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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers MEN GO BACK TO WORK. LAMB FEEDING TKOJECT. AIRMAN IN DEATH FALL. HEAVY SNOWFALL SEEN. LARGE AREA OPEN. SALT LAKE CITT, UT. Salt Lake's monthly payroll was increased increas-ed by .$50,000, when between 250 and 300 men returned to work at the Denver & Rio Grande Westera Railroad shops. BOISE, IDA. Approximately 37,-000 37,-000 head of Nevada and 10,000 head of Oregon lambs are ou feed in south central Idaho and Boise areas reports the state department of agriculture. agri-culture. Total number of lambs on feed in these two districts is estimated esti-mated at 11,000. Most of the lambs are fed on a gain basis of G to 7 cents per pound, while some lambs from individual owners are on a spread basis of 1 to 2 cents per pound. BOISE, IDA. Potatoes and onions on-ions are about the only farm produce pro-duce yet to be moved to market, reports re-ports the state department of agriculture. agri-culture. SALT LAKE CITY, TJT. The crushed body of Norman Potter, 30, was found in his shattered United Air Lines airmail plane 14 miles southwest of the Salt Lake City airport. air-port. Potter crashed almost within sight of the Salt Lake airport. He was enroute from Oakland, Cal. POCATELLO, IDA Buying a gun, George Richardson, 50, railroad rail-road mechanic, shot himself in the head at a service station here. He is survived by his widow and three daughters. Want of work is believed believ-ed to have prompted him to end hi3 life. BOISE, IDA. Reports of the two forests show that there is an average aver-age of 20 inches of snow on the Boise timber area and 17 on the Sawtooth, both national forests. ' Greatest depths on the Boise are 36 Inches at Hayfork mine, 21 inches at Kempner ranch and 40 inches on Bald mountain above Atlanta. Greatest measurements on the Payette Pay-ette are 22 inches at Rocky Bar, 18 at Featherville, 1G at Soldier ranger rang-er station, and 54 on Atlanta Summit. Sum-mit. DRIGGS, IDA. Driggs residents have a coal mine within but a few yards of the town. A dozen men dig it out and take to town for sale at half normal price of coal. A 20-foot vein has been opened. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. In an attempt to curb the enormous losses through lack of noxious weed and insect control, a list of all noxious weed infested farms in Salt Lake county is being prepared and next spring quarantine notices will be served on the owners. This quarantine quaran-tine will prohibit the removal of farm products or livestock 'unless all noxious weeds on these farms are so handled and controlled that no seeds may be distributed to other oth-er land areas and such products are officially released from quarantine by inspectors of the state department depart-ment of agriculture. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Appropriation Ap-propriation at this session of Congress Con-gress for construction of the Moon Lake reclamation project in the Uintah basin is requested in a petition peti-tion sent to the U. S. reclamation bureau by the Utah Water Storage commission. AMERICAN FORK, UT. Thru the cooperation of the local Lion's club and the city fire and streets departments, de-partments, a community skating rink has been constructed in the city baseball park. EUREKA, UT Development of a huge tract of mineral ground situated situat-ed to the west of the Big Hill property pro-perty in the East Tintic district has been started by the International Internation-al Smelting company. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Carlot shipments of fruit and vegetables to the Salt Lake market in October totaled 114 cars, 33 cars less than in October, 1930, it is shown by the monthly unload report by Leonard S. Fenn, state federal market news reporter. The report shows that shipments to the local market by truck from outside states during the month were the equivalent of 34 carloads. ST. GEORGE, UT. The first snow in St. George City in over two years fell here recently when a. total of three and one-half inches came down. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Costumes Cos-tumes of the fifteenth century will be affected by Salt Lake girl scouts when they go a'cnroling Christmas Eve. Miss Emily Lynch, local scouts' director, states, that the girls 40 of them will wear costumes reminiscent remi-niscent of five centuries ago when they help provide Yuletide cheer at the Salt Lake county general hospital hos-pital and at other places. IIEBER CITY, UT. A shipment of 703,000 trout eggs of the Lochlev-en Lochlev-en variety will be received by the Midway federal hatchery, east of Ileber City, within the next few days, announces W. C. Crump, chief deputy in the L"tah state fish and game department. After six months in the Utah hatchery and rearing ponds, the Portland consignment will be planted in Bear lake, the Utah official said. In exchange for the shipment, a similar number of rainbow trout eggs will he sent from either Kamas or Springviile |