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Show Intermountain Naws Briefly Told for Busy Readers PIONEERS HONORED. 0. K. FOR BIG PROJECT. CAVE RECEIPTS DROP. APPLY FOR $12,000,000. WILL JI DGE FRI ITS. OGDEX, L"T. A new building for the forestry service, costing ?230,-000.00 ?230,-000.00 will be erected in this city. SALT LAKE CITY, VI- A decrease de-crease of 15 million dollars is forecast fore-cast in the taxable valuation of Salt Lake County in 1033. GREEN RIVER, WTO-Another landmark as a reminder of the hardships of the early pioneers and the passing of the first "Mormon" emigrants through Wyoming, is to be marked. The spot to he honored honor-ed is a burial ground near Green River discovered several years ago. The tiny graveyard two miles south of Green River, was found to contain con-tain eight graves. Eacli was lined with rocks and four had had headstones, head-stones, the inscription on which can hardly be read because of weathering. weather-ing. HENEFER, TJT. Government men are setting poison lines to destroy Magpie pests in this district. dis-trict. PROVO, UT More than 2200 cords of wood, making 1100 loads have been taken out of American Fork canyon this year, according to the forest rangers. LOGAN, TJT. Active work is going go-ing forward here on the next step necessary to bring a $900,000 reclamation re-clamation project to Cache county, following announcement that Dr. Klwood Mead, TJ. S. commissioner of reclamation, had approved work done thus far and instructed those in charge to "go ahead." AMERICAN FORK, UT. Depression De-pression times, which affected the attendance at all the national parks were reflected in a reduced attendance attend-ance at the Timpanogos cave, a national na-tional monument in American Fork canyon. The revenues were only G6 per cent of the 1931 receipts. RICHFIELD, TJT. From January Jan-uary 1 to November 15, 1932, $14,-164.64 $14,-164.64 was expended for relief temporary labor and team hire on road and improvement projects on the Fishlake Forest During this period 476 men were employed, representing rep-resenting 450 families. BOISE, IDA. High school fruit Judging teams from Weiser, Payette, Pay-ette, Emmett and Boise will compete com-pete here January 10, 11 and 12 at the annual convention of the State Horticultural Association, W. H. Wicks, director of plant industry In the department of agriculture, announced. The Judging will include in-clude recognition of varieties of fruit, estimate of quality and other factors. SALT LAKE CITY, TJT. Applications Appli-cations for approximately $12,000,-000 $12,000,-000 in loans have been received by the Agriculture Credit corporation of Salt Lake, it was announced after af-ter a meeting of the board of directors di-rectors at the general offices here. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. 100 tons of coal are being produced daily in the Teton basin mines. POCATELLO,- IDA. Over one million dollars is available to TJtah woolgrowers as pre-shearing advances ad-vances on their 1933 crop, according accord-ing to J. B. Wilson of McKinley, Wyoming, western representative of the National Wool Marketing corporation. LOGAJ, TJT. There are fifty thousand forest tree seedlings growing In the forestry nursery at the college in Logan that will be available for planting on Utah farms next spring. These young trees are of thirteen varieties and include Siberian elm, Russian olive, ash, black and honey locust, golden willow and black walnut, which are all potential wood trees. Information Informa-tion regarding the planting of trees may be obtained through the extension exten-sion service. SPRINGVILLE, UT. Over 15 thousand Iambs are being fattened on beet tops and in the dry lots in this vicinity. A wonderful variety of fattening feeds and good weather weath-er have been combining to produce an excellent finish. With shelled corn, beet molasses, wet pulp and alfalfa hay before them constantly two thousand head are fast rounding round-ing Into shape. McCAMMON, IDA. Blood poisoning poi-soning in the palm of the right hand, developing from a slight wound caused by the point of a rusty nail, caused the death of Carl P. Larsen, 48, a farmer, residing near here. POCATELLO, IDA. That Mabel Ma-bel Sawyer, 13, an Indian girl, was killed by strangulation, was the decision of the coroner's Jury in the case. The girl's body was found on an island in the Portneuf river. IDAHOME, IDA. It is expected that the cutoff from Cotterel to Idahome will be completed in the spring, and all prepared for oiling when warm weather arrives. PORTLAND, ORE. Idaho sheep men have found a market for a"ed ewes by shipping them to a plant near here for the manufacturing of dog feed. Previously, shep of this sort were fattened and placed In the market for six or seven times the amount rceived for them, which is about 75 cents por head. |