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Show l News Notes It's a Privilege to Lie in Utah ! Salt Lake In order to arouse Interest In-terest among Utah apple growers in exporting their product to foreign markets, mar-kets, a meeting of Individual growers and representatives of various state associations and chambers of commerce com-merce will be held Saturday at tho Salt Lake chamber of commerce. The meeting has been called by II. A. La Fount, chairman of the chamber's agricultural ag-ricultural committee, and will bo ad dressed by George II. Corse, Jr., ot San Francisco, one of the biggest exporters ex-porters of apples on the Pacific cost. prce Members of the Carbon county board of education will visit the schools of Consumers. SUndard-ville SUndard-ville and Spring. Glen on Wednesday, April 20, and look over the situation at each of the three communities with regard re-gard to the erection of new school buildings or the remodeling of the present structures. Residents of Consumers Con-sumers have asked for a new building, as the quarters now occupied belong to the coal company and are Inade-juate. Inade-juate. An addition is needed to the school at Standardville and a new building will be required at Spring Glen, it is said. Provo Production of cherries In Utah has beea Increasing steadily the last ten years. In 1924 production was 3800 tons, with a farm value of $3S0.-000. $3S0.-000. Last year production was G300 tons, with a farm value of $G3G,0o0. In 1925, an exceptionally favorablo year, tho state produced D500 tons with a value of $770,000. Ogden Anticipating the heaviest shipment ever, seen In California spring lambs, the first of which has already begun, improvements which will cost more than $10,000 are now being be-ing made at the Ogden Union stockyards. stock-yards. The sheep division is being enlarged en-larged and Improved to take care of expected increase In this department, L. F. Whitlock, general manager of tho yards, said. Cedar City Randall L. Jones, special rcpresenta:ive of the Utah parks' service for the Union Pacilic arrived from his eastern tour Sunday and Jlonday In looking over the highway high-way conditions, driving to Zion national na-tional park and on the Grand Canyon roail as far as tho Arizona border. Logan Preparations for Cache county's coun-ty's two big annual dairy fh ys, the Black and White day at Richmond and the South Cache Hairy day at lly-rum, lly-rum, are under way. Dairymen In Hy-rum Hy-rum decided to hold the second annual South Cacho Hairy day on April 23. This celebration will come Just ono week prior to tho twelfth annual Hlark and White day at Richmond. Salt Lake- The Salt Lake water prospects for l'JJ7 are better than at uny other time in tlie city's history, with tlie possible exception of l'J23, j was Btated by Superintendent H. K. Burton at a meeting of the water stor-iiko stor-iiko committee of the chamber of commerce, com-merce, when Dr. T. B. Il'.atty fit ihc state health department, Superintendent Superintend-ent Burton of the city water depart ment and H. ('. Jesses, city enginej-. met with tho committee. Provo Tlie new city and count y building at Provo is one of the few edifices ed-ifices fif its kind recognizing artists by allotlng u permanent place for an art gallery. Gunnison Gunnison valley potato growers have received tlie first of a two car order of Idaho Rurals. tho purchase pur-chase of wlilch Is financed by th" Gun nlson Valley bank. The shipment raine from Idaho Falls, Idaho. Tho seed Is of tlie very highest finality and arrived In fiplondld condition. One hundred acres will be planted this season and tho framers are optimistic, as arrangements arrange-ments have been completed with one of Salt Lake's largrv wholesale: commission com-mission houses for tlie handling of Iho crop. Ogdon--S(ivernl loads of steers, com-prilling com-prilling a community shipment from southern t.'lah, topped the steer market mar-ket at the Ogden Union rtockyards, bringing $0 a hundredweight, the high-est high-est price paid for Hirers upon the Og-den Og-den market In a number of years. Tlie consignment which brought the record price included tour Joad.i ot noo pound ateers. Salt Lake--Material Inrreasn In tlie cherry crop or Utah within tho next row years was prcillclcil In th" March forecast of tho PIJ7 crop Issued by Frank Andrew-it, agricultural at.itls-tielan at.itls-tielan for Utah. 1 n f. i motion rro.n eighty orchards in tin- ntuto iihun a that, there am 10,301 cherry trees, of which I! 1 ffu are of bearing age and 4K:i not yel of huaring ago, according lo tho report. Sail. Lake -National forenm In Utah are Ira versed by MM miles or rendu and 2101 nilhs (,f trails. Thc.no urn valmihlo to rlockineii and other users of tho forest and In many cases are reticrully used by the public. |