Show intermountain intel mountain news briefly told for busy readers AID THE CHILDREN TAX STUDY PLANNED TAX SCENIC CEN IC LOOP URGED RAT PAT BATTLE FOUGHT EIGHT HOUR LAW OKEH BOISE IDA A tax study that tha will cover not only present tax systems but possible remedies will be undertaken by a now statewide series of committees growing out of the meeting here ot of delegates called by the state chamber ot of commerce increasing taxes are causing the investigations outlined by tile conference BLACKFOOT IDA the commissioners miss loners ners of bingham county and the residents of the sterling section are operating cooperating co in the grading of about three and one half miles of road PROVO UT forty five add additional attendants will be employed at the state mental hospital soon as a result of the decision of the state board of insanity to comply with the state eig eight hour law in the past a number ot of employed emp loyes had been working from ten to twelve hours a day and a recent opinion of the attorney general held this practice illegal except in cases of emergency TOOELE UT A free in luncheon Is 1 being served to undernourished ed children during the noon hour bout b by y the local legion post and aux auxiliary illary UT excellent success has attended the rat extermination campaign carried ou on tor for a week in this city DELTA UT work is in progress on the oak city lynndal lynndyl Lea leavington leamington road local labor is being used on the project byrum UT in the nel neighborhood abor of one and a quarter million dollars has been paid out to cache valley farmers by the sugar beet companies operating in the valley SALT LAKE CITY UT A petition signed by practically all the residents of wayne and garfield counties and endorsed by the salt lake chamber of commerce seeking construction of a CO 60 mile highway by the federal forest service to join wayne countes coun tys wonderland with bryce canyon has been dispatched to senatorial delegation the proposed highway would involve a federal expenditure of around it would comple comp leix lt a scenic loop between the wayne county scenic spots escalante and bryce eq canyon nyon and grover TOOELE UT work on the cut oft off on the road from to stockton ton has been completed and the road opened to traffic OGDEN UT cash anio amounting 6 to and many any silver trophies will be offered exhibitors at the ogden livestock show january 8 to 14 as special prizes by breeding bre eiling associations public spirited binns and commission houses the sp special octal prizes are arc being offered in conjunction with the regular awards paid by the livestock association SALT LAKE CITY UT TIT loans for drouth relief to talling around one hundred thousand dollars have hate been granted to utah ranchers by the agricultural department the department has approved over six hundred applications from utah farmers and stockmen stoc kmen and has over two hundred cases still pending for information or correction coi tile the loans are being made to help farmers buy feed or transport livestock out of sections designated as drouth areas UT A decrease of 79 enrolled students flonk last bears eara total of is shown by the 1931 1031 census of the city school district COISE BOISE IDA the value of irrigated farms in III idaho was in I 1 1830 including inc ludin land buildings implements and flut machinery according to a bureau of censki report recently 1 by the bureau of domestic and f foreign or commerce in 1920 1020 the number r ot if farms under ditch was 2528 13 the area irrigated in 1929 was acres a decrease of 12 per cent from UG acres irrigated 10 years previous and was 23 per cent of tile total farm acreage lu in idaho in 1930 1910 A total investment of ft was wa s reported by tile the operating irrigation enterprises according to the report SALT SALM LAKE CITY UT the report of the chief of 0 the ibe national forest service gives the extent of tile the forest fires for 1931 1031 as is acres this area la is approximately that of the state of 0 utah tile the to loss s a Is listed at in commercial cons coms timber the causes of fire are given as camp campfires fires cigar slid mid cigarettes thrown throw away by i tobacco users tire are blamed for 20 per cent of the total fire loss UT work has begun on the three narrow culverts cu lverts in the coalville rollel the cu lverts will III lie widened as 88 tile aliey y are ara considered dangerous dung crous at present I 1 I 1 SANTAQUIN UT on oil the water pipeline lias has been glien to I 1 thirty men and boys of this city under the direction of tile the city officials fici als the wooden pire pipe line Is being replaced iltis now dew steel pipe LEHI UT A community store house anil and mood pile is ia planned plan neil for 1 this city by the civic organizations |