Show 44 ne news mrs not notes es J its a privilege to live in UTAH PROVO the total tota orchard crop in utah chah in 1928 including small fruits bad a valuation of 0 MIDVALE celery growing still i a an infant industry in utah but tha product Is recognized as a superior table delicacy the country over LAYTON utah growers have estal established an enviable reputation in the pr production pt a sweet cherries last rears drop rop was worth and ana totaled pounds PRICE on hundred pheasants have been planted by tho the emery county fish and flame cams association ahr through ough the tha efforts ot of their commissioner fred larson ot of cast castle e dale carien I iarien was in price last week to receive a shipment ot of the birds and transfer them to the emory emery dia district t act MYTON ON gideon basil who Is tanning farming in pleasant valley south ot of myton and whose land is under the taylor canal has made a good wheat yield for the uintah basin on virgin soil on a five acre tract mr basil threshed 40 bushels of wheat to the acre with the price ot of wheat at 41 1 l per bushel BINGHAM immense amounts of 0 gravel w were e r carried down to the raved paved highway one halt mile east ot of dingham during a cloudburst recently covering the road to a depth deith ot of nearly five feet tor for a distance ot of feet along the highway no was in the vicinity at the time and traffic was later rerouted over anotn road vennal A delegation front from vernal representing the commissioners ot of uintah county and the local lions club early this week went to the K ranch near the colorado line where they met members of 0 the colorado 8 tate state road commission and discussed with them plans for the improvement 0 of f the 11 S 40 highway from vernal to craig SPANISH FORK noad heads in diamond a im ond fork canyon were ren rendered impassable by heavy rains and cloud bursts recently A large number ot of j picnickers and fishermen were caught in the tha canyon and had bad considerable difficulty getting home in some places they had to rebuild the tha roads where they had been washed out deep gullies were made by the floods A force ot of men Js s busy repairing the tha roads SALT LAKE twenty eight fires ag within forest reserve boundaries hava bava burned over lands less than 10 acrea I 1 in size in utah since beginning ot of the present fire season according to report ot of the isedora threat bey vice issued recently A total of 1527 1627 lids haa been expended exclusive of salaries salares in fighting the blazes thirteen of the fires were caused by man and five involved criminal negligence 1 VERNAL A now new record in growing wheat on virgin soil in tha tindall tin tall basin has been achieved by gideon earll baril a farmer residing south ot of myton duchesne Duch eana brunty when he grew an average ot bushels ot of ICE karkoff arkoff wheat on five acres abrew touched by a plow tor for the first time early the tha past spring the wheat Is of finest driest quality ot of that variety and mr air daril barll plans to seed a far greater acreage to the tha same wheat next year OGDEN the royal canning company plans to open the tomato canning season in utah tuesday i tomatoes grown along th the foothills east of lay ton which ripen e earlier than other crops of the state will be canned first then the plant will be ba bh shut ut down tor for a few days until others crops are ready to be vu put up the bulk of the seasons reasons pick wll will start moving next week according to leroy marsh district agricultural inspector EPHRAIM ranger wells welli thursby of the manti mantl forest reports that a band of elk numbering seventy head has been seen fron from the tha skyline drive near mear the road camp nearly every day during the ha pat past v anes i e r e k blanger ranger C williams reports that district no 2 has experienced more rain fala during the present season than tor for any year since ikc 1814 although Althou eh tho the showers have bee been n extremely heavy the tha damage fro from in floods has been comparatively small FARNI INGTON davis county growers began harvesting their sweet spanish onion crop recently they will be merely starting however this week only oily one or two growers reporting that they are ready but by the first of next week the harvesting will begin la in real earnest lawrence of bountiful wallace noble diable of woods cross and L R S attee at 0 farmington are among the first to start to pull their onions C carload shipments will not likely be made until the latter part of next week RUPERT three cars of fat lambs feeders and ewes representing the cleanup tor for the teason of about head bead were shipped recently by the tha county lamb pool the shipment in charge ot at floyd farmer went to st SL joseph mo VERNAL clity thousand rainbow trout from the state fish hatcheries at White reeks were trucked to mckees draw on diamond mountain north ot of vernal and planted in francis creek another truckload was taken to mos by mountain and planted in paradise lake uso also several hundred thousand thou saad w will III ba taken on pack dack anthala from mosby mountain to whiterocks lake laka and othar lakes sit at the headwaters of ashley achley creek and aad other trout streams the spawn are ara being planted earlier than lusial suat this thia year owing to tha fact act that the tanks at the hav era are crowded crowd kL |