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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers CITIES PLAN WORK. LIST DEER HUNTERS. LOWER RATES ASKED. CREWS BATTLE BEETLE. 20 MILLION FOR RELIEF. OGDEN, UT. Three crews, comprising com-prising 100 men, are working on the Wasatch national forest, in a campaign cam-paign against the mountain pine beetle. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Tax payments for September showed a gain over remittances of the corresponding corre-sponding month a year ago. WEISER, IDA. Forest fires in the Pacific Northwest have caused a two million dollar loss in the past few weeks. IDAHO FALLS, IDA.-Eeo Edgar Ed-gar Elliott, 10, died here of concussion con-cussion of the brain, suffered when he was thrown from a horse he was riding. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Twenty million dollars will be available for agricultural relief in Utah, Nevada, Arizona and California, according to the president of the eleventh district dis-trict of the agricultural credit corporation. cor-poration. BOISE, IDA. It is reported by the United States forest service department, de-partment, that allotments of federal funds to states for cooperative distribution dis-tribution and growing of forest planting stock to farmers, under the Clarke-McNary act, amount to $71,- 90S for the fiscal year 1933. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Applications Appli-cations for Reconstruction Finance corporation funds for municipal water supply systems are being prepared pre-pared at the rate of three or four a day, it is reported. The application applica-tion for $93,000 for Escalante's first water system and applications for $54,000 for improvements in the Panguitch system have been received. re-ceived. Sandy has applied for the sum of $14,000 for water purposes. Cities are being notified regarding requirements of the R. F. C. and as soon as the proper filings have been secured will be in line for the final decision on their applications. RICHFIELD, UT. Deer hunters hunt-ers on the Beaver district of the Fish lake national forest will be registered as in the past, and a close check made of all deer killed, according ac-cording to the forest supervisor, who distributed the announcement in form letters to hunters. The letter let-ter may be obtained by hunters at the registration points, lists 12 pre- cautions including instructions for the hunter regarding the registration, registra-tion, wearing of the metal identification identifi-cation tags, checking of dead does and fawns, and the filling out of the state license tag. OGDEN, UT The Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Finance corporation has voted its willingness to advance $645,620 to the city of Ogden, for reconstruction reconstruc-tion of its water supply main line in Ogden canyon and other improvements improve-ments to the city water system. The corporation, however, makes the loan conditional on the obtaining from the supreme court of Utah of a declaratory judgment upholding the right of the city to issue bonds on the work and to pledge the revenues rev-enues from the water system for the payment of the bonds. BOISE, IDA. Idaho state reservoirs reser-voirs that ended the irrigation season sea-son last year entirely dry, this year had carry-overs of storage water. Liltle Camas reservoir, irrigating land near Mountain Home, has been dry nt the end of most seasons for several years but this year ended the regular season with 7,000 acre feet in storage. The Carey reservoir also had a carry over all hough in recent years it lias usually ended with nothing. The American Falls reservoir, dry last year, ended the season with 375.2S0 acre feet in storage stor-age and no more storage water is being released although the natural natur-al flow is continuing through the head gates. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The Mountain Stales Telephone nnd Telegraph company, lists completion of a half million dollar project to supply additional toll circuits between be-tween Salt Lake City nnd Denver, ns a part of a seven million dollar construction program. OGDEN, UT. 70 men were returned re-turned to work by the Southern Pacific railroad, recently, to handle an increase of traffic. The new jobs , comprised positions for 30 trainmen, 25 enginemeii, 5 operators, 1 dispatcher, dis-patcher, G clerks 'and several shop men. BEAVER, UT. The Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing nnd Christmas shipments of turkeys from Beaver counly this year will surpass that of last year. Lnst year's shipment was more than 3,000 birds nnd it is expected this year's shipments will reach 5,000 birds. SALT LAKE CITY, UT Plea of Utah producers of potatoes and onions on-ions for a reduction in freight rates to pastern and coast markets on these commodities will again be forwarded for-warded to railroad executives, as n result of a recent meeting held nt the capllol building. The fact that I'lah growers have slorage capac-ily capac-ily for only 10 per cent of Ihe esli-maled esli-maled crop this year was urged nt tli( meeting as a reason why Utah terrllory might be distinguished from surrounding stales. |