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Show News Notes : Z It's a Frivilege to Live In I UTAH LOGAN A large representation of the fruit and . potato growers of the county met at the Farm Bureau office In Logan recently. The meeting was called to give further consideration to the formation of a fruit and vegetable marketing association. PRICE Coach Vernon Merrill of the Carbon high school ha3 issued his first call for football candidates, and from the interest shown so far, the Price school will have an aggregation of championship caliber. The problem of eligibility may hold back the team, as several lettermeo are ovze questionable ques-tionable list. KANAB With the opening of the new road some three miles north of Kanab on the Grand Canyon highway the old "hump" road, a steep, narrow and dangerous dugway, becomes a thing of the past. The new road is up to standard requirements and is one of welcomed improvements with the traveling public en route to Grand canyon. CASTLE DALE A full-grown male mountain lion was captured recently at the head of Straight canyon and south Trail mountain in lower Joe's valley, by Clayton Kofford, a government govern-ment trapper. A front paw was slightly slight-ly injured in the trap. The lion was brought down trwn the mountains by Mr. Kofford in a car, in which the family also rode. It was taken to the zoo north of Castle Dale. HEBER CITY One of the largest single shipments of sheep to the eastern east-ern market this year, left Heber recently re-cently consigned to the Kansas City market over the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad, officials announce. The shipment, mostly made up of lambs, totaled nearly 14,000 head pooled pool-ed by six sheepmen in Wasatch county. coun-ty. A solid train of fifty cars was required to handle the shipment. SAbT LAKE Utah farmers plan to plant this fall 165,000 acres of wheat for 1930 summer harvest, declares a report issued recently by Frank Andrews, An-drews, federal crop statistician. The figures are not a forecast of the acreage acre-age that will be planted this fall, but form a statement of intentions as reported re-ported last month, the report explains. Last fall 154,000 acres were planted and plantings in the fall of 1927 amounted to 165,000 acres. ZION CANYON An inventory of highway situation in southern Utah recently, shows that all roads are open to travel since the heaviest thunderstorm thunder-storm in recent years swept over portions por-tions of Washington, Kane, Iron and Garfield counties, as well as "Arizona strip". Road crews of county, state, and federal government have been working overtime to repair the damage dam-age to highways and as a result of this work traffic was moving without delays over all important roads. OGDEN Green tomatoes and mid-season mid-season potatoes have reached the shipping ship-ping pear, according to LeRoy Marsh, district agricultural inspector. Nine cars moved Frida and 10 the day before. Picking of early Alberta peaches will -start about September 5 with the standard variety to follow Immediately. Peaches are reported especially es-pecially fine this year. All will be shipped under federal supervision with the grade and the name and address of the shipper on each basket. OGDEN President H. P. Iverson of the Ogtlen Grain exchange and resident resi-dent manager of the Sperry Flour company, com-pany, returned to Ogden recently from a visit to the wheat-growing sections of southern Idaho. Regarding smut conditions, Mr. Iverson said that county coun-ty farm agents and other agricultural agents in Idaho, together with owners and managers of elevators, were eager to cooperate with the Ogtlen Grain exchange in its fight against smut in wheat. KANAB The crafty cougar, prize trophy of hunters, arch enemy of stockmen and destroyer of deer, is to become once more king of the Kai-bab Kai-bab forest. According to forest officials, of-ficials, no more permits will be issued is-sued to guides or hunters to hunt cougars in the Kaibab forest, north rim of the Grand canyon. The reason rea-son given is that the cougars help deplete the forest deer herd that has grown to numbers far beyond their food supply on the Kaibab. COALVILLE The Summit county commissioners at their regular session ses-sion Monday, voted to improve and extend the road in Weber canyon from the Shingle Miil hill to Commissary lake, a distance of : bout 8 miles. This will make accessible to auto travelers gome of the scenery heretofore reached reach-ed only by pack trail. The work Is being done under cooperative agreement agree-ment with interested landowners and others and it is hoped to obtain the corporation of the Forest Service in this work. LOGAN The rain that Cache valley has had for the last three days has proved a great help to the valley, Pr. Willaril Gardner of the Utah State Ag- i ricuUur.il college reports a total of i 1.56 inches at the college station, or I about as much as fell in the entire j three months previous. Although the i rain hampered the open :r, c of the new airport and to a certain es'ent delayed . tthont threshing, it was welcomed by the farmers. It Is of great value to , maturing beets, the last rrep of hay ; ar..l will also help out considerably in the fall plowing. i |