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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL ,............. :·········++: Handled Gov. Smith's Campaign I j Ii ~~~.~.~~!~~ Ut~h i .......................... PROVO-The total valuation of all Utah crops in 19~7 at pr:ces paid the growers is est!rnat-·d at $39,000,000. DUCH~JSNE--W!th a field seed production nett equaled by any other northern state, Utah now stands first in the production or al!alfa seed. SALT LAKE-Utah is most fortunately situated in a region where there is almost total absence of sewre storms, blizzaras, tornadoes, hail and other destructive forces· of nature. 1\"EPHI---The eighth annual "Wheat Day" for Juab val:ey has been s~t for July 10. This event has come to .be recognized tor its educational value, not only to the farmers in anti nbout Nephi, but In addition, has become of benefit to the farmers of a wide area in the central part of the state. F AR~!INGTO:-<- Thirteen carloads or Davis county cherries have be_,n 'hipped to date to eastern and western markets, according to a report made by II. P. Math~ws, district agricuhural Inspector. The first car was shipp, d June 15, a date one week in advance or the first car shipped last year. This car went to Loo Angeles. OGDEN-George Shorten assistent secretary of the Utah Canners' association, announced that ten factori~s were put into operation to can cherrie~ and will operate until about July 4, when they will start on the apricot crop. Carloads of cherries are being shipped to other markets and are plentiful on the local marlret. SALT LAKK-Utah moved from the position of sixth largest gold producing state in the United States to !lftb place during 1927, according to figureP released by the United States mint in coperation with the bureau of mines Golu output of Utah amounted to $4,124,400 for 1927, as compared with $3,· 986,3\JO for 1926. SALT LAKE-There are more than a millio:-~ and a half cords of wood available for paper making in Utah, Theron H. Tracy, industrial engineer, declared recently in discussing the proposed new paper mill. He announeed that the company will commence to build a plant in Salt Lake within four months. the COALVILLE-Contract for site reservoir Echo the of clearing of trees and brush has been awarded to the Heiselt Construction company of Salt Lake City for a contract ]Jrice of $12,000 and the salvaged timber in the site. Work is to be started ~~o:thin thirty days and the contractor has 610 days in which to complete the clearing . MOAB-Hopes of Utah oil men were revived on Monday by the report from Moab that the Boulder Oil and Gas company on the W. A. Endter ranch In the northeast quarter or the northeast quarter, section 17-34-25 had struck a strong flow of gas that threw rocks over the top or the derrick. Depth of the well, situated sixty miles south of Moab and seven miles southeast of Monticello, is 2640 feet. SALINA-A trainload or between 400 and 500 head or yearling Hereford steers was shipped from Thompson Springs, Grand countr, to Salina last week. These cattle belong to J. A. Scorup of Provo. They were ¥aised on Mr. Scorup's r~nch at Indian Creek, San J1.an coun\y, and were shipped to Salina, where Mr. Scorup has a sum· mer range, to prepare them for mar· ket. DUCHESNE-Rlnge conditions• in the Duchesne upper Provo and B~a\·er creek territories are excellent a:;d sheep are moving toward the forest. according to Blaine Beten~on, assistant supervisor of the Wasatch national forest, who returned recently froll' an inspection tour. Bctenson said work on the Provo rivu road is completed and it is now po~sible to go by automobile to Mirror and Tyrol lakes, at the head of the Duche.•~· EPHRAIM-Roads throughout th• state are ln good condition genera'!•. according to the weekly report !ssurd by the state highway departmPnt. Tr eome places where construction w~rk Is under way there are some rough nl~ces, but as a whole the majority of the roads are reported in good c n•li tion. The Ephraim-Orangeville roa~ IS still cloRed on account of snow, this being the only one not open at p!es ePt. Roads to the best fishing sections of the state are reported in condition that ranges from fair to good. YERNAL---:-Construction work on 19 highway projects, involvin!!' the expenditure of approximately $2,000,000. was under contract in Utah the first part of June, according to data just released by the state road department. Two of those projects had been completed, however, and the contractor released. Those were the Duchesne City and Tremonton-Blue CrE'('k, roads. Work on the other projects was under construction, and s-ix were nearing completion. The report showed 17 projects 40 per cent complete at that time. at Houston. Left to right, seated, ~orman E. .\lack of Buffalo, ~- Y., fot·mer Gray ot Delaware. Left to right, standing, Howard Cullman and George C. Tame Deer on Mr. Coolidge's Vacation Island Some ot the ta me deer on Cedar Island, President Coolidge's vacation home, getting their dally meal. They to th e attractiveness or the place. AIR SCHOOL GRADUATE in Gay Attire Houston • I •• • Alexis Felix Dupont, son of the vice president ot the E. l. Dupont de Nemours company of Wilmlngtoo, Del., who graduated from the air corps primary flying school at Sn11 Antonio, Texas. • HEADS KIWANIS I View of Texas avenue, Houston, showing the flag-draped bu!ld!ngR, building was beautltully decorated in honor of the Democratic National Rogue Elephant in Strait-Jacket 0. Samuel Cummings of Kansas City, who was elected president of Kiwanis International at the close ot the twelfth annual convention of the organization in Seattle. He is an offic!al of the Kan.•as City Life Insurance company and several other extensiYe business enterprises. I I Di1coverer of Brazil Tuske, the world's largest elephant, photographed at Pot·tland, Ore., in heavy chain~ put on him to prevent any future fatal rampages. He has killed two keepers anu injured many, but they do not want to kill because ot bis record size. ~---------------------------------------- -- ALL AROUND THE GLOBE wave of rtalian !mmi:::mtion to country hegnn ahout lS~O. giant ~eqnoia trees of Califorlive to be ns old ail fire thousan<l F-;;rs nnu univl'rsllles !n this ry tut·n nut at.out HIO,COO ;;nulua ~Tal", Yurt. ·s r·it~ ·, <'lectric n<lv<>t·tisowr l.:lOO.OOO Dicydes arc becoming increa•·in~ly popular with both natives nnd l~UI'O· pcans in Frenr·h ~Iorocco. The lon:::est tc'l'phone call that can be madt> In the l 'uited Stntes wont•! he from I-:astjiOt·t, hlnine, to Day. C'a llf. \\'ast!' silk from impet·fect cocoons ~>nr~ ~oltl n~ junk, is now ;;pun Into fine yarn n11<.1 woven Into silk in Chi tn!il8. Pedro Ah·ares Cabral, a Portuguese navigator, is credited with hav· lng d!sco ..ered Brnzil on April 22, 1500. \\'!th the revision of the cal· endar, the date became ~fay 3, lGOO. and this has been adopted as the offi clnl date of discovery. BRIGHAM CITY-Engineer J. A. Burnett oi Salt Lake City cam~ to Brigham City recently and spent severa] hours at the Charles Anderson mine south of Mantua. He expressed himself as well ph•ased with progreBs being made at the mine. Development worl; has beea in progress for some time and the main tunnel is in about 1-" "ec:. Se\'eral bcrlies of ore have he' -c'l~~untcre<l. The company has a r tm'•er of carloauo· of ore 0:1 the ::;•o.,1 wh'ch wi'l average $18 to tbe ' r, r,r rwt about $10 per ton at the ,ro~]ter Unpleasant Guest. Remarkable Ge;y1en Rotorun, N. Z., Is famed for lt; '>alleys of geysers. T!Jese are utiilzec by the native Maoris ·for .ooktng wushlng, boiilng their kettles. etc. [[ certain plar<~s in the \\'alrukel l'alleJ trout can llC pulled from one pool unl; rooked In no adjacent one. I j The Unlted States public health service places Ute number or rats in this country at twke that of the IIU · man population nnd statistics show tl1at It costs Sl.S:t annually to feed each rat-American Mn;;azinc. The Snowshoe The :mow~hue wliltll proviues menus wltlch the weight of the budy cuu hy ~lost of the que"lions usked the ex· over a large surface of di~trihuted he ilCI'tS by young women o: the present used by the American first was ,now 1-:<ncratlon are in regnrrl t" rccluclog Indian. •:c<ludnb men's lucn•nes, mostly Adepts in Reducing \Vest Pointers Learn Gun Fire at Fort Monroe West Point cadets, members of the graduating class, being trained in the firing where the cadets were undergoing a course of gun tlre. ot French .'i5's at Fort Monroe, . Mrs. Coolidge Visits Duluth COMMITTEEWOMAN I Dr..lennie CullafaR or Omaha, who was honored by Democrnts of Ke· braska by being elected national Democratic committeewoman for the third consecuth·e time. Doctor Cal· lnfas iH n promin~nt W. C. T. U. worker and high up in church und club affairs. • HOOVER'S CHEF l'ul!ce lind to reroute traffic In Duluth aft~>r crowds surrounded the beauty shotJ whE-re Mrs. Coolidge had her hair dressed. With her in the picture Ill her 11ernona! guard, J. l•'itzgerald. "AI" Tunes In on Houston . 1,, Alr~. Mary Ratley, who for Lhe pust eight years hn\ cooked for Secretary ot Commerce Herbert Hoo,·er, photographed on the doorstep of the Hoover home at Washington. Mrs. Ratley says she would like the White House kitchens very much. Pigeon Return• for Pills A siclt [ligeon presented himself at a hospital in England as a patient not loi1g ago, flying in when a window was opened. With a beating of wing~ and cries of distress, it made its con clition known. Two rills made a new pigeon of him, and now ",Joey," 11s the other patients named him, N>ports each morning nt tlte ~ame time, llut· ters around the wnrd, and departs. , Once in a while he gets a harmless Go\', ".\!" Smith lbttoned to the radio broadcast of the proceedings at pill. Houston at the executive mansion in Albany. Happineu in Thrift Save a little of thy Income, and ths hide-bound potket will soon begin to th•i,.e, nnd thou wilt never cry again wflh an empty stnmnrh; neither will t'rt>llitors insult theP, nor want oppress thee. nor hunger bile, nor will nakedn!'S~ freeze thee.-Brnjnmln rranklln SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST t!'rritot·y or flawaii is comof ei~ltt prlnd, nl island~. That pneumonia i~ contn,:(ous wns stu~e•l us early us 11\li !Jy a \"el etian doctor. .\ nat urn Iist f•mn• I GliO different spede.; of i!,sectg In ltb bar·k ynnl, oPar Nation Uses Much Wood The United States n. e~ as much !\'ew 1 ork city, A l'hlrago I\ oman Las !nn·ntell n wuou as all other conntri!'S comhined machine to help housecn:cul:.ting HRilwn<l tics nnd rnper nre two of the lwuseholu bnubcts. tigure ,wives mnjor consumers or wood. Tile po~e<l Jan1 is an island of compnt·ntively l'crent Yolrunlc origin. Accideu t< a • ra lro:HI gm•le cross· tngs tlecrea.::C'd lnst ~-e~r·. l:od!'uts, or !;..,. IWic~ unil. 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