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Show l News Notes : It's a Privilege to Live In J ! UTAH I i OGDEN There are 560.000 acres of land being dry-farmed in Utah. SALT LAKE Utah had 870.000 acres planted in irrigated crops in 328. UTAH Utah had, on January 1, 1929, a state road system consisting of 3458 miles of highway. GUNNISON Sanpete county's sixteenth six-teenth annual fair will be held at Manti September 11, 12 and 13. The officers in charge and manager; J. It. Whitbeck, vice-president; S. Peter Peterson, secretary-treasurer; C. S. Shand, Welford G. Friscbknecht, F. M. Cox, Jr., directors. KAYSVILLE Utah's 1929 onion crop, based on conditions August 1, is estimated at less than in 1928, but above the average of 1923 to 1927, the onion report issued recently by Frank I Andrews, federal statistician, declares. j The 1929 crop is estimated at 462,000 bushels, against 520,000 in 1928- and a five-year average of 268,000. I FARMINGTON Davis county cherry cher-ry growers harvested only about a half crop of cherries this year, according to H. P. Mathews, district agricultural inspector. He reports this is due to the frost and the storm which swept over Davis county a few weeks ago. His records show that 19 cars, or 22,-800 22,-800 cases, were shipped. SALT LAKE The Seagull Air Lines, Inc., will Inaugurate airmail, passenger and freight service between Salt Lake and Vernal and Salt Lake and Ely, Nev., September 1, with appropriate ap-propriate ceremonies at Airport prior to practically simultaneous departure o a plane to Vernal and Ely, according to announcement recently of C. W. Parry, vice-president of the company. 6GDEN Sale by the city of ?75,000 in bonds recently provided funds for building the Ogden community stadium. stadi-um. Definite selection o a site and awarding of a grading contract will follow, Fred M. Nye, community stadium sta-dium chairman, stated. He hopes to have the stadium ready for the football foot-ball game between Weber college and the McKlnley school of Honolulu, to be played here October 26. PRICE One hundred female pheasants phea-sants were planted recently by members mem-bers of the Carbon Fish and Game association as-sociation in the Gordon Creek district. All of these were of the spring allotment, allot-ment, and more of the winter supply will be forthcoming to this region. This makes a total of 150 birds planted plant-ed here this summer. Several week3 ago 50 were placed in the Price River district, the 1928 supply, of both male and female birds. SALT LAKE r Utah's ranges improved im-proved during July die to rains and generally high temperatures, according accord-ing to a report issued by Frank Andrews, An-drews, agricultural statistician of the United States department of agriculture. agricul-ture. Livestock also showed an improvement, im-provement, the report said. The summer sum-mer range and the water supply in northern Utah were reported good. An optimistic report was also received from west central Utah and from the southern part of the state. MYTON After the site was surveyed sur-veyed for the airport landing by T. C. Guyi, resident engineer in Myton, several men began work in cleaning up and leveling the ground to put it in first-class shape. The movement is sponsored by the city council and Commercial club, C. P. Duawalder, mayor, and R. C. Walker supervising the activity. The location is on a bench one mile east of Myton, owned by the city, and is also in close proximity proxi-mity to the Duchesne river, thus making mak-ing it an easy one to find from the air, COALVILLE The Summit counts' commissioners have set aside $5000 for road betterment. The county also authorized the expenditure of its share of the necessary funds to oil the Lincoln Lin-coln highway from Echo to Wanship, through Coalville, including the new part o the road recently completed by the bureau of reclamation around Echo reservoir. This work will be started in the near future and will be carried on in connection with the oiling of the road through Echo can- yon to Baskin. UTAH Substantial increase In Utah's commercial tonnage this year is indicated in a report made recently by A. J. Cronin. assistant general I freight nrrent ot the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad. Late summer sum-mer commercial fruit and vegetable exports from the state, now beginning to move east, will total more than "000 j carloads., his report said. He noted a favorable outlook for good prices on I all vegetables, and said Utah potatoes I now being shipped to Texas and Missouri Mis-souri river points are beginning the i highest prices in years. VERNAL Uintah basin residents enjoyed a bett?r than average year this season with their crops, accord-j accord-j ing to Governor H. Drrn. who return-' return-' ed recently after having attended the j Uintah basin industrial conference at Ft. Duchesne. Vernal citizens have ' launched a c.-.mpniirn for a road te- tweon Vernal and Green River. Wyo.. Governor D.rn slates. The proposed 1 road would he an all-year hichway. an1 I would a fiord orr.Tf-nity for shi; Tin g j winter rroJ::c:s. tliminatinT har.arls now er.or::r;orei on the. rai tx- ter.ui t' t." tile bumtr..t. |