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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Live In I UTAH LEHI In 1928 a prominent Utah farmer received a check of $18,900 for sugar beets raised on 160 arces. DRAPER In 1928 a total of G90 carloads of eggs, valued at $3,906,-C13, $3,906,-C13, -were shipped from Utah points. KAYSVILLE A total of 475 carloads car-loads of Spanish onions were shipped ship-ped out of Utah in 102S, the Extension Ex-tension Division" of the University of Utah announces. MANTI Beginning Monday, October Oc-tober 21, with three government and state veterinarians at work at ' Indlanola, Mllburn and Oak Creek ' respectively, the county-wide . tubercular tu-bercular test' for dairy cattle la Sanpete will begin. WASHINGTON More devastation devasta-tion has been caused by forest fires the last summer than at any time since 1910. Reports from the United States forest service show $2,657,-BU $2,657,-BU expended on fire control from July 1 to September 20. Weather conditions were largely responsible for the great increase In forest flres this year. AMERICAN FORK Sugar beet harvesting commenced recently in Sanpete and Sevier counties, with every prospect that the harvest "would total nearly 70.00C tias, double the output last year, W. H. Ross, president of the Gunnison Sugar company. Salt Lake, reported. report-ed. The Gunnison factory will com-. com-. mence operations soon. RICHFIELD With the opening of the deer season, much speculation specula-tion rife among the local sports-' men as to the prospects of getting "your buck" the first day of the season. The consensus of opinion Is that the present fine weather will find deer well up in thz hlll3 and that quick and early kills are unlikeljv DRAPER The Draper Develop-.ment Develop-.ment corporation, formed to subdivide sub-divide into small chicken ranches a tract of 113 acres near Sandy, filed articles of incorporation in the office of the county clerk recently. Capitol stock of the company, which will have headquarters at Salt Lake, i3 listed at $50,000, with 60,-000 60,-000 shares at 51 a share. UTAH Big game hunters of Utah are cleaning their guns for one of the best shooting seasons yet offered in the state, according to J. Arthur Mecham, state and game commissioner. Licenses will be issued to 535 hunters of bull elk, while more than 6000 big mule deer are expected to be shot by sportsmen sports-men in a score of sections throughout through-out the state. PROVO Fruit growers of Utah county, whose orchards are infested 'with San Jose scale, are warned by 'County Inspector H. V. Swenson not to sell or ship any of their fruit to the markets, as all orchards of the county, Infested with this disease, dis-ease, have ' been placed under Quarantine as provided for in the quarantine orders of the state department de-partment of agriculture, GUNNISON The season's shipment ship-ment of turkeys from Utah to eastern east-ern markets will tatal more than ' 75 carloads, and will bring to the state approximately $1,800,000, Al-bertus Al-bertus Willardson, assistant manager man-ager of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative association, announced recently. The association's Thanksgiving Thanks-giving turkey pool alone will amount to more than 45 carloads. UTAH Failure of duck hunters to observe the rules and regulations governing the shooting on the public Bhooting grounds near Corinne prompted J. Arthur Mecham, state fish and game commissioner, to ' again announce that shooting on the grounds is only allowed Sun days and Wednesdays. Hunters who have been going to the grounds i on other days have been turned j ' away. DUCHESNE Information by state road oh'icers is that construc-; construc-; tlon of two bridges and the recon- ' struction of another will immedi ately be put under way by the state, on the state road west of Tabiona ! on the upper Duchesne river, 'lhe ; bridge over Farm creek will be 60 feet long with three spans, and the bridge over Squaw creek will be 60 feet long, of like construction. The present bridge over the north fork of Duchesne on the Wolfe creek road will be Improved by using us-ing 65-foot stringers, the present bridge not being large enough to take care of high water, SHOSHONE On the grounds j . that the destructive fires in north j central Idaho this summer drove j great numbers of game animals out ; of their Bal'o retreats toward the more open areas which are direct ly traversed by traffic highways, 1 sportsmen of Lemhi and Custer , counties and other sections of this ; part of the state have induced the state game commissioner to close . certain sections to hunting this fall. ! The petitioners insisted that to per ; mlt hunting under such conditions would annihilate most of the gamt , animals In the territory I i I i That's better than carrying a bottle of vodka. H. G. Wells, collaborating with Julian Ju-lian Huxley and George P. Wells, writes a series of articles, on "the science of life." He will ask the question "what do we mean by life?" and, according to enthusiastic advertisements, will "answer "an-swer questions that have puzzled humanity hu-manity since the dawn of civilization," There are about 1,800.000.000 human beings on earth, and nearly as many answers to "what do we mean by life?" To a man on the Congo life means hippopotamus meat, and fat wives. To the Wall Street man, It means rising stocks, several automobiles, and ycichts. To the scientist, It means, a look into the whirling atom. To the pious, It means Bomthlng better, when this life is done. Nobody even knows what life Is, what consciousness Is, whence it came, how It works. The British R-101, biggest dirigible in the world, flew over London carrying car-rying 52 passengers, circling the dome of St. Paul's about 600 feet up. an airplane flying ahead as pilot. Those living will see giant ships of the air, 1.000 feet long, and longer, with smaller ships, flying back and forth, bringing passengers from the ground tc the high altitude, where there are no storms, and bringing supplies. sup-plies. .... Take care of your health, live as long as you can. You will see Interesting Interest-ing things In- the years immediately ahead. A diver in the Persian Gulf went "all naked to the hungry shark" and avoiding the shark, came up with a perfect pearl weighing 50 grains, worth $250,000. The pearl will go to some young lady not very young, probably. Young husbands of young wives cannot af-ford af-ford bucIi pearls. The lady will wear it occasionally, at first, then keep It In a safe deposit box most of the time, losing 115,000 a year In interest, and wear an iraltn tion pearl that even she won't know from the genuine after a few days. "What do you think about the general gen-eral outlook?" How often do you hear that question? The Pennsylvania Railroad Rail-road has Just ordered $30,000,000 worth of steel rails, fasteners, et octra. New York Central has ordered 206,430 tons of steel rails. ' Forty-three dollars a ton is the price paid by both big railroads. In the last year the railroads have bought 88,500 new freight cars. Rails used to cost $18 a ton. I (9, 1929. fcy Fmiuw Syndku, lm.) ' |