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Show I News Notes j It's a Privilege to Live in Utah 1 Eureka Mines of the Tintic district dis-trict shipped 167 carloads of ore during dur-ing the week that just ended. Following Follow-ing are the mines ar.d their Hhl'-ments (in carloal lots): Tintic Standard, 65; Chief Consolidated, 32; American Bmolting and Refining (dump ore), 20; Bingham Mines, 19; Mammoth, 14; l'lutiiH, 10; Iron King, X; Colorado, i; Yankee, 1. Salt Lake Conditlen of the cheep and till tie of the statu is excellent and Is nearly lf P''r cent improved ove:- (lie corresporidiii!; period l.s; year, giving evidence that the live-Block live-Block men of the state will have a prosperous year, providing they receive re-ceive fair prices, George A. Scott, livestock live-stock Htatistician for the seven Western Wes-tern slates, announced In his report. Myton The following facts have been assembled, relative to reclaimed land In Duchesne and Uintah counties. The total acreage is placed at 2X 1,478. Tho two largest irrigation projects are I lies Dry Gulch Irrigation company of Roosevelt, containing 53,000 acres, and the Uintah and Ouray agency project, containing X0,!iS3 acres. Salt Lake Plans for the annual convention of the district school superintendents su-perintendents of the stato have been completed and tne program of the convention arranged, according to announcement from tho olhce of Dr. C. N. Jensen, state superintendent ot public instruction. Tho convention Is to be held at tho University of Utah on Juno 21 and 22, and copies of the program planned have been sent to each of tho district superintendents. Salt Lake Increases in average milk and butterfat production for April over the preceding month, March, are reported by two of the four cow-testing association maintained main-tained by dairymen in the Cache valley. val-ley. The association whose cows bettered bet-tered their March average during April wero the Richmond-Lewiston and Wellsville-College ward associations. associa-tions. Salt Lake City. Distribution of the waters of the Sevier river system as between the Sevier Bridge reservoir and the Piute reservoir interests will be made in accordance with the engineer's en-gineer's proposed determination until such time as instructions to do otherwise other-wise are received from the court, according ac-cording to a letter written by George M. Bacon, state engineer, to Brice McBride, water commission on the system. Salt Lake City. Early opening dates have been announced for both Zion and Yellowstone National parks, due to expected heavy tourist travel, D. S. Spencer, general passenger agent for the Union Pacific railroad, said. Zion park will open May 15, fifteen days before the usual opening date, and Yellowstone will open June 30, while special parties will be permitted permit-ted to enter the park June 16. Suit Lake City. Heavy showers, especially in the middle and northern counties of the state, greatly improv-- improv-- cd water supplies for farms and towns but lower temperatures and deficient sunshine retarded crop growth to a certain extent, according to the weekly week-ly crop and weather report issued by J. Cecil Alter, in charge of tho local office of the weather bureau. Brigham City. Superintendent C. IT. Skidmore returned during the week from a trip to the western part of (he country, where he inspected the various schools. The superintendent says that the recent rainstorm extended extend-ed all over the county, and that there was from two to four inches of rainfall. rain-fall. The dry farm grain and other crops are looking better than ever before, be-fore, and this last storm has made certain the maturing of these crops. Ogden. Although the Amalgamated Sugar company shared the unfavorable unfavor-able sales conditions with other sugar manufacturing companies, the annual report of President Henry H. Rolapp, given to the stockholders at their annual an-nual meeting shows the company to be in excellent condition. Price. At a public hearing in Price on June 7 the Carbon county board of commissioners will consider applications appli-cations for additional allowances of about $55,000 in the county road department de-partment and ?50 in the recorder's office. of-fice. Logan. Director William Peterson of the Utah experiment station discussed dis-cussed at the weekly Kiwanis luncheon lunch-eon this afternoon the proposed further fur-ther reclamation of Cache Yc.lley through the development of supplemental supple-mental water supplies with which to insure full irrigation rights to the 60,-000 60,-000 acres of irrigatable land. Brigham City. Following work in the elimination of the scrub dairy bull and its replacement by purebred sires, County Agricultural Agent R. H. Stew-p.rt Stew-p.rt announces that a cow-testing circle has been formed in Mantua and Perry. Each of these circles will contain con-tain on an average each month from 75 to 125 cows on test. A plan has been worked out by the county agent and his committees which promises to be successful, and, at the same timt co.st the owner of the cot but little money. |