Show intermountain news new s briefly told for busy readers AID THE CHILDREN TAX STUDY PLANNED SCENIC LOOP URGED RAT BATTLE FOUGHT EIGHT HOUR LAW OKEH BOISE IDA A tax study that will cover not only present tax systems but possible rem remedies edles will be undertaken by a ica new statewide series of committees growing out of the meeting hereof here df delegates delegat ca called bythe by the state chamber of commerce increasing taxes are causing the investigations outlined by the conference BLACKFOOT JDA IDA tho the commissioners ners of bingham county and the residents of the sterling section are operating cooperating co in the grading of about three and one half miles of road PROVO UT forty five additional attendants will be employed at tho the state mental menial hospital soon its as a result of the decision deci blon of 0 the state board of insanity to comply with the state eight hour law in the past a number of employed emp loyes had bad been working from ten to twelve hours houis a day and a recent opinion of tile tho attorney general held this practice illegal except in cases of emergency UT A free luncheon Is ig being served to undernourished children during the noon hour by tile the local legion post and auxiliary OGDEN UT ift excellent success has attended the rat ex extermination terrill nation campaign carried on for a week in this city DELTA UT work is in progress on the oak city Lyl lynndal lynndyl leamington leavington Lea road local labor is being used on the project utin UT in the neighborhood of one and a quarter million dollars has been paid out to cache valley farmers by the sugar bugar beet companies operating in the valley SALT LAKE CITY UT A petition signed by practically all tho the residents of wayne and garfield counties and endorsed by the salt lake chamber of 0 commerce seeking construction of a CO 60 mile highway by the federal forest service to join wayne wayna countes coun oun tys wonderland with bryce ca calyon u yon has been dispatched to senatorial delegation the proposed highway would involve a federal expenditure of around TO it would com complete plem a scenic loop between the aayne county scenic spots escalante and bryce canyon and grover TOOELE UT work on the cut off on the road from tooele thoele to stockton has been completed and the road opened to traffic OGDEN UT cash amounting to and many silver trophies will be offered exhibitors at the ogden livestock show january 8 to 14 as special prizes py by breeding associations public spirited firms firma and commission houses the special prizes are being offered in conjunction with ith the regular awards paid by tho the livestock association SALT LAKE CITY UT loans for drouth relief to talling around one hundred thousand dollars have been granted to utah ranchers by the agricultural department the department has approved over six hundred applications from utah farmers and stockmen stoc kmen and has over two hundred cases still pending for information or correction the loans tire are being made to help farmers buy feed or OP transport livestock out of sections designated as drouth areas PROVO UT A decrease of 79 enrolled students from last years total of is shown by the 1831 1931 census of the city school district BOISE IDA the value of irrigated farms in idaho was in 1930 1030 including laud land buildings implements and machinery according to a bureau of census report recently issued by the bureau of domestic and foreign commerce in 1020 1920 the number of farms under ditch was the area irrigated in 1929 was acres a decrease of 12 per cent from acres irrigated 10 years previous and was 23 per cent of the total farm acreage in idaho in 1030 A total investment of was reported by the operating irrigation enterprises according to the report SALT LAKE CITY UT the report of the chief of the national forest sev service vice gives the extent of the forest tires fires for 1031 as acred this area is app approximately proximate roxi mate I 1 that of 0 the state of utah the loss is listed at OGO in commercial timber the causes of fire are given as camp campfires fires cigar and cigarettes thrown away by smokers sm okera tobacco users are blamed for 20 per cent beitt of the total colial tire fire loss |