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Show Pithy News Notes From All Parts of ' UTAH j IOgan. Parley Larsen broke the record re-cord at swimming meet at the Smart gymnasium. , Salt Lake A total of 100,00 circulars, circul-ars, containing the proclamation of Governor Mabey urging the wider use of milk as a drink and food in the homes of Utah, have been printed by organizations interested in the milk industry, and will be distributed by the state boarl of agriculture during dur-ing the coming campaign on milk sup-pi?- Brigham City. Boxelder County la agitating the paving of road from this city to Corinne. Ogden. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Wood have been -called to Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., on account ac-count of an Injury to their son Francis, Fran-cis, who is a freshman at the university. univer-sity. The young man has, within a year, suffered a dislocated shoulder seven times. Salt Bake City. A plan Is being launched for using the State Fair grounds as a city park for eleven months In the year. The other month the grounds would be used for annual fair. Bountiful Davis county commissioners commis-sioners have announced a readiness to improve with federal aid that part of the roa-d from Echo to Ogden which lies in Davis county. The road does not particularly serve the people of Davis county, but it is on one of the alternate routes on the federal highway high-way system leading to the gateway between Utah and AVyoming. Salt iLake Utah, through its state engineer, R. E. Caldwell, member of the Colorado river commission, is rather committed to the theory that unlimited development of irrigation projects, with, of course, a proper use of water, should 'be permitted to all the states in the Colorado river basin. bas-in. Some members of the commission desire a definite limited acreage in each state. Others agree with Mr. Caldwell, taking the position that there is water enough in the river to develop all feasible projects. But even ev-en if there were not, Mr. Caldwell argues, ar-gues, the scientific development of the river would demand the use of the water to the fullest extent in the upper reaches of the river, -because a large part of thin water will return to the bed of the river, while on the lower river, and particularly in California Cali-fornia and the republic of Mexico, ueh return flow is impossible. As a result it would take, he points out, about three times as much water to irrigate an acre near the gulf of California Cali-fornia or the Salton sea as it does in Wyoming, Colorado or Utah. The urgent need of a system ot highways by which tourists may visit Utah's national parks and scenic wonders won-ders was emphasized In an address made at the luncheon of the Salt Luke engineering council held in Salt Lake Tecently. Properly developed these assets could give a great earning power rand a comprehensive plan was a given of linking the national parks of Utah with the Grand Canyon of the Colorado by a road system which would enable one to visit all these places on one continuous journey. Ogden That the proposed steel bridges in the Ogden canyon which have been ordered built will disfigure the natural beauty of the canyon, is i the protest of the Progressive Business Busi-ness club of Ogden. The members of the club said they favored the original plans of the bridges, which called for their construction of concrete. Salt Lake. Cheek-to-cheek dancing came to an -end at the University of Utah when lunch-hour dance was abruptly stopped by Professor Thomas Giles, who declared that unless the students would dance properly, the entertainment en-tertainment would be discontinued, i Following the announcement by Professor Pro-fessor Giles Che ,music was again started and dancing continued, but the cheek-to-cheek variety was no longer in evidence. Salt Lake City. It appears that at last the boundaries of Daggett, Utah's baby county, are pretty definitely settled. set-tled. At least it will require an act of the Utah legislature to (change them. This was made clear by the receipt re-ceipt of the state engineer of copies of a resolution passed by the county commissioners of Daggett county, and a similar resolution passed by the county commissioners of Uintah county, coun-ty, determining the line between the two counties. Salt Lake City The Utah Association Associa-tion of the Blind supplied music for a recent meeting of the Ladies Literary Liter-ary club. 'i Ogden. Local merchants o:irr hirge displays of Utah canned goods, in an endeavor to promote Utah industry. indus-try. Salt Lake City Six new prisoners entered State prison last week. Tlireo were holdups, and two were convicted of grand larceny for stealing auto. |