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Show ; THE BEE HIVE STATE The Utah-Idaho Sugar company has tuinouuccd that it will pay the !fl per ton bonus on beets delivered hist year j to the growers who sold their T. 1 1 i ! tieets to the I rent liasin Sugar company, com-pany, providing the growers plant an equal acreage this year for the I'tah-ldaiio I'tah-ldaiio company, which has purchased the threat Fasin company plant at : lvlta. S. A. Jones, chief of the field service serv-ice of the bureau of crop estimates. United States department of agriculture, agricul-ture, is in Salt Lake to meet with representative rep-resentative slock men and officials of livestock associations for the purpose-of purpose-of obtaining more accurate estimates of livestock production and probable markets. mar-kets. Walter U. Movie of Salt Lake, recently re-cently appointed to the legal staff of the department of justice, lias been promoted by Attorney Ceneral rainier to be assistant to the attorney general, in charge of claims against, property taken over during the war by the alien property custodian. Together with new uniforms, bayonets, bay-onets, heavy pack equipment, and, other military accessories, ;;K Springfield Spring-field rifles, .,".( caliber, arrived at the-Ogdon the-Ogdon high school last week. The equipment will be used by the high, school 1!. O. T. ( unit. Cache county is to build a modern high school for the norlheni end of the county, double the size of the. South Cache high school, and vill spend !f 100,000 in improving the twenly-seven oilier school buildings in the county the coming summer. Charles Fielding, aged 3S, was killed In an elevator accident at an apartment apart-ment house in Salt Lake, being crushed between the floor of the service elevator eleva-tor and the framework of the basement base-ment door, which opens into the elevator ele-vator shaft. The city commissioti at l'rovo will pass an ordinance; increasing the prices for digging graves from $-1 to .$5 for adults and from .f3 to $5 for minors.. The price of lots has been advanced from $10 to $15. For the purpose of forming a western west-ern hotel men's scenic association,, with the object of advertising western, scenery, hotel men of the Itocky mountain moun-tain district and of California will meet at Salt Lake. Beaver county has not only complied com-plied with the order of the state board of equalization for a reclassification and reappraisal of lbs farm lands, but has performed a like task with its city property. The growers of peas' in Utah received, an average of $04.15 per ton In 1019. the range being from $55.80 to $93.30. The average paid the previous year-was year-was $58.74, ranging from $55.30 to $73.30. Gerald Hansen, aged 20, of Benjamin, Benja-min, was crushed to death beneath a tractor, with which hs was breaking ground. The tractor turned over and pinned young Hansen beneath it. That Utah canners have signed up practically all the acreage they need' for peas and tomatoes', is the assertion of Gage B. Hodman, president of the-Utah the-Utah Canners association. Price has been chosen by the Republican Repub-lican state committee as the meeting place for the first state convention of the year and the date was set for May 3. Figures obtained from various state-offices state-offices show that the workmen's compensation com-pensation law is costing industry ilk Utah approximately $1,600,000 annually. annu-ally. The abandoned grade of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad through Salina canyon will be used by the U. S. bureau bu-reau of public roads for the first 23.S miles of the Salina-Emery road. The state school building commission commis-sion has refused to condemn the "exhaust "ex-haust system" of heating and venti. luting school buildings in Utah. The original church of Hyrum, built In 1867, is being torn down. The structure struc-ture served for thirty-three years as a chapel and amusement ball. Stocks of grain in Utah the first of this month were smaller than usual, announces M. M. Justin, field agent of the bureau of crop reports. Present prospects are that the assessed as-sessed valuation of the state of Utah for 1920 will not exceed the $092,000-000 $092,000-000 fixed for 1919. The city jail at Vernal was broken into and nearly 200 bottles of booze stolen. The booze had been taken from bootleggers. The Fourth Annual Intermountaln Stock show will be held at the Union stock yards, North Salt Lake, on April 5, 6 and 7. Utahs total pack of canned peas in 1919 was 440,321 cases of No. 2 cans. In 1918 this state produced 788,344 cases. The Utah-Idaho Sugar company has; definitely decided to erect a sugar factory fac-tory at Honeyville this year. The state council of carpenters' convention con-vention was held In Logan, March 12 and 13. To arouse interest in current problems prob-lems of political interest and to assist in the teaching of practical citizenship, citizen-ship, a silver loving cup has been of-I of-I fered the student member of Lohl high school who produces the best political platform. Representatives of the Utah-Idaho) Sugar company and the state farm bureau have reached an agreement on a ratio basis contract for the 1920 contract con-tract for sugar beets and the apprehensions appre-hensions which existed for a time that the acreage might be cut this yea sere set at rest. |