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Show News Notes I : Utah Myton.-Frank LuUe3 vice president of the Albert sen Seed company, and j j I trict manager have been '5!el'ais' survey of the seed situation ' Uintah basin with Orville , the local representative. They Dart-made Dart-made a survey of the Millard ha" with the result that both fip,!eCtil)1 be entered on a large scale th Salt Lake City. Crop coml,t. Utah August 1 forecast nom 1 and hay at least up to avera' not as large as in 1905 T.M' bl wheat crop is now forecast as 5 r!" bushels compared with 5 949 nn'nl1 els in 1925 and tame hay ig u at 1,476,000 tons compared 2 874,000 last year. Sugar beets k '' been seriously injured by insect n so that a crop of only 427000 , is forecast compared with 'in,,, in 1925. t Ogden. Smoke from the forests of Montana are clouding the vi on Idaho national forests accord!!" to word received at the intermonntl5 ' district office of the forest from the Idaho forest with head!? ters at McCall; the Payette (ore ' with . headquarters at Cascade- (k Boise and Weiser forests, withheld quarters at Boise; and the Salm forest, with headquarters at Salm Ogden. Work was begun Tuesda, morning on a concrete reservoir I North Ogden to be used for stra water for fire protection. The reset voir, being built upon the advice ol Fire Chief George A. Graves, is t, have a capacity of 10,000 gallons. Salt Lake City. Construction ot a fruit and vegetable storage plant by the Salt Lake & Utah railroad to coat about $10,000 is under way at Spring, ville, it was announced Tuesday, in, being erected opposite the south end of the Springville canning factory m the state highway. The contract was let to the Strong & Grant company of Springville. Marysvale. The Sevier canyon road between Sevier station and Marysvala will probably be blocked from four days to a week as a result of a cloudburst cloud-burst in the canyon Monday afternoon, after-noon, according to information received re-ceived at the offices of the state road commission. J. E. Gam, district engineer en-gineer for the commission, telephoned that the cloudburst had done considerable consider-able damage and that it would be necessary for traffic to detour by tie way of Monroe hill until such time as the canyon road can be repaired. Provo. Landslides in Provo canyon can-yon during the cloudburst there early Sunday morning damaged properly belonging to the state, the Utah Power and Light company and the Denrer & Rio Grande Western Railroad company com-pany to approximately 510,000. Parowan. The fifth anual show and sale of southern Utah Rambouillet breeders has been announced for Parowan, Par-owan, September 14, 15, and 16. This section of Utah is one of the leading breeders of Rambouillet sheep in tie United States and this event brings out exceptional individuals in all classes. class-es. Helper. The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad company is winding up its gravel and ballasting work on this division this week and when completed com-pleted the line will be newly ballasted from Colton to Grand Junction, Colo. The double track section between here and Colton is already finished. Hundreds of men have been working on the stretch to Green River, where the new work joins that finiished 1 few years ago between Green Riff and Grand Junction. Fort Duchesne When Harden Ben-nion, Ben-nion, state commissioner of agricul ture, and President E. G. Peterson ol the Utah Agricultural college, leaders of the two forces which are combining combin-ing in a fight against the noxious weeds on Utah farms visited Uk Uintah basin at this year's convention, held last week, they found the weeds and other Impurities were being chopped chop-ped and pulled and burned from basm fields at a fast pace. Salt Lake City. The numbers ot livestock grazed on national tores-continue tores-continue to decrease, it is shown in the annual report of the United Sm forest service. During the calenM-year calenM-year 1925 there were a total of 1J-S-16 cattle and horses and 6,1'-sheep 6,1'-sheep and goats grazed on the na ' al forests of the United States. 1 compared with 1.7S2.272 cattle horses and 6.330,376 sheep aai f the year previous, making crease In one year amount to - cattle and horses ami 16.,-'-nnd goats. Ephrnim. The swamp li,nJs Manti-lOphniim water control d ot Sanpete county are provinp more valuable than tho mft oV'', tic, had supposed, observed 1- Sanpete county agricultural aee ceplional results have been t"- on a small area devoted to 'le'l tion purposes, tho agent rel" ' , seventh of an aero ot e"""'"-, yielded ninety boxes of si"1 ,,i and n test of trebl barley s JlljWls to yield an averago of seventy to thf acre. |