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Show THE PR0V0 BOULEVARD; FINE BUSINESS DONE Special to The Tribune. PROVO. April 22. The committee ha.v-ing ha.v-ing charge of the building of the Provo-Olmstod Provo-Olmstod boulevard met last night and decided to go ahead with the work at once, and to comploto tho rood this summer. sum-mer. Jamos L. Meldrum vas engaged to supervise the work, which will be carried car-ried on according to tho plans and methods meth-ods outlined by Mr. Voshell. tho engineer engi-neer who was sent hero by the national good roads department to start the road-bulldlng road-bulldlng properly. When completed the boulevard will be the finest piece of road In tho state and will cost about $25,000. The county commissioners have let a contract to widen the dugway leading to Provo bench from Olmsted, to twenty feet and making the grade less than 6 per cent. The Provo merchants say that business busi-ness has been 25 per cent better during January, February and March of this year than the corresponding period last year. Dealing in mining stocks hits perceptibly per-ceptibly declined In Provo during the last j-car and speculators arc turning their attention and Investments to land. Fruit lands, especially, have made a decided advance In the past two years. Leila Jones, the 9-months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Jones of the Fifth ward, died this morning from convulsions. convul-sions. Tho family recently moved here from Colorado. Louis E. Meyers has returned from a trip to the cast, and with him John O. Keys of New York has come to Provo to look over tho country hereabouts, with some Idea of entering the electrical field in Utah. |