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Show ! I News Notes I From All Parts of I . UTAH S Baap'fg'Btcigw'-Ji'JiwaEja Salt Lake The Citizens' Military Training camp finally disbanded at Fort Douglas last Sunday morning when the student soldiers turned In their bedding and uniforms, resumed their civilian clothing and departed for their respective homes. For the last time they were assembled in company com-pany formation and marched to the finance office, where their traveling allowances were given them. They were then handed individual certificates certi-ficates as to the military efficiency they had attained and released from further military control. , Logan Approximately $2000 will be awarded for the best exhibits at the Cache county annual fair, which will be held this year on September 22-23 and 21. Helper Helper city has applied to the state engineer for the use of 2.4 second-feet of water which it proposes to develop at springs tributary to Spring creek, of which it already has the water rights. The city plans to install a ten-inch pipe line nineteen miles long to serve its population. Salt Lake A coal field 25,000 acres in extent and carrying at expert estimates es-timates more than two billion tons of bituminous fuel, said to be the world's largest single, continuous body o coal, will be opened up by the extension exten-sion of rail facilities to Queatchuppah canyon, Sevier county, according to Judge Henry C. Lund, son of the late President Anthon H. Lund of the Mormon church, whose children own or hold option or federal lease upon the entire area. Salt Lake On man was killed and three were injured when a huge three-tone citv street deDartment truck plunged off the Toad and down a twenty - foot' embankment and into the stream in City Creek canyon at the entrance to Pleasan valley, about two miles from the mouth. Salt Lake With the exception of peaches, every crop in Utah will show an increase over last year, according to the monthly report issued by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician of the United State biological survey. Cedar City The Escalante desert is a veritable meadow this year,, the recent rains having caused the vegetation veg-etation to grow rapidly. Not for twenty years has the desert been so prolific in vegetation. The sheepmen are jubliant, as this desert is their regular winter range section. Price Price is to be host to some 500 coal operators August 26 to 28, inclusive, the occasion being the annual an-nual convention of the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Coal Mining institution. The event was awarded to Price last year at the time of the convention at Denver. Secretary John R. Sharp was named chairman of a committee on arrangements for their reception and enertainment while the visitors are here. Park City Consolidation of the Park City Mining & Smelting company's com-pany's holdings with those of the Park-Utah Mining company for operation oper-ation by the Park-Utah Consolidated Mines company has been completed, thus covering a large part of the arrangements ar-rangements leading up to a merging of these mines with the Ontario and the Daly estates, which will put under one management 4306 acres lying contiguously con-tiguously m the heart o the Park City district extending from Brighton in Big Cottonwood canyon to Keetley in Heber valley, distance of nine miles. Cedar City Bids are being called for the proposed concrete road through Cedar Main street. It is expected ex-pected that the work will begin early in August, and at tne same time the business firms on Main street will lay concrete from the curb to the road which will run in the center. Logan. Florence Jacobsen, formerly for-merly of this city, won second prize for the most beautiful hair in a recent contest conducted in San Francisco, according to word w-hich reached here recently. Miss Jacobson's tresses won second place among the 5000 girls who entered the contest. She was awarded a prize of $50. besides a number of articles of merchandise. Salt Lake City. Sixteen manly chests bulged with honest and quivering quiver-ing pride at Fort Douglas as a group of lovely young girls, a maid for a man. with winning smiles and little words ot congratulation, pinned medals med-als upon them. It was a g.ila event, and the fellow students of the lucky sixteen of the citizens" military training train-ing camp envied them the pinning as much as the actual medals, which w-ere awarded for the highest indivud-' indivud-' ual proficiency. |