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Show i I News Notes 1 1 ! ', lt' m PriviUgm to Lw in Utah , j. ' UTAH Utah poultry growers expect ex-pect more than 8,000,000 chickens will be produced this year, double the number num-ber marketed in 1928. OGDEN Spring plowing Is under way in part of Weber county, according accord-ing to County Agent A. L. Christiansen, Chris-tiansen, and other land, too wet at present, pre-sent, Is drying out, so that It can be broken within a few days. Potato planting has started in some parts of the county. UTAH The production of eggs tor the first three months of 1929 was IS per cent more than in the corresponding corres-ponding period of 1928. SALT LAKE An Increase of 400 acres In Utah's oat crop is predicted for 1929. Farmers intend to plant 9,000 acres thta year as compared to 65,000 in 1928. The tame hay acreage also shows an estimated increase of about 1 per cent ' HYRUM Whether or not a municipal muni-cipal electric plant will be constructed in Blacksmith Fork canyon by Hyrum city will be determined at a bond election elec-tion called by Mayor H. B. Nlelson for Baturday, April 27. The proposed plant will be constructed about thirteen thir-teen miles up Blacksmith Fork canyon at a cost approaching 170,000, and will have a generative capacity of 600 uave a (euviautv vbkh.iv; u wv horse-power. ROCK SPRINGS State highway department reports the Lincoln highway high-way is open cloar through Wyoming. Some bad spots remain near Lyman, Spring Valley and along the Red desert des-ert The road weBt of Evanston, for 1J miles, In Weber canyon, is deep with mud, and chains and shovels should be carried, officials say. Light rain recently did no damage, and the road is drying rapidly. LOGAN Bids for a new engine and electric generator for Logan City will be askod from various companies on April 23 by H. C. Maughan, super-plant super-plant The installation of the new unit will cost approximately $60,000, and will be used to supplement the present, unit and the hydroelectric plant In Logan canyon. The uew engine en-gine will have from 1000 to 1200 horsepower horse-power and will generate between 750 and 1000 kilowatt hours, nearly double the capacity of the present unit COALVILLE The Coalville city council at its regular April meeting deterred action on the proposed new city park until an analysis can be made of the hot water spring on the park ground to determine the best type of walls to be constructed for the proposed swimming pool. Plans have been received for the landscaping landscap-ing of the new park and as soon as plans can be prepared for the swimming swim-ming pools and other features, tho work will be advertised and construction construc-tion started. SALT LAKE More than 65,000 licenses li-censes for hunting. Ashing and trapping trap-ping were Issued by the state fish and game department in 1928, it la shown by statistics compiled by A. G. Cran-ney, Cran-ney, accountant In the office of J. Arthur Ar-thur Mecuam, state fish and game commissioner. It Is shown by those figures that 18,855 combination fishing fish-ing and hunting licenses were sold at $3 each. There also were 14,208 straight fishing licenses and 13,481 straight game hunting licenses Issued by the department at $2 each. Some 8456 licenses were Issued to women, and boys between the ages of 12 and 16, at f 1 each. SALT LAKE Data compiled by tfce local office of the United States weather weath-er bureau Indicates the winter Just passed was a "hard-one". The monthly meterorological summary Indicates the average weather was 1.5 degrees below be-low normal for March and 3.6 degrees below normal for January. The mean temperature for the month we 40.2 degrees. Snowfall during the month was virtually normal. A total fall of 19.3 Inches was reported and the total water content,, including rainfall, measured 1.96 inches. During the month 197 hours of sunshine were recorded including nine clear days, fifteen cloudy days and eleven stormy days. . ' LOGAN According to the monthly report of Professor George D. Clyde of the Utah Agricultural college experiment ex-periment station, prospects for a favorable fav-orable water supply in Cache valley during the summer are good. Professor Profes-sor Clyde's survey, made March 28, revealed a heavy snow cover extending extend-ing to low elevations, with nearly four Inches of water accumulating during the month, bringing a new high record for the last five years. There is an equivalent depth of water of 17.3 inches in-ches at 7000 feet; 28.8 inches at 8000 feet, and 35 inches at S000 feet elevation. ele-vation. There is more snow at low elevations this year than there has bean since 1923, the survey showed. FARMINGTON The last car of Ttavla cnnntv'a i35ft 000 cron of onions for 1928 has Just been shipped from Davis county by Leonard Wlnegar of Woods Cross. Up to the first of the year, as reported by H. P. Mathews, Math-ews, county agricultural Inspector, there was a total of 489 cars of onions shipped from the county under federal Inspection. Thirty-eight of this num- her were 1927 stock. Since the first of the year 45 cars were shipped, mak- j lug a total of 496 cars of the 192S crop. In addition to this several carloads car-loads were shipped to Salt Lake for Storage. |