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Show I ROAD PLAN' LOOMS Tax Levy Is Raised DRY CLIMATE HELPS EGGS 117,000 FISH ARE PLANTED NEW POST IS ORGANIZED ANNLAL CELEBRATION' PLANS OGDEN. The tax levy for 1931 will be 5.03 mills, as compared with 4.7 I mills this year. The levy will be larg-I larg-I er for 1931 than In 1930 because there Is a smaller balance and because the poor fund for the coning year has been increased. OGDEN Expenditures of $30,524 on special highway construction work in Utah for relief of unemployment was made during December,- .according to B. J. Finch, district engineer of the United States bureau of public roads. Under normal conditions, this money would have been expended in the spring, but ill order to aid the employment employ-ment situation, contractors agreed to carry on winter work. Local labor Is being used on projects both in Utah and Idaho, Mr. Finch said. SALT LAKE. The twenty-sixth annual an-nual convention of the Utah Manufacturers' Manufact-urers' association will be held January 17 at the Hotel Utah, according to an announcement by Arthur Kuhn, executive exe-cutive secretary. SALT LAKE. A fish and game legislative leg-islative program for the next session of the state legislature has been discussed dis-cussed by the recreation committee. One of the chief topics discussed was proposed legislation to give the Btate fish and game commissioner the same control over deer which he now has over elk herds. EPHRAIM. MantI National Forest Woolgrowers' association will meet here January 10 to elect officers. President Pres-ident J. C. Mellor has died since the last meeting. The report of 1930 activities acti-vities will also be given. PRICE. Because of the dry, even and unusually mild climate, Carbon and Emery counties hold excellent opportunities op-portunities for raising of poultry, according ac-cording to County Agent Orson P. JIadsen. Mr. Madsen reports that in the past year poultry production in the two counties has approximately doubled. doubl-ed. OGDEN. Entries for 29 head of purebred Hereford cattle from Ken Caryl Ranch company of Littleton, Colorado, have been received for the Ogden livestock show, January 10 to 15. Also entries for 17 head of purebred pure-bred Shorthorn cattle from the Sni-A- Bar farms at Grain Valley, Missouri. Miss-ouri. These two famous herds have featured previous Ogden shows and ST. GEORGE. Work has begun on the grading of U. S. 91 across the Harrisburg bench. The stretch will then be graveled and brought up to federal specifications. The Improvement Improve-ment Is under the direction of Engineer En-gineer Woodruff W. Caunon. Five thousand dollars will he spent by the state on this work, $3,000 for grading and $2,000 for graveling, i are recognized as among the outstanding outstand-ing show herds in their respective breeds in America. HEBER. The county commission okehed the 1931 budget of $53,318, a vut in appropriations of $3,737 over 1930. EPHRAIM. According to a report just issued hy the Manti national forest, for-est, 117,000 fish were planted in streams within or adjacent to the forest during 1930, 50,000 of which were seven inches or more in length. In addition to these, GO.OOO fish were planted in the Sehofield reservoir. Additional Ad-ditional fish would have been planted had it not been for unfavorable road and weather conditions during September Sep-tember and October ou the higher elevations. With the completion of the Ferron reservoir next year, that body of water will be heavily stocked with fish, so that Sanpete, Emery and Carbon Car-bon county sportsmen should find better bet-ter fishing than in past seasons. SALT LAKE. "The floods in Davis county (in 1923 and 1930) are a severe Indictment of abuse of range lands -that leads not only to floods, but to the deletion of the forage supply as well. Such depletion is uneconomical to the livestock producer. The livestock live-stock industry itself should cooperate in the correction of bad situations wherever they occur." Such is the opinion op-inion of a subcommittee of the governor's govern-or's flood commission, which opinion has been indorsed in general by the entire commission. The subcommittee's report is now being worked over for presentation with the reports of other committees of the commission to Governor Gov-ernor George H. Dern. It is believed that the whole subject of flood control will come up before the 1031 legislature legislat-ure for consideration. RICHFIELD The Se'vier county budget was fixed at $73,935 at a special spe-cial meeting of the county commis-loners. commis-loners. FAIRVIEW. A new post of the Sons and Daughters of Pioneers and Black Hawk War Veterans has been organized here. ST. GEORGE. Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah directors will meet here Saturday, January 10. It is expected representatives of the ten ! southern Utah cities which comprise the organization, will be In attendance. atten-dance. A banquet will be held at the Liberty hotel, followed by a business i meeting. i ' ERNAIj. Uintah basin residents ' will gather August 5, G, and 7 at Fort Duchesne for their annual 1931 celebration, cele-bration, has been decided by executives execu-tives of the Uintah Basin Industrial convention. |