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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers DROUTH RELIEF STARTED BUILD NEW CITY HALL ERADICATING RABBITS CCC SAVES TIMBER KANAB, UT. Kanab has received re-ceived notice that the $38,000 government gov-ernment relief money applied for last winter is now available. The money is to be used for improving the city water system. BOISE, IDA. Ninety-seven projects pro-jects have been started in the four Idaho drouth relief districts and appropriated for the work. More than 1500 men have been given employment. em-ployment. TOOELE, ITT. A committtee of citizens from Lincoln, met this week with the city council and asked if water from Tooele might be hauled to that vicinity, a distance of four miles, to furnish a supply of water for culinary purposes, due to the fact that the stream which has furnished fur-nished culinary water for the 50 families there for years gets so low that it only runs part of the day. The city granted them the privilege of hauling water from the Tooele mains provided they furnish their own container. POCATELLO, IDA. Water from Pocatello's gravity system, the principal prin-cipal source of which is Mink creek, has diminished this year to about 600,000 gallons daily, while at this time last year the daily flow was more than 3,000,000 gallons. MILFORD, UT. The heaviest rain since 1829 swept Milford recently, re-cently, resulting in a flood which caused considerable damage to many homes and gardens. DRIGGS, IDA. The Randolph Marketing company has employed thirty men to build a large warehouse ware-house here. They expect to have approximately ap-proximately 500 pickers in the fields. LOGAN, UT. There have been paid on Logan city's current obligations obliga-tions $72,000, during the first six months of 1934, according to Mayor A. G. Lundstrom. Besides paying the interest payments on the city's indebtedness, $32,000 have been applied ap-plied on the principal, he said. OGDEN, UT. About 1.000 railroad rail-road ties a day are being cut by the Standard Timber company of Evanston, Wyo. operating in the Wasatch national forest, according to regional forest officials. DIETRICH, IDA. To save crops throughout this section of Idaho, the eradication campaign is being vigorously pushed against rabbits, despite announcements from eastern and mid-western states that "save the rabbits" drives are being organized organ-ized as a protest against killing off the pests in western states. ESCALANTE, UT. F o r e s t r y members of CCC camp F-18, near Escalante, succeeded in saving much valuable timber in the Powell National forest. Fire had started about a mile from where these two sections were working and the boys were at the scene in a few minutes. The fire was in a valuable timber place, but by quick action, only about a half acre was destroyed. GRANGE VILLE, IDA. A hull recently visited the airport here, and after horning in on the party by crashing the fence there was no gate the bull snorted up to the Zimmerly brothers plane. Half a dozen slashes of his horns caused $300 damage to the machine. GARLAND, UT. More than half of the Locomotive Springs project. 40 or 50 miles directly west of here, has been completed. When the pro(-ject pro(-ject is finished at a cost of $47,000 a wild fowl refuge, a lake for the propagation of bass and a 10,000-aore 10,000-aore shooting marsh w he formed and will be opened to the spott'lov-Ing spott'lov-Ing public. MONTl'ELIER, IDA. The annual an-nual Bear Lake county fair wll he held August 30, 31 and September 1, it has been decided by fail-officials. fail-officials. BRIGHAM CITY, UT. The Box Elder school board awarded the contract for an addition to the Mc-Klnley Mc-Klnley high school at Trenionton, to Elijah Thompson of Salt Lake, the bid being $15,007. At the same session the board decided to pur chase two all steel bodied buses. POCATELLO, I D A. Deflclenc;, In precipitation during Juno, which was .29 inch under the normal of 1.09 inches, brought the total deficiency defi-ciency for the first six months of this year lo 4,99 Inches, the monthly weather report from the l'oeatello weather bureau shows. MINERS VILLE, UT. Plans are being made for B new city hall, the worl; to be done by (be FEU A. Ar-rangements Ar-rangements are also being made by FERA for a canning project here, which will employ live women. ogden, UT. Fourteen carloads of drouth cattle awaiting slaughter, have been received at the Ogden Union stockyards, The cattle came from Wanshlp, American Fork, NephI, Goshen, Hyrum and Fill more. TRBMONTON, UT. The Hear River valley Is In the middle of ItS illy grain wheat harvest. In many sections the dry land is yielding from lit In 20 bushels of grain. Many Holds are producing almost SS well as In normal years. |