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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Jumping Frog Contest at Angels Camp ··N;;;·N~t;;·i It '• a Privilarte to LIVe tn Friday, June 8, 1928 Saving Salt Lake City From a Bad Flood i ~ .......................... Utah ~ PARK CITY-Ut11h's coal production last year was 4,a12,409 tons, val ued at approximately $37,000,000, The indus·try employs r.:;oo person> and represents an investment of $75090,000. BINGHAM-Metal ores minc1l in Utah during 1927 reached the high total, of 16,036,000 tons, valued at 1 $74,346,000. From this crude ore 351,if+d~.{f,+~;..!l~ 300 tons of finished metals were derived. PRICE--Financing of the repair work on the Scofle!rl dam will b~: done by Carbon county, and the st~.te board of examiners wi!l reccommeml to the t~ext leg-islature that an appropriation of not to exceed $25,000 be made to rc:mburte Carbon county for the mon· ey expended on that work. t '·~ I COALVILLE-There was an in crease of 3000 fleeces in the Summi' I county farm bureau wool cl!p for 1928 over the preceding year. This year'l clip is now being"!;hipped out. There is· a total of 13,500 fleeces. The pool Here Is a portion of the large crowd that clusten·d about the frog leaping quarters at Angels Camp, famous was contracted with Eismann brother~ gold mining town In the California Sierras. From all parts of the state the leaping frogs were brought to c~m at 34 1-2 cents per pound. ln the most unusual event, ''Jumping Frog of San Joaquin" (Inset) defeated his fifty competitors by leapmg OGDEN-May was the largest clL!1taJlCe of 3 feet 9 Inches. sheep month in the history of the Ogden Unidn stockyards,. there being 300,889 head handled durmg that per· iod. Pra<;tically all of these lamb.: came from Cali:.>rnia The next high· est month was May, ·1027, when 282,000 head of sheep were handled. PANUITCH - Most spectacula1 property losses of this section recently were those of Joseph Adair and J. Scott Haycock respectively, each of whom los•t sheep in electric stonns. Early one morning lightning struck in a small flock of Mr Adair's sheep that were bedded for the night at his ranch and killed the entire flock of sixteen. ~IT. PLEASA~T-Equipment of the state roaJ commission will be used in clearing ·away debris deposited near the bridg·e in )ft. Plea5oant by '.'ood s corning clown the canyon as the result of cloudbursts farther back in the hills, it was announced recently by Henry H. BJ,_orl, chairman, and Preston G. Peterson, member, of the state rond com1r.ission. OGDE~-?tlayor Frank Fran~is \1'3~ host recently to a number of Salt Laker~ who came to the city to inspect Wrig-ht field, O~den's contemplated new airport. This is expected to be opened officially on .Tunc 30, on the first deliverv of mail bv air to this city over the Salt Lak~-Great Falls Mont., route. Arranr,ements arc also being made to hold a big celebration The ;l;ew Yorker, a new 13ellanca monoplane, undergoing load trials at Roose,·elt field, Long Island, at the airport on chis occasion. preparation for the projected flight to Home along the forty-fourth parallel; and the crew, left to right: PROVO-A. 0. Garrett, instructor Peter Bonelli, navigator and radio expert; Cesare Sabelli, pilot, and Roger Williams, copilot. in botany at the East Side high of Salt Lake, recently visited Assistant County Agent W. F. Smith vi~itinl( IN i:' AD'S FOOTSTEPS the orchar<Js of Ut.~h county. Inve;;tig-ation of a new disease, which is showing up in the county, and whicl : the local inspectors have found difficult control, will be made by Professor Garrett. The new disease is found especially on the cherry trees, according to W. F. Smith. OGDEN--At a luncheon meeting- of the Exchange dub in the Hotel Big-elow, Clyde C. Edmond~. general manag-er of the Utah Poultry Pl'oduccrs' Cooperative association, spoke on the poultry bu~ine.~s. He reviewed the r:.~ pid v.rowth of the industry since a group of American Fork farmer' founded the cooperative mcvement i!' 19:l2. :Mr. Edmonds predicted tha' the shipment of eggs from Wete1 county through the as~ociation this year would be double that of last year. which will mean two carloads a week DUCHESNE-J. H. Young, reptesenting the bunau of public road:;; E . C. Knowlton, state toad maintenance engineer, and Reu];cn Simpson. <113trict engil.ecr, after making inspecti0n cf the road from Duchesne to Dead Ox flat have recommended that it be accepted and taken over from the con:.Ilss ~Iegan Lloyrl-GeOl·ge, 111 ell I). tr:~ctors, A. G. Young & Co. :\'Ia uri e officers of .Mexican army eating their luncheon on the beautiful fi\·e-year-old daughter ot the former lion ,.;craft, bridge enr;ineer for the of the San Joaquin church, the property having been confiscated premier of Great Brltnin, who hopes to state, l'Ccently i:lspectcd the two bri<l!;government. The feast was presided over by Gen. Joaquin Amaro. sit beside her father In the house of es over Strawberry and pa:~ed favorcommons as the J.iheral member from ably on them. This project is no" tl1e Angleshy (\Yules) dil !~ion. w~s complete except a little structure work George was pi<'kl'd over two otlwr in the Ci~y of Duchesne. · candidates. BEA YER-All pa~t record for the 1 production of trout fi.1ger:ings will be broken at tho Beaver fbh hatchery thi> SEEKS SECOND PLACE year, accordin;:: to Fish a~ d Gan'e Warden Cy Davi~ Since i's e.stab lishment, the hatchery ha3 ~ hown an incr!'ase each year in the r-utput of fin;;eri'Dgs. In 192i, scm · th:ng lik€ 750,000 e~gs were hatchet! , m; cl by improved methods of lu.:dling thi.will show an increase this year of nearly one-fourth. Lakes !!~HI Rtream s in the vicinity of Parawan and Paragoonah have already been planted with early hatches. The Little reservoir and High Low lake and renting pons have received all they will carry. - 1 ~ ,i . America-to-Rome Plane and Its Crew G!'nerul 1 iew of the Scoltield dam near Salt Luke ('it~·. showing res<·ue workers repairing the break, in the foreground, of the dum which threatened for a time the Inundation of the entire city. Crew of California-Australia Monoplane These four men starled from Oaklunll, Culif., In the monoplane Southern Cross fur Australia ,-ia Hu wall and Fiji. Left to right: Capt. H. W. Lyon, naYlgator; Capt. Kingsford Smith, pilot; Capt. C. 'l'. P. l.'lm, relief pilot, and James W. Warner, radio operator, • NICHOLAS ROERICH Remarkable Work by Illinois Woman Using a Church for a Mess Room I' Special House for Television Splitting Secondt UTILE BITS OF INFORMATION alligator I~ the only AmPrlron that will fight to defend her from harm. enmpalgn for chlld health In hus resulted Ia cutting dowu eases one-bulf. :.roth~ are a~ fond of grea~e ~pots on clothing as a mou e is fond of cheese. o,·er two-thiru5 of the fatui cafe~ of menHles occur In children under three ~·ears of age. A hore no7.zel imented hy a TPxas fireman can he u~ed to direct a solid stream of watt'!' or two parallel streams of less force where the solid stream would damnge prop!:'J1y. WINS BIG RACE The !ng(.>nu!ty of man is being used to divide time Into constantly smaller units. Stop watches cnpa!Jie of mark ing olT one-lnmr'lredths of a recond ha,·e heen made. One for practical use will register accurately to one twenty llftl, of a second. Cotton Production j India, where cotton lias been grown urul Its fiber munufnctured for nt least ao centuries, I$ the oldest cottou·produl'lng countrJ knt>Wil. . Named by Roger William• Writer of Song Unknown l'ru,-idenre, n. 1., was the tirst settlemrut nnll motlwr town of the stalt'. It was fotm•led In Hi3G hy Hoger \Vii· liam~. who "in g-ratitnrle to ·IJis Snpr~me Deliverer" callrd the town "Pro,·iucnre.'' The l.lhrary of Cl·ngress says It has In the past rondnl'teU exhaustive re search In order to ~ncl lhe history ol the song "All Through the Ni~ht." All It has ht'en uhle to lind Is that II ~~ a very ol!l truflitional \\'elsh song, und the cornpo~er Is unlmown. A Good Shot In Explanation A Topel.u school I:;, J carne close to the mark the other day by defining elocution as the "method some ha~·e or putting pcopte to death.''-Topeka ~Irs. Clarissa Taylor Bass of Freeport, Ill., who has just completed after thirty-five years of patient labor an extraordinary hand lettered and llluml· nated anthology, entitled, "Songs of the Centuries," which she Is holding. Mrs. Bugs is now s&Yenty years of age. Spanish Princess in Mock Bull Fight PROYO-E. S. Hinckley, secretary of the Utah County Fair association, said recently that various improve! ments are planned for the fair grounds and vicinity, which will make th<: fair : of September 27 to 29, next, bigger 1 and better than ever. In ad•lition to ' a new live~tock barn, to be ready for J the 1928 fair, it is announced that city Louis ~1<·~·m· w:1o won the internal water mains will be extended to the , tiona! GOO-n•ile automobile race at InHamilton Fl~l1, Jr., l·cpl·t'>;Pilt:nh e building, including the !ive~tock barns I dianapoliA. He dt·ove the entire disfrom Xew York, is a candidate for the 1 and pen~. This supply will also run tance withO•lt leavinc- his seat. He Republican nomination for the ,-Ice to the munitipal golf cour~e. Two drove n ::.!iller l'pecinl ancl anrag-ed 1 preslllency. ' municiple tennis court~ will be con· D<J.-t miles an lwur. structed. Col. K H. R. Green Is erecting a special house for his television uppaat his home on Star island In Biscayne bay, Miami. The capitalist has a devotee of radio for years and hns his own broadcasting stution on his Island estate. !lii per cer.t uf the whale oil In this country goes Into soap. early 11s 1887, !<'ranee required In all school;, to undergo medi- Prot. Nicholas Ho!'rich of c-lew Yorl;. head of au expedition Into central Asia, has just be~>n heard from In n cablegram telling of the extreme harllships he and his companions sun·ered in western China where they wPre held prisoners for many months h.v the half saYage lnhabil.lnts, and in TibN where they were attacked by armed J'Obl:iers. Mayhe nature senus a cyclone now and then in nn eff,•rt to clean up the pln<'es where Jl[('llics have been held. -l.llrmlngharn ;l;ew&. f'rin('f'SS De !.a Itiverbene !Juiting the uull durin;; the lllfl('k hull il;:;ht hel•l In Seville during the feoti• ·al in honor of the que<·n of ~pain and he1 two daughters. CONDENSED IN A FEW LINES Bituminous coal prnd11ction of the [ A true hl!zzarll is a combination ol United States amour ts to 5:!3,000,000 high wlncl, intense cold an(] au ui.Jun· to!.ls a year. dance of fine ~now !n the nlr. 'l'ourb~s can now tak~ their autoXo trncc hss e\'er been found l rnulJII<'s int•.l l'ulm duty free, as !lCI'· Xorwny to indicate t11at prl'i1istorle sonal lmgga~:e. rnen liY!'d there in the Stone agP. 'l.'he (]iscowry that pond snails eat Fon1· Cniverslty of Kansas students the eg;:;s oC fre~h wnter tish In quun- were ducked in the swimrnin<; pool by titles has explained to rom~ extent coeds when they slippell into 11 why so ft'w of ti1e thou~nnds of eggs ''wom!'n only" prom, where most ol reach maturity, the girls were dressed a;;- men. ' |