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Show Intermountain Nevs Briefly told for liuMy Headers ASK HI It KOAI) I'TNDS LIST 120(1 ITAII I AKMLKS iti;i)i k ;ka.in; m;i:s I.MI'ltOYK KOAIJ TO PAKK U I I DS KI I.N I'AKM LAM) BOISE, 1 1)A. ltcsiilenlrt of five central Idaho counties have iipx-l-ed to the governor fur funds to Improve Im-prove the Idaho central highway as a cutoff route to Yellowstone park 11 nd to have 1111 iillenuili; roule through cenlral Idaho Inlo Montana Mon-tana designated as I.'nlted Slates highway !).'! East. I'ltoVO, FT. In several respect Utah's YS.'.'J. crop of pcuclies was the most satisfactory, put out by the state In years, It is shown from the annual summary of fruit and vegetable vege-table shipments for that season. The 417 carloads shipped was the largest number since V.ri'.), when 500 carloads of Utah peacln-s were sold. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Auto licenses li-censes Issued for lXi.'l total about one-half the number issued for 1932, so far as the local county Is concerned. con-cerned. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Approximately Approx-imately 1200 Utah farmers have borrowed $125,000 from the government govern-ment through Its crop production office at Halt Lake for planting 19.'!.') crops, Is announced. Made direct di-rect to farmers, the loans ranged from $25 to the maximum of $300, but averaged about $100 each. ST. MARIES, IDA. Mrs. Edward Douglas was drowned In St. Maries river near here when a canoe she and her husband were fishing from capsized. HELPER, UT. As he was leaning lean-ing over the side of a truck traveling trav-eling toward Duchesne, Curtis Iiryner, 14, was seriously Injured when another truck coming In the opposite direction struck him as It jr.issed. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The national na-tional forest grazing expense of sheepmen and cattlemen of the eleven elev-en western forest states will be reduced re-duced by almost $1,000,000 under a new system of fixing these fees, by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. Wal-lace. The grazing fees will be adjusted ad-justed In accordance with the price of cattle and sheep. Western stockmen stock-men have been fighting ever since 1927 for this principle of computing the f'-es, hut until this time had been unsuccessful. AMERICAN FALLS, I D A. A new electric water pump has been installed by the city. ST. ANTHONY, IDA. Work of grading and graveling the road leading from the Yellowstone highway high-way through Green Timber to the southeast corner of Yellowstone national na-tional park is under way. Plans call for completion of the project by October Oc-tober 15, if weather conditions permit per-mit continuous operations. GRACE, IDA. Beets in the Gem yalley section are making rapid growth, with indications of one of the best stands yet recorded. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Eleven western emergency landing fields will be abandoned soon as an economy econ-omy measure. The fields are little used and their discontinuance will not decrease the efficiency or safety of air travel. SALT LAKE CITY. UT. A plan by which cannel coal found In southern south-ern Utah can be distilled to yield proportionately large amounts of oil, tar and wax has been tried and proved recently at the University of Utah. HELPER, UT. Fanned by a gale, fire destroyed the Helper Lumber yard, here, with an estimated loss of $o0,000.00. The loss is covered by Insurance. MT. PLEASANT, UT The local lo-cal shipments of wool from this district dis-trict have been retarded by the late spring. BEAVER, UT. Stockmen have placed their cattle on the mountain range for the summer. LOGAN, UT. It is estimated that 10,000 acres of good land in Utah are heavily infested with white top and wild morning glory. In these heavily Infested areas it will cost from $40 to $00 per acre to destroy these weeds, while the land itself is often not worth that much. BOISE, IDA. An Idaho organization organi-zation aiming to bring about legalization legal-ization of 3.2 per cent beer and repeal re-peal of dry amendments in both the state and national constitutions has been launched. BOISE, IDA. Thousands of nefarious ne-farious gophers and ground squirrels squir-rels will be wiped out in Idaho this year in a poisoning campaign to be conducted by the biological survey with assistance of crews from the emergency conservation corps. RENO, NEV. 735 wet delegates were elected to the prohibition repeal re-peal convention and only one dry delegate was chosen. LOGAN, UT. Cattle feeders' day will be held at Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural college June 23, under the auspices au-spices of the extension service. MORAN, WYO. With the advent of warmer weather, the Jackson lake reservoir is rapidly filling. The 830,000 acre-feet capacity reservoir is approximately three-fourths filled. |
