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Show f I News Notes;; X lt'a a Privilege to Livi in t I Utah BRIGHAM CITY Boxelder county, with a population of 20,819, spends $S,3S6,922.65 annually for living necessities nec-essities and miscellaneous items. The county has an assessed valuation of $39,161,194, an average of $7523.76 per family. SALT LAKE Ways of preventing a recurrence of brush fires similar to the one which raged recently for five days, in the vicinity of Dry, Red Butte and City Creek canyons were being considered by members of the city commission after xain had entirely extinguished ex-tinguished the blaze. PROVO Reclamation projects estimated es-timated to ccst $3,418,000 and which will bring 41,700 acres of land into use are set forth in a report of investigations invest-igations made in connection with the Deer Creek dam site on the Provo river, disclosed recently by E. O. Lar-sen, Lar-sen, engineer in charge of the Salt Lake basin investigations. MYTON Virgil Neale, overseer on the Victory highway in resurfacing the road, recently moved his crew and trucks to Myton. They are now at work resurfacing with gravel the My-ton-Roosevelt and also the Myton-Antelope Myton-Antelope units of the Victory highway from the gravel pit near here. They expect to remain in this locality two weeks. GUNNISON Workmen under the direction of the state road commission, have been erecting safety signs all along the state highway. Signs are being placed at all strategic points and are neat and ornamental and give adequate information to the tourist. It is hoped that vandals 'will not mar them by using them as targets or to write autographs and sign names. HEBER CITY Expenditures by the federal government for the administration ad-ministration of and improvements in the national forests of Utah amounted to $587,606.48, while the receipts from all sources during the past fiscal year totaled $186,501, according to a report re-port received by E. C. Shepard, supervisor su-pervisor of the Wasatch national forest. for-est. . RICHFIELD Forest Ranger Dych-es, Dych-es, stationed in the Glenwood mountain moun-tain district, discovered where mountain moun-tain lions had killed five head of deer early in the week. One of the deer was a five-point buck, which had been slain and dragged for several hundred yards down a ravine. Evidence of mountann lion around sheep camps in the district is plentiful, says Ranger Dycbes, who believes they are fnore common than the coyote. COALVILLE Oiling of more than thirteen miles of road will be part of the 1928 road program of Summit county, it was decided recently at a conference between members and engineers en-gineers of th state road commission and Summit county commissioners. Part of the roads to be oiled will have to be aonstructed also, and the total cost of the work planned is estimated esti-mated at approximately $45,000, it was announced. OGDEN Bids were opened recently in the office of the United States bureau bu-reau of public roads on construction work on one road in Idaho anS another in Utah. The George A. Lyon company com-pany was the only bidder on the Idaho road, which provided for grading of 1.69 miles of road on the Teton high-, way near Victor. The bid was $15,-887.90. $15,-887.90. The engineer's estimate is $15,384.65. The bid was recommended to the Washington offices. RICHFIELD The first rainstorm of wide extent visited the southeastern southeast-ern section of Utah Wednesday night, restoring the mountain sheep and cattle ranges to near normally and giving new hope to the stockmen, who have grazed their herds on beared ground for some months. Reports from as far south as Kane county and from the Escalante district indicate indi-cate that the rainfall was quite beneficial bene-ficial pnd that stockfeeding areas were liberally wetted down. MYTON Goodrich and Hancock, partners in the sheep business at Bluebell, Blue-bell, have bought from jlrs. T. A. Gardner a band 800, 2 and 3 year-old ewes. The price reported was $15.25 per head, making a total of $12,200, which is a record price in this part of the basin, at least for some time. The owners immediately drove the herd into the upper country, where they expect to graze them. CEDAR CITY For the protection of fish with an estimated value of $250,000 in Navajo lake the Cedar City chamber of commerce and the local fish and game protective association asso-ciation are building a dam 500 feet long across the lake separating the I main portion of the lake from the east end section, in which there are many volcanic sfnk holes. After the unusually dry season the lake is low and is now receding four or five inches a day. It is feared that the fish will not survive if the lake is allowed to decrease much more in volume. EUREKA A contract will be let I out soon to construct a landing field for airplanes in the Tintic valley, according ac-cording to information which Postmaster Post-master Frank Beesley has just received re-ceived from the department of commerce com-merce at Washington. The task includes in-cludes the grading, clearing and fenc. ing of 63 acres of land just north of Tintic Junction. The work must be completed before November 24. Specifications Spe-cifications call for removing all brush and trees, as well as rocks over four inches in diameter, then dragging the land an4 fillirg in gopher holes, uitch-j uitch-j as, etc |
