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Show AAA-. A-.AA I News Notes : o f a Privilege to Live in f Utah i Salt Lake More than eleven and one-half tons of Utah rhubarb appeared appear-ed on (he local market Wednesday, according ac-cording to Walter Kingsbury, marketing market-ing specialist with the federal bureau of markets. Mrs. Kingsbury al;jo reported re-ported that 4 40 crates of Utah radishes, rad-ishes, running fifteen dozen bunches to the crate, were on the market also. Thero was a shortage of asparagus, not enough coming into supply the demand. Spanish Fork Roads from Salt Lake to Carbon county are In good condition, condi-tion, it was annouueed by Governor Ceorge H. Dern, who returned Wednesday Wed-nesday night from Hiawatha, where he spoke at the annual fathers' and pons' banquet Tuesday evening. The governor said that, while he had expected ex-pected the road muddy through Spanish Span-ish Fork canyon, that such was not the caso. Midvale Work la progressing satisfactorily satis-factorily on the new city hall, and It is expected that the municipal offices will be moved from thoir present loca- j time In July. it was announced last Thursday. Ogdon Bids for the grading of six und a half miles of the Victor-Irwin road in Idaho were called for by the United States bureau of public roads. Kids will be opened here June 9. Completed of this stretch from Victor to Swan valley will give Swan valley tn outlet to railroad connection. The highway will be highly beneficial In view of the floods which have harassed Swan valley lately. Salt Lake Mining, agricultural. Industrial In-dustrial and scenic assets of the state of Utah will be depicted in a ?10,000 exhibit at tho Transcontinental Highways High-ways exposition at Reno, Nev., June 25 to August 1. A general plan for the exhibit has been worked out by the special committee appointed by Governor Gover-nor George H. Dern, and efforts are now being directed to collect displays from all parts of the state. Provo Utah's geological formation offers the student more material for study than any other area of the same size in the United States. The variety of geological products makes its geology geol-ogy interesting economically as well as historically. LehiEradication of weed outlaws has received practical attention in Le-hi Le-hi during the past week. Commissioner Commission-er J. W. Gilman and Inspector Helga Swenson are supervising the distribution distribu-tion of salt which is being placed upon numerous plat3 of white top and other noxious weeds. Lehi city is cooperating cooper-ating with the county in the weed campaign. cam-paign. A full carload of salt was unloaded un-loaded and distributed during the past three days'. Price With already three or four' times as much water in Scofield reservoir reser-voir than there was at any time last year. Carbon county farmers are looking look-ing forward to a succsesful season A. W. Horsley of tho Price river water conservation district and Wallace R. Wayman, secretary, returned from a trip to the dam. where they were met by E. B. Jorgensen, agent for the SVherlin-Barry company of New Orleans; Or-leans; John T. Oldroyd of the state Thrust Upon Him "I sometimes wonder," sighfully said Tennyson .1. Daft, the versatile versill-ratlonist,' versill-ratlonist,' ".why I was born n poet?" "You weren't," meanly replied old I Cuunton Grimm. Kansas City Star. tanci noaru, nnu u. j. uitrtcn, eugiueei for the district. Salt Lake Ziuc recovered from ore in Utah increased from 52,611.732 pounds in 1925 to about 92.000,.000 pounds In 192C, and the value from ?3.998.493 to ?6.762,00Q, Eureka Shearing In the Jericho, Hillside, Lofgren and Fairfield shearing shear-ing corrals has been brought to a close during the past week. At Jericho, Jer-icho, 9 1,000 head of sheep were sheared. shear-ed. 80.000 at Hillside and 62.000 at - Tairfield. The clip this year was nor-mal. nor-mal. The cold weather resulted in a better grade of wool, the fleece being dry and lighter. Salt Lake Conditions in the beet growing districts of Utah and Idaho generally have been favorable this spring and a continuation through the growing season will result in an unusually un-usually high tonnage yield per acre, in opinion of officials of the Utah-Idaho j Sugar company. In parts of Utah county and counties south, where beets were planted earlier, some farmers huve commenced thinning their stand. For most regions, however, this operation oper-ation will not gain full momentum until un-til the widdle of this week. Salt Lake Tourists visiting the Utah state capitol next summer will R"e among the exhibits In the ground fioor display room one depicting tha Fheep industry of Utah. This exhibit , authorized last January by the Utah I State Woolgrowers' Association, at Its annual convention, cannot be prepared md installed this year, but tho committee com-mittee in charge of the exhibit is active, ac-tive, reports James A. Hooper, Salt Lake, secretary of tho association. Myton Interesting statistics relative rela-tive to the Uintah basin have been tomplled by the advertising committee commit-tee of the W. B. I. C. The population til Ihe Uintah basin Is placed at 20.-000 20.-000 art Uiey are trying to farm 270,-000 270,-000 acres of irrigated land. Provt) While boot miar production In l!)2l! fell down tinder thy production tit the two previous years, agricultural conditions to date are favorable to n heavier boot crop for 1!)27, uccordlni; to fport nt Frank Andrew .. arglcul-tura arglcul-tura MliitiMtlclan for UUh. iusu id a 19:'3 bi:( sugar production. |
