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Show Buy Sugar is Plan Now $257,00 AVAILABLE SUFFOCATED IN ORE BIN ITAn FIRST IN SII.VKK Ol'TriT AMENDMENT TO FKl'IT LAW FKl IT SHOWS GAIN SrRINGVH.LE A drive to kill rodents is being vigorously waged In this city. TOOELE Buried in ore. Charles A. Peterson, CO. once a fancy skater on a vaudeville circuit, was suffocated to death in an ore bin. SALT LAKE The silver output decreased de-creased from 17,1 502. ".ill! ounces in 10-20 10-20 to about 12.fM0.20O ounces in 10.10. MAGNA From 1G schools in tin-Granite tin-Granite district including 50S5 child ren, 592 are listed as unsatisfactory in the second term work. Tills number in eludes, besides grade failures in junior and senior high schools as well as elementary el-ementary schools. AMERICAN EOIIK Shipments ol fruit from Utah county during the season of 1030 practically doubled that of 1929, according to records of the Utah county agricultural inspection department. More than 1 It'll cars were shipped during the 19"0 season a-i compared with GS1 during 1929. SALT LAKE Utah's allotment ot $920,521 from the president's emergency emerg-ency appropriation bill for road construction con-struction will be made available immediately im-mediately as the result of a request submitted, by the state highway commission com-mission to Thomas II. McDonald, chief of the United States bureau of public pub-lic roads. This is Utah's entire share of the $SO,000,000 appropriation made possible by the emergency measure. PKOVO Dr. T. L. Martin, professor of agronomy, and I'rofessor II. Grant Ivins, instructor in animal husbandry at the Brigham Young university and Lyman H. Rich, Utah county agent, will give lectures daily in the farm division of the tenth annual Brigham Young university's leadership week lauuary 20 to 30. inclusive. MANTI Itesolutlons, which favor fncorporating the highway from Mt. Pleasant to Maple canyon, four miles west of Moroni, into the state highway high-way system, were adopted by the San-' pete county commission and a copy of the resolution presented to each Sanpete San-pete legislator. PROVO A resolution to present to the state board of agriculture and the Utah state legislature an amendment amend-ment to the present fruit law to permit per-mit canneries to use Utah cull apples for canning purposes, was unanimously unanimous-ly adopted nt a meeting of the Orem chamber of commerce agricultural committee and repreesntatives of the various fruit growing communities. SALT LAKE Utah remained first in the United States in the production of silver in 1930, but ranked third in copper after Arizona and Montana, and third in lead after Missouri nnd Idaho. The custom flotation mills at International, Midvale ana Bauer were operated the entire year nnd ore receipts at Bauer, chiefly from Nevada and Utah, were distinctly Increased. The dividends reported paid by mining min-ing companies in Utah in 1930 amounted amount-ed to about $18,630,000, exclusive of $2,55S,10i2 paid hy one company which controls mines at Eureka and Bingham as well as mines In other states. VERNAL The geology and commercial com-mercial possibilities of a large deposit of bituminous sandstone in asphalt ridge a few miles southwest of here, in Uintah county, are discussed in a report re-port just issued as Bullelin S22-C hy the geological survey, department of the interior. The report is accompanied accompan-ied by a sketch map showing seven localities lo-calities along a strip of outcrop about eleven miles long in which the thickness thick-ness of the bituminous beds was measured meas-ured nnd their relative richness estimated. esti-mated. Analyses show that the hit union uni-on content of the sandstone ranges from about 8 per cent to a little over 15 per cent by weight. On the basis of this data and the assumption that tho mining can he carried back one nnd a half miles from the oulcrop, it is estimated est-imated that the whole area examined should contain about one nnd tme quarter quar-ter lniilicL- cubic yards of bituminous rook. OC DEN There is a sum of $2r,7,CKiO available for early road work In the inlermountain forest service district, for which details arc being worked out, according to Regional Engineer J. Martin. Mar-tin. The improvement work Is to ha carried out where most needed and where there are a goodly number of men needing work. Projects tire to he worked out In Utah in the improvement improve-ment of the forest highway between Vernal and Manila and boiwoen Duchesne Du-chesne and North Eork as far as tho Savage ranch, whb-h is headquarters for outfitting tourists with horses and camping equipment for summer travel in east central Utah; the roadway between be-tween Pauguitel) ami Cedar Breaks, the fish Lake route and Weber can-yon can-yon for.-et highway 1 etwoen Oakley and Holiday park. SALT LAKE- Sen. Smor.t has In-troduocd In-troduocd a bill in the senate providing for the rounding out of the boundaries bounda-ries c.f Bryee Canyon to make way for the construction of road provided h" the emergency public works net. Sl'IIIXGYILI.E -W. Adams Prove., member of the relatn ns department, Pacific States Ca.stiron Pipe company, discussed the value of a trade at home resolution, and urged the review of he peli'fol curriculum to educate boyi and girls of leadership in industry at the Utah Education association regional re-gional conference here. |