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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers PLAN AN AIRPORT NEW CITY LOOMS RELIEF CANNING WORK TRAVEL RECORD MADE $5,000 PAYROLL PER DAY GOODING, IDA. A new organization organi-zation of cleaners mid dyers of the south central Idaho district has been formed. The organization takes In several counties and has adopted a code, which received approval from federal N It A authorities. LAS VEGAS, NEV. New records have beeu set for tourist travel into the southern Utah parks. 20(18 visitors visit-ors entered Zion national park during dur-ing October this year. An Increase of 113 per cent over visitors during the same month in 1932. AMERICAN FORK, UT Efforts are being made to secure a federal loan for the Bank of American Fork so that institution may reopen. OGDEN, UT The payroll for men on C. W. A. projects has reached reach-ed approximately $5,000 per day with the employment of nearly 1400 men, nearly all from relief rolls. 1'ROVO, UT. An application to secure money from the president's emergency relief fund for erecting an airport in this city may be made soon. In all probability an appropriation approp-riation of $20,000 will be asked. TOOELE, UT. Under the civil works plan of the federal government, govern-ment, many Tooele City men have been placed at work on the sidewalks and streets and on the roads in Middle and Settlement canyons. can-yons. AMERICAN FALLS, IDA. The community relief canning kitchen located here is said to be the only enterprise of its kind in operation In Idaho. A total of $409.38 worth of vegetables, meats, fruits jams, and jellies have been canned. Canning Can-ning of any kind is done -for individuals indi-viduals on a toll basisr None of the preserved goods is sold, but will be used in relief work. PANGUITCII, UT. 132 men were recently put to work in Garfield county under the C. W. A. movement. move-ment. Forty-four went to work in Panguitch cleaning streets, repairing repair-ing buildings, etc. A road project is also being planned for the near future. OGDEX, UT. North Ogden may become the second incorporated town in Weber county. Iluntsville now bears the distinction of being the only one, Ogden being an incorporated incor-porated second class city. It has been decided that incorporation is the only means of acquiring a plentiful plent-iful supply of culinary water. If the town does incorporate, a reservoir will probably be constructed and the water distributed in- the most thickly thick-ly populated areas of North Ogden. LOGAN, UT. A total of 741 men on the relief rolls of Cache county are at work under the civil works administration since the hiring of 430 additional men for employment on county projects. OGDEN, UT. Bids will be opened open-ed December 13 in the office of the construction engineer for the U. S. reclamation service, for the construction con-struction of the Hyrum dam project In Cache county. The project is expected ex-pected to total around one million dollars. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah, as of late November, the latest date for which comparative figures are available from other states, had C5.2 per cent of the $1.194.70S granted grant-ed to it from the $400,000,000 national na-tional recovery highway fund under contract, or allotted for force account work on secondary highways. On that date it had another 7.3 per cent being advertised, all of which will be under contract on or before December De-cember 10. This state will have 05 per cent of the total grant of almost $4,000,000 of the fund under contract con-tract by January 1, nest. UOCK SPRINGS, WYO. A new two-mile intake canal for the reservoir reser-voir of tho Eden valley project. 40 miles north of Rock Springs, is under un-der construction, being built by the Wyo Land and Water company, owners of the Carey act project. The new intake will he an auxiliary to the big intake ditch which supplies sup-plies water from tho liig Sandy river. It will be l(i feet wide at the bottom. It is estimated to be of sufficient size to carry nil tho Hood waters of this stream into the reservoir. reser-voir. A diversion dam also is being be-ing constructed. Work on tho project pro-ject is being carried on by ranchers who have settled on the project, tho water company allowing credit upon up-on payments for their land in exchange ex-change for the work BOISE, IDA. Sixteen Idaho banks of the First Security corporation corpo-ration system will be consolidated Into a branch banking system to be known ns the First Security Bank of Idaho. OGDEN, UT. Delivery of beets from growers to the pl,ms ot tll0 Amalgamated Sugar company in Utah, Idaho and Montana has beeu completed, the office of 11. A. Ben-ning, Ben-ning, general manager f the company, com-pany, announces. Slicing of (lu, last heels received at tho factories is now under way. It H Indicated the enlin' clop of beets delivered to tho Amalgamated coiii:any this sen-son sen-son will bo made Into sugar by Jan. 10. Company statistics show 750,-000 750,-000 tons of beets were harvested |