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Show j News Notes j It' a Privilege to Live in Utah ! T Salt Lake Dairying In Utah county has expanded approximately 500 per cent In the last three years. Farmers of the county fjUc'i for spring markets mar-kets about 7000 caUle and 50,000 lambs each year. Tho los Angeles market consumes the bulk of this production. Manti Poultry has been selected as the activity for special attention in Sanpete county by the citizens' industrial indus-trial committee, recently formed at Manti. At a recent meeting of this committee, attended by 1J0 farmers and business men, Kay P. Lund recited personal experiences in poultry raising. rais-ing. His experience led him to conclude con-clude that poultry could be made to pay from 50 csnts to Z net profit from each bird per year. Richfield The directors of the So vler County Fair association have selected se-lected September 1, 2 and 3 as the dates on which the fair will be held this year. The dates of other fairs to be conducted are as follows: Garfield county fair, the last week in August; Sevier county, September 1, 2 and 3; Sanpete county, September S, 9 ar.d 10; Juab county, September 15, 16 and 17; Utah county, September 22, 23 and 24. Ogden Married women will not be employed as teachers in the Weber county schools, the county board of education decided Saturday. The list of teachers submitted by Superintendent Superintend-ent B. A. Fowlers included only unmarried un-married women. Price An unusually heavy flow of .highly lnflamable ga3 was struck at a depth of 525 feet in the test well of the McGee & Holmes syndicate, four miles southeast of Price. The drill is boring in the Mancos shale and the gas flow is considered an-encouraging sign. Provo More than $15,000 for road3 and trail In the Wasatch forest have been authorized, according to an announcement an-nouncement made Thursday by E. C. Shepard, forest supervisor. Eight thousand dollars of his will be used for construction of the Provo river road to extend as far as Mirror lake. The work will begin as soon as weather weath-er conditions permit. The balance "of the money will be expended for trails and mountains roads. Some of the preliminary work has been begun. Logan in the neighborhood of seventy sev-enty head of cattle will be shipped out of Cache county within the next week, according to County Agent R. L. Wrlgley, who said that dairymen from Sevier and Sanpete are here purchasing purchas-ing cattle to ship to their respective counties. " Cedar City Following are the opening open-ing and closing dates of the national parks throughout the country: Zion park, Cedar Breaks, Bryce canyon and the north rim of the Grand canyon, June 1 to October 15. Yellowstone park, June 19 to September 19; Mesa Verde park, May 15 to November 1; Rocky Mountain park, June 15 to October Oc-tober 1; Rainier park, June 15 to September Sep-tember 15; Yoscmite, open all year. Brighton Harry Hammond, waterworks water-works observer stationed at Brighton, returned after a week's stay In Salt Lake to find the same snow depth, although al-though a foot of fresh snow had fallen, fal-len, and to learn that his telephone, out of service for more than a month, is again connected. Ogden Forty-two officials and department de-partment attaches of the Pacific Fruit Express company from points between Omaha, Neb., and i',Ln Francisco are in Ogden to attend tho annual conference confer-ence of the operating organization which opens In the Hotel Blgelow. Tho conference' will last three days. Salt Lake Livestock exhibits at tho tenth annual Inte; mountain Slock and Horse show to be held In Salt Lake, March 29 to April 2, will Include some of the outstanding show animals of the counlry, reports Reed W. Warnlck, secretary of the exhibition. Myton Uto Indians will again participate par-ticipate In their old tribal ceremony Wednesday of next week' when scores of braves and squaws from all parts of tho Uintah reservation will gather In a brush-enclosed pasture, near the Myton opera house, to begin the flvo-day flvo-day orgy of the Bear dance, Myton Growing of corn in the Uintah basin Is an agi Ictillural necessity neces-sity In order to supply the local demand de-mand and It Is being urged by business busi-ness men and others in terestod In the future of this part of rtute. The growing grow-ing of corn has been tried out to such an extent that It. Is believed it can be produced In n profitable manner. Those who rallied corn lait year iirfl satisfied with the results attained. Salt Lake -National fore.'ds In Utah are traversed by miles of rnadii and 2I0Z miles of trail.".. These are valuable to Moormen and oilier usern of ih forest and In ina-r c c;ci aro generally n led by t Jic |