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Show NOTES FROM PHOVO. Items of Interest From tho Capital of Utah County. Pitovo, Jan. 10. The slate mines develop-in.: develop-in.: in our east foothills, mid almost within a stone's throw of the city are pronounced by Mr. E. K. Burton of Denver, to be some of tho best slato deposits in the United States. Buildings ore to be erected immediately by the chamber of commerce for the work-iii work-iii up of tne slate produced at tho mines. Twenty experienced slate miners will be put to work at the mines immediately. Provo does not manufacture ice to order yet, but the ice crop is ripe in the. gardens and being harvested at a great rate. The chamber of commerce has pledged Itself to fence the B. Y. Academy grounds and put them in proper order. Provo wants the capital. Very good. The next question is, can she have it? There arc several eases of diphtheria in town. |