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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Permanent injunction has been granted restraining the county treasurer treas-urer of Salt Lake county from collecting col-lecting taxes levied in the last three years against the $10,000,000 in intangible in-tangible assets placed on the assessment assess-ment rolls against the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. A large number of farmers from Payson, Benjamin and Spanish Fork visited Provo last week and met with the county commissioners, relative to drainage district No. 4, which includes several thousand acres of land northwest north-west and north of Payson and south of Benjamin. A topographic map of the state of 'Utah is urged by George F. McGon-agle, McGon-agle, state engineer, in his biennial report, which has been submitted to Governor Bamberger. He also makes a recommendation for $20,000 to be appropriated by the legislature to aid this work. During the past four years the price paid to fanners for whole milk has risen from 10 cents to 27 cents per gallon for inilk which reached the state standard of 3.2 per cent butter fat, while milk with greater butter-fat butter-fat content has brought even a higher high-er price. Charlotte Rachel Smith, widow of Joseph W. Smith, who Was accidentally accident-ally ki4ed while employed by the Salt Lake Chemical company, will receive $15.51 per week for a period not to exceed 315 weeks as compensation, the industrial commission has decided. Revenue receipts -of the state of Utah during the last two years amounted to a total of $13,414,350.08. In addition to this, the non-revenue receipts re-ceipts of the state were $11,527,-S53.01, $11,527,-S53.01, making a grand total of receipts re-ceipts of $24,042,209.09. The cheese factories of the state made 1,2SS,30G pounds of cheese the past year. A pound of cheese would come from about ten pounds of average aver-age milk, which would mean a total of 12,SS3,0G0 pounds of milk sent to the factories. "Co-operation" and "A Square Leal for Agriculture" have been announced as the two general subjects which will be discussed at the three-day convention conven-tion of the Utah state farm bureau, to be held in Salt Lake on January 0, 7 and S. - Vaughn Rees, 21 months of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Rees of Cherry Creek, Nev., died at an Ogden hospital from the effects of a peanut lodging in the lungs. The baby swallowed the peanut at the home on Christmas day. The new county surveyor of Salt Lake county has cut the size of the force in the county surveyor's office from nineteen to nine employes, and he has sliced the pay roll for his assistants as-sistants from $2830 to $1195 monthly. Four months in the city jail was the sentence imposed upon George Winters, Win-ters, 33 years of age, of Salt Lake, charged with carrying concealed weapons. weap-ons. When arrested two large revolvers revol-vers were found iu Ills possession. 4 fivo-ncro tvnnt nf nrrr l'tv in the mouth of Emigration canyon, where the t Utah pioneers first looked upon Salt Lake valley, was accepted last week by Salt Lake City as a site for a commemorative monument. Members of the Utah Rabbit Breeders' Breed-ers' and Fanciers' association have completed arrangements for the annual an-nual show, scheduled to be held at Salt Lake during the week ending February Feb-ruary 5. Revision of certain sections of the Utah corrupt practices act is urged by Secretary of State Harden Bennion in his biennial report which was filed with Governor Bamberger last week. Citizens of Sevier county have filed with the secretary of state articles of incorporation for the Sevier Valley Coal company, with a capital of $250,-000, $250,-000, divided into shares of $10 each. A campaign to build an automobile highway from Salt Lake City to Reno, Nev., and from Reno direct to San Francisco was launched at San Francisco Fran-cisco last week. From the report of the state dairy and food commissioner it appears that the dairy cow is bringing in a revenue, in round numbers, of $S,000,000 a year. Condensed milk produced in the Utah factories was 454,028 cases in 1919, and the 1920 production is running run-ning about even with that of 1919. The man who hanged himself near Taysou has been identified as Billy Johnson of Manzanola, Colo. Quail in large number are threatened threat-ened with starvation this winter unless some steps are taken to provide an available supply of food for them near their feeding grounds, according to a report that comes from Farmington. Meats killed and packed in Utah are unusually wholesome and free from disease, according to E. 1'. Durham, inspector in-spector of the United States bureau of animal industry, who says the number of tuberculosis cases found among cat' tie Killed in the slate is. decidedly low and th'it a similar condition holds trui with r'-L.' :vl to hogs |
