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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers GOLD DIGGERS BUSY. DAIRY TEST FACTS. BUY AT HOME PLAN. APPROVE HYRL'M JOB. WOOL BUYING URGED. BOISE, IDA. Shipments of perishable per-ishable farm produce in iced or refrigerator re-frigerator cars from southern Idaho Ida-ho totaled 5002 carloads during September. POCATELLO, IDA. Injuries received re-ceived in a truck accident proved fatal to Stanley R. Willard, aged 35, near here. IDAHO CITY, IDA. In the past year 27 quartz mining claims have been staked in the Rabbit creek section. sec-tion. Puyallup, Washington people made most of the filings. OGDEN, UT. With the advertising adver-tising of bids on three city projects, there are prospects of employment for a considerable number of the unemployed of the city. LOGAN, UT The summary of the monthly reports of the four dairy cattle testing associations of Cache county, show that the average aver-age feed cost per pound of butter fat during the period was 19 cents, and per one hundred pounds of milk, G8 cents. The average production produc-tion of butler fat per cow was 21.6 and 613 pounds of milk. A total of 1294 cows were tested during the period. OGDEN, UT. A resolution to buy all possible goods in Ogden was adopted by the Ogden City Teachers' Teach-ers' association. LOGAN, UT. The Logan chamber cham-ber of commerce will contribute toward to-ward a fund for the completion of the survey and preliminary work of the Hyrum Irrigation project. pro-ject. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A drawing was conducted in the office of-fice of the state fish and game commissioner com-missioner to determine which of the 311 applicants would be permitted per-mitted to kill elk in Utah when the season opens November 11 to 20. The state elk control board recently re-cently met and decided to issue 259 permits on the various elk districts of the state, and applications oversubscribed over-subscribed each of the five districts SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Every Salt Laker and Utahn will be urged to purchase at least three Christmas Christ-mas gifts made of wool as a feature of the Utah observance of National Nation-al Wool week, November 5 to 19, it was decided at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce livestock committee and representatives of state and national woolgrowing organizations. or-ganizations. The first three pledge cards were issued to Senator Reed Smobt, Gov. Dern and Mayor Bowman Bow-man of Salt Lake. MORONI, UT. A group of girls narrowly escaped death at Maple canyon when the truck in which they were riding stalled and began backing down a narrow dugway. To save the car from crashing to the bottom of the canyon, the driver turned the machine into the bank and trapped some of the girls who sat with their legs hanging over the rear of the machine. HENEFER, UT. The Summit county commission and the state public utilities commission have approved ap-proved the plan of the state highway high-way commission and the Union Pacific Pa-cific railway to abandon a grade crossing near here and build an over ov-er head crossing. BOISE, IDA. The state highway high-way bureau has outlined a tentative tenta-tive highway oiling progam ; based on certain revenues, that may next year cover between 700 and 800 miles with an expenditure of $1,-900,00.00. $1,-900,00.00. Among the major jobs on the program are: Idaho Falls to Spencer, 64 miles St. Anthony to Ashton, 14 miles ; American Falls west to Burley, 49 miles ; from seven se-ven miles south of Shoshone northward north-ward to Hailey, 49 miles ; Bear Lake county line to the Idaho-Wyoming line, 43 miles ; Mesa siding to Fruitvale on the north and south highway, 10 miles ; Caldwell to Parma, Par-ma, 13 miles ; Twin Falls to Roger-son, Roger-son, 28 miles ; Arco to MacKay, 30 miles. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Bounty hunters may receive state bounty on pelts of bountiable animals which they kill in the future. This is the effect of instructions sent out to county clerks by Ivor Ajax, slate auditor. The auditor opens up the bounty fund to payment of certificates certifi-cates issued on or after December 15. He believes that by that time there will be sufficient cash in the state bounty fund to take care of such work for a time, even though the revenue to be expected this year is low, on account of the low assessed assess-ed value of livestock. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Bean prices are going up. Great northern beans are up to ?1.35 per hundred for the first grades. Season's low price was ?1 to $1.10. The advance was one-third price raise in one week. BOISE, IDA. Idaho has 748 one-teacher one-teacher rural schools, with a cost of education which W. D. Vincent, commissioner of education, declares needs the attention of both tax reformers re-formers and educators. L'nlah county, coun-ty, In which the university is situated, situat-ed, has the largest number of one-teacher one-teacher schools, 75, while Idaho county comes next with 73 and Kootenai third, with 54. AMERICAN FORK, UT. A Boy Scout drive to raise funds for the work is planned. The quota as allotted al-lotted to the local troop to raise la lower than usual. |