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Show V : News Notes X It's a Privilege to Live in X I Utah ! x PARK CITY Utah's coal produc tion last year was 4,512,409 tons, valued val-ued at approximately $37,000,000, The. industry employs 7500 persons and represents an investment of f 75- oyo.ooo. BINGHAM Metal ores mined in Utah during 1927 reached the high total, of 16,036,000 tons, valued at $74,3 16,000. From this crude ore 351,-300 351,-300 tons of finished metals were derived. de-rived. PRICE Financing: of the repair work on the Scofield dam will be done by Carbon county, and the state board of examiners will reccommend to the text legislature that an appropriation of not to exceed $25,000 be made to reimburse Carbon county for the money mon-ey expended on that work. COALVILLE There was an increase in-crease of 3000 fleeces in the Summit county farm bureau wool clip 'or 1928 over the preceding year. This year's clip is now being shipped out. There i.f a total of 13,500 fleeces. The pool was contracted with Eismann brothers at 34 1-2 cents per pound. OGDEN May was the largest sheep month in the history of the Ogden Union stockyards, there being 300,889 head handled during that period. per-iod. Practically all of these lambs came from California The next highest high-est month was May, '1927, when 282,-000 282,-000 head of sheep were handled. PANUITCH Most spectacular property losses of this section recently were those of Joseph Adair and J. Scott Haycock respectively, each of whom lost sheep in electric storms. 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. MT. PLEASANT Equipment of the state road commission will be used in clearing away debris deposited near the bridpe in Mf, Fleas-ant by floods coming down the canyon as the result re-sult of cloudbursts farther back in the hills, it was announced recently by Henry II. Blood, chairman, and Preston Pres-ton G. Peterson, member, of the state road commission. OGDEN Mayor Frank Francis was host recently to a number of Salt Lakers who came to the city to inspect Wright field, Ogden's contemplated new airport. This- is expected to be opened officially on June 30, on thf first delivery of mail by air to this city over the Salt Lake-Great Falls, Mont., route. Arrangements are also being made to hold a big celebration at the airport on this occasion. PROVO A. O. Garrett, instructor in botany at the East Side high of Salt Lake, recently visited Assistant County Agent W. F. Smith visiting the orchards of Utah county. Investigation In-vestigation of a new disease, which is showing up in the county, and which the local inspectors have found difficult diffi-cult control, will be made by Professor Garrett. The new disease is found especially on the cherry trees, according accord-ing to W. F. Smith. OGDEN At a luncheon meeting of the Exchange club in the Hotel Bige-low, Bige-low, Clyde C. Edmonds, general manager mana-ger of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative association, spoke on the poultry business. lie reviewed the rapid ra-pid growth of the industry since a fcroup of American Fork farmers founded the cooperative movement in 1022. Mr. Edmonds predicted that the shipment of etegs from 'Weber county through the association this year would be double that of last year, which will mean two carloads a week. DUCHESNE J. H. Young, representing repre-senting the bureau of public roads; E. C. Knowlton, state road maintenance engineer, and Reuben Simpson, district dis-trict eppinecr, after making inspection of the road from Duchesne to Dead Ox fiat have recommended that it be ac- j cepte.l and taken over from the con- ! tractors, A. G. Youns & Co, Maurice 1 IIou .-.-craft, bridge engineer for the state, recently inspected the two bridges bridg-es over Strawberry and passed favorably favor-ably on them. This project is now complete except a little structure work I in the City of Duchesne. ' BEAVER All past record for the production of trout fingerlings wil be broken at the Beaver fi.- h hatchery this year, according to Eish and Game Warden Cy Davis Since its establishment, estab-lishment, the hatchery has shown an increase each year in the output of finpeilirgs. In lf27, som- thing like 750,000 enxs were hatched, and by improved methods of handling: thip will show an increase this year of nearly one-fourth. Lakes and ctreams in the vicinity of Parawan and Para-poonah Para-poonah have already been planted with early hatches. The Little reservoir reser-voir and High Low lake and rearing pons have received all they will carry. PROVO E. S. Hinckley, secretary of the Utah County Fair association, said recently that various improvements improve-ments are planned for the fair grounds and vii-ini'.y, which will make the fair of September 27 to 29, next, bigper and better than ever. In addition to a new livestock barn, to be ready for the 1028 fair, It is? announced that city-water city-water mai::; wiil be extended to the building, including .the. livestock barns and pern. This supply will also run to the municipal porf course. Two mum'cip'e Icnnis court:) will be con itructed. |