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Show I News Notes j It's a Privilege to Live in I Utah I Salt Lake City.-Wayne County citizens cit-izens are anxious to locate and construct con-struct a highway between Torre, -and Fruita and a delegation appeared before be-fore the state road commission to ascertain as-certain if any help could be had from the state. It was informed that the finances of the commission were such that no help could be given for either betterment or construction. Salt Lake City. Ninety per cent of the assessment for 1925, levied on the Piute project has been pud and the other 10 per cent is expeUed in a few days, according to John T. Old-royd, Old-royd, secretary of the state land board who has returned from a trip to that section of the state. The company has $6000 on hand and It declares that the payment to the state due this spring will be paid in full. Salt Lake. The question of sugar beet prices for the crop of 1926 will be taken up by the board of directors direc-tors of the Utah Sugar Beet Co-opera-ative at a meeting to be held in the offices of the Utah State Farm Bureau February 15, it was announced. Myton. Sumison and Clyde of Springville, who have the contract for the construction of the unit of the federal aid road from Myton to Antelope, Ante-lope, have a force of ten men and ten teams at work grading the highway through the swampy area. The ground is easier to handle in cold weather. Salt Lake City The Utah Extension Exten-sion Service of the Utah Agricultural college will conduct Farmers' Institute Insti-tute during January, February and March, in Davis, Piute, Garfield, Millard, Mil-lard, Washington, Wasatch, Morgan, Weber and Emery counties, according accord-ing to Assistant Director W. W. Owens, who has practically completed the schedule of meetings and the assignment as-signment of speakers. In planning these institutes, he says, counties regular agricultural agents have been included, as well as counties with agents. Provo. According to a report before be-fore the building committee of the new city and county building, marble was shipped January 23. This will be used for the interior and unless there are unforseen delays, work on this part of the building should begin about February 5th. Salt Lake City. Sheep ranges in western Utah have been further improved im-proved by additional snow during the past week and moisture is now ample for ranges and grain fields, says the weekly weather report of J. Cecil Alter, Al-ter, in charge of the local office of the weather bureau. Salt Lake City. Nevada will cooperate coop-erate with Utah in enforcement of the gasoline sales tax provisions of each state, it is announced by Charles Heiner of the office of H. E. Crockett. Secretary of state. Mr. Heiner has just returned from a trip to Carson City and Nevada points. He has charge of the gasoline tax collections for Utah under Secretary Crockett. Salt Lake City. Work of restoring Utah's world-famous resort on Great Salt Lake started when the new owners, own-ers, Ashby Snow, David P. Howells and Willard T. Cannon, visited their recently acquired property to personally person-ally supervise initial steps in the rehabilitation re-habilitation of Saltair. Accompanied by Stringham A. Stevens, general manager, the local financiers who have undertaken replacement of the historic pavilion destroyed by fire l ist April were on the job early. Their announced intention to immediately commence construction and rush the program to an opening on May 29. , WashingtonThe interstate commerce com-merce commission declined to sane-t.on sane-t.on increase in the rail rates on me and concentrates from points in Ca -orn.a Nevada tQ 1 ind, at the same time, refused to sane '.wn increases in westbound rates to Cahforma smelters, the rates involved Pacific. he Sothorn Salt Lake tiltv Th . supplied an add itonj L A snow at BriEhlnn I , 6 lnchea ot the total Xi VtnT m;ik",S toareportmlde Burr'(li,',S superintendent of ' Bmtn. city -ter content" was I? January 21 ih Last tnches1hethgerroeunTai,0inb E 50 Salt Lake Ciyt T T a t traffic manager of .hpT'. 'M"""1-system, 'M"""1-system, announced of a special demons!,--,? runnln8 the foliowing S XYT co-operation with i, T, Uh' ln College hVS meat of agriculture .'Ue lopui't- |