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Show J Intermountain News I 4 Briefly Told by Busy Readers I TO J1ON0K PIONKKK j ) PLAN FIVE HOI K DAY f ) PEACH CROP IS SHOUT ) ! FEED I.AMHS EARLY ) TO lil 1U) 15KEAKS KOAD ( i ; OGDEN, UT. It Is announced that permission, has been granted for the erection of a monument lu honor of Jedediah Strong Smith, Utah explorer and trapper. The monument will be placed at Ijike street and Washington avenue. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Plans for a ten-hour working day, accomodating accomo-dating two shifts for five hours each, are being discussed among local potato dealers with the view of relieving a possible un .mploy-uient .mploy-uient situation tills fall and winter. BRIG11AM CITY, IJT.-The Utah peach crop will run about 500 cars this year, which is far short of a normal yield. DRAGON, IT. The Uintah Railroad company, by action of the public utilities commission "f Utah has been given permission lo discontinue dis-continue its agency station here. BUR LEY, IDA. Lambs will go into the feed lots here approximately approximate-ly three months sooner than usual as an experiment in conditioning fat lambs for the market to be carried car-ried out by a company with years of experience in fattening livestock. live-stock. CEDAR CITY, LTT. Plans are being considered to liogin ennvt ruction ruc-tion of a new highway to Cedar Breaks, eliminating much of the f steep climbs and sharp curves of the present road. SILVER LAKE, UT. The summer sum-mer postofl'ice here will bo closed early in September by order of the post office department in Washington. Washing-ton. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. With pea harvesting in most sections ncaring completion, pea picking operations In plants of the upper valley will begin during the fore-part of Scpt-tember, Scpt-tember, according to reports from seed companies in Idaho Falls, Rig- ' by and Ririe. MAGNA, UT. The Utah Copper company does not plan any curtailment cur-tailment of employment or production, produc-tion, declared Daniel C. Jackling, president of the company, in a recent re-cent interview. BURLEY, IDA. The need for Inspection of all apiaries, in order that interstate shipments of honey can be made without law violation, is stressed by honey and bee inspectors in-spectors of Cassia and Minidoka counties. PROVO, UT. The tomatoes in this section are coming in in fine shape. Growers are profiting by the new methed of grading, as they are picking their tomatoes at the proper prop-er time, and being paid on grade basis, and are receiving more money mon-ey than in past seasons. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Reduced prices on discard molasses and dried beet pulp, used as a stock feed have been announced by the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company. Because of the lack of alfalfa hay, it is expected expect-ed that quantities of molasses will be used for cattle by the farmers and feeders. PRICE, UT. Remodeling of the main floor of the city hall to provide pro-vide new office quarters for the Price chamber of commerce was started recently. Half of the floor ' space will be utilized by the chamber, cham-ber, and will be so arranged as to have display quarters, secretary's office and committee rooms. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. With the exception of Los Angeles, Salt Lake has had the smallest increase in the retail cost of food since 1913 of 51 major cities of the United States included in a report for June issued by the local office of the department de-partment of commerce. PROVO, UT. The spillway channel, chan-nel, which carries water from the Strawberry reservoir into I lie tunnel tun-nel at the East Portal and thence into the high line of the Slawberry "Water User's association, has been deepened. It is expected tiie channel chan-nel will be deep enough to drain sufficient water to complete irrigation irriga-tion contracts of the company this year. BOISE, IDA. The Mountain States Seed Growers, Inc., was organized or-ganized here recently to deal in small seeds such as alfalfa and clover in southwest Idaho. Members Mem-bers of the farm board's cooperative cooperat-ive wheat organization were named officers of the seed concern. LAS VEGAS, NEW Surveys have been completed on the trio of nnconstructed portions of the Gold-field-Beatty highway, and it is expected ex-pected contracts for construction of all three will be advertised early in September. The first 14 miles south of Goldfield is still in its original state, and this contract is expected to be the first of the three to be awarded. LOGAN, L'T. The life savins equipment purchased by the county commission some time ago was delivered de-livered to the sheriff's office re-cently. re-cently. The equipment includes a non-sinkalile, all-metal boat, several hundred feet of rope, swivels, grappling grap-pling hooks, and a wovenwire screen to string across the water to catch floating objects. , ELY, NEV. A deficit of nearly twenty thousand dollars Is announced announ-ced by Nevada Consolidated cop- per company in its operution for ' the fiscal year. |