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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers AVILL FAVOK IDAHOANS. ROAD IS COMI'LETKl). KEI)l (KI) KAIL RATES. MICH GAS IS I SE1). TOO MANY I5EANS. SALT LAKE CITY, I'T. Reduced Re-duced railroad rales affecting the movement of sttx.-k from drought stricken areas and food concentrates concen-trates into such areas will apply to all counties (if the state, according accord-ing to J. M. Macfarlane, chairman of the state drought committee. In order that the rate will be given only to bonafide livestock men, the railroads have asked the co-operation of the various local drought committees. Efforts are being made to have Wayne, Juab, San Juan, Box Elder and Garfield counties coun-ties included in the group offered drought aid by the secretary of agriculture. ag-riculture. TOOELE, I'T. The state department depart-ment of roads lias made final inspection in-spection on the 7.4 mile stretch of road on V. S. routes 40 and 50 in Tooele county between Mills Junction Junc-tion and Granlsville, built at a cost of $51,000. SALT LAKE CITY, UT The $200,000 stretch of highway 5.3 miles long between Castella and Thistle Junction in Spanish Fork canyon, is completed and in use. BOISE, IDA. Employment will be given to many Idahoans during the winter m6riths in construction of the new units at the state asylum for the insane at Blackfoot, reports Governor Hen C. Ross. Residence in Idaho will be a prerequisite for employment at the asylum, the report re-port states. MOSCOW, IDA. Fifty-three of the students registered for the forestry for-estry course this j'ear are from 21 states sutside of Idaho and three are from Canada. The school of forestry has 108 students enrolled for the course and several more to be entered under the student help plan recently adopted. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Receipts Re-ceipts from the state gasoline tax have been $13S,92S more for the first eight months of 1931 than for the corresponding period of last year, according to figures of the office of secretary of state. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The prisoners at the state prison protesting pro-testing against baked beans on the menu, overturned 25 tables and began be-gan a near riot in the dining room, but were quieted and returned to cells before the situation became too - riotous. MONTPELIER, IDA. A United States forest service crew is now in Montpelier canyon making surveys sur-veys for the new highway from this city to Geneva on the Coke-ville-Afton road. It is expected that work will start in the early spring, the money to come from forest and federal sources. r-ROVO, UT. Work at the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar factory at Spanish Fork will be rotated this fall, at all possible times to give as widespread wide-spread employment as can be done. The chairman of the unemployment committee for Utah county is cooperating co-operating with the sugar interests. LAS VEGAS, NEV. Boulder City's water purification and sewage sew-age disposal plants will be started at once. The bidder on the work estimates es-timates the cost at $37,930. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The supervisor for the federal government govern-ment for the federal shipping point inspection in Utah, states that 332 carloads of Utah onions have left this state this year. The bulk comes from Davis county, with Box Elder, El-der, Weber and Utah counties also shipping. Salt Lake county sent one carload. LAS VEGAS, NEV. A total of 2201 men have been examined for employment on the Boulder canyon project, and of this number 101 have been rejected. Every state in the union, with the exception of Vermont and Delaware, has supplied sup-plied at least one workman on the job, and California, with fK!7 residents, resi-dents, leads the list. Nevada is second sec-ond with 253, while Utah, with 120, ranks third. MACKAY, IDA. Wilfred Long-son, Long-son, 45, of Mackay, was accidentally accident-ally shot by his partner, A. Wom-ack, Wom-ack, of Hagerman on Brushey creek. The two men were hunting elk; in Idaho county. NAPLES, IDA. The road project pro-ject south from this city for 5.3 miles will begin soon. The road is to be resurfaced at a cost of $44005. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A delegation del-egation from Weber county visited the state tax commission and asked for relief from the high tax burden farm lands within the boundaries of Ogden city are carrying. The tax commission, it is reported will visit the lands in question. It is pointed out that similar conditions exist' in many Utah cities. Farm lands are required to pay the municipal tax, which makes a very high rate on such lands. BICKXELL, UT. Grain, harness and other material was destroyed in a fire, together with a threshing machine. Friction produced by the thresher blower caused the explo-, explo-, sion of soot in the straw stack. Flames spread quickly in every direction. di-rection. OGDEN, UT. Forest officials have completed a survey of Cache, Caribou and Wyoming national forests for-ests regarding hark weevil fighting. fight-ing. Control oiK-ralions arc reported as being very effective with few weevils surviving the warfare. |