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Show News Notes It'$ a Privilege to Live In I UTAH PROVO Utah's apple crop for 1928 was 880,000 bushels, valued at 1704,000, HEBER CITY Total production of alfalfa seed In Utah during 1921 was 124,000 bushels, valued at fV 114,000. The yield per acre averaged aver-aged 1.70 bushels and 73,000 acres were planted. DRAPER About 1200 cases of eggs are being shipped out of here weekly and when the peak production produc-tion la expected to reach 1800, according ac-cording to officials of the local poultry association. All Indications Indica-tions point to a record poultry year. SALT LAKE Reporting favorable favor-able conditions, of stock and ranges in the Orandaddy lake region, E. C Shepard, forest supervisor, returned recently from an Inspection of the district and meetings with stock men at Hauna and Tablona In Duchesne Du-chesne county. LOGAN Snow was still falling . here this morning after an all-night storm that laid a six-Inch white blanket over Cache valley. Twenty-live per cent of the sugar beet crops Is still In the fields and many potatoes have not yet been harvested. har-vested. The storm temporarily halted harvesting. LOGAN Ranger H. I. Rice has made, the discovery that the bark beetle, dread to pine forests, which Invaded the United States about Jive years ago from Canada, has finally reached Utah and Is now Infesting a section near the Tony Grove ranger station in the Cache national forest. OGDEN The Utah Canners' as-. as-. sociation at a meeting here recently re-cently decided to take up with boards of education a proposal that schools In Utah be started two weeks later in the tall so that a labor supply will be available for the peak of operations In canneries, fields and orchards, VERNAL The state fish and game department announces a slight amendment to limitations of the oncoming quail and pheasant season. .Through an oversight, the department omitted to mention In its proclamation that Ashley valley in Uintah county would be open from November 3 to November 15. PROVO Three routes for carrying carry-ing mall to Vernal are listed on the official government advertisement, advertise-ment, inviting proposals for the U. S. mails, received at the local post-offlce post-offlce recently according to Postmaster Post-master John P. McGuire. The three routes' listed are from Provo to Vernal; from Price to Vernal; and from Salt Lake to Versal. . . BRIGHTON Nine Inches of snow fell at Brighton during the blizzard which began Sunday night and lasted last-ed through Monday, according to a report to the city waterworks department de-partment from the watershed station sta-tion at the mountain town Tuesday. It is one of the heaviest falls re- pnrded at that nnlnt this earlv in the year. . MORONI At a special city council coun-cil meeting recently the mayor of Moroni was authorized to place an order for more than one mile of four-inch cast iron pipe which will be used to replace wood pipe in 'the city water system. This will be a cash purchase, the money representing repre-senting savings in various depart" merits for the operation of city government during the past two years. OGDEN After discovering that its funds were insufficient to meet the entire expense of purchasing and Installing lights at the Ogden airport, the city commission referred refer-red the matter to Commissioner Fred E. Williams, with power to act Under Instruction from the commission, Mr. Williams, conferred confer-red with Eugene R. Alton, president presi-dent of the chamber, and It was announced later that terms had been agreed upon by which the lights will be Installed. GUNNISON Record beet crops have beed produced this year in Sanpete and Sevier counties, according ac-cording to R. T. Harris, treasurer of the Gunnison Sugar company. Farmers pf the two counties will be paid $400,000 for October sugar beet deliveries on November 6, ten days in advance of the regular beet payday. Total payments of the , firm will be $500,000 with $100,000 to be paid out November 15 tor November sugar beet deliveries, Payments this year double those of last year. All beets will have been delivered by the end of November. No-vember. BRIGHAM CITY Packing of tomatoes to-matoes at the Brigham City canning can-ning factory came to a close recently re-cently with a pack that will exceed 40,000 cases. This yield came from 160 acres, and is considered the best in a number of years. The average yield per acre this year was a Utile less than twenty bush-. bush-. els, an exceptionally high average. Tomatoes in this section this year were of an excellent quality and the prolonged warm weather enabled en-abled practically all of the farmers to make a good profit |