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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers TAX FREE UTAH CITY LARGE ESTATE TAXED ART BUILDING LOOIMS THOUSANDS AT WORK SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Suits foreclosing mortgages on 234 farms located in various parts of the state, are being prepared by the attorney general's office at the request of the state land board, which holds the mortgages, mort-gages, and will be ready for filing fil-ing within 90 days. Mortgages on the 234 projects will average about $10,000 each, making a total investment by the state land beard of more than $2,250,000. SPANISH FORK, UT. Salem City, situated three miles south of Spanish Fork, is one of the very few cities in Utah which manages to run their municipal government without a city tax levy and still have a substantial balance in the treasury. The expenses ex-penses have been met by water and electric light collections. The entire electric system was improved during last year. BOISE, IDA. O. K. Hine, director di-rector of the division of finance and reports in the W P A for Idaho, Id-aho, announces that 10,885 per-' per-' sons are employed on about 400 projects throughout the state. Of this, Mr. Hine said, only 149 are non-relief workers. MOUNTAIN HOME, IDA. 25 men have been employed establishing estab-lishing a camp for building four irrigation tunnels as a W P A project. BOISE, IDA. A check for $20,392, the second largest on record for payment of an additional addi-tional obligation to the state under un-der the inheritance tax law, was received here in settlement of the tax on the late Helen Dwyer Day of Wallace. NAMPA, IDA. A reduction of $17,000 was made last year by the Nampa highway district in its bonded indebtedness. SPRINGVTLLE, UT. The contract con-tract has been let for the purchase pur-chase and removal of the build-. build-. ings on the site selected for the new art building, sponsored conjointly con-jointly by the city and the school Board at a cost of $79,868, of which $54,000 will be furnished by the Federal government. Every Ev-ery effort is being made for the completion of the building for the annual April Art Show. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Twenty-six persons were killed in automobile accidents on Salt Lake highways outside the city limits, according to the 1935 summary sum-mary prepared by the sheriff's office. Excessive speed was a contributing factor in most of the accidents and the accidents investigated increased by 39 as compared to the previous year. BOISE, IDA. Storage in the Snake river reservoirs now is nearly 80 per cent greater than it was a year ago. SALT LAKE CITY. UT. Special Spe-cial taxes totalling $3,890,327.08 have been collected by the state tax commission during the first six months ending December 1, of the fiscal year. This compares with a total of $3,416,907.78 for a similar period of the preceding year. Road funds reached a total of $1,874,454.12 of which $1,589,-599.99 $1,589,-599.99 accrued from the gasoline tax. Sales tax netted the state $1,393,193.32. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Final checks in a $350,000 payment were mailed to Utah turkey-men turkey-men for the . record-breaking Christmas turkey pool marketed last month, it is announced by the Utah Poultry Association. BOISE, IDA. Warden I. Taylor Tay-lor reports more women inmates in the state prison now than at any time during the last 10 years. The penitentiary population popula-tion rose to 300 recently, with the admission of six more convicts. con-victs. This is the largest number since 1932, when 331 prisoners were on the rolls. IDAHO- FALLS, IDA. The Idaho Falls W P A Airport project pro-ject fund of S48.406 has been approved. ap-proved. The W P A will furnish $43,406 of the total cost, with the sponsors' contributions making up the remainder. Just how soon actual work on the project will begin is not known, but all plans for the job are complete. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Reduction Re-duction in Salt Lake City's W P A program is certain because of insufficient funds in the 1938 budget to carry out most of the projects already appproved. It is pointed out that the 1936 city budget provides only $25,000 to meet the sponsor's share of the W P A program, while about $95,000 would bo necessary to carry out the projects for which the federal government already has allocated funds. LEHL UT. The Utah Lake has risen several inches in the last few weeks, because of additional moisture from storms. POCATELLO, IDA. A concerted con-certed membership drive to aid in financing the construction of pheasant holding pens and the enlargement ot "the American Falls fish hatcheries, has been begun by the Bannock county sportmens' association. BOISE, IDA. During 1935 the Idaho slate fish and game department depart-ment distributed 27.929.007 fin-gcrling fin-gcrling fish that were reared in the 12 state fish hn!'ierip rearing ponds, according to the state fish commissimv -. The operating op-erating cost of the department was reduced from $77,614 in 1939, when onlv 9,7i53.r!7 fish wore distributed, to S49.502 for 1P35. the statement showed. A total of 29.762.072 fish were planted in Idaho streams and lnVcs last year including the 1.C33.0G5 planted by the federal government. |