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Show I News Notes I It's a Privilege to Live in J Utah ! Salt Lake City. Distribution of the waters of the Sevier river system as between the Sevier Bridge reservoir and the Piute reservoir interests will be made in accordance with the engineer's en-gineer's proposed determination until such time as instructions to do otherwise other-wise are received from the court, according ac-cording to a letter written by George M. Bacon, state engineer, to Brice McBride, water commission on the system. Salt Lake City. Early opening dates have been announced for both Zion and Yellowstone National parks, due to expected heavy tourist travel, D. S. Spencer, general passenger agent for the Union Pacific railroad, said. Zion park will open May 15, fifteen days before the usual opening date, and Yellowstone will open June 30, while special parties will be permitted permit-ted to enter the park June 16. Salt Lake City. Heavy showers, especially in the middle and northern counties of the state, greatly improved improv-ed water supplies for farms and towns but lower temperatures and deficient sunshine retarded crop growth to a certain extent, according to the weekly week-ly crop and weSther report issued by J. Cecil Alter, in charge of the local office of the weather bureau. Brigham City. Superintendent C. H. Skidmore feturned during the week from a trip to the western part of the country, where he inspected the various schools. The superintendent says that the recent rainstorm extended extend-ed all over the county, and that there was from two to four inches of rainfall. rain-fall. The dry farm grain and other crops are looking better than ever before, be-fore, and this last storm has made certain the maturing of these crops. Ogden. Although the Amalgamated Sugar company shared the unfavorable unfavor-able sales conditions with other sugar manufacturing companies, the annual report of President Henry H. Rolapp, given to the stockholders at their annual an-nual meeting shows the company to be in excellent condition. Price. At a public hearing in Price on June 7 the Carbon county board of commissioners will consider applications appli-cations for additional allowances of about $55,000 in the county road department de-partment and $50 in the recorder's office. of-fice. Salt Lake City. Wool clips are not moving fast in the intermountain region, re-gion, but sufficient transactions have been made during the last week to indicate that the British general strike did not have the disastrous effect on the market that many forecast. The market has been slow, but there still is a market. Prices have continued to run between 30 cents and 35 cents, hut the strike uncertainty did have a slight influence, it is believed, it turning the price pendlulum away from the 35-cent point and nearer the 30-cent point. Some sales though of lower grade wools, at as low as 27 cents and 28 cents have been reported. Price. More than thirty honey producers pro-ducers of Carbon, Emery, Sevier, Uintah Uin-tah and Duchesne counties attended the annual gathering of the Utah Honey Producers' association at the ; courthouse at Price this week. These men, the principal producers in the state, reported that prospects for honey hon-ey this year appeared to be above normal nor-mal at the present time. Officers for the following year were elected. '. Brigham City. Following work in the elimination of the scrub dairy bull . and tts replacement by purebred sires County Agricultural Agent R. H Stewart Stew-art announces that a cow-testing circle has been formed in Mantua and Perry. Each of. these circles will con- ' -r'l 1orn aVeraKe each mntl from 5 to 125 cows on test. A plan has ' hee, 70rked 0111 the countv agent and his committees which promises to he successful, and. at the same time ost the owner of the cow but little 'of the ttT, 6Ctr WUllam PetCTS of the Utah experiment station discussed dis-cussed at the weekly Kiwanis lunch-eon lunch-eon this afternoon the proposed fu -ier reclamation of Cache Valley through the development of suppU-mental suppU-mental water supply win, whlcll' to OoT f,lllf1l;r,lou rights to the 60,-000 60,-000 acres of lrrlgatable land. Salt Lake CIty.-lncreaso of approx- Imately $300,000 In the first 1 .,; sessment valuation of Tooelo over the tmal assessment of property in that I C0"n,y ln ln-R 'a revealed In lu, I ord.s of the county assessor of Tooele county received at the office of tlu, I state board of equall.al ion and assess-I assess-I mont recently. This valuation 1 sb-Joct sb-Joct to change by the county hoard of I oquilizatlon and the stale hoard I |