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Show Intermountain News Briefly told foi Busy ReaderB MANY MEN AT WORK WHEAT MONEY GIVEN FOX PELT TIME HERE NEW LIBRARY SOIGHT FIRE PROTECTION PLAN POCATELLO, IDA Fire protection pro-tection is the objective for an F E K A project submitted by the city for approval. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Checks In the sum of $35,555 have been distributed dis-tributed by the wheat allotment committee recently. BEAVER, UT. Tax collections for the current year exceed last year's receipts by several thousand dollars. POCATELLO, IDA. With the resumption of the cattle buying program by the government as a drouth relief measure, it is reported that the Pocatello meat processing plant will engage 504 additional workers. ELY. NEV. Arrangements have been completed for a small C C O camp to be located at Lehman Caves this winter to continue the development work begun there last year. TWIN FALLS, IDA. 12 civic organizations or-ganizations are sponsoring plans for a new library building for this city. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Silver fox fur farms adjacent to Idaho Falls have begun the "pelting season" and nearly 2000 foxes are to be pelted. SALT LAKE CITY. UT A substantial sub-stantial increase in the demand for new mining machinery and supplies is expected in 1935 as a result of an increase of nearly 00 per cent in the value of gold mined in the eleven elev-en far western states in the first nine months of this year over 1933. POCATELLO, IDA. An organization organ-ization of local restaurant men is being be-ing planned. The state liquor question ques-tion as affecting eating places is a subject that the new organziation will be called on to care for. PEOVO, FT The Utah State hospital will ask the state legislature legisla-ture for nearly ?SO,000 more for the next two years' operation than was expended during the past bl-ennium. bl-ennium. MOSCOW, IDA. A member of the University of Idaho's Holstein cattle herd has been selected as the best 3-year old Holstein cow exhibited exhibi-ted at any show in the United States this year. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. The entire en-tire reclamation program of northeastern north-eastern Idaho, including the completion com-pletion of the Snake River South Fork reservoir survey, the North Fork reservoir construction and other measures has been approved by the Idaho state planning board executive committee for presentation presenta-tion at the trl-state meeting in Seattle Se-attle in the near future. KANAB, UT. All goat herds in southern Utah have been condemned condemn-ed and will be purchased by the federal fed-eral government under the F E R A program and killed as soon as adjustments with the owners can be arranged. POCATELLO, IDA. The possibilities possi-bilities of constructing a new dormitory dormi-tory at the University of Idaho, southern branch, are being considered consid-ered by members of the chamber of commerce university relations committee. com-mittee. OGDEN, UT. The first wool sale was held in Ogden recently at the Ogden Livestock Coliseum. In the neighborhood of 350,000 pounds of wool were sold. The average price was around nine and one half cents per pound. BLACKFOOT, I D A. An announcement an-nouncement has been made here of mailing of checks totaling about $250,000 to the alfalfa seed growers of the district. OGDEN, UT. At least seven carloads of turkeys for holiday consumption con-sumption will he shipped from here to eastern and Pacific coast markets. mar-kets. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah's thirty-ninth anniversary as a state is to be commemorated January 4, with an elaborate ceremony according accord-ing to plans made at the state capl-tol capl-tol recently. LOGAN, UT. One of the new courses offered to students of the Utah State Agricultural college winter win-ter quarter is feature writing. OGDEN, UT. The Intermountain Intermoun-tain Poultry association show to be held January 4 to 10, inclusive, in connection with the Ogden Livestock show in the coliseum is expected to attract approximately one thousand birds from five states. PROVO, UT. More than 80 men will be employed-on a waterworks project in Payson, on which approval approv-al has been granted by the state F ERA. Replacement of 7,f.S0 feet of wood stave pipe Is planned in the project, at a cost of $30,007. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. In a special county audit conducted recently, re-cently, it is estimated that Salt Lake county revenues for 1935 will total $1,385,520. This will necessitate a cutting of the budget requests by some $260,000 to keep expenditures for the ensuing year within the total Income of the county. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A total of $22,448,041 has been expended in Utah during the period since September 1, 1932 to January 1, 1934, by federal, state and local authorities au-thorities in relief work. |