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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Tlio fourth annual convention of the Utah Irrigation and Drainage congress con-gress was held In Salt Lake, January 17 and 18. The stnto Industrial commission hns decided to buy $7X) of the ?10,000 Issue of public library bonds of the city of Sprlngvlllc. Utah's thirty-six canning fnctorles produced 1,414,101 cases of vegetables anil fruits valued at approximately $0,000,000 last year. The state mental lioipltnl at Provo received twenty-threo patients during December of last year and discharged thirteen. The hospital now has UC2 patients. With n total valuation In excess of $11,000,000, the livestock Industry of I'tnli Is now rated as the second largest In the stutc, mining leading the list. Vllute Uergcner, 3 years of age, and Cldc llergener, 2 years of nge, children child-ren of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur llergener, met death In n flro that destroyed the llergener home nt Park City. Ceorgo Washington linker, Sr., builder of tho first dwelling house In Cache valley, and Agnes ltlclinnls linker, celebrated their sixteenth wedding wed-ding anniversary at Mention, January 18. In tho accredited herd list Just Issued Is-sued by tho department of agriculture, agricul-ture, Utah ranks twenty-second In the states with thirty-six accredited herds nnd 377 once tested free herds of cattle. Of 1310 cases handled In tho last two years by the Juvenile court nt Ogden only forty-nine were sent to tho State Industrial school, nccordlng to the report of Judgo Sulllvun submitted submit-ted to the governor. licet sugnr manufactured In tho eighteen factories In Utah In 101M aggregated ag-gregated 153,200 tons, with nn nver-nge nver-nge extraction of 11.10 nnd an average aver-age sugnr content, bused on tho weight of the beets, of 15.41. Tlio estlmnted total value of crops grown In Utah for the year ltfJO, excluding sugar beets nnd Including apples, ns compiled by the bureau of crop estimates, of which M. M. Justin Is the statistician, Is $31,072,000. The Utah-Idaho Sugar company's plant nt Spanish Fork has completed the most successful run In Its history. Since the opening of the plant on October 5 there has been tin average of 600 tons of beets sliced dally. Twenty-live self-dumping gravel wngoiis and other road work equipment equip-ment havo nrrlved nn the ground at Delta for use In connection with the new Mute highway from Delta to Holden, u distance of thirty miles. The total valuation of taxable property hi Utah In 1011) was $002,-40(1,878 $002,-40(1,878 ami that of 1020 Is $717,308,-321, $717,308,-321, n gain of $21,811,443. Livestock valuations In 1010 were $12,017,032 und In 1020 they are $31,213,380, a loss of $8, 40 1,552. Leaving a note that ho hnd chosen self-destruction In preference to remaining re-maining alive since the death ot "his pal, Tom," who died on January 15, 1010, James McOulgnn committed suicide sui-cide Saturday night nt Salt Luko by Inhaling gas. Potntoes were grown on 17,000 ncres In Utah In 1020, with a yield of 101 bushels per acre, n total production of 3,208,000 bushels nnd n value December Decem-ber 1 of $2,038,000, or 80 cents per bushel, ns compared with $1.37 per bushel In 1010. A chnrgo of $10 n plato will be made for tho dinner of stew, cocoa and brend which will bo served nt tho Weber club January 21, nccordlng to plans holug worked out as tho Ogden contribution to tho fund for the starving starv-ing children nf Europe. One hundred and ten gallons of raisin mnsh, three stills, a quantity of "whlto mule," nnd brew In various stnges of preparation, together with tho men responsible for the manufacture manu-facture of tho liquor, constitute tho harvest of the sheriffs office as tho result of n raid at Vernal. Tho finished product of Utah ceiiient plants will reach $3,500,000; flour mills $2,000,000; knitting fnctorles nnd woolen mills, $1,500,000; packing plants, $0,000,000; snlt, $500,000; bakeries, $3,500,000; leather goods, $1,. 500,000; brick and other building blocks and tiling, $7,000,000. Of the flfty-threo girls who hnve been puroled recently from tho stato Industrial school nt Ogden, twenty-four twenty-four have been married, and tho ut-torney ut-torney general has been nsked to decide de-cide ns to whether or not these girls still nro under the Jurisdiction of tho school ns they were before they were married. The vnluo of tho 1020 sugar crop in Utah Is estimated nt $20,000,000. Approximately $27,000,000 has been Invested In-vested In tho properties. It took 2500 offlco nnd factory employes, 10000 formers and 03,000 acres of land to produce the 1,230,000 tons of beels neeeswv to make the 102,600 tons of refln ' r |