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Show jNews Notes:: - I: :: It's a Privilege to Live In ', I UTAH i TREMONTON The 1929 Boxelder county fair and rodeo will be held at Tremonton, September 19, 20 and 21. Final details and all arrangements have been made. According to officials, offi-cials, this fair and rodeo will be better bet-ter than any previous. OGDEN Ogden's commission offl dally adopted an ordinance recently which provides for the building and maintenance of a municipal stadium. The structure is designed to be used for scholastic and municipal sporting events and other recreational activities. activi-ties. 8 ALT LAKE In response to a protest pro-test by representatives of the Utah Manufacturers' association, the Salt Lake board of education, at its regular regu-lar monthly meeting Tuesday night, unanimously passed a' resolution Instructing In-structing school purchasing agencies to give marked preference to Utah-made Utah-made products in the selection of school and cafeteria supplies. WASHINGTON More than $,1,600.-000, $,1,600.-000, is due 36 states from the federal government as their share of receipts of national forests lying within their borders tor the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929. A statement Just aent by the United States department of agriculture agricul-ture to the comptroller general shows the bulk owing to western states ,n which the principal areas of publla lands He. DUCHESNE Substantial improvement improve-ment in the number of tuberculosis reactors in cattle in the Uintah basin as compared with last year were reported re-ported by W. H. Hendricks, state veterinarian. vet-erinarian. During the survey In the basin all herds that were found to be disaeased last year were again Inspected Inspect-ed only forty animals out of 1520 tested test-ed reacting. They were immediately slaughtered. Last . year the tests showed 151 reactors. PRICE Carbon county will start a drive on wild and unclaimed horse! in this county soon, and about 501 will be rounded up, according to SilSl Rowley, who has charge of the worlt. Horses for which a grazing permit has not been obtained from the county assessor as-sessor will also be inclined in the roundup. Operations will start with about ten men in the eastern part of the county. All owners of branded horses will be notified so that they may reclaim their animals if they desire. de-sire. A J5 fee, plus the taxes will be charged. SPRINGVILLE An egg grading plant will probably be located in Springville In the near future, according accord-ing to announcement by officers of the local poultry association. The assurance assur-ance of a plant was made at a meeting meet-ing of local poultrymen held in the high school, where it was announced that a plant would be placed here as soon as there were enough eggs produced pro-duced to make the establishment pay. Springville expects to produce 85,000 laying hens this fall. If this number Is reached, there will be enough eggs to justify the operation of a plant. LOGAN E. H. Elliott of the Utah Poultry producers' association reported re-ported recently that the poultry producers pro-ducers are getting their flocks in splendid condJtion for the winter months. During the past week, 450 cases of eggs have been received at an average price of $10 a case. Eastern East-ern extras, which are the best grade of eggs netted the poultrymen 44 cents dozen. A 60 per cent Increase of eggs was reported for the first week of September of this year, over that of September 1 to 8, 192S. OGDEN From North Ogden recently recent-ly the first shipment of Weber county peaches rolled out to eastern markets, according to LeUoy Marsh, district agricultural inspector. From now on, Mr. Marsh says, the peaches should ripen rapidly and move out In a similar simi-lar manner. Mr. Marsh adds that conditions con-ditions controlling the peach industry in this section of the state have never been better than they are at this time and that the crop should be wonderful. Rains of the last few days, he adds, have increased the size of the fruit until fully 75 per cent of the peaches will run from 2 to 2 1-2 minimum with most of them going to 2 3-4 maximum. WASHINGTON The 1929 corn crop was forecast by the department of agriculture' on the basis of September Septem-ber 1 condition of 2,456,997,000 bushels, bush-els, compared with 2,740,514,000 bushels bush-els indicated last month, and 2,836,-000,000 2,836,-000,000 bushels harvested last year. Indicated production of spring wheat was 53,000,000 bushels of durum and 164,461,000 bushels of other spring wheat, compared 'with 49,000,000 and 156,000,000 bushels indicated last month and 93,000,000 and 231,000,000 bushels harvested last year. The condition con-dition of the corn crop was placed at 67.9 per cent of normal, compared with 78.4 per cent on September 1 last year and 78.8 last month. SALT LAKE An increase of 44 per cent in freight business of the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad company for August as compared to the corresponding correspond-ing month last year was noted in a report released by Murray Sullivan, general manager. Pasxengar business remained unchanged, he reported. Freight handlings fo( the first eight months of the current year were 45 per cent more than during the same period in 1928, said Mr. Sullivan, while net operating revenues for the period were more than 100 per cent larger than the first eight months of last year. |