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Show ! I EjMSJcMMeMii'eiSJ j News Notes S j 1 From All Parts of a I UTAH I Provo. Utah county commissioners have signed a cooperative agreement with the state road commission and the federal road bureau for the construction con-struction of six miles of new road in Spanish Fork canyon. By the teribs of the agreement, Utah county will pay $49,000. Salt Lake. Eleven hundred boys, from every school in the city, were engaged Friday in the citywide marble mar-ble contest being staged under su- j pervision of the recreation department depart-ment of Salt Lake City and the dl- I rection of Miss Charlotte Stewart, ' head of that department. Salt Lake. A petition asking the city commission to take into Salt Lake City the territory east of Seventeenth Sev-enteenth "East street between Seventeenth Seven-teenth and Twenty-first South streets . was filed with the city commission Thursday. It was referred to the engineering en-gineering department for report. Petitioners Pe-titioners claimed to represent 80 per cent of the district property owners, and expressed a desire for fire protection, pro-tection, water and sewer service. Cedar City. The government has surveyors In the field looking for a suitable airplane mail landing station sta-tion in this part of Utah. The Mo-dena Mo-dena secton, as well as Lund and Parowan, has been looked into and good locations noted, but the one that seems to suit the best in that just west of Cedar City. Salt Lake. The Studebaker-Wulff Rubber company, engaged in the manufacture man-ufacture of tires, tubes and other rubber articles, has decided to establish estab-lish a manufacturing and distributing plant In Salt Lake at an Initial expenditure, ex-penditure, for the first unit, of approximately ap-proximately $500,000. This announcement announce-ment was made Friday by Frank B. Cook, president of the chamber of commerce. The plant will employ about 200 men, and have a pay roll approximating $25,000 a month. Ogden. The first shipment of California Cali-fornia spring lambs, which is expected expect-ed to be heavy tnis year, especially as compared with last year, when the foot and mouth disease ravaged the coast flocks, passed through the Ogden Union stockyards Friday en route east. Bingham. The board of education of the Jordan school district will at once advertise for bids for the erection erec-tion of a new school building at West Jordan. The building will be ready for occupancy by the time school opens in September. As the present building must be razed, it is planned to close school at least two weeks earlier. Ogden. A carload of oranges from Riverside, Cal., was seized by Hugh J. Cannon, pure food inspector, and LeRoy Marsh, district agricultural inspector. in-spector. The oranges were said to have been frozen and some had been distributed to local dealers, who were unaware of their condition. The inspectors in-spectors said that the California growers grow-ers had agreed not to ship any fruit damaged in the recent cold spell. Cedar City. Fifteen home builders have banded together here and organized or-ganized a company. Each will erect this summer a modern bungalow, the materials for which are being purchased pur-chased wholesale at Salt Lake City and shipped here in carload lots, thus eliminating the middleman and bringing bring-ing the homes from $1,000 to $1200 cheaper than by buying materials in Cedar. Salt Lake. Two important steps toward expediting the Salt Lake basin ba-sin reclamation work were taken by the Utah waters storage comilTission, when ' the commission decided to spend $25,000 on the complete investigation investi-gation of the two Deer Creek dam-sites, dam-sites, and agreed upon the formation forma-tion of a committee which will arrange ar-range for the formation of uniform water users' associations in the areas Interested in the project. Cedar City. The Union Pacific system sys-tem has a large force a men at work planting lawns, trees and shrubbery around the passenger depot, the Hotel El Escalante and the south side nf ' the freight depot. When it is com-I com-I pleted the grounds will be the most , beautiful and the largest on the U. : P. system this side of Omaha. Logan. Cache will be one of the I first counties of the state to have ; I an advertising booth at the capitol j building, as t he advertising commit- ; tee of the Logan chamber of com- 1 1 merce in a meeting with the county commissioners docided to carry out ! the suggestion nude recently to the chamber of commerce by Secretary j i of State H. E. Crockett that Cache 1 county have an exhibit. Salt Lake. The state fair board announced its intention to triple the present sealing capacity of the grandstands, grand-stands, from SHOO to l'l.OOO, work to commence as soon pfter April 1 as i possible. The additional concrete stands will cost pproximately 550.- I 000 and will make the state fair j pronnds one of the best outdoor sta- I diuins tr. the iul rrmnunta in west. The ! pansage of the racing bill encouraged the fair association to announce its plans to provide proper fncil-s for H.e two race meets a year to be held |