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Show 00 Phil Orth of Huntsville Is Opposed to Bonds Editor Standard: Dr Fortier gave a very interesting program in the Huntsville school house last evening to a fairly good crowd of farmers. He I Illustrated irrigation under various conditions, Including orange groves In f'alifornla, as well as farm crops else - 1 r. He showed one plriurn a bars aid ih.' engineer had ma.je t mls We are confronted by a COndl tion where It Is necessarv to ask' why', In replv to "Kailroad Official" In the is.ue of the 18th. would say that the records show that for the past fllteen years, the large arms hav.- swallowed up tho smaller ones, and not on ac rount of water, rher. One of tho re-1 SUltl Huntsville school census showi that In 1908 there were 3(1 scholars, Including the 9th grade) and in' 1919 only 267, including the 9th grade. To tho schools in Ogden we aro i-end-inc our hoys and girls who have pass d the full grade and who are equal Ol superior mentally and physical!) to those of the city at least we think so A report from the principal of son) school might change our estimate, so we could stand corrected Again I do not thing that "Railroad official" would advise an Increased Jap-u-ese competition which the farmers now have in growing sugar beets, tomatoes, etc. Are the farmers ready to vote for a bond of $1,500,000 to build Btorage reservoirs? Judging from the likely expense of the Huntsville drainage district dis-trict No. , the bond issue will be that larga If not larger. In the drainage district, to drain not to exceed 300 acres In actual need of drainage, a bond and interest issue of $SO,000 was voted down 3 to 1, Under such rondi Hons, tho county commissioners should disorganize the district, and not allow something to be forced upon the farmers farm-ers contrary to the wishes of such a majority. This lrrlcatlon district raises more questions than Blmply mortgaging our 1. 'i n:- for $1,500,000 to build reservoirs. Now, farmers, when ou are ready for the question, remember the injunction injunc-tion of President Joseph F. Smith, "Gel out of debt, and keep out." PHIL ORTH. Huntsville, Nov. 20, 1919. on |