Show 44 4 t THE CARBON COUNTY NEWS i I 1 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT V AV 1 ox pace P R I 1 C E UTAH A tt subscription PER Y YEAR EAR I t SIX MONTHS 60 50 CENTS cens strictly in advance advertising rates made known on application addrow all communications to the carbon county news price utah entered as second clasa class matter april 29 1907 at the Poet at price c L e utah under tho act of congress of march 3 1879 PRICE CARBON CO UTAH FRIDAY OCTOBER 8 automobile nobile delivery of rural mail is not an improbable hd to 10 the p postal service mr air harriman was a knighty little man physically but it b will take something of a whale to fill his place in the financial world nevertheless those who preach home patronage should practice it and cut out these monthly orders to the eastern mail order hou it was the fear of a coal famine several mouths mouth sc agro nc its a car famine that stares some of the eastern railway companies in the face business must be picking lip p it is estimated that an ele electric ettric light plant such as would be sif suitable table for price with all new now machinery can be installed for something like twelve thousand dollars honors seem to be about evenly divided between dr cook and commander peary something is being held back by dr cook which when published may give him priority the attendance at the state fair this week was a record breaker and the exhibit the beat best ever seen in the vest west few states A can make availed exhibit that will equal uenh and we have no I 1 fear that it can be excelled salt lake city is to ba have v e another bank batik to bo be called the national copper bank of salt lake with a capital of the new bonem will have quarters in the newhouse block for which the ol 01 rental price is 1500 a month or a matter of 60 50 a day some bu business i binesa will have to be done to pay this big expense A telegram has been received at the land office in salt lae from the department of the interior at washington announcing the withdrawal from all settlement or entry cf lands in san juan washington and garfield counties in this state there is no reason fer for thia this move given in the telegram but the purpose will likely be announced later on it is proposed to so repair and improve the rio grande railway cyst that the trains will run on schedule time and the danl danger er of accidents will be eliminated to a great extent no expense is to be spared in bringing about thip thi enuch desired desire A reformation the D R G has an outlet to the coast now over the ilic western paci pacific and it Is emary to brace up a bit and get ready to handle the increased traffic bids have been opened on the united states battleship i arkansas and wyoming and announcement of the letting of the contracts is expected soon these will be the largest battleships in the world the plans calling for tons displacement feet overall over all length 92 feet beam 29 feet draught and horae horse power engines giving a speed of 21 knots since the british dreadnought set the fashion in all big gun battleships the size and gun capacity of each new ship of the united stales states navy have been steadily increased but these will bethe be the firs two ships to exceed all records of foreign navies the cramps made the lowest bid of ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT A NECESSITY the proposition to have an electric light and power plant in stalled right soon in price is growing more in favor every day that a lighting system is badly need goes without saying when the proper kind of a deal is offered it is to be hoped the town board will not turn it down the system must be lie owned by the people and not by a private corporation which will fix the charges and run the concern as a dividend paying business public ownership is ic what is wanted then the people fix their own charges and are vy paying ng on property they will eventually own when the utah southern railway gets running a few weeks hence this town should fco be having an electric light plant built to keep up with the gro growing winic importance of tho the town RAILWAY TREE PLANTING the pennsylvania railway company is planning to set out more than one million trees this will baake ake a total of trees planted in the last three years to provide for some of the com banys future requirements in ih timber and sleepers heretofore the forestry operations have been confined to a limited arc area between philadelphia and altoona this constitutes the largest forestry plan yet undertaken by any private corporation this 1 4 year however sixty five thousand trees are being set out on tracts of land near metuchen Me tuchen and new brunswick Brun awick N J in addition there arc are to bo be planted within the next month two hundred and seven thousand trees rees near conewago Co pa one huri hundred dred and eighty six thousand in the vicinity of van dyke three hundred and thirtyfour thirty four thousand at lewistown Lewis town junction seven thousand at pomeroy and two hundred and five thousand at denholm SAN FRANCISCO TO CELEBRATE san francisco having put her house in order has extended an invitation to the nations of the world to come to the golden gate in mid october and sec see the results of her handiwork and be her guests at the big festival that is to celebrate the rehabilitation of the city the festival to be held october 19 to 23 will also commemorate the di discovery bovery in 1769 of the bay of san francisco by don gaspar de bortol i first spanish governor govern nr of california from this the celebration n has taken its name and Is known cs wl the portola festival in the latter part of april 1906 the greater part of san francisco existed but as a memory three thousand acres comprising tho the heart of the city had been devastated by fire in the greatest 4 4 disa disaster ater of modem times more than twenty eight thousand thou saud buildings had been converted into piles of smoking ruins and the loss ra tre reached ached the appalling sum of tin on ee hundred million dol dollars larg |