Show PUBLIC LIBRARIES GRADUALLY GROWING Howard H. H Driggs I secretary of ot the library extension work of the stale state board of education has compiled some statistics stalls statis tI tics s on his hla department The public libraries li libraries li- li of ot the state have Increased In number from four to sixteen In the past live Jc veal's 1 and four T more are arc ob being 1 prepared prepared pre pre- pared for O opening two Twenty two school li libraries II- II are being used as public libraries thus making a It total of thirty eight li libraries II- II open to the tho general public The Tho towns which have hae school libraries are permit permitted ted to open them to the general public by a a. provision of the sUIte state law la I Five e f e years ago there were public libraries libraries libra libra- ries riel only in the cities and towns to of or Salt Lake Ogden Provo Prove and Brigham Olt City Since then public libraries have havo been n opened In eureka Cedar City Garland Tooele jP f Vernal r 1 Ephraim tr fn P i 1 Lehi Murray Murra Forest Dale Dal Bluff an and i Elsinore Libraries are now I being prepared in Mantl St. St George C Price an and and In Mantl Manti and St St. t. t they will be ready 11 a It 4 11 short abort rl time |