Show s at HE CARBON COUNTY NEWS w i PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT PRICE UTAH I 1 subscription 1 00 PER YEAR I 1 six MONTHS 60 CENTS strictly in advance adverting rates made known on application address all communications to athe the carbon county news price utah efured as second claas class matter april 29 1907 atthe at the Post postoffice office attrice at price utah under the act of congress of march 3 1879 PRICE CARBON CO UTAH FRIDAY OCTOBER 1 1909 the nearest approach to bringing the college bred boy back to the farm is IN the country club thare re is a big demand for everything produced on the farm fam this year hay and oats are leaders wheat is over the collar tark while the demand for cattle is good 11 M everyday every day sees some new arrival in price with the intention of making their home here there are no empty houses or places of business to bo be had which is a very good sign that this section is prosperous the state fair association has a committee out working among the quartz miners to induce them to attend the exhibition in salt lake next week have the coal in this section been completely overla overlooked okee john beck beek of salt lake city is promoting the establishment of aco acco operative college of utah to teach students how to utilize the desert utah alone has acres of sagebrush land and if this was all in wheat ander the campbell system of dry farming ia is there any othea industry that would equal it there are certainly great possibilities in this state and dry farming is one of them i ii i i the big apple buyers of the country are working their same old lying game when they send out circulars to make everybody bt believe lieve that the apple crop of the united states is larger than in n these reports have proven erroneous in several seasons past and are put out simply to force down prices only facts on crop conditions are wanted and any men sending out exaggerated reports are making ang a mistake it is not fair to the growers for such in information to pe e published the department of agriculture in its september report gives apples per cent as against per cent last year based on a ten ton year average but it is stated by those in a position to judge that this years crop will fall twenty per cent below that of last year TAFT ON GREATNESS after derit tait taft had been in the state a short time he be wa wat so go agreeably surprised with what he fie saw that he made the following complimentary statement t the truth is and I 1 am arn bound to admit it to you in a confided 4 fal way that I 1 did not think there was much out here in utah ea ex dept ept some very energetic and most hopeful peo people jle and some pretty good mines and a good deal of silt salt water in salt lake but to find w such an opportunity for development in every direction so much water power such mineral wealth and above all such an agricultural future is indeed a revelation and one that takes away that bat fear that we hava begun to have in the cast as agricultural pro ducts go up that somehow or other the food resources of this coun try were becoming so low that some of us might have to cut down our rations 11 f DAMAGE CAUSED BY FOREST FIRES 14 1 I fore pt t arcs are causing considerable damage in many parts pi u ts of the comery at the present time it will be several months before the t tal cal destruction is known for the fire season has considerable f tl time meun lo 10 run in fia arin g out this years losses it will ill bo be natural to inako comparison with losses for last ia st year which according to rr cadwell cleveland jr in the year book of the department of agric itule 11 will cadde cause 1908 to be long remembered 1 I A dry season combined with what seemed to bo be even more than the asual india indifference derence toward small fires which might easily have bave been extinguished at the start says mr cleveland caused 4 destructive destruct ivd in practically every state with losses aggregating one hundred million dollars in comparison with the havoc wrought elben 64 re the damage done to national forests vaa was exceedingly slight had fires raged within the forests as they ahey did outside they would have destroyed timber worth thirty million dollars enough to run the forest service for six years moreover it is practically certain that most if not all of the dam rage ago which was done might have been prevented had bad the forests W been fully manned finally the estimates of loss made by the service on national forests arc are particularly searching and taka full account of the injury done to young growth commonly estimates of loss from forest fires are based upon the damage done to standing timber and to 6 property they do not reckon usually for the greater loss in injury or destruction of young growing stock the methods by which the government keeps down the fire losses on the national forests include I 1 1 constant and systematic patrol by picked forces of rangers and guards 2 the construction of roads trails and telephone lines which facilitates the massing of large firefighting fire fighting forces 3 the construction of fire lines which in some sonic instances check the sarp spread d of file rite vit hout human help hell 14 4 the equipment of the forests forest with firefighting fire fighting righting tools and other supplies necessary in fighting righting fires the supplies of tools arc are kept at convenient points at all times in order to have them easily accessible to forest officers in case dirien break out 6 cooperation railroad timberland timbe owners and settlers in fire protection in this thi way ii making inking it possible to protect both the land lands of or the companies companie and the forest service at a much smaller cost to the government than would be the case were the national forest lands alone protected by the local officers the forest is one of the chief supports of the whole material fabric of ot our civili civilization tion the forest means mean not only a permanent supply of or wood and the life of nil all the industries which depend upon it bu hut also the control of oi the waters for human use there is only barrenness barron ness in III the future of the nation which has lost loat tho use of IYO the pf 0 ete |