Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1922-07-21

Ogden.-Destruction by grasshop
pers of the tender crops In certain
sections of Weber county was report
ed by ID. j. Hammond, county pests
inspector, who is directing the war
upon the pests, The crops which
have been attacked are melon vines,
tomatoes and alfalfa.
Ogden.--Charles A. Isaacson, 81
years of age. was killed by cave-in
of the walls of trench he was dig
ging at his home. The body was
covered with dirt In seven-foot
trench and was dug out by the mem.
bers OF the lungmotor crew of the fire
department. Efforts TO resustt ate
lsaacson proved of no avail.
Salt Lake.-The Commercial club of
PaVwan has extended an invitation
to the Commercial club of Salt Lake
to attend the Parowan celebration at
Cedar Breaks July -. The entertain
ment committee program includes a
barbecue. fireworks, hikes 20 places OF
especial interest and dancing in Che
evening.
neutrality-suspicious. of 700
cans of eastern brook trout, finger
lings from the government hatchery
at Sprlngville to Fish lake will begin
at once according to District Game
Warden Hanchett. A truck will meet
the train at SIgurd each day for the
next fifteen days and carry twenty
cans Of the young trout to the lake.
This represents 80 per cent Of the
spawn taken from Fish lake by the
government fish hatchery employees
last fall, and the agreement with the
state apartment Is for that amount to
be returned each year.
Logan.-Tifty,six building permits
were issued by the city building in.
spector @. T. Barrett, during the quar-.
ter ending June 30, according to hlu
report filed with the city commission
ers. According to the report more
permits were issued by the building in.
spector for the month OF May than In
any previous month in the history of
building i'm the city.
Salt Lake.-To conform to the stan.
dards of the National Council Of Work
mems Compensation Insurance the
state industrial commission increased
the minimum rate for writing work.
mems compensation insurance on un.
foreground coal Tining from $3.50 to
S2.60 $1,000 of p.y roll.
Holden.-Fire destroyed the crops
and many hundreds If acres OF wheat
land In and around Holden, Green
wood and Cedar mountain, doing dam
age estimated around $4,000 The
cause of the fire was burning Of
brush, which got beyond control. All
standing grain sufficiently dry TO
burn readily was consumed and all
grain shocked was licked up ~ the
flames.
Tremonton.-The first building err
ected here eighteen years ago has
been destroyed by fire.
Price.-The final estimate on the
road from Price to Castle Dale, fed
eral aid project begun in 1920, has
been paid by the federal government,
the treasury warrant for $2l, 90o.45
having been turned in TO the state
treasury. Tie road has been accept
ed By state and federal governments,
and paid for, and now remains only
its maintenance by Carbon and EN-
cry counties.
Eureka.-Andrew Mcdonald, 4S
years of age, a lessee at the Grand
Central mine, died at the Mammoth
hospital from injuries received in
slope on the 1l00-foot level of the
mine. Mcdonald had gone into the
stope alone, and was found later Mt
the bottom In dying condition. His
jawbone, all the ribs on the right
side and his right arm were broken.
His fall was caused by a cave-in.
NORTHEASTERN Cache valley
has been thrown into fear Of the
return of the crickets. This is the
section in the vicinity of Franklin.
Preston and Whitney, Idaho, twenty
and twenty-five miles north of Lo,
gun. Already the crickets have in
tested tract about one mile and
half in width and ten miles long IN
the vicinity of Franklin. Running
through this tract OF land is a canal
which prevents further spread OF the
pests to much larger area of valu.
able land planted in crops which are
thriving. ON the small tract now In.
Tested the pests have destroyed all
De vegetation. The insects are be
lieved to be similar to those which Wis
ited the early Utah pioneers and de-
Nastated the lands and crops seventy
years ago.
Salt Iake.-A party OF 1875 New
York nurses visited here accompanied
by forty nurses from the southern
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