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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers REFX'SE rOSTOFFICE MILK PRODUCERS ASSN. MOTHS CAUSE LOSS FARM BUREAU HELPS 47 APPLY FOR LAND SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The bill providing relief from assessment assess-ment work for holders of unpatented unpatent-ed mining claims during the present pres-ent year has been passed by the senate. Enactment of a measure of this kind has been urged as a means of relief for the mining Industry. It will prove of most benefit to the holders of small claims. RIYERTOX, WYO. This city is in the unique position among American Amer-ican cities of turning down a $70,-000 $70,-000 federal appropriation for a proposed pro-posed postoffice. YVhen the Riverton Lions club, representing most of the business men In town, learned the appropriation was being considered by congress, a meeting was called and a resolution adopted that congress con-gress save the money. FILLMORE, UT. Llle Robison, four, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Robison, Robi-son, was instantly killed when the horse he was riding became entangled entang-led in wire and fell, witn the lad beneath him. CEDAR CITY, UT. Cedar City is to have an office of the department depart-ment of labor established here. It will be one of the few employment service bureaus of the state and directions and instructions for carrying on the work will be received receiv-ed through the federal director of employment for Utah. BURLEX, IDA. Work has begun be-gun on a new drain ditch in the section sec-tion south of Declo. This work has been authorized to relieve encroachment encroach-ment of ground water which is threatening in that district. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A revival re-vival in Interest in acquiring acreage acre-age in the public domain under the homestead laws is indicated by the reports of the registrar of the local land office. A total of 47 applications applica-tions for 25,470 acres of land were allowed by the office on land in Utah during the last month and over ov-er 200 requests for information were received from all parts of the United Unit-ed States. RANDOLPH, UT. The assessor of Rich county reports to the state tax commission a total valuation of the property under his jurisdiction this year at a figure that shows a decrease of twelve per cent from last year's figures. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The senior marketing specialist for the bureau of agricultural economics, United States department of agriculture, agri-culture, has announced the installation installa-tion of a testing laboratory in the office of the state chemist. The laboratory lab-oratory will be operated by the bureau bu-reau for testing, according to accepted ac-cepted government standards, of the products of canning factories of Utah, Idaho and surrounding districts. dis-tricts. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The owners of household furniture in Salt Lake county will pay taxes this year on $7,713,360 valuation of such property, according to the report of the county assessor to the state tax commission. This is an average of approximately $40 for every man, woman and child in the countv. BOISE, IDA. It is announced by the director of the state bureau of animal industry that officials in Washington, D. C., have reported that Idaho dairy herds are free from bovine tuberculosis. Idaho is the seventh state in the union to be declared free from bovine tuberculosis tubercu-losis and is the first state west of the Mississippi river to be accredited accred-ited as free of the disease. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The organization or-ganization of the Salt Lake Milk Producers' association has been effected ef-fected here in the Utah State Farm bureau offices. The purpose of the organization is announced as being to form a cooperative association to improve the quality of the milk produced pro-duced for the Salt Lake market. Twenty-one producers were present at the meeting, representing six hundred producers from Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Summit counties. These men supply eighty per cent of the milk used on the Salt Lake market OGDEN, UT. The regional forest for-est dircetor has returned from fire training camps held at Cascade, Starket, and Salmon, Idaho. Forty men attended each of the camps and were given demonstrations and instructions in-structions in the organization of fire camps and fire crews. Fewer men will have to carry on the work during dur-ing the coming season, due to the prospective appropriations from congress con-gress being reduced over former appropriations. ap-propriations. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Two brothers from Mackay, Idaho, were licensed to marry two sisters living at Moore, Idaho, by the city marriage mar-riage clerk. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The . Utah State Bankers' association is to meet here June 17, 1932. LEHI, UT. The local farm bureau bu-reau and the city council members are cooperating on a plan to provide work for the unemployed and to assist as-sist the farmers in hiring help, thi wages, to be paid ln farm produce. |