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Show Iniermourctain Hews Briefly told for Busy Readers MILK FUNDS UP TICK BITE FATAL i JOBS FOR UTAHNS HEAVY TAX RECEIPTS ELY, NEV. Work on the C C C camp No. 21 at Indian Springs in White Pine county is being rushed to accommodate 190 recruits re-cruits expected shortly from the east. BOISE, IDA. Since the kilowatt kilo-watt tax became operative in Idaho in June, 1931, the state has coUected $1,048,990, L. S. Heller, auditor of the Kilowatt Tax bureau has announced. SALEM, UT. No tax levy for local purposes has been made here this year. BOISE, IDA. Approximately 180,000 Idaho milch cows produced pro-duced 15,406,906 pounds of butter-fat butter-fat that brought dairymen of the state $4,873,853 during the first six months of 1935, or 33 per cent greater returns than for the first half of 1934. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Formal For-mal okeh has been announced for projects calling for $562,000 in federal money and $297,141 pledged by sponsors. Previously approval had been given for approximately ap-proximately a half -million dollars worth of work, and actual construction con-struction is now underway on this earlier group. Additional projects will be approved from time to time in the future by the administration, so that within a few weeks thousands of Utahns will be employed in actual construction. con-struction. POCATELLO, IDA. This city's new 11,500,000 gallon reservoir is practically completed. BOISE, IDA. Two members of one Idaho family have died from tick bites within the past few days. BOISE, IDA. Idaho's receipts from the gasoline tax law for August were $430,000, the largest for any month since the act became be-came operative several years ago. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Jellies and jams like mother makes because they will b e made in many instances by her will be on exhibition at the Utah state fair from September 28 to October 5, inclusive, in larger variety than ever before at any state conducted food show, according to reports made to the management. PROVO, UT. Maple trees in tfee Wasatch national forest are being attacked by a flat headed BOISE, IDA. Work on projects pro-jects to cost $112,695 have been started in Bear Lake, Franklin and Kootenai counties by the works progress administration. PROVO, UT. Undaunted by threats of war, Dr. and Mrs. Christen Jensen have started a ten-montn tour of the world. Dr. Jensen, who is professor of history his-tory and political science and the dean of the graduate school at the Brigham Young university will visit 28 countries and colonies colo-nies making observations and studies in international relations. re-lations. OGDEN, UT. Payments to farmers for the 1935 tomato crop are scheduled for Nov. 15 and Dec. 15. GREEN RIVER, UT. The Cantaloupe Can-taloupe crop in the Green River valley has been abundant this season, the weather has been ideal and practically no pests to contend with. Shipments began about Aug. 15, and are expected to continue until frost. Eastern points for market are St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh and Boston. There have been shipped 146 cars, a car consists of 720 flat crates or 320 large ones. It has required as many as 21 pickers a day per 100 acres; the acreage in the valley being 600. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Increase In-crease in Utah's manufacturing tomato and string bean crops are forecast in a report released at the office of Frank Andrews, federal statistician. In mamifac- tunng tomatoes this year's acreage acre-age is 67,000, producing 36,800 tons, compared with 53,000 acres and 26,000 tons last year. The acreage devoted to shipping tomatoes to-matoes this year is 1,200 compared compar-ed with 900 last year, but the production is less, amounting to about 84,000 bushels this season as against 114,000 a year ago. btrmg beans were grown on 600 acres this year compared with 480 in 1934 and the estimated production, 1,700 tons compared with 1,300 tons a year ago OGDEN, UT. According' to a report from the Southern Pacific gauge at Midlake, the Great Salt J-ake stands at a new low level. The gauge shows that the waters have declined three inches in the past few days, and are now at at the lowest level in more than 80 years of recorded history. FAIRFIELD, IDA.-Of the 10 school districts in Camas county, live are in isobted sections and must, conduct classes during tho summer, instead of tho winter Period. These five will close when snow blockades the rural roads to p-vPnt children reach-i reach-i 51 g th,cir schoolhouses, school leaders have announced. BOISE, I D A. Approximately one-half of the Italian prune crop of the Boise valley and its kotPrtn? SCti0nS hns to W ra PnC? raninS from $25 to J2.50 per ton. HAILEY, IDA. Of about 200 cases of brain fever anion i' Blaine county horses in tho hist few saved through use of n serum jn oclecl by a veterinarian. Most f mrtCofT,WC1'C in ,hu $ rtScrLSumrn,y' wiih v |