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Show FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1926 THE SUN, FRIGE, ." ' T i nw - IK ii viia UTAH-EVE- RY FRIDAY. PAGE SEVEN jjiai lli-lle- Coal Is Best Appreciated Where Most Used John H. Rowley, formerly of Spring Glen, who with hiw fuinily sailed from CurlKin rminty on December 2d for Australia to make his home, writes of his trip and gives some facts alxuit Tuhiti which may be of interest to foliage of the luinaiia. This flat land, Mines At Rains, Carbon County, with its chain of villiages, its fertile gardens and its belt of palms someUtah. Miners and Shippers of times intersected by valleys which Nut, Slack and Assorted Lnmp, o)Hu on the seashore, forms a fore. of Sixes Sun readers. ground to the amphitheater of mountain which There must be a goml many i ample tower ranges, overtopping for whom the mere phrase "the Sonth doublepouked Orohcna (734)1 feet) Seas is real big magic, who think with Mt. Anri only a few hundred that if Elysium be anywhere, it is feet lower. Tahiti, which in the Maori tongue surely thtre. The sunny seas, golden Of the Very Highest Grades. beaches, the kindly unpin, luxuriant literally means transplanted from is the East, Best For Furnaces, Household an island of volcanic growths of tropical flowers and of emivention, taken all togeth- formation, and very probably in the and All Other Uses. General Ofer and east down on an island ten early ages of the world, formed part fices, Cliff Building, Salt Lake less as days from anywhere, must surely he of what is now a submerged continent. City. It is enclosed by a coral reef of henu-t- v a good receipt for Utopia. e is numand thirty-thremiles The Soeiety Islands eleven in unexcelled, is in length, measured on a northwest ber, ami belonging to the French were so culled in honor of tin Royal and northeast line, lupcete, the cupi-tn- l and the scut of government lor nil Society, by wliieh learned body a L. Rrilish scientific mission under the the surrounding French sissctsiiiii, enmiuund of Captain Cook, whs sent is a gay little citv of the most striking President and General Manager. low out in the year 17(9 to observe from contrasts, though decidedly Frriu-in the island of Tahiti or Otaheilc, us it character. It lies half hidden in a " was formerly mimed the transit of thick wood uf scarlet flowered CAStrees from which the red Venus across the suns disc. This Coal Is Best Appreciated coals Where Most Used. group is among the most beautiful mid rooted houses look out here and there, pieturesue in the world, and wus one ami is the cniioriitm of trade of the of the curliest isists of the London Eastern I'nrific. The town was bomMissionary Society which began work barded in September, 1914, bv the and there in 17915. That body has long German cruisers "Selmrnhorst and considerable damsince withdrawn, and the Catholics "Gneiseuau now hold sway. The French designa- age was dime. The French gunboat and steamer "Walkure, tion of the colony is "Les Ktablisse-incnt- s "Zeelce wliieh were in harbour at the time, Franca is dc 1 Oceanic. Tuhiti is by far the most consider- were sunk. The part destroyed has able island, its circumference being now been rebuilt. Mined In Carbon County and A stay of about twenty hours is usvariously estimated at from 110 to 130 8hipped Everywhere miles. It lias a population of approx- ually made at l'apcctce on the northimately nine thousand, of whom about ward voyage and of about ten on the one tenth are French, British and oth- southward voyage. This affords paser Euroiieans. There is also a large sengers an opKirtunity of ravelling in number of Chinese. It is formed by lie beautiful sights to he seen at every Propertlei At two distinct mountains of great eleva- turn. The break of water over the tion. Consisting as it does of volcanic wonderful coral reef makes soothing ridges, of inexhaustible fertility, ami music, and by means of rather unique valleys watered by abundant streams, glass bottomed bouts, one inuy go this island is of great commercial val- right over the reef and look down into ue, its delightful climate bringing to the watery dcpalh and see the coral maturity all the tropical products containing all the colors of the rain-hi, , anil which took little insects hunwhich are nowhere to be found in a to dreds thousands of of and fullness proyears Every jierfeetion. greater traveler has extolled the beauty f duce, see the million and one kinds of Tahiti, and the title, "Paradise of the fish, lurge mid small, colored as only Pacific is well bestowed. The bills tmpical fish arc, and which have only are high and steep and in many places to he seen to he believed, swimming ebaggy. but they are covered to the around and around in and out of the very summit with trees and shrubs in jogged edges of the coral. The places of interest to visit are such a manner Llint the siiectator can scarcely help thinking that the verv the Arsenal, Queen Roman's palace, rocks jKissess the pnqicrty of produc- government house and lomarc's tomb. ing their verdant clothing. The flat A notable drive is to Point Vpnus land which Isiunds the hills towards (nine miles) where Cuptain Cook oh the sea, and the interjacent valley served the transit of Venus. One may also teams with various roductions also drive to Papara, passing through which grow with most exulerant vig- several vanilla plantations. The market place is the eenter o ' our and at once fill the mind of the beholder with the idea that no place I'apcelian life. At five o clock in the on earth can outdo this in strength morning it is a moat interesting sight SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH the picturesque costumes of tne naand beauty of vegetation. General Offices The natives are a fine and hand- tives and the variety and strangeness Ninth Floor Keans Bldg. some jieople, but civilization and of the goods displayed, making a fan the scene. tastie is it the In evening liquor have sadly deteriorated the race. The influenza epidemic in 1918 meeting place for all sorts and condirarried off no fewer than four thous- tions of men and women French, and natives from the four main is- English, American, Chinese and Tahlands Tahiti, Morea, llauhine and itians. In the official quarter of the Coal Co. Borakora. A number of Tahitians town the government hand plays in served in the great war, along with the evening. Before going ashore the "through the French colonial contingents The climate is pleasant and agree- iwssengers arc advised to note the able. Though situated so far within time of the ship's departure. This is the trojaes, the thermometer in sum- fiontcd on the notice board at the top mer ranges between 75 and 85 degrees, of the gangway. And remember Time and seldom exreeds the latter temp- and Tide wait for no man, or woman. erature, as the trade winds from the FEDERAL AID ROAD FUNDS surrounding ocean moderate the heat. TO UTAH There are many eoeoanut plantawhich consists of tions, the largest of Seeratary of Agrirultnre Jardine about 30,01)0 trees, hut a lot of the announced 0 the apfsirtionment of copra comes from the wild groves. use in the confor states to the Two sugar mills provide about four Miners and Shippers of the struction of federal aid roads. This Celebrated hundred tons of sugar er annum, not was authorized by the aiportionmcnt local to demand, supply quite enough of fire appropriation act of Febthe balance being imjiorted from Aus- post 12, 19155, and is for the fiscal ruary tralia, New Zealand und the United 1, 1920. The new beginning year July States. There arc hundreds of vanilla funds will lie Mines at sicnt entirely on the plantations and in this connection it federal aid high way system under the ItPRING CANYON, UTAII must not la forgotten that Tahiti pro- same General Offices, 817 Kewhoune with the Announcement has been made that beginning next spring the United Sates navy will plan of duces nenrly half of all the vanilla Building. unFourever micccs-d'ii- l aerial been in states hazardous that has opand extensive most attempted. planes, survey the begin in the world. The princiKil exLake City, Utah Salt grown inThe roads eration for ten years. der command of Lieut. B. H. Wyatt, manned by navy pilots, will map by means of aerial port are enpru, mother of pearl, van- cluded in the system are the must land Alaska. in Southeast miles of thousand totally unexplored square oil rock and eocoiii'.ut cuke, phosphotography, forty illa, important in the country and reach Lieutenant Wyatt, now stationed at the San Diego, Cala., air base, is considered one of the phate, cocoanuts and various tmpical directly or indirectly every Your Price girl who shows more incity of e mile twenty-fivthousand air a He fruits. trip recently completed fiOOO population. navys most daring fliers. The bureau re- - terest over a man has above his Nowhere in tho wide Pacific is there ; around the United States. The photo shows Lieutenant Wyatt in his plane with his chief that approximately 19,000 miles cars than in what make of car he has isn't a place so full of charm ns Tahiti. As of federal aid road areographer, J. W. Thomas. w'ero brought to is sure of getting a pretty fuir the steamer approaches the island, the 1925 and the indicompletion during low lying reaches of the coast come cations lire that the coining year will into view, stretching from the while he equally successful. The apimrtion-men- t Its hard for the average Carbon to the steep for Utah is (848,351. Now that America has two women We mav run out of coal in this shores of the lagoons citizen to realize that forty You know love is a funny thing county in hills clothed all of hIoics the green there was no such thing as a ago when it makes a girl give up a good in the diplomatic serviee we suppose country, but theres no indication now the richest anil most varied vegetation years Dun t borrow The Sun. Subscribe. und every road was a sparkplug job to marry into a harder one that there will be no dnnger of any secret that therell ever be a shortage of shades of from the brightest green strikes. treaties, doesnt pay any wages. 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