The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-03-10
Pithy News Notes
From All PARTS of
UTAH

Price.5Contract has been let for the
construction of ten and one-half miles
of highway between Price and Castle
Gate.
Salt Lake.--Building permits in Salt
Lake show Increase Of 16 per cent for
January 1922, over January, 1921,
Ogden showing an increase of 3 per
rent.
Brigham City.-The Box Elder coun-
ty commissioners will receive bids for
complete construction of W 3O-foot
span. steel 1-beam bridges over a canal
about 10 to IS miles northwest OF Brig
ham City.
Delta.5The town OF Delta, at an e
thusiastic meeting, passed resolutions
offering a site for the erection of q
steel plant at Delta, and a committee
of business men was appointed to make
presentation of the offer.
Salt Lake.-R. A. McNally, of the
firm Of Rand, MdsSally & Co., makers
of maps on a recent visit to Salt Lake.
said that he was always glad to return
to Salt Lake. lie spoke of the beau
ties of the nearby canyons and of the
wonders in the way of scenic beauty
in Utah. "-AI that Utah lacks is ad-
yertising and then more advertising"
Mr.. McNally said, "and then auto tour
lists will come in large numbers to View
for themselves the scenic attractions
which the state has to Offer"
Salt Lake City.-The contention
that educational expenditures in Utah
are increasing at a tremendous rate
yearly is made in a letter now being
sent to farm bureau organizations
throughout the state by the tax com
mittee Of the Utah State Farm bureau,
reporting results obtained to date in
the form of impressions on the sug-
gestion that this annual outlay be ma
terially reduced.
Brigham ,City.-The danger from a
washout of the dam at the reservoir
in Davis Gate valley, II miles east
Of Brigham City. is stirring the city
council and the board of governors OF
the Boxelder Commercial club to ae-
ton Secy. w. V. Call has been in
structed to have the committee on pub
lie safety cooperate with the city man
ager to secure some action that will
safeguard Brigham City against posi-
BILE floods.
The absence of retrenchment in ,edu-
cational expenditures during 1921 did
not conform to the general policy
adopted In practically all other public
departments of the state. There ,vas
an expectation of retrenchment in 1o21,
and yet revenues for district schools
and high schools increased from &C.
566,731 in 1920 to 100000 in 1921,
and increase Of $536,469, and this in
face of the fact that the assessed valu-
alton of taxable property in the state
decreased $29,495, 49S. Taxes for other
purposes show a decrease all along the
line in 1921. Distribution to cities AMI
towns shows a decrease of $150,270;
to county general fund, $55, 134 to. road
fund, $780,, 454 to state general fund,
$20S,39 How are we to account for
general and substantial retrencn-
ment in all these other directions with
an increase for district schools and
high schools which almost overcomes
the entire saving effected by all of
these decreases? The total .expendi-
for schools In the forty districts
of the state Including cities) for the
year 1919 was S6,100,415.37; for the
year 1920 it was SIS, 1866 31, or an IN
crease of more than two and a quar-
ter million dollars.
Salt Lake.-N. ]. Nelson, 33, of 1883
South Ninth East, during his delirium.
left his bed in a Salt Lake hospital
fell from the window onto the
pavement three stories below. A fran
tic nurse h%urriedly summoned assls-
and her patient was packed back
bed. where his pneumonia rapidly
eft him. Other than suffering some
bruises and scratches from the fall he
Vas quite recovered, and was released
the hospital in a weeks time.
Richfield.- Sheriff Angus Fillmore
If Sewer county arrested Charles
Weatherbee, wanted at Salt
in connection with the Faus muir
Ter case. at Monroe, ten miles south
# this city, and Weatherbee is now
leld In the county Jail, awaiting al
Ices from the Salt Lake sheriff.
Salt Lake, The state road commits
ion has awarded the contract for the
'aying of the Zion National Park high
Say from Nephi to the Utah county
ne, at unit prices, which place the esti- Z
cost of the road at S4S2, 413.oS.
trifls more than "A per cent of his
ost will be paid by the federal govern
rent. The remainder viii be paid by I
uab county out of the proceeds Of a
ond issue voted some months ago.