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Show - . ; Pithy News Notes j I From All Parts of f UTAH Provo. The completion of tli6 county court house will be rushed. Ogden. The Weber gymnasium building will be constru-ted in a short time. Cedar City. A bridge over Coal creek will be constructed at a cost of $40,000. Salt Lake. Utah leads ml states in per acre production of alfalfa seed this year. Salt Lake. A 200 gallon capacity still has been raided and over 1700 tons of mash seized. Salt Lake. A plant to manufacture magnesium chloride from waters of Great Salt Lake is being launched. Frovo. J. L. Lisbonbee, proprietor of a pool hall, was fined $10 by Judge Abe W. Turner on a charge of permitting permit-ting minors to play pool in his plajvj of business. Farmington. Davis county's pr auction auc-tion of onions this year is reported as the best In quality and the largest production pro-duction in the history of the county by W. T. Thayne of Farmington, county farm agent of Davis county. Vernal. The fir.-t leg of the Green Uiver, Wyo.-Green River, Utah, voyage, voy-age, down the Green river, has been successfully accomplished by a crew of surveyers and boatmen under the leadership of K. W. Trimble, topographic topo-graphic engineer of Washington, D. C. Salt Lake. The United States department de-partment of agriculture estimates on the value of Utah farm products or; July 15, 1922, as compared with the same time last year, show an increase in values on the majority of the classes clas-ses of products. Logan. Subject to approval of the board of trustees and contingent upon their satisfactorily fulfilling the entrance en-trance requirements, the Ut..h Agricultural Agricul-tural college will grant free tuition to all members of the Utah National Guard who are recommended by Colonel Col-onel W. G. Williams, adjutant general t Utah. z Fillmore. The Millard county fair, to be held here September 26, 27 and 28, promises, to be the best on record. A total of $2500 already has been offered of-fered for premiums and prizes and all indications are good. The fair at Fillmore Fill-more has long been famous throughout the county and neighboring counties, but now its fame seems to have reached, reach-ed, not only throughout the state, but into neighboring states. Salt Lake. Pyrotechnic displays of unusual novelty and spectacle will be given each evening of Utah State Fail-week, Fail-week, October 2 to 7. Every modern fireworks device will be employed for the diversion of the thousands of spectators. spec-tators. Anoher novel amus'.ment stunt will be the "auto teeter." Every motorist mot-orist who drives his car to the exposition expo-sition grounds will be invited to drive on the teeter, a nicely balanced platform, plat-form, and stop for an instant at equUh-rium. equUh-rium. Salt Lake. The obtaining of a check fo $15,000 on the suspense fund of the state land commissioner by the Utah water storage commission assures as-sures the continuance of the investigation investi-gation of the rrovo-Weber project by the Uniited States reclamation service The investigation is being made under un-der cooperative agreement "between the commission and the service, und W.P M. Green, engineer for the federal fed-eral bureau, is in active charge, subject sub-ject to the supervision of the representatives repre-sentatives of the cooperative agencies. Salt Lake A number of relics from the pyramid district of Old Mexico are to be added to the museum at the State University, following a visit to the scene of the excavations this summer sum-mer by Dr. Andrew'' A. Kerr, assistant professor of archelogy at the University Univer-sity of Utah. Salt Lake. In the compilation of the tax levies in the several counties in the state as compiled by the state board of equalization and assessment, Grand county figures as one of the higest in county levy. Davis county is lowest. More than half of the taxes raised in Grand county come from public pub-lic utilities, the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad p.-.ying practically hclf of the taxes collected in the i-ounty. Kanah. Efforts are being made to preserve the walls of Johnson's canyon in Kane c unity, which bear evidences of prehistoric periods in the hieroglyphics hierogly-phics thereon, but which are being defaced by the placarding of adverts-ing adverts-ing matter. Tooele. The Southern Pacific company com-pany has announced the adjustment of rates on zinc oxide from Utah mines to provide for competition of the locai product in the California and Pacific coast market. Heretofore it has been practically impossible for zinc oxide to be marketed on the coast, due to the high freight rata. Riverdale. Auto carrying thirteen people turned over at a narrow curve here. Several severe wrenches and bruises were the only results |