Tax Laws of Utah Deemed Inadequate by Harvard Economist
Dr. Charles J. Bullock of Harvard told Salt Lake's Progressive Business club that Utah tax laws are unfair and unenforceable, urging voters to approve a constitutional amendment creating a tax commission with income tax powers. He compared Utah’s system to Massachusetts before 1916 and urged adoption to curb evasion and broaden equity.
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Utah
Charles J. Bullock
Harvard University
Progressive Business Club
Salt Lake
Union
Commonwealths
Bullock
Dr. Bullock
Los Angeles
Massachusetts
Bay State
Wil H. Folland
David Affleck
Thomas Beal
University of Utah
United States
Europe
Taxes in Wasatch and Uintah Reach New Highs
State board tabulations show Wasatch and Uintah counties posting record overall levies outside incorporated areas. Both counties report general and road levies rising sharply, with Uintah's totals climbing from 6.2 to 10.3 mills since 1916 and Wasatch reaching new peak levels as 1922 figures push past prior highs.
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State Board of Equalization
Uintah
Wasatch
Creamery Directors Restore Quarterly Dividends at 6 Percent
Mutual Creamery directors announce resumption of quarterly dividends at 6 percent annual rate after recovery in earnings and financial condition. Final quarterly dividend of 15 cents per share will be payable September 7 to stockholders. Last dividend prior to this reform was 2.5 percent on December 7, 1920. Company had regularly paid dividends since organization until late 1920. No further report details released.
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Mutual Creamery Company
Mutual Creamery
Utah Tops Nation in Alfalfa Seed Production
A United States Department of Agriculture report on August 19 shows a larger alfalfa seed crop across the southwest due to more acreage, with Utah leading in seed production per acre. Harvests in Arizona and New Mexico proceed well under favorable weather while hot dry days affect pods in New Mexico.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Utah
New Mexico
Texas
Arzona
Argentina
New York
Hour Changed For Band Concert
The Duchesne City Band concerts move to 7 to 9 P M on Saturdays as streets now have electric lighting. The program for tomorrow includes Palatinate March Cavalier Fox Trot Meet Me Next Sunday Selection Back Among the Clover and the Bees Waltz Maytime March American Belle Overture Enchanted Knight March Gardes Du Corps Waltz Take Me Back to The Garden of Love Overture Gems from the Operas Philo Senate Cornet Solo Flirtation Polka and The Crisis.
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Duchesne City Band
Calvalier Fox
Garden of Love
Pal Wight Foore
Philo Senate Cornet
Gas Pest Control Trials Begin In Imperial Valley
The United States Biological Survey and the Chemical Warfare Service plan large scale trials in Imperial Valley California to curb migratory blackbirds that damage crops. Gas clouds may be used at night to kill roosting birds and reduce losses for several years. Experiments also explore chlorine phosgene and carbon bisulphide for rodents like rats prairie dogs ground squirrels and woodchucks in burrows.
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United States Biological Survey
Chemical Warfare Service
Imperial Valley
California
Porto Rico
Value of Farm Products in Utah Shows Increase
USDA estimates July 15 1922 Utah farm product values rise over 1921. Beef cattle veal lambs wool butter eggs chickens and grain prices higher or lower varies with each class as listed. Key gains include lambs wool and butter while corn oats and rye show mixed changes.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Utah
Agricultural price changes and beet crop forecast report
Prices for crops and fodder are listed with month to month changes. Peaches drop to $2 per bushel from $2.40, dry beans rise to $4 from $3.30, timothy hay $8 per ton from $9, clover hay $7 from $9, alfalfa unchanged, prairie hay $6 from $6. Sugar beet condition August 1 at 85 percent of normal, July 1 6.2 percent, August 1 9.9 percent in 1921. Projected sugar beet crop 650,100 short tons, about 12.8 percent of tonnage sugar produced.
Views of Moffat Tunnel Highlight 72 Mile Grade Save
A Rocky Mountain News page featured views of the Moffat tunnel site with a map showing the track from Tolland to Fraser and the tunnel line saving 72 miles of 4 percent grade. It included photos of eastern and western portals and Tunnel Commission members on their first inspection trip.
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Rocky Mountain News
Moffat Tunnel
Tolland
Fraser
Meeker Information Bureau Guides Uintah Basin Tourism
The Meeker Good Roads Association runs an information bureau east of Rifle Colorado guiding tourists to prefer the Uintah basin route over Grand Junction and Price. Officials tout shorter scenic travel, ample gas along Rangely, and comfort with truthful advertising to attract travelers and support basin towns.
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Price
Grand Junction
Uintah Basin
Umotah Basin
Meeker
Rangely
Rifle
Colorado
Great
United States
West
Vernal
Fort Duchesne
Roosevelt
Myton
Duches
Douglas Creek
Prices
Baain
Basin
Meeker Good Roads Association
Deal
Et Us Haven
Euch
Accident death toll reaches seventy thousand in 1920 report
The National Safety Council cites 70 000 accidental deaths in 1920 with a death every six minutes, disclosed at the Safety Congress in Detroit.
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America
National Safety Council
Detroit
Salt Lake Businessmen Tour Uintah Basin Visit
Sixty Salt Lake City businessmen from the Salt Lake commercial club will visit the Uintah Basin next week to meet locals and explore prospects. Stops include Heber Duchesne Myton Roosevelt Vernal and Price with Mayor Neslen A A Hinkley Howard Means and rail representatives aboard. They reach Duchesne Tuesday noon for two hours then lunch at the Duchesne hotel before continuing to Roosevelt via the Blue Bench and Arcadia.
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Uintah Basin
Salt Lake
R. G
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Duchesne
Duchesne Hotel
Roosevelt
Blue Bench
Arcadia
Schools Should Apply For Federal Aid
E J Norton assistant state superintendent of public instruction urges Utah superintendents to apply for apportionments of federal aid from the Smith Hughes act. The 1922 23 Utah appropriation is about 165000 dollars with aid rising to 25661 58 by 1926 and the maximum held until census based reallocation in 1930.
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Utah
E. J. Norton
League seeks enforcement platform in major parties
Members of a special committee of the Social Welfare league met in Salt Lake and adopted a resolution to be included in Republican and Democratic platforms. The league will oppose candidates who do not favor strict and uniform law enforcement.
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Social Welfare League
Salt Lake
League
State to Obtain Tractors From War Surplus
Four ten ton caterpillar tractors are requisitioned by the state road commission from the war surplus at American Lake Washington for road maintenance and construction. The machines will be distributed to counties that apply and can use them. They remain state property with rental paid by the county.
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State Road Commission
American Lake
Wash
Water Rights Applications Move in Uintah County
J Morgan Calvert of Myton seeks one hundredth of a second foot from an unnamed spring for stock watering. T Robert Marshall of Roosevelt requests half a second foot from Deseret spring in Uintah county for stock watering. Jacob Rasmussen of Lapoint asks for one second foot from Deep Creek in Uintah county to irrigate 61.42 acres.
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J. Morgan Calvert
Myton
T Robert Marshall
Roosevelt
Deseret Spring
Uintah County
Jacob Rasmussen
Lapoint
Deep Creek
Uintah
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Wasatcheanell
Uintah Oo
Heber Teeresalead
Midway Sancad
Charleston Evad
Wallsburg
Soldier Suit
Uintah Empire
Burbank
Meeker Information Bureau
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