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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers MAY BUILD PLANT DATE FARM ROAD ASK DEATH DAMAGE TAX BATTLE LOOMS FARM VI ELD GROWS LAS VEGAS, NEV. Construction Construc-tion was begun by 31 men recently re-cently on a road from the Searchlight-Needles, highway to the experimental experi-mental date farm being established by the federal government on the Colorado river at Sand Point near Tristate, and about 22 miles north of Needles. Thirty-one workmen are employed on the road work. The experiment farm of 20 acres is being maintained as a CWA project pro-ject to determine what kind of dates grow best In this climate. AFTON, WYO Work supervised supervis-ed and provided by the CWA, In Star Valley Is progressing very rapidly and is ahead of schedule time. The payroll Is In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $4000. BOISE, IDA. Idaho county, assessors as-sessors at their state meeting here admit they are facing a wide fronted front-ed drive for a reduction In taxes. BURLEY, IDA. Exceeding the year 1932 by $703,323, crop values on farms in the Burley Irrigation district aggregated $1,334,325 In 1933, as evidenced by crop and livestock live-stock census recently completed In the district for the bureau of reclamation. re-clamation. Increased acreage and tonnage for sugar beets was, in a large measure, responsible for more than doubling these values. The area harvested in 1933 was 5321 acres, as compared with 31C9 acres In 1932. The 1933 yield was 10,304 tons. PROVO, UT. Asking judgment of $5330, the Utah state industrial commission and the state insurance fund of Utah has filed a suit against the J. C. Penney company of Provo for the death February 12, 1933, of Orson D. Campbell, 50, Provo Pro-vo artist, as the result of injuries allegedly sustained when he fell on the slippery tile at the entrance of the local store. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Yield of the sales tax reached a new high In December when Christmas shopping shop-ping boosted total collections to $10,3,000, according to the monthly report of the state tax commission. At this rate of return t lie 2 per cent sales levy would yield nearly $2,-000,000 $2,-000,000 annually, and indications are that the final return will not be much lower than this mark. MURRAY, UT. The city commission commis-sion has passed an ordinance for licensing and regulating beer sales. License fees are: For selling bottled beer not for consumption on the premises, $20; bottled beer for immediate im-mediate consumption, $30; bottled and draught beer to be consumed on the premises, $50; wholesalers of tiottkd beer or kegs not less than four gallons, $100. OGI'EN', UT. Work on a federal highway beautification project, said to be the first of Its kind undertaken undertak-en in the state of Utah, will commence com-mence In the early spring with the planting of trees along a section of road between North Farmington and South Bountiful, according to announcement by the district engineer engi-neer of the Ogden office of public roads. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A comprehensive com-prehensive survey to determine the I relationship between prices mid by consumers and returns to farmers on nil ngricult urul commodities produced pro-duced In the state Is to be undertaken under-taken by J. 1 1. McGiblicny investigator investi-gator for Hie slate recovery administration admini-stration It was announced recently, j He will b" al'led In the work by (Instate (In-state department of agriculture and the rtnh State Farm bureau, nnd will pay particular nllonlion to the reason for the wide spread In prices between the produecr and the1 consumer con-sumer In the case of a number of products. LOGAN, UT. A warning to Utah farmers that local hog buyers nnd small pi-oce, sors in several sections sec-tions of the country, purchasing lle hogs for commercial slaughter, are reMirled to be deducting Hi'" whole or part of the amount of the processing pro-cessing t ii x from the regular market price quoted to the seller, lias been Issued by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace through the office of Director Direc-tor William Peterson of (he extension exten-sion service. Secretary Wallace has slated that country buyers and others who, In settling for hogs with (hp seller, make deduction for the processing tax on the bill of sale are penalizing the seller and lire tending to frustrate the declared policy of the ngi icull ural adjustment adjust-ment administration. Fiinners arc urged not to sell lo nny buyer who mnkes or proposes lo make any such deduction. LAYTnX, UT.-Liiylon city voted vot-ed Dc mber 2.H to bond $50,000 for the Insinuation of n municipal cull-nary cull-nary water system. This money, except ex-cept for 30 per cenl which will be n federal grunt, will be borrowed from Sail Fake llii.'inelal concerns. Water for the city has been furnished furnish-ed since 1!M2 by (he I, nylon water company. HALT LAKE CITY, IT. A new cheese factory Is to be opened in Salt Lake City on February 1st. A milk supply of ,'ttKitl gallons per dny will be used In (he fnclory. |
