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Show ji News Notes J! From All Parts of UTAH Salt Lake, Provo City has applied to the state engineer for one second foot of water from Big Pipe Springs, Heiselt House Spring and Joint Springs to supplement its municipal supply, according to reports received. In the spring and fall its Is proposed to use the water for Irrigation purposes. pur-poses. Salt Lake, Authority to complete Its water system and to supply water for manufacturing, irrigation and domestic uses to Steel City, Ironton and the immediate neighborhood was granted the Steel City Investment company by the public utilities commission. com-mission. Provo; Dr. Christen Jensen, professor pro-fessor of history and political science at the Brigham Young university "has been appointed acting dean of the college of applied arts, during the temporary absence of Dean M. C. Merrill, who will leave the first part of February on a tour of inspection of forest offices in the west, prior to going to AVashington, D. C, to accept ac-cept the position of director of all forest service publications. Provo, The fact-finding commis. sion of the reclamation service, now in session in Salt Lake, will be ex. tended an invitation to visit Provo in order to familiarize itself more thoroughly with the Utah lake reclamation recla-mation project. Ogden, The J. S. Lewis Jewelry company is celebrating its fifty-fourth anniversary in business by a unique display in the company's window. Surrounding a photograph of J. S. Lewis, Sr., the founder of the company, com-pany, are pictures of early scenes in Ogden depicting the days when Ogden and Salt Lake communicated by means of a stage. Logan, Officers of the Cache County Poultry and Pet Stock association as-sociation have announced the date for the annual poultry show as January Jan-uary 29, 31 andFebruary 1 and 2. Price, On application of the Columbia Col-umbia Steel company a postoffice has been authorized at Columbia and will be installed as soon as a postmaster can be appointed. Duchesne, David Robinson of Knight's ranch, Duchesne, Utah, has been named by Representative Colton as second alternate appointee to West Point Military academy. Mt. Pleasant, The new boy's dormitory dor-mitory at Wasatch academy, known as the Russell Sage memorial, was completed this week and is now ready for occupancy. Salt Lake, Numerous products which might be made at the Utah prison for use in state institutions here and elsewhere in the west were enumerated by R. S. Humphries, con. suiting accountant of the national committee on prisons and prison labor, in a report submitted to Gov-ernon Gov-ernon Charles R. Mabey as a member of the state board of correction. The recommendations were made at the request of the Utah Manufacturer's association, which has opposed the making of proucts for the open market. The report will be considered con-sidered at a meeting ot the corrections correc-tions board. Cedar City, The Cedar-Kanarni federal aid project in Iron county, on the Zion National park highway, will be constructed for $9179.32 a mile it the present estimates of quantities hold up and the low bid of J. T. Raleigh & Company of Salt Lake, submitted, is accepted. Eight bids In all were received and opened by the state road commission. They ranged rang-ed in prices from $12,855.79 down to that presented oy the Raleigh company. com-pany. While action was not taken by the state road commission, theie appears to bo no doubt that the Kalelgh bid will be accepted. Ogden, Ten empty freight cars were wrecked Wednesday on the Utah-Idaho Central railroad two miles south of Brigham City. The train which was traveling south, jumped the rails and landed in a ditch. No one was injured. Salt Lake, In a decision on a point new to this state, the supreme court of Utah upheld the judgment of the Third district court in holding the American Surety company liable to Salt Lake county for ?247,COG.01, together with Interest thereon at 8 per cent siuce September 10, 1922. The judgment has already increased in value to .$275,000. The company was surety on the official bond of lu. J. Groesbeck, county treasurer, in the amount of $200,000. Salt Lake Serious loss of business, curtailnK'nt of distributing area, diminution of commercial activity ' and a money loss to Salt Lake and other intermediate centers that would ho affected were some of the results ! forecast by Utah witnesses testify- I ing against the application of rail- ; roads for exceptions to the long and short haul clause of the transporta- j tion act. The hearings were held j before Examiner M. A. Tattison ol the Interstate commerce commission i at the federal building. |