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Show OLD LANDMARKS IN STATE TO STAY Kindergarten Is Popular PROVO WILL DECORATE BARK BEKTLKS DKSTKOY TREES WKBFIi COrXTY WINXKU WATER CIT1.O0K GOOD Duchesne Surveys and studios by engineers of the reclamation bure;m under E. O. Lars. in, engineer in charge of investigations in Utah, indicate in-dicate that storage waror for a supplementary supple-mentary supply for lands in Duchesne county can le developed at about $10 an acre-foot at Moon lake. Farmingti.n Work is being r.'shed on the Davis county court house. Murray More than one thousand people nUended the formal ope'nin of the new Murray high school building. Osden A $15,000 storm fewer project pro-ject lias been approved by the city commission. Salt Lake The Slate of Utah has collected more than ten million dollars dol-lars to date from the gasoline tax according to an estimate made by A. E. Christenescn, stale treasurer. The tax on gasoline became effective in the year. 1923. Beaver Forest officials and game wardens of the Beaver district Cotri-mate Cotri-mate that 1 ,1 tjO buck deer were shot on the east and west slopes of the Tusliar mountain ranges during the deer season. Trovo Fifteen blocks of the city are to be especially lighted and decorated deco-rated during the holiday season. Castle Dale Emery county sheep men, prior to the first snowfall were moving their flocks in from the desert des-ert range because of the dry conditions condi-tions prevailing. The recent snow was the first for many months and has aided the stockmen greatly. St. George With a view to retaining re-taining part of the old Dixie hotel at. this city as a Utah landmark, the Utah Ut-ah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks association as-sociation has forwarded a letter to the owners requesting cooperation in the plan. The association made a plea that owners of historic landmarks preserve pre-serve them whenever possible. Tooele? A mile and a half of gravel road is to be laid approaching the Union Un-ion Pacific tracks. Salt Lake The demand for extension exten-sion of the kindergarten department hi the public schools of thestate is on the increase, according to officials of the school board, and children of five years, or pre-school age, are receiving educational advantages that are believed be-lieved to be valuable. Ogden Bark beetles have destroyed destroy-ed hundreds of thousands af acres of lodgcpole pine timber, according to the regional forester. The damage is especially apparent in the northern sections of Idaho. Ogdon Weber county high school took fifth place in a national contest sponsored by a farm journal for the best chapters of the Future Farmers of Americaa in the schools of the country. The contest was held among the chapters to -determine which were doing the best and most efficient of work. Forty-one schools entered the contest. Salt Lake Although Income tax payments for Utah are about ten per cent less for 1930 than for lastt year, the taxpayers are more prompt in paying pay-ing than last year. Murray The water outlook for 1931 is exceptionally good in Salt Lake county, according to reports received re-ceived by the local office of the United Unit-ed States weather bureau at Salt Lake City. Provo Utah has shipped around 40 carloads of choice turkeys te eastern east-ern points this season. The shipments were scattered over the state and the destination of most of the birds was New York and Philadelphia. The Utah turkeys for Christmas will probably total about the same. Lcan Theron R. Andrus, of Marion, Mar-ion, Summit county, has been chosen as. the boy representative of the state in 4-H club work to attend the 4-H congress at Chicago. Andrus was the outstanding boy member in Utah for his sheep growing project. Kanah There are thirty thousand deer in the Kaibab forest according to recent estimates. Springville Construction of the additional ad-ditional unit of the Springville power plant is about finished and installation installa-tion of machinery is going forward. Mt. Pleasant Representatives from Mt. Pleasant, Fairview, Moroni, Chester, Ches-ter, Milburn, Mountainville, Oakviiie, Indianola, Ephraim and Manti met recently re-cently nt Ephraim in an effort to harmonize the various factions (if Sanpete county on a highways program pro-gram on highways numbers 80 and ISO. Salt Lake A $250,000 highway project pro-ject designed to help relieve winter unemployment will be started soon af-the af-the letting of tiie contract for the resurfacing re-surfacing of forty-one and a half mile of road from AYendovcr to Knolls on U. S. Route 40, it is announced by the state highway commission. Murray Organized hatcheries in Utah plan the hatching of two and three quarter million chick's during the coming hatching season, according to W. O. Ramshaw, president of the Utah Hatchers and Breeders' association, associ-ation, who has conducted a survey throrghout Utah. l'rovo Christian L. Peterson, one of Hie operators of the Boarrtman limn kiln, was found dead after he h:id I been overcome by monoxide gas. Payson A new chapel, costing in J the neighborhood of ?o!i,0H0 is to be j erected in I'ayson third ward. |