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Show l News Notes I Z lt' a Privilege to Liom in f Utah I UTAH Utah poultry growers expect ex-pect more than 3,000,000 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 for the first three months of 1929 was 15 per cent more than in the corresponding corres-ponding period of 1928. SALT LAKE An increase of 4000 acres in Utah's oat crop is predicted for 1929. Farmers intend to plant 69,000 acres this year as compared to 66,000 in 1928. The tame hay acreage also shows an estimated increase of about 2 per cent. HYRUM Whether or not a municipal muni-cipal electric plant will be constructed In Blacksmith Fork canyon by Hyium city will be determined at a bond election elec-tion called by Mayor H. B. Nielson for Saturday, April 27. The proposed plant will be constructed about thirteen thir-teen miles up Blacksmith Fork canyon at a cost approaching $70,000, and will have a generative capacity of 600 horse-power. ROCK SPRINGS State highway department reports the Lincoln highway high-way is open clear through Wyoming. Some bad spots remain near Lyman, Spring Valley and along the Red desert. des-ert. The road west of Evanston, for 12 miles, in Weber canyon, is deep with mud, and chains and shovels should he 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 asked 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 'Jew 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 deferred 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, the work will be advertised and construction construc-tion started. SALT LAKE More than 55,000 licenses li-censes for hunting, fishing and trapping trap-ping were issued by the state fish and game department in 1928, it is shown by statistics compiled by A. G. Cran-cey, Cran-cey, accountant in the office of J. Arthur Ar-thur Mecham, state fish and game commissioner. It is shown by those figures that 18.S55 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 $1 each. SALT LAKE Data compiled by the 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 3.5 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 10.3 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 fay-, orable water supply in Cache valley during the summer sre 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 9000 feet elevation. ele-vation. There is more snow at low elevations this ye;ir than there has been since 1923, the survey showed. FARM INGTON The last car of Davis county's $350,1)00 crop of onion.s for 1S28 has just been shipped from Davis county by Leonard Winrgar of Woods Cross. Up to the fi-st of the year, as reported by 11. P. Mathews, Math-ews, county agricultural inspector, there was a total of 4 AO cars of onions shipped frcni the county under federal ins;. pet ion. Thirty-e'h; of this nuni-ber nuni-ber were 1827 sloe!?. Since t!: IIM of the year 45 cars w-re s.lip;v-;l. m --tiring a total of 4''fi or; is of the U'US crop. In pddiMon to this s."vcr;! car- j lof's were shipped to Sri'.t. I.i.ke for 1 e;or?e. I |