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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Headers LOANS SHOW RKASE TRANSIT SAI.K SOI (illT H.AN ISI(; ( lil.KltltATION :if;i)() TO KKCKIVK WOKK i;i;vii. is 1 i:aki;i) HALT LAKE CITY, UT. Federal Feder-al seed loans for the region total $l,:t(IO,0), made lo approximately 8,1)70 fanners In Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Colo-rado, Wyoming, Nevada and California. Cali-fornia. Some 1 1,120' applications were filed, but 1,500 were disapproved disapprov-ed and 500 applications are pending. TUVKItTON', UT. It is reported that fhe alfalfa crop of Salt Lake counly Is threatened by the alfalfa weevil. BOISE, IDA. The public ulilltles commission has filed with the interstate inter-state commerce commission in Washington a brief advocating restoration res-toration ot the ".sale in transit" privileges on livestock sent to Mississippi Mis-sissippi river points and urging the retention of these privileges at Salt Lake, Ogdeu and Denver markets. IDAHO, FALLS, IDA. An unusually unus-ually Interesting 4th of July celebration cele-bration is planned here this year by the ex-service men of various foreign for-eign wars. BOISE, IDA. Idaho has received receiv-ed assurance from the department of labor that, regardless of the cut in the number of conservation corps camps being established in Idaho, the state's quota of 30IXJ men to be enrolled locally will not be reduced. LOGAN, UT. The number of persons registering for the 1933 summer school, at the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college exceeds the number taking the course in 11)32. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Nearly ten thousand children have enrolled at the city playgrounds for participation partici-pation in the summer programs. BLACKFOOT, IDA. J. Flohr, a pioneer ranchman of the Little Lost river country was drowned near his home when the cable of a ferry on the Salmon river broke. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. An analysis of the reports from 11 of the 29 counties of Utah reveals that only about fifty per cent of the taxpayers tax-payers of those counties paid their 1932 taxes. TWIN" FALLS, IDA An annual reunion of the second Idaho national nation-al guard infantry regiment is to be held August 25, in connection with the Idaho American Legion department depart-ment convention here next August 24-20. PROYO, U T. Water users of the Weber, Provo and Utah lake are carrying on a project that is expected ex-pected to save more than ten thousand thous-and acre-feet of water that would otherwise go to waste. The project taps the Weber river at a point just above Oakley by means of a dam, diverts the water through the Pro-vo-Kamas diversion cacal, which runs along the Kamas flats for 9 miles, and empties it into the Provo river 3 miles southwest of Kamas from where it Is relayed to Utah lake for benefit of Utah lake water users. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The state fish and game commissioner has announced that conditions will probably dictate the closing of the Strawberry reservoir to fishing for the 1933 season. LEWISTON, IDA. The recent reopening of the closed First National Na-tional bank of Lewiston and its affiliate af-filiate banks has made available more than a million dollars that has been tied up since the bank holiday. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Nearly ten thousand persons attended the recent conference of the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement association of the L. D. S. church held in this city. ELY, NE V. Payroll of $9500 per month will be added to the income of this district through the reforestation refor-estation workers' camp at Berry Creek. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Secretary Secre-tary of War Geerge II. Dern has recommended that $114,150 for construction con-struction at Fort Douglas be included includ-ed in the public works program to be submitted to the president. OGDEN, UT. Utah cannot intercept inter-cept shipments of beer or wine thru the state, if such shipments are in Interstate commerce, according to an opinion given by Attorney General Joseph Chez. FORT DUCHESNE, UT. It has been decided to hold the Uintah Basin Ba-sin Industrial Convention tills fall in spite of the unsatisfactory economic eco-nomic situation. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The Income In-come to the state for May gasoline taxes for 1933 was one per cent under un-der the revenue for the same month of 1932. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Having completed a four-year building campaign, cam-paign, during which one and one-half one-half million dollars was spent at a cost of a little more than two per cent, the state building commission has turned $25,000 back to the state and closed its doors. OGDEN, UT. Erosion, fire and insect pests have caineci heavy damage dam-age upon the forest area surrounding surround-ing the center oV the scenic district of northeastern Morgan county, It is reported. |