Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-08-06
THE UTAH BUDGET

Total assessed valuation of prop
srty in Salt Lake City for 1916 is $71,.
POSES. or an increase of s3.5774S9
over the assessed valuation of 1914.
The Jordan school district wants
$4,000 with which to operate It's
schools during the ensuing year, ac-
cording to the statement of the school
board.
At a meeting held in San Francisco,
DR.. f. j. Alexander, prominent Salt
Lake optician. was elected. president
of the American Association of Opt.
clans
The road work done by the state In
the people of Washington and Iron
counties twenty-five years to accom-
plish, 1t is claimed
Affdavits supporting the recent no
tice Of motion for a new trial In the
Geddes.Eccles case have been filed by
counsel for the Eccles estate in the
district court at Ogden.
Leonard W. Asher, the American
Express messenger who is sought for
the theft of a package containing
$4,000 from that company. is believed
to be in hiding in Salt Lake
The Genealogical Society OF Utah
and the National Women's Relief So
ciety were honored at the exposition
at San Francisco when officials pre-
sented them comm emorative bronze
medals
Salt Lakes population at the pres
ent time is estimated at 1926 by r.
l.. Polk Il Co., and the estimate is
based upon the fact that the com
pany's new city directory will have in
it 66,l75 names.
Even though no formal steps have
been taken in the campaign of the
state board of health to rid the state
OF mosquitoes, considerable progress
along the lines OF their destruction
has been made.
In anticipation of record beet crop
that will tax the capacity of the fac.
tories to handle, the Amalgamated
Sugar company has taken up preimi-
nary plans for han Hing the beet har.
vest in Ogden valley.
Two middle-aged men walked off
with 1899 from the cash drawer of the
Denver & Rio Grande- Pacific
ticket Office in Salt Lake while all the
employees were on duty and the Of
flee was filled with tourists.
Methods of simplifying the present
land laws will be one of the subjects
considered by commissioners of uni.
form state laws at their twenty-flth
annual meeting TO be held in Salt
Lake from August 10 to 16.
With the cherry season almost at a
close, the Gamers of Weber county
are turning their attention to apricots
and string beans for a campaign that
promises TO bring excellent results
Both crops are heavy this season.
An automobile excursion of Salt
Lake business men into the Uinta
country for the purpose of forming a
closer commercial alliance with that
section is embodied in tentative
plan of the secretary of the CONNER
cial club.
What the police deem conclusive
evidence that Robert Davis, alleged
bandit cracksman and highwayman
arrested in Ogden a week ago, was
implicated in the daring daylight rob-
berry at Salt Lake three weeks pre-.
vious has been uncovered
The mammoth salt beds in western
Utah, which have been prac ally un.
molested for centuries, are now being
| put to commercial use. After many
years of litigation the title to the tract
has been settled and a company is
now putting on the market about one
carload OF crude salt daily
Major Willis Uline, in an address
before the Rotary club at Salt Lake,
predicted that Fcrt Douglas would
soon be made a brigade post. The
major said that Salt Lake was OF in
estimable value as a strategic point in
the event of war involving an in
vasion of this country from the west
coast.
The probation officer has taken up
with the Provo city commission the
| iAh6Hi6 Va NhiltNt mas Dttu us
pensed with for some time. There
have been complaints from some OF
the parents that without the ringing
of the bell the children do not know
when 10 go home and do not go home
until late hour.
All material needed is on hand and
the force of graders, track layers and
trolley wire men are progressing at
an encouraging rate and the Brigham
ity-Wellsville extension of the Og.
lenfi Logan & Idaho Railway com
pany should be completed in time for
service between Ogden and Preston,
Ida. by October !.
Rafael Lopez, Salt Lake county's
many-thousand-dollar bandit refugee
may be in jail in Leadville. Colo, &C.
cording to information received al
Salt Lake.
Completing journey of nearly $500
miles. the ogden tabernacle choir has
arrived home from its California tour
Of Pacific coast cities.
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