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Show News Notes i It's a Privilege to Lice In UTAH ! I I 'MORGAN Approximately 400 cars ot green tomatoes were shipped ship-ped from Utah this year, produce men say. PROVO Averages for growing sma'.l fruits and berries are increased in-creased in Utah every year, according ac-cording to the chamber of commerce com-merce survey. SPANISH FORK Rebuilding of the state road in Spanish Fork canyon, at Cold Springs, has been completed, forming a dam which will back up the water of this spring, which, defying its name, is warmer than the usual spring water. MT. PLEASANT The Gunnison Sugar company has paid nearly a half million dollars to beet growers in Sanpete and Sevier counties this fall. The October payment amounted amount-ed to $350,000 anc" the November payment was $105,000. This amount has been paid to the growers and it is estimate that about $50,000 has been paid out for factory labor. PROVO Under the direction of Mark Anderson, the Provo chapter of the Izaak Walton league recently recent-ly transferred 1000 mouth black bass fingerlings, three to five inches in length, from the experimental pond to Utah lake. Eight thousand flsh still in the experimental pond remain to be transferred at a later date. OGDEN The aggregate net area of the 150 national forests of the United States is 159,750,520 acres, or nearly the size of Utah, Wyoming Wyo-ming and Idaho, - combined. The intermountain district, with its 26 national forests, has an area of 29,508,418 acres, and is the largest of the nine dictricts in the United States, say a bulletin from district headquarters at Ogden. SALT LAKE Utah is ready to absorb its share of the proposed $50,000,000 increase in the federal road fund and has ample mileage now surveyed and definitely located to start construction immediately of highways should the Dowell bill, introduced in congress be passed. Henry H. Blood, chairman of the state road commission, informed W. C. Markham, secretary of the National Association of Highways, in a telegram dispatched recently. P A N G U I T C H Exceptionally good fall weather has brought a relatively heavy flow of post-season tourist travel to Utah's na-. na-. tional parks, E. T. Scoyen, superintendent su-perintendent of Zion and Bryca canyon national parks, said recently recent-ly upon hin arri-al In Salt Lake. Weather - in both parks has been unusually warm and dry and five or six cars a day are traveling through. No snow or precipitation precipita-tion of any kind has been recorded so far. CEDAR CITY A representative delegation from Iron county waited on the state road commission recently re-cently and reached an agreement for putting up $10,000 local funds to match forest highway funds in improvements on the Cedar Breaks road. About $7,000 additional will be placed to the disposal of the state road commission for othei work during the coming season County Commissioner H. L. Adams, Lyman Sevy and Evan Williams, headed the delegation. PROVO Approximately 1000 large mouth black bass fingerlings from three to five inches in length were transferred from the experi mental pond of the Provo chapter of the Izaak Walton league to j Utah lake by members of the chapter, chap-ter, recently. More than 8000 ol the fish are still in the pond and : will be transferred at a later date, I while the original fish first planted will be left, according to Mark Anderson, director and sponsor o) the project. LAYTON A coming slump in j egg laying of early hatched pullets can be detected by watching the amount of feed consumed, warns the poultry department at Cornell university. A flock rf 1000 Leghorn Leg-horn pullets laying 50 per cenl must eat from 24 to 25 pounds ol grain and mash daily. A decline i of only two pounds of feed from ! the necessary amount that should be eaten of 100 birds is enough to cause a falling off of egg production. pro-duction. VERNAL Trappers in the Uintah Uin-tah mountains and on the desert are reporting good catches of coyotes, coy-otes, bobcats and badgers. Coyotes are numerous this winter, both in ' deserts and on the slopes of the mountains, with pelts prime and bringing from $10 to $20 each. All the trappers in Utah and Colorado cast asido the bounty offers of the states, because if bounties are taken the pelts go to the states. This state of affairs would entail loss to tho trappers who accept bounties, as the awards do nol measure up to the prices received |