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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers A GREAT INDUSTRY RODENT WAR BEGUN TLAN FEDERAL PARK TO BUILD WATER WORKS FIVE FOOT FALL FATAL DRAPER, TJT. A drive against rats is being made in this district. LOGAN, TJT. The sheriffs department de-partment during 1933 made 153 arrests. ar-rests. KELLOGG, IDA. The Sunshine Mining company mine near here produced pro-duced 3,212,000 ounces of silver in 1933. ELY, NEV. A further development develop-ment of Lehman Caves, new federal park, is being arranged. OGDEN, UT. The new regional forest service building has been completed com-pleted and is reported one of the finest buildings in the west. SALT LAKE CITY, TJT. The last day for securing 1934 Utah auto au-to license plates, without penalty, is February 28. POCATELLO, IDA. It is expected expect-ed that arrangements will soon be made for constructing a new water works system for this city. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah realized $3,000,000 from its evaporated evapo-rated milk industry last year, 88 per cent of this amount representing new money brought in by exports, said Frank B. Koller of this city. ELY, NEV. A fall of five feet into in-to a drainage ditch proved fatal to Henry Allen, G9, well known in ranching circles along the Utah-Nevada Utah-Nevada line, a short time ago. KAN OS IT, UT. B. Y. Kimball has secured a beer license for selling sell-ing 3.2 in Kanosh. This is reported report-ed to be the first beer license issued In 25 years for the town of Kanosh. LAS VEGAS, NEV. All previous records for the number of visitors to Las Vegas and Boulder City were broken recently when approximately 3500 persons arrived in town. More than 1500 were registered as they, passed through the reservation gate to Boulder City to visit the great Boulder dam. This broke the previous pre-vious record made November 11, when 1450 people visited the dam. LEWISTON, IDA. The annual cherry blossom festival and Indian Ka-ou-it, in which red and white men join in celebrating the advent of spring will be held in May. The show is based upon an ancient Indian In-dian custom, when tribesmen of the Pacific northwest gathered In this sheltered valley to spear the spring run of salmon and gather camas roots. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Water content of snow on the Buffalo watershed for recent week was about 74 per cent normal, with an average mean depth of approximately ap-proximately 8.6 inches, compared to the normal of 11.6 inches. The mean average snow depth was 30 inches, in-ches, with a normal of 41 inches. BOISE, IDA. A relief camp for transients is operating so well here, that the director announced it was likely others would be organized in western and northern Idaho. The camp was organized as part of the federal relief service to give unemployed unem-ployed transients an opportunity to rest and secure food at principal stations sta-tions along the route of their travels. trav-els. EPHRAIM, UT. Ephraim Irrigation Irriga-tion company shareholders have voted vot-ed 3536.72 shares to two shares in favor of incurring an indebtedness of not to exceed $254,000 with which to construct a tunnel through the mountains east of here and build feeder canals to bring additional water to this side of the mountain. SPRING VILLE, UT. Graveling of sidewalks on approximately 20 blocks throughout the city, and the construction of a road from Fourth North, along the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad right of way, north to the Columbia Steel plant has been started here. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Reports from Washington, D. C, indicate that a total of 73.000 acres of land in Utah may be added to the national nation-al forests so the federal government can take steps to effect a program of reforestation, and erosion and flood control. Headway in a movement move-ment to have 5S.000 acres east of Bountiful and Farmington and 15,-000 15,-000 acres east of Provo and Spring-ville Spring-ville included is reported. BOISE, IDA. Atty. Gen. Miller has announced that he will start suit against all assessors in border counties to test whether automobile automo-bile oyners living in other states but holding jobs in Idaho must buy Idaho licenses for their automobiles. automo-biles. ELY, NEV. Knocked 75 feet down a raise in the Ruth mine of Nevada Consolidated Copper company, com-pany, when a falling piece of rock struck him, James J. McElheran, 31, miner, lived more than three hours despite the fact that he suffered compound skull fractures, SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Dans to preserve the history of Eagle Gate and of Brigham Young's school house, which stood east of the gate, by means of bronze markers, were announced recently by John D. Giles, secretary of the Utah Pioneer Pion-eer Trails and Landmarks association. associa-tion. WELLS, NEV. Sheep on the desert de-sert ranges in western Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada, where feed has been short, probably will suffer severely from snowstorms in those sections in the early spring. |