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Show I Mews Notes It' a Privilege to Lioa in - Utah ! ;. Park City Thomas Blyth. president f the Blyth-Fargo company, and Lyman Ly-man Fargo, vice president, were in Park City to aid insurance adjusters following the $200,000 fire which de-itroved de-itroved the company's store. The jmoldering ruins made any attempt it fixing the loss impossible. The huge safe was too hot to open and the idjusters returned to Salt Lake, to ;orae back later. priceA complaint charging E. Lat-tan Lat-tan of Price with the embezzlement of &G70 from Smith & Hancock, produce merchants of Salt Lake, was issued by County Attorney O. K. Clay. This amount is alleged to have been collected col-lected during last November and December De-cember by Allan from four or five Carbon county customers of Smith & ,'Iancock. Salt Lake City As a result of an altercation at the state prison which resulted in the killing of Cleade Sloan, convict, by R. C. Scott, another convict, con-vict, Scott will be charged with some degree of homicide, and an investigation investiga-tion will be conducted by the county attorney and the district attorney. Warden Richard E. Davis announced that the affairs is a striking example of the need of segregation among con-vicls con-vicls at the state prison. Price Carbon county commission-. commission-. ers are planning a meeting in the near future with the state road commission and the Utah county commission at Provo, with the purpose in view of making some kind of arrangements to improve the road over Soldier summit. An effort will be made to have each county work its end of the road. Logan Cache county will enter a herd of about fifteen cattle in the In-termountain In-termountain Livestock show in Salt Lake from March 29 to April 2, according ac-cording to a decision reached at a meeting of the Cache County Holstein Breeders' association. John T. Quaylo, Fred Whittle and Andrew Nelson were named as a committee to select the cattle that will compose the herd representing rep-resenting this county. Salt Lake City Pilot Jimmy James established a new flying record from Los Angeles to Salt Lake when he covered cov-ered the 60 miles in four hours and nine minutes, sixteen min'Ues better than his own mark and tied by Maury Graham. He carried nearly 400 pounds of mail. Price Definite arrangements have recently been completed with Carbon county for the construction in Price canyon of the Nolan to Rolapp road, a stretch of more than four miles. Gravel Grav-el surfacing will bo used and the cont of the work 13 estimated' at $125,000. Because of the heavy sidehill work, the road will be of higher cost than the average. Advertising for bids for aonstruction will be arranged within the next ten days, the department announces. an-nounces. Salt Lake Utah roads and trails in national forests ave received $3,000,-900 $3,000,-900 in improvements to date, according accord-ing to figures received by E. C; Shep-ard, Shep-ard, Wasatch forest supervisor. In rdaho, $4,152,S15 has been expended. Duly $980,000 has been spent on na-.ional na-.ional forest roads and trails in Nevada, Ne-vada, while the Kaibab forest of Ariz-)na Ariz-)na has been benefited by $1G3,139. Salt Lake Employees In Utah in-lustries in-lustries in 1925 numbered 70.036, while In 1926 there were 71,883. These workers work-ers were paid $S9,5.07,G70 in 1925, and !n 1926 the payroll was Increased to $95,493,634. Farmington Altering of the course of Big creek, bo that houses in the vicinity vic-inity of the viaduct, north of Farming-ton, Farming-ton, are protected from flood waters, will start in the near future. The work will be conducted cooperatively by the state road department and Davis Da-vis county. The new course will bee between fifty and seventy-five fert east of the present stream bed.'' A channel 8ve feet deep will ba excavated. Vernal The storm beginning at 11 p. m. on March 3 and continuing twenty twen-ty hours, according to the oScial government gov-ernment weather records kept by A. Theodore Jchnson. brought a precipitation precipi-tation of .S5 inch of moisture. During the period of the storm snow and rain alternated, but, the rain having the last argument, the new snow has been wiped out. The precipitation extended I west to Price and stage drivers report that on the Indian canyon summit 12 inches of snow fell. The roads are ex- tremely muddy. j Salt Lake The railroad main head- ' Ing of the Moffat tunnel are now 95 per cent finished and the rsilrond tunnel, tun-nel, full size, is 84 per cent complete, according to a report issued by the tunnel commission received here Monday. Mon-day. Progress up to March 1 shows that the railroad headings are IIS!) feet apart and that the railroad en-largmeut en-largmeut is 8204 feet apart. The water tunnel headings were holed through on February IS. Ephrafm 8. S. Van Boskirk, Elliot I Johansen and Fred Christens, who went to the Seely creek ranger station to repair the forest service telephone line and to make measurements of the snow at the different stations March 2, rc-n-irt 53 inches of snow at the experiment exper-iment Blaticm, wfth a water content of approximately 14 Inches; 57 Inches n.t Alpine, wllh a "water co-ilent of 15 inches; Si inches at Sccly crt-ek. with a wr.i-er content of 14 Inches. TIim Marvin Enow guayo of tho experiment station showed (he total precipitation tor February to be 4 lnchc |