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Show 4 THE CITIZEN can operate the line and sell to other consumers. No road lias built by the state, and there is no record of the use of any PK the state. So far all the benefit has accrued to a pri ate companj,. The whole agreement as unconstitutional from thc 0U obvious was this that Joseph Ririe, the state auditor, aftcr tht" had contracted an indebtedness of more than $4,000, wrote a let commission protest, which the governor and the state road i his letter, dated Sept. 29, 1919, Auditor Ririe says : In commence immediately. the law I do not believe we arc justified in entering Under to and the from to oempany commission The buy power agreed nor advancing money for this purpose, for the contarct this a in named certain rates to for such according energy, pay he company it is a government project and we are not positive whether A schedule D attached to the contract, said rates having been approved that to such a contract. Again, if v J would federal agree government by the State Utiltities Commission. the contract to the lowest responsible bidder it would be left The road commission bound itself to furnish all connections, transto furnish their own power and material. formers, etc., necessary to operate the road machinery at various from California a few two with consultation In gentlemen be to was responsible commission The points along the power line. desirous of bidding upon the road and stateci were caused very and civil ago they both personal, from for all damages arising injuries on the order of thi something an use would product asphalt work. road the they wtih connection in from the use of the power would guarantee putting down the roadny that and commission Mix, they the peka state road, of the proposed Upon the completion r0a it cement and that the sand and gravel along than conthe at cheaper Power Dixie line the to company sell the power agrees to also THEY WOULD NOT RLQlfcein the answer would purpose the after company in the giving contract, struction price provided ELECTRIC POWER FOR RUNNING MIXERS pr credit for all power furnished at rates provided in the contract. The ANY beCRUSHING STONE. commission will accept from the company, in cash, the difference is a large undertaking, and it is this me that to seems It such for power (if any tween the amount of money due the company at this time whether we desire to make a Pcrm( difference there shall be) and the actual cost of construction of said questionable a good macadam road in this section of the cjie or cement shall there difference highway difference the (if lines or will pay the company, line and price try. he) between the full construction price of said power would be right to tie up a contract that viays believe it I do b not used is which construction said price, of energy over and above with the approval of others who may folio, W meet not possibly the commission. of finishing these undertakings. jrot Dixie company to maintain the line and to furnish power from its have the responsibility CAREFULLY GOING OVER THE CONTRAnak AFTER the of the roadway creek. Clara completion Upon plant on Santa THAT IT IS ONLY ADVANCING MONEY FOR Aj . FEEL commission. the from the to plant buy company agrees CORPORATION AND THAT WE ARE OBLIGATtlco VATE ensell and furnish Snro Under the contract the Dixie company may OURSELVES TO USE POWER THAT WE ARE NOT and companies. ergy and electric power to other individuals WE WILL NEED. I CANNOT SEE AN Y MORE REASON fun the In pursuance of this contract the state built the high power THIS THAN THAT WE SHOULD ADVANCE MONEY transmission lines, paying the moneys agreed to in the contract, but THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER ENTERPRISE .comBACK IN COMMODITIES THEY MAYIjtn road state PAID the which BE THEN of sum additional $4,400 an is there now' PRICE IN FUTURE YEARS." MARKET THE AT DUCE Power Dixie the Meantime company mission is being asked to pay. ira for two miles long on or before December 15, 1919. It agreed ot pay dis- construction $825 a mile and. installments based on the following tribution : $275 per mile when the copper wire should be received at the Lund; $250 per mile when the cedar poles were distributed along $100 per surveyed line; $200 per mile when the poles were erected; mile upon the completion of the power line, payments to be made on to a monthly basis on or before the 10th of each month. Work was Li, p ;he he ON PROSPERS TRUST LIQUOR STA TES ALCOHOL The traffic in extracts used for beverage purposes has grown from since the Democratic proinsignificant to vast proportions in Utah hibition law went into effect. is One firm has increased its business to such an extent that it and is transacting selling its good as far north as Alberta, Canada, a big business in all the states bordering Utah and even in California. Seven or eight firms dealing in this camouflaged booze are licensed by the federal govoperating in Salt Lake City. They are ernment and are supplied with thousands of gallons of alcohol every year by the state of Utah. These firms obtain permits from the attorney general of the state and have them oked by Mathoniah Thomas, the federal prohibition enforcement officer. In addition they have a government license. Thus armed with all the evidences of legality they obtain from the busistate the alcohol necessary to engage in the wholesale liquor ness. Dan B. Shields, the attorney general, has held many meetings with the makers of extracts in an effort, as they allege, to devise of the prohibition law. ways and means of preventing violations Mathoniah Thomas also has employed his well known powers of discernment to keep the law from being violated. But the attorney hours and hours of general and the federal prohibition officer, after hard thinking and conferring, after sleepless nights spent in trying to conquer Demon Rum, have thrown up their hands in despair and tc t iai To within have admitted that the makers of extracts are wholly And the makers of extracts have gone forth in lr anguistj' rights. of extracts, sorrow to sell hundreds of thousands of bottles in Salt Lake 50 to 90 per cent alcohol, to grocers and dealers as .lr?in all the towns of the state and in many other states of if you will as wet as Utah. They have made a farce Dcnvw prohibition law, the law which the posedly bone-dr- y was b"i'C' were elected to pass and which they have bragged law I", And now their attorney general can find nothing in the J vent the manufacture of alcoholic beverages. be The state law specifically provides that extracts may factured. We learn that Herman Harms, the state chemist, extracts) lv warned the legislators that if the manufacture of would grow into a grea; tfis permitted the manufacture and sale that mj Is it possible that the Democratic prohibitionists put et law as a joker, so that prohibition would be a mere p as says so. And Math much as Shields General Attorney their Thomas sadly assents. In fact, both of them have had saddened by the growth of the liquor traffic right under their j - r.-p- ft eyes and noses. bl.me The Democrats conduct a campaign in which they law. Then tlcy! Republicans for the failure of the prohibition bonc-di- y a prohibition act which they triumphantly proclaim is |