Show intel mountain news briefly told for busy readers CLASSES FOR JOBLESS NEW ROAD POPULAR ROAD PLAN ADOPTED ULL REBUILD PLANT PROVO dr lowry nelson director of brigham young university extension division has an bounced all classes at the local university are to be thrown open to the unemployed of the city SALT LAKE UT the national wool marketing corporation will hereafter sell all wool consigned by its 35 grower members directly instead 0 thru a sales agent according to the executive secretary of the utah state W ool growers association plans for a secondary highway between salt lake and ogden have been announced the new highway will leave the pavement at south bountiful and follow a direct line into farmington the road will be west of the present road and will be out of the way of the floods which at times sweep down the mountains in dav as county the first unit to be improved will be 55 miles long and will cost about this highway will follow the farmington eber canyon road into ogdan SIGURD UT reconstruction of the jumbo plaster and cement company plant which was burned down january 27 is being planned UT enrollment at the utah state agricultural college during the last six years has increased 00 per cent according to figures compiled the greatest increase in enrollment was made this year with registration 12 per cent greater than 1930 31 SALT LAKE UT total of tax able gasoline imported into or manufactured in utah in 1931 was GO gallons it is shown in a report prepared by deputy in bharga of gasoline sales tax collections ST GEORGE UT controversy over the 70 entrance of the federal highway into st george from the west has been finally settled by the of the route first selected by the state road commission OGDEN UT A financial report issued by the ogden community service association disclosed 80 his been expended by the association for relief work among ogden s unemployed up to january 81 SALT LAKE UT marked decrease in the number of accidents reported by the utah light and traction company in 1931 as compared with any other year since the advent of the automobile Is reported collisions between automobiles and street cars dropped from 1000 in 1930 to in 1931 PAYETTE IDA due to deep snows in the arrowhead dam section deer are unable lo 10 find food and unless food is supplied soon thousands of them will die from starvation it is reported mcball IDA two air men had a narrow escape from drowning recently when their airplane was forced down on the ice of the lake near here the running gear of the plane broke through the ice but was salvaged with slight damage BOISE IDA president hoover has been petitioned by the governors of seven western states to raise the tariff on copper to prevent excessive importations of foreign copper in protection of the american industry the petition cites the extreme distress of the american producers and urges immediate relief BOISE IDA the state mine in predicts there Is going to be a lot of gold prospecting in idaho this year by grubs takers but he Is uncertain what the results will be the high purchasing power of gold and the low wage scale he believes will bring into the mountains many old time prospectors aa well as a host of recruits GUNNISON UT the local boy scouts spent one day recently in cutting wood for the widows and the needy of the community BOISE IDA snow has made more than half the winter ranges useless for the present for grazing according to the february report of the fedrial agricultural statistician cattle and sheep were reported to be about the same as a month ago although reflecting the inaccessible ces sible range feed which pulled down range conditions this month BOISE IDA A junior college for girls will be started in balse next year under the auspices of the episcopal church here PRICE UT carbon county Is facing a loss this year of approximately fifteen per cent of sheep herds due to deep snow on the winter ranges according to a report by the county livestock nisse sor A conservative estimate of the loss to local sheep men Is believed to be in the neighborhood of twelve thousand head there are approximately hel of sheep owned in carbon county NAMPA IDA fifteen carloads of produce moved from this city in one day recently |