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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers MEET AT SALT LAKE. LANDMARK IX ASHES. RAINFALL IS HEAVY. TURKEYS BY THE TON. DOG DERBY PLANNED. SALT LAKE CITY, fT. More than 500 members of the Intermountain Inter-mountain Chapter Associated General Gen-eral Contractors will attend the tenth annual convention of the organization or-ganization at the Hotel Utah, Jan-nary Jan-nary 14, when issues vital to the contractor and allied industries will be taken up. The unemployment situation sit-uation will be given particular attention. at-tention. ROCK SPRINGS, WYO. Fire of mysterious origin destroyed one of Wyoming's most historic houses recently re-cently when the famous home of Territorial Judge William Carter in old Fort Bridger was consumed together with thousands of historic relics and papers of the old fort, which were housed in the building by Maurice Groshon. The building was the first home built in Wyoming, Wyom-ing, built of milled lumber, and at the time of its construction in 1S5S and for many yeans after was the outstanding mansion of the entire plains. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. With a mixture of snow and rain reported from St. George, snow heavy on the Sawtooth mountains of Idaho, and on the Utah watersheds, irrigation ir-rigation valleys and winter ranges are the center of plenty of water, according to weather bureau officials. of-ficials. There will be a good spring range, plenty of water for Salt Lake City and given normal precipitation precip-itation for the period from now to April 1, irrigation water will be abundant next summer. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The annual an-nual convention of the Utah Manufacturers' Manu-facturers' association will be held at the Hotel Utah, January 13. SPRINGVILLE, UT. Nearly 7 thousand turkeys, three carloads, averaging fifteen tons to the car, have been shipped from this station sta-tion to the eastern markets. PRESTON, IDA. American Legion Le-gion post number 34 will construct a public ice skating pond on the Preston high school stadium field, according to announcement-''roni the Legion, after permission to use the field had been gained from the high school. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. If present co-operative plans between the Montana and Idaho state highway commissions mature, the Idaho Falls-Butte highway will be kept open throughout the winter, according ac-cording to word received here. POCATELLO, IDA. The Idaho potato season of 1931-32 has had some exceptional features. It has ' produced the lowest proportion of U. S. No. l's on record. It has had abnormally low prices during the harvesting season. It had unusually favorable weather for harvesting and storing. It has had reduced competition from neighboring regions. re-gions. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The University of Utah's hard smashing football team will open the season next fall with another severe in-tersectional in-tersectional test. The Utes have signed to meet the University of Southern California on September 24th, 1932. BOISE, IDA. The Idaho state guard boys who fought on the Boise basin fire line last fall must be paid immediately. This is the opinion opin-ion of the Idaho supreme court which was asked for a decision on legality of deficiency warrants to meet the guards' payroll. The payroll pay-roll dispute arose when it was learned that the adjutant general's contingency fund did not contain sufficient money to meet the payroll pay-roll claims. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Over 3 tons of fish was distributed to the unemployed by the relief officials of the city. The fish came from Utah Ut-ah lake. BOISE, IDA. A Moreland firm of contractors were low bidders on grading and surfacing five miles of highway south from Coeur d'Alene for the state bureau of highways. The bid was $GS,S31. On grading and draining the 11 miles from Star west to Desert Corners in Ada and Canyon counties, the bid was $30-279. $30-279. Both jobs were listed by the department as unemployment projects pro-jects and the contractors have been requested to use local labor where-ever where-ever possible. PROVO, UT. Wanton slaughter of trees with the approach of the Christmas season was deplored by Charles DeMoisy, supervisor of the Uintah national forest, in an address ad-dress delivered at Provo. It is declared de-clared that the sizeable stock in Trovo canyon was almost depleted by Christmas tree cutters who are now cutting down the bigger trees and taking the tops from them. ASHTON, IDA. Ashton, birthplace birth-place of the American Dog derby, will again hold its annual winter sport clnssic this year. A comfortable comfort-able cash balance of the American Dog Derby association and unlimited unlimit-ed enthusiasm impelled the officials to announce the famous race over the deep snow would be held this year as usual. RICHFIELD, UT. The opening of Richfield's new armory, constructed con-structed for Enttery E, 222nd field artillery, will be held the first of the new year. |