Show 1 N. N m r News Notes S i c cI From All Il Party Parts of IW I UTAH li j Tc Ji li Ili 1 ta r f ial lc Ii 1 a Cedar City The City The Escalante desert 1 i Is a veritable meadow tills this year the I recent rains having baving caused the vegetation vegetation vegetation to grow rapid rapidly Not for twenty years has the desert been so 80 prolific In vegetation The are arc jubilant as this desert is their regular winter range section Price Price Price-Price Price is to be host to some coal operators August 26 to 28 inclusive the occasion being the annual annual an an- nual convention of the Rocky Mountain Mountain Mountain Moun Moun- tain Coal Mining institution The Tho event was awarded to Price last year at the time of the convention at atC Denver Secretary John R. R Sharp was named chairman of a committee on arrangements for their reception and while the visitors aro are here Park City Consolidation City Consolidation of the I Park City Mining 1 Smelting company's company's com corn pany's holdings with those cf ot the Utah Park Mining company for operation operation operation oper oper- by the Utah Park-Utah Consolidated Mines l company has been completed thus covering a large part of the arrangements arrangements arrangements ar ar- ar- ar leading up to a merging of or these mines with the Ontario and the Daly estates which will put under one management acres lying conI contiguously contiguously con con- I in m the heart of the Park City district extending from I in Big Cottonwood canyon canon to Keetley in Heber valley distance of nine nino miles Cedar City City Bids Bids are being called caned for t the li a proposed concrete road I through Cedar Main street It is expected expected expected ex ex- ex- ex that the work will begin early in August and at the same time the business firms on Main l street will wiIl lay concrete from the curb to the road which will run in the center Logan Florence Logan Florence Jacobsen formerly for for- merly of this city won second prize for forthe the most beautiful hair in a recent contest conducted in San Francisco according to word which reached here y L recently Miss Jacobsons Jacobson's tresses r I Iwon won second place among the girls who entered the contest She was awarded a prize of 50 besides a number of articles of merchandise If Salt SnIt Lake City Sixteen manly chests thesis bulged with honest and quivering quivering quiver quiver- ring r- r ing pride at Fort Douglas as a group of lovely elY young girls a maid for a a. aman aman man with winning smiles and little words of congratulation pinned medals medals med mede als upon upon them It was a gala event t and the fellow students of the lucky sixteen of the citizens' citizens military training training training train train- ing cump comp envied them the pinning as much as as' the a actual medals which were awarded for the he highest r r ual proficiency u Salt SaIt Lake City City Railroads of the western mountain Pacific groups have f filed with the public utilities com corn commission commission r mission of Utah a petition for Intrastate intrastate intrastate intra- intra state increases in freight rates corresponding corresponding corresponding cor cor- responding with ith such interstate rate increases as may be permitted by the interstate commerce commission in inthe inthe inthe the proceedings brought before that 1 commission under a petition dated at al Chicago April 23 last included c among the petitioners are the followIng following following follow follow- ing railways serving Utah territory Denver Rio Grande Western Los Angeles Salt Lake Oregon Short 6 Line Southern Pacific Union Pacific it and Western Vestern Pacific r Ogden Two Two men blew up the safe a in the Alhambra theatre after arter striking striking striking ing the janitor over the head with os the butt o of a revolver and locking a him in a n c dressing room and escaped with approximately 1000 the theatre receipts of July and Salt SaIt Lake City Two City Two counties in inI Ut I reporting the assessment of property proper proper- I ty in their counties for taxation this ref I years show increases over o that of lay laythe the year rear preceding They are Summit Summit Sum Sum- it mit county whose valuation for 1925 is given at as compared mr with 19 in 1924 and Sevier der which r reports ports the valuation this year t tat at compared with In 1924 tr Vernal One One life lost and the narrow narrow narrow nar nar- row escape of eight others is the thet t toll tall exacted by a heavy flood caused nd by a cloudburst h swept down Pia Five Mile wash at a point two miles north of Watson Uintah county An automobile occupied b by Mr and Mrs d Jerome Goodrich Mrs C. C A. A Bobzein ors Owen OFallon and five children was e caught b by the swift torrent which nearly submerged the car as it rolled a on n th hn t 1 on n u e U Salt La Lake e City CIt CIt- Total Total otal of expendi expenditures tures of the state roads of Utah for form I m maintenance and betterment purposes during the past seven months which Eul I Include of course course the spring months I a when maintenance work must be active active active ac ac- I tive has been This l is the showing made by a compilation j just st completed b by C. C F. F Dean Denn chief t k kt of ot the state road commis commis- sion lam |