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Show ..tttniAMMm News Notes j It'i a Privilege to Live in j Utah ! SALT LAKE Resurfacing of two important highways at a cost of more than $50,000 will be recommended by R. T. Dahlquist, county commissioner of roads and bridges, to the county commission at the Friday morning meeting. The roads on which the project is believed necessary are Thir-y-third South street, Seventh East to East Mill creek, and the seventy-second highway, generally known as Seventy-second South, east from the turn to the Cobblecrest inn. MT. PLEASANT Mayor Joseph Seely of Mt. Pleasant said shortly after af-ter midnight that it looks now as if the Sanpete Water Users' association associa-tion project for the bringing of a supplementary supply of water from the Colorado river basin is satisfactorily satisfac-torily subscribed. This, however, would not be definitely known until after a meeting to be held at the North Sanpete bank at 9 o'clock this morning, when subscriptions will be checked up. LOGAN Seven thousand five hundred hun-dred automobiles passed over the highway high-way in Logan canyon during the period per-iod from June 3 to June 24, inclusive, according to a register which has been placed on a bridge near the mouth of the canyon at Owens camp. AMERICAN FORK Utah Poultry association officers will give a banquet and dance Friday in their new egg plant and warehouse in honor of the city council, Lions club and committees commit-tees which helped make poultry day a success. They also desire all poultry association members to be present. Poultry day will be an annual affair. BEAVER President H. H. Blood and Road Commissioner Jacob Parker, with State Engineer H. S. Kerr, met the first of the week with the county commissioners at Beaver to discuss a route for the new road project running run-ning south, from Beaver to Iron county. DUCHESNE It is estimated that the total amount of gilsonite in the Uintah basin is close to 50.000,000 tons. The deposits of this substance are the largest known deposits in the world. Gilsonite is used in the manufacture manu-facture of paint, phonograph records, telephones, etc. CEDAR CITY This year's lamb crop in Utah is smaller than that of last year, but it is in splendid condition, condi-tion, according to George A. Scott, U. S. livestock statistician, who returned re-turned Thursday from a tour of the sheep sections. Mr. Scott made visits to Utah, Juab, Millard, Beaver, Iron, Garfield, Piute, Sevier, Sanpete and Wasatch counties. The sheep are just beginning to go to the summer ranges, he reports. PROVO Contract for the paving of 1.8 miles of country highway between Provo and Pleasant Grove via Lake-view, Lake-view, was awarded to the Wasatch Grading company of Provo, according to A. O. Smoot, chairman of the board of county commissioners. The contract con-tract was let on a figure of $33,709.80. The only other bidder in the field was the Christensen & Gardner company of Salt Lake City, who figured the job at $36.5S5.50. SALT LAKESales of state lands remaining in force at the close of 1926 in eluded some 3,243,537 acres, the sale prices of which aggregated some $7,923,866. BRIGHAM CITY Most important of the road improvements to be made in the northern part of the state this year will be the oiling of the state highway from Mantua, in eastern Box-elder Box-elder county, through Sardine canyon to the paved highway in Wellsvill, according ac-cording to K. C. Wright, district engineer en-gineer for the state road commission. PRICE With damage to growing crops between Price and Castle Gate estimated at thousands of dollars; bridges washed away; traffic on highways high-ways and railroads tied up; Castle Gate's and Price's water supplies cut off and five homes demolished at Castle Cas-tle Gate; Helper's streets and basements base-ments flooded the menace caused by the rainstorm which started Monday is still growing. MT. PLEASANT R. Kishi, T. Shim-oyama Shim-oyama and Y. Saneyoshi, representatives representa-tives of the Japanese government, and K. Katsuyama of Nosawa & Co., of New Y'ork City, have been in Mt. Pleasant during the past week looking over the leading Rambouillet flocks and purchasing sheep for the Japanese Japan-ese govenment. OGDEN William Parry, formerly zeneral foreman of the Union Pacific shops at North Platte, Neb., will be general foreman of the new roundhouse round-house at Ogden. He will be under J. ogarty, division master mechanic at Green River, Wyo. One hundred and forty machinists, helpers and other employees will begin work at the new hops July 1. At 12:01 o'clock Friday norning the Southern Pacific shops vill cease doing the Union Pacific re air work. i |