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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told by Busy Readers ! NEW LAWS IN EFFECT. WELL WORK OLD MINE. TOMATO ACREAGE LES.S ! I COAL RATE REDVCEP. BOISE, IDA. Among the Important Im-portant laws enacted by the last session of the Idaho legislature, that became effective this month, are : The old age pension, the direct primary, the marriage law, reqnir-a reqnir-a five-day notice before issuance of a marriage license ;. the oleomargarine oleomarga-rine license tax, placing a 5-cent per-pound tariff on uncolored and a 10-cent tax on colored butter substitutes sub-stitutes ; the 90-day divorce bill ; the income tax, and the electric power tax, levying one-half mill per kilowatt hour tax on all pbw;ef gea era ted within the state. SALT LAKE CITY, UT Organization Orga-nization of a new ventnre to go into in-to commercial production of quicksilver quick-silver and gold from the properties of the old Sacramento mine at Mer-cur, Mer-cur, Utah, has been announced. OGDEN, UT. Seven million tomato to-mato plants will be sent here from Moapa, Nevada, for planting in Weber We-ber county fields, according to officials of-ficials of the Utah Canners' association. associa-tion. Last year ten million plants were required by the growers. BRIGHAM CITY, UT. An arrangement ar-rangement by the railroads concerned concern-ed has been made to reduce the rate on all classes of coal from Utah mines to Brigham City by 25 cents a ton has been announced, PEESTON, IDA. A shortage In the Preston city water supply is expected ex-pected about June 1 to last through the summer, according to the water master of the city. WENDELL, IDA A car load of ten Guernsey bulls has been shipped ship-ped to California. They were consigned con-signed by the Thousand Springs ranch, and are reported as the largest larg-est shipment of Guernsey bulls evr sent to that state. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A reduction re-duction of $18,94S,S20 under assessments assess-ments made last year is reported In a statement sent to the county commission by the county assessor, showing assessed property values In Salt Lake county for 1931. When assessments are completed by the state tax commission it is estimated the reduction will relich eighty millions. mil-lions. SPRINGVILLE, UT. The work of transplanting tomato plants being be-ing received from Moapa, Nevada, Is going on. Contracts for the tomato to-mato crop this year total approximately approxi-mately 130 acres, which is 40 per cent less than the 1930 season. OGDEN, UT. An old time celebration cele-bration of the Fourth of July has been decided on by the Herman Baker Ba-ker American Legion Post. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. On the face of the spring wheat forecast for May, Utah has substantially reduced acreage and production, but the country as a whole will pile up a surplus much larger than for last year, or the average for th past five years. The crop estimate, ky the government crop statistician, statistic-ian, places the Utah crop at nearly three million bushels compared to 3,735,000 bushels last year. A ref duction in acreage planted of approximately ap-proximately five thousand, Is noted, PROVO, UT. More than two hundred thousand dollars damage Is reported to have been done in Utah county by frost. The strawberry straw-berry crop in the Orem section suffered suf-fered heavily. MOSCOW, IDA. Several hundred hun-dred prospectors, many of them experienced ex-perienced miners out of work because be-cause of hard times, are roaming through the mountains of the state, panning gravel in out of the way streams looking for gold. SALT LAKE CITY, UT This city will be visited by several thousand L. D. S. Mutual Improvement Improve-ment association nnd Primary association asso-ciation workers, June 11 to 14, inclusive, in-clusive, when they assemble hero for the annual conference of those organizations. The progran for the four days includes a Pony express celebration, a pioneer tableau, exhibits, ex-hibits, demonstrations, finals in activity ac-tivity contests, an outing at Salt-air, Salt-air, a series of lectures, institutes for community leaders and a general gener-al conference. BOISE, IDA. The regional forest for-est office at Ogdcn has notified the Boise forest office that cost of the forest highway projects planned for this season in Idaho will be $78,350. The largest project is the 11.5 miles of road between Idaho City nnd Lowman. Other projecls included on the list are Kctchum to Clyaton, construction of section between Challis and Robinson Bar; Banks to Garden Volley, to construct ten miles along the South Fork of the Payette river at a cost of one hundred hun-dred thousand dollars; Soda to Freedom; Warm river 'to Yellow-Brone Yellow-Brone and several others. LEWISTON, IDA. In thankfulness thank-fulness to the Great Spirit for banishing ban-ishing winter and bringing spring, the Nez Perce Indians held their annual dance near here. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. A plan for lcnsing 405,000 acres of storage space from the government was approved ap-proved of by representatives of 27 canal companies owning rights in the American Falls reservoir, tit a recent meeting. Negotiations will b opened with the reclamtion offls-ials offls-ials to regard to the pltin. |