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Show I News Notes It's a Privilege to Liv in ! Utah 1 Salt Lake City. Grazing lands In acreage, 55,000, in Emerey county, will be offered for sale by the executive execu-tive secretary of the state land board, the offer to be made at Castle Dale. The lands are appraised at 52.50 to S3 per acre. Salt Lake City. The state road commission, accompanied by C. E. Knowkon, maintenance engineer, left on a tour of inspection of the highways high-ways in southwestern Utah. Zion national na-tional park and St. George will be visited. Moab. J. H. Young, highway engineer engin-eer for the bureau of public roads, and H. S. Kerr, chief assistant state road engineer passed through Moab last Wednesday on their return from San Juan county, where they made an investigation in-vestigation and definite location of the highway from Monticello to the state line. Washington. Part of the appropriation appropria-tion for the Salt Lake basin irrigation irriga-tion project carried in the interior department bill, on which a conference committee reached an agreement, can be spent on Utah lake control if the surveys of that unit show it to be wholly feasible, and the secretary of the interior can come to a complete understanding with the land owners as to payment of the costs. Ogden. The Ogden high school won the Ogden division debating championship by defeating Davis high school. The local school won from Boelder high school and will now meet a team from another division to qualify for the finals. Ogden. Twenty-two head of choice Holstein cattle are en route to Utah from Pond du Lac, Wis., where they were purchased for Utah breeders by Gilbert Thatcher, secretary of the Utah Holstein Friesian Breeders' association. as-sociation. The purchases were mads at the Clark classis, which is reputed to be the greatest sale of purebred cattle in the United States. Ogden. Morrison & Knudsen, contractors con-tractors of Boise, Idaho, were low bidders bid-ders on. three large road projects in northeastern Idaho when bide were opened at the district office of the United States bureau of public roads. The three bids aggregate $370,147.97, and recommendation was made by B. J. Finch, district engineer, to the bureau's office in Washington, D. C., that the low bidder be awarded the contracts. Manti. Mayor A. Judd and members mem-bers of the city council have recently accepted plans submitted by Professor Profes-sor Emil Hansen, landscape gardener, garden-er, for the beautifying of the Manti city paTk.. Myton. The flour mill of Myton, which is owned by the Light & Power company, and was managed this year by Lionel Babcock, has finished its season's rum More than 8000 bushels of wheat was handled during the year. Washington. The corn belt farm relief re-lief bill was approved by the senate agriculture committee as a rider to the administration's . cooperative marketing market-ing bill. Richfield. The Richfield Commercial Commer-cial club held a largely attended luncheon lun-cheon at the clubrooms recently. The club determined to initiate and foster a cleanup program to make Richfield one of the cleanest and most sightly cities in the state. Payson. At a meeting held last Wednesday by the chamber of com-, merce, the problem of procuring more sugar beet acreage was discussed by Lee R. Taylor, John Lewis, Rastus Robinson and Albert Powell. Richfield. Much interest is being taken by the schools throughout Sevier Se-vier county in the final scoring being made by. the contest judge, James H. Wallis, executive secretary of the Utah Public Health association. Spanish Fork. With the awarding of more than ?500 in prize money and the settlement of all sales accounts, one of the most successful exhibitions exhibi-tions of livestock ever held in this section sec-tion came to a close. Despite the handicap han-dicap stormy weather put upon the efforts ef-forts or the management of the Second Annual Utah County Livestock show and exhibitors, the show was pronounced pro-nounced a success. Price. A meeting of farmers and business men called by Clayton Negus executive secretary of the Eastern Utah Credit association for the pur-nose pur-nose of effecting a cooperative associa- tion between the farmers and business men of this part of the state was held Friday at the courthouse at Price. A large group of men from Carbon, Emery and Duchesne counties attended attend-ed the meeting. Spanish Fork. The management of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company at Spanish Fork is making a concerted effort to induce farmers in this vicinity vicin-ity to increase their acreage of sugar beets. Mark Austin has been here and pointed out the necessity of a larger acreage if the local plant is to operate this year. -Gunnison. Sufficient acreage of beets has been contracted by the farmers of Gunnison and Sevier valleys val-leys to permit the running o the sugar plant this fall. |