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Show UTAH AND UTAHNS O. (). Morganson, state trapper, during dur-ing twenty days in .luly captured fiva coyotes, four hob cats and one bear. At a meeting of the comity coiiimis-Kloners coiiimis-Kloners held this week, September 2 was set us a time for the hearing of the petition of the organizers of the i. Ilenjainin drainage district. The Utah Consolidated Mining com-jinny com-jinny has leased the mill belonging lo the Utah Metal 4: Tunnel company at lJinghnm for experimental purposes. The lease is for Die period of Hires jnont hs. .Nearing complete compilation, th official history and roster of the ."Wd Infantry will be published early in beptemlier. it is stated by T. Den Mel-drum, Mel-drum, treasurer of the HOlid Infantry association at Ogdon At a meeting of the returned soldiers sol-diers and sailors held in Turk City it l was decided by Hie fifty present to organize u branch of the American legion and application litis been made lor a charter. The contract to do over $120,000 worth of construction on the road in Logan canyon bits been let and work will commence immediately to make the road one of the best mountain highways in the west. Wm. M Hoylance, large fruit raiser -iid shipper in Utah county, predicts the fruit outlook in Utah county, notwithstanding not-withstanding the hot weather and shortage of water, would be good. The market, lie believes, will be better than for some time rast. That Weber county will probably take the lead of the counties of the state in the war for the extermination of the noxious weeds, is the assertion o C. IS. Pettigrew, county crop pest inspector. It is reported that everywhere every-where in the county the campaign is lieing waged against "white top." Many large cattle owners throughout, through-out, district No. 4 of the forest service will place their herds of cattle and sheep on the market this fall, rather than take advantage of the provision, made by the federal government that they may ship their stock to winter grazing areas at full rates and return them free of charge. The city council of Hyrura has received re-ceived bids on concrete curb and guttering gut-tering and cement sidewalks, the work on which will be completed this fall. Farmers of Sevier and Gunnison valleys, val-leys, about 125 in number, are in favor fa-vor of owning and operating the Piute reservoir project, which the state -wishes to sell. A committee has been appointed to meet with the state land hoard to arrange details of the purchase pur-chase and repot them at a meeting to be held next month. President "Wilson was invited to the conference of governors, twenty-two having signified their intention of being be-ing present in Salt Lake, August 18 lo August 21. He was also invited to accompany the governors on their trip to Yellowstone national park. The invitation in-vitation was sent by Governor Bamberger Bam-berger by wire at the suggestion of former governors of the state who with Governor Bamberger are arranging a program. Gold medals were awarded at Price to seventy-five employes of the United States Fuel company who were in the military service during the war. The men were from Black Hawk, Heiner, Hiawatha and Mohrland, and in the employ of the fuel company. M. H. Greene, manager of the Salt Lake office of the United States grain corporation, who has just returned from a trip through southern Utah, reports that the drouth worked havoc In many of the districts. The jmblic utilities commission of Utah last week, after a conference with prominent officials of the Mountain Moun-tain States Telephone & Telegraph company, decided to order a physical valuation of all the property of the company in the state. To Utah may come the distinction of having the first war orphan. He is Millan F. Gledhill, the infant son of Herbert V. Gledhill, who was killed in France, June 14, 1918. The infant hoy's mother died at Sigurd, Utah, November No-vember H, 1017. During the past two months there has not been a case of contagious dis- wise reported, according to Health Of ficer Peters, of Murray, who urges citizens to maintain cleanliness about their premises. Utah Indian war veterans will hold their 1919 encampment in Springville, August 12 to 15, under auspices of the departments of Utah and Wasatch counties. Engineers have started surveying the proposed canal from Bear river to be used In irrigating land in Box Elder and Weber counties. The Tremonton Mill & Elevator company is the name of a corporation Just organized at Tremonton to install a new flour mill. Midwest Dye and Chemical company Is obtaining title to lanO ueoessary for installation of a plant at Tooele. |