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Show i News Notes 1 It's a Privilege to Live in X Utah j SALT LAKE Mild weather and precipitation was general, though comparatively com-paratively light, in southern and eastern east-ern portions of the state, according to the weekly weather, crop and range report from the offices of J. Cecil Alter, government weather observer, for the week ending November 30. BRIGHAM CITY The Brigham City sugar factory of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company has finished its campaign cam-paign for this year, the big mill having hav-ing been in operation for more than forty-five days. The campaign was a most successful one this year, according accord-ing to Superintendent A. C. Pearson, and during the forty-five day run more than 46.500 tons of beets were sliced. The men are now busily engaged in cleaning up the factory and finishing I up the adds and ends of the campaign. : Approximately 200 men have been em ! ployed at the factory during the beet-; beet-; cutting period, with an additional 100 men working at the beet dumps. ! OGDEN Indications are that more i than 400 students of college grade wi:i enroll at 'Weber college for the winter I quarter when registration for this rork begins, it was stated by Presi-'. Presi-'. dent Aaron W. Tracy. Final examina- tions for the fall quarters will be held ' soon. Instruction for the winter quar-i quar-i ter will begin the morning of Decem-; Decem-; ber 6. ! PROYO Decision to refrain from further consideration to launch a new-hospital new-hospital in Provo for the present was reached at a meeting of representative citizens. The consensus of opinion was that the financial burden was too , much for Provo City to undertake at j this time, without help from the coun-': coun-': ty authorities. BRIGHAM CITY The local sugar factory si Just completing a forty-five day campaign, during which time more than 46.500 tons of beets were sliced. The campaign was a success ! and from the 36SO acres planted to j beets In the Brigham sugar factory j district an average of more than thir-, thir-, teen tons per acre was harvested, j MURRAY For the second time within two weeks Salt Lake City and its immediate environs received th i greatest amount of precipitation ol any locality in a storm area generally I covering the northern states. Precip-I Precip-I Itatlon for the past twenty-four haurs ! up to 9 o'clock Tuesday morning of l..st week totalled .56 of an inch, as computed by J. Cecil Alter, United I States meteorologist. HEHK'R CITY Seven inches of new snow fell on the city watershed at Brighton on Sunday and Sunday n ght making a total of twenty-eight Inches of snow on the ground, according tJ Information received at the waterworks water-works department Mondav. BRIGHAM CITY While at Clifton. Idaho. Robert H. Stewart, county agricultural ag-ricultural agent, of this city, and Ralph Richards of Riverside purchased twelve head of cows ami heifers and one young bull from the purehrej dairy farm of James Skelley. Thert is perhaps no herd In the entire west which shows breeding back to the ex traordinary foundation of the United States more than this herd, according to Mr. Stewart. i OGDEN Highest price ever paid at : the Ogden Union stockyards for bull? 1 was recorded recently, coming after a succession of records for high prices In the steer market. H. Child, ol , Clinton, sold an Individual 1010 paunc bull for $7. while several animals' weighing from i;."0 to 15U0 pounds ' sold for from 6 to 6.25 a hundred ; weight. Previous bil l prices have hov i ered about the price of $5.75. f MVTON The i.ftermath of the re cent (loud wh'-n the Farnswarth dan: broke recently reveals the fait thai j there will be a heavy loss to the I farmers who constructed It. 'The loss 1 to the Uintah Power and Light com ! j pany Is placed at SIHOO; a storehouse ! filled with tools and supplies was ta'( i en. T. C. Gwvn of My ton. local en I glneer of the Indian Irrigation pmj , ect. estimates the loss to the govern ' I ment at from $3000 to $5000. To Ihf ; county the loss will be heavy because of brldcon damaged. Ranches along the course of the flood on the I.akc Fork river were damaged and several farmers will have n heavy loss. j SALT LAKE - Estimates by forest 1 officials show there are 500.000.00C board feet and .1.000.000 cords of as pen wood on thM national forests ol Utah. Thin wood Is us-d in the m m iifaclure of excelsior, wood tuilp. init ! ches and boxer for buffer, cheese nrO chocolate. I MYTON S-vcra' of th- vh"'-pm"Ti j who range their flocks of sheep In (Ik Nine mile d strict and Green Klvet ! county south of Myton have begun t" 1 move their slo'ep In th'' I icalltly fori the winter. Among those already gone I tire Coleman brothers. Murdock broth-I ers, Kay Dillnian and Mr. Lewis I Other will iiHiiy.e this sect Ion hi the1 near future. SPANISH FORK -Sugar beet ship- i I nionts from Salt Lake and Utah coun j ' lies have aim oil d uhh d. thus far 111 ft j season, last year's production, accord Ing to word from .1. A. Anderson, gen oral tralllc manager for the Silt Lake it Utah rallioad. A total of 1700 cars of beets has been moved t'o date, while last y ar'H crop vn i easily ai'coniuu dated In liiini cars. II Is expected that an addPlnnal 500 cars will he del.vered to the I'tah Idaho plants at West Jor dan. Spanish Fork, Maplcton and Sprlngvllle. |