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Show MYTON FREE PRESS SUPPLEMENT MYTON, UTAH, APRIL 8, 191." ROCK DICK, CAP, CHIEF, JIM AND EAGLE SOLD The sale of horses and surplus stock at the Indian department survey quarters was held Monday Mon-day afternoon. Everything was disposed of at a fair price i- cept a few heaters. Among the horses, the two that revived the most attention were Cap and Chief. Fred Pel erson purchased Cap, the largest larg-est of Th six, at $87.50. Chief brought $36, and was sold to A. H.Curtice. Rock and Dick wee purchase d by Abe Liddell for $ j0 Joseph Reither, homesteader, whose place is on the North Myton My-ton bench procured Eagle of the driving team for $39. J. M. Bryant, Bry-ant, engineer in charge, could not allow Jim, of the same team, to pass into others hands. Jim will spend the rest of his life easy, having been purchased by Mr. Bryant for $50. The passing of Cap and Chief from the government service brings back to memory the work of this great team. Hardly a government ditch on the reservation reser-vation but what has had their help in building. Perhaps no team on the reservation is so well known. It is too bad that this faithful pair could not have been pensioned and turned out to rest for the balance of their days. o WHO HAS LIVED IN MYTON THE LONGEST? We would like to know who has lived longest in Myton? Write us a letter, if you are an old resident, and tell us some facts about your early days. We will publish the letters from the oldest residents. We wish to se cure as many interesting f&ytu as possible. The publication or) one incident will remin'd ' other j old-timers of other incidents,' so let the letters come. j o SHOWER FOR MISS BROWN Miss Helen Morrill and Miss Faye Pierce gave a linen shower in honor of Miss Bell Brown at the home of Mrs. D. J. Pierce. 500 was played for several hours and the tally cards were hearts and cupids. The rooms were beautifully decorated with calla lilies and the color scheme was pink and white. After the card games, slips ol paper were given to each guest and each wrote some good ad vise to the bride-to-be. The slips were collected and reao aloud by Miss Brown. This caused a great lot of fun. The one which she considered the best and the one she declares she will keep, was as follows: "You must not settle down right away and gossip about your neighbors." It was given by Miss Jeannette Brown and won the prize. During the noise of th laughter, a knock at the door was heard and on opening it a card was handed to the hostess from Cupid, requesting to see Miss Bell. Cupid proved to pe nuie Louise Calvert dressed in pink and white, holding an oriental basket full of bundles and decorated decor-ated with lilies and ribbon. Cupid helped Miss Bell untie the pretty and useful gifts and her expression showed her appreciation. ap-preciation. A most delicious lunch was served and also carried out in the color scheme and cupids. The bride-to-be wore forget-me-nots, but the girls declared there was no danger. Those invited were: Misses Eva and Cylesta Maxwell, Jeannette Jean-nette Brown, Alice Todd and the Mesdames, Geo. Calvert, O. A. Dart, Lee Cooper, H. Calvert and Hunter Brown. . : Alice Todd won the 500 prize which was a hand embroidered apron. . k : : KANSAS COWBOY WINS WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP In a hard fought battle at Havana, Cuba, April 5, Jess Willard, Wil-lard, challenger, won the heavy weight championship of the world from Jr.ci: Johnson, colored. col-ored. The battle lasted twenty-six rounds and ended in a knock out. Willard was nervous from the start and until the fourteenth round the black had somewhat the better of the fight. After this round Johnson began to show the effects of the physical strain while Willard seemed to strengthen streng-then and gain confidence" Willard received severe punishment pun-ishment throughout the battle but the black's punch seemed to lack its old time vigor. About the twentieth round Johnson's actions seemed to indicate that he thought he could not knock Wilard out and was trying t., get the decision on points at the end of the forty-fifth round. Willard opened the twenty-sixtli twenty-sixtli round with a smash to Johnsons body, they clinched, Willard rushed and slammed right and left to Johnson's body. Willard landed a terrific swing to Johnson's jaw, which proved a knockout blow. o "BLACK IS WHITE" NEW SERIAL STORY BEGINS George Barr McCutcheon has Written Many Successes Since "Graustark" Few authors have stepped as quickly into great popularity as did George Barr McCutcheon, the. author of our new serial. "Black Is White," and very fev u6 retained it in such undim-JnaheJ undim-JnaheJ Imeas.urc. .1". . v. ly ' 'A :facile writer "and ; a" born story teller, McCutcheon wanted to emulate the examples of frs brothers, John, the celebrated cartoonist, and Ben, an editoi, and that of George Ade, intimate inti-mate friend of the family, bdt his excessive modesty hell hvn back, and for a time he did nut attempt anything. ' Finally he i t- J f$ vy, : George Barr MsCutfbepn. wrote "Graustark," but underrating under-rating his effort he did not"t:y to find a publisher. His brothers, broth-ers, however, and George Ade, instantly recognized the worth of the manuscript, and . having induced the author to submit it for publication they had the satisfaction sat-isfaction of bringing put of obscurity ob-scurity one of the literary successes suc-cesses of the year. The successes of the several stories that followed is common knowledge to every lover of good fiction. "Brewster's Millions" is another of his big winners, and "The Hollow of Her Hand" has also met with wide popular t Today the name of McCutcheon attached to a story is all that is necessary to assure its quality qual-ity and secure a reading from those who appreciate and enjoy good fiction. 165,000 RODS BARB WIRE FOR THIS INDIANS Enough to Build Wire Fence 110 Miles Long All over the reservation where there is an Indian allotment can be seen long strings of cedar posts many of which already have the wire stapled on. Many acres of land have been cleared leveled and plowed and the work still goes on. It is expected that the Indiai: department will expend this year the sum of $300,000 in thf improvement of Indian lands. Nearly one million dollars hat been expended in the last eight or nine years in building canal? and laterals for these lands which will approximate 100,000 acres. Several hundred second feet of water have been filed on and it is necessary that beneficial benefi-cial use be made of the wat;r ? c that proof can be made on it The time for making this proof will expire about the year 1019. The Indian department is no fencing and cultivating this lan(l by lease and contract. The lat est information received is t( the effect that more than 10,C0C acres of this land is under contract con-tract and leased. More than L0f contracts have been let, and il! to farmers in the Uintah Bi:i Outside people who have heard of the splendid oportunities have begun to come in. The average bid for clearing, plowing and leveling the past ten days has been $5.50 per acre The lowest bid was $3.50 per acre and the highest bid was $8.75 per acre. W. E. Broome, the Page fence man, of Myton and Vernal, hat-been hat-been awarded a big contract foi barb wire and it has begun to come in. His contract calls for 165,000 rods. If strung out in one line, this wire would build a fence, four wires, 140 miles long. Mr. Broome is to be congratulated congratu-lated upon receiving such a large ordejr.. rt,..;.,. ' v PLEASANT-VALLEY CANAL COMPANY PLANS WORK The new officers of the Pleasant Pleas-ant Valley Canal company, who are Wm. Zowe, president; I. W. Odekirk, vice-president; J. N. Cooper, S. D. Wagner, J. H. Delanty, R. E. Miller and Web Lumpkin, directors, will hold a joint meeting with the directors of the disorganized South Myton My-ton bench irrigation district tonight to-night for the purpose of purchasing pur-chasing the right of way, ditch line and other property belonging belong-ing to said district. It is the plan of the new company com-pany to take over this property and arrange for the payment of all debts of said district in stock of the company. As soon as the organization of the new company com-pany is completed, it is the intention in-tention to employ a large force of men and complete this project pro-ject with the least possible delay. de-lay. At present work is continuing contin-uing moderately. INFLUX FROM TOOELE O. L. Sagers, E. Bates and E. Gordon, of Tooele county, have been in Myton this week arranging arrang-ing to lease Indian land. One lease has already been made in Red Cap flats. With a number of other men from that county they will lease about 400 acres. These gentlemen say great damage is being done to farm lands and live stock in parts of their county by the fumes from the smelter and that many of the farmers are leaving. It is expected that at least fifty farmers farm-ers will come to the reservation. : rO SELLING CATTLE W. G. Sherman this week sold to Alfred Van, Indian, ten head of young cows. He also sold a cow to S. A. Wells. Mr. Sherman Sher-man is an expert in the cattle business and is in the market for cattle of all kinds. MORE CATTLE BUT FEW :i SHEEP Number cf Permits on the National Na-tional Forest Increasing and Decreasing Respectively Selling some billion and a half board feet of timber and supervising super-vising the cutting on several thousand different areas, overseeing over-seeing the grazing of more than 1,500,000 cattle and 7,500,000 :heep, and building more than JOO miles of road," 2,000 miles jf trail, 3,000 miles of telephone ine, and 700 miles of fire line ire some of the things which the government forest service did ast year, as disclosed in the re-)ort re-)ort by the chief forester for 1914. These activities were all m the national forests,, which at Dresent total about 185,000,-)00 185,000,-)00 acres. There is need, says the chief corester, to increase the cut of imber from the national forests vhereever a fair price can be obtained ob-tained for the stumpage, because i great deal of ' it is mature and )ught to be taken out to make oom for young growth. Unfav-rable Unfav-rable conditions in the lumber rade caused sales of nation-1 nation-1 forest timber to fall off some- ' hat during the past year, hough the operations on out-handing out-handing sales contracts brought the total cut above that of the previous year by 130,000,000 board feet. There was, however, a big increase in small timber sales, these numbering 8,298 in 1914 against 6,182 the previous year. m Desirable blocks of national na-tional forest timber have been Appraised and put on the market, md it is expected that these .vill find purchasers when con-litions con-litions in the lumber industry improve. All told, the grcm-me:'t grcm-me:'t received 1,304,005.(31 from the sale if limber ou U.q forests in 1914. The receipts from all sources totaled $2,4:j7.- 710.21. ., . - - After eight years of experi anCe stocfomen - are well - anti- ' - 1 .vith the way the grazing of J-ivestock J-ivestock on the forests is reg-jlated, reg-jlated, and have even urged up-n up-n congress the application of the same method of control to the unreserved public range. Almost 29,000 permittees graze stock on the national forests, and these paid to the government govern-ment in the fiscal year 1914 fees amounting to over a million dollars. dol-lars. The present tendency to raise fewer sheep and goats and nore cattle and horses is shown :.n the fact that the number of . :attle and horse permittees on the' western forests increased last year by 1,579, while the number of sheep and goat permittees per-mittees fell off by a total of 268. The western sock business, the forester points out, is becoming attached to the soil, and the itinerant sheep grower and the speculator in cattle are giving place to the permanent resident and owner of improved ranch property. The latter is always given preference in the use of national forest range. . O r-y ' i THE LOTT PROJECT i o Frank H. Lott, of Denver, has been in Myton for several days looking after business int-orest: It is said that he figures on cr,nr siderable ditch work this summer. sum-mer. He has now a few men and teams working. When Mr. Lott came In he was accompanied by W. J. Madden, Mad-den, a Banker and cattleman, of Haes City, Kansas. Mr. Madden Mad-den has been associateo" with Mr. Lott in this project for a number of years. Mr. Calahan, member of a big firm of railroad and ditch builders came in it the same time and looked over the proposition, with a view to taking a contract. Ilis firm. Is well equipped for ditch building. The steam shovels used are similar simi-lar to the shovels used in the construction of the Panama canal. ca-nal. 4 |