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Show Intermountain News I, Briefly Told by Busy Reader TO BUILD DREDGE ! PLAN NEW RESERVOIR , GOLD MIXING ACTIVITI ' TAX REDUCTION DENIED J PROVO, UT. The seventh annual an-nual premium list of the Utah county fair, an attractive 76 page booklet, "featuring the spirit of 1S49 and the progres of 1931," has come from the press. WARREN, IDA. The California Dredging company is building a big dredge on the meadows just below here. This activity Is causing caus-ing Warren to boom again, not like the old gold rush days, but In a surer and more safe way. 'CALDWELL, IDA. Though unimproved, un-improved, the I. O. N. highway, a route shortening the distance from this section to California several hundred miles, Is rapidly coming Into In-to use. CHEYENNE, WTO. A survey of available water is being made here and a conservation program Is being be-ing planned in an effort to make It go as far as possible. A similar plan Is already in use on the Laramie Lar-amie river. MANTI, UT. Cheaper prices and plenty of available labor has led to considerable building In Man-ti Man-ti recently. CHALLIS, IDA. One of the largest mining deals In Idaho waa closed when the George Z. Black-mon Black-mon group of claims In Washington Washing-ton basin, in the East Fork mining district, was sold to a Chicago concern. con-cern. LOGAN, UT. The contract has "been let to build an addition to the city light sub-station to house the new diesel unit, recently purchased by the city of Logan. SUGAR CITY, IDA. Organization Organiza-tion of the Grand Teton Reservoir company, whose objective is irrigation irriga-tion development in the upper Snake river valley country, has been announced. an-nounced. The concern contemplates the building of a 100,000 feet storage stor-age reservoir on the Teton river. OGDEN, UT. Ogdcn chamber of commerce officials have received word from Mexico City that a concert con-cert will probably be presented in Ogden by the Mexican presidential band about August 1G. The band Is making a good will tour of the United States. LEWISTON, IDA. With baser metals in the dumps on the world markets the attention of the mining world is turning towards gold and many observers anticipate a revival reviv-al of the gold mining industry la Idaho. Examination of the gold-bearing gold-bearing quartz claims of the Elk City area have been underway for somstime. OGDEN, UT. A plea of the American Packing & Provision company of Ogden fox a reduction In freight rates on hogs in hingle-deck hingle-deck carloads shipped by the company com-pany from points on the Union Pacific Pa-cific railroad In Nebraska, Colorado Colora-do and Wyoming to South Omaha, Nebr., has been granted by the inter in-ter state commerce commission. MANTI, UT. Considerable work has been done on the Community camp grounds in Mantl canyon to add to the convenience and pleasure of campers. SALT LAKE CITT, UT. Business Busi-ness conditions are viewed with optimism op-timism by the Los Angeles chamber of commerce, it is shown in a report re-port of a recent survey. VERNAL, UT. The U. S. government gov-ernment with the help of the state district fish and game associations plan to restock the streams and lakes in the Uintah range. RUPERT, IDA. Pronounced by the state highway officiate as the best small concrete bridge in Idaho, the new bridge crossing the canal near the Sawyer place, n mile cast of Rupert on the now highway has been thrown open to travel. SPANISH FORK, UT. The connecting con-necting line and substation for Interchange In-terchange of electric energy between be-tween th4 Strawberry Water Users' association and the Utah Power and Light company has been completed. PROVO, UT. More than 10O students are in attendance at the Alpine term of the Brigham Young University summer school at Aspen Grove. The school is located at an elevation of G800 feet, below a perpetual per-petual glacier and a wonderful system sys-tem of cataracts offers a broad curriculum. ROCK SPRINGS, WYO. Henry Robinson, reputed champion predatory preda-tory game hunter of Wyoming, again led the state In the killing of 805 coyote;) last year, according to a report Issued. MOSCOW, IDA. Latah county commissioners recently denied the 30 per cent reduction in assesed valuation val-uation of farm lands asked by farmers and the Latah County Tax league. MORAN, WYO. Three thousand acres of valuable timber was burned burn-ed before fire fighters placed a blaze In northern Teton national park under control. The fire was the most disastrous one in this Beo-tion Beo-tion for years. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Crops of southeastern Idaho where water la available are doing well, according to the report of the United Ntates department of agriculture bureau at Boise. |