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Show City To Start Mining Museum City Plans White Way NEW BLEACHERS EUILT $155,000 TO BE SPKNT ON KOAI) 911 PER CENT CARS RECOVERED CONTRACT FOR ROAD LET LEIII At a meeting iu the Memorial Mem-orial building recently, the committee in charge of the homecoming celcbra-was celcbra-was named. One day will be named rtah Beet Si:gar day. In connection tion to be held next August 13 to l.", with the home-coming a rodeo will bo held. Over SS.000 will be spent in remodeling, re-modeling, enlarging and improving the rodeo grounds west of Lehi. BINGHAM Plans for an unusual museum of mining in the Bingham high school at Copperton were discussed discuss-ed at a recent meeting of tho Bingham Bing-ham Kiwanis club, school authorities and representatives of the student body. Kdgar M. Ledyard, president of the L'tah Historical Landmarks association, as-sociation, was the principal speaker. Flans were presented and it was agreed that work will start on the museum, which will comprise two or three rooms in the high school building. build-ing. It is proposed to have three main exhibits, one of old mining relics, re-lics, another of modern products, and a complete mining library. IIEBER The Wasatch county high school senior class, as its project, has presented to the school the new bleach-1 ers with 450 seating capacity iu the high school gym. All material for the bleachers was fiuanced by the class and the labor was furnished by the school shop students, who, under William McKell, supervised the construction con-struction and worked many days after school, with the assistance of other faculty members, to have the scats installed. in-stalled. PARK CITY Installation of proposed pro-posed "White way" on Park City's Main street has been assured. The installation consists of forty-three ornamental or-namental standards, with 1000 candle-power candle-power lamps, and will be installed ou Main street, between Second and Seventh Sev-enth streets, at a cost of approximately approximate-ly $15,000, the cost of installation to be borne by the abutting property owners own-ers over a period of ten years. OGDEN Election of officers nnd: adoption of resolutions were the closing clos-ing features of the two-day convention of the State Horticultural society iu the Hotel Bigelow recently. TAYSON The annual stockholders meeting of the Strawberry high line canal company was held recently. President Taylor stated that operation charges of the company have decreased decreas-ed on an average of from $1 to GO cents. The crop report showed that fruit, especially peaches, reaped the highest profit and that sugar beels and canning crops were good. SALT LAKE The state road commission com-mission has awarded to the Reynolds- ' Ely Construction company contract for the building of 0.1 miles of highway high-way on U. S. roule 50, the last stretch to be completed on the highway between be-tween Thompson and the Colorado-Utah Colorado-Utah line. The contract includes two bridges; and the contractor's share for the labor involved will be $.'7,534.-02, $.'7,534.-02, at present quality estimates. PROVO An intensive eJuciallonnl campaign to bring about a greater consumption of dairy products instead of imported substitutes will be launched launch-ed in L'tah county in the near future under the direction of Lyman 11. Rich, 'county agent, representing Hie extension exten-sion service, cooperating in the drive are all the schools of the county including in-cluding fhe B. Y. U.: Smith-Hughs instructors; in-structors; (he Provo chamber of com-merce com-merce and other civic clubs of Hie county. Stores throughout the county coun-ty have agreed to cooperate by featuring featur-ing displays of Utah county producls during the first, two .weeks in Febni-a Febni-a ry. LOGAN A total of $155,000 will be spent on the Logan canyon road this year, providing the counly or sule will contribute $37,500, according to Supervisor Carl B. Arentson, of the Cuche national forest. Mr. Arentson has been advised that $75,OuO of the forest servive funds is available for construction work on the section of the Logau canyon road extending from (he fish hatchery to the forks. BKIGHAM CITY A committee of Brigham City citizens headed by Mayor May-or James E. Halverson, met with the Boxclder county commission in reference refer-ence to securing Boxclder county's proportional share of the amount nl-hited nl-hited by the federal government to meet the uni mpl:;yjii. nt ciiiorgcnoy act, the total amount of which is ifSO,-000,000. ifSO,-000,000. Of this amount, it is understood under-stood that ?tr.'i;,0o0 is Utah's pn.ior- iloiL PROVO The Provo city commission commis-sion was asked to us-unie early juris-dbiion juris-dbiion of the propo.-.i newer diiirii-t No. tf) to serve the west side of 1'iovo. v. bi n a delegation of prop. rly owners own-ers from tlii? part of the ci;y met v.itli the eoijjjiiion. PROVO O. hiers of the Sanlaquin .haml.tr of commerce, asked the Utah county ci.niniiesion for au appropriation appropria-tion to aid in repairing and building nine miles of road in s'antuquin canyon, can-yon, 't he .inii.is.-ion ngr. ed to match money vi!h the forest officials. |