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Show raiDAT, THE OLDEST BANK IN EASTERN UTAH G. N. NELSON, Cashier, A. W. HORSLEY, President (Continued From Page Six.) their land holdings and are also under heavy bonds which require them to make large expenditures of money to conform to the requirements of the government on their leases, it is that all of the properties be opened and equipped for operation this year. ABOUT THE CAMPS OF THE BIO CARBON DISTRICT Enclosed Find Check Three pleasant words .with a deep meaning. They mean that the sender is one who knows how to do business who has a bank account and who, therefore, is likely to have a good credit rating and whose business is a reliable, going concern. Pay by check. Its the modern way to do business and to meet obligations. Open an account Coal production in Utah last January was the largest in four years. In 1921 the output was 456,200. In 1922 it was 421,621, Last year 468,375. This tons. the mines of from lump the Independent Coal and Coke company at Kenilworth is this week being sold in Salt Lake City at $7 A0 a ton. Standard (Spring Canyon) lump is $8 A0, stove sizes $8.00 and the nut year it ran to First National Bank Price, Utah. $7A0. Surveys were begun at West watha on Monday last by the United States Fuel company for the site of a new steel tipple that ia to be put in right away at a cost of close to a hundred thousand dollars. A Chicago firm has the contract Says a dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., last Tuesday: Small lot buying featured coal market operations here this week. The condition ia brought about by the practical cessation of new buying for stocking purposes, although large shipments are being made on old orders plaeed as strike insurance. Fires were started last Friday in the Columbia Steel corporation's ovens at Ironton for the purpose of heating the brirk. They are to be retained for sixty days. After this the ovens will be ready for operations. The coal for tbs coke is to come from Columbia in Carbon district just south of Hia- Assets December 31, 1923, $1,004,368.53. Capital $50,000.00. Surplus and undivided profits $122,815.10. PRICE CITY COUNCIL BUYS NEW ENGINE WHILE EIGHT SMALL BLAZE Buying a new fire truck was about the heaviest pieee of business trans- tagged and showing the payment of a acted by Priee city council at its reg- license is to be required. Just how to get a new set of transular meeting but Wednesday evening. This aetion has been in contemplation formers for supplying power to the for some time, and ia about the final Frandsen brickyard will be decided one to consummate the improvements by the electric committee within a few requred by the insurance boards to get days. Operating only about three a new survey with a remapping and months each season, the industry suradjustment of rates locally. With the fer ed when the tube formerly used watermains all relaid and hydrants of for its convenience were removed to the required specifications installed, other customer during the idle period the next move waa the replacement of and at present the eity has none to the present truck by one of greater wa replace them. Pegging out the street lines at a terthrowing eapaety. The one to come will be more than double in its work point off Seventh street and along the end will be supplied with an engine north side of the canal will be done of special rating to make up for the by the eity. There seems to be some difficulties of operation in this high uncertainty as to just where this altitude. While consideration of the passageway rune, ana is it ia likely to establishment of water service for get fenced in unless its boundaries are Fairview addition was being followed defined the acting eity engineer will by negotiations for the new apparatus set out stakes to guide the fencers. a fire alarm from that pert of the eity Judge F. E. Woods ealled the atwas turned in. The chief and some of tention of the eouncil to the irregulhis men in attendance at the eonncil arity of putting out added compensasession had the truck out before the tion to the city attorney for extra siren had stopped sounding. A run to work, and si the salary of that offithe blase was made, but no water was cial was very small the eouncil doubled available for fighting it and the ef- it, bringing it up to sixty dollars a forts of the boys were devoted to pre- month. venting a spread of the flames. The J. W. Plant, superintendent of wadwelling belonged to 8am Yokes and terworks, outlined his plans for the was destroyed. Several fellows sleep- summer to be along lines of working ing in the place escaped in a stale of a small crew all season instead of putmore or less undress. Before the en- ting on a large force for a short time, gine waa returned to its room the new lie expects to start on some of the one had been bought extensions very soon. All consideration of the new sewer Authorization for the purchase of a for the east side of the city system transformers to of the control couple went over until the coming meeting, out-aiseries street lighting system the white way district was given. which is to be held next Wednesday At present this service is hitched to evening. an obsolete style of controller, and PUTTING BIG MONEY IN 8TATE the lamps are of an old make and not TREASURY JUST NOW up to modern efficiency. Tbia will all be changed with the new installation. The gasoline tax as passed by the Units of double the lighting power last legislature at the suggestion of will be put up without any additional Secretary of State Crockett amounted power expenditure. As rapidly as pos- to $309,709.89 from March 8th to Novsible all lines ere being moved to the ember 39, 1923, in addition to which side of the streets with but little of the people have paid less for gasolins such work remaining. It is expected this than they did last The reyear to establish white way system on duction in' the automobile license tax several additional streets. It is likely to the individual has also resulted in that a new lamp on thie circuit will lie a material increase for road pun macs. placed at once at a point just across Total receipts this year were from the Denver and Bio Grande as compared with $747,902.50 Western depot An agreement that 1922, due to the fact that there during the railroad would furnish certain sup- were sixteen thousand five hundred plies for this installation has been en- more machines licensed than during tered into. 1922. With the lower rate and the gasThat all replacements made in the oline tax in effect, Crockett lielieves citys pipeline in Price Canyon may there will be approximately $1,100,000 lie of proer size, especially when laid more for road funds this year. with eaztiron of absolutely other saving to the tapxayers in the will character case be the as pent amount of $16,950.75 w'ill be from the with a section to be put,m this season lowered cost of license plates, due to diagram showing the grades and ie suggestion of Secretary Crockett flowing capacity required has been at the last legislature that the size of made by W. . Jones, acting city en-- 1 the reduced. pIale gineer. It ia the policy of the city government and its water department to HARMONIZING REPUBLICANS OF in caatiron at such points as must THE BASIN SECTION Gtreplaced, eventually in this manDUCITE8NE, Feb. 16. Differences ner tO'h&ve the whole line of a lasting between instead and wood the republican factions in Duch-s- t of tile type retches as now. The plan provides ene county were amicably settled at for conveving five second-feof meeting of precinct chairman here Carl It. Marcusen, water into the fity. At present the t!li" week n1 chairman for the connected party, acted as the to line furnish springs less than throe, but other water will harmonizer. B. E. Miller, eounty chair-froArthur J. Ice of Price, time to time lie secured as the man Marcusen s efforts at adjust- j ended growth demands. I1 thi to. License to operate a poolhall was-1of dele- the election for invention granted to Mann. Klapakis. He will at 8tate ention pn May lie located in the basement of the Atb- ens building. Louie Bell, refused a li- - T at Koosevelt with apportionment one ' foF rense for a soft drink parlor at the cast Bamberger Carbon Besort two weeks previously, Dav,d TkomP.n was the put in another application which met commi like fate. Bell was insistent that he ?nammn . Iceman to succeed M. B. Pope, recent- a. .v de $829,-049.- 71 11 ( et m see-sit- vs 1 tth forf!,t fcffSfUK SKT Ih Sun-nysid- Colorado Auto Compan Alger Announces a grand opening of the New Ford Home, imm $ diately adjoining the present location to the West, on West Mail street at Price, 529,575 Aberdeen FIREMEN m?An mines worked Saturday, L March 1Q24 Representatives from the Ford Motor company, showing tht great plant by pictures, will be. present to entertain all. Refreshments and Music e, approxi- mately 80 per eent of the time during January, according to the United States department of commerce survey. It reports there has been a marked improvement in the demand. Transportation conditions are excellent and the carriers have taken earn of the requirements in splendid fashion. Columbia Steel corporation, which ownes properties in Carbon district, is offering for sale a million dollars of 7 per eent first mortgage sinking fund gold bonds. Tbs money is to be used in developing iron and coal mines and the plant at I ronton. This will give the concern an indebtedness of $5,000,000 with its assets about five times this sum. Award of the state industrial com mission against the Spring Canyon Coal company and the Aetna Life Insurance company for seven hundred and fifty dollars in favor of the state by reason of the death of Ilazuto Ha-twhile in the employ of the former waa set aside and annulled by the supreme court last Friday. The contention of the company that the claim was barred by the statute of limitations was upheld. R. 8. Collett, formerly of the Uintah Basin, was one of the speakers it a Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce meeting the other day. lie called attention to deposits of coal and iron in a certain section of the Basin and declared it should be an excellent site for a steel plant when transportation comes. Collett urged Utai capitalists to support the proposed railroad into the Basin and predicted that unless they get busv now Denver and Colorado will beat them to it and reap the benefits of development. Cassett & Co., Denver (Colo.) financial house, have prepared a booklet entitled A Modem Titan, presenting a discussion of the industrial importance and investment worth of bituminous eoaL It shows that the annual American output calculated at the average price to customers, has more than two and a half times the value of the wheat crop and nearly twice that of the cotton. It estimates the bituminous reserves of the United States at 1,918,310 millions of long tons More than half of the worlds Everyone invited and assured of a real enjoyable time. Con prepared to stay from 2 oclock of the afternoon to 8:30 of t! evening. Alter Auto Price, Utah ai Prices American Legion auxiliary day evening new officials were indust-e- d and Mrs. Joseph Denison, k a teacup dance the evening into office for the Hiawatha aux- runny being performed by T of February 25th, next Monday, at the iliary by the same ladies. President, Lars P. Oveson. The cereawj is to give home in this city. There will be a Miss Nellie Lnndall, with Mrs. Myrnominal fee with the dancing. Mrs. tle Garber, secretary. The ceremonies George B. Harding and Mrs. R. M. at the camp over south were followed Jones are to be in charge of the music. by dancing and refreshment!. Last Monday evening Mrs. Len R. Fullmer and Mrs. R. C. Reed went to Says the Castle Dale Progress of Sam Waterfield of Helper and installed the temporary last Saturday: officers there. These are Mrs. Jack Kenilworth and Miss Eugenia Denison Vignetto and Mrs. Viola Olson Oberto. were married Thursday afternoon at There was a good attendance. Tues the home of the brides parents, Mr. followed by a wedding dim members of the respectiva were present The happy m 4 that evening for Kenilworth, they will make their home. Cos laliona and good wishes from everybody. Its a wise roan who his ignorance. vtj doeBj New Telephone Directory known deposits. Strengthening tendencies are apparent in the soft coal market, says Coal Age of last Saturday. More seasonable weather has increased the demand for domestic bituminous and some concerns in Ohio and other sections are adding to their reserve stocks at the present low prices. The Jacksonville (Fla.) meeting does not appear to attract much attention from the consumer and there is a feeling that no serious trouble will be encountered. Those mines that are working in most instances are operating to capacity and some producers are getting ready to open additional operations to meet the demands, but in some rases are finding it difficult to obtain men. Contract making is progressing slowly, but the range of prices appear to be from $2.25 to $3.25 as compared with $2.75 to $4.25 this time last year. Close to one hundred men were laid off the first of this week up in Spring Canyon. Most of these were working at the Standard, cause lie had never been convicted of The Paradise Hotel FILE ON WATER selling booze. NEW COMMISSIONERS wants to switch its eatingroom from W. R. Snow and Henry Eden from The selection of Lemuel n. Redd of the coffeehouse elass to a restauas United States commis- Stsndardville last Monday applied to rant. The saving in the license fee Blanding succeed Peter Allen, who has the state engineer for permission to to sioner would be fifty dollars every three of water resigned, was approved last Saturday store five hundred acre-femonths. . by Judge Tillman D. Johnson in the annually in a reservoir of sixty-foPopulation increases among the dogs United States district court O. Soren-o- f acres in extent for the irrigation of the city and they are no longer to son, of Castle Dale was named in three hundred and twenty acres. Franbe allowed to pass without some re-- (he Jr, of William place Howard, deceas-xtnctin- g cisco Goni of Price asks for one and measures. Complaint was d. Arthur J. Lee is the commissioner a half second-fefrom Dngout Creek made by citizens that children had Bt rrice. in Carbon county to be used in flood been bitten by a certain animal-e- ven j seasons for the irrigation of thirty-fiv- e while on the public school grounds. I Some are, coming around to the acres. Chaining up vicious dogs and an ab- - viewpoint that a girl can lie happily. . the target for Winh th rity, Sunshine makes real optimism, but nance roquiruur I the moonshine brand wears off. behold shoes after the ceremony. et We wish to again call the attention of our patrons to the fact that our new directory is being printed and we want it to be as complete and as correct as it is possible to make it. Those intending to discontinue service should notify us so that their names may be left out of the book, and those who contemplate changing their residence location should advise us so that correct numbers may be assigned. Telephone service is one commodity which is still available at pre-wprices. Investigate our rates. ar EASTERN UTAH TELEPHONE CO. ur PRICE, UTAH et Mth 3B |