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Show ! News Notes X It's a Privilege to Live in t : Utafa SALT LAKE Specifications for approximately ap-proximately 120,000 motor vehicle plates and badges for use in register-ation register-ation of automobiles next year have been announced by H. E. Crockett, secretary of state. KICHFIELD The crop outlook in Sevier county for this year is one of the very brightest in the history of the county. This good season will make up for the several that have not been so good and there is a feeling of optimism here which is contagious. SCIPIO Two combined harvesters, the first to be brought to Scipio have been purchased for this section by F. W. and Samuel Memmott, Jr. Threshing Thresh-ing has begun. Some of the best dry land grain ever produced in the valley is being threshed. OGDEN Sheep to the number of 24,093, by far greater part being from Idaho, en route to eastern markets, arrived at the Ogden yards recently and were watered and fed before the trip was resumed. Sheep receipts for the month have been unusually heavy. SALT LAKE A branch of the Peck & Hills Furniture company of Chicago Chi-cago which will serve the wholesale trade of the intermountain region will be established in Salt Lake, Beverly S. Clendenin, chairman of the new industries committee of the chamber of commerce has announced. SALT LAKE Harold M. Stephens, former judge of the district court in Salt Lake county, who has been a member of the commission to codify the laws of the state, has tendered his resignation to the supreme court and the same has been accepted. No reasons rea-sons are assigned for the resignation. SALT LAKE Rich county commissioners commis-sioners are duty bound to appoint the successor to the late county assessor who was accidentally killed a few weeks ago, according to an opinion Tendered by Attorney General Harvey H. Cluff. The opinion was requested by P. D. Moffat, county attorney of Rich county. OGDEN Surprise that more attention atten-tion is not being paid to the hog industry in-dustry was expresses by W. E. Carroll, Car-roll, of Urbana, 111., professor of swine husbandry at the University of Illinois, who visited in this city and called upon Secretary Jesse S. Richards Rich-ards of the Ogden chamber of commerce. com-merce. PROVO The Utah County Fruit Growers' association at a meeting recently re-cently held In the city and county building, discussed problems of federal fed-eral regulations for the marketing of fruits, with particular attention to the regulations limiting the amount of arsenic that may be permitted- on export ex-port fruits. Movement to establish a cooperative packing and grading plant was launched. RICHFIELD While the reports, in general, from the best fields of this county have been rosy up to the present pres-ent time, it appears that there is now some little discouragement in some parts, especially near Venice. Farmers Farm-ers from that section say that the long drouth has brought on blight in that section and that there are farms on which tnc crop will shrink about 40 per ;e:it. SALT LAKE Taxing agencies, preparing pre-paring budgets, must take into consideration con-sideration the surpluses carried over from preceding years in computing their revenues, it is held by Harvey H. Cluff, attorney general. The opinion opin-ion was given following a question that arose, in Nephi, where the city has an unexpected balance remaining from last year. P. N. Anderson, city attorney, submitted a query as to whether the city is entitled to carry this as a surplus. SALT LAKE Holders of more than one hundred gas and oil permits will be notified by Eli F. Taylor, register of the local government land office, that these permits will be canceled unless un-less action it taken in the near future. Most of the permits have been held for I several years without any improve- mcnts being made or an extension of time asked, Mr. Taylor explained. Unless Un-less some action is taken all of the permits per-mits will revert to the government. OGDEN Utah spends more money for road maintenance than Idaho, hut Idaho has more money available this year for construction work than Utah, it was announced by H. E. Kerr, chief engineer of the state road commission, commis-sion, who accompanied B. W. Matteson and E. E. Kidder of the federal bureau of public roads, on their annual inspection in-spection of Idaho roads this year. The officials spent about ten days or two weeks in making the inspection of the Idaho roads this year. RICHFIELD There is considerable mining activity in the mineral region re-gion in the canyon near Salina, Sevier county. Several companies and some individuals are at work and have been for more than a year. On one shaft work has progressed so well that a depth of over 300 feet has been reached reach-ed where crosscutting through lime and shale, with results that are very gratifying has been started. Other claims are being worked in a similar manner, sinking shafts and running tunnels in an effort to find ore. |