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Show ! it " - I Pithy News Notes i From All Parts of UTAH Connison -Elaborate plans are being be-ing made for dedicating Gunnison'a new s;,o,000 high school building. It is propc sod to have a "house warming" soon, and residents from all the adjoining adjoin-ing communities will be Invited to participate par-ticipate in the festivities. There will be dancing and a banquet. Several educators ed-ucators and prominent speakers from Salt Lake and county towns will be present. Salt Lake Clifford E. Sniythe, first lietenant In the army air service, who was among those who lost their lives in the collapse and fall of the airship Roma recently was a former business man of Salt Lake. Smythe was listed In the casualty list as a resident of Chicago and it was only a few days ago that his friends here learned that he was a member of the ill-fated Roma crew. , Frovo A large delegation repre Bentlng taxpayers in the southern part of the county met with the county com. mission relative to the proposed concrete con-crete road from Spanish Fork to Pay-son Pay-son by way of Benjamin. At a previous pre-vious meetlug a delegation lmd petitioned peti-tioned the commissioners to construct the road by way of Lake Shore and Palmyra. Salt Lake From thirty-five to forty Inquiries concerning Salt Lake and Utah are being received dally at the Commercial club. The increased number num-ber of letters has been noted for the past several weeks. More than sixty hotels In the east are now distributing Salt Lake and Utah literature. Frovo The company which was recently re-cently awarded the contract for constructing con-structing the new sewer system In the eastern part of the city, has begun work with a force of more than 100 men. .The contsructlon work, widen will last for about six weeks, will be of assistance to the Provo men who have been out of work for some time. Only locul men with families are glv en employment by the company. Murray Deer driven out of the Bin Cottonwood game preserve by the heavy snows of recent date were killed 'n the foothills a few miles from Salt I.nke, but possesion of their carcasses cost Leonard Nellson Sl.'iO and Alvn I Argon $73, as a result of a session In the court of Justice H. T. Mathews at Murray. Larson was lot off with hall the flDe meted out to his older companion. com-panion. Larson pleading that he had Just tecomo 13 years of age. Salt Ijike. In a statewide survey which has Included Investigation along many different lines It has been found that farm nnd grazing land values In Utah have decreased from 25 to .VI per. cent since the years 1919 and 1920 The average as disclosed by all of the assembled Information shows a do crease of 'M.if! per cent. This Is th Information Just made public by ths tax legislative committee of the Utah State Farm Bureau nnd Is being used In a campaign throughout the state to bring about a reduction In assesa ments for 1922. Provo William M. Roylance, who recently returned from a trip through the postern and southern markets do. dared that there Is a growing MemaV for western fruits ami vegetables. "We could sell hundreds more of carload of both fruits ami vet-etibles If we could get them." he said and lamented the fact that more produce Is not raised among the land owners of till community. Beaver Three largo hunts have been made In Box Elder county, which destroyed approximately 17,t"0 Jack rabbits. One largo hunt whs made at Blue Creek by ItOO hunters mostly from Salt Lake anil Ogden. Tho farmers cooperated with the county agent and did tholr part In driving the rabbits to the hunters. Seven thousand five hundred rabbits were killed. At I.nke nnother largo hunt was made by hunters, mostly from Salt Luke and Ogden. Eight thousand thous-and five hundred rabbits were killed. Farmers cooperated In making drives to hunters. Eighty hunters from Tre-moiiton Tre-moiiton and Giirland made a bunt tit Howell. 1 tOO rabbits were shot. Farm ers at Howell cooperated with haulers Heaver City-By the call of tin llcnvcr City Chamber of Comnicce In terostod people were c.illod together and a poultry association organized U promote more poultry nnd better innn ngomei't. About so enty Inquiries wcrt mailed nut for baby chicks. Through tho dairy committee of tho Chamber of Commerce a dairymen's lo-soclntlon h:o also been organized to promote bettei dairy Ing. Ogden Will ers users of I be Weber river Bystem have been grunted an ex-IctlHloti ex-IctlHloti of time until April 29 to- file their claims to water In the suit of the Plain City Irrigation company against the Hooper nnd North Ogdon Irrigation companies nnd about MO water users. Peltn. The town of Pella, at an en thimlnsttc meeting, passed resolution Dfferlng a s'te for tho erection of s 'eel plant at I'elln, and n committee ! of IniHlness men w ns oppolu'ed to insVf I (ircscntath'ii of tin offer. |