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Show EXCHANCE DRIFTWOOD. l'ashiuK l'lirlieles I'Icked up From tlio Sen of XoMMpaperdom. The oldest residents of Provo sav that there has not been as much snow at this time of the year since the fifties. In 18-jy there were thirty inches of snow on the level all over the valley, while 1852 and 1S01 had very heavy snowstorms, but neither of the years mentioned had as much snow before the New Year, as there is at present. Provo DUpuU The fanners are hugging themselves them-selves and blessing the Lord. Cattle and sheepmen, short on hay. ar otherwise engaged. It it an ill wind that blows everybody good. Mahid Enterprise. It is estimated that there are 50.000 bushels of potatoes in Utah for which no market can be found. This would be a fair-sized starter for a good starch factory. Park City Jit-ronl. A fruit grower in Umatilla Co., Oregon, claims to have disco vered means of doing away with the destructive de-structive codlip moth. He floods his orchard every spring, and his theory is that the moth in drowned w hen read y to leave i t s w i n lev quarters in the ground. As proof that this is efficacious he Btate that his orchard is not troubled, but his neighbors are obliged to spray their trees repeatedly. Og den Standard. The Provo Woollen Mills used between 000,000 and 700,000 pounds of wool last year in making goods which sold for $175,000. This -tfAve-lOQ-peisons employment during dur-ing milling season. The 10,000 pairs of blankets and various kinds of cloth for both ladies and gentlemen, gentle-men, found a market as far east as Boston and west to Ban Francisco. The factory was improved to the extent of $20.000. S. L. Tribune. A shipment of 400 sheep was made from this place to Ogden over the Uio Grande Western last Thursday by Mr. F. J. Tabor, an old Montaniau. The gentleman tells us that he is desirous of purchasing pur-chasing 10,000 sheep before spring and taking them to Montana. American Fork Independent. Park City may not be much of a mining camp, but the suggestion sugges-tion is here made that she'll do for a scrub. Furthermore we want it distinctly understood that until some of you whining, whinnering back-number prospect-hole reservoirs reser-voirs can rise in your might and launch a belter showing than this town made last year, we don't want none o' yer gut! on the subject, sub-ject, l'ark City is the great and glorious King Bee. See? Park .1j'nrr, 1 1 was rumored on the street yesterday that a large deposit of bituminous coa 1 had been found on Antelope Island, in the (treat Suit Lake, within twenty miles ol this City. With natural gas, coal, ! and unlimited and numerous deposits de-posits of iron, lend, copper and the precious metals on every hand, to sav nothing of Utah's climate and soil, it does look indeed as if there was a wonderful future in store for this country. S. L. Stock Kx-changc Kx-changc Jtttmwl. J. .1. Kinsman, of ( Iraud Junction Colo., who lost his life by the accident acci-dent that befcil him at Price last Monday, onlv adds another victim to the long list, and is the samoold story told again. Ilia f t caught in a frog of the track, and he was unable to release himself and thf train passed over his body. He I leaves a wife and one child to I mourn his loss. Price Trlrtjrajth. |