Show news N notes 0 tes its t a privilege to live lice in utah salt lake City the 1928 sugar beet acreage in utah is about the same as a last felir year tut in idaho there to ie a reduction of approximately acres it la is noted in the sugar beet forecast issued recently by frank andrews utah statistician with the department part ment of agriculture the utah acreage this year la Is calculated at acres the area harvested last fall all Idil hos 1926 eglip will come from acres whereas the 1925 acreage was acres acrea salt lake city plans to do bet term nt work amount amounting iVic to about to cover the expense of the work was received and the work will begin at once it Is planned to widen the road in boxelder Box elder canyon the accounting department also received a check for or 2565 from boxelder Box elder county to cover its portion of 0 the cost of constructing the bridge on the brigham mantua project myton the annual meeting of 0 the stockholders of the uintah basin seed growers association of myton will be held tuesday july 18 at 2 p m the election of officers officer sand and other business ot of Import aluce will come up over seed growers are members of this organization gantz atton and tor for the year 1925 about pounds of seed wall waa handled in this plant william gentry ot of loka to Is president and william is secretary salt lake city ranges in utah have for the most part declined in condition since june 1 and lack of moisture and stock water is reaching a serious stage in pla places ces it Is indicated in the july range and adrid livestock condition report of 0 G A scott regional livestock statistician with the department of agriculture the condition of ranges Is given in this report as 93 per cent normal compared with 99 per cent june I 1 and 96 per cent july 1 of last year and 72 per cent the same date two years ago salt lake cit city th the revised estimate of tom commercial mercial onion acreage in utah la Is given as acres compared with BOO acres in 1925 in the truck crop news bulletin of the department of agriculture yields were exceptionally high for onions in 1925 and the carlot movement amounted to cars it is expected that between and cars will be needed to move the lie utah onion crop this season logan reports of production records tor for june have been made by three of the tour four cow testing associations in cache valley in the wells ville college ward association assoil atlon cows cow were on tet with 20 dry the central cache association reported there were cows on test and 44 not milking while the hyrum paradise association had cows on test end and 27 dry salt sait lake coming at a time when parched crohw thirsted for moisture a vigorous shower believed to hav bay been general in its scope followed closely upon the heels of local stains that were accompanied by consider able damage value accruing from rom the storm however more than offset the damage that had been wrought wherever rain fell farmers rejoiced excepting those whose hay was not in stack salt lake photographs eight feet high and eight feet wide of some ol of the waterpower water power sites of utah made by a camera that weighs thirty tons may be on exhibition soon at the state capitol and the salt lake chamber of commerce according to rolf roif R woolley of tho the water division dirl slon of the united states geological survey mr woolley to Is now negotiating tor for the negatives from the department at washington garfield A cloudburst at the summit mit of the oquirrh range west of this town shortly before midnight wednes day night caused a torrent torr nt to rush down gullies on the hillsides hill sides and over the state highway leading from salt lake to tooele thoele county and the west A short distance from the end of the pavement at the salt bait lake tooele thoele county line mud covered the pavement to a de depth ath of eighteen inches or more it was mixed with boulders said to be as large as two feet in diameter and became impassable for automobiles pleasure seekers who had come from thoele tooele to saltair were held up here her and some cars bat that attempted to get through the mud were stuck kays ville Kays kaysville ville and the coun tr to the south and east were visited by another flood thursday evening ithe the first time in the history of the community that two floods have been suffered within three days the storm which caused the flood broke in hairs bales canyon southeast of Kays vilie about 7 30 and reached its aest ci est at the mouth of the canyon an hour later ogden northern Nor therin utah was deenah ed thursday night with a rain calca to benefit argi culture limea sure ably reports reaching ogden were that the rata rain extended into ad joining counties and was heavy enough to do great good to the parched crop lands it in IB believed that the balu was responsible for or a landslide in canyon a short hort distance west of the hermitage park and immediately west eat of the place of the immense slide elide last year dirt covered about twelve t feet so t ot of the paved highway but automobiles automobile reable we wen fable |