Show ludlw OWNS K I 1 news notes CIEs j I 1 from A H parti of f I 1 I 1 UTAH lol cedar city the escalante Ea calante esert desert la Is a veritable meadow this year the recent rains having caused the vegetation to grow rapidly not for twenty years yeara has the desert been so prolific in vegetation 7 the sheep men are jubilant as this desert Is their regular winter range section price price is to be host to some coal operators august 26 to 28 inclusive the occasion being the anual annual n convention of the rocky mountain coal mining institution the event was awarded to price last year at the time of the convention at denver secretary john R sharp was named chairman ol of a committee on arrangements for their reception and entertainment while the visitors are here herb park city consolidation of 0 the park city mining smelting smelling Sm elting com banys holdings with those of ct the park utah mining company for or operation by the park utah consolidated mines company has been completed thus thua covering a large part of the arrangements range ments leading up to a merging of these mines with the ontario and the daly estates which will put under one management acres lying contiguously in the heart of the park city district extending from brighton in big cottonwood canyon to keetley in heber valley distance of nine miles cedar city bids are being called tor for the proposed concrete road through cedar main street it la Is expected that the work will begin early in august and at the same time the business firms on main street will lay concrete from the curb to the road which wll Will run in the center logan florence jacobsen formerly of this city won second prize for the most beautiful hair in a recent contest conducted in san francisco according to word which reached here recently miss jacobsons tresses 1 won second place among the girls who entered the contest she was awarded a prize of 50 besides a number of articles of merchandise salt lake city sixteen manly chests bulged with honest and quivering pride at fort douglas as a group of lovely young girls a maid for a man with winning smiles and little words ot of congratulation pinned medals upon them it was a gala event and the fellow students of t the he I 1 luy ua Y sixteen of the citizens military training cump envied them the pinning as much as the actual medals which were awarded for or the highest ual proficiency salt lake city railroads of 0 the western mountain pacific groups have filed with the public utilities commission of utah a petition for intrastate increases in freight rates corresponding re gp with such interstate rate increases as may be permitted by the interstate commerce commission in the proceedings brought before that om mission under a petition dated at chicago april 23 last included among the petitioners petition ers are the following railways serving utah territory denver rio grande western los angeles salt lake oregon short line southern pacific union pacific and western pacific ogden two men blew up the sate safe in the alhambra theatre alter after striking the janitor over the head with the butt ot of a revolver and locking him in a dressing room and escaped aih nith approximately 1000 the theatre receipts of july ath and ath salt lake city two counties in reporting the assessment of property in their counties for taxation this years show increases over that of the year preceding they are summit county whose valuation for 1925 is given at as compared with in 1924 and sevier which reports the valuation this year at compared with in 1924 1 vernal one life lost and the narrow escape of eight others is the toll exacted by a heavy flood caused by a cloudburst which swept down five mile wash at a point two miles north of watson uintah county an automobile occupied by nit mr andars and Mra Mrs jerome goodrich mrs airs C A bobzein owen ofallon and five children was caught by the swift torrent which nearly submerged the car as it rolled down the wash salt lake city total of expenditures of the state roads ot of utah tor for maintenance and betterment purposes during the past seven months which include of course the spring months when maintenance work must be active has been this its the showing made by a compilation just completed by C P F dean chief ot of the state fate road comm commission |