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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers BUSY FOOD CZAR LEAD MARKET LOOMS MANY FISH TLANTED MINERS BACK AT WORK GREAT TUNNEL FROJECT TROVO, UT A total of 850,300 fish were planted in the streams and lakes of the Wasatch national forest last year, it Is shown in a forest service report completed recently. re-cently. Of this number 711, S00 were planted by the state and approximately approxi-mately 144,500 "by the U. S. bureau of fisheries in cooperation with the forest service. Fish received from the bureau of fisheries were mostly of one-inch size and were planted in the numerous lakes of the upper Frovo region and in the waters at the western end of the high TJintahs primitive area. Stock supplied by the state consisted of fish from one to ten inches in length. They were planted in the more accessible streams and lakes. LOGAN, L'T Wheat growers of Utah who signed contracts with The fed.eral government to reduce their wheat acreage during 1934 and 1S135 have received ?312,733 in. benefit payments. GOLDFIELD, NEV. Two persons per-sons were killed and three others, one a woman, were injured In a collision which wrecked an automobile automo-bile and a loaded produce truck 10 miles south of here, recently. SALT LAKE CITY, FT. An analysis an-alysis of the delinquent tax situation situa-tion in Salt Lake City and county will be made as a special feature of the United States census bureau's real property inventory now underway. BOISE, IDA. Idaho pig raisers Intend to cut their production during dur-ing the next six months by 25 per cent compared with the same period last year, a report of the federal crop statistician indicates. The report re-port estimated 30,000 sows would farrow during the coming six months compared with 40,000 during dur-ing the same period a year ago, when 234,000 young pigs were saved. The crop for the fall of 1933 was about the same as for the same period of 1932, being 134,000 pigs compared with 130,000 the previous year, a reduction of about one per cent. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Salt Lake City has licensed, after inspec- tion, SS4 dairymen and reiusea licenses li-censes to 52 applicants, according to the annual report of the head of the meat and foods inspection department. de-partment. The department has inspected in-spected about five million pounds of meat as well as the slaughter In the city of poultry, hogs, veal and some cattle and sheep. Of 4,549,SG9 pounds of sausage inspected, only C.950 pounds was condemned. The total of meat condemned was over fifty thousand pounds. RENO, NEV. More men at labor, la-bor, bigger payrolls and more profit prof-it for operating companies are the net results in Nevada of the presidential presi-dential orders Increasing the price of newly mined silver and gold. Miners who have merely eked out a living the past two years are receiving re-ceiving regular pay. SALT LAKE CITY, UT A drive against evnders of federal internal revenue laws and to collect delinquent delin-quent federal taxes, will be started In the near future. The Utah drive will be part of a national campaign to help balance the federal budget. Tfcere are $SOO,flOO,000 in delinquent delin-quent taxes owed to the federal government gov-ernment and of this amount $2S0,-000 $2S0,-000 is owing by Utah people. EUREKA, UT. Repeal of the Eighteenth amendment will open an important new market for the lead Industry of the United States, providing proper tariff regulations can be made. It is estimated that 15,000 tons of lead annually will he consumed in making caps for wine and liquor bottles. At the present time, most of these caps are being manufactured In foreign countries and shipped to the United Stales under a small advalorom tax which applies to manufactured goods. The tax on crude lead is two and one-eighth one-eighth cents per pound. EPIIRAIM, UT. Tho first definite defi-nite move toward actual construction construc-tion of the Ephraim tunnel In tho mountains east of here, which haf the npproval of P W A, has been taken with the publication of a no-lice no-lice of special meeting of the Ephraim Eph-raim Irrigation company on February Feb-ruary 33. Approval of proposed changes in the articles of Incorpo- ration lias ueen received num Washington and will be Tip for a vote. The sum to be borrowed will not exceed $254,000. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Protests have been filed by local cleaning and dyeing establishments over the way the code is being enforced in the industry. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. With more than one-half of its farms (supplied (sup-plied with electric power, Utah is third among the states in farm electrification, according to government govern-ment reports, just released. GARLAND, UT. A mild winter in the Bear river valley lias provided provid-ed grazing for sheep wintering here and much of the feed is obtained by ranging over dry pasture land. The amount of bay required for feed is a great deal less than it would be in an average winter. Hay is reported abundant at this time. |
