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Show I News Notes ! It's a Privilege to Live In I UTAH 1 SALT LAKE The value of products of Salt Lake manufacturing plants Increased In-creased from $32,5S9,100 in 1925 to $35,114,793 in 1927. LEHI Twenty-five cars will be re-Quired re-Quired to handle Lehi's bumper croy of onions, which is now being har-rested. har-rested. One grower Is expecting te load five cars. SALT LAKE The Utah Btate fair October 5 to 12, will exhibit livestock entries representative of growers from eoast to coast, Ernest S. Holmes, manager of the Utah State Fair association, as-sociation, announced recently. PoInU of ihlpmenU now listed range from Jacksonville, Fla., to the Kenwood Farms, California. OGDEN Recent rains have elven aid to peach grower, according to crop observers, who assert that the storms have held back ripening and permitted more shipping and canning. Tomatoes, it was said, have been delayed de-layed too much. One canner intimated the tomato crop would be only one-fourth one-fourth what was anticipated at planking plank-ing time. PLEASANT GROVE--The tomato Industry has met many obstacles in this section through this season. Frost nipped the early plants, but the replants bid fair to compensate th loss by their heavy blossoming and bearing. Now the crop is confronted with the late ripening, due to cold weather and rains of the past week, which will delay the harvesting until a later date than is considered safe by the farmers. ROOSEVELT Achievement day for the 4-H clubs of Duchesne county was held in connection with the annual an-nual Uintah basin dairy show. A display dis-play was made by the Upalco, Neola and Roosevelt clubs. The Roosevelt club won the community prize. The Misses Vera Hanson and Oral Mackay won in the contest and will go to Salt Lake City to contest at the Utah state fair. Oral Mackay won the most prizes for her exhibits. UTAH Utah and Wyoming will both use white numerals on a black background as the color scheme for 1930 automobile license plates, according ac-cording to a survey received recently from American A.utomobile association associa-tion In Washington. Colors of plates In other western states are to be: Arirona, black on light gray; California, Cal-ifornia, black on orange; Colorado, deep yellow on black; Idaho, black on orange; Nevada, orange en black; New Mexico, gold on black. UTAH Receipts from national forests in Utah netted the state 551,-287.05 551,-287.05 during the fiscal year ended June 30, reports received recently from the department, of agriculture announced. an-nounced. The funds are to be used for roads and school purposes. Thirty states will receive more than $1,600,-000 $1,600,-000 from the federal government as their share of the receipts from national na-tional forests. The bulk of money earned by the forest service comes from grating fees and timber sales. PAYSON By the middle of the week the peach harvest of Payson will be completed. Seventeen carloads will havfl been shipped by that time, 2500 bushels from the Page orchard and about 2000 from the Arthur Daley orchard. The remainder was made np by small growerp. One outstanding outstand-ing feature of this year's crop at Pay-son Pay-son was the size and quality of the peaches. Three carloads of peaches that were shinned durins last week had a minimum measurement of 2 1-4 inches. PROVO Prune shippers of the county are having considerable trouble trou-ble in bringing their products up to the required shipping requirements, according to the state shipping point Inspector, L. S. Fenn, who visited various va-rious prune orchards of the county recently. re-cently. The prunes are shlrveling on the end. due to lack of sugar, according accord-ing to Dr. Fenn. This is brought about because of a cold spell Just before the crop began to ripen. More than 30 per cent of the crops are being culled in an effort to bring them up to grade. AMERICAN FORK Cauliflower growers of this district met in the city hall September 26, for the purpose pur-pose of forming an organization to aid them in securing the best nrices for their crops and for unity in caring for the harvesting, grading, packing, and in taking care of the different problems that may arise. The following fol-lowing officers were elected: Walter Devey, president; Rulon Nicholes, secretary; James Tattersol, treasurer, and Ben Brown, a fourth member, to make a committee to form by-laws to be presented at the meeting to be held next Monday night PAYSON The first carload of cold pack Elberta peaches is being put up by the H. W. Jacobs company, the first cold pack peaches ever shipped from this vicinity. The cold pack process of handling strawberries is used extensively by this company. The peaches to be Bhlpped to the New York markets for Christmas are very fine grade, fully ripe, and are being packed one-third sugar to two-thirds peaches, and will be packed In 50-gallon barrels bar-rels and frozen Into a solid mass before be-fore being shipped to the easturn markets. |