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Show Intermoun -Briefly told for Busy Krfc IDAHO DRY LAW. WHEAT COST PRICE. mktalVtpi:t i fall. SALES TAX KILLS OiAU. duction declined iHlfe, 03S.G21 in 1031 to $S.3o.,0. i. L - r. more than doubled, climbing from $ 8S2 in 1031 to $945,309 in 19.-. Ohe production of the smallest in 30 ye"s. "' and zinc production below the -0 year average. MALAD, IDA.-With the present schedults'of values the Cuda county farmers are reported to be expending forty cents to grow one bushel of wheat on their dry farm lands. This figure is given by nu in-f;nn in-f;nn nf the local schools. S4LT LAKE CITY, TJT.-Henr-ingm the case of the Utah Citizens Kate association against Utah cai-riers cai-riers in its appeal for lower rates on coal from Carbon county to Utah points has been postponed until the eleventh day of April. BOISE, IDA. In spite of what Congress decides about wine and beer, they will probably still be prohibited pro-hibited in Idaho. The state law prohibits pro-hibits the "manufacture, disposal and transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes." LOGAN, UT. Machinery lias begun be-gun revolving for the holding in Logan Lo-gan on April 20, 21 and 22 of the Utah state band contest. The affair af-fair is being sponsored by the Logan chamber of commerce and the Utah State Agricultural college. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. An ingot in-got of Utah silver, the gift from the Utah society, Sons of the American Amer-ican Revolution, occupies a position of prominence and utility upon the desk of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, according to news received receiv-ed from Washington by the secretary secre-tary of the Utah society. The ingot, fashioned for use as a paperweight, was presented in behalf ot tne man group by Secretary of War George H. Dern. PROVO, UT. Utah lake contains a water reserve 10,000 acre feet less than that of last year, according to the report of the City Engineer. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The condition of Utah winter ranges and livestock generally dropped several points during the last month, compared com-pared with the same period a year ago, it is shown by federal reports. The decline is said to be due to unusually un-usually cold weather. PROVO, UT. A county fair with all costly frills eliminated, may be staged this fall, despite the action of the county commissioners in eliminating the entire county fail-appropriation. fail-appropriation. Action looking towards to-wards a county fair in which the products of the region may be displayed dis-played was taken at a meeting of 75 interested people in this city. OGDEN, UT. C. H. Hatton, International In-ternational president of Lions clubs, will be the chief speaker at the Utah-Idaho Lions club convention to be held in Ogden, June 19 and 20. POCATELLO, IDA. The railway to Yellow-stone Park has been opened open-ed by a rotary plow in preparation for summer travel. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Colors of nine high schools will fly while their bands play at the music festival at Twin Falls, April 21. Those expected expect-ed to participate include : Twin Falls, Buhl, Gooding, Eden, Burley, Jerome, Hailey, Hansen and Shoshone. Sho-shone. CALDWELL, IDA. Of the 1000 city lots owned by Canyon county in Caldwell, Nampa and Parma and offered by the board of commissioners commission-ers free of cost to unemployed people who may desire to cultivate them as gardens, only 11 have been applied for. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Six Stakes of the L. D. S. church will issue scrip to the amount of many thousands of dollars to stimulate business. ONTARIO, ORE. 24 men have enrolled in the unemployed plan to conduct a co-operative farm to supply sup-ply vegetables during the coming summer and winter. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Conditions Condi-tions in Utah are excellent for the production of barley, and Utah farmers should be able to increase production by 2,000,000 bushels a year. This is the opinion of Frank Andrews, federal agricultural statistician statis-tician for Utah, who asserted the Utah grain is largely a feed barley. Utah barley production Inst year was 1,716,000 bushels, compared with 1,800,000 during the previous year. COUNCIL, IDA. Gold hoarding by a flock of turkeys here has led to a miniature gold rush. A turkey taken to Boise from here was discovered dis-covered to have $2.50 worth of gold in his crop. Two other turkeys from the same place, the Wisdom ranch on Squaw Creek, netted $5.10 additonal, while a fourth, found dead on the place, delivered up a little more coarse gold. Since the discovery several days ago, crews of men have be;-n going over (he Wisdom ranch in search of the turkey strike. |