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Show SLOW BUT SURE IS THE MONEY Coming for the South Fork Reservoir Stock $1,165 Subscribed Thursday and AlL.of It By Volunteers Who Called at the Standard Office and Put Down Their Names Total Amount Now $218,640 Not Bad For Volunteers, Is It? Tho reservoir subEcrlptlons aro coming com-ing in slow but sure. Tuesday only $490 was subscribed, Wednesday $1,156 was subscribed, and yoBtorday $1,575 was subscribed. If the subscriptions sub-scriptions increase at that ratio for the remaindor of this month the re ervoir compauy will have moro stock subscribed than it requires by the end of the month. Those who fall to get in on the ground floor of this reservoir proposition will hae only thomselves to blame, if they discovei when It is too late, that there are left no more $35 shares The Standard Is perfectly frank with tho people and It says to all of them, If you havo $35 to spare for eighteen months, put it into the South Fork reservoir proposition, and you will never regret it. Wo told the people of Weber County that sugar stock would double In eighteen months. It did better than thaL Now wo promise the people that the reservoir res-ervoir stock will double In value in eighteen months and it would not surprise us at all If It were worth thrpe times $35 before the water pours from the reservoir. Following are the new subscriptions of yesterday: P-. F. Tracy, 1325 25th St 10 C. H Pearson, 2521 Jackson Ave.. 5 Paul Kuhn, 2404 Madison Ave 10 Jas S Carver, 541 22nd St . . ..10 Almont Roy Parker, 4G3 Canyon Rd 5 Herbert Blake Parker, 463 Can. Rd..5 Total shares subscribed yestor day 45 Previously reported C.199 Total subscription to date C.2H Multiplied by 35, equals $21S.540. This leaves "just $131,400 yot to be raised We are advised that tho North Ogden irrigation and canal will subscribe sub-scribe for a large block of stock at Its meeting in a few days and will prob ably take one-fourth of the balanco to be raised Marriott and tho West-Irrigation West-Irrigation comj any probably will Increase In-crease their subscriptions by $10,000 each and, if the Plain City people ever wake up, they will want all the stock that Is unsubscribed oven at this time. Somebody is surely going to pet left on this reservoir stock if the. farmers don't soon get a move on themseles Tho city peoplo arc buying the water rights as speculation and will tako great pleasure in raising the price and asking the farmer to pay for his dolay and Inaction "It is funny," said a man the other day, "If there is a swindling schome like rubber stock in Mexico, coal mines In Idaho or electricity' from 1 creek that could not develop 100 horsepower, tho farmers fall over themselves to "blto," but when a legitimate legit-imate scheme is presented for their own profit and benefit, they hesitate perhaps too long" |