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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers FINE BUILDING GAIN TREES TO BE PLANTED CITY IN GOOD POSITION SELF-HELP WINNING PLAN TAX REDUCTION OGDEN, TJT. Total estimated dollar value of the Ogden Better Housing campaign, recently concluded, con-cluded, Is reported as $3S5,000. PAROWAN, UT. Parowan Post No. 20 of the American Legion Is making a gift of 20 five-foot blue spruce trees to the Veterans' hospital, hos-pital, to be planted on the hospital grounds. LOGAN, UT. Nineteen hundred and thirty-five will find Logan city In excellent financial condition with expenses over $18,000 lower than In 1934, and with Increases In pay for city employes assured, the Logan city budget figures disclose. OGDEN, UT. SeM rching for a location for the new Ogden city water supply pipeline, which will be built with funds In the $586,000 waterworks revenue bond Issue contracted con-tracted for recently, survey parties are at work. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Idaho Tails has an nnusual self-help cooperative co-operative project. A group has dug twelve basements which they will cover and use as shelters for the winter. Next spring homes will be built. HAILEY, IDA. With positive assurance from Boise that the proposed pro-posed construction of a reservoir In Carey valley of eastern Blaine county can be made an I E R A project, residents there will vote on the proposal at a special election to be called by the county commission. BOISE, IDA. The state board of education hopes in promote legislation leg-islation In the coming session to Increase In-crease the state tax contribution to education, thereby reducing the cost to the local district and eounty. BOISE, IDA. During the 12 months ending December, 1934, Idaho gasoline tax collections totaled tot-aled $3,148,854, an amount which represents a 25 per cent Increase over the $2,502,134 collected in 1933. "WENDELL, IDA. Local turkey shipments are reported heavier for the Christmas holidays than were those for Thanksgiving and at a ' higher price. DUCHESNE, UT. An audit of the Duchesne school district for the last fiscal year shows an increase in-crease In revenue over expenses. PAROWAN, UT. Only nine of 132 voters in the bond election were against the issuing of revenue bonds for extensive improvements on city lighting and water system. Thirty per cent of the estimated cost will be In the form of a grant from the federal government. OGDEN, UT. The city commission commis-sion Is planning to trim the budget by $55,000.00 necessary to effect a 2-mill reduction in Ogden's tax levy. Unless the next legislature takes action to divert Ogden's liq-nor liq-nor revenues to the state, this reduction re-duction can be effected, it is reported. report-ed. TWIN FALLS, IDA. A horse "roundup" and clinic was conducted at the union stockyards here by members of the Twin Falls Future Farmer chapter in charge of the vocational Instructor. The plan Is to give the Future Farmers a knowledge know-ledge of horse ailments and how to handle them. SILVER CITY, IDA. Mining Is reported as very active In this district dis-trict BRIGHAM CITY, UT. The tax levy for 1935 Is expected to be In the neighborhood of a half mill higher than for 1034. MANTI, UT. The PWA has arranged ar-ranged a loan and grant ot $75,000 to Sanpete county for building a two-story courthouse at Manti. Of this amount $20,190 is an outright grant ; the balance must be secured by general obligation bonds. The project If built will give five months employment to 50 men. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The Utah F E R A processed 4S.945 head of cattle and obtained 7.20S,-480 7.20S,-480 pounds of meat for relief purposes pur-poses within the state from July 1 to November 27. A total of 100,207 head were taken out of Utah herds during the drouth cattle slaughter program, the report, said. Of this number, 29,281 were condemned In the fields by U. S. bmc-nu of animal industry inspectors, 25,031 wore shipped out of the state for the federal surplus relict corporation. 199 died In custody of agents, 537 were redistributed to Indians, 184 were condemned at the slaughter houses before slaughter, 1334 were condemned after slaughter, and 48.-985 48.-985 were slaughtered and nspd for j food. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Data compiled by the Farm Credit administration ad-ministration in Oakland, shows that for November, 9S land hank lonns, Amounting to $288,300, and 201 land hank commissioner's loans to the value of $370,300, have hoen cinsf for Utah. This makes a total of 200 loans, amounting to $001,-0O0.no. $001,-0O0.no. ST. ANTHONY, I D A. Field work and surveys to locate the best site for a storage reservoir have been completed. It is expeticl that the work will hein In the spring. |