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Show BLOOD MAY GO ON PUBLIC UTILITIES SALT LAKE. March 20.- H. H. Blood of Kaysville. one of the best known Democratic leaders of the northern part of the state, has been Offered 'he third place on the public utilities commission by Governor Simon Si-mon Bamberger, but has not yet decided de-cided whether he will accpt. lr is understood that he desired to get in touch with a number of his business associates before giving a definite reply. re-ply. For more than three weeks the third place on the publir utilities commission com-mission has been in doubt, Indim tions were last night that Mr. Blood would accept the appointment. Yesterday a conference of a number of the leading Democrats decided that Mr. Blood would be acceptable to the northern part of the state, as P. A. Thatcher, mayor of Logan, had been switched from the public utilities commission com-mission to the workmen's compensation compensa-tion commission. Last night when he returned to his home at Kaysville Mr Blood took an Inventory of the businesses busi-nesses In which' he is interested and said that if he could see his way cleai to give a part of his time to his pri vate interests probably he would accept ac-cept the appointment to the public utilities commission. For the past ten years Mr Blood has been interested in the grain business He is an authority on wheat. He is H interested in a number of elevators H and flour mills In the northern part of this state and southern Idaho. In addition ad-dition he has a number of other business busi-ness enterprises in Davis county. H "Until I decide whether or not the tH appointment will interfere with my H private business to such an extent that H I will have to give it up. I will not de- : cide as to the appointment," said Mr. Blood. "I will know Tuesday after- i noon whether or not I am in a posi H tion to accept j IH |