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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Live In I UTAH I PROVO Utah's apple crop for 1928 was 880,000 bushels, valued t 1704,000. ' HEBER CITY Total production of alfalfa seed in Utah during 1928 was 124,000 bushels, valued at fly 814,000. The yield per acre averaged aver-aged 1.70 bushels and 78,000 acres were planted. DRAPER About 1200 cases of eggs are being shipped out of here weekly and. when the peak production produc-tion Is expected to reach 1800, according ac-cording to officials of the local poultry association. All indications indica-tions point to a record poultry year. SALT LAKE Reporting favor-ftble favor-ftble conditions, of stock and ranges In the Grandaddy lake region, E. C. Shepard, forest supervisor, returned recently from an inspection of the district 'and meetings with stock 'men at Hanna and Tabiona In Duchesne Du-chesne county. LOGAN Snow was still falling here this morning after an all-night storm that laid a six-inch white blanket over Cache ralley. Twenty-live per cent of the sugar beet crops is still In the fields and many potatoes have not yet been harvested. har-vested. The storm temporarily halted harvesting. LOGAN Ranger H. I. Rice has made the discovery that the bark beetle, dread to pine forests, which Invaded the United States about five years ago from Canada, has finally reached Utah and Is now Infesting a section near the Tony Grove ranger station In the Cache national forest OGDEN The Utah Canners as-ociation as-ociation at a meeting here recently re-cently decided to take up with boards of education a proposal that schools In' Utah be . started two weeks later in the fall so that a labor supply will be available for the peak of operations in canneries, fields and orchards. VERNAL The state fish and game department . announces a slight amendment to limitations cf the oncoming quail and pheasant season. Through an oversight, thu department omitted to mention in Its proclamation that Ashley valley In Uintah county would be open from November 3 to November 15. PROVO Three routes for carrying carry-ing mail to Vernal are listed on the official government advertisement, advertise-ment, inviting proposals for the U. S. mails, received at the local post-office post-office recently according to Postmaster Post-master John P. McGuire, The three routes listed are ,from Pro'vo to Vernal; from Price to Vernal; and from Salt Lake to Vernal. BRIGHTON Nine Inches of snow fell at Brighton during the blizzard which began Sunday night and lasted last-ed through 'Monday, according to a report to the city waterworks department de-partment from the watershed station sta-tion at the mountain town Tuesday. It Is one of the heaviest falls recorded re-corded at that point this early in the year. MORONI At a special city council coun-cil meeting recently the mayor of Moroni was authorized to place an order for more than one mile of four-Inch cast iron pipe which will be nsed to replace wood pipe in the city water system. This will be a cash purchase, the money representing repre-senting savings in various departments depart-ments for the operation of city government during the past two years. OGDEN After discovering that Its funds were insufficient to meet the , entire expense of purchasing and Installing lights at the Ogden airport, the city commission referred refer-red the matter to Commissioner Fred E. Williams, with power to act. Tender instruction from the commission, Mr. Williams, conferred confer-red with Eugene K. Alton, president presi-dent of the chamber, and it was announced later that terms had been agreed upon by which the lights will be installed. GUNNISON Record beet crops have been produced this year In Sanpete and Sevier counties, according ac-cording to R. T. Harris, treasurer of the Gunnison Sugar company. Farmers of the two counties will be paid $400,000 for October sugar beet deliveries on November 5, ten days in advance of the regular beet payday. Total payments of the firm will be $500,000 with $100,000 ' to be paid out. November 15 for November sugar beet deliveries. Payments thl3 year double those of last year. All beets will have been delivered by the end of November. No-vember. BRIGHAM CITY Packing of tomatoes to-matoes at the Brigham City canning can-ning factory came to a close recently re-cently with a pack that will exceed 40,000 caBes. This yield, came from 1G0 acres, and Is considered the best Jn a number of years. The average yield per acre this year was a little less than twenty bush-cIb, bush-cIb, an exceptionally high average. ' Tomatoes Jn this section this year were of an excellent quality and the prolonged warm weather enabled en-abled practically all of the faroiwi to make a good profit |