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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. Ten thousand volumes a month are loaned by the Salt Lake public library. The International Brotherhood of electrical workers will hold its convention con-vention next year in Salt Lake. The taxes of Salt Lake county foot up to the snug sum of $1,239,000 this year, and the taxpayersnuinber 40,000. On the 15th, Lehi farmers will receive re-ceive $175,000 for beets grown this year. The company paid out 820,000 for labor the first of the week. Up to last Saturday night the Lehi sugar factory had produced more than 10,000,000 pounds of sugar, with 42,000 tons of beets yet to be disposed of. The Salt Lake Tabernacle choir has been signed for a tour of the Pacific coast, where eight concerts will be given in California's principal cities. The Short Line and San Pedro have agreed to settle the grade contest by paiallel routes, using one track where canyons are too narrow for two roads. Billy King, of Salt Lake, and W. E. Samuelson, of Provo, have eutered the ix-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, New York, which will be run next month. , The Consolidated Railway and Power company of Salt Lake, will build a new electric pant on the Jordan river, at a cost of 8250,000. It will develop 3,000 horsepower. Professor McClellan, Salt Lake Tabernacle Tab-ernacle organist, is home, from an eastern trip. He states that he did not see the equal of the rebuilt tabernacle organ while he was away. The state land board is interested in the possibie extension of the big canal from Grand river, Colorado, into Utth, which would reclaim a vast area of splendid agricultural land. San Francisco capitalists have purchased pur-chased 40,000 acres of land near Wood-side, Wood-side, in the Green 'River district, and will prospect for oil. It is the largest real estate transfer ever recorded in u tan. Attorney General Breeden has rendered ren-dered an opinion that anyone who holds a physicians certificate that he is physically incapable of doing manual man-ual labor, can not be required to work poll tax. The average water consumption, per capita, in Salt Lake City, is 300 gallons daily, which is more than double that of any of the large eastern cities. Water meters may be installed to check the waste. More than .400 Salt Lake children are out of school owing to contagious diseases. dis-eases. The board of health and physicians phy-sicians charge gross violation of quarantine quar-antine rules by parents as the cause of ou muun sictcness. Veddo Delveechio, an Italian youth convicted of making a criminal assault npon Miss Bertha Westlund, a domestic employed at the Cannon farm, Salt Lake, has been sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. Percy Bloch, an employe of the telephone tele-phone company at Provo, Tuesday came in contact with a live wire and fell from a pole a distance of thirty j feet to the ground. He was badly snocuea and rendered unconscious by the fall, but will recover. The state land board is urging upon Utah's representatives in congress the advisability of securing to the state the arid lands within her bounds. If the state owned the lands thousands of acres of fertile lands would be reclaimed re-claimed by means of reservoirs. Fire destroyed the Payson roller mills last week, causing a loss of about 10,000. There were 14,000 pounds of flour and 4,000 bushels of wheat stored in the mill for residents of Payson, and many families lost their year's supply of flour. The mill will probably be rebuilt by a stock company The Utah Press Association is preparing pre-paring for an extended junket to the coast, intending to leave immediately after the annual meeting on Monday January 20th, 1902. The itenerary will likely embrace a visit to Boise, thence Seattle, from there take the ocean liner to San Francisco with a side trip to Los Angeles and perhaps other short trips and then disband, the bulk however, returning within ten days, via S. P. to Ogden. The White Star Oil company's well in Spanish Fork canyon has encountered encount-ered an oil strata at 340 feet which yields a light colored oil equal in quality qual-ity to the best valve oil. Sinking will continue until 700 or 1,000 feet is reached if necessary. |