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Show FRIDAY. III SOU. J11Q& PAGE FOUR nu mxm Issued Every Friday By Sub Publiihinf Co. (Inc.) B. W. Crockett, Mmnncer. Entered aa He Mail Matter, 8econd-C3aa- a the Poatoffice at Price, Utah, Under the Aet of Match 3, 1879. 1915, at ADVERTISING BATES Display Matter Per Inch Per Month, $1.50; Sinaia Inane, 50c. Special Peal tion, 25 Per Cent Additional. Lief ale Ten Centa the Line Each Inanition. Count Six Worda to the Line. Summona, $12.50; Water Application, $15X10; Final Proof, $10.00. Reader Ten Centa the Line Each Insertion. Count Six Worda to the Lina. Blackface Type Twenty Centa the Line Each Inaertion. Obituaries, Carda of Hank a. Resolutions, Etc., at Reading Notice Hate. Count Six Worda to the Line. For Sale, For Rent, Found, Loot, Etc, Two Cent Per Word Each Issue. No Charge Account. Address All Communication to SUN PUBLISHING CO. Pries, Utah Twenty Years Ago This ' Present Week Sun Special Service. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 20. Cattle receipt continue above expectations. Chicago today received twenty-two thousand, the largest supply of the season, and the bulk of the run there was fat. Here the receipts were about two thousand larger than a week ago and more than three thousand above a year ago. The liberal run reflects a selling movement by those who have been holding for advancing prices. Hogs have declined steadily for two weeks and today there was no check in the downward movement Prices have fallen under the twelve centa level. Though sheep and lambs were steady at last weeks close they are sharply lower than a week ago. Receipts today were 16, (KK) cattle, hogs and 7000 sheep, eotnjmred 0 with 14,000 cattle, 8000 hogs and catweek and a 12,875 ago, sheep tle, 14,150 hogs and 4675 sheep a year 12,-(K- 11,-00- ago. Trade in cattle oened slowly at lower bids and aa soon as salesmen Price was advertised as the only accepted lower prices the movement over the scales was large. The generway to the Uintah reservation. al decline was fifteen to twenty-fiv- e Excavations started for the princi-k- l mains for the Price waterworks system. Matt Warner and T. L. MeCarty were Price visitors during the week from Green River. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Manguin of d had a new baby girl at their home. The Raven Mining company was shipping gilsonite from its mines two miles north of Fort Duchesne. Peter Anderson was figuring on completing his dwelling in Price, work on which was begun the year before. W. M. Guiwits and wife of Denver, Colo., cousins of Postmaster Guiwits, stopped off in Price for a visit of several days. II. C. Smith was soon to begin the erection of a new dwelling on the premises just west of J. W. Warfs residence in the west part of Price. The big cement cistern of the Denver and Rio Granile at Mounds was about completed and hauling water from Helper to fill it waa to begin in a few days. Many strangers were coming into Priee in advance of the opening of the Uintah reservation. Most of these were going to Fort Duchesne and vicinity and a number to Vernal. At the quarterly conference of held over at Cleveland Stake Clerk E. S. Horsley reported the population to be 6792, an increase over the previous year of nine hundred and Sun-nysi- eight-poun- . Em-erysta- ke cents. This break threw the market back to the low point of last week and considerably under the high point of the season. Gobd to choice yearlings at $10.25 to $10.75 were in liberal supply. Nothing strictly prime was offered. Choice heavyweight steers sold at $10.00 to $10.50 and pulpfeds, $9.00 to $10.25. Avenge quality was not as good as last week. Butcher cattle declined as much as fat steen and trade waa dulL Most of the cows sold at $5.50 to $6.75 and heifers $7.50 to 0 $10.00. Some prime cows brought and heifen $10.50. Yeal calves were about steady with last weeks close. Receipts of stockers and feeders were fairly liberal. Prices ruled steady with the middle of lost week, to forty though about twenty-fiv- e cents lower than a week ago. Many are of the opinion that the decline $8.-0- will attract increased demand. Hog prices continue downward and todays decline took the market into the lowest position of the past six weeks and below the twelve cents level Compared with the high point in early March, the market is $2.30 to All of them shared $2.40 lower. the decline, Chicagos run of fifty thousand being the depressing influence. The top priee was $11.90 and bulk of sales $11.50 to $11.85l Light lights sold at $11.40 to $11.75 and stock hogs and piga at $11.00 to $12.00 were relatively the highest of the sea- on. Sheep and the officials give assurance that there will be no invreare in the gracing fees. o. fig-bre- ts twenty-fiv- e jv YANKS LIGHT ON MUTTON, BUT ABE HEAVY ON BEEF WASIIIXGTOX, D. I., April 18. The average Britisher eats seven times as much mutton and lamb us the avBut that desn t erage American. mean that the Britishers are bigger meat eaters. It means that tbe American appetite prefers beef and pork rt to mutton. In fact during the five years the per capita consumption of mutton and lamb in this country dwindled to an extent that it is now less than a tenth of that of beef, and of on an average aliout pork and considerably lcs than that of veal The striking differences in tbe food habits of tbe American and British is shown in the fact that last year mutton and lamb constituted only 3.2 per cent of the total meat consumption in the United States as compared with 22 in Great Britain, according to figures compiled by the department of agriculture. Were the people of these United States," the department says, to eat as much mutton and lamb as those of Britain do it would be necessary to increase our production sevenfold. In other words, the present production would have to be augmented by over 3,000,000,000 pounds of mutton and lamb annuone-fiftie- th pu Standard Six Coach 1295 . o. b. factory with full-siz- e balloon tires 'DEBAKER has $00,000,000 invested in plants in whtcli St udebaker manufactured complete, including all bodies, both open and STU are No other large automobile manufacturer that we know of his own bodies. of makes all profit of outside parts makers and This means that St ude baker saves thenew coach U not burdened by an a this of the Thus price no other automobile manufac- value a profit. At $1295 it represents turer can equal ex-tr- body-builder- s. as And no other manufacturer can offer a coach of such fine quality at the price. For every coach that Studebaker builds carries with it traditions of fine craftsmanship that have existed in Studebaker plants since 1852. Compare this coach with other cars which sell at much higher prices. This will prove that Studebaker values are unequaled. ally." Last years consumption of mntton and lamb in this country is estimated to have been 5.2 jamnds per person ha compared with 88.8 pounds of pork, 62.6 pounds of beef and 8.3 pounds of veal The department of agriculture offers no explanation for conditions except that Americans prefer beef and pork cuts. w led SHEEP LEAVING THE RANGE IN SPLENDID CONDITION Flocks are coming off the range in splendid condition, said Thomas Redmond, state sheep huqiertor, at Salt Lake City last Monday upon his return from a trip to the corrals along the line of the Denver and Rio Grande Western as far east as W estwater. They have gone through the winter better than usual," says he, and the clips will be heavy. The grease being well up in the fleece indicate a very healthy condition of the animals. The average will run from ten to twelve pounds. On the spring ranges the grasses and forage plants are just starting and the warm weather that now prevail will place the range in the finest kind of order. There is no cabbies reported. A quarter of a million aheep will be ahum this season. Flock masters have a most optimistic outlook." and lambs broke another centa to a new low level eighty-twfor the season. Moat of the fed in CL I Marsh and H. P. Myton formfleece cold at $13.25 to $13.75 and the ed a partnership for the purpose of shorn at $11.00 to $11.70. Some wool-e- d handling and forwarding freight beewea brought $8.00 to $8.25 and tween Celiente on the Salt Lake Route wooled wethers sold up to $10.00. No and the Bullfrog and Goldfield spring lambs arrived. of Nevada. Old Method! Prevail I R. Eldridge, the manager of the HAGENBARTH ADVISES HOLDNEPIU, April 18. Shearing began ING ON TO WOOL CUPS Priee J. CL' Penney store, ie to leave at the local corrals this week. Sheephere abont the first of July and will Frank J. Ilsgenbarth got back to men sav flocks are in excellent conbe succeeded by J. A. Coleman. Just where he will go end take a house for his home at Salt Lake City last Sat- dition with a good crop of wool Powhimself he does not as yet know urday from an extended visit to the er machines are being eliminated this Pacific Coast and the Northwest He year and the wool is dipped by the South. in the probably Carbon county commissioners were forecasts a prosperous year for eattle old style handshearers, as the clippers Conditions gener- are injurious and do damage to the and sheepmen. considering favorably the building of were sheep. None of this amon sheep," says he, ally Sneh of a at a jail up years crop has Helper. place now. are than It been sold, but local men never better they are figuring detention for the criminal classes up has been rather dry in Nevada, but on about forty-fir- e cents a pound for there tramps and hoboes it was Montana there has been thier dips. would save the county consider- in Idaho and moisture. The Snake River able expense on their transportation plentv of Cattle Testa Resumed. Gem State is in an es- - j back and forth from the eountyseat Valley in thecondition fine three with feed penally Testing of dairy stock fur tubercuweeks ahead of last year. There is losis, which was discontinued for a C. W. (Doe) Shores came to Priee an abundance of water there also. time last year because of lack of last Tuesday evening from Myton. In the Santa Clara Valley of Califor- funds for the state board of agricultdeath information of the bringing the nia the lamb cron is excellent and ure to pay the commonwealths at ILavana, Cuba, that morning of C. por11 Vi tion of the losses sustained by the B. Cook. Deceased was the editor and prices are good, bringing from to 3 2 Vi cents a pound. Wool has been owners of cattle found infected, has manager of the Free Press of that a trifle slow, buvers resorting to their been resumed. The United States town. He left there some two months tactics as long as they bureau of animal industry off of holding ago for a vacation, the first he had had in some fifteen years. He suffer- ran, so that the man who is not in with the state, and Dr. W. H. a position to hold his clip must sell Utah veterinarian, is assisting ed from heart trouble and it was by the buyers." his hope and that of his friends when at figures dictated who advises he left that the lower altitude would in Hagenbarth to do thosehold are so to their a position benefit him. His age was about 50 wool. is no There of it in surplus years and he was a native of one of this country," he declares, the manthe Carolines. He went into the Basin ufacturer of that article keeping country about twenty years ago mum ahead of the production most of the after the opening and was improving time. It is therefore advisable for about two hundred acres of land to hold their clips as long to growers the west of hia home town. Besides as as there is little doubt his newspaper interests at Myton he that NHisible,will later. they controlled the Duchesne Record. He There will lie noget better prices interference with the was a single man. tariff as long as Coolidge is president He has expressed himself unissued Smith Clerk County marriage to that effect This should mistakably licenses during the week to W. D. lend to woolgrowers. courage M. Blanch and both of Fitch, Ranger The cattle situation, which has Helper, and to Joseph Henry Neil son been rather bad since the war, is slowhnd to Jennie Gibson Johnson, both of but and the prosly improving surely Winter Quarters. Thomas Aggati and pects are brightening all the time. Marguerite Frederic, both of Helper, For instance, last years steers are were licensed at Salt Lake City on now being contracted at thirty-fiv- e Tuesday last CHICKS dollars a head, which is abont ten dollars more than the prevailing priee Paul Lucero of Helper drew a fine last year at this time for a given grade At this time of the of two hundred and ninety-nin- e this of animaL year ths little Cattlemen who have good thicks need feed as well as the big week from Justice Hammond at Price and sufficient eredit to hang bnaa. Call and get some of ours, tha for trafficing in white mule. Frank range on will come out r11 rirht. bast on tho market sad they will grow. llicks of the same town pleaded guilty Another matter of great interest Also flour, feed and milletoffs. to a like offense and got the same Gendose. Tony Stratoe from Kenilworth to stockraisers is the fact that F. R. eral forwarding. Marshall, secretary of the National will bo heard April 29th. Woolgrowers association, received a Farm prices are now being collected wire from Washington, D. G, just tomonthly by the bureau of agricultural day from Senator Stanfield of Oregon economics on practically all product regarding the forest service and the Co. that farmers sell and on abont seventy gracing problem, which should go far intypical articles whieh they buy. This toward stabilizing the live stock South Ninth Street, Prica, Utah tnaterial is being used in stndies of dustry. The senate hearings on the matthe spread between farm and retail ter at issue between the live stock-tne- n Some men run away with prices. and the forest service are now some run after them and otherswomen, Birth announcement cards. Tha Bun. being heard by the senate committee, without hitching and refuse to stand budge. dis-trie- a very low price car--at FIVE CENTS AT RIVER $2.00 a Year In Advance. Office Phone N'o. 9. Residence, No. 133 m2. SuWription, June 4. A very fine if WESTERN AUTO COMPANY North Ninth Street, Broeker Garage Bldg., Price, Utah this is STUDEBAKER in the work in Cache county. Some twenty thousand were tested there some time ago and the present work is in the nature of a repeat. The last legislature appropriated $9000 to pay all baek claims of owners under the tests made. A special appropriation of $10,000 asked for the coming biennium, howeyer, was refused by the legislature. The three mills tax on dairy rattle yielded $7286 last year. With the increase in the industry approximately $15,000 may be expected the present biennium. Thia will be paid as available, the owner in the meantime receiving tbe federal governments portion and the proceeds of the salvage that may be coming to him. by Eastern buyers last fall at priees to forty-eigranging from forty-fiv- e rents. Ranger Ollerton reports measuring the snow in the south end of Gooseberry, the head of Boulger, Flat Canht yon and at Beaver Dam Ridge. Its depths vary from thirty inehes in the inehee at the Gooseberry to sixty-fohead of Boulger. Water content is from 50 to 75 per cent and the snow going fast William Seely, a pioneer stockman and settler in Sanpete county, died suddenly at hia ranch home over at Indianola last Saturday evening after an illness of four of pneumonia. He would have been 72 years of age next October. Funeral services were held from the North Ward chapel at Mt Pleasant Tuesday last Shearing of the A. M. Robertson aheep was completed Tuesday after a week a run with fonr machines operated by Heber Christensen, W. J. Hawks, Shumway and A. K. ur dti d llcn-drick- s, WITH uni Price Commission Stock Land Hearing. Probability of holding hearings in the Western States regarding the use of public lands by stockmen in the near future waa advanced in word received last Saturday from Senator Robert X. Stanfield of Oregon by F. R. Marshall, secretary of the National Woolgrowers association. The information stated that the public lands' committee lias already started these at Washington, D. C.t under the Uam-eron resolution, and that the commit- j tee is desirous, of arranging a West-- 1 em itinerary. While the senator jsiint-- ; ed out that it is not likely mure than one meeting ran lie arranged in each public land state, he is cuger to have! all live stock associations advise most convenient places. Senator Stanfield declares that this is the most important work ever undertaken by congress so far as the forest reserves Brecon- -' rerned, and that careful consideration w'ill be given all problems looking to the ultimate welfare of the stockmen. YEAR Taylor, Jr.. Robertson report the fleeces are considerably Is than they were last year, up Moab Timea-Independe- nt of thsl and will average better thai pounds each in weight Tbe w also exceptionally clean. Wet be under way in practically D1 era Utah plants by next wml 1 already started at Thompeofli is SaL Jack" Jackson of Conrtki few days ago broke a leg whiki the range southwest of Mosh hone fell with him. He bod break, between the knee and id. best he could and rode a tneds trail on to the Colorado rive twelve miles distant which b led to the quickest help. He river just opposite Prichetft1 six miles below Moab, and would have it A1 Holman v there. Jackson called acrose otto the man, advising him of hb (Continued On raaeFtro) ; , WITH THE LIVE STOCKMEN OF EASTERN UTAH Claude N. Taylor of the San Juan country this lust week sold his steers to a Colorado buyer, the yearlings' bringing $31.50 the head. This is said to lie the very best price down that! way this spring. j Rn6Tr, Williams reports that thej sontb oi the Manti reserve facing Fer-ru-n Mountain is bare except for drifts as far up as Heliotrope Mountain, and that the outlook for forage for thia year is not any too promising. Manti forest officers and Engineer of public roads rode through Huntington Canyon from the Forks to the Fairview coal mine on April 16th. The bureau will likely have a locating party on the job within the next thirty days. Shearing at the Leon Springs cor- 1 ?sd,ii1Mo:lesf wil1 b!fin (Saturday). Sheepmen report the wool will be and somewhat cleaner than heretofore. Nearly every clip in that section was contracted for English of the bureau Will stand all Climates Easy to Apply C. H. STEVENSON LUMBER Cl. One Piece or a Carload " Phone 111 or 26 n.:.n nh. |