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Show I News Notes I I It's a Privilege to Livt in I j Utah MT, PLEASANT Maple canyon, In Sanuete county, Utah, is so narrow and the walls so high that a person in the bottom of the canyon finds stars visible in daytime. LAYTON Farmers who have been bothered with coyotes this winter are cooperating with G. E. Holman of the state and U. S. biological survey cooperative co-operative campaign against predatory animals in an effort to destroy the animals. an-imals. The heavy snowfall recently, It Is thought will result in more coyotes coy-otes coming down from the mountains, and more precautions will be taken to protect the chickens and sheep. Poison Poi-son bait will be put out to attract the marauders. SPANISH FORK Havoc among the deer is being wrought by four or five mountain lions in Spanish Fork canyon can-yon near Red Narrows, it was announced an-nounced by D. II. Madsen, state fish and game commisloner. Some weeks ago two lion kittens were killed in that section by George Holman, who is in charge of the federal work of exterminating exter-minating predatory animals in Utah, Mr. Madsen said. The old lions could not be found at that time. Since then, however, the old ones evidently have returned and brought reinforcements, as several deer have been reported killed in that section. VERNAL Lovers of pets, wild and otherwise, find this city a paradise. Quail and Mongolian pheasants without with-out number are in town, driven by snow and cold weather, and they are self-invited guests in barnyards. If the domestic fowl get too plain at times, in signifying objection to the visitors well the pheasants are good boxers and make use of their knowledge. knowl-edge. EUREKA At the end of its first year of operations, during which development de-velopment has been carried forward quietly and methodically, the American Ameri-can Beauty lead-silver mine on the South fork of the Humboldt river near Lee, Elko county, is shipping six tons of concentrates daily to the Utah smelters. OGDEN Ogden is covered by the heaviest blanket of snow of the winter, win-ter, although the fall in Weber county is reported to be not as heavy as that of points in Davis and Salt Lake counties. coun-ties. Snow fell at intervals during the day. The city streets department, under un-der the direction of Harold Tripp, street supervisor, was busy with snow plows clearing streets for traffic and reported good progress. . MYTON Importance of alfalfa in Utah agriculture is shown by valuation figures on that crop for 1927, which amounted to $12,420,000. The next most valuable crop was wheat, which brought to farmers last year, $5,792,-Q0O. $5,792,-Q0O. PROVO With over 100 birds on exhibition, ex-hibition, among which are some of the finest strains to be found in this inter-mountain inter-mountain territory, the first day of the Utah County Poultry Fanciers' association's associ-ation's annual poultry show opened recently. The show is being held in the Graham building, situated at 162 West Center street. COALVILLE The Uintah Ranch and water company filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk of Summit county last week. The company com-pany will incorporate under the laws of the state of Washington with its principal place of business at Seattle. The amount of capital stock is $30,-000 $30,-000 and the trustees, who also are the incorporators and own all the outstanding out-standing stock are Ben C. Grosscup, I. M. Annesley and Charles A. Wallace. MYTON The ice harvest has started start-ed in Myton and this portion of the basin. W. T. Rogers has started to cut east of Myton on the Duchesne river and is getting fourteen-inch ic6. Several of the farmers living near the Lake Fork river also are filling up their ice houses. It is also reported that the Green river at Ouray is frozen froz-en over and teams and autos are crossing cross-ing there. Ice over a foot thick is being be-ing cut there. EPHRAIM Ephraim wool clips from range and home-fed sheep were sold during the week. The home-fed wool, which consists of about 15,000 fleeces, was sold to L. R. Anderson of Manti for Jeremiah Williams & Co. at 33 cents per pound fiat. This is one-third one-third of a cent less than was paid for Manti wool, but is three cents more than was received for local wool last year. BRIGHAM CITY More than 150 sportsmen from Ogden, Brigham and other sections of Boxelder county participated par-ticipated in a rabbit hunt at Promontory Promon-tory recently. The sportsmen were met at the Promontory station by ranchmen and taken to the hunting grounds. According to the hunters, abount 5000 rabbits were killed during the day. At the conclusion of the hunt the sportsmen were given a dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ethelbert Larsen. SALT LAKE Predicting that 1928 will be a record-breaking year for Utah poultry products on eastern markets, mar-kets, Benjamin Brown, former president presi-dent of the Utah State Poultry Producers' Pro-ducers' Cooperative association and now director of markets for that organization, or-ganization, arrived in Salt Lake from New York Thursday. He is here to take up business matters of the organization or-ganization and also is scheduled to deliver his annual report and address Saturday at the farm bureau convention conven-tion in Ogden. Local turkeys and eggs, Mr. Brown said, are especially iu demand along the Atlantic seaboard. |