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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers OFF RELIEF TO WPA WILL BUY POTATOES LIQUOR SALES 447,405 EARLY MINES REVIVE OGDEN, UT. T he O g d e n Chamber of commerce will carry its fight for inclusion of the Og-den Og-den river watershed area within' the Cache national forest to Congress Con-gress if the action cannot be brought about in any other way, Secretary E. J. Fjelsted of the chamber of commerce announced. BIIRLEY, I D A. Abstracts of real and personal property rolls show Cassia county valuations of $5,895,486, or more than $84,000 under totals for last year, according accord-ing to Calvin E. Wright, county auditor, who summarized the assessments as-sessments for presentation to the state board of equalization. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Carloads Car-loads of food stuffs, thousands of pieces of bedding and wearing apparel have been distributed to the needy of Utah by the federal surplus relief corporation through the state FERA since Oct. 10, 1933. Glenn D. Reese, director of surplus commodities, estimates the total value of commodities at wholesale prices at $1,663,799. BURLEY, IDA. Drawings for a $75,000 Cassia county courthouse court-house were approved by the county commissioners in session and L. E. Fisher, Idaho Falls architect, was retained to submit specifications to state PWA officials offi-cials as soon as possible. BOISE, IDA. Liquor sales in Idaho's 23 state-owned stores during July totaled $153,491, to bring the aggregate revenue gained since the first store was opened in Boise to $447,405, it was shown in a report prepared by J. Milton Jenkins, auditor for the state liquor commission. SILVER CITY, IDA. This ghost of the mining center that was booming when Andrew Mellon, Mel-lon, eastern industrial tycoon, came here in quest of fortune more than a half century ago, is hopeful that development work now going on here will allow it to regain at least some of the glamour it lost with the dawn of the twentieth century. Higher prices for metals and improved mining machinery have started a new development campaign. POCATELLO, IDA. Upon order or-der from Peter Cohn of Boise, state director of Idaho transient activities, 77 men enrolled in the Mink Creek transient camp, 17 miles southwest of here, are to be given employment on a WPA road project in north Idaho near Lewiston. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah's share of the $7,784,000 fund alloted to a census of American business will be $25,-454, $25,-454, it was announced in an Associated As-sociated Press dispatch from Washington, D. C. The census is described as the largest of any "white collar" project yet launched launch-ed by the federal government under the work-relief program. The canvas will start on January 2, 1936, although some preliminary prelimi-nary work will begin at once. President Roosevelt's approval of the allocation followed the recent allotment of $293,000 to the census cen-sus bureau for a detail survey. Other intermountain states will receive the following sums under the census setup: Idaho, $38,245; Montana, $36,963; Nevada, $12,-557, $12,-557, and Wyoming, $23,462. BOISE, IDA. Representative Compton I. White (D., Idaho) was informed by the federal emergency relief administration that Idaho potatoes would be purchased by the government. POCATELLO, IDA. Deeply imbedded in the Rocky mountain region of this state can be found the west's last frontiers, where modern "frontiersmen" are battling bat-tling against the greatest enemies ene-mies of one of Idaho's most profitable industries, the livestock live-stock business. The enemies are the coyote, cougar and other predatory animals. GOODING, IDA. Canning projscts have been resumed in Gooding, Wendell and Hagerman the three largest towns of Gooding Good-ing county, and a countywide drive against noxious weeds is ready to begin, relief directors here, said. SPRINGVILLE, UT. The recent re-cent improvement at the city springs in Spring Creek canyon has increased the water flow this summer approximately 50 per cent, while the flow from the Hobble creek stream is nearly 100 per cent higher than at this time last season, city officials report. re-port. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Prepayment Pre-payment of 1935 taxes during July totaled $57,615.95, to bring the total of prepaid taxes for the seven months of the current year to S2, 393, 331. 85, it was reported by J. R. Jarvis, Salt Lake county treasurer. BOISE, IDA. The Idaho crop outlook is good, but the low price of potatoes is a disturbing factor, Dean E. J. Iddings, head of the University of Idaho college col-lege of cgriculture at Moscow and chiet of the university extension ex-tension service which maintains headquarters here, declared. Useless Things Steets ere absolutely useless for a bed of coals; tooth paste won't have any effect whatever on the teeth of a gale; yeast won't make the sun rise and rollers are unnecessary un-necessary for the shades of night! |