Show THE UTAH BUDGET AROUND THE MINES the peach day festival at brigham city will be held september 14 salt lake will probably be the scene of the 1918 meeting of the national tax conference box elder county will have a county agent to look after the agricultural interests of the county leela hyland aged 9 was killed by a 4 train on the utah copper companas comp anys tracks at bingham her body was completely severed crop and range conditions in the southern and southeastern part of the state are in better condition than they he have been for a number of years three hundred men women and in working on the public swimming pool leveling and excavating for the children spent labor day at richfield pool james ir I r wallis of salt lake city has been employed by the state board of health to score the clean town contest being conducted in utah this year harvesting of brigham cites peach crop is now in full swing and every available man and boy in the city is engaged in the big task of gathering tile the crop the iron county fair this year will be held in cedar city an entirely new race course has been constructed the fair will be held september 12 22 13 and 14 an increase of in registration on the first day of school was recorded in the public schools of salt lake as compared with wih the first day of school a year ago charges that her husband made her plow pitch hay and do other manual labor on the farm contrary to her wishes and desires are made in a divorce suit filed by a salt lake woman mrs bertha mrs verna love and ernest love the three persons shot by tony de bocco in an ital ion on who ran amuck uk at salt lake are reported to be recovering from their injuries E eric ric carlson 38 years of age is at a salt lake hospital suffering ering from concussion of the brain received when the team which ho he was as driving while returning from a f uncial funeral in bingham ran away lorenzo hopla of mapleton took a shotgun from the house and placed the muzzle against his forehead and pulled the trigger both barrels were discharged and the top of the mans hea blown completely off upon being refused a drink fred dalton aged 30 years son of mrs mra dell dalton ol of salt lake shot himself in the washroom of a saloon at ogden death resulting before medical attention could be summoned to reduce the running time of trains an average of fifteen minutes between ogden and preston the ogden logan idaho interurban has constructed a cutoff cut off oft between hot springs and brik ham city at a cost of approximately to assist in the development of southern utah and in making little zion valley accessible to tourists the federal government has appropriated toward the construction of a highway through national monument of which little zion valley ily is a part holding certificates tor for discharge under the dependent family act six troopers of the utah cavalry in service on the mexican border reported at fort douglas last week to eu gene chief mustering officer for formal releases harry allen alien a young car inspector for the salt lake route lost in a thrilling race on a railway velocipede with the los angeles limited train between boulter and lynndyl lynndal Lynn dyl and is now reported in a dying condition at a salt lake hospital young peter jackson negro prize fighter and E J goodman have been released from custody at salt lake a coroners jury having decided that richard odonnell fell from a window to his death instead of being murdered by the two men millers of salt lake and utah are facing a shortage of wheat and sharp advances in the price of flour are predicted unless the market in chicago goes lower preventing the farmers and the elevators in the intermountain country from shipping to the east cast and to seaports on the west A watermelon bust was one of the features of the labor day celebration held at the hermitage in ogden canyon under the auspices of the ogden trades and labor assembly plans for opening tar far western headquarters at salt lake with senator smoot in charge are now under consideration by the republican national committee according to information received at salt lake A veritable man of the hills was taken into custody by deputies from the sheriffs office when the stranger was discovered by north ogden young men itt in the foothills near that place the man who is believed to be insane is about 50 years of age and a foreigner probably italian making a survey among the convicts at the state prison to determine conditions with relation to feeble mindedness has been begun by miss sadie meyers field worker temporarily in charge of the survey for the state buck sterling and J S henderson Hc hale been arrest edat at vernal chang charged cd with breaking into a house in lin wood and stealing a gun and two watches they confessed to tho the crime which was committed august 12 they claimed that they broke into the house to secure some food work has started on the sinking ot of the hoosier boy shaft of the majestic mines company in beaver county utah tho the midwest sulphur company which owns property at cody wyo announced its initial dividend of 1 cent a share the new mill of the big four exploration company at atkinson seven miles from park city is now handling to tons of tailings billings a day the copper corporation has declared a quarterly dividend of a share payable september 80 to stockholders of record september Pep 1 is 18 A bedding plane in which there la Is considerable galena ore has been opened up by tile the raise from the tunnel at the ground in american fork canyon in 1 utah itah recent reports from the gold hill mines development company in american can fork canyon say that in the no 2 tunnel the lime strata has been cut showing high grade copper ore power drills are soon to be placed in operation at the tar baby property in big cottonwood canyon the starting of the machines has been delayed in the shipment of parts the shannon copper company has hag reported its output for august as pounds of copper as compared with pounds in july and pounds for august a year ago the copper market report is that leading producers and sellers are asking za cents tor for november and december deliveries and 27 to 27 cents a pound for deliveries for the first quarter of 1917 prices of joplin mo zinc ores have been reduced 5 a ton to 45 to 1 65 a ton production is reported to be running about CO 60 per cent of 0 normal and heavier buying is gra gradually aldu reducing the surplus on hand an extension of the lease on tho the ohio copper mining company property for three months has been given the general exploration company by the receivers of the company sanctioned by judge ritchie of the third district court after being absent from tile the dividend column since 1913 1 the pitts burgh idaho property at gilmore idaho has gone on a quarterly dividend basis it is also declared that the physical condition of the mine is better than it ever was before according to officials of the cottonwood king mining company assays essays have recently been made from ore in the face of tile the tunnel which is now in over 1100 feet that thai show 3 per cent copper six ounces in silver and in gold lor for the entire face aa near as aa can be estimated with the work that is now being carried on by the garfield chemical manufacturing company the new sulphuric acid plant will be finished up between october I 1 and november 1 work has been somewhat delayed on account of material not arriving on time according to report received from froin american fork utah the south fork company has opened up some surface ore that runs exceptionally high in a north and south fissure running through the ground in the upper end of the property ore has been found just below tile the surface that carries as high as 50 a ton in values on account of not having sufficient mill ore with which to continue regular operations the wilbert mill forty miles from arco idaho on the oregon short line has been practically closed down for several weeks only running intermittently to relieve the bins of such ore as is taken out in development work the shipments out of the pitts burgh idaho were the greatest in august that they have been for years during that period forty seven cars were marketed containing approximately 2500 tons shipments in april were about tons during may tons during june 1200 tons and during july 1500 tons telegrams have been received in reno from president nenzel of the nenzel crown point which state that ounce silver ore has been struck in the west crosscut on the foot level and that the vein encountered countered is ie believed to be the contact vein from which a great deal is expected says the goldfield tribune the official report issued by tho the united states geological survey on nevada for the year 1915 shows a large increase over 1914 it shows that over more than the pi previous evious year was secured by the mine operators that the tonnage was greater and that the production in copper lead and zinc was much greater stockholders of the uvada copper company at bristol nov nev are receil ing their initial dividend of a cent a share which is the first time tho the property has been made to pay in years the property is a reorganization of the old day bristol consolidated ground it is understood that the property is now earning in the neighborhood of a year work at the consolidated nevada utan properties has gone on successfully during the past week In stalla tion of additional capacity in the flotation department of the mill has proved to be very beneficial higher extraction being obtained at the present time than at any other time since the mill began to operate fire which broke out in the plant of the deer creek mining company located on deer creek twelve miles south of forest idaho re suited resulted in the partial d destruction est ruction of the plant and a financial loss of about |