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Show News Notes j X It' a a Privilege to Liv in X I Utah SALINA In the Salina district the produce association this year is signing sign-ing up 1000 acres of certified potato planting. SALT LAKE Utah's population during the last eight' years will have increased 81.604 on July 1 1928, according ac-cording to the estimate released recently re-cently by the department of commerce in Washington. This increase will bring the total state population to 531,-000, 531,-000, as against 449,390, the censu figure in 1920. DUCHESNE Trafic headed for Duchesne Du-chesne by the way of Heber and Strawberry valley has been turned back by the maintenance force oi the state road commission on account of the condition of the road, due to the thawing of snow. This is nol done with traffic early in the morning, "when the ground is frozen. The com mission says that this will probably not be permitted for a week, as there are sixteen miles of highway through the valley that have been graded only and traffic over this stretch would ruin the work done. MANTI Six thousand pounds oi poisoned grain is being distributed throughout the country in an effort to reduce the ravages of the ground squir rel. The poison was mixed under the immediate supervision of A. W. Moore, junior biologist of the biological survey, sur-vey, United States department of agriculture. ag-riculture. Assisting Mr. Moore were Clinton Kjar, district agricultural inspector, in-spector, and C. O. Stott, county agent. OGDEN Rain which soaked Sail Lake and vicinity recently was ol inestimable value to farmers and piled up a reserve of water which will greatly aid the city this summer, according ac-cording to J. Cecil Alter, chief of the United States weather bureau here. MYTON T. C. Gwyn of Myton, resident resi-dent engineer of the Uintah irrigation project, reports satisfactory progress is being 'made in putting the canals and laterals in first-class shape for the opening ot the irrigation season. VERNAX, An interesting experiment experi-ment was completed recently by John Nielson, one of Ashley valley's pioneer farmers. He decided to make a test of the productivity of a single ker nel of wheat, and for this purpose sowed it in ordinary ground, surrounded surround-ed by a fence, so as to ascertain the exact amount of increase. He was greatly surprised when he counted the result, and found the one seed had yielded 4372 kernels and 88 sheaths, The seed is known as the Dicklow variety. CEDAR CITY When the new Zion Park-Carmel highway is finished il will have a tunnel one mile long. The tunnel to date has been driven 1480 feet. VERNAL- Reports from the Uintah basin and Cache county indicate that bees did not winter well in those localities, lo-calities, it was reported to the state board of agriculture recently by D. H. Hillman, state apiarist. The unfavorable unfavor-able winter weather resulted in the loss of many bees. It was found that there was a shortage of stores in many parts of the state, Mr. Hillman reported, and those who fed their bees late in the fall have f aved many colonies colo-nies which would have starved ta death during the winter. MYTON Farmers of Uintah basin are advised to irrigate as early aa possible this year because snow on the watersheds is only 70 per cent normal, according to the word released at the offices of the Uintah irrigation project at Myton. Information concerning con-cerning the available water supplies in the high altitudes was gained from the forest service. The figures may vary, forest service officials report, because part of the snow stations on the forest have been moved to new locations during the past year. MANTI Six farm bureaus in Sanpete San-pete county have been organized and will begin immediate activities, according ac-cording to newly elected offices. Sterling, Ster-ling, Manti, Fayette, Wales, Clarion I and Mayfield bureaus are prepared to function. PRICE Price city will sell'the real estate which it owns within Helper townsite, according to the city council, coun-cil, whieh men Tuesday evening. The property came into the possession of the city of Price years ago. It contains con-tains in part the right of way of the Price water pipe line. The council at Price will demand that the right of J way be held inviolate before it makes ( the sale. Mayor W. R. Porter of Hel- j I per city has indicated that the city if I desirous of acquiring the property. SHOSHONE Shoshone Falls Idaho, Ida-ho, is numbered among the scenic wonders of the American continent, they are 52 feet higher than Niagara Falls. UNIVERSITY OF UTAH That more geological features exist in the state of Utah than in any other area of equal size in the world was assert-' assert-' ed as an indisputable fact by Professor Profes-sor Frederick J. Pack of the University Univer-sity of Utah, in a talk addressed to the Business and Professional Women's Wo-men's club at the Newhouse hotel ! recently. "In fact", the speaker added, j "there are more geological features to be found in Utah than in any other area five times Its sizes in the world." |