a teachers. The program for the ity in that district. The snow is largely the basket ball snnremaey !1sed ir kssifving representatives of i11 oncstio : to trst First. eastern in is follows: as 7 feet deep but has mot hindered' of the T?oeky Mountain States, as number of Rmall lakes located operators who visited the 'the work of prospecting The tbe Yu boys have a quintette c. an fiepond. fairly clean; third. Provo river timber and made an the tops of the mountains which . (Continued on pege tfcree) ' fourth filthy. This grades examination of the Provo river Ne'bo National bas tunneled in or which has a pood change to are in Wasatch and Summit counrom that not 1 ties. Here they stored water dur- ing8 with the farmer of this seca distance of 186 feet and is now off the Utah during. the past summer stated uarticles S1X an of morP foreign tbat it could easily be made one ing the winter and high water tion and Wasateh county for tbe running through a vein of gang nrs, and the Montana players are that cntainjup of the best.timber driving streams reeomi7ed as-lbest -- in the ma.tter' a.s sandi period to furinsh the users of wa- purpose ofreaehing agreements matter. outbe can settled on that durcanal inorth. The'gnoie wdl be a close points ter from the companys " they had seen and the Utah lake ' was an excellent landing place. ing the summer months. The suit has for its purpose In the sale mentioned above the three different aims. First, to detimber will be driven down the Wind river a distance of approxitermine the duty of water on land; .. .. 120 miles, while the Provo Recond, the amount of water each! trsts to any mter- - mately river timber would have to be comuany or holder ahall be en- - two decrees settling claims on the ment Co., held last evening. Geo. tile (Vmpjny, is especially C!ire to call driven only approximately ase of the in M. Smoot wa8 elected president hint this'morning over the 'arrival ested da,,7m'1 70 General Hospital miles to land it on the Utahdake. 55 F ast Second Already 106.000.000 feet of th between the hours Pioto rivar timber ha been esticondition street, which Smoot cannot secretary-treasureand the baby are gettinw along nicely. For a number of weeks past tbs changed 'director of tb Provo Rervoir V settled xept hy a court de- - director; and Dr. Geo. E. Robison Thi is the first girl in the family, lcf 3 and 5 p. m. . mated, mapped, ete., and iR ready 1 et- C1 J direetors. other have three beet .th , n , fer Mi without ay delay. holding Company beiag loys. (CWiaael g page (tight) mm g home-ofl-Fou- rth n The-marketin-g -- -- bacter-assembl- f he L10Ps-.gYgr1eI- - d -- ead-waters bout 1 m--ploym- ent Inter-collegia-te - -- ('irrv'l' hon-,111- be , - jnbi-iexIda- ( ? r, er. - ,n - d-- -tt , I ' . |