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Show Intermountain News Brlcfl- Told by Busy Readers WATER SUPPLY SECURE TO DECREASE EXPENSES TEST WELL FOR WATER WIRE SERVICE AT OGDEN GOLD AREAS SURVEY MOUNTAIN HOME, IDA. Workmen Work-men are installing a pump designed to tap the unlimited water supply of tlie lower strata. Mountain Home will then have sufficient wat-er, wat-er, John Goodall, chairman of the village board announces. The well la to supply from 200 to 800 gallons gal-lons per minute from a depth of from 200 to 300 feet BOISE, IDA. Idaho has decided to do its share toward putting more gold in circulation by pointing out the best gold areas and urging they be developed. The plan was announced an-nounced by Stewart Campbell, state mln inspector and member of the state bureau of mines., The bureau will press to completion comple-tion at an early date a geologic survey sur-vey which will include known gold areas such as the Thunder Mountain, Moun-tain, Elk City, and Lemhi areas and from there will branch ont into other sections. rOOATKLLO, IDA. It is announced an-nounced that the Eastern Idaho Wool Marketing association has signed 454,092 fleeces for 1031. Directors Di-rectors say they have advanced $160,000 on the clip. BURLEY, IDA Frank Cob, 42, Boise, district manager of the American Amer-ican Automobile association, was killed in an automobile accident at a sharp corner turn about two and a half miles east of Delco. TOOELE, UT. With Tooele county coun-ty facing a shortage of $2,000,000 in assessed valuation, and an incidental inci-dental decrease of 10 per cent in revenue, the Tooele Couuty Taxpayers Taxpay-ers association and the County Farm bureau have started a movement move-ment to ask the tax-spending bodies bod-ies of the county to decrease their expenditures for next year. OGDEN, UT. A government leased leas-ed wire will be extended to the Og-den Og-den Union stockyards soon after July 1, according to information received re-ceived by Stephen Bray, local representative rep-resentative of the federal livestock market news service. Provisions for this wire were included in the agricultural appropriation bill recently re-cently passed. TWIN FALLS, IDA. As several sev-eral passers-by looked on, Harold F. Hughes, 85, a farmer of Hansen, stepped from his automobile on a street here, rested a shotgun against the seat, pulled the trigger with an iron hook and shot himself through the heart. He died almost instantly. NEPHI, UT. A test well may be drilled soon in the fields west of NephL Should this prove successful, success-ful, water for irrigation purposes will be plentiful in this section. For some years past, the projects of irrigation ir-rigation water have been under discussion dis-cussion in this area, and at present farmers are appearing enthused for the first time. ' PBICE, UT. Below are entries in the invitational school band contests to be held April 10 and 11 : Class A Carbon, Montrose, West high, Grand Junction, and Logan. Class B Uintah. Class C Roosevelt, Ferron, Duchesne, Du-chesne, Frultvale (Colorado), No. Summit, Castle Dale, Huntington and Bear River. Class D Fountain Green and Mt Emmons. Junior high Helper, Harding, Castlegate, Spring Glen and La-tuda. La-tuda. Other probable competitors are Box Elder, Central Junior high of Ogden, Santaquln and NephL EPUUAIXT, UT. Only .30 of an Inch of moisture fell here during February, according to measurements measure-ments made by F. Stevenson, local government weather observer. This brings the total for the first two months of the year to .44 of an inch, as compared with 1.84 inches for the same period last year. The total precipitation for the past four months has been only 1.44 inches for this locality. PRICE, UT. Bids for another large road project in eastern Utah, the construction of a gravel surfaced sur-faced road from Montlcello to the Church Rock at Peter's MIL have been asked by the state road commission. com-mission. The highway, which is in the neighborhood of five miles in length, is an important link in a highway system which has its origin ori-gin in Wheeling, W. Va. The cost of the project Is estimated at $100,-000. $100,-000. Construction work should begin be-gin at an early date. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. The city has just held its annual spring clean-up and removal of wlnier debris de-bris has been conducted. Lawns and buildings have been beautified and cleaned. ; , IDAHO FALLS, ADi The local lo-cal chamber of commerce has received re-ceived a letter of acknowledgment from Red Cross officials of the arrival ar-rival of potatoes from Idaho Falls, in the drouth area. BURLEK, IDA. Black and White day: (Holstein-Frldsian cattle), cat-tle), is to he held here in May. It has been decided to advance and promote boys' and girls' calf clubs and to make especial efforts to procure pro-cure good stock for the members. |