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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH w t 'Mellon Shows Models of New Federal Buildings News Notes:: 1 It's a Privilege Enefj rmk with, to Live In UTAH GUNNISON Saturday and Sunday Gunnison valley was swept by a gale of wind of fifty miles velocity. It ended up with snow and rain and a heavy frost Sunday night, doing much damages to gardens and fruit. HEBER CITY More than 90 per cent of the fruit blossoms in Wasatch epunty were destroyed by frost recently. A heavy fall of snow followed rain terminated in the by an Garden vegetables killing frost. which were out of the ground, and alfalfa has likewise been damaged severely by the frost. SPRINGVlLLE A discussion of the , plan for the Fruit and Vegetable Growers association of Springville and Mapleton to join with other growers of the state and form a cooperative marketing association, was held in the First ward with V. C. Mendenhall and Tom Marsh, presid mts of the association, in charge. PROVO The total cost of the new street lighting system which was completed a few weeks ago has been submitted to the city commission by City Engineer Frank Deming. The cost is given as $11,213.14. Of this amount the citys portion is $189.50, and the balance is assessed against abutting property owners. HEBER CITY Dairy day, typifying one of the principal industries of Wasatch county, will be celebrated June 7, at Charleston. The program, which is scheduled one of the best arranged during the last eight years during which the citizens of Wasatch county have turned out to do honor to their dairymen, and especially the clubs doing dairy work. OGDEN Approximately only 50 per cent normal potato acreage has been planted in Weber county this spring, says County Agent A. L. Christiansen. The slump is occasioned by the low prices in the two previous years. Few cars will be shipped out this year. Acreage in Kaw valley, Kan., is less this year, the agent is informed. GUNNISON The heaviest May snowstorm in ten years, and one of the heaviest snows of any winter here of late years, visited Gunnison and vicinity recently. Six to eight inches of snow weighed the trees, already in foliage down to the ground, and broke many branches. The electric light service was put out of commission, and it may take some days to complete repairs. COALVILLE Work on the graveling of the Lincoln highway from Echo to Baskin, in Echo canyon, was commenced the past week by the Sumsion Construction company of Springville, employing about 20 men, 10 horses and seven trucks. As soon as this gravel has been placed, the state road commission expects to begin oiling e the new gravel and placing the stretch in condition for tourist travel. KAYSVILLE Farm crops in some sections of this state are reported to have been damaged by the frost which covered a large portion of northern Utah recently, according to information received in Salt Lake. Reports received from parts of Davis county indicated that the tomato plants had been damaged to some extent, while information was also received that some fruit in the south of Salt Lake county had been injured. PROVO Frosts, which struck this section and Utah county, following a slight snowstorm recently, have done considerable damage to the fruit crops of the section, according to reports coming into the Utah county agents office. The strawoerry and tomato crops in the county were quite severely nipped, and it is estimated of the crops that practically will be killed. Beans and other early crops also suffered quite extensively. PLEASANT. GROVE Utahs strawberry crop this year covers 1300 acres, or about 100 acres less than were harvested last year, the annual strawberry crop report, released by Frank Andrews, statistician of the United States department of agriculture, Bhows. If the yield per acre this year is the same as the average for the past few years, 1929 production will amount to 2,340,000 quarts, compared with, 2,800,000 quarts in 3 928 and in 1927, the reports says. CEDAR CITY Arizonians living south of the Colorado river are enthusiastic over plans for the celebration, June 14 and 15, of the formal dedication tf the new bridge over the river at Marble conyon in several respects one of the most remarkable bridges in the world. The people of the sister state will themselves come en mass to the celebration, and they are looking for a large crowd from Utah and other regions on the north as well. all-da- y Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, who is charged with the responsibility for the new government buildings Uncle Sam will erect in .Washington and which will make the National Capital the finest capital in the world, is shown with the models for the new building program which he displayed to President Hoover and other Ugh officials or the government at a meeting at the United States Chamber of Commerce. Washington to Be Beauty Spot : & An Elaborate Beautification Project 'May Cost V h 265 Millions. Washington. Beautification of the National Capital Is in progress on an elaborate scale, says Arthur Crawford In the Chicago Tribune. Building and other projects already under construction or authorized will involve an expenditure of government money amounting to more than The contemplated program in the District of Columbia may event ually cost as much as $265,000,000. President Hoover has approved the plans which are taking shape under the direction of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. The projects which have either been commenced or au thorlzed Include a new Department of Commerce building costing $17,500,000, a new Internal revenue building costing $10,000,000, a new archives build ing coslihg $8,700,000, an addition to the house office building costing new buildings for the Department of Agriculture costing $8,100,000. and a new Supreme court building costing $7,500,000. Land in Triangle Purchased. Land Is being purchased in what Is known as the triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue and extending from the treasury toward the Capitol, costing $25,000,000. . Enlargement of the Capitol grounds is estimated to cost $116,-000,00- t $6,244,472. ' ? - legislation other projects, such as the Arlington memorial bridge, which connects Lincoln monument-witArlington National cemetery, the construction of an addition to the house office building, and the Mount Vernon Memorial highway were authorized. Beautiful Boulevard Planned. Representative L. C. Cramton (Rep., Mich.), ranking member of the house appropriation committee, has visualized the physical change which is to take place in the city. South of the Capitol a new unit will match the present house office building, to the east the new Supreme court building will rise, adjacent to the congressional library, said Mr To the north the Capitol Cramton. grounds will extend from the Union station to B street N. W., and along B street to the Arlington bridge and on to Arlington or to Mount Vernon. This boulevard and the new municipal center to be erected by the district government will clear away from the north side of Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol to Sixth street the cheap lodging houses, the questionable resorts, the Chinese emporium and the tattooing places, which now give that conspicuous area a character of its own, better to be remembered than endured. War Shacks to Go. The Union square and the Mall come into their own ; the Grant memo-mia- l may be better appreciated; the botanical garden is removed and will blossom more gloriously elsewhere; the World war temporary shneks, which .have so long outstayed their welcome, will vanish; the Agricultural building steps back to the proper alignment and becomes an architectural asset Instead of a liability. For the north boundary of the Other projects which will contribute to the beautification of the city Include the Arlington memorial bridge, which Is being constructed at a cost xof $14,750,000; the Mount Vernon memorial highway, which is to be completed within the next two years at a cost of $4,500,000, and a number of othe,j costing smaller amounts. The building program is in harmony with the original plan of George Washington and LEnfant, the young French engineer. LEnfant planned the location of ail public buildings In architectural settings appropriate grouped along a parkway, known as the Mall, connecting the Capitol and the White House. McKinley Reviewed Plan. under the ' plan Development tot guished nearly a century, the space between Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall becoming filled with various buildings out of harmony with the LEnfant program. At the time of the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the seat of government in the District of Columbia President McKinley brought about a revival of Interest in the LEnfant plan and what was known as the McMillan comtnission was created. Congress authorized the creation of the fine arts commission In 1910 and later on. a zoning commission and a National Capital park and planning commission were formed. During the World war It was necessary to erect numerous temporary buildings which helped to mar the architectural unity of the city. For a time after the war expenditures for public buildings were held down under the economy program, hut in the 15126 public building act, congress authorized the construction of new buildings Jn the District the LEnfant vision of stately Mall public buildings, properly landscaped, will succeed the present strange mixture of the useful and the tolerated In commercial architecture which now reduce this heart center of the Capital to the level of hundreds of other cities properly unsung. To Add to Worlds Glorias. From the White House to the Capitol, the 6outh side of Pennsylvania avenue, where have traveled -- NEW IRISH MINISTER , D Washington. The heron, a beautiful bird mourned as near extinction, seems to have found a natural sanctuary in Florida, where it can thrive. J. V. Kelsey, United States game protector, recently made a trip through the Lake Okeechobee section and reported that he witnessed a rare and beautiful sight, and one which indicated an encouraging survival of birds thought nearly extinct. At a point approximately ten miles east and north of Belle Glade, Palm Beach county, and as far as Pahokee, In all a distance of about 25 miles, there were thousands of American egrets and snowy herons stretching away into the overflowed country as far as the eye some people believe. Policeman Shocked at Action of Mail Box An Subsequent legislation provided for the purchase of land in the triangle and increased the authoriza tlon for buildings outside the district In separate pieces of by $100,000,000. White Herons Finding Sanctuary in Florida stated that they represent proof that the plume birds of Florida have not reached the point of depletion that $100,-000,00- 0 semi-classic- could see. He reported that It was Impossible to estimate the total of these beautiful birds. Among them he saw a dozen great white herons; and within 100 yards of Belle Glade not less than 300 snowy herons fed unmolested. Mr. Kelsey could give no reason why these birds should have gathered In such vast numbers in this territory, but of Columbia to cost $50,000,000 over a five years period, besides public build ings outside the district tocost these many years democracys chosen leaders and loved heroes, will be the imposing federal buildings of the triangle program, not competing with each other in varying forms of architecture, but each contributing to a beautiful whole that will add something to the worlds architecture. As LEnfant and Washington would have It, the Capital city will then present to the world a clean face with beautiful features, and gone will be all the marks of tattooing, the stains of chop suey, and the plague of room rent signs." Edward H. Bennett, Chicago architect, has figured prominently in the development of the building program as chairman of architectural consultant, of the Treasury department. Mr. Bennett gives this picture of the future Washington as planned by the architects: As one proceeds down Pennsylvania avenue toward the Capitol, on the south side will be a succession of beautiful and harmonious buildings, all of a design in keeping with the so well traditional established in Washington. On the north side vistas will be opened up, so that groups of buildings, such as the beautiful District of Columbia courthouse on John Marshall place, shall be brought into the general plan of Pennsylvania avenue. Park Spectacle to Be Presented. At the same time the Mall will present the spectacle of a great park bordered on one side by the new boulevard .lined with beautiful buildings, a wide parkway of greensward with Its four rows of trees, its drives and walks, statues and reflecting pools, ail arranged in such a way that long vistas will be opened up for views of the Capitol in one direction and ol the Washington monument and Lincoln memorial in the other. To realize the force of this arrangement one must see It after dusk. Sounds of the activities of the city will be heard in the distance, but the Mall, with its three great structures the Capitol, the monument and the Lincoln memorial, aglow and reflected in the pools will be silent and convey a sense of strength; the strength and confidence of a nation." Michael posed portrait especially the newly MacWhite, of ap-- . pointed Irish Free State minister. to the United States, who recently arrived in Washington to assume his post He succeeds Timothy Smiddy. Quincy, Mass. Policeman Patrick Coyne had a shocking experience when he tried to deposit a letter in a mail box in Norfolk Downs. It was later found that because of the proximity of the mail, box to an electric light pole a short circuit had occurred. one-thir- d Bell a a Memento When the ship John Milton was lost off the eastern tip of Long Island seventy-onyears ago with her men, skipper and crew of twenty-threthe vessels bell was tossed among the rocks on the shore, resting in such a position that wind and waves made it toll dismally. The bell now is to be k placed in the tower of the New Point Community church. The little building looks out on the spot where the John Milton foundered as she was returning to Boston from a trip to Peru. e e Mon-tau- Cmamipmpm six-mil- one-thir- d . HOTEL Newhouse SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH One oi Salt Lake City's finest hotels, where guests find every comfort with a warm hospitality Garage in connection. Cafe end cafeteria. 400 Rooms, EACH . WITH BATB $2.00 to $4.00 |