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Show UTAH NEWS. The first crop of hay has been cut in Dixie. Contracts have been let to furnish brick for the Tooele creamery. About 400,000 pounds of wool have been sheared this season at Thompson's Thomp-son's -Springs. Corn and potato, planting is nractic-ally nractic-ally completed in a number of the central cen-tral counties. Lumbermen say the price of lumber Is advaucing. There has been a raise in redwood of SI ami S:j.."(j. fiats and spring wheat are reported somewhat bar-kward throughout the state, but in good condition. Active work has commenced on tho alt palace and the structure will be rapidly pushed to completion. A farmer liviug on the banks of the Jordan last week captured a large fo-male fo-male pelican, which measures uiuefeet from tip to tip. Edwin M. Cox and J. S. Granger, of Orangeville, have bceu granted a patent pat-ent for an implement for laying and pulverizing ground. Baron Bismarck, a grand nephew of the great chancellor, was a Utah visitor last week. He is figuring on buying a large farm in Salt Lake county. A number of Nebraska cattle buyers are In Utah purchasing yearling cattle for shipment to Nebraska. The prices paid In Utah for yearlings is from $19 to 820. Governor Wells was in Idaho last week on a recreation trip. Secretary of State Hammond was at the helm as acting governor during the governor's absence. Every inch of the outside fence which will surround the salt palace has been sold for advertising purposes, and the association is ahead on the deal about 8200. The belief in expressed by officers of the militia that as soon as the battery boys now in the Philippines return, a regular state artillery organization will be effected. Architect W. E. Ware, of Salt Lake City, has been given the contract to remodel re-model a twelve-room schoolhouBe at Laramie, Wyo. , the cost of the improvement im-provement being 83,000. Provo is to have a boulevard extending extend-ing from tho asylum to the lake, along the lake shore. Within ten minutes 81,500 was raised for the enterprise, and it is an assured success. Parties who have just returned from the sheep camps, says that in the past ten days no less than 150 cars of Utah wool have been unloaded, this practically prac-tically exhausting the spring crop. The people of Utah county are confidently confi-dently expecting this to be the banner year for fruit, many old-timers prophesying proph-esying that the coming season will see the largest amount of fruit ever raised in the county. A toll road is being constructed from Cisco to Moab, the great tide of travel In that section of the country making the construction of the road a necssity. The road will be finished within the next ten days. The site for the government building build-ing to be erected in Salt Lake City has been selected. The lot chosen is upon the corner of Main and Market streets and is ISOxISO feet. The building when completed will cost 8300,000. Designs have been completed for a modern school building at Murray. It will be of pressed brick, with stone trimmings, two stories, with eleven elass rooms, sufficient to accommodate 600 pupils, will be heated by indirect team and will cost 820,000. A burglar entered a dentist's office in 6alt Lake City one night last week and purloined 8100 worth of plate gold and leaf gold, which the dentist intended using in his business. He overlooked 8200 in cash, and is probabiy now engaged en-gaged in kicking himself. Governor Wells has had numerous inquiries recently as to when he intended in-tended appointing road supervisors in the various counties of the state, to expend the appropriation for roads and bridges made by the late legislature, legisla-ture, and states that he will make the appointments in about a week or ten days. Governor Wells has been informed by the assistant quartermaster general gen-eral that the bodies of Utah's soldier boys who lost their lives in the Philippines Philip-pines will not be sent home for at least six months yet. Theotneers in Manila claim the weather is too warm, and that it is Impossible to properly embalm em-balm and ship the bodies now. ( Ed. Loose, the Provo mining man, has purchased a pair of pacers in Cali' fornia, for which it is said he paid 1 1,000. It is said this is the highest price ever dealt out by any individual buyer in the state for a pair of roadsters. road-sters. California raspberries were in the Ball Lake City market last week, wholesaling at 82.50 a case, and retailing retail-ing at 20 cents a pint. Fine cherries : ,rom the same state are also to be had nt 81.501.75 per case, and 25 cents per jiound. |