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Show Intermountain News briefly told for Busy Readers PLAN HOG r.KCKEASE (STATE KEVEMES IP BRIGHTER RANGE NEWS A LARGE WHEAT CROP EXPECT MANY TOLRISTS SALT LAKE CITY, T"T. The ! coming season should see one of the greatest tourist aud travel seasons in American history and is certain to exceed any year since 1929 from a tourist revenue standing, It is predicted by travel officials in this city. RICnFIELD, UT. A petition to secure the establishment of an erosion camp in Sevier county has been sent to Washington, D. C. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. State revenue receipts for March exceeded exceed-ed disbursements for the same period by approximately four hundred hun-dred thousand dollars. BOISE, IDA. Range conditions and livestock production prospects this spring are reported as being improved over the same period of lust year. BOISE, IDA. R. C. Ross the federal fed-eral crop statistician for Idaho, reports re-ports a winter wheat crop in prospect pros-pect of 10,355,000 bushels. This production, pro-duction, if realized, would be greater than was produced in either eith-er 1933 or 1934, but would be nearly near-ly 22 per cent less than he average aver-age production of the five years from 1928 to 1932. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A ten per cent reduction in hog pioduc-tion pioduc-tion by Salt Lake county growers is Indicated In 1935, according to hog contracts being checked In the agricultural office. BOISE, IDA. Four car loads of dressed elk were shipped out of Idaho in March from Yellowstone park. Idaho car load shipments in the period reached 2963 cars. They were 4 carloads of elk, 2810 of potatoes, po-tatoes, 36 of butter, 32 of apples, three of onions, 19 of eggs, 7 of cheese, two of frozen eggs, one of beer and 13 of canned goods. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Wheat growers of Salt Lake and Tooele counties are determined to plant wheat acreages as originally contracted con-tracted rather than increase their planting to 75 per cent as provided for in the new ruling on release of wheat acreage, it was reported at a meeting held here recently. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Of the 13,-180 13,-180 acres of beets signed up this season in the Twin Falls and Bur-ley Bur-ley factory districts, about 9,000 acres are in Minidoka and Cassia counties for the Burley factory, and the other 4,000 acres are In Twin Falls and Jerome counties for the Twin Falls factory. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A horse show is being planned for exhibition ex-hibition early in June by horse men of this district TOOELE, UT. Com. A. D. Tanner Tan-ner announces that the American Legion post and the American Legion Le-gion auxiliary will act as host and hostess organizations to the district convention of the American Legion and Auxiliary organizations here on June 8. POCATELLO, IDA. About two hundred signatures were obtained at an assembly held by students of the University of Idaho, southern branch, to a petition pledging the signers to refuse to support the nation na-tion in the event of a war for commercial com-mercial gain. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah Is practically assured of four new erosion CCC camps this summer. Localities to receive the camps are required to demonstrate the necessity neces-sity for the work under the relief program. ROCK SPRINGS, WYO. A big clip of wool is predicted in the sheep shearing work now in progress pro-gress in Wyoming sheep camps. OGDEN, UT. Utah state medical medi-cal men will direct a state-wide campaign against cancer as part of a national drive to educate the public in the battle against the disease, dis-ease, It has been announced. Information Infor-mation on cancer and its symptoms will be distributed by the medical profession as a step in the campaign. cam-paign. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The general average depth of snow in the mountains of Utah at the end of March, as shown by 54 snow surveys sur-veys conducted through tne cooperative coop-erative efforts of the U. S. forest service, Utah State Agricultural experiment ex-periment station and the Utah state engineer, was 44.9 inches, according ac-cording to the official snowfall bulletin issued by the weather bu-1 bu-1 reau. The general average depth I last year for the corresponding period per-iod was 20.7 Inches, and the corresponding cor-responding amount in 1933 was 41.4 inches. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. An appropriation ap-propriation of a quarter million of dollars for a survey of the Colorado Colo-rado river in Utah is expected t. pass the present congress of the United States. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Charters Char-ters will be issued soon to 24 of the camps of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers, Pio-neers, It has been announced. Twelve of the new camps are in Salt Lake county, tive in Davis, two In Tooele, one in Miliard, three In Cache and one In Utah county. |