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Show Inierauntain flaws Briefly told for Busy Readers TRADE GAIN SHOWN MIST PAY TAX WORK ON OLD TRAIL CHUCKS DELAYED MINES KEEMPLOY MEN SALT LAKE CITY, t'T. Sii't Lake City will issue $1,500,000 in tax anticipation notes lor Tlie notes will pay 4 per cent interest nnd will be issued in $.",000 and $10, 000 denominations. They will be payable January 10, 10315, and will bear interest on July 10, 193-1, and on the maturity date. NADA, L"T. Sheepmen report that snow on the northern slopes lias become so crusted the sheep cannot travel without suffering from sore feet. BEAVER, UT. Many smaller herds of cattle within Beaver are being taken to nearby ranches to be wintered. SALT LAKE CITY, t'T. Pro-cessing Pro-cessing tax of $1.00 per hundred weight on all hogs slaughtered, save for the owner's own consumption, went into effect December 1 in line with the administration's policy of reducing the nation's pork supply and helping the farmers. . SALT LAKE CITY, UT. In 1931 more than 7 per cent of nil eggs shipped to the New York City market mar-ket came from Utah. SALT LAKE CITY, t'T. Designation De-signation of the "Old Mormon" trail between Salt Lake and Ilenefer ns a civil works project will be asked by the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks association. BOISE, IDA Idaho wheat-growing farmers have failed to receive checks for acreage they have taken out of production under the administration's admin-istration's wheat program because county boards, as a rule, have failed to report to Washington on the amounts due individual farmers. BOISE, IDA. The mining situation, situa-tion, in the Coeur d'Alenes shows improvement over last June, Will H. Simons, state mine inspector, said on his return from a tour in which he noted particularly an increase in the number of miners with jobs and longer working periods for them. Between 300 and 400 men have been put to work by adding shifts, opening open-ing mines and extending operations, he said. Wages have been increased EO cents a day and in some instances men are working five days a week instead of three. BOISE, IDA. Senators William E. Borah and J. P. Pope have begun to work individually with members of the public works board in the hope of securing an initial allocation alloca-tion of ,?2,000,000 to start construction construc-tion of the Salmon river diversion, adjunct of the Boise project, estimated esti-mated to cost $9,000,000. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Box Elder county, Utah, ranked thirty-second thirty-second among counties of the United States in the number of apricot trees of bearing age in 1930, according to a report of the census bureau. Canyon county, Idaho, ranked thirty-ninth. Box Elder county reported 16,073 trees, bearing 18,-355 18,-355 bushels, valued at $27,533. Canyon Can-yon county reported 9454 bearing trees, from which was harvested CG76 bushels, valued at $12,342. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Salt Lake led the list of western cities in department store business gains for November over a year ago. OGDEN, UT A' report made at a meeting at relief headquarters shows that more than one thousand Red Cross articles of clothing were given out in November. OGDEN, UT. The program of furnishing SiO undernourished and needy children with a hot meal each lay in the Ogden city schools is declared de-clared by school officials to be highly high-ly successful. This is financed by the federal civil works administration. administra-tion. PROVO, UT. An erosion control project in the canyons east of Provo was approved by Utah county and Provo city at a joint session of the two commissions. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A statistician and 28 assistants will begin in the near future to make a survey of unemployment in Utah. George A. Yager, state director of the federal reemployment servi.ee, has been authorized by Washington officials to employ the force. The authorization came from Walter Burr, assistant federal director of the reemployment service in Washington. Wash-ington. The force will work in cooperation co-operation with federal reemployment reemploy-ment representatives throughout the state, and will compile records giving giv-ing a complete survey of the unemployment unem-ployment situation. The survey is believed to be connected with President Presi-dent Roosevelt's plans to ask congress con-gress for $5,375,000,000, including a large sum for O W A work between March 1 and May 1. The unemployed:, unemploy-ed:, It is hoped, will be absorbed by the public works after May 1. BOISE, IDA. The slate bureau of highways has awarded a contract to J. C. McGulre of Butte for constructing, con-structing, draining nnd gravel surfacing sur-facing live miles of the highway between be-tween the Snake river and Lewis-ville Lewis-ville in Jefferson county on a low-bid low-bid of if 51 ,017. BOISE, IDA. A call for I!0 engineers engi-neers and 70 assistants for work under the United Slates Const and Geodetic Survey in Idaho has been issued by Ivan Crawford, Idaho inihltj works engineer. |