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Show t News Notes I It's a Privilege Co Live in j Utah I Murray Bids for Murray's municipal muni-cipal auxiliary power plant are now being advertised. The bids will bo received re-ceived at the Murray city hall up until January 31. Work on the plant, which will he located within a hundred feet of il Oregon Short Linn railroad tracks on Forty-ninth South street, will start immediately after contracts for tho work have been awarded. Beaver Forest Ranger Blaine Bet-tinson Bet-tinson has prepared a report o snow-slake snow-slake readings at the U. S. weather bureau stakes on tho Beaver river watershed, which gives the record ot four successive years for the depth of snow on the .last day of December of each year. According to records, the amount of snow ai. each snow stake on December 31, l!)"j, is a little Jess than that of any year since 3917. Salt Lake For the lirst eleven days of the month of January the precipita tion was hotter than a hail inch above normal, aeording 10 reports made at the local weather bureau. Vetlnesday there was a precipitation of .33 of cii inch, so that with tha precipitation of .G5 for the day before the total for the two-cis, ;v;-:ic:'z v:z laches. Tii? brings t!i- total for the month to i.Oo, which is better than the normal precipitation for the first third of tho month. While much of the snow has melted, an Inch and one-half depth was measured by the weather observers. Moau The hiir-iicipal water system of Moab which is operated by the Moab Pipe Line company is in better condition than it has ever bgeh to render service to its patrons, according accord-ing to a report made to thes stockholders stockhold-ers of the company at their annual meeting by Secretary John Peterson. Ogden The price which Utah growers grow-ers will receive for tomatoes during 1927 will be $11 a ton, it was announced an-nounced by Martin P. Brown, president presi-dent of the Utah state farm bureau federation, and Joseph F. Barker, secretary sec-retary of the Utah canners' association. associa-tion. Salt Lake A total ot 4,690,3-12 tons of coal, with a value of $11,991,000, was produced in Utah during 1925 by 4411 miners engaged in the work, according to the report of L. Mann and F. G. Tryon, which was issued by the bu reau of miues of the department of commerce on January 8, 1927. Myton The J. C. Peppard Seed company, with offices at Duchesne, Roosevelt and Vernal, report on unexpected unex-pected rise in the alfalfa seed market. .'o. 1, $10.50; No. 2, $15.00; No. 3, $12.50; No. 4, $9.25; extra No. 1, 5 percent per-cent over No. 1. Some of the alfalfa seed growers who have been holding their seed are busy hauling it to market. Myton William Lowe, manager of the Uintah Basin Seed Growers' association, as-sociation, in reporting for the season of 1926, states thet the plant has handled nearly 1.000.000 pounds of al-falta al-falta seed, the Inr.-est percentage be-iug be-iug owned by members of the organization. organ-ization. In the plant at the beginning of 3927 there was 500,000 pounds of 1 seCl unsold. Pan of this is lu the pool tw-ulH by n. L: IVtc-r$?!i( j !hc o.. Vice is held by individual -'owtrs. i Vernal Supervisor A. G. Nor'd of the Ashley national forest, in his annual an-nual report to the district forester fit Ogden. states th"U Hie herd of tiecr on this forest cnKthw Hl approximately 1300 h?:.V. Vaa.ilo r. slight increase dur. ing lvp past year. Acording to tho sahte report, the mountain sheep, numbering num-bering about thirty-five head, ar.d the band of forty el!; remained stationery in number. Prove The Provo Timpenogos Farm Loan asaot eation will elect ofli-cer.s ofli-cer.s at its regular annual meeting, which will be hold January 15 in (he high school auditorium. All members of the association are. requested to be present, according to Secretary Ralph I'oullon. j Garfield At an expenditure of up j proximately $ 4 -r . 0 ) U a i -.ail will lie con-j con-j struct! (1 from Ku'itin avilb- to the , Washington cotiutv line, a distance of ! four and one-half neies, iha state road commission deck!' d Monday afternoon, j Garfield county commissioners were i also advised by the com cil-sinn that t a road north from Paiigtiilch would be : construe"'! us soon as federal aid funds can be obtained. Price An actio camnaJgu to se-j se-j cure a state ev' .ei mental farm in Car-j Car-j bon county for tho eas'.evn Utah re-I re-I g'on ia, h'-ing i-n-'ed (,;t end will eomo if n brad in t'ao next few days with 'hi l'i reilttciion of a bill in lie; state I eis'.aluro. A ;:roat do;,l of interest is being taken by Carbon county rep-',1 rep-',1 sen :a lives in tho lcghdaturo. by tho farm bureau, llrj chamber oT com-morce, com-morce, taxpayers' association and ether civic organizations. |