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Show 1 News Notes 1 I From All Part of I UTAH , a i Cedar City. Notice has been n by the mayor and council of ! lhlr Intention to Improve the main trcet by puvln. A strip eighteen tnul wide will be placed through the (own by federal aid, and the city will ' I-nd an additional Bum In order to Increane the width from curb to curb thrmiKh approximately one-quarter mile of the hiiHini-ss dlmrlct. Bonds for the work will he on the market ! about July 1. and work will Blurt as noon after that date an possible, It ' 1h raid. 0(.-den. The waters of Croat Salt I.ake are about a foot lower this year than last year, according to Otis ' nf....t i,unn engineer or the Southern Pacific railroad. The wat ers rose 84 inches over an arbitrary mark last year and this year went 72 Inches above. According to the findings of Dr. F. J. Pack and Dr. llyrum Schneider of the University ' of Utah, the lake levels respond to ' the precipitation of the surrounding country after two years. The dry Koason of two years ago, therefore, is 1 now responsible for the low level of the water. Mt. Pleasont John E. Pixton of Murray was elected district governor ! and OKden was chosen as the 1926 convention city at the third annual ' conve ntion of the twenty-eighth dls- 1 . trict of Lions International clubs, held ut Mt. Pleasant. Halt Lake City. With the official i ' returns In from every county assessor In Utah, the total assessed value of ' Utah, as fixed by preliminary assess- i munis and subject to equalization and j to additional assessments which, ! however, will probably not alter the j totals materially is $681,281,809. 1 Salt Lake City. State Attorney ! General II. II. Cluff has initiated su- 1 preme court proceedings for a per- ' J emptory writ of mandate to the coun ty commissioners of Salt Lake coun-ey, coun-ey, requiring them to fix a levy of one-twelfth of a mill on all property 1 In Snlt Lake County for an agricultur- al inspection fund. It Is probable the case will be heard June 1. ! Provo. One hundred and sixty- four students of the Provo Junior ' hitch school received their certificates I, of graduation at the commencement exercises held In the high school aud-1 aud-1 1 ltorium. ' I Ogden. Jesse S. Richards, secre- j ' tary of the Ogden chamber of com- j I merce, has been indorsed by many organizations, stockmen and other individuals, in-dividuals, for the position on the etate fair board made vacant by the resig-i resig-i nation of John T. Caine HI, of Logan J now assistant secretary of agricul- j tre In charge of the packers and , stockyards administration. , Manti. A drive to exterminate grasshoppers Is on in central Sanpete co'.mty, while arsenic is being used ' i to poison them. Henry C. Lamb, of ! Wales, has charge of the work at 1 Wales ami Chester. Committees are j being organized at Manti and Eph-; Eph-; raim. and extermination of the grass- ' hoppers will begin in these communl-. communl-. ' ties In tl e near future. Price. Work on the Price river I project, which will open up 28,000 j acres of land in Carbon county for i intensive farming, will commence i toon. Assurance that the project , i will be completed was made known 1 following the receipt of Information by A. N. Cheney that the Sutherlin-Barry Sutherlin-Barry company of New Orleans had i taken up the major portion of the bonds, amounting to $750,000. The territory to be benefited by the project pro-ject will embrace the Immediate vicinity vi-cinity of Price and the land extending extend-ing from Helper to Wellington and farm land extending from Price . tc ( Huntington in Emery county. ' Salt Lake City. Following losses In the season of 1924-25 that will run as high as 5 per cent among the cat-' cat-' tie of Washington county and vicin- ' : lty. according to J. M. McFarlane, president of the Utah Cattle and 1 . Horse Growers' Association, comes I the news that the increase in the range herds this year through sever- al of the southern counties will be more than 25 per cent of normal, owing ow-ing to the dry season last summer. Salt Lake City. Horse racing will i be revived in Utah this summer. The state racing commission determined this when It approved the applications ; of the State Fair association for race meetings at the fair grounds this ' '. summer and fall and if the Montre al syndicate headed by Leo Dandur-and, Dandur-and, Joe Catarinich and M. C. Dew-er, Dew-er, for a meeting on the Lagoon mile 1 track to follow the close of the fair grounds meet. Provo. rrovo's new lighting system sys-tem will be installed in the near future. fu-ture. This decision was reached at a meeting of county commissioners when William H. Frisby. Provo electrical elec-trical engineer and contractor, was awarded the contract. Salt Lake City. Governor George H. Pern has appointed Jesse S. Richards Rich-ards of Ogden as a member of the Utah State Fair board in succession to John T. Caine, III, who resigned to accept the position of assistant secretary of agriculture. The appointment ap-pointment is effective at once. |