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Show I News Notes i It' a Privitege to Lies in Z I Utah I ? SALT LAKE Using the waters of "V Great Salt lake, the solar-evaporating plants of Utah produced more than 75,-000 75,-000 tons of refined salt during 1928. LOGAN Utah, produces enough evaporated milk each year to make aa unbroken line of cans over the route of Colonel Lindbergh's history-making flight from San Diego to Paris. UTAH State highway construction and maintenance cost ?279,756.25 during dur-ing January, according to the monthly statement issued by Auditor Ivor AJax. Maintenance required $81,102.58; equipment, $1,763.03; travel $168.37; salaries, $3,623 and the balance for construction. PROVO Stockholders of the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative association asso-ciation received $11,000 in dividens recently, announced C. C. Edmonds, manager. The dividend last year amounted to $7000, he said. About 2977 producers shared In the dividend, which was to addition to others that have been paid for eggs and poultry. RICHFIELD Arizona has bestowed the name of Grand Canyon bridge upon up-on the giant structure that spans the Colorado river at a point six miles south of Lee's- Ferry, according to James J. Davis, news reel photographer, photogra-pher, who has Just negotiated the Grand Canyon bridge road from Flagstaff, Flag-staff, Ariz, to Richfield, Utah. SPANISH FORK Jacob A. Hanson, president; R. C. Swallburg, manager; E. M. Banks, rice president; and G. Tern Hayes, secretary of the Utah county livestock show, announce they will be assisted in putting over the show this year by the same workers who made it a success last year. Plans are at present incomplete. The fair will be held March 27, 28 and 29. SALT LAKE About 50 tons of Utah Lake carp and suckers will be canned for use as fish food under the terms of a contract announced recently by J. Arthur Meecham, state fish and game commissioner. The carp and suckers are Eeined from the lake and canned as food for small trout fry. The Utah Canning company contracted the work at 5 cents a pound. MONROE More than 1000 books have been contributed to the Monroe high school by parent and patrons of this school district toward the making of a school library. The process of cataloging the books is progressing and will be completed in about another week, according to Principal C. A. White. The library will then be opened open-ed for the benefit of the students of the school. CEDAR CITY During December and January 63S7 pounds of alfalfa leaves saturated with strychnine solution so-lution have been fed to the rabbits of Beaver, Iron. Washington and Kane counties by John E. Blazzard, district agricultural inspector, with the assist-' assist-' ance of La Mar Price, county agent of Beaver; Walter F. Smith, agent in the respective counties, and in same 'r cases the Boy Scout organizations. UTAH United States treasury warrants war-rants In the amount of $13. 493. 39 were drawn by the state road commission .uuiiu.iv iur use on lecierai am nii;a-ways nii;a-ways and for federal vocational education ed-ucation In this state. Oa the amount drawn, $65S2.S6 is to be used on the road from Harrisburg bench to Anderson's Ander-son's ranch in Washington county, and JS912.S9 goes to vocational education, edu-cation, it was announced. PROVO Traffic through Provo canyon can-yon was completely closed recently, as a result cf two snowslides that came down recently at Ferguson's and Bridal Veil Falls, about one hour apart The latter Is said to be one of the biggest slides, that ever came down Into the canyon, according to observers. The huge mountain et snow covers tbe main highway to a depth of 35 feet, for nearly 500 ft. PROVO One of the high spots of the three-day convention of the Utah Horticultural society and its yarious subsidiaries was the talk by J. W. Gillman of Trovo bench, reviewing the "apple deal" of IPCS. Mr. Gillman has one of the largest orchards in the state nnd a largo storage plant. It Is claimed for him that he ships the largest amount of apples of any grower. grow-er. He Is also president of the state beet producers' cooperative. SALT LAKE Snow, forecast by official of-ficial weathermen, nrrivid on time In Salt Lake, and gave the city its great-cs-t depth of (ho year. After the storm had subsided, three inches of new snow had fallen, bringing the total depth to ten Indies. The storm descended de-scended on the city nt 2 a. m. Saturday and after falling heavily It stopped almost al-most abruptly at 11 a. m. Thereafter the sun emerged from the clouds and did such splendid w.uk that bv (i p lu., only S.5 inches remained on the ground. ' UTAH The annual winter warfare on magpies and other predatory birds and animals started Momiay with the parch. :so by the stale lis!, and :aiu. department of :'00 ounces of specially Vrepaicd poison, tnvoi ,1 in g to J, Arthur Ar-thur .Mecham, coining.. gonor. WASHINGTON Twenty t,, thousand thous-and acres of nuvosen ed and ug igg- o prialcd land In San Ju.111 courgy. Utah will bo opened to homestead nnd desert de-sert land entry on Wbnini y .1. at the federal la,,, otlico 111 ;.,!( 1 ,,k Cil. !hi department of (!, inieaior i iioimeed recently. |