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Show THE CITIZEN 6 rilllllllllllll UllimilUlllllltltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIlIHUIIIIIHIinilllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIininilllllg UTAHS INDUSTRIES riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHUiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii WESTERN MINES. ROAD SIGN DOOMED. Lack of familiarity with the mining industry leads the average citizen or banker to feel that it is a business of great hazards. This attitude blinds the public to the fact that to a very great extent the prosperity of the west depends upon the active operation of our present mines and the development' of many new ones. As a matter of fact, the money spent by the mining industry for development enterprises aione in their effort to find new mines runs Inio many millions of dollars annually, employs thousands of men and buys trainloads of machinery, supplies, lumber and other equipment. Every westerner should realize that encouragement of the mining industry means increased business all down the line. The agitator who attacks the mining industry through the avenue of labor, taxation or discouraging legislation, automatically cuts off one of the Wests greatest agencies of employment. It is well to remember these facts and be proud of our mining industry rather than skeptical of legitimate and honest mining undertakings. Utah county is the first to take action. against the unsightly sign boards which decorate the highways in Utah. The commissioners have notified the owners of all sign boards to take them down In Utah county. No doubt other counties will follow suit and it will not be long before the tourist will be able to see some of our much advertised scenery instead of reading pork and bean sgns or where you can get a drink of buttermilk at the end of a ten mile drive. PROPER PAVING. the paved highways of the country, and streets in various offers an object lesson on tax expenditures for hard surfaced roads. In one town you will find perfect streets after ten or fifteen years wear A drive over citi-ie- s, or where an asphaltic wearing surface covers a cement concrete base. In other towns you will find where experiments have been carried on with untested methods of street paving, the streets will be full of holes and the net result will be that the taxpayers are out the cost of their original pavement plus maintenance from the day it was laid. Oregon has one of the best paved highway systems in the United States. It has adopted no experiments, but has methods of pavstayed by time-teste- d ing. Its roads are largely of an asphaltic concrete character which absorbs the impact and jar of modern traffic without crystallizing the pavement composition. Nothing will reach into the taxpayers pocket faster than a poor road system, hence the necessity and obligation for public officials to eliminate experiments In expending public funds for this purpose. on asphaltic macadam pavements UTAH'S WEALTH. Washington, D. C. The Department of Commerce announces, for the State of Utah, its preliminary estimate of the value, December 31, 1922, of the principal forms of wealth, the total amounting to $1,535,477,000, as compared with $786,720,000 in 1912, an increase of 95.2 per cent. Ter capita values increased from $1,992 to $3,247. LEAD GOING UP. The prediction made in The Citizen mark that lead would go to the is about realized. Lead today brings a bigger price than ever before except during a few months during the war period. Lead has been sold as high as 9.60 during the week on eastern markets. With such prices in effect, the lead mines of Utah will reap a rich harvest the coming year, if the price continues in force. At this time there is no good reason why lead should go down. 10-ce- nt stands him in hand to be quick on the trigger. The successful general never shouts his plans of battle from the housetops, especially when the plans are unsound. Such blunder throws out a challenge that courts disaster, and classes the policemans risk as extra hazardous. To appoint the policeman judge, jury and executioner, is to disregard the fundamental law of the state. Policemen should be instructed in their duties under the law, and not to shoot unless shooting is necessary. Publica-- ' tion of such instruction will conserve the lives of policemen, as well as the lives of inoffensive folks. By statute, the killing by a police officer is justifiable, only, when necessarily committed in retaking an escaped felon; or in arresting a person charged with felony who flees from justice or resists arrest; or by any person (including an officer) in resisting an attempt to murder or to do great bodily injury to any person, or to commit a felony; or when necessarily committed in attempting to apprehend any person for a felony committed, or in suppressing riot or preserving the peace; acting under the influence or, (when the circumstances are' to excite fear in a reasonable pt, the killing is committed in defer ones habitation, person or against one who intends to con felony, or in violent manner ente the purpose of offering violence person therein, or in defense person or. family where there sonable ground to apprehend detL commit felony or great bodily j and immmediate danger of such t being accomplished. The statute looks upon a killim serious matter. A killing ig not Aable, of a person not escaping of fc . sisting arrest for a felony. is not justifiable when the Thek & onlym is running away from an office halts a boy with a bad tooth, a his neck in search of a dentist nor is the shooting of an whose only offense ning away from threatened i where there is no cause for am The congress makes the lawst District of Columbia, and while not familiar with the details t inocent-justifiable- 1 c SPIRO IS VISITOR. General Manager Solon Spiro of the Silver King Consolidated Mining company is in the city, having arrived from New York City a few days ago. He went to Park City to look over the property and was greatly pleased with conditions he found. SILVER PRODUCER. The Eureka Reporter says that the Tintic Standard is one of the important producers of the country, ranking well toward the top and having much to do with placing Utah first among all the states in production of the white metal. The Tintic Standard closed the year 1923 with 3,614,294.62 ounces of silver to its credit and in addition to this the mine also marketed 37,307,041.81 pounds of lead, as well as some gold and copper. Its annual pay roll aggregated $864,746.07 and at the end of the year the mine was employing 543 men. A few more mines like the Tintic Standard would place Tintic in an enviable position among the largest mining districts of the world. COMMUNICATIONS. SHOOT TO KILL for Arniouncement of our Great Annual Event COMING By S. P. Armstrong Aping the newfangled police tactics, we tell the world that we have instructed our policemen to shoot to kill. Likely we get this way from rubbing shoulders with the Volstead outlaws. It does not look like good It boils a cauldron of generalship. powerful trouble. With this instruction broadcast, what does the full grown bandit do when he runs foul of the police? For it self-preservatio- Utah Power & Light 0o Efficient Public Service n, I |