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Show - n&i&xv SUIT'S ADVERTISING SATES The Sun display advsrtlslnx rates 4 centa an inch per iseue or ll. ?H per Inch by the month four to local issues (4) advertisers. Tran-ote- n ISO) an I'euts t.fty inch per iteue. is IS per cent additional. Pasl-- on Xo 4isp y advertising accepted tor the (int .front) pave First teadera are ttst cenupage per line an SHORTENS BANKROLLS The gowns are lunger nowadays, And tliat'a wliat worries laiiiert Tliejfve shoneued bankrolls wry modi. And is lie angry Raw tiler! We Ve often wondered what the fellows who name Pullman rare and nee horses think about when theyre sober. iMUe. Coupon books of several denomination-. Kept in stock. The Sun. AN INDEPENDENT Volume 9, Number 15 CITY FATHERS UP AGAINST KNOTTY PROBLEMS Price city council's regular meeting last Tuesday night brought forcibly to the front that old question of furnishing service from the city's utilities to people living outside the city limits. An application from the projierty owners of the west half of Montrose addition for annexation of that district to the cify was under discussion when it developed that one of the main reasons for desiring to be taken into the municipality was that the residents might void the double charge which ia made to outsiders for water sen-irfrom tfee city pipes. It was stated that the extra eighteen dollars a year" which a householder was required to pay for water would offset the additional tax he would have to dig up to meet the city levy. Of course it is very plain that city residents are burdened with the original costs and upkeep of both the water and lighting systems, and that outsiders should he required either to come in or pay a higher rate for the service from these utilities. And right here is where the rity folks are getting the wont of it on lighting service. The outsiders on property bordering the city limits are getting electric service at the sstne rate aa is charged the people inside the city lines. It is sometimes pointed out that some of these outsiders have built their own service lines. That old scheme of giving service to such folks should they construct line and allowing them to take it out in lights and water" at first might look as though a burden had been placed upon the customer. A little calculation, however, will establish that there Is a joker in this deal that city folks in reality are paying for the whole thing, while in some eases these people own" the line after they have twen reimbursed in service for its cost. Tn the event that these residents later come into the city it is expected that such light and water lines will be taken over" by the municipality. Is Without Answer. Just why electric service should be furnished to outsiders without sn increase over eity rates to compensate for the extra eost of paying bonds and interest which is suffered by the insiders, is a question without an answer. It is said" that no such increased rate will he allowed by the Utah public utilities commission. If this is so. then the people inside the eity should demand that all outside service lie discontinued at once. It is a ridiculous proposition for Price to give this to these people under such conditions. Even in this Montrose addition application for admission to the municipality it was necessary to split the plst in two in order to get the requited majority of property owners," those in the east half refusing to sign up on account of the dread of eity taxes." One propertyholder just over the line would come in if a little plat to just cover his house and lawn while ex eluding his barn and live he tacked onto the proposed entry to lots are involved eity life. Thirtv-tw- o in the proposed addition to the citys jurisdiction, and the petitioners representing a majority of the property owners signing tin for" the entrance into the eitv are F. L. Johnston, Archie I). Davis, L, U. Bryner. 0. W. Blake, J. L. Downard. W. L. Downard, D. E. Leonard. Claude Robinson, M. C. Seely and E. K. Olson. ' Wellington Is Behind. Sewer districts are receiving considerable attention at the eity dads meetings these days. The rpoposition to build a line to serve the one over on J street west of Tenth has ashamed somewhat definite form. The pipe is figured to run west and then to find its way to the river at a point south' westerly. Right of way has been secured without other eost than s privilege of connection for the property owner under the same conditions as is allowed eity residents. The question of whether or not the state health authorities will permit an outlet at this point remains to be settled. No water is taken from the river between the proposed outlet and the citys rasin one on to the southeast. Plats for the new sewer districts will he drawn and it is likely that two maybe three such improvements will be under way verv shortly. Wellington wants an adjustment" on its water bill, and is also asking for a reduction in the rate. The claim is made that waternsera down that way do not pay their bills and that in con sentience only the minimnm of a hundred dollars has been paid to Price City each month until there ia quite a balance due. The eupplv at the Wellington intake ia metered. No meters are installed on the users service pipes, snd as a consequence it is a mystery where the water goes to. These folks were assnred that they will get a square deal. They promise to pay np all arrearages whenever they are convinced that they really owe" the e stoek-j-wonl- d was considered. Supt. J. W. Plant has about finished the reconstruction work and changes needed on the pipeline through Price Canyon and the water flow may be depended on fur a considerable degree of regularity, so the tiig consumer will be taken on again. An extra quantity of water ia being used at present in the highway paving, but an effort will be made to serve them all. The quest ion of changing the city a watermaina preparatory to the prospective paving of Main street was discussed. It develops that to meet the needs of the eity and prepare for probable growth there must be put in bemain from the h fore paving a reservoir down Ninth strc&t and along Main aa far as to Fourth with s second line from the reservoir looping in along a route down Sixth and some further thouschanges a total of twentv-fon- r and feet. The estimated cost of all thousand dollars. -- A this is fifty-fiv- e bond issue of about sixty thousand will be promoted to rover the improvement. Would Sell Reservoir. George M. Miller made a proposition to sell the Parkdale reservoir for a 1 reasonable price. A couple of years ago this reservoir was offered to the It was municipality for nothing. freelv admitted bv Miller that tlie shirking of responsibility for anv probable damages from the operation or impounding of waters in the reservoir waa the principal reason for wishing to shift the ownership. There is no question but that this reservoir has been a great aid in the operation of the eity water system during the past vear or more, over which period its use ha .been allowed without any rental. The reservoir is situated just shove the citys No. 1 storage pond, and will hold several million gallons of water. Miller made it plain to the rity that there must lie a purchase made or the eitv must give np the use of this additional storage. The price was talked of as the eost of a dam like the one hold ing hack the water" pins a reason' able figure" for the acreage flooded by the impounded waters. The reservoir needs considerable repairs, but the Parkdale company dont want to make them or to have anyone else do it while" the ownership remains as at present Just what would he the claim on damage to the grounds in Parkdale from seepage which floods the tract should the ety take over the reservoir was not touched niKin. It was stated a couple of vears ago that the reason for offering the reservoir to the city free of cost was thst this damage. question could he raised. Perkdale addition wants S'dcwalk facilities. George M. Miller informed the council how easily and cheaply a path' wav could be graded end then covered with gravel or some other coating to lead right through Citv Park up to the line of Parkdale addition. In the same connection it was urged that a existing between the park and the canal be disposed of. Walks up will he conthrough the nected with such pathway as the eity sees fit to bnild to the line. Some peculiar ideas of why is a license" seem to develop when a business" does not sweep the town as its promoters fondly hoped it would. W. M. Taylor sought to have a rebate made for that portion of the quarter for which a license was not used" for the danaante" thing which was opened up early in the summer in the west room of his block on Fast Main street. Recorder George E. Ockey re ten-inc- 1 bop-hol- e" sub-divisi- on SOME THIRTY minded Taylor that the eity waa not ahead of the game on the license question with the applicant, Taylor having oiierated a considerable musical supply business for a long period during which he claimed to lie out of busi- ness" during the construction of the Taylor block, and throughout which time he paid no license at all to the eity. Taylor Asks Rebate. Roiue repairs will lie made to the eity a fire engine. A representative of the La France engine distributors was in Price during the past week snd looked over the machine. New impellers for the pump recently ordered are declared to be unnecessary, and a telegram to cancel this order was sepf out. But some other tarts are required. The companys agent will ace to their installation in about a month when he will be passing through on hia return from Alaska. It has just developed that some priming troubles which the firemen have had with the apparatus ia due to a defect in the easting forming the valve neat in tlie punin. The La France people will lie asked to make thia good on the guarantee under which the engine waa purchased. Encouraging tbs Bind. Encouragement will be extended to the Price hand to the end that four Sunday afternoon concerts mav he given during the coming weeks. It ia desired that the people from the camps will find something tn bring them to Price, and it is figured that aside from the pleasure tn he given the local people this will help to bring abont visits from the outsiders. Some of the local civic clubs have expressed a willingness to aid the movement. Of course all th;s aid" spoken of is understood to he financial in nstnre. Prices hand ia now doing a good hit of work, and a growing popularity for its concerts is noticeable. doming to the meeting tn defend a bill put in for services rendered by hia wife dnring his incumbency as city electrician, F. L. Johnston became too vigorous in hia language and waa ordered from the room. The hill as rendered was considered aa excessive by council members snd has been held up for some time. After listening to Johnston s statement ebnnt the work done and the manner of making ont the account a new invoice waa prepared with s cut of 20 per cent which wll be submitted for the signature of the worker. Anticipating receipt of taxes this fall the eity haa already borrowed fifteen thousand dollars to tide (tvrr in the payment of enirent Ivlls. An additional mra of ten thousand will be secured. The mavor. the treasurer and recorder were authorised to negotiate this loan by a resolution duly passed. UTAH ONION CROP Ttaha crop of nnona this year a hundred acres. The estimated yield is placed at four hundred snd fifty bushels per sere snd fiftv-tw- n era w-l- l he shipped. Last year the shipment was ninety. Report to the bureau of crop statistics show that the condition of sugar beets in Utah ia highly favorable. er. SUTHERLAND NAMED Former Senator George Sutherland of Utah waa last Tuesday nominated and a few hours later confirmed as an associate justice of the supreme eonrt of the United States. He succeeds Jonties John H. Clarke, resigned. DAVS VET BEFORE UTAH WAV TUNIFEl IS ffl Clearing of Tunnel No. 2 on the Utah railway blocked by the wreck ensuing when two trains met in the bore about a week ago last Monday will lie a matter of more than a month. Work- nun MIL-- gas, together with enough heat to indi cate that thf coal in the tunnel ia still smouldering. Thia crew haa cleared about three hundred feet into the passage. Nobody has as yet been through ing at the north entrance the Utah Con- the entire length something like elevstruction company has a big en hundred feet. The heat and fire clearing away the huge pile of have destroyed all the original timberdirt and rock which waa shot down in- ing and left the roof and the aides in to the month of the tunnel in an effort a heated condition which causes much to atop it up and smother the fire which breakinginp on cooling. There is very followed the collision. Two dinky en- great danger to the workmen from fallgines are taking away the material. A ing rock. The crew is working under trackage of about a thousand feet has the protection of a roof or platform been laid to facilitate this work. This hnilt np on a flatcar, which is pushed immense pile of dirt covers the big mal- into the tunnel at the end of a string let locomotive which waa pulling the long enough to keep the locomotive on downcoming train, and the big engine, the outside. In spite of this precautogether with six ears at least a part tion one of the men got an ugly gash of which were loaded with coal will on his leg when a big boulder bounced be a total loss. The steamshovel has against him last Tuesday. Two shifts proceeded to a point which was origi- are kept going at thia work. nally about a hundred feet into the Spring Canyon mines snd the proptnnnel, but is now just at the entrance. erties at Mohrland and niawatha are The roof for that distance waa caved much handicapped by the blocking of the railroad. It is possible to switch in. At the south end the railroad com- around the tunnel with the combinamoney. panys own crew is clearing away the tion of tracks in the canyon, but this Again Getting Water. debris and getting the tunnel ready for work is too slow to accommodate the Application of the Denver and Rio retimhering operations. While no par- full output of the mines, some of which Grande Western railway for the re- ticular amount of smoke comes from it are getting out only the product of sumption of water service at Helper there is still a fairly strong flow of halftime. steam-shov- el It is also well to remember that you Week Ending September 8, 1922 don have to go in swimming to have a shark pull your leg. NEWSPAPER t GUARDSMEN SENT HOME Some Going to School, While One Called On Mission. Twenty-seve- n FRANK N. CMOH OF UTAH FUEL FEUS OF Is TOE COST OF COIL HiKfflC national guardsmen doing duty iu Carbon county for the Salt Lake Tribune carpast several weeks were last Saturday riesYesterday's an iuterview with Frank N. Cam- ton. Ou April 1st there was, practicalrelieved by order of Col. W. (1. Wileron, vice president and general man- - ly shaking, very little or no ear shortliams, adjutant general Sergt. Joel J. h Fuel company. to age so that the mines were enabled to Jf Summerhava of Batery A, Hundred of operate without any difficulty of that ia and Forty-Fift- h ordered; artillery, of wages paid to taial kind. At the present time, however, home that he mav go on a mission for I ,ruwr e the ear shortage ia so acute that the epe 10 tl,e t,rl.,on the Chun-- of Jesus Christ of Utter-- I"? " mines into will not lie able to operate any ofotbcrcauses entering school to to Others dav Saint. arei,lri,t go more than WO ier cent of the time and Cinqis. Heber J. Kruse, Allied Venenia Pri- qurs'.inii, Cauieron mentions overhead most of them will be on half time. Tf and Orson IV. Young; First-Clas- s M. charges, taxation, the ear shortage and yon do not have ears to more coal in K. Lester Dowse, vates Chester ,ir J you cannot mine it. But with a 40 to iVaring and John F. Collins; Privates Vth" ".tuahon.. The figures 50 ier cent curtailed production, the Robert Baird, James K. Parmer, Wl- in,,u"te ,hal items of overhead mentioned before ter Lament. Charles W. Dicker, Ted I .W.h.he tab i getting coal cheaper than an- - go on just the same and increase the McDaniels, Ross 11. Mitchell, Janies A. ci in a number of other sections of unit eost by the ton of coal just that Price, Kenneth 8. Laiuliert, Erwin U. thetis where conditions are much. This car shortage is one of the country Ranch, Harry Handle, Jnmes M. Ranand also that the Vtah o)iera-tor- s most serious things faced by the Utah R. W. Charles Srhole.v, Ralph dolph, are selling at prices wholesale that mines and there is every reason to bePhillijw, Irwin Sumpter and Frank are about 10 Tier cent lower than are lieve that it will eontinne Buffington, all of Battery A; Sergt. those prevailing in Colorado, where Aa a matter of fact, thiaindefinitely. item alone Robert Xieols and Private John W. similar conditions exist. This may make it necessary to further inmining deChristopherson of the headquarters also the fact that the crease the priee of roal to take up the tachment and combat train. Hundred latter scales dcs)iit with the bonuses lost the mines will undoubtedly auffer. in Utah, wage Fnrtv-FiftPrih and Held artillery; lie mid the workers for the next five to vates Hall Clough and Howard Call of High Taxes Paid. months, are considerably in excess of the medical detachment. Hundred and those should be remembered that durIt Colorado. in imid Sixteenth cavalry; Sergt. Leo Tellef-ao- n On Aprol 1st, laat," sava Cameron, ing 1921 the coal mines of Utah, meanof the detachment, qnartermuster Utah coal the mines themselves and none of o)erator endeavored to ing the other pnqierties of the miuing comdetachments on dnt.v in the martial bntion of labor cost in the production panies in this and other cities, paid tlie law districts at S cn field and Helper of coal. Several state and counties in which the propiqwrators, previous to under command of Major Elmer John that erties are located a total of $381,731.-4- 6 in the reductions made date, hnd son. in taxes. On top of thia then waa other cases the lower in and wages Several additional guardsmen were scale became effective with April 1st. an added cost of fully a third of the ordered released last Tuesday. They the opinion of the tqierators at that amount that had to be paid for providare Hugh J. Ward, Wesley L. Snow. In the scale of nay was out of pro- ing protection to the ronqiany propertime, Wendell Saxey, Oscar Lopex, Yernald some instances, not only ties when the county authorities found in T. Worthington. Bart Strong, Alden portion with the actual work performed in themselves ui able to provide the proGray, Fred Fielding. Edgar E. Booth, comparison with other men in the tection to which the companies were ' Sidnev P. McCullough, Karl Snow, Ermines, but equally out of proportion entitled. It is interesting to compare nest Chauvie, Man-iCook and Keith with the acale paid for the same kind the wages and coal prices at the mines J. Foote. of labor in other induatriea. Under in Colorado and Utah. The Colorado the acale of wagea put into effect on mine prices are given in circulars unRAILROAD CHECKED UP April 1st the common laborer outside der date of August Slat and, effective of the mine (that is, work which is not Septemlier 1st, are $6.50 for lump coal was paid $4.20 a day of and six for nut coal. The Utah quotaunderground) Wellington and Price Gainers In the eight hours. Common lalwr in other tion on the same coal are $5.50 fox Matter of Taxes. lines of industry does not average lump roal at the mines and $5.25 for within a dollar a day of tliia wage. Un- nut roal. a difference of a dollar and Discrepancies between the track mile- der the scale which has again been put seventy-fiv- e rent, respectively, in faage inside the limits of municipalities into effect in Utah thia day laborer vor of Utah. .Furthermore, the wage aa turned in by the Denver and Rio will receive a bonus for the next five scale in Colorado ia cm the aame genexGrande Western system and the actual months of $2B0 a day or a total wap, eral basis aa that in Utah with the measurements as just sun-eyeby lo- berinning on Sfjitemtar 1st of M.oO ception that in Utah some of the big cal authorities have added a considproperties at least will have bonuses to a erable valuation on which city taxes day. pay that amount to aa much, if the deAdded' Big Bonus mands of the minen are conceded, as msy be levied in Wellington and Price. Under the acale of pay put into ef- does the increase in the wage iteelf, The railway turned in ninety-aeve- n hundredths of a mile as the trackage fect on April 1st the driver of a car and some of the biggest mines in Coloin Wellington, while an actual meas- underground was paid $5.25 a day. The rado are within twenty mile of Den urement mskea it 1.40 miles. This will scale which haa now been reinstated ver. add $32,000 to the valuation on which will give this worker a daily wage of Utah Coal Cheaper. the muncipality will be entitled to tax- $7.05, in addition to which he receives tlie retail viewpoint, and in From total a a bonus of a $2.70 day, making and as that town a levy ia close ation, where conditions are relativesections of scale Under the of a $10.65 day. to fifty mills the artual amount of exjust tra tax will lie a little over fifteen hun- wages of last April 1st a machinist in ly similar, telegraphic inquiry Commerdred dollars. In Priee the reported mine received $5.00 a day of eight made by the Salt Lake City scale makes his cial dub and chamber of commerce mileage is ninety-thre- e hundredths, hours. The reinstated these retail coal prices for bituwhile the aetnal measurement makes it wages $8.50 per day with a bonus of coal : minous of $11.10 total a $2.60 s or wage day 1.17 miles. This puts an additional Minneapolis $14.25 to $15.00 the nine hundred and seven! f five dollars day. It is noteworthy that the maehin ton. " on the franchise valuation, and eight ist on the railroad today is receiving Milwaukee $11.50 a too. hour a or cents an $5.60 day. thonsand four hundred dollars on the seventy Detroit $12.00 to $13 A0 a ton. mine in a machinist a In words, other valua-t:on nnreported trackage, the extra Denver $12.00 a ton. double rents ten receive of will within on which Priee Citv will be entiKansas City $11.00 a ton. tled to tax being $0375, the actual pay- the amount paid foy the same characIn Salt Lake City the retailers art machinist. to railmsd a ter of work ment reselling just shout two hundred an average of ten dollars per when remembered Tt should that quoting be dollars. In the case of Price, at least, ton for lump coal, ao that the retail sn attempt will lie made to collect the the scale of wagea was reduced by the here ia ranging from one to five heck taxes over a number of years on operators in the spring the price of price fif- dollars a ton lower than it ia in other time same at the roal reduced was this shortage. t ty eents a ton. And that same reduced comparative locations. price for coal at the mines was not INSTITUTE CONCLUDES raised during the five months of the FIRE AT WELLINGTON strike, although the eost of operating same the in increased peenormously Splendid Attendance At Price First Ed Shsya and J. W. Hammond of Prlca riod from causes other than wages. of Present Week. The Utah mines were kept operat Owned Store Building. Carbon county teachers concluded ing during the general coal strike at Early last Monday morning the gen their institute at Price last Tuesday an actual operating loss. Aside Irom afternoon with an address hv Prof. Le- the fact that during April and May the eral store operated at Wellington by maintain Ed Rheya was burned, the building aud roy Cowles of the University of Utah operators were compelled to on How Can s Teacher Improve Her- heavy guards for the protection of the contents being a total loss. Owing to self While In Service." Earlier in the properties, the mines were producing the hour of its occurrence the fire waa waa day the professor spoke on Educa- but a portion of normal, while the gen not discovered until the building tion Tests and Measurements. Carl eral overhead items, anch aa power one roaring furnace. The quantity of R. Marcuse n, chairman of the board of costs, monthly employes, the interest gasoline and oil known to be on hand, education, spoke on Carbon countys charges and aoforth. continued just the together with the knowledge that there Resources and History." As a part of same as before and since the strike. waa considerable ammunition in stock, the afternoon program C. M. String-ha- In the case of depreciation, the over made the assembled spectators ean-tiodecreased abont approaching too closely. manager of the Eko theater, ex- head increased rather than hibited a moving picture of the United dnring the past five months. The Utah Sheya had been away from home np States Fuel mines and another of the coal operators were successful in their at Provo for a few days prior to the fight with the unions, but owing to the fire. The family attended to the store eitv of Price. The Carbon County Teachers asso- fact that other sections of the country in hia absence. The building was ownciation elected 01 cn O. Allred of Sco- returned to the old scale it was abso- ed jointly by Sheya and J. W. Hamfield president. Eli A. Day, Jr., of the lutely necessary for Utah to do the mond. Two thousand dollars insurCarbon junior high, vice president, and mine thing or face the alternative of ance waa carried on the building and hundred on the stock. Thia Alta Aeord of Castle Gate school, sec- losing the men working in the proper- twenty-fiv- e eover the loss. retary. Additional members of the ex- ties. Further than that, it was neces- will nenrly ecutive board are S. A. Smith, princi- sary in Utah to grant to the men the JUDGE WOODS MAKES ORDER IN pal at Kenilworth, and Joseph E. Pal- bonuses based on the production durOLSON DIVORCE CASE mer. instructor in science of the Car- ing the period of the general strike and while the Utah mines were kept in opbon high. An order was entered in the district The Carbon County Principals elnh eration. In actual figures the amount court at Price by Judge F. E. Woods Voted unanimously to by the men is last its pres- of the bonus demanded in the action through Saturday beas difference the same the ent officers by acelamation. They are exactly Olson seeka to he divorcwhich Edith of 1st scale and R. FI Davidson, prineiosl at Sunnyside. tween the wage April ed from Emmet K. Olson that the wife president; C. H. Madsen, principal at that which has been reinstated. be paid a hundred dollars for the supPrice, vice president, and S. A. Smith, Car Shortage Acute. port of herself and the two children, principal at Kenilworth, secretary. five months the the and that fifty dollars be paid to her past Dnring sold by far the great- attorney. A claim was act np that the Utah properties Ivory ornaments may he cleaned bv est e dolpart of the production to railroads defendant had only seventy-fiv- declarwashing them in soap snd water and hia honor but in industries the in this section lars bank, in order thst then placing them in the cm to dry. hia reputed property Use a brush in elesnsng. If they arc might be kept operating by the move- ed that with be able to proshould Olson nnd trains. ment of backing passenger freight verv vi How leave them in the sun sevon eontract cure funds to make payments accordis railroads sold to Coal eral days and wet them occasion iliy order. with aoapands. Wah in clear water and at a price which normally admits ing to the In times a of hut slight profit. very after the bleaching prowess such as have been seen during the Many people prefer to pay by eheck. summer months the coal sold to rail- - It ia leu agonizing than letting the The latchstring swings outward to those who pull it in moderation. roads represented an ojierating loss per cash slip through their fingers. ;pr h '"nr e, n d re-ve- ala -- " na re-ele- ct But Four More Days For Registration to Vote At the Coining General Election, November 7th. The Dates Are October 10th, 11th, 17th, 31st ' |