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Show I News Notes : it s a Privilege to Live in ; Utah I Milford Southern Utah beekeepers 1 should harvest a good honey crop this I year, said D. H. Hil'.man., state apiar-' apiar-' ist. Saturday, upon his return from a 1 tour through Washington. Iron. Beaver I and Millard counties. In the extreme 1 southern end of the state roses, peas I and other flowers are blooming, but 1 the alfalfa is not developing as fast 1 as it should. Bees are entering the I spring in good condition and with a I good supply of wild flowers, which now 1 appears probable. Ihe surplus honey i production should be large. I Junction A few cases of hog ehol-! ehol-! era have developed in Circleville. apparently ap-parently traceable to the importation of a purebred male thai was infected. Dr. Swalberg, veterinarian, of Gunui-son, Gunui-son, and County Agent Morgan P. McKay Mc-Kay spent Wednesday, Thursday and 1 Friday in examining, quarantining and j vaccinating exposed animals and they j think they hade the disease checked. j Pleasant Grove With conditions fa-: fa-: vorable for the 1927 fruit harvest and j the market outlook good, growers will be helping their cause greatly by con-! con-! ducting an extensive early spraying program and taking every precaution to assure a clean crop, in the opinion of F. D. Atwood, secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Pleasant Grove Cooperative Marketing association. associa-tion. Inasmuch as Utah orchards are rather remote from the principal markets mar-kets of the country growers in this state must offset the distance handicap handi-cap with quality, he says. "The more attention given to spraying early in the season, and the more thorough the attack on insects at this time, the less will be needed for heavy spraying later in the season, when the fruit is partially grown," explains Mr. Atwood. Myton One of the industries which is attracting the attention of several farmers in the basin this year, while considering the subject of diversified endeavor, is the raising of poultry. Several are engaging in the turkey industry, in-dustry, while others are trying out the production of chickens, especially the large varieties, for market purposes. Bingham Rapidly metliug snow in the mountains has caused anxiety over I flood dangers here, especially in Mark-ham Mark-ham gulch. Nine men were kept busy Tuesday night keeping the flume of the old Chicago mine open. William Robbins, city watermaster, has borrowed bor-rowed men from the Utah Copper mine to aid in patrolling danger spots. The last bad flood in Markham gulch was in 1923, when several buildings were swept from their foundations. Pro'vo Approximately $50,000 will be expended by the United States bureau bu-reau of public roads on the south wing of the Timpanogos loop, according to Supervisor E. C. Shepherd of the Wasatch Wa-satch national forest, with headquarters headquart-ers in Salt Lake City. Monticello Construction work on a federal-aid project of 6.40 miles, from Monticello to the top of Peter's hill, j started recently. The contract calls ' for the completion of the project in 140 days. L. Clark, superintendent in i charge of the construction crew, arrived ar-rived in town the latter part of last week with a fleet of trucks and established estab-lished camp at the J. W. Palmer farm, two miles north of town. j Myton Continued warm weather for the past few days is bringing forth vegetation very rapidly in this part o ! the basin. The alfalfa fields are beginning be-ginning to show up in good shape. The farmers are busy plowing their fields, sowing wheat, oats and other grain, and some have planted early potatoes. They are also preparing the soil for the planting of corn. Salt Lake There are 64S0 more grazing permittees on national forests in Utah than any other state in the j Union. Livestock valued at $10,000,-000 $10,000,-000 use national forest ranges. Salina Agreement that the state v."ill furnish $5000, to be matched by $5000 furnished by Sevier county, to establish a temporary road through Salina canyon, was reached .Thursday afternoon at a conference between Sevier county commissioners and state, federal and forest officials. Nothing Noth-ing was said about the establishment of a permanent road through the canyon, can-yon, which would cost about $500,000. Salt Lake Each acre of the 9,000,-000 9,000,-000 acres of mountain laud in Ut,ah furnished water for producing approximately approx-imately $2.50 worth of crops. Last year these watersheds furnished water for crops valued at $23,000,000. Cedar City Salt Lake and Utah scenery are advertised by a booklet published by the Automobile Club of Southern California. The book is an attractive compilation of strip maps showing the road from Salt Lake to "Los Angeles, with side- trips to Zion National park, Bryce, the Grand Canyon Can-yon National park, Cedar Breaks and the Kaibab forest. Salt Lake In response to a letter which the Secretary wrote to Will Hays with reference to participation j in American Forest Week by moving picture concerns, the Secretary of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Distrib-utors Association came to Washington and attended a conference in ttie Sec-relary's Sec-relary's office. The result is that 15 copies of our new film. "The Forest and Water," will be distributed both before and after American Forest Week from Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Seattle, and Salt Lake City. |