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Show Intermountain flows Briefly told for Busy Keadcrs Ai'I'LK CROP MOVING GiUSSFIOITI.K WAR ON TIII-STATK ROAD I I.AN CL'KTAHj WIIKAT CROP MOSS GASOLINE MONEY SALT LAKE CITY, L'T. The 10:il crusade against (lie grasshopper grasshop-per has been initialed by the Utah state farm bureau. Farmers can rid their farms of the pest if they'll plow together, .said Joseph A. Anderson, president of the state farm bureau. "Plow the stubble land this fall or early in the spring", Bald Mr. Anderson. "Then the eggs will be buried so deep that when the hoppers hatch they'll never reach the surface." SALT LAKE CITY, L'T. The 300 Salt Lake counly wheat growers who have agreed to curtail (heir crops as part of the agricultural adjustment act program, will re-reive re-reive approximately $:j7,f50O for so doing, has been announced by V. L. Marlineau, the county agricultural agent. The farmers will be paid 28 cents a bushel for reducing below be-low the regular production and it is expected that 20 cents will be paid by Thanksgiving and the rest in the spring, Mr. Martlnoau said. By compliance com-pliance with the program the annual yield in Salt Lake county of 239,-000 239,-000 bushels will be cut to 131,000 bushels. BOISE, IDA. Idaho has collected $2,008,302 in gasoline taxes this year compared with $2,111,80" last year, a reduction of $103,411, a report of the bureau of motor fuels discloses. BOISE, IDA. Idaho apples are moving to market at the rate of 100 carloads a day and are likely to continue that pace or faster, reports to the state department of agriculture agricul-ture Indicated. BOISE, IDA. Ralph Davis of St. John, Wash., was awarded the contract con-tract by the state bureau of highways high-ways for constructing nnd gravel surfacing four miles of the Payette highway between Meadows and New Meadows connecting this road with the north and south highway. His low bid on the job was $G0,08G. SALEM, ORE. Completion of the survey of the Oregon section of the route known as the Idaho-Oregon-Nevada highway, and allocation of $50,000 of federal public lands highway high-way funds for construction work has been announced by the state highway department here. BRIGIIAM CITY, TJT. Brigham City has applied to the public works board for a grant of $5,000 to complete the city water system. SALT LAKE CITY, TJT. Checks totaling $350,103.04 and representing represent-ing an apportionment of $2.58 for each school child shown by the last ' census have been mailed from the offices of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles H. Skid-more Skid-more at the capitol to the 40 sihool districts of the state. This is the second apportionment made this year, the first totaling $207,028.20 or $1.80 per school child, being made on September 28. BOISE, IDA. Malad valley residents resi-dents evidently declining to await federal money, advised R. W. Faris, state reclamation commissioner that they were going ahead with the building of two dams r.t once and were contemplating putting up two others in a water conservation program. pro-gram. BOISE, IDA. Idaho shipped 37G7 carloads of produce in refrigerator cars during September this year, a decrease of 517 carloads from the same month a year ago according to a report of railroads to the public utilities commission. SALT LAKE CITY, TJT. More than $2,000,000 of road work is In process of construction under the direction of the state road commission. commis-sion. Of tliis total, $1,000,000 is being be-ing done on "force account" by the state road commission on the secondary sec-ondary road system in 28 counties to furnish as much unemployment relief before winter sets in, as possible. pos-sible. SALT LAKE CITY, L'T. A business busi-ness spurt now under way in L'tah and six other western states will result In a 14.7 per cent increase In carlonding over the corresponding period last year, it is predicted by W. L. Harvey, executive secretary of the central western shippers' advisory ad-visory board. BT'RLEY, IDA. Approximately $5-1,000 has been distributed to sugar beet growers In the Burley territory of the Amalgamated Sugar company as final payment for over 102,000 tons of beets delivered to the Bur-ley Bur-ley factory last fall. SALT LAKE CITY, L'T. The Soldier Summit-Colton road project will be started in the near future. LOGAN, TIT. A request for cooperation co-operation of boot growers in preserving preserv-ing the abnormally high sugar content con-tent in the 1933 sugar beet crop has been Issued by officials of the Amal- i gamated Sugar company and the I Cache County Sugar Beet association. associa-tion. The beets, according to the statement, are testing ns high as 17 per cent, the highest ever recorded here. LAS VEGAS, NEV. Approval of the Las Vegas sewer system by the public works advisory board for Nevada Ne-vada has been announced. |