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Show THE IBMCTAM BULLETEM VOLUME THIRTY-EIGH- T BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, JANUARY 5, 1928. No. 1 Financial Statement Bingham Canyon X'Uh, Jan, 3, 102l. Fellow Members of tiie Town Board of Trustees: It ia my pleasure to tiubmit to you a concise vstimuie of the work accom-plished tor tin- your 1927: Caoh on hun.l inc. St, 1927: $ 331.33 All operating expensf-- s of 1927 have been paid ouvpt Recounts payabh Jan. 3, 192S, but due ns of Dee. 31, 1927. The accounts payable amount to: $2,924,00 Accounts payable, however, are more thun offset by accounts rViceiv-abl-and due as of Dec. 31, 1927. Ac. counts receivable are ax follows: ' Unpaid tales from Oo.Troas. " on 1927 levy: $3M.t! Unpaid water rent 0r 1927: f 046.M Unpaid merchant licensee for 1927: I 76.M Unpaid rent County sheriffs office: I lto Total amount aarouata re-ceivable: $461.q This leave In the Town Treasury as of Jaa. 3, 1928. a credit balance of: $3075.-3- Borrowed monry from the bank to the uniuunt or $3G,000.00 to BO oo, the operating expense for 1927 until the tax k'vy of 1927 was collect! ha all been paid In futl. The following special Heme w expended and paid for during lb year and uay be listed as permanent Improvements or asjeta: Back Justice fe of 1926 and paid in 1027: $ Bl'B.ft New water pipes: $ 600.0a Moving, of carfork tanks:. .$1500.60 New Mark ham tank and tn stallment: I12M.6 New garbage dump: 175Q.6t Payment on fire truck: . $2JB3. Fire hydrant signs: I 60.M Town Hall water tank: I W0.O Bonds redeemed: fSOOOK Interns! paid on bond and traeJtr IsaBBW Creek, retaining wall : $ 573.W . , 4 , Total expenditures paid out-side of actual operating ex, penjM-s- : $14TIt6 New fire slina have been, ordered and installation arranged. A petition for a library fund has been satitftod, and election ordered. New fije h& wass purchased. The attention of th new Boand la called to tha following re6mmBda- - Uoaa: 1. minilxnent of contract as be. tweian the Town aad Utah Coppar Compact for th construcUoa of Saw-e- r syetexa Lb Markham. a. FVtfnimeat of contract , as he. tweeo tn Town and Utah Copper Co. for a minimum wurer supply tn Mark-ba- m of PS s per minute per fioa. tract on eacliange of waters. Respectfully submitted, V, H. STRAUP, Ml D. Proeldent Town Board, Bingham Cuayon, Utah. Good Business in 1927 The merchants of Bingham were busily engaged during last week pre. paring for and taking inventory.. Be. tween customers all handj were busy assembling in kinds in a manner to be convenient for the checkup. Win-dows were stripped, show cases were turned Injide out. the contents parcel-ed out and when the business of the year was over Saturday all was in readiness for the two holidays, Suiv dy and Monday, and good use was made of them in order to be free of interruption which on other days would greatly interfere with this work. While most of the merchants hare staple stock to supply the immediate needs of their customers, many of them report a smaller carry.orer than heretofore. Notwithstanding the fact that wholesale purchase were as larK or larger than usual The public bought more merchandise this year than ever before. While there baa bn aom mar-uierin- g about business tbe pmt year the merchants of Blngtvun may be said to bare don a fairly good bust. ues, and for the most part are not complaining. Business aj a whole throughout the UniBed States has ex. perieneed a reaction during the twelve months Just past but at the begim ning of the new year there are no clouds on thefinancia I horizon of suf flcent magnitude to cause unea-lneg- s to the world's business men. There Seenas to be a feeling of optL mism among the business men and financial institutions that in Iteelf in-spires confidence and should go a long way in ea using a steady, healthy growth In business. In our own section we can see many thing,? which Indicate better business conditions for the future than we hare ujoyed In the past. As we See It our business conditions here deppnd large-l- y on one thing only the selling priop of tin metahv predw to-- thl; di8trict-,DurlneJ1- 827 tha wvaillng price of all these metals haa been un. usrully low. At tha beginning of 192R these price are substantially improv-ed and the surveys made by best in. formed persons In this line. Indicate the prioee of metals will remain s they are or go to a higher level In w'-k-- case production win more like-ly Increase than decrease. loppsr Ouliook ' is improved BY DAVID D. MOFFAT, Depleted stocks ol copper iu Eu. rope and other conditions as the opening of the now year approaches make the copper production situation look brighter thun it bus for some years paot. staled David D. Moffat, assistant general manager of the Utah Copper company, in speaking of 192S prospects. Commenting on the copper situation, Mr. Moffat vaid: "While the domestic consumption has Uen disappointing ' during the pa.it monthi the export demand has beeu brisk. Exports for the month oi November amounted to 52,000 tons which compares with 48,000 tons fo January of this year. Ou the other hand, domestic consumption, which la January was 76,000 tons, ban fallen to C9.000 tons for the month of No-vember. "During the months of August, Sep teuiber and October, the production of copper for North and 8outh Amor-lea- , was considerably ui.der the con. sumption. This resulted In the stocku of refined copper in North and South America dropping to 84,000 tons, the lowest point reached In 1937. During November, since consumption was lei's than production, the 3tocks of ie. fined copper rose to 91,000 tors. tT' Is represents about three weeks' supply of nivtxU. The stocks of bliter cop per in North and South Americi have stood at about tbe same figure for tlx past five years, which Is approximate ly 250,000 tons; 61 H per cent of thl amount, however, la in transit or in the procews of refining, and really re. present.! a capital account In the eop. per business. Stocks of blister at re Ilnwlee and smtflters have been no minal. "The domeatio market I3 now stea. dy, wtth the price of the metal boU. tog at 34 cents delivered at Cona:--ticu- t valley points. It Is understood that the manufactory of she, wtrr and tube ar. covered oul.-fo- c tho next few weeks, and ft Is believed tha a heavy tonnage will be nN rbr American consumption during tar first quarter of 192S. "One attractive feature tn th eop per (situation Is the dearth of trTrk-I- n Europe. The supply in the UnhW Kingdom has fallen from about M.0nr to;ia, Ut In 1925. to leas than 15.0OC tons as of November SO, 1W7. Stoeiv a Harre and la Japan are negttsfb These countries win bare to took for their copper to new production, wtle aofruro well for the flrtrt quarter rr dext rnt. 80 that, on the whote. tha copper totiaa loots betgMvr than R has for some ya&ra past." Fire Uisils Highland Boy Fire originating in the change rooms of the Utah Metal & Tunnel Co. located in the old Frisco mill at Hlghand Boy did considerable damage before it was brought under control early Friday morning. The residents of the town who were up until eleven o'clock Thursday night were attracted by the immense light over the top of the mountain peaks. The outline of the mountains and the fire light on the scattering ooluds created a scene of beauty and grand-ur- e indescribable. It was a rare scene and as beautiful as It was dis. tluctlve. It is thought the fire was caused by an overheated furnace In the mine change rooms. The volunteer firemen of Highland Boy were on the-- Job promptly with all the fire eQulpment which thvy bad and did valuable work, in control. Ing the fire but were unable to check and control the blaze until it had to tally destroyed the change rooms, and the large residence of Superintendent Bryant as also the snow sheds. The Bingham Fire Department could not go to the assistance of their nleghbors up the canyon on ac-count of t!ie deep snow which blocked the roadj In the canyon. The change rooms and the residence of Supt. Biy. an will be rebuilt. The management xpress their ap-preciation for the assistance of those who helped to extinguish the fire. Dingham Cyprus Pijy Friday s The Jordan Division will open for the present basketball season Friday evening when tbe Cypru High team will tangle with the Bingham High In the Bingham Gymnaelum in the first game of the season. This Is the sec-ond consecutive year that the Cyprus High School has Invaded Bingham on the opening dute of the regular league schedule. On both occa.Iona haa the Magna quint met defeat, but on both occasions has the game been hard fought from the start to the finish. This year both of theue teams have lot a number or real stars and both Tommy McMullin and Vance Wallrer, respective coaches, are working with a goodly lot of new matai ial. Fans of Bingham Canyon . are the most ardent in the sport of basketball iu the entire state. Always backing their own teams to the limit to each and every contest It is expected that there will be a feeord breaking. crowd on hand Id watch the ftr4 'pam'e of the season Friday etiiinf. , The Magna boys are determined to wine out the Ktlng of the defeats handed to them by the past Bingham team. On only one previous occa. ston did the Cyprus boys defeat the Blue and White team. Thlj game was final of league competition two years ago. The Magna boys won the game by the margin of one point. Just who the starting lineup for the game will be is at this time proble-matical Both coachna having an. nouncd that they are not sure of the men who will be In the Uno-up- s at the bark of the first gun. it la a foregons conclusion that both coaches are go-ing, to put their beet availaW roefl In-to the gam In an effort to win the first contest Bitighim Is the favorite at tills Junctui-e- . Our Uew Administration V The new town board elected ladt Nowmber took over the reins of the "city tov iuuic-n-t on Tuesday, and we now have an entirely new set of city ofiieers usj follows: " i C. L. Counirymau, City Clerk. Arthur J. Soren.en, Chief of Police. V. W. Garrett, Police. J-- . Iklaney, Police. Oroue Timothy, Police. W attr Master, J. F. Hales. Asst. Water Master, Joe Grondqulat. Mr. Sorenstn the new chief, has formerly been in th employ of the Utah Copper company as a locomotive engineer. Mr. Countryman was for. jnurly Postmaster here and recently has boen in the contracting business. Joe Delaney, formerly an engineer for Utah Apex Mining Company. Mr. Timothy has been connected with CL ttoaus Coal Co. Mr. Hales wtH have charge of the work on the streets as Trull as the water department. All of the appointees are Compara. tlvely young men. The voters who eledted them hare shown a great deal of confidence In these men and all right thinking ci-tizen earnestly hope that tbelr ad. ministration of the affairs of our city will be both prudent and wise. That they Will - tane a broad view of the many problems which will constantly com before them for their consider-ation and decision. The needs of the people of Bingham Canyon are to a great extent peculiarly thfllr own. Owing to the reographlcal situation alone, many '; problems not usually arising in city government will come before them. The streets and thor. ugh fares through the town are a big problem and one requiring bo small amount of engineering to properly aotve. Jv tW-- t connection we might aWk bow br?t may we eliminate traf-fl-congestion on our mam street? Can a few parking places be provided 0 that It will not be necessary to park all cars in .the street? Cannot a more adequate uitreet lighting-- system be Installed to add to tbe safety and convenience of our people? What may b done to eliminate hazards of now slides, fires and floods? The fir In-surance rate on property here ia al-ni- o t prohibitive. Some of these questions are old ones and have per-haps been rejected as either Imprac-ticable or Impossible, yet we Bay some rrf them If not all may to a great ex. tent be solved. Perhaps the largeet problem we ha-7- to solve Is the proper policing of the town. Owing to the fact that a half dozen different laaguajg are spoken hnra the chances for mtaun-derataadln- g are fnerewed. aad also many residents here have been rear, ed under different modes and customs thaa our own. We are not relating these things with disparagement by any means but let us take first our actual situation Into consideration and then go forward to the ultimate goal of our needs and desires. To carry out the alms of the new ad-ministration tre foregoing men have hn appointed by tV trustees to the various positions to assist them in the task of administering the city's neds. The trustees have met several tlmef and thoroughly discussed these ap-pointments and withheld the names of these officers until they assumed their duties. They are all new men a.xi selected In ' most part from a reat number of applicants after painstaking consideration. We there-fore have a right to expect good ad-ministration of the town's business aad proper enforcement of the law. We as citizens must not lose sight of the fact that we all owe them our cooperation and support in carrying out the work before them. We confi-dently 'expect the new town board to conduct, our affairs In a highly Intel-ligent manner, without prejudice or 'effort to please any particular faction if there be such, but to act at all tinie4 fpr the beat Interest of the peo. p as a whole. HE'S HERE TO STAY. Shallow, so-cal- economists, said a few years ago: "The small, Indivi-dual merchant Is doomed. He cannot compete t'galnst the great department itore." A lltle later some of the same men said: "Tho small. Indirldual merchant will sooa. h driren out of huamess. He cannot compete agahwt the chain store, and the maU order houeei'- -" And aomo of the samej crowd d'Clared: "He will soon ba a thing of the past, for he does not glre the sufficient consideration to the manufacturer's new goods, and does not deroto enough individual sales ef-fort to the distribution of certain commodltiej. Tho bouae-to-hous- e salesman, who really devotes hfc ef-forts to sclli. g the manufacturer's goods, will cut out too big a slice of his profits. " But look up and down th streets of our city or any mnaJl city like It Does it look ns though the Individual, merchant Is golr5 out of wdsteaee? Doesn't hw eee-- to meet, and pretty successfully too. the competition" of big city Btorej, mail ordwr houses, ('alii stores, ad house.to-bous- e pedd-lers? If you look at facts clearly, vour answer must U, "yes." For all of these vlf appoint?d experts have overlooked one, extremely important factor. Th- - Individual merchant who is alive and on his toes, gives to his customers a degree of iwrsonul service that no otVr merchandising system affords. He is here to stay beouuse he serves the needs of bit customers, because he promotes the best interests of ills community, and because people can securp through him weU known, qual-ity merchandise, backed by his guar, ante", at lower price than they pay through any other known agency. ' People continue to support the lo-cal merchant, not alone because of loyalty to the community, but because tlxy know they are serving them-selves best by so doing. COURT NOTES. Judge Kenaer, after a wfwk'rww lion,, was on the bench- - again .Wad , Ti.day and disposed of the following cases: State vs. Re-et- Dix)ric!. Charge vagrancy. Recto was adjudged guilty and given 30 days to rest Rieeto In the county JalL It cost Jo Aeosto $30 for being tn. toxlcated. bt aj Joe didn't have $30, it will cost the County 30 days board and lodging for Aeouto. Route Allen was oh the rocka when be was haed before the cotrrt at the end of a too hilarious celebration. Roxle will be breaking roci for 30 days in lieu of $50. ; ' BlU Sandoa hd too much sand to enjoy the bolidaya peaceahly. he Pld $25 for disturbing the peace by fight. Ing. (Jeo. Lueaa paid the same amount for a similar offense. Teachers of the local scboot re turned Monday from their ractUiooo in various partj of tbe state, and were ready to resume their duties at lira opening of school Tuesday moramg. Mrs. David Lron and family return-ed Tuesday erentay from Salt Lake where thej visited with relatives for a week. Dr. and Mrs. Smeraaff wre S'J: Lake vtshore Toeeday. . MINERS HURT IN BLAST. Tony Hamblin, 35. waa probably fatally injured, and Wtlliam Carter ,' suffered painful, but not necessarily fatal, injuries by a'blast la the wet drift of the Ohio copper mine at 6:30 Monday evening. Hamblln suffered a compound Craa-tur- e of both Ugs and his right arm and also lost his right eye. Physician say he hna only a slight chance for recovery. ' Particles of rock and ore were blown into Carter'j face aad one piece was embedded in bis cheat. Tha-particle-were removed and it is said that Carter will recover. Hamblin is an unmarried man and his parents reside at American Fork. Carter has a wife and one child. The two men afe of the opinion that they encountered dynamite which had been left In the. mine, but exper. ienced miners express th opialoo -- that they drilled iAo a missed hole. Mr. HamWetou died at midnight January 2, at thr Bingham hospital. f The Hop Off 10 FOG ARTY FUNERAL HELD TUESDAY. Funeral services for John Fogarty, general roadma.ster of he Bingham & Garfield Railway for the past seven, teen years, who died at Magna, Dec. 30th, 1927, were held in Salt Lake Ci-ty Tuesday. Mr. Fogarty was former-ly employed as roadmaater by the Denver & Rio Grande railroad for a period of ten years. Surviving him are hU widow, two sons, two daugh-ters, residing In Los Angeles, Cal., and one daughter residing in Great Falls, Montana The writes were hvrery ateoded , Ivft.- - John Myers left Tuesday for Salina. Kansas, where he will resume his Btu. dii at St. John's Military Academy, after spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B- - Myers. Mr. Myers accompanim! ntm to Salt L4te. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Barnard aad family speat New Year's day wtth Mr, Barnard's parents La Salt Lake. Mrs. Gae Hoopa left Thursday tar Los Aageles where she will Join aer hffihaod and make her homo. |