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Show I News Notes f J From All Parts of I UTAH Spring Canyon. The bodies of Pa 1 Eantasteden and M. A. Tonoya, twc of the five machine men. entombed ; In the Rains mine by the explosion Sunday afternoon, were found at 3 p. m. Tuesday after nearly forty-ight hours o fconstant effort to effect an entrance into the lower depths. Ogden. Highways leading to Yellowstone Yel-lowstone park through Wyoming will be in fine condition next year, according ac-cording to Charles W. Cross, highway engineer of the United States bureau of public roads, who returned from two months of road inspection in the vicinity of Jackson, Wyo. Ogden. The goal in the drive of tock subscriptions to Ogden's proposed pro-posed community hotel is in sight, according to the directors of the community com-munity building fund, who advise that only a little more than $40,000 is necessary to complete the quota. This is expected within a few days. Provo. With hope that the broad expanse of land lying in Cedar valley val-ley west of the Utah lake might be included in the proposed Utah lake reclamation project, a delegation of farmers' and cattlemcnt from the valley met with the Utah county commission and asked that consideration consider-ation be given the thousands of acres of land now little more than a desolate deso-late waste. Richfield. A special meeting of the board of county commissioneds was held for the purpose of awarding award-ing contracts for the construction of a bridge over the Sevier river between be-tween Elsinore and Monroe. Sealed bids were submitted by a large number num-ber of contractors and the ward was made to the lowest bidder, Hansen Brothers of Richfield, for the sum of $1940.94. Salt Lake City. Forty-eight petitions peti-tions for parole or termination of sentence were denied at the executive execu-tive session of the board of pardons, which convened at the state prison Monday morning. Six petitions for parole were granted, twenty-four sentences sen-tences were terminated and six cases were continued either to the regular December meeting or to the special session which will be held November 11th. ' Salt Lake City. There are 320 cells in the Utah state prison, and according to the figures given the ! board of pardons, 299 of them were occupied last Friday. This is almost i three times as many prisoners as i were confined there on January 1, I 1920. i I Bingham The town board will ccm- ; struct additional water tanks in order j i to provide better fire protection, if s the funds are available. The last I fire, it is said showed that the water- main would not give sufficient pressure pres-sure when several lines of hose were : attached. It is hoped to have some of the tanks completed before winter. Spanish Fork. Benjamin, six and ! one-half miles southwest of Spanish i Fork was visited by a destructive fire j in which a recently constructed barn filled with 1500 tons of hay, many ' outbuildings ,a large strawstack and farm implements of various kind3 were destroyed. The property belonged belong-ed to L. K. Stewart and his loss is estimated at $3000. ! Price. Tax anticipation notes in the sum of $100,000 were negotiated by the Carbon county schol board with Ross Beason & Company of Salt I Lake at the regular meeting of the j school board held this week. Salt Lake City. Arrangements have been made between members of the state road commission and the Garfield county board of commissioners commission-ers for the expenditure of $6000 this year for improving and maintaining the Panguitch-Kane county line road. Work already has been started. It is expected to continue the program of improvement next year. Spring Canyon. A blast in the j Riiins mine at this point Sunday en- tombed five miners whose fates are l as yet unknown. Efforts of rescue l men were rendered dangerous by ! dangerous gases. Smithficld. Citizens of Smithfield decided at a mass meeting held re-1 re-1 cently that a chamber of commerce was needed in this city. The meeting meet-ing was called by tb.6 city council and representatives of all civic organiza tions and business and industrial interests in-terests were present and expressed their wish that an organization be completed in the near future. Salt Lake City. The dinosaur caravan car-avan arrived safely at its destination the University of Utah, on Wednesday Wednes-day and terminated in an event never before duplicated in the history of the world. It was the most unique procession pro-cession to ever trail the western country. The caravan was made up of 19 wagons laden with 60,000 lbs. of dinosaur bones said to be about 25,000,000 years old. Many similar trains have wended their way over the western plains, but never on urith such a cargo as this. I |