Show UTAH STATE NEWS population has increased during the past year during the year 1904 utah mines paid 4 m dividends some apple growers in this state have realized an acre from their apple crop the past year in 1904 box elder county sent out carloads of fruit which netted the growers approximately 89 it Is announced that a new survey of the salt lake ogden road will be made via hooper and syracuse the average yield of bay in utah the past year was 3 54 tons per acre no state in the union can compare with this salt lake city Is to have an eight atory room fireproof fire proof hotel to cost not less than work will begin in april western box elder and malad city are rejoicing over the prospect of ex tending the malad valley railroad to malad city soon in 1896 the copper production in utah aggregated 1 pounds for the year just ended it reached a total of 48 pounds the ore which was struck in the coolgardie Cool gardie property near the head of deer creek american fork canyon shows values as high as 70 per cent copper it Is said that about in cash besides many cows pigs and bushels of apples changed hands at green river christmas day as the result of a horse race the claim is made that the salt lake route will build to iron county and bullfrog just as soon as the main line is off their hands as a piece of troublesome construction albert hassett and sergeant riley soldiers stationed at fort douglas were shot by silas smith during a fight hassett being killed smith has been acquitted proving self defense mike and con gallagher were very very seriously burned by the explosion of a gasoline lamp at their place of business in bingham junction both men were badly burned about the face and hands the salt lake route haa placed an order with the barney smith corn pany of dayton 0 for twenty five eight wheel caboose cars of the stand ard design and for delivery march 1 at salt lake city the colorado fuel iron corn pany will put two dozen barges on green river having gasoline engines and being of light draft to develop copper sulphur and alum deposits couth of green river the mineral production of the state of utah for the year 1904 as shown by reports from mills and smelters of the state reaches a grand total of as in 1903 a gain of 1 G R day confined in the ogden jail on the charge of embezzlement attempted suicide using a razor se cured from another prisoner he will recover from his injuries but Is now in the padded cell the output of the beet sugar fac tories of utah for the year 1904 is conservatively estimated at 60 pounds at the retail price of sugar prevailing at this time in salt lake this output Is worth 4 james brown one of sandy s old and highly respected citizens died at bis home in that city on tuesday of last week after a four days illness from pneumonia in the early days mr brown rode the pony express plans are now being formulated by horsemen of salt lake city ana colorado to form a utah colorado circuit tor next year which if carried through ought to give utah horsemen better horse racing than they have bad before complete figures furnished by the utah state board of equalization show the assessed valuation of all property in the state to ba of which Is in salt lake county 13 in weber county and 11 in utah county A range in the residence of john W hall of ogden blew up with great tore completely demolishing the elove and wrecking the room the water pipes had frozen up and shortly after the fire was lighted they ed no one was near the stove at the time what Is undoubtedly the greatest compliment ever given any western surgeon was extence to dr H D alles of salt lake when the western surgical association in session at milwaukee last week elected dr alles its president for the ensuing year considerable talk is being indulged in by payson citizens over the bond election for 12 which has been called for saturday january 21 the city council has called the election to see whether or not the people want an electric light plant placed in good condition charles ellis an old resident of salt lake city and a writer of conald erable local prominence was found dead in the blazing timbers of his home his body being burned almost beyond recognition it is thought he had been suffocated but how the fire started is not known the mt pleaman Pl easan gun club chal lenges any ten men in the state for a purse of in a rabbit hunt the winners to take all the club prefers to hunt near mt pleasant but will go to any other place should the chal lenge be accepted by any 0 thi good hunters in he state |