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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers TRADE GAIN SHOWN JUST PAY TAX WORK ON OLD TRAIL CHECKS DELAYED MINES REEMPLOY MEN SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Salt Lake City will issue $1,500,000 in tax anticipation notes for 193L The notes will pay 4 per cent interest and will be issued in Sj.OOO and $10, 000 denominations. They will be payable January 10, 1935, and will bear interest on July 1G, 1934, and on the maturity date. NAD A, TT. Sheepmen report that snow on the northern slopes has become so crusted the sheep cannot travel without suffering from sore feet. BEAVER, L'T. Many smaller herds of cattle within Beaver are being taken to nearby ranches to be wintered. SALT LAKE CITY, L"T. Processing Pro-cessing tax of $1.00 per hundred weight on all hogs slaughtered, save for the owner's own consumption, went into effect December 1 in line with the administration's i?Miey of reducing the nation's pork supply and helping the farmers. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. In 1931 more than 7 per cent of all eggs shipped to the New York City market mar-ket came from X'tah. SALT LAKE CITY, IT. Designation De-signation of the "Old Mormon" trail between Salt Lake and Henefer as a civil works project will be asked by tho Utah Pioneer Trails nnd Landmarks association. BOISE, IDA. Idaho wheat-growing farmers have failed to receive checks for acreage they have taken out of production under the administration's admin-istration's wheat program because county boards, as a rule, have failed to report to Washington on the amounts due individual farmers. BOISE. IDA. The mining situation situa-tion in the Coenr d'Alenes shows improvement over last June. Will II. Simons, state rn'ne inspector, said on his return from a tour in which he noted particularly nn increase in the number of miners wMi jobs and longer working p,-rio Is for tiicm. Between 3'i0 and 400 men have ben put to work by adding shifts, opening open-ing mines and cxP'nOing operations, he said. Wages have beer, increased SO cents a day and in some instances men arc working live days a week Instead of thn e. BOISE, IDA. Senators William T.. Borah and J. V. Pope have b; gun to work individually with m?m!-rs of the public works board in the hope of securing an initial nlloca-" nlloca-" tion of ?2.(Ki0.fKX) to start construction construc-tion of the Salmon river diversion, adjunct of the Boise project, estimated esti-mated to co-t S9.0M.0o0. SALT LAKE CITY, IT. Box F.iiler county, Utah, ranked thirty-B thirty-B cond ami ng counties of t lie United States in the number of apricot trevs of bearing ng. in 193 ncconi'.ng to a repoit of the census bureau. Canyon county. Idaho. ranked thirty-uin: h. Box Elder county reported l's073 tries, lvnring 1S,-C.-.j bnsl.- ls. valued at ?27. Canyon Can-yon county reported 91." I bcarii.g tnes, from which was harvested CoTG bushels, value 1 at $12,312. SALT LAKE CITY. IT. Sclt Ijike led the lKt cf western cities In department store business gains for November over n year auo. OGDKN", FT. A r, p rt nu.de at a meeting at relief headquarters shows that more than one thousand Red Cross articles of clothing were given out In NoveniN'r. OGDKN", T'T. The ivo-ram of furnishing I 10 undernourished and needy children with a hot meal each day In the (den oily schools Is declared de-clared by school officials to be highly high-ly successful. This Is linn need by the federal civil works administration. administra-tion. PI'.iiVO, I T. An cros'on control project In the canyons enst of Prove was approved by I'lah county nc.d Provo city at a joint session of the two commissions. SALT LAKE CITY. FT. A statistician and 2S assistants viiil bcLtln In the near future to make a survey of unemployment in I'ltib, George A. Yager, state direelor of the federal t oemploymeiit service, has been authorized by Washington officials to employ the force. The aulhori.alien came from Walter Burr, assistant federal director of the reemployment service In Washington. Wash-ington. The force will work In civ otora(Ion with federal reemployment reemploy-ment represent a I Ives throughout the slate, and will compile records giving giv-ing a complete survcv of the unemployment unem-ployment siliuillon. The survey Is believed lo be connected with President Presi-dent Koosevcll's plans to ask congress con-gress for $.1. 37e..000.n0O, including a large sum for C W A work between March 1 nnd May 1. The unemployed, unemploy-ed, It Is hoped, will be nbsorbed by tho public works after May 1. BOISE, IDA The slate bureau of highways has nwnrdcd n contract to J. C. McGulrc of Bulte for con-struollng. con-struollng. draining and gravel surfacing sur-facing the miles of the highway Iwcen the Snake river nnd Lewis-vlllc Lewis-vlllc In JetTerson county on a lew bid of $M.t'.I7. IloiSi:, IDA. A call for .",('. engineers engi-neers nnd 70 assistants for work under the l ulled Stales Coast nnd Geodetic Survey III Idaho has heel, Issued by Ivan Crawford, Idaho tmbllc works engineer. |