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Show THE UTAH BUDGET About 100 men who would he otherwise oth-erwise unemployed are at work harvesting har-vesting the natural Ice crop of oni.-3f oni.-3f the local companies at Ogden. As a result of the alarming increase In the rabbits that are harvesting crops for t ho farmers of Marysvale, a general campaign is being carried on against them. Florence Costanzo, 3 years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Cos-tanV.o Cos-tanV.o of Salt Lake, was fatally burned when her clothing caught lire from the kitchen range. Salt hake's expenditures during 1014 totaled $1,051,900.14 from its revenue funds. From its special funds, representing repre-senting public improvements mostly, it spent $fi2",04G.5n. During 1915 a total if 14,8,10 head of cattle and horses and 85,700 sheep and goats, a slight increase over allowances al-lowances in 1914, will be permitted to graze within the Wasatch national forest. for-est. The average of the lake level read-mgs read-mgs of Great Salt lake made by the United States weather bureau during tlie past year shows that the lake has been .4 of a foot higher than during 1913. Utah ranks sixth among the states of the union in the matter of low percentage per-centage of illteracy and ninth in the list as regards expenditures per capita cap-ita of population for educational pur-loses. During 1914 the fire loss in Salt Lake was $R6,7S7.58, which is $2,000 less than was lost in one fire In 1913, that of the Denver & Rio Grande shops. The gross loss is less than $1 per capita. A permanent fund of $25,000 a year for extension work throughout tha state on the part of the University of Utah is sought by the board of regents re-gents in its biennial report to the governor. Of the thousands of parcel post packages that were handled at the Ogdeji postoffice during the Christmas rush, only one could not be delivered because of lack of address, according to the postmaster. C. S- Page, general manager of the Arrowhead Motion Picture company, prompter of Alaska "snow scene" film dramas staged in Utah mountains, is charged with passing worthless checks on a Salt Lake hotel. That the wrapper of every mat of bread sold in Utah must bear the net weight of the loaf stamped on the wrapper is the information sent out in notices to breadmakers by the dairy and food commissioner. Orders to all saloon keepers to abolish abol-ish free lunches immediately and instructions in-structions to all cigar store managers and proprietors to stop dice throwing and other forms of gambling have been sent out by Salt Lake's chief of police. The Ogden sugar factory has completed com-pleted the season s run with 85,600 tons to its credit for the season. This is the greatest beet tonnage in the history of the Ogden plant, but then) are indications that the record will last only until next season. Willrd Hansen, 'Jr., state dairy and food commissioner, is warning bread makers throughout the state to label their loaves of wrapped bread properly, prop-erly, showing exact net weight. He says that he is preparing to enforce the net weight law rigidly. People of Utah will be given an opportunity op-portunity of seeing the finest collection collec-tion of poultry ever gathered in the 6tate at the opening of the second annual an-nual exhibition of the State Poultry Association of Utah, to be held in Salt Lake, January 11 to 18. The eleventh session of the Utah legislature, which begins January 11, will at least open in the usual Quarters Quar-ters in the City and County building, and a part if not the entire session will be held in that place, the state capitol not having been finished. It is estimated that the University of Utah will need during the coming biennium $502,549.30, and its revenue, estimated on prevailing assessments, will not amount to mofe than $4S2,- Abo, leaving a balance ot $20, 1284 30 to be met by an extra appropriation. More automobiles were purchased by Utah residents in 1914 than for any two years since autos were invented. in-vented. The number totaled ' 2,250 when the secretary of state closed his office December 31, this being based on the number of licenses issued by him. The state is spending $4,500,000 annually an-nually to educate its children, which is $38.88 per cent capita of school population. It has a school population popula-tion of 117,632 and an average attendance at-tendance of 96,679. The value of its school property is estimated at $9,000,000. Because he operates a nonunion shop, W. J. Wright, low bidder for the heating and ventilating of a new school building was refused the contract con-tract by the Salt Lake board of education. educa-tion. The board feared labor troubles and consequent delay in the completion comple-tion of the building. |