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Show News Notes jj ' a Privilege to Lwt in Utah ! COALVir.M: -North Summit high ! Hcliool, hy IU l.'i ti 0 victory over Wa-Hittch Wa-Hittch county high recently, won the right to contest tlio wlunerri of the vt: st or n half of tlio tllviolon for the Htuto loumamiiiit berth. liOISK Idaho Blilpped to Los Angeles Ange-les luMtyeur 894,750 pounds of dressed dress-ed poultry. Utah sent the southern California city 32G.815 pounds. The two Btates together provide Loa An-(jeles An-(jeles with 20 per cent of the dressed poultry consumed. SALT IjAKK Utah shipped to Los Angeles last year 320,815 pounds of dressed poultry. Idaho sent the southern south-ern California city 891,750 pounds. I Tho two states together provide Los Angeles with 20 per cent of the dressed dress-ed poultry consumed . VfJIlNAL About 250,000 sheep are beins moved from the summer ranges In Colorado to tho winter ranges in i Utah, It was announced recently by Thomas Redmond, chief state sheep Inspector, who has just returned from the border. l'UOVO "If we had one more pheasant wo would have our limit," remarked Boh Bullock to Wit Hoover as they were hunting In the vicinity of Spanish Fork recently. They had ' already shot three and were return- ing to the marshes ot Utah lake, near l'rovo. PAYSON The annual stockhold- j ers' meeting of tho Strawberry Water Users' asocialion was held recently ut the Nebo stake tabernacle, with , President Lee R. Taylor in charge. A levy was made ot 30 cents per acre-foot, acre-foot, 10 cents for operation and maintenance main-tenance and 20 cents for a reserve fund. BRIGIIAM CITY K. C. Wright assistant as-sistant chief engineer of the state road commission, who returned from the Curlow valley during the week, said recently re-cently that the eight and one-half miles of federal aid highway, designated de-signated as project 109-B, running from the Utah-Idaho line to the Curlew Cur-lew valley junction, is now completed. WASHINGTON Mrs. Reed Smoot, wife ot the Utah senator, died Tuesday at 7 a. m., after a long illness. She was 65 years old. Mrs. Smoot was the daughter of Horace F. Eldredge, Salt Lake pioneer, and Chloe A. Red-field Red-field Eldredge. She was born in Salt Lake sixty-two years ago and was reared here, receiving her education at the University ot Deseret. MANTI A total of 170 deer have been killed by hunters in the Manti forest this year, according to word received by the state fish and game department. This is an Increase of about 35 per cent over the same period peri-od last year. Forest rangers In the region anticipate that at least 225 deer will be killed before the season is over. SALT LAKE Moderately cool weather and showers ot the last week have improved the grain outlook in Utah and germination of most sowings sow-ings this fall is now expected, according accord-ing to the weekly crop report of J. Cecil Alter, government meteorologist. Winter range forage has improved and large numbers of sheep have been moved to winter range. RICHFIELD R. Scott Zimmermann in charge ot rodent control in Utah, is visting Sevier county in a campaign for control of rorcupines in national forest areas. It is claimed that this rodent is very destructive of tree life and forage, ouce it becomes numerous. numer-ous. Reports from forest rangers indicate in-dicate that the poicupine family has materially increased this year in the Fish lake forest. CEDAR CITY Final arrangements have been made for the program for Branch Agricultural college Founders' day, November 16. The two outstanding outstand-ing features ot the program will be the addres3 by Charles R. Mabey and the dedicatory ceremonies by Dean Milton Bennlon. Mr. Mabey and Mr. Bennion served as members of the Branch Agricultural college faculty in the days when the school was a branch ot the University ot Utah. i rociamation restoring to entry the waters ot the Logan river was issued recently by George M. Bacon, state engineer. Waters of this stream were withdrawn from filling on November 21, 1923, to protect them aganist possible appropriations which might Interfere with the proposed Cache valley reclamation projects. The proclamation restoring the stream to entry becomes effective a3 soon as notice of It has been published three successive weeks. LAYTON As set forth In the weekly week-ly vegetable review published by the Kansas City office of the United States bureau unique situation prevails in the onion market this year. Domestic Domes-tic production ot late main-crop onions is about one-third lighter than last season, with eastern crops particularly par-ticularly short. Shipments were quits heavy earlier In the tall, but have now begun to slacken. Prices are relatively re-latively high two or three times those of last autumn and are at such a level as to attract a large volume ot onious from foreign countries. |