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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told by Busy Readers NEVADA FINDS COLD ECONOMY PLAN LOOMS CITY BUYS POWER UNIT i TAX RETURN DEFERRED TWO ROADS COMPLETED TONOPAII, NEV Several Ton- opah mining men visited the placer strike 14 miles northwest of Yer-Ington Yer-Ington and report that the gravel puns 75 cents to a dollar a pan. LOGAN, UT. The city commission commis-sion has ordered a new engine for generating power for the municipally munici-pally owned power and light plant. OGDEN, UT. The Utah Baptist association held Its fiftieth anniversary anni-versary meeting here and this meeting meet-ing was attended by Rev. J. Spencer, Spen-cer, son of the founder of the first Baptist church In Ogden, fifty years ago. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-A plan for economy which will save several sever-al thousands of dollars has been out lined by the state fish and game department. The state game commissioner com-missioner announces that economy Is necessary as Utah cannot complete com-plete Its present program with the present rate of Income allowed the department, 8 ALT LAKE CITY, UT. Corpo- rations v. nose fiscal year ends after January 1, 1031, and before June 80, 1031, have been given until Sep. tcmber 15 to file corporation franchise fran-chise tax returns under an order by the state tax commission. Legally some of the taxes are due now, but because ot the fact that the tax commission Is not yet ready to receive returns the time for filing has been extended. CISCO, UT. Two new federal aid highways, costing approximately approximate-ly $300,000 and connecting Eastern Utah with Colorado at the state line, are recommended by the state engineers for acceptance Just as soon as a few finishing touches are completed. These final touches are In progress, it is reported. The projects pro-jects Include 23 miles of highway east from Cisco and 10 miles east from Montlcello. BOISE, IDA. The total value of farm lands, buildings, Implements Imple-ments and machinery In Idaho Is $150,093,375, or almost equal to the assessed valuation for the entire state of Idaho, which for 1930, as found by the state board of equalisation, equali-sation, was $482,810,000. MANTI, UT. County Commissioner Commis-sioner John Gunderson was found guilty ot malfeasance of office on five counts, after a trial lasting four days. He was found not guilty on one count TOOELE, UT. Tooele county shows a shrinkage of almost one-fourth one-fourth in the value of property assessed by the county assessor this year, according to the report submitted sub-mitted to the state tax commission. The property Is assessed at $7,217,. 683, compared to $9,740,549 In 1930. Every class of property shows a large decrease, but the most drastic reduction Is on livestock, which was assessed at $1,020,029 in 1930, compared com-pared to only $822,344 this year, a reduction of about one-half. RIVERTON. UT. There are in Salt Lake County 8,000 dairy cows, and the agricultural department estimates es-timates that profits of the farmers would be greatly increased by elimination elim-ination of at least 2,000. The 2,000 cows that do not produce enough to pay their annual bill for feed, la. bor and investment, do produce enough milk to create a surplus that has demoralized the butterfat market mar-ket SILVER CITY, IDA First step operations are now under way at the Golden-Chariot-War Eagle mining min-ing grounds, preparatory to the resumption re-sumption of aggressive development campaigns. The company is a consolidation con-solidation of a group of properties, some of which were famous during the early days as gold ore producers. produc-ers. OGDEN, UT. Bids wll be opened open-ed In the U. S. bureau of public roads office, June 6, for the construction, con-struction, surfacing and improving of more than seven miles of the Warm River-Yellowstone highway extending from the top of Bear Elver gulch hill to Last Chance Inn. This Is in the Targhee national nation-al forest, Idaho, on the way to Yel- lowstone I'arK's west entrance. PANGUITCH, UT. Fish recently recent-ly planted in this vicinity total 171,000, three to eight inch trout Pangultch lake received 141,000: Pangultch creek, 15000, and East Fork Creek, 15,000. PAYSON UT. Plans are underway under-way for the four-day annual Black Hawk and Indian war veterans celebration cel-ebration to be held In Payson, August Aug-ust 4, 6, 6 and 7. KING HILL, IDA. The body of Clarence Welch, local school teacher, teach-er, has been found lodged on a rock In tbe Snake river at the Suddretb ranch near here. Welch was drowned drown-ed when his boat overturned several sever-al weeks ago. LOGAN, UT. The proposed bull fight exhibition the American Legion Leg-ion post is planning as a part of their Fourth of July celebration program is meeting with protest from the Utah State Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Dumb Animals. It was not the intention of the Legion to have the bull actually killed but merely to give an exhibition. exhibi-tion. OGDEN, UT. Tbe city has entered en-tered Into a campaign for the securing se-curing of tourist travel during the present summer. . |