The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-07
THE UTAH BUDGET

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ed.
Utah's portion of the funds received
last year by the government from for
est reserve within the state amounts
to $33, 76O.42.
The delinquent tax list of Salt Lake
county show approximately S1,O0O,000
unpaid taxes, or almost one-third of
the total amount due.
James Anderson, Salt Lake paper
hanger, is suffering from a broken
nose and a broken arm as the result
of falling from a scaffold while at
work.
Nearly every man, woman and child
in Kaysville turned out Sunday to pay
their final respects to the late Bishop
Peter Barton, whose funeral services
were held in that town.
Charles Ivy of Park City has been
committed to the reform school as an
lncorrigible. Young Ivy Eas accused
Of breaking into beer house and COM
hitting other depredations.
The new $4,000 water system at
Coalville, for which bonds were voted
August s, is practically completed,
giving the town good drinking water
nnd efficient fire protection.
Death caused by drowning" was
the finding at the autopsy held at Salt
Lake over the body of Joseph Evans,
who was found dead on the shores
of Great Salt lake Thanksgiving day.
The state sanitary inspector reports
that Provo sanitary conditions are
among the best in the state, the city
having good water supply and boast
: ing sewer system that is nearly
perfect
Weber countys roads have a high
average of excellence. About seventy
five miles of road are sprinkled, and
there are about thirty miles macadam-
lied, fifteen of which were built dur
ing the last year.
More than 9S,OOO,0Oo acres of the
finest wheat land in the world (al-
most equal to the entire present wheat
acreage of the United States) lie with
in 300-mile radius from Salt Lake
City, and are tributary to it.
For the loss of his leg, as the result
of bullet wound inflicted by deputy
sheriff in the employ of the Utah Cop
per company during the strike trou-
bles at Bingham, Mike Edwards has
filed suit for $4,000 damages against
the company.
In an effort to stimulate greater in
| Of tah 70 tn, b.,
of potatoes, the Utah Agricultural col
ege has inaugurated potato contest
to take place during the farmers
roundup at the college, January % to
February s.
Emerson Wells and Pete Derrick
park by Sheriff Richard Pope and
, brought to Vernal. The charge pre-
ferred is the unlawful removing OF
, marks from sheep and the complain
, ant is Edward D. Samuels.
AS the result of shooting scrape
in the poolroom in the rear of
, saloon in Bingham, Carl Schmidt,
guard, may lose his left limb while
Ernest j. Ward, fellow guard, is be-
ing sought by posse charged with
wounding his companion.
Thinking that he may have met
with some accident, preventing him
: from making deposits to cover checks
Tor viz. 90 which he passed in Ogden,
, friends of Charles NJ. l.. Houston, an,
J expert accountant, have asked the.
Ogden police to find him
, jackson day January s, has virtual
~ been decided upon as the time and
|. the Hotel Utah. Salt Lake City. as
+ the place for Utah Democrats cele.
, bration of the national victory of their
!. party. The celebration will be in the
nature of great banquet.
, To strengthen the laws regarding
/, the sanitation of water supplies fol-
> cities in this state, an act that failed
. OF passage by the legislature last year
VIII be presented again, this time
i PROBABLY with the recommendation OF,
3 the Salt Lake Commercial club
!. Weber county is, with one excep
J tlon' the smallest in the state, only
, including about 425,0OO acres, yet il
stands second in manufactures, sec
ond in jobbing, and third in popula
ton. Only five counties exceed II in
the total value of its farm property.
,, There are thirty-seven factories re-
j ported from Weber county. exclusive
OF creameries and canneries, and mos,
! OF them in Ogden itself. The makins
, Of sugar and cement, the packing oil
: meats, brewing, candy making and
milling are the leading lnanufacturins
, interests
: In his report to the legislature this
year, Caleb Tanner, state engineer
VIII urge that the leg stature find
some way of using the great mass Of
engineering statistics which have been
gathered in the past for reference in
. hugation and which have never seen
the light.
George n. Ries, 2S years old man.
aser Of the Salt Lake Electrical Sun
, ply company, considered one of the
most capable electrical contracting
engineers in the west, died at his
4 home in Salt Lake last week, pneu.
I monfa being the cause of death,
, That section of the statutes proyid.
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