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Show l News Notes I From All Parts of i UTAH ! Manti, The bureau dairy committee commit-tee has purchased twenty head ol dairy cows in Utah county. The twenty head delivered, cost $1700, and were distributed to fourteen men. Nearly one-third of the cows are Holsteins and the others are Jerseys. Logan, Farmers of the state are purchasing their dairy cattle in Cache county rather than sending east for their stock, according to William W. Owens of the extension division at the Utah Agricultural college and county agent leader. Ogden, Cache valley dairymen will exhibit at the fifth annual Ogden livestock show to be held at the Ogden Og-den Union stock yards January 8 tc 12, 1924, according to Secretary Jesse S. Richards, who visited purebred Holstein cattle breeders while in Cache valley recently. Provo, Two men alleged to have killed five sheep belonging to Hebei City men, and being1 herded in the Tintic valley, were traced to the main road leading out of Tintic valley, and were successful in their escape after officers from Provo had gone to the scene to try to locate them. Salt Lake City, Gasoline tax has been demanded on a carload of "snowolene," a deodorized cleaning fluid shipped in from California re-cently re-cently for distribution among clean, ing and dyeing concerns, according to Secretary of State H. E. Crockett. The product he said is reported to be high test gasoline which has been deodorized. de-odorized. Provo, Work commenced Wednesday Wednes-day on a pipeline to bring the water from the newly acquired springs Slate canyon to the State Mental hos-pital. hos-pital. Ogden, After changing the plans for the Ogden Union passenger station sta-tion a number of times and enlarging several of the departments to be constructed, con-structed, it was reported in the railroad rail-road circles that it is expected the work of tearing down the south hali of the burned structure will begin before be-fore January 1. Salt Lake, The postoffice department depart-ment Monday announced that it had leased for ten years new quarters on the north side of Second South, between be-tween Second and Third West streets for use as an annex of the Salt Lake postoffice, the lease to cover all necessary neces-sary equipment. The lease is made with the A. Keyser company. Manti, J. W. Shand of this city has been elected president of the Sanpete County Fair association for the, year 1924. Andrew Christensen of Ephraim was chosen vice president and J. R. Witbeck, Spencer Motet, and William McFarlane, all of this city, were elected elect-ed as a board of directors. The various committees will be selected at a later time. Price, An increased rate of 50 cents a ton on coal and coke hauled by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad from Carbon county mines tc Cedar City, to have been effective December 19, 1923, was ordered suspended until March 5, 1924, by the public utilities commission. Morgan, The Morgan-Peterson highway, federal aid project No. 41, was recommended for approval oi the state road commission and bureau of public roads, Monday by the engineering en-gineering department of the state road commission following 7.8 miles of gravel surface construction recent, ly completed. Cmlt J-rtlKe, LJ ld.ll will 8CUU ivvu ounces of cement to Uie George Washington Wash-ington post No. 1, of Washington, D. C, the pioneer post of the American Legion ; to be used in the laying oi the cornerstone of the permanent home of the post which will be laid by President Calvin Coolidge. Salt Lake, Among 200,000 head oi Bheep which have been trailing through Salt Lake county to wintei feeding grounds on the westerr de sert, and among 105,000 coming into Utah from Colorado to spend the winter win-ter on the eastern desert, not a single sin-gle case of scabies has been found to date, it is reported by Thomas Red mond, chief sheep inspector for the state board of agriculture. The in. speetion in Salt Lake county has just been completed by Theodore McKeari and was made as a precautionary measure since no reports had been received of scabies among thesj flocks. Ogden, Fees received by the seere tary of state during October and Nov. ember aggregate : General fees, $4977.19, compared with $0003.47 in 1922; corporation tax, $87,290.35, com pared with $00,507.35 last year in tin corresponding period. |