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Show Intermountain Nsws Briefly Told for Busy Readers SMELTER IS OFENED NEW INDl'STKY STARTED LANDING FIELDS SOI GUT I'RGE SPRAY NOW STATE FLOWER SHOW TOOELE, t'T. The International Smelting company of Tooele has resumed re-sumed the operation of one blast furnace after no operations for some time past. According to advice received re-ceived here this will mean the employment em-ployment of about 200 men on the payroll for the remainder of this month and although the length of time of oeration in August is unknown un-known much will depend on shipments ship-ments received from mines and the price of metals. OGDEX, t'T. Engineer J. II. Young reports that oiling of the highway from Mount Cnrniel Junction Junc-tion to Three Lakes, a distance of 10 miles, has been completed. Oiling Oil-ing of 15 miles of highway south of Paragonnh is under way. Tart of the 30-mile oiling project between Holdon and Chicken Creek dam has been completed. SMITHFIELD, UT. The wheels have started turning in a new industry in-dustry which is expected to bring approximately $120,000 into Cache Valley annually. The packing of fresh pod pens, shipped by the Ya-qul Ya-qul Fruit and Produce company of California, started from a new warehouse at Lewiston recently. The work is expected to continue for about a month. From 40 to 00 men are employed and between 800 and 400 men are in the fields, as the peas are picked by hand. OGDEN, UT. Selection of several sever-al well located landing fields for fire protection in the Idaho national forest, are to be made on July 31 by a number of forest officials from airplanes, it is announced by Thomas Pearson, of the department of operation at the regional forest service office. BEAVER, UT. A new chapel for the L. D. S. Church is to be constructed con-structed here. PRICE, UT. All employees of this city are to take a month's vacation va-cation without pay in order to aid in keeping city expenses down. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A decrease de-crease in the number of births and deaths in Salt Lake for the first six months of 1932 is indicated In a report of Dr. L. E. Viko, city health commissioner. Health conditions generally are good, the report says. Births numbered 1,590, as compared com-pared to 1,652 for the same period per-iod in 1931, and deaths numbered 806. a decrease of 66 over last year. OGDEN, UT. A total of 61,000 trout have been planted in Weber county streams this year. BOISE, IDA. The fifth cover spray for control of coddling moth In Boise and Emmett valleys should be applied at once, announces state bureau of plant Industry. Apples are practically free from the pest thus far this season due to cooperation coopera-tion of orchardists in control meas. nres, the bureau reports. The July spray is very important to maintain these conditions since this spray is the one to catch the second brood of worms. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Tax delinquencies delin-quencies for 1931 are 12 per cent above normal. LOGAN, UT. William Teuscher of Logan, has received word from the Swiss government that he is to receive a medal given to railway veterans in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the St. Gothard tunnel. Mr. Teuscher was a conductor in charge of one of the first three festival trains to go through the tunnel. He served on the Swiss railways for 37 years. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. With the exception only of Spokane, San Francisco and Oakland, Salt Lake's retail store business held up better last month as compared with a year ago, than in any other major city on the Pacific slope, according to an official Twelfth federal reserve district report LOGAN, UT The Cache county farm bureau fair and outing will be held in Logan Sept. 13 and 14. The Cache county sugar beet growers' association, through its President Frank Wood of Amalga, will feature a sugar beet exhibit. Each of the farm bureau locals will be asked to prepare exhibits. A rodeo will be featured. BUTTE, MONT. A pilot and three passengers from Idaho were slightly injured here as the plane In -which they were riding was almost al-most totally wrecked when the pilot was forced to land in rough terrain near the Butte airport BOISE, IDA. An advance In the prices of sheep commensurate with recent gains in beef -and hogs is expected ex-pected in the near future, it Is announced an-nounced by F. R. Marshall, secre- tary of the National Woolgrowers association. The lamb crop at large is 20 per cent below the 1931 figure, Mr. Marshall said, but the marketing market-ing and slaughtering of sheep is about the same as last year. TREMONTOX, UT. The road to Elwood is to be improved in the near future. |