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Show Intermountain News ! Briefly told lor Busy Readers TO BUILD HOSPITAL FOREST FIRES SCARCE STATES MILL BENEFIT PREDICT GOOD HARVEST ST. ANTHONY, IDA. Tax! collections received in Fremont county during June totaled $107,-621.90, $107,-621.90, according to Mrs. Neil! Schreiber, county treasurer. This is an increase of approximately $26,000 over June, 1934. BOISE, IDA. L. G. Schultz of Boise, federal inspector of Idaho produce shipments, announced that inspections made under his direction during the year ending June 30, totaled 30.7S7, compared with 32,687 carloads for the previous pre-vious year. The decline of 1900 carloads was due to the light apple ap-ple crop and to the poor quality of potatoes. BOISE, IDA. Forest conditions in the Boise National forest are better than usual and fire hazards haz-ards are almost at a minimum. A. L. Moats, executive assistant of the Boise National forest service serv-ice said. Out of nearly 2,000,000 acres which the forest includes, only 23.80 acres have been razed by fire since January 1, the regular reg-ular ten-day report of the office showed. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Forty directors of Twin Falls, Buhl, Filer, Murtaugh and Rock Creek highway districts, and other Twin Falls county highway districts dis-tricts to advance widening U. S. highway 30, or the old Oregon Trail highway, from 18 to 30 feet through the countv. POCATELLO, IDA. Continuing Continu-ing the policy of the Idaho state highway department in highway district No. 1, of which A. D. Stanley is engineer, points of interest in-terest along the Yellowstone highway north of here are to be designated. j SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Several Sev-eral intermountain states will ! benefit, if approval is given to a ' new group of applications for al-! al-! lotment of works funds totaling $6,558,954 made public in Wash-; Wash-; ington by the division of appli-j appli-j cations and information. An al-: al-: lotment of $88,836 is asked for ! combining radio facilities so as to provide stand-by equipment at 57 airports, including Salt Lake City, Boise, Elko, ' Reno, Rock ! Springs and Cheyenne. j OGDEN, UT. All varities of j crops in this district are progress- ing very satisfactorily through the growing season, and hold : promise of the best harvest in a decade, reports LeRoy Marsh, j district agricultural inspector. Peaches are doing fine with an abundance of water and no insect in-sect trouble of any consequence. This district will have a full peach crop this year. FORT HALL, IDA. F. A. Gross, superintendent, and Dr. Frank A. Nelson, physician, of Fort Hall Indian reservation, have made application to Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, for funds from the PWA for construction of a new and modern hospital. Tentative plans provide for a 35-bed hospital hos-pital constructed of brick and stone. Plans call for private rooms, isolation ward, nursery, and modern surgical facilities. BOISE, IDA. Since the first i state liauor store opened in Ida-I Ida-I ho April 29, 1935, it and 24 others I that have been established since, have done a gross business of $312,651, it was shown in a state- ment made public by Mr. M. B. Yeaman, commissioner of the state Honor control board. BOISE, IDA. Bids on four highway construction projects which will cost approximately $300,100 and provide employment for 500 mm were requested in notices of letting released at the office of G. E. McKelrey, Idaho I cmrimi-ioner of public works. |