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Show Civic Clubs Meet, j Visit Big Mine ! In Eureka District Improvement of state highway 26, which has been designated as a link in U. S. highway 6 in the recent re-cent routing of the transcontinental transcontinen-tal Roosevelt highway, will be pushed by the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah, that body decided at Eureka Saturday. A committee to be appointed by President Frank G. Martines of Richfield will confer with Nevada officials at Ely and Tonopah to enlist en-list their cooperation in furthering the highway project. Mr. Martines reported that the highway will be signed as U. S. route No. 6, this autumn, from the Colorado border from Grand Junction entrance to Utah, on U. S. 50 to Spanishfork, on U. S. 91 to Santaquin. And on state highway high-way 26 to Eureka and Delta to Nevada. Ne-vada. Meeting in Eureka for the first time, the 100 members heard Hugh B. Brown, chairman of the state liquor commission; W. D. Hammond of the state highway commission, Paul G. Hunt, secretary secre-tary of the Associated Civic Clubs of Northern Utah, and other visitors. Numerous problems of the southern south-ern Utah section came before the club with the group going on record re-cord in favor of furthering the ! Escalante water conservation project, pro-ject, investigating feasibility of establishing a state junior college in Carbon county and of seeking abatement of the dust hazard on the Bryce highway by application of a coat of oil. A trip through the Tintic Standard Stand-ard mine at Dividend, by courtesy of James W. Wade, general manager, man-ager, was the Sunday feature of the two-day conclave. A banquet Saturday night topped the opening ; day's program, nearly 200 visiting men and women being guests of the Eureka Kiwanis club. 1 The tour of the Tintic mine was ' arranged by P. J. Fennell, a mem- ber of the association executive I committee, to give the visitors I first hand information on one of 1 the prncipal industries of the state. I Guided by James Wade, president of the Tintic Standard, and several ' of his junior engineers, the party - visited the first 50-foot level, walk- ing through 3000 feet of explora- - tion work to the end of a produc- - ing tunnel. It was the first time most of the party had seen the modern mining equipment in use. Mr. Wade had arranged a special shift on the jot to demonstrate the methods used, particularly in drilling and mucking. muck-ing. Included among those going underground were Governor Henrj H. Blood, who arrived in EurekE early Sunday morning. Contrary to popular opinion that ! the mines exploit natural resources I and return no benefit to the peo-I peo-I pie, mines of Utah return nine times as much value to citizens of the state as they do to the stock-i stock-i holders, Paul G. Hunt, manager of a Park City mine, told the body. With an average net income of 44 1 cents per ton, in a 10-year period, Utah mines paid 26.7 cents per ton in state and local and federal I taxes, in addition to wages and ex- penditures for materials. ' Adoption of a middle ground be-1 be-1 (Continued on iast page) Civic Clubs Meet (Continued from first page) tween the extremes of the militant dry and the militant wet will serve best to retain a smooth course for the state administration of the liquor problem, Hugh B. Brown advised. ad-vised. A swing in either direction would precipitate waves of prohibition prohi-bition reform or extreme liberality, he predicted. I Disposition of liquor revenue and minor flaws in the liquor law do 1 not seriously concern the commission, commis-sion, he stated. Social considera-sions, considera-sions, including enforcement of the act, proper distribution of liquor and driving out the bootlegger, are paramount. Regarding agitation for changes in the beer provisions and the disposition of revenues, he said, "If there should be a change ' at the next legislature, there is no need to become militant and kick over the whole act. We are admittedly ad-mittedly trying an experiment, and we can patch up the law and still : hold the middle ground." The next meeting will be held July 18, at Ephraim, it was announced. an-nounced. Because the monthly convention was being held near the northei'n extremity of the territory covered by the southern civic clubs, special invitations had been extended to northern Utah organizations. Included In-cluded among those present were E. J. Fjeldsted, secretary of the Ogden chamber of commerce and the Intermountain Association of Civic clubs; Hunt Leo Nielson, secretary of the Associated Civic Clubs of Northern Utah; Clayton Jenkins, secretary of. the Provo chamber of commerce; and a dele- 1 gation of five members Mark I Anderson, mayor of Provo; J. W Gilhnan, chairman of the Utah county commission; Mont Ferry and other Salt Lake City mining j men; Frank Francis, former mayor of Ogden, and others. It was the largest group of outside out-side interests ever represented at a meeting of the southern Utah organization. or-ganization. Mr. Fjeldsted said that the success of the southern Utah group was the cause of his being present. He said that he had come to obtain first hand information informa-tion on which to base future activities acti-vities of his organization. In this connection, the possible j formation of an "advisory council" 1 to handle state problems was taken j up. Samuel C. Powell, president of j the Intermountain Association of Civic clubs, had directed a letter to President Martines requesting a suggestion along these lines. Last week President Martines met with the group and presented his views on the subject. j As proposed, the council would consist of meeting's of representa- j tives of all the major organizations j of the various sections of the state ; to discuss problems of a state-wide nature. The council would have no executive power, but would take back to each sectional association the ideas worked out in the "clearing "clear-ing house." The executive committee commit-tee talked over the plan and will prepare a tentative outline to work on within the next few weeks. |