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Show Pithy News Notes From All Parts of UTAH . Ogden. Name plates with "Ogden" printed in black letters on white tin for automobiles have been received by secre..-v of the Ogden Chamber of commerce. The plates will be sold J to autolsts at cosL The plates have been ordered for advertising purposes. Salt Lake. The state land commissioner commis-sioner has notified the holders of various var-ious certificalss of sale of state land, nf grazing land leases and of mineral miner-al land leases, that unless delinquent payments are made by August 15 their respective contracts with the state will be canceled. Provo. It is reported that Utah County ships each year 1000 cars of peaches. 500 cars apples, 100 cars pears, "lo-i cars cherries, 100 cars prunes, fioO cars potatoes, fifty -a'S strawberries, 500,000 gallons of liquid mill:, fifty cars onions, fifty cars other oth-er egetables, 1200 ears refiDfid sugar su-gar candy, twenty-five cars manufactured manufac-tured woolen goods. (Logan. Officials of the chamber of commerc presented a request to the city commissioners that the promoters of the wild west, rodeo and racing meet to be held here September 4, 5 and 0, be given the privilege of concessions con-cessions on the tabernacle square, and also that those promoting concessions be permitted to retain their license fees to apply on traveling expenses to the city. Both requests were granted by the commissioners. Salt Lake. The first complete check and examination of the titles to securities held by the state for loans from the state land funds is now being be-ing made in the state land office. Such checks have at times been partially made in the past. The 1400 or loOtf persons who have borrowed money from the state, offering to submit tax receipts, shall be required to submit tax receipts and receipts for payment of water atsessments. Should the se curlty holder fail to respond the matter mat-ter will be taken up further and if necessary ne-cessary the county records and the records of the water companies will be examined, to see whether the state's title has been protected in each case. .Salt Lake. The assessed valuation "of the state of Utah for 1922, making allowances for the changes ordered by the state board of equalization, is $53o,l96,0G4. On this total the board has fixed a state tax levy of 7.1 mills, as compared with 0.9 mills for last year. The state tax levy is made up of 2.4 mills for the state general fund purposes, .2 of a mill for high school purposes, and 4.5 mills for district school purposes. These rates are the maximum allowed by the legislature of 1921. They are the same as pro-vailed pro-vailed last year, except that the state general fund levy was then 2.2 mills. By classes of property there were increases in-creases as follows: $054,478 on grazing lands, $52,0til on range cattle, $99,350 on other cattle, $5,29!) on sheep other than range sheep and $78,125 on the valuation of banks. There was a decrease de-crease of $99,079 on the valuation of the range sheep of the state. The following tabulation shows in the first column the valuation of the counties, as reported by the county auditors after af-ter the county boards of equalization had completed their work, and in the second column the valuations of the same counties, as fixed by the state board of equalization. The latter valuations val-uations will stand, except for such errors or additional assessments as may be discovered between now and taxpaying time. The tabulation : Beaver $ 6,536,008 $ 6,5238,5k: Boxelder 3S,901,073 3S.905.975 Cache : 31,607,S5G 31,007 .856 Carbon 27,428,053 27,428,053 Davis 18,321,319 19,297,057 Duchesne .. 5,188,117 5,28'M22 Daggett 501,94-t 502,109 Emery s 7,955,500 7,955,900 Garfield 2,459,908 2,5fl0.2S7 Grand . 4,530,210 4,530,904 Iron 7,282,713 7,2.827,13 Juab 13,745,818 13,714,330 Kane .-. 2,010,721 2,015,488 Millard 0,.8."82 10,5,87,8.31 Morgan 5,430,501 5,072,152 IUch 3,511,253 3,735,011 Piute 2,509,127 2,520,570 San Juan 2,401,090 2,427,000 Salt Lake ..... 253,507,275 253,507,275 Sannete .. 15,01,175 15,301,175 Sevier 12,278,798 12,254,49 Snmmitt ll,91O,i"0 ll,!Ki2,0-:8 Tooele 18,229,137 18.102,791 Uintah 0,9.89,742 0,979,101 Utah 51,2.'-'0,279 51,257,980 Wasatch O,0:"H,313 0,217,8-17 Washington 3,120,037 3,158,372 Wayne 1.202,170 1,202,170 We'ier 57,120,015 ' 57,180,079 Totals ?a-!4,905,211 $GKi,G9G,0trl Salt Lake. The new munk-r-rl Warm Springs 1 ath house, constructed at a cost of $;!30.000 is open to the , public. I n. A banquet with cabaret fen-i fen-i lures furnished by Salt Lake ami Ogden Og-den entertainers in Ol'cIi n canyon ! cl sed the "get together" gathering 1 of grain dealers and flour millers from five states. More than eighty men were guests of the Ogil. n Grain exchange nt the event. Eleven car-loads car-loads of wheat were sold nt the opn log ssslon of the exchange. |