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Show I News Notes I p From All Parts of 1 UTAH I Ogden. Movement of grain, principally prin-cipally wheat, from Idaho points and other sections through Ogden, is much heavier than usual, according to E. R. Alton, president of the Ogden Og-den Grain exchange. According to information received by Mr. Alton from railroad officials approximately 1000 carloads more have passed thru Ogden to date than had passed thru at the corresponding date of last year. It is estimated that this is 1,-500,000 1,-500,000 bushels ahead of last year. Salt Lake City. Butler B. Ramey, proprietor of the Semloh hotel and well known hotel man, died at a local lo-cal hospital following a brief and sudden illness. For more than twenty twen-ty years he was connected with a number of hotels of Salt Lake. Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City has been chosen the place for the holding of the 1926 convention of the National League of District Postmasters, according ac-cording to a telegram received by Mayor C. Clarence Neslen, from Rohn A. Israelson, postmaster at Hyrum, Utah, and president of the Utah organization or-ganization of postmasters. Milford. Discovery of a large body of lead ore in the Moscow Silver mines company property promises to put this mine, situated in the Star district twelve miles from Milford, again in the steady production class. For over two years the company has been working diligently to find the ore bodies which in the upper levels have produced several millions. Although Al-though several times during this period per-iod the company has opened up do-posits do-posits of considerable productivity probably at no time has the outlook been as good as it is at present. Salt Lake City. Approximately 500,000 acres of land will be surveyed survey-ed this year in Utah, according to G. D. Kirkpatrick, assistant federal supervisor su-pervisor of surveys. The supervisor based his estimate on the appropriation appropria-tion of $63,660 made for this purpose by the interior department. This is only about half the acreage surveyed in 1923, due to a cut in the appropriation. appropria-tion. Mr. Kirkpatrick estimated that there are between 12,000,00 and 13,-000,000 13,-000,000 acres still unsurveyed within the state. Logan. Walter Hall, former West athlete and University of Utah football foot-ball players, will coach freshman football and basketball at the Utah Agricultural college next year, accord ing to word given out by Coach E. L. Romney of the Logan college. Kaysville. The Kaysville Canning corporation opened its tomato campaign cam-paign last week. Within the next ten days the crop will be nearing peak production and the canning factories fac-tories of Davis county will be busy places. The quality of tomatoes this year is very high and the yield promises prom-ises to be enormous. Monticello. The state road commission com-mission has accepted the five-mile Etretch of road between LaSal Junction Junc-tion and Big Wash. The commission pronounced it one of the best pieces of road in the state. Two of the cement ce-ment heads over culverts were not up to standard and the commission asked ask-ed that these be remade. The road is now open for traffic. This stretch shortens the trip from Moab to Monticello Mon-ticello about two miles and one of the worst bits of road on the whole journey journ-ey is done away with. Salt Lake City A channel 800 feet long, twenty-eight feed wide and four feet in depth was literally blown into the bed of Utah lake, when a charge of 2000 sticks of dynamite was set off at the mouth of the waterway connecting con-necting the lake with the city's pumping pump-ing station. Tons of mud, water and sand were raised by the explosion to a height of 200 feet into the air and deposited on the shores along the sides of the waterway. Three of the giant pumps were started immediately immediate-ly to draw the lake water through the new made channel and scour it out to make a free feed channel for the pumps. Ogden. The city commissioners have taken steps to curb high prices for refreshments sold at concessions of two circuses which will show in Ogden soon. It is expected that City Recorder J. Herman Knauss, Jr., will demand an agreement that nominal prices will be charged before a license licen-se is granted the show owners. Bountiful Twelve persons were inured in-ured and several others badly shak-a shak-a up when the southbound Bamberger Bamber-ger Electric passenger train on which they were riding crashed into the rear end of a freight train just south af Bountiful. Salt Lake City. It is estimated there are 427.50S American-born inhabitants in-habitants of Utah in 1925, compared with 3SS.644 in 1920. Of these, 345.-407 345.-407 are natives of Utah, compared with 314,006 in 1920. Of natives ot other states residing in Utah in 1925 It is estimated there are S2.101. The largest migration is from Idaho 9150 compared with 8324 in 1920. Califor-nians Califor-nians number 2949, Coloradoans 6953 nhnoisans 5S47, Iowans 47S3 Kan-ana Kan-ana 3190, Ohioans 3990, Penu'sylvau ! 3028' natives of Wyoming 2654. |