Trailer with cattle involved in wreck MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE A Ford pickup pulling a trailer full of cattle ran into the back of a tractor-trailer on northbound Interstate 15 near 12th Street at 2:17 p.m. Tuesday. The pickup was taking the cattle to Blackfoot, Idaho, for Ogden-based Anderson Livestock, said Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Travis Trotta. There were no injuries to the occupants of the vehicles or the cows, he said. UHP troopers closed one lane of northbound traffic for about 30 minutes while the accident was cleaned up, Trotta said. (Left) Traffic Accident Not a Good Start for 2007 Jan. 3, 2007 Marriott-Slaterville on List of "Big Spenders." January 7, 2007 Big or small, Top of Utah communities vary in the amount they spend per capita City coffers BETH SCHLANKER/Standard-Examiner Shanna Terry, owner of the Ranch House Diner and a town councilwoman, holds her grandson Kyson Julander, 1, as she rings up customers' bills at the diner in Snowville. The rural Box Elder town spends $1,032 per capita, the most of any community in the Top of Utah. At top is Snowville's main intersection. BY D.B. TROESTER Standard-Examiner staff dtroester@standard.net SNOWVILLE For every living soul in Snowville, the town pays $41 to support dead souls there. Four percent of the municipal budget, or $7,000, goes to support the town cemetery. That's nearly six times the amount Snowville pays for landfill services, more than double what it pays for recreation and $1,000 more than it pays to maintain the town park. "We're always in the red on the cemetery," said Snowville Mayor Michael Morgan. Cemetery maintenance in the town is one basic service that contributes to annual costs, making Snowville the highest per capita spender in the Top of Utah. The municipality spends $1,032 per capita, the highest amount among 48 cities and towns whose spending was studied by the Standard-Examiner. "We are just a really small community," said Gloria Morgan, town clerk/recorder. She compiled the fiscal 2007 general fund budget of $175,400, approved by the Town Council in June. Snowville has 170 residents, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau estimate; as many as 600 people are buried in the town cemetery. "When you're talking about a population base that small, it doesn't take much to increase spending per capita," said Mike Jerman, vice president of Utah Taxpayers Association, a Salt Lake City-based organization that promotes 21