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Show it THE CITIZEN MINING AND INDUSTRY tongues, etc., and then carting the $18,000,000 would be expended rest to town to the junk dealer. provements by the D. & r, q during the years 1927-2A wl tion of the amount will be Utah. It is announced that the J 8. NITRATE SODA. A Chilean priest was appealed to to drive the evil spirit from a region where Indians reported that their fires ran along the ground. He took home some of the mysterious rock and piled it in his garden, and a few days later he. noticed an extraordinary development in the plants which happened to be near the piles. The priest showed the Indians his experiments and they came to regard the substance as anything but an evil spirit, but instead a gift of Providence for increasing the porductivity of the soil. In the great desert of northern Chile lies an area of over 450 miles in length that has supplied the world the most effective means of increasing productivity known in all history. The evil spirit of Indian discovery has become the keystone of the aid of Chilean prosperity, and this key in- dustry brings Chile its greatest reve- nue. Your dictionary will inform you that the word nitrate sigfnifies a salt of nitric acid. Chemists will inform you that they use it in the manufacture of glass, explosives, steel, fumicides, fusing mixtures, nitric acid, nitrate of potash, arsenate of soda, the purification of causic soda, for making chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powders, etc. The winners of prizes for growing the largest crops of cotton in the southern states, and marvelous results in the com growing states, know nitrate of soda as first among nitrogenous fertilizers. Placed on the soil it is readly absorbed by growing plants, and it penetrates them from tips to roots, strengthening the plants, and soil, and aiding to prevent disease and insect pests. TEST DRINKING WATER. Now. is a fine time to inspect and have tested your drinking water supply on the farm, says the Research department of the National Association of Farm Equipment Manufacturers. Take samples from the wells used, from the water bucket when pumped or from the tap if running water is already in the house, and send it to the health authorities. When they report, have the wells repaired and plat forms and curbs changed to meet the health departments demands. If only shallow wells are available, plan to have one drilled wtih hook-u- p to put running water in the home. Whether hand pump or power is to be used, get good pumps suitable to the purpose and properly installed. DESERTING THE FARM. Some 165,000 net loss of farm population in New York state alone in the last nine years shows how the postwar period of readjustment has been rebalancing the labor situation between farm and industry, says the Research department of the National Association of Farm Equipment Manufacturers. Men and boys leaving the farms totaled 266,000, but as 101,000 came to the farms from town and city, the net loss on this item to farm was 165,000. Other eastern states, such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, show the same tendency, the balance between farm and city being restored by the abandoning of the poorer farms and the shift of the young farmers, renters and hired men to industrial jobs in the city. Those farmers remaining have found they can keep up production by using tractors, planting and cultivating machinery, individual drinking cups and litter carriers, gas engines, milking machines, sprayers and other short cuts that permit one man to multiply his production. 2-ro- w FARM JUNK. Bankers, farm editors, county S. U. and agents government efficiency experts are calling the farmers attention to the amount of junk littering up his yards and fence corners instead of being put back in industry of being melted up after it has served its purpose. Old plows, binders, discs, etc., many of which have become both worn out and obsolete because of later and better types, are frequently left to accumulate from one renter to the next until there is a bone yard that covers most of the parking space around the barnyard. The farm boys can start a nice little bank account and help their fathers at the same time, by tearing down this rid junk, sorting out the bolts, nuts, clevises, single i and double trees, neckyokes, ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION. The weekly report of the Utah chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America announces the following projects in contemplation and under way: Plans were again set in motion for the paving of South Temple street when on Tuesday P. J. Moran, city commissioner, made a motion which carried authorizing the city engineer to prepare plans and specifications for this improvement and notice of intention to make this improvement will again be advertised at an early date. -- The city (Council of Kemmerer, Wyoming, .have approved a paving program for that city for this summer which will cost approximately $100,000. The work will be done in connection with the state highway department, and will be financed jointly by the state and city. j 3 Construction company will do tin jor portion of the bridge buildb changing and betterment J work The county commissioners of county are meeting with the road (commission Saturday to the improvement of the hightoj Logan canyon. They are asking f bureau of public roads for which will be spent in com with $25,000 of county funds. ( R. S. Lords, president of the Engineering Co. of Mt. Vernon, announces that plans have beeni) and arrangements practically perf, ed for constructing a pipe line fi the natural gas fields of Wyoming Salt Lake City. Announcements o cerning this will be awaited with terest as the cost would be sen COMING TO Notice of their intention to construct a sewer system in the west part of the city was authorized by the .city commission Monday night and notice of such intention will be advertised at an early date. is under budget or projected for improvements on the three main highways leading into Utah from the east, according to an announcement made by the highway department Friday. The road construction proposed will take in Spanish Fork and Price canyons, the section between Price and Green River and the stretch from Green River to the state line. Some of the heaviest work ever undertaken by the state highway commission is included in the work in Spanish Fork and Price canyon. In Parleys canyon considerable work will be done in widening the grade and in eliminating dangerous curves. Extensive improvements will be made on the Victory and Lincoln highways. The Echo Canyon reclamation project will require the changing of the state highway between Echo and Coalville, and this work is included in this years program. More than $2,000,000.00 Senator King has appeared before the budget (committee at Washington, D. C., urging haste in the construction of the Mt. Carmel, Zions canyon road improvements. Engineers are now at work making the surveys. The city commissioners of Elko, Nevada, announce that definite steps will be taken within the next thirty days in starting the paving program nounced for that city the coming At a luncheon tendered A. an- C. Shields, general manager of the D. & R. G. Ry. at the chamber of commerce in Ogden, by W. H. and W. L. 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