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Show City To Start Mining Museum City Plans White Way NEW BLEACHERS BUILT $135,000 TO BE SPENT ON ROAD i)D PER CENT CARS RECOVERED CONTRACT FOR ROAIJ LET LEIII At a meeting in the Memorial Mem-orial building roceutly, the committee In charge of the homecoming cclebra-was cclebra-was named,- One day will be named Utah Beet Sugar day. In connection Hon to be held next August 13 to IS, with tho home-coming a rodeo will bo held. Over 8,000 will be spent in remodeling, re-modeling, enlarging and Improvlngjho rodeo grounds west of Lebi, BINGHAM Plans for an unusual museum of mining In the Bingham high school at Copperton were discussed discuss-ed at a recent meeting of the Bingham Bing-ham Klwanis club, school authorities and representatives of the student body. Edgar M. Ledyard, president of the Utah Historical Landmarks association, as-sociation, was the principal spenfcw Plans were presented and it was agreed that work will start on the museum, which will comprise two or three rooms lu the high school building. build-ing. It Is proposed to have thre main exhibits, one of old mining relics, re-lics, another of modern products, and a complete mining library. IIEBEIt The Wasatch county high school senior class, as Its project, has presented to the school the new bleachers bleach-ers with 450 seating capacity in the high school gym. All material for the bleachers was financed by the class and the labor was furnished by the school shop students, who, under William McKell, supervised the construction con-struction and worked many days after school, with the assistance of other faculty members, to have the seats Installed. In-stalled. PARK CITS Installation of proposed pro-posed "White way" on Park City's Main street has been assured. The Installation consists of forty-three ornamental or-namental standards, with 1000 candle-power candle-power lamps, and will be Installed on Main street, between Second and Seventh Sev-enth streets, at a cost of approximately approximate-ly (15,000, the cost of Installation to be borne by the abutting property owners own-ers over a period of ten years. , OGDEN Election of officers and: adoption of resolutions were the closing clos-ing features of the two-day convention of the State Horticultural society in the Hotel BigeloW recently. PAYSON The annual stockholders meeting f jfoe strawberry high line canal company was held recently. President Taylor stated that operation charges of the company have decreas-8d decreas-8d on an average of from $1 to 60 cents. The crop report showed that fruit, especially peaches, reaped the highest profit and that sugar beets and canning crops were good. SALT LAKE The state road com- mission has awarded to the Reynolds-Ely Reynolds-Ely Construction company contract for the building of C.l miles of highway high-way on U. S. route 50, the last stretch to be completed on the highway between be-tween Thompson and the Colorado-Utah Colorado-Utah line. The contract includes two bridges; and the contractor's share for the labor involved will be $37,531-G2, $37,531-G2, at present quality estimates. , . . PROVO An Intensive educational campaign to bring about a greater consumption of dairy products Instead of imported substitutes will be launched launch-ed in Utah county in the near future under the direction of Lyman II. Rich, county agent, representing the extension exten-sion service, cooperating in the drive are all the schools of the county including in-cluding the B. Y. U. ; Smith-Hughs instructors; in-structors; the Provo chamber of commerce com-merce and other civic clubs of the county. Stores throughout the county coun-ty have agreed to cooperate by featuring featur-ing displays of Utah county products during the first two weeks in February. Febru-ary. LOGANA total of $155,000 will be spent on the Logan canyon road this year, providing the county or state will contribute $37,500, according to Supervisor Carl B. Arentson, of the Cache national forest. Mr. Arentson has been advised that $75,000 of the forest service funds is available for construction work on the section of the Logan canyon road extending from the fish hatchery to the forks, BRIGHAM CITI A committee of Brlgham City citizens headed by Mayor May-or James E. Halverson, met with the Boxelder county commission in reference refer-ence to securing Boxelder county's proportional share of the amount al-loted al-loted by the federal government to meet the unemployment emergency act, the total amount of which is $80,-000,000. $80,-000,000. Of this amount, It is understood under-stood that $026,000 is Utah's proportion. propor-tion. ; PBOVO-The Provo city commission commis-sion was asked to assume early jurisdiction juris-diction of the proposed sewer district No. 20 to serve the west side of Provo. i when a delegation of property owners own-ers from this port of the city met with the couinjssfon. PROVO Officers of the Santaquln chamber of commerce asked the Utah county commission for an appropriation appropria-tion to aid in repairing and building nine miles of road in Santuqnin canyon. can-yon. The commission agreed to match money with the forest officials. |