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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Live In I UTAH j PROVO Postal receipts during January show a 37 . per 'cent increase in-crease over January last year, according ac-cording to a report submitted by Postmaster J. P. McQuire. The total receipts were $5764.23, compared com-pared with $4196.22 in January 1929. LOGAN In making a report on ' his monthly survey of the Mt Lo- I gan watershed February 1, George D. Clyde of the Utah experiment station reports that in only two years since 1921 has the snow cover cov-er been as light as this year. The other two years were 1924 and 1926, OGDEN Though mild temperatures tem-peratures accompanied by soma thawing of the snow layer prevailed in Utah during the past wSek, the , grain In most sections is still safe-' safe-' ly covered and livestock 'on feed are doing well, according to the weekly weather, livestock and range report issued by J. Cecil Alter Al-ter federal meteorologist. LOGAN Forty-two inches of snow was reported January 28 at the Tony Grove Ranger station, according ac-cording to the report issued by George D. Clyde of the Utah experiment exper-iment station. On February 1 the regular monthly survey was made at Mt. Logan and showed an average aver-age decrease at all elevations of 4.4 inches of water over that on the same date last year. HEBER At a meeting recently of the Wasatch. County Livestock: association, It was decided that August Au-gust 21 and 22 should be the dates for the show this year, subject to the schedule drawn up by the Utah State Association of County Fairs at Salt Lake City. A delegation of ofllcLal8 of the local show will attend a meeting to be held in Salt Lake soon. KAYSVILLE Utah potato growers grow-ers expect to plant 20,000 acres to their product this year, Frank Andrews, An-drews, statistician for the United States department of agriculture In Utah, said recently. Eighteen thousand acres were planted to potatoes po-tatoes in Utah last year. Growers of the 35 late-crop states expect to plant 3,144,000 acres to potatoes In 1930. Last year 3,003,000 acres were planted. HEBER CITY "The program of the National marketing corporation merits the support of all woolgrow-ers, woolgrow-ers, whether their annual clip, is 1000 to 100,000 pounds," says Mr. Hooper. "The plan under which . this wool corporation, the second marketing unit organized under the federal farm board, is setting out to do something worth while for the woolgrower gets at the very root of the wool marketing problem." prob-lem." PRICE After three of his sheep were killed, Silas Young, owner of a ranch on Coal Creek, near Price, Investigated and found that a huge mountain lion was responsible. Young set a trap for the marauder, and succeeded In nabbing him for a little while. The animal escaped, and Young tracked him to the mountains close to his ranch. As he was down resting Young spied the lion about a rod away and killed him. PLEASANT GROVE The acre-In acre-In the ground in Utah for the crop of 1930 is estimated at 1300, or the same as were harvested In 1929, a report issued recently by the local government statistician, reveals. . For the United States as a whole the acreage In 1930 is 1S3.630. compared com-pared with 199,980 a year ago. The late crop states have 43,950 acres thl3 year, compared with 45,220 age of commercial strawberries now in 1929. OGDEN The value of livestock In Utah was $54,117,000 on January Janu-ary 1, according to the report of Frank Andrews. On January 1, 1929, livestock In the state was valued at $65,866,000. The number num-ber of cattle In the state at the beginning of the current year was estimated by Mr. Andrews as 440,-000, 440,-000, with a valuation of $23,257,000 compared with 468,000 in 1929. There were 100,000 milk cows valued val-ued at $8,200,000 or 3000 cows mora than last year at the same time. SALT LAKE Nearly 30 tracts ot grazing land in various parts of - the state, on which conflicting ap-llcatlons ap-llcatlons had been filed, were leased leas-ed recently by the state land board to the highest respective bidders. The payments called for in the leases leas-es ranged from 6 to CI cents an acre per year. Several, applications for purchase at prices ranging from $2.50 to $10.50 an arce were also granted by the board. Most of the land is in state school sections and - the Individual tracts contain as high as 5000 acres. PRICE C. W. Jorgensen, Held director for the Springvllle-Maple-ton Sugar factory, has been in Price the last several days looking over the prospects of sugar beet raising here and contracted for acreage. He reports that thus far he has been able to secure 250 acres In Carbon county with prospects for that many more, and expected to have about 600 In Emery county. It has been estimated that to guarantee guar-antee a sugar factory m Carbon county that at least 4000 acres must j be cultivated. |