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Show I News Notes From All Parts of i I UTAH I Salt Lake City. There are 320 cells in the Utah state prison, and according to the figures given the board of pardons, 299 of them were occupied last Friday. This is almost three times as many prisoners as were confined there on January 1, 1920. Bingham The town board will construct con-struct additional water tanks in order to provide better fire protection, if the funds are available. The last fire, it is said showed that the water-main water-main would not give sufficient pressure pres-sure when several lines of hose were attached. It is hoped to have some of the tanks completed before winter. Spanish Fork. Benjamin, six and one half miles southwest of Spanish Fork was visited by a destrictive fire in which a recently constructed barn filled" with 1500 tons of hay, many outbuildings ,a large strawstack and '"arm implements of various kinds were destroyed. The property belonged belong-ed to L. K. Stewart and hi? loss is estimated at $3000. Price. Tax anticipation notes in the sum of $100,000- were negotiated by the Carbon county schol board with Ross Beason & Company of Salt Lake at the regular meeting of the school board held this week. Salt Lake City. Arrangements have been made between members of the state road commission and the Garfield county board of commissioners commission-ers for the expenditure of $6000 this year for improving and maintaining the Panguitch-Kane county line road. Work already has been started. It is expected to continue the program of improvement next year. Spring Canyon. A blast in the Rains mine at this point Sunday entombed en-tombed five miners whose fates are as yet unknown. Efforts of rescue men were rendered dangerous by dangerous gases. I Salt Lake City. Bank deposits in Salt Lake banking institutions for the second quarter of the present year show increases over the first quarter, 1924, and the second quarter quar-ter of 1923, reflecting an advance in general prosperity not only in Salt Lake, but also in the country tributary tribu-tary to the city. Smithfield. Citizens of Smithfield decided at a mass meeting held recently re-cently that a chamber of commerce was needed in this city. The meeting meet-ing was called by the city council and representatives of all civic organizations organiza-tions and business and industrial interests in-terests were present and expressed their wish that an organization be completed in the near future. Ogden. If a resort is established on the shores of Great Salt Lake near Ogden, it will be in the vicinity of Hooper, about fourteen miles west of the city, in fhe opinion of directors of the chamber of commerce who took i trip to Promontory on the Southern South-ern Pacific route to conduct a reconnaissance. recon-naissance. Ogden.--The game refuge bill now before congress which is of much consequence con-sequence to Utah, was upheld before 'he Weber County Fish & Game Protective Pro-tective association by Chapin A. Day, -irominent Ogden business man, who attacked State Fish and Game Com- issioner D. H. Madsen for opposing the measure. Congressnian Don B. ''oUon discussed the measure and, although he did not commit himself, 'ie indicated that he was favorable ro its passage, although he stated :hat he voted against the first bill its- kind introduced in congress. Ogden, The highway to Yellowstone Yellow-stone park from Utah will be in splendid condition with the improvement improve-ment of the stretch from Ashton to Warm Iiiver, in Idaho, which is about to he done as the result of arrangements arrange-ments made by the United States bureau of public roads with John A. Wheeler, contractor, of Idaho Falls Idaho. Salt Lake, Iiabbi William Pice, formerly of Salt Lake and well' known in ecclesiastical circles, was killed by a t'nion Pacific train near Lo3 Angeles as he was walking a'ong the tracks, reading a book, accord, ing to reports reaching Salt Lake. Salt Lake City, Plans for a well organized year's work have been laid for the 1021 1025 season at tha Uni. versity of Utah. Everything is jn readiness for registration which takes place Sept. 2o, 20, and 27. A diligent faculty working under a well outlined course of studies is waiting to servo the students in cleaned and renovated renovat-ed quarters. |