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Show I News Notes From All Parts of t I UTAH I Ogden, The apricot and peach crops in Weber county are doing exceptionally ex-ceptionally well this season, with little poor fruit noted, according to word received at the state department of agriculture from Li. Marsh, deputy inspector. Apples in the county are also reported in good condition. Salt Lake, Telegraph advices from Philadelphia received here announced announc-ed that Utah has been honored by the National Association of Attorneys General, which is holding its annual convention there, in the election of Harvey H. Cluff, attorney general for Utah, as president of the association for the coming year. Ogden, Eynon & Winger contractors contrac-tors of Jackson, Wyo. were the low bidders on the hard surfaced road to be built between Jackson and the Snake river bridge, three and a Half miles. Eynon & Winer's bid was 520,-607.G2 520,-607.G2 and the highest, $33,240.72, was submitted by Ross & Bean of Richfield, Rich-field, Utah. Qgden, The Weber County Farm Bureau federation has filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk. This amalgamates all local bureaus. Martin P. Brown of Roy is president of the new organization, C. A. Groberg1 of Parr West, vice president and Louis Wangsgard ol Huntsville, secretary and treasui-ir. Salt Lake Lloyd Garrison who has been assistant state engineer under the present administration was appointed ap-pointed by Governor Charles R. Meby to be state engineer to fill the va-aancy va-aancy caused by the resignation of R. E. Caldwell. Salt Lake, Sixteen farm bureaus in Sanpete county have filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state, through the Utah state farm bureau. The bureaus were organized in the following towns: Clarion-West-view, Ephraim, Manti, Milburn, Ax-tell, Ax-tell, Centerfield, Mayfield, Chester, Freedom, Fountain Green, Sterling, Spring City, Mt. Pleasant, Wales, Fairview and Fayette. Salt Lake, Holders of oil and gas prospecting permits allowing them to seek oil upon public lands in Utah mayy if the secretary of the interior sees fit, have the time for drilling to a certain depth or completing com-pleting drilling extended for a period not to exceed three years, according to word received by Eli F. Taylor, register of the local United States land office. Salt Lake, Another addition has been made to the list of Utah's resourcesUtah re-sourcesUtah timber. At least it has brought another new industry to Salt Lake. The Excelsior Products company, a Colorado firm, will establish es-tablish a factory in Salt Lake to make excelsior and other similar wootl products1 from aspen timber found near Fairview on the Marys-vale Marys-vale branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad. Salt Lake, Three persons were killed, seventy were injured in a total of 134 automobile accidents in. vestigated by the auto bureau of the sheriffs office during the quarter ending June 30, 1924, according to thi report of A. S. Nichols, deputy sherifi: in charge of this bureau. Provo, The Frovo Reservoir Wktei Users' association, organized for tho purpose of taking over a portion ol the irrigation system of the Provo Reservoir company filed articles of incorporation with the secretary o state. The association has a capital stock of $2,000,000. Salt Lake, Apportionment of 5197,. 771 to Utah from the forest service highway and development fund as. sures the carrying out of the 1924 forest road program adopted recently by the 'Mstrict forest office and the statu riad commission. The forest service will also be enabled to meet a deficit of approximately $4S,3SS iu the 1923 budget. Moab, Charles F. Moore and his crew of fourteen surveyora of the general land office are surveying township 25 south, range 21 east. This tract adjoins the township in which Moab is located on the west and north and includes several land entries as well as the site of the Big Six test oil well. The survey fa-being fa-being made with a view of opening the township to homestead entries. Ogden. Pedro Ciscirious, Mexican, Is chartred with assault with a deadh weapon with intent to commit murde' In a compl-tlnt filed by County Attor ncy David J. Wilson. Ciscirious is ni lcged to have stabbed Marcel Prather, an O. S. L. brakeman, cn a freight train at Roy in southern Weber county coun-ty on the early morning of June 17. Salt Lake, Jack Pillion, convicted of grand larceny in connection with the robbery of the Sandy City bar.V. December 12 last, was sentenced by Judge Ephraim Hansen to serve an intermediate term in the state prison. Beaver. Haying is on in fu!! ;vi;ig with a short crop reported by -lost of the farmers. Some of the ;!falfa is short, and in places the talks are almost stripped of then leave?. Hay is selling in the field? at $12 to $15, with little to sell. Haj hands are scarce. |