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Show , --?! Pithy News Notes 1 r From All Parts of j ! UTAH - Gunnison Elaborate plans are being be-ing made for dedicating Gunnison'3 new SS0.000 high school building. It is proposed to have a "house warming" soon, and residents from all the adjoining adjoin-ing communities will be invited to participate par-ticipate in the festivities. There will be dancing and a banquet Several educators ed-ucators aud prominent speakers from Salt Lake aud county towns will be present. Salt Lake Clifford E. Smythe, first Iietenant in the army air service, who was among those who lost their lives In the collapse and fall of the airship Kama recently was a former business man of Salt Lake. Smythe was listed In the . casualty list as a resident of Chicago and It was only a few days ago that his friends here learned that he was a member of the ill-fated Roma crew. Provo A large delegation representing repre-senting taxpayers In the southern part of the county met with the county commission com-mission relative to the proposed concrete con-crete road from Spanish Fork to Pay-son Pay-son by way of Benjamin. At a previous pre-vious meeting a delegation hd petitioned peti-tioned the commissioners to construct the road by way of Lake Sliore and Palmyra. Salt Lake From thfrty-flve to forty Inquiries concerning Salt Lake and Utah are being received dftlly at the Commercial club. The increased number num-ber of letters has been noted for the past several weeks. More than sixty hotels in the east are nov distributing Salt Lake and Utah literature. Provo The company which was recently re-cently awarded the contract for constructing con-structing the new sewer system in the eastern part of the city, has begun work with a force orf more than 100 men. The contsructlon work, which will last for about six weeks, will be of assistance to the Provo men who have been out o work for some time. Only local men with families are given giv-en employment by the company. Murray Deer driven out of the Big Cottonwood game preserve by the heavy snows of recent date were killed in the foothills a few miles from Salt Lake, but possesion of their carcasses cost Leonard Nellson $150 and Alvn Lflrsoin $75, as a result of a session In the court of Justice II. T. Mathews at Murray. Larson was let off With half the fine meted out to his older companion, com-panion, Larson pleading that he had just become 18 years of age. Salt Lake. In a statewide survey which has included Investigation along many different lines it has been found that farm and grazing land values In Utah have decreased from 25 to 50 percent per-cent since the years 1019 and 1920. The average as disclosed by all of the assembled information shows a de crease of 34.07 per cent. This is thw information just made public by the tax legislative committee of the Utah State Farm Bureau and is being used In a campaign throughout the state to bring about a reduction in assessments assess-ments for 1922. Provo William M. Koylance, who recently returned from a trip through the eastern nnd southern markets declared de-clared that there is a growing clemaVl for western fruits and vegetables. "We could sell hundreds more of carloads of both fruits and vegetables if we could get them," he said and lamented the fact that more produce is not raised among the land owners of Oils community. Beaver Three large hunts have been made in Box Elder county, which destroyed approximately 17,400 jack rabbits. One large hunt was made at Blue Creek by 300 hunters mostly from Salt Lake and Ogden. Tha farmers cooperated with the county agent and did their part in driving the rabbits to the hunters. Seven thousand five nundred rabbits were killed. At Lake another large hunt wbb made by hunters, mostly from Salt Lake and Ogden. Eight thousand thous-and five hundred rabbits were killed. Farmers cooperated in making drives to hunters. Eighty hunters from Tre-monton Tre-monton and Garland made a hunt at Howell. 1400 rabbits were shot. Farmers Farm-ers at Howell cooperated with hunters. Beaver City By the cull of the Benver City Chamber of Commece Interested In-terested people were called together and a poultry association organized to promote more poultry and better management. man-agement. About seventy inquiries were mailed out for baby chicks. Through the dairy committee of the Chamber of Commerce a dairymen's association has also been organized to promote belter dairying. Ogden Waters users of the Weber i river system have been granted an extension ex-tension of time until April 20 to fib-their fib-their claims to water In tbe suit of the Plain City Irrigation company against i the Hooper and N"rth Oirden Irrigation i companies and about .V) water users. . I Helta. The town of Delta, at an en. j iliusiastlc meeting, passed resolution i offering a site fer the erection of n . i steel plant at Delta, and a committee of business men was oppola'ed to rnak presentation of the offer. |