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Show News Notes f It's a Privilege to Live in I Utah j Mvton. According to reports given in by those who are in a position to know, the season this year is at least two weeks ahead of former years. Some of the ranchers are beginning to irrigate. So far' the outlook is most promising in this part of the Uintah basin. The orchards came through the winter in good condition, and the prospects pros-pects are splendid for a good crop. Salt Lake City. Requests that the matter of developing the Navajo lake as a reservoir for irrigation purposes be taken up with the Utah Water Storage Stor-age commission was made of George M. Bacon, state engineer, by a delegation delega-tion of Cedar City argicultural inter ests, while he was in uie bmuom part of the state early this week. Mr. Bacon announced upon his return. Brigham City. Prospects for a heavy crop off. ruit in Brigham City this year are very favorable.' There will be a full crop of Windsor cherries, cher-ries, according to leading fruit growers, grow-ers, but the early varieties, such as the Lambert, Orb, Napoleon and Bing will be lighter, the buds having been slightly nipped by the frosts. Salt Lake City. The acreage of commercial onions in Utah for 1926 is estimated at 750 acres in the spring onion forcast given out Friday by-Frank by-Frank Andrews, state agricultural statistician. This is 250 acres in excess ex-cess of the revised total of 500 acres for the crop" harvested last fall and approximately 250 acres less than the forecasts of Salt Lake seed dealers who were basing their estimates on the volume of onion seed taken by Davis county farmers, the leading onion on-ion producers of the state. Vernal. The Cedarview Irrigation company, composed of ranchers of the northeastern section of Duchesne county is building a large dam across an arroyo on the John Starr flat located lo-cated ten miles north of Cedarview. When completed this dam will impound im-pound in a reservoir storage water sufficient to irrigate 3000 acres of pnnd a cricnHnral land, nart of which has been under cultivation for years. Owing to the lack of moisture however, how-ever, the crops raised did not yield good harvests. Salt Lake City. A. J. May, A. E. Perkins and Geogre H. Short, all mining min-ing engineers well known in Utah and neighboring states, have announced the incorporation of the Bell Mining company to operate the Bell mine near Montezuma, Colo. As a partner ship, May, Perkins and Short have been working the property under a lease and option -for the last year, and have spent $60,000 in development develop-ment work and the acquisition of equipment. Washington. While the school land bill is held up pending negotiations between congress and the interior department, de-partment, a flood of protests against passage of the Sinnott or the Jones bill is coming into the department, principally from oil permittees and operators, and prospectors and miners. Particularly those operating in Utah and Nevada. Salt Lake City. Waterproofing of the upstream face of Mountain Dell dam at the earliest opportunity is urged urg-ed upon the board of city commissioners commission-ers by Sylvester Q. Cannon, former city engineer, in a leaaer received Thursday. The communication was referred to City Engineer Harry C. Jessen for consideration and report. Salt Lake City. Utah woolgrowers are now shipping their wool east through the recently organized Utah Wool Marketing association, it is announced an-nounced by J. A. Hooper, secretary. A number of growers who have not been disposed to accept the price of fered in Utah have shipped their wool through the association which has also financed the enterprise. Salt Lake City. Negotiations are being conducted and are virtually completed, whereby a $500,000 cast iron pipe plant will be constructed and operated near the Columbia Steel corporation's Ironton plant near Pro-vo, Pro-vo, it was learned from reliable information. in-formation. Incorporation of a company com-pany known as the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company will be perfect ed during the week, and land holdings obtained from the Provo-Springville I Holding company. , Eureka Mines of the Tintic district dis-trict shipped 167 carloads of ore dur- ing the week that just ended. Follow-j Follow-j ing are the mines tir.d their shipments (in carloa.l lots): Tintic Standard, j 55; Chief ConnolidateTT, 32; American I Smelting and Refining (dump ore), 26; j Bingham Mines, 19; Mammoth,' 14; I Plutus, 10; Iron King, 8; Colorado, I; Yankee, 1. |
