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Show News Notes From All Parts of UTAH 5 ugden. Eleven miles of gravel surface sur-face road on the Lincoln highway west rf Battle Moutain, Nev., has been completed, com-pleted, according to the contractor, Kroft & Bundy of Ogden. In the com pletlon of this work on the LIncoli highway in Nevada has been ellmln ated. Sallca. A fire on the premises ol lien Kasmussen caused the destruction destruc-tion of a barn, granery, chicken coop and various other small buildings. The fire started from an unknown cause. The damages were estimated at about $500, with no insurance. Moab. Traveling an average of 10 miles a day, 300 hogs driven from Men-tlcello Men-tlcello to Thompson for shipment to market. The hogs are In first class condition despite the fact that they are being herded the entire distance to the railroad. Salt Lake City. A new feature ot the sixth annual Intel-mountain Livestock Live-stock Show, which will be held at the North Salt Lake stockyards in April will be the special awards to boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 18 who enter stock for exhibit. Moab. W. E. Gordon is taking lbu bead of hogs to the Salt Lake market Uie hog3 being shipped by E. H. Street, deputy examiner in charge of c'le stock is being made In the course of liquidating this bank, which failed nearly two years ago. Coalville. The last chapter in the air mail records in connections wit? the wreck of Pilot Henry G. Boon-6tra's Boon-6tra's plane atop Porcupine ridge and the four days' search for the missir.? pi.ot was written, when the mail trom 'Jie shattered ship was packed into ;eming's ranch en route to Coalville o he placed aboard a Union Pacific :raln. Ogden. Mrs. Margaiet Miller Hope, ;)S years, 11 months and 23 days ol age, the oldest woman in Ogden, died at the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs. Frank L. Browning. Salt Lake City. Suggestions for modification of the marks and brands law whereby shippers of pure bred atock would be merely required to give a record of his name and the number num-ber of stock shipped were made to Ed. T. Jones, secretary of the department of agriculture by C. U. Adney of Corln-ne. Corln-ne. Salt Lake City. Payment of bounty claims on predatory animals and rabbits rab-bits will In all probability be stopped within the next few days by Mark Tuttle, state auditor due to the exhaustion exhaus-tion of funds. The payment of the claims was re-opened after a lapse of several months on Dec. 20, when tha incoming tax receipts made it possible to meet some of the bounties provided for in the statuto. At the time of reopening re-opening of funds only $15,01)0 were available and if the claims continue at the present rate the balance will eon be exhausted. Moab. Shortage of stock cars on Jie Colorada & Southern railway at Dolores, Colo., has proved expensive to San Juan county shippers of lambs. Five weeks ago several sheepmen of the soufhen county gathered in excess ex-cess of 3000 lambs and trailed them seventy miles to Dolores for shipment ship-ment to the market. No cars were available and the owners of the lambs were competed to purchase nay at $12 a ton to feed them. Salt Lake City Sale of coyote hides netted to the department of agriculture agricul-ture and the local office of the bureau of biological survey $7.20 per pelt. Secretary Ed. T. Jones of the department depart-ment of agriculture was informed Some 242 hides were taken In Sej. tember and October from coyotes kill ed In the co-operative campaign foi the destruction of predatory animal?-and animal?-and the Bale of these netted $1,742.40 There were 44 bobcats furs sold at $1.-40 $1.-40 each and 6 foxes sold at $1.35 each The total receipts of $1,812 is to bi divided $558.90 to the state and thf balance to the federal governmen. Salt Lake City. The body of th aged man which was found In a dug out in the lime kilns west of the eit was identified as that of tred Miller a cook, 74 years of age. The ldenti flcation was made by L. T. Williams of 129 Lincoln avenue, who workea with Miller at Young's cafe several years ago. SprlngvMle. The season's run of th' Springvllle-Mapleton sugar factor? has been completed, with an output ol 65,000 bags In a firty-five-day cam paign. Twenty-three thousand flv hundred tons of beets were sliced showing a high sugar contest. One hundred and twenty-five men wen-employed. wen-employed. The mill Is now being pre pared to refine molasses under th Cutler process, which will continui until the next regular beet slicing cam palgu |