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Show UTAH' NEWS REVIEW Eleven thousand pieces of literature advertising Ogden were distributed by Secretary O. J. Stilwell of the Ogden chamber of commerce. The Utah legislature when it convenes con-venes in 1023 will be asked to make an appropriation of $2000 for the purpose pur-pose of aiding shippers of the state in their contest against, the railways for the abrogation of the long and short haul clause of the transportation law. Evening schools for foreigners un. able to speak the English language have been and are being established In eighteen of the state's forty districts, dis-tricts, including Granite, Murray, Jor dan, Utah, Tintic, Millard, Beaver Emery, Carbon, Wasatch, North Sum. mit. Park City, Morgan, Davis, Weber. Box Elder, Ogden and Salt Lake. Shipment of goosberry bushes from the New York agricultural experiment station out to Utah In violation of the quarantine, both federal and state against such sTfTpmShts in view that the white pine blister prevails in that section of the country, have been confiscated con-fiscated by the state crops inspector, J. D. Webb. One third of the taxes of Cache county remain unpaid, amounting to more than $300,000. Most of the delinquents delin-quents ore among farmers, who have been unable to pay because of so many crop failures, together with the decline In prices and the general depression The total assessment of the county was $036,000. An addition of 650,000 gallons o) water a day is made to Salt Lske'5 water surply by a deal of the cltj water department that was approved Oy the city commission. The acquisition acquisi-tion Is water of the Walker ditch, and is the last water that will be available to fTie city from Big Cottonwood canyon. can-yon. The department of Utah, American legion, Is sending out letters to every post in the state calling attention tc the annual Christmas seal sale of the Dtah Public Health association and urging that legion members through out the state give support to Ehe state-health state-health organization In its work. Huntington has opened up a municipal munic-ipal coal mine under a government regulation that a municipality may se-sure se-sure a tract of three hundred and twenty acres of land at no cost, pro. viding the coal mined therefrom is sold to its citizens at the actual cost of the operations. It Is expected By those behind the movement that the (foal will be less than $2.00 a ton at the mine. About three miles west of Moside, on Utah lake, there has been opened up recently a deposit of what its discoverers dis-coverers claim is mineral soap. The :lay resembles In appearance a soap. Besides the principal elements of aluminum alum-inum and silica, the diatomaceous ma. terial contains phosphate, magnesia and potash. The deposit covers an area of approximately 100 acres. At a recent meeting of tho rabbit drive committee of Boxelder county and representatives of the railroad componies, held in the Commercial :luh, special rates to the rabbit districts dis-tricts in the county were discussed The offer of one and one-third fare seemed unreasonable to the committee and was rejected. Seventy-five farmers from Juat county will make an inspection tour ol the principal poultry farms of Utah county. During next, year a special poultry project will be conducted in this county by J. P. Welch, countj agricultural ag-ricultural agent. In the project, poul try raisers will be taught how to feed and care for baby chicks, cull t. flocks and feed for winter eggs. w m m The decapitated body of Lemuel He. cox, watchman at the.Cashian mine, in ;he lower end of La sal canyon, fifty miles east of Moab, and six m'les across the line in Colorado, win found in the bunkhouse concealed under graTu nnd burlap sacKS according to reports reaching here. The head of the dead man nas not been found. The construction of the Lucln cut-off cut-off across the upper end of Great Sal: lake has resulted in the reduction o( the area of the salt lake and produce a fresh water lake, now said to be tin largest body of frc-r.li water within the state. Bear river bay. until the construction con-struction of the cut-oif known ns the upper part of the Great Salt Luke, is now said to be practically free front salt. Ca:p. suckers and oiler fisl abound Ip tl water. |