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Show : News Notes It's a Privilege to Live in Utah I A. Salt Lake National forests In Utah are traversed by S91 miles of roads and 2408 miles of trails. These are valuable to stockmen and other users of the forest and in many cases are generally used by the public. Price An unusually heavy flow of highly lnflamable gas was struck at a depth of 525 feet in the test well of the McGee & Holmes syndicate, four miles southeast of Price. The drill is boring In the Mancos shale and the gas flow is considered an encouraging sign. Provo More than $15,000 for roada and trail in the Wasatch forest have been authorized, according to an announcement an-nouncement made Thursday by E. C. Shepard, forest supervisor. Eight thousand dollars of his will be used for construction of the Provo river road to extend as far as Mirror lake. The work will begin as soon ,a3 weather weath-er conditions permit. The balance of the money will be expended for trails and mountains roads. Some of tha preliminary work has been begun. Logan In the neighborhood of seventy sev-enty head of cattle will be shipped out of Cache county within the next week, according to County Agent R. L. Wrigley, who eaid that dairymen from Sevier and Sanpete are here purchasing purchas-ing cattle to ship to their respective counties. Cedar City Following are the opening open-ing and closing dates of the national parks throughout the country: Zion park, Cedar Breaks, Bryce canyon and the north rim of the Grand canyon, June 1 to October 15. Yellowstone-park, Yellowstone-park, June 19 to September 19; Mesa Verde park, May 15 to November 1; Rocky Mountain park, June 15 to October Oc-tober 1; Rainier park, June 15 to September Sep-tember 15; Yosemite, open all year, Brighton Harry Hammond, waterworks water-works observer stationed at Brighton, returned after a week's stay in Salt Lake to find the same snow depth, although al-though a foot of frsh snow .had fallen, fal-len, and to learn that his telephone, out of service for more than a month, is again connected. Ogden Forty-two officials and aa-partment aa-partment attaches of the Pacific Fruit Express company from points between Omaha, Neb., and San Francisco ara in Ogden to attend the annual conference confer-ence of the operating organization which opens in the Hotel Bigelow. The-conference The-conference will last three days. Salt Lake Livestock exhibits at cue tenth annual Intermountain Stock and Horse show to be held in Salt Lake, March 29 to April 2, will include some of the outstanding show animals of the country, reports Reed W. Warnlck, secretary of the exhibition. Myton Ute Indians will again participate par-ticipate in their old tribal ceremony Wednesday of next week when scores of braves and squaws from all pan of the Uintah reservation will gather in a brush-enclosed pasture, near the Myton opera house, to begin the fiva-day fiva-day orgy of the Bear dance. Myton Growing of corn In the Uintah basin is an agricultural necessity neces-sity in order to supply the local de-maud de-maud and it is being urged by business busi-ness men and others in terested In the future of this pert of state. The growing grow-ing of corn has been tried out to such an extent that it is believed It can be produced in a profitable manner. Those who raised corn last year are satisfied with the results attained. Milford With only 1100 acres of sugar su-gar beets reported contracted so far this yecr In Millard county, a decrease of practically 50 per cent under last year, heavy acreage in the county will be planted to wheat. This was the statement of M. S. Winder, secretary of the Utah State Farm bureau, who returned Saturday from a five-day tour of the county. Myton C. P. Watterson of Myton. who has leased the Upalco flour mill located lo-cated here, is urging the farmers to plant more wheat. Mr. Watterson says he will be able to handle 50,000 bushels this fall. He advises farmers to plant hard wheat varieties, in pref-erneco pref-erneco to soft wheat, as the hard wheat, he says, brings a better pric and produces a better grade of flour. Ogden Ogden City's operating deficit de-ficit for 1926 is $12,843.39, as compared with the estimated deflicit of $39,895.20 set up for the city by the 1926 budget, which wan prepared in Decembor, 1925, it is shown by the annual report of Mrs. Mary E. Farley, city auditor, which was submitted to the oity commissioners. com-missioners. Spanish Fork Utah county's annual livestock show will open at Spanish Fork, Wednesday, for four days. Jacob C. Hansen, president, and Dr. Georgo C. Taylor, manager of the show, re-Port re-Port that this year's exhibition will bare more entries than any previous livestock diitplay in the county. Moreover, More-over, the Htocl; wiH represent' more branches of the livestock industry. Kphraini John Armotrong. wool-grower, wool-grower, recently markotod 1000 lamb :i-t Kansas City nt $11.90 per hundredweight, hundred-weight, tooplng the market for that day. These lambs averaged SS pounds, v vith no culls. The lambs netted him tutors than $2 a head more than thu licet oi'fer he received for thnin locally. Salt Lake City Pilot Jimmy James pstnbliKhed a new flying record from. Loo Angelas to Salt Lake when he covered cov-ered the- GO miles in four hours nd nlno minutes, nlxteen minutes be"0' 'ban bin 0Wti murk and tied by Mnury Graham. Ho curried ju-avly n0 pound of mail, |