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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers LARGE COPPER SALE PLAN SAN JUAN ROAD NEW ORE MILL GREEN RIVER TRIP BIG CONTRACT LET ELY, NEV. A 40-day run before another lay-off will be put into effect ef-fect at the Nevada Consolidated Copper company, continuing to October 10. Recent sales of millions of pounds to Italo-French interests are said to have disposed of all the copper the company had stored la McGlll. MONTICELLO, TJT. A 15-mile federal aid project in San Juan county, closing the last gap in TJ. S. . 450, between Thompson and Monti-cello, Monti-cello, is announced by the state road commission. The new project will be part of the unemployment relief program plan. It is expected to cost about $70,000. In addition the lins revise work in Devil's canyon can-yon between Monticello and Bland-ing, Bland-ing, will be completed, at a cost of $12,000. BEAVER, TJT. Work is under way in Beaver for the installation of the latest type rod mill for handling hand-ling ore. The old woolen mill plant, partially destroyed by fire a few years ago, has been purchased and work has begun on remodeling. JENSEN, TJT. After eight days spent in hazardous traveling through scenic canyons of the Green river from the Utah-Wyoming line, seven men arrived at Jensen, a distance dis-tance of 102 miles by river from their starting point. A boat was lost while moving through Ladore canyon. It negotiated the leap over Disaster Falls, where Captain Ashley Ash-ley lost seven men by drowning in his famous expedition, but struck a huge boulder at the foot of the falls and overturned. The entire trip was made through rushing water. Several times the boats were overturned when they struck boulders, but were recovered. Often they would move in rapid3 running more than 30 miles an hour. The party took motion pictures of the scenery. SALT LAKE CITY, TJT. Bids on the contract for the largest of the state road commission's projects in Salt Lake county this fall will be opened September 27. This is the grading and graveling of the airport air-port entrance to Salt Lake from the west, between the salt worts on the shore of Great Salt Lake and the junction with the present paved highway just west of the Salt Lake-Tooele Lake-Tooele county line. This project will cost about $1-10,000 it is estimated. esti-mated. MOAB, TJT. The upper bridge over Courthouse wash in Grand county, will be repaired at a cost of about $0000, and a new bridge will replace the bridge in the lowor part of the wash, at a cost of $20,000, and $0000 will be spent on the Monb-Cnstlcton state road this year. BINGHAM, UT 100 men have been rivon employment in the Bingham Bing-ham mining district to increase the mining department forces of the T'nited States Smelting, Refining & Mining company to between 000 and 700 men. The new work made available will be rotated or "staggered" "stag-gered" to spread the labor needs as . far as possible and assure half-time or more employment to the 100 workers. The 100 men will be placed plac-ed on development work. HIAWATnA, TJT. A $25,000 road program was arranged for Emery county, of which $10,000 goes between Hiawatha and Mohrland, $10,000 between Castle Dale and Huntington and $5000 south of Emery. FAIRFIELD, IDA. Harvesting of the biggest wheat crop ever raised rais-ed on Camas prairie is proceeding at n fast pace, with grain pouring into the elevators at Fairfield, Hill City, Corral, Mnnnrd and other points night and day. Trainloads are leaving these stations every day, some going oast and others diverted divert-ed southward. ABERDEEN, IDA. Reports of grain yields per acre in this section indicate a substantial increase over last year and crops that have seldom sel-dom been equaled in this district. Besides the Increased yields per acre, there ip a twenty per cent increase in-crease In acreage over last year. ELY, NEV. Out-of -slate fruit and vegetable peddlers apparently will find an open door policy In Ely hereafter, following a decision that the ordinance heretofore requiring $t00 n month for a peddler's license In the city is unconstitutional. SALT LAKE CITY, TIT. Report of the city auditor shows a decrease In expenditures amounting to $27S,-4SS.10 $27S,-4SS.10 for the first eight months of 10.12. All departments of the city showed decreases. SALT LAKE CITY, IT. Four rtahns have received commissions lis reserve officers In the United States army, It Is announced from Ninth corps area headquarters at the Presidio, Sim Francisco recently. re-cently. SALT I..VKK CITY, UT.-Despite n plunge of 200 feet down a cliff nnd Into a pile of jngired rocks Ilctly Clark, Kl. .L'5I West Seventh Fonlh street, escaped with a dislocation dis-location and n fracture of her right arm. |