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Show ! News Notes f It's a Privilege to Live in Utah ! Salt Lake City. All arangements have been completed for Utah's participation par-ticipation in national egg day. May 1, according to A. R. Mickelson of Draper, Dra-per, designated Utah state chairman by the national poultry council, sponsor spon-sor of the movement. The poultry council, in planning a national egg day cited it was for the purpose of paying tribute to the hen for her part in American agriculture. In Utah, the observance will be directed toward acquainting all persons with the magnitude mag-nitude of the poultry industry in the state. Ogden. The Utah State Farm Bureau Bu-reau federation, through its canning crops committee, has begun the organization organ-ization of canning crops' associations in various counties. It is planned to join all associations into a state federation, fed-eration, it was stated by Martin B. Brown, chairman of the canning crops committee of the state farm bureau organization. Salt Lake. "The mineral wealth of Utah" is the title of a comprehensive comprehen-sive booklet just off the press, and compiled and published by the mining min-ing committee of the Salt Lake chamber cham-ber of commerce. The edition runs to 20,000 copies, and will be distributed by the commerce chamber throughout the country to arouse interest in Utah's mining industry, according to J. C. Dick, chairman of the committee. commit-tee. Ogden. J. D. Claiborn of Kimberly, Idaho, topped the Ogden market Saturday Sat-urday with two carloads of pulp fed steers weighing 1435 pounds, each bringing $8.20 a hundred, which is the highest price paid on the Ogden market mar-ket in months. They were sold tc the Western Meat company of San Francisco. Salt Lake Oily Is Salt Lake City destined to become one of the greatest commercial fertalizer centers of the world? Recent developments of potash in Utah and nitrates in a newly discovered dis-covered bed in southern Nevada, seem to point in this direction, according to Eli F. Taylor, register of the Salt Lake land office, who is daily receiving receiv-ing glowing reports on the latest findings find-ings in connection with these two products. Salt Lake City. Due to the fact that members of the Utah Canners' association refused to pay the farmers $12 a ton for their tomatoes this year while they declare most of the other states of the country are paying that much or more, the farmers are planting plant-ing sugar beets and other crops instead, in-stead, M. S. Winder, executive secretary secre-tary of the Utah State Farm bureau announced recently. ' Myton. The Fort Duchesne Farm bureau, with John Hacking as president, presi-dent, has arranged a campaign tc fight the weeds in that part of the basin. George E. Young is project leader east cf the Uintah river and John Gardner is leader for the west side. The weeds they will try to exterminate ex-terminate are the white top, inurdock-burr, inurdock-burr, morning-glory, cockleburr, Russian Rus-sian and Canadian thistle. Myton. Tuesday the work of widening widen-ing the Grey mountain ditch was completed com-pleted and water was turned in. The work has been going on for three months. Salt Lake City. A new mining company com-pany has been formed by business men of Salt Lake and Ogden, who expect ex-pect to continue development work on nine claims in the Park City district dis-trict recently purchased from William M. Curtis of Park City. The claims adjoin the old Glenallen property on the east and west, and have already some development work done on them, including an 800-foot croscut tunnel. The tunnel is said to run along the vein for 200 feet where good showings of ore have been found. The mine is silver-lead property. Salt Lake City. Twenty-four new (Erectors of the Utah Shippers' Traf- tic association from five different cities were selected by the nominating committee at a meeting held at the chamber of commerce recently. They were chosen to succeed the old board of ninety men, who were asked to re sign bce-.use cf a state law limiting boards of directors to twenty-tour. Brigham City. An auto caravan cor.veyin - more than 100 basinets men and poultry producers of this section left Kringham City WYdm-s-.iay rr Draper. The purpese of ihe visit to Draper, which is one of file leading Poultry producing ecu;. of the state, was to inspect Hie plans the!.? and go; detailed infor'narem or- the ini'.uslrj from the suec-esrf r: producers, w;th a view to stimulating I'.e poultry industry indus-try in this city and vicinity. |