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Show ! News Notes It's a Privilege to Live in I Utah Price. Dr. C. L. Jones of the United Uni-ted States bureau of animal industry and Orson P. Madsen, county agricultural agricul-tural agent for Carbon and Emery counties, returned to Price from Emery, Em-ery, where they tested a shipment of thirty-eight purebred cows for tuberculosis. tuber-culosis. The cows, all high-grade Jersey stock, were shipped in from Iowa. The tests were made recently and observations showed there were no reactors among the herd. Salt Lake City. A sheep and dairy calf club has been organized at Mant.t for the boys and girls of that community communi-ty interested in practical agricultural and livestock studies, reports C. O. Stott, county agricultural agent. Each club member will commence the project pro-ject with at least three bred ewes oi one dairy calf, and will keep a complete com-plete record of expenses and receipts. Each boy will be expected to show his best animal at the Sanpete county fair this fall. 4 Price. A showing of gas and oil in the well drilled here by the Price Petroleum company which has been in evidence since the drill first struck the solid formation, is an indication of possibilities of the Price structure, according to John C. Crapo, geologist, who worked out the geology of the structure in detail last summer. Myton. The Uintah Telephone company, com-pany, J. R. Bullock, president, has begun be-gun a work of reconstruction, which is progressing in a satisfactory manner. man-ner. The company is stringing a new copper toll line from Vernal, by the way of Roosevelt and Myton, to Duchesne. Du-chesne. It is following the old liue as nearly as possible. Salt Lake City. Grazing lands in acreage, 55,000, in Emerey county, will be offered for sale by the executive execu-tive secretary of the state land board, the offer to be made at Castle Dale. The lands are appraised at $2.50 to $3 per acre. Salt Lake City. The state road commission, accompanied by C. E. Knowlton, maintenance engineer, left on a tour of inspection of the highways high-ways in southwestern Utah. Zion national na-tional park and St. George will be visited. Moab. J. H. Young, highway engineer engin-eer for the bureau of public roads, and H. S. Kerr, chief assistant state road engineer passed through Moab last Wednesday on their return from San Juan county, where they made an investigation in-vestigation and definite location of the highway from Monticello to the state line. Washington. Part of the appropriation appropria-tion for the Salt Lake basin irrigation irriga-tion project carried in the interior department bill, on which a conference committee reached an agreement, can be spent on Utah lake control if the surveys of that unit show- it to be wholly feasible, and the secretary oi the interior can come to a complete understanding with the land owners as to payment of the costs. Ogden. The Ogden high school won the Ogden division debating championship by defeating Davis high school. The local school won from Boelder high school and will now meet a team from another division to qualify for the finals. Ogden. Twenty-two head of choice Holslein cattle are en route to Utah from Fond du Lac, Wis., where they were purchased for Utah breeders by Gilbert Thatcher, secretary of the Utah Holstein Friesian Breeders' association. as-sociation. The purchases were made at the Clark classis, which is reputed to be the greatest sale of purebred cattle in the United States. Ogden. Morrison & Kmulsen, contractors con-tractors of Boise, Idaho, were low bidders bid-ders on three large road projects In northeastern Idaho when bide were opened at the district office of the United States bureau of public roads. The three bids aggregate $370,1-17.97, and recommendation was made by B. J. Finch, district engineer, to the bureau's office in Washington, D. C, that the low bidder be awarded the contracts. Mantl. Mayor A. Judd and members mem-bers of the cily council have recently accepted plans submitted by Professor Profes-sor Einil Hansen, landscape gardener, garden-er, for the beautifying of tho Mantl city park. Spanish Fork. With the awarding of more than $500 in prize money and the settlement of nil sales accounts ono of the most successful exhibitions exhibi-tions of livestock ever held in (his section sec-tion came to a close. Dcspile tho handicap han-dicap stormy weather put upon tho efforts ef-forts or the management of the Second Annual Utah County Livestock show and exhibit ors, tluv show was pronounced pro-nounced a siiccesH. |