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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Headers AID FOR STUDENTS PLAN ANNUAL SALE A BIG WORK PROJECT TWO MILLION SHEEP SALT "LAKE CITY, TJT. The finest products of Utah's fields, gardens and orchards will be exhibited ex-hibited in exceptional variety and in settings worthy of their excellence at the 1935 state fair, scheduled to open in Salt Lake City September 28 and close October Oc-tober 5. OGDEN, UT. To encourage production of better wool and to promote proper handling and preparation for market, an annual an-nual wool sale will be inaugurated inaugu-rated this year in conjunction with the seventeenth annual Og-den Og-den livestock show, January 10 to 16, announces Ezra J. Fjelds-ted, Fjelds-ted, secretary of the livestock show. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Worthy Wor-thy students of Utah colleges will receive a total of $15,666.30 a month to aid them in completing complet-ing their educational training, Dr. Francis W. Kirkham, Utah director of the national youth administration, ad-ministration, announced. POCATELLO, IDA .Restrictions .Restric-tions regarding more than 13 months' service by any one enrolled en-rolled in the CCC have been removed re-moved it is announced. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A 6-cent drop downward in freight rates on carload shipments of peaches from Utah to Missouri river points has been announced. SALT LAKE CITY, U T. Nearly $35,000,000 in WPA projects pro-jects to give work to Utah relief clients after November 1 have been submitted to Washington officials for approval. OGDEN, UT. The two millionth mil-lionth sheep has passed through the Ogden Union stockyards this year. Ogden is one of two markets mar-kets this year where an increase of business was noted and this while the intermountain country's coun-try's sheep population is materially mater-ially smaller than previous years. BOISE, IDA. Antelope hunters hunt-ers have bagged their game in this season's hunt. POCATELLO, IDA. The state convention of the Idaho Baptist church will be held in Pocatello October 1 to 3, it was announced here by the Rev. I. G. Roddy, secretary of the state convention and pastor of the local church. POCATELLO, IDA. A WPA survey of noxious weeds in Bannock Ban-nock canty will start soon, A. E. Duke, , county agent, announces. Mr. Duke says chemical exterminators extermi-nators will not be used, but the infected patches will be cut and the weeds burned. After the burning is completed the ground will be plowed. Farmers are urged to report locations of noxious nox-ious weed patches to the county offices so they may be systematically systemati-cally handled. BOISE, IDA. C a 1 1 1 e and sheep "are with few exceptions in good condition," and high ranges, "while dry, are furnishing furnish-ing an ample sup pi y of fall grass," Richard C. Ross, federal agricultural statistician for Idaho reoorted recently. Hay supplies will be ample generally. Only shortages of hay, stockmen anticipate, an-ticipate, are in a few areas where no old hay was carried over and where early feeding requirements require-ments might result in some shortage. Hay prices are expected to be somewhat lower than last year. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Execution Ex-ecution of repayment contracts, completion of metropolitan water districts and the organization 0 f miscellaneous subscribers are the most important steps confronting the Deer Creek reclamation rec-lamation project, Dr. Elwood Mead, federal commissioner of reclamation, reported on a visit to Salt Lake City. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah has expressed willingness to participate in a conference of 11 western states with President Roosevelt to obtain changes in the Taylor grazing act at the next session of congress. Plans are going forward for a session of land officials of the 11 western states in Salt Lake City October 1 and 2. BURLEY, IDA. Infestation of lodge pole pines by pine beetles is being checked upon in the Minidoka forest. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A total of 3.224,389 visitors have thronged the national parks since October 1 last year. A year ago P3rk visitors' registration totaled 2,806.440. OGDEN, UT. A total of 2052 relief roll workers were engaged on forest service projects in region re-gion four, according to a report from regional headquarters for the period t o mid-September. Other civilian employes numbered number-ed 87. Divided by states, the count showed Utah had 734 relief roll workers and 29 others; Idaho, Ida-ho, 1101 relief and 46: Wyoming. 65 relief and 7; and Nevada, 153 relief and 55 others. PROVO, UT. Only one death occurred as a result of automobile auto-mobile accidents in Provo from Januarv 1 to August 31. POCATELLO, IDA. A decline is noted in the number of persons applying for transient relief at the local headquarters. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah's sugar beet crop will be nearly twice as large as last yesr. according to the forecast of 1935 reduction issued by Alton R. arsen junior aaricuitural statistician statis-tician for the United States department de-partment of agriculture. The estimate es-timate is 495.000 tons as compared com-pared with a production of 250,-000 250,-000 for 1934. The estimate for Idaho's production is 600,000 tons, as comnared to 294.000 tons in 1934. Wyoming's crop is estimated esti-mated at 518.000 tons, as compared com-pared to 434,000 tons a year ago. |