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Show News Notes : ilt't a Privilege to Live in Utah CEDAR CITY A $35,000 swimming pool at Ziou National park, including water treating plants, facilities for the Installation of a 100,000-gallon reser-roir reser-roir and fifteen more cabins at Zion ind Bryce are some of the improve- ments to be installed by the Utah i Parks company, F. E. Lesser, super-I super-I Intendent of the lodge and hotel serv-I serv-I Ice announced. I LOGAN Twenty dairymen of Hyde I Park held a special meeting and decided de-cided to form a cooperative bull asso-I asso-I Mation, consisting of three blocks. John Duce, Willard Duce and L. Lamb were named as temporary directors of the three blocks. Another session will ie held February 27 to perfect an organization or-ganization and also purchase bulls. M. C. Reeder had charge of this meeting. meet-ing. PLEASANT GROVE-TJtah ranked eighth in the United States in the actual number of cases of canned-goods canned-goods produced in 1927 and seventh in the equivalent number of standard cases of twenty-four No. 3 cans, according ac-cording to bulletin of the bureau of census of the depratment of commerce )ust issued. From its thirty-three factories fac-tories in Utah is produced 1,018,562 cases of canned goods and 792,264 of twenty-four No. 3 cans, in equivalent, according to the report. Maryland led the list with 18,870,894 cases of canned can-ned goods and 13,137,042 of twenty-four twenty-four No. 3 cans. DELTA The framers of the Pahvant Pah-vant valley are making strenuous efforts ef-forts to get away from the one-crop plan which has been in operation her. for a number of years in the produc-lton produc-lton of alfalfa seed. The plan which Is now being promoted by local business busi-ness men and farmers is to diversify the crops in such a manner that the raising of alfalfa seed will be incidental incid-ental rather than the main crop. OGDEN One hundred grown Chinese Chi-nese pheasants are soon to be brought from the state farm at Springville and placed on the game preserve in the western part of Weber county, under an agreement reached between D. H. Madsen, state fish and game commissioner, commis-sioner, and the Weber County Fish and Game Protective association. The announcement was made by P. L. Ford, president of the Weber association. associ-ation. GUNNISON Railway and aerial transportation were allied when a group of railroad men and shippers christened the Gunnison "airport" and attended a meeting to arrange for construction of a branch line to West-view, West-view, near this city. MYTON L. C. Potter, who resides at the North Myton bench and wha raised 471 sacks of alfalfa seed in 1927, shipped his crop to Price, having sold it during the past week to J. Sheehan, a seed buyer for the Griswold Seed company of Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Potter had the largest crop of any grower in this part of the basin. Nine trucks were used to haul the crop to tne railroad. rail-road. DRAPER J. R. Rawlins, president of the Draper Poultry association, states that 1135 cases of eggs are now being shipped each week from Draper to eastern markets, and of these. 800 cases are the product of Draper liens. Coops are being built in Utah's Peta-luma Peta-luma this spring which wil take care of 10,000 more laying hens. The association, as-sociation, in addition to this, is putting put-ting out 17,000 sacks of chicken feed each month. GUNNISON Gunnison Sugar company com-pany has added about 1000 acres of contract beets in Salt Lake and Utah counties and, with the local growers maintain the standard of planting during the past few years, there is every assurance that the 1928 campaign cam-paign will be the biggest since the factory was built. MYTON Sheepmen who have their herds grazing south of Myton, in Pleasant Pleas-ant valley and the Nine-Mile country near Green River, have begun feeding corn and expect to keep this up until after the lambing season. Myton is the distributing point for this source of supply, and truckmen have been kept busy hauling the corn and groceries for the camps. The sheep this season so far are in good condition. OGDEN Utah produced 1,018,502 cases of canned foods last year. This puts it in eighth place among all the states of the Union in the production of this commodity. RICHFIELD Preparations for the building of the tabernacle are being pushed. All the gravel Is on the ground and the hauling of sand will be completed this week. As soon as the weather hreaks, laymg of the foundation founda-tion will be commenced. The building will cost approximately $S0,000 and will be equipped for all requirements for many years to come. It will have a big auditorium, classrooms, a full basement and other apartments. OGDEN Members of the county and city commissions held a joint conference con-ference in the city hall recently in regard to the proposed paving of two stretches to connect the city with paving pav-ing in the county. One stretch is on Wilson lane from the Twenty-fourth street viaduct to the city-county line nd the other is on the Harrisville road from Five Points, also to connect with the city-county line. City and county engineers were directed to make a report re-port covering the proposed type of pacing pac-ing and other details i |