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Show I! News Notes I ',' It'a a Privilege to Livm in 2 Utah SALT LAKE Air passenger service through Salt Lake has increased to such extei-t that the Western Air Express Ex-press has installed 6 new large passenger pas-senger planes on the route to Los Angeles this year. HYRUM Retail trade in Utah and southern Idaho is showing substantial increases each month. During January, Janu-ary, 1929, the section reported an increase in-crease of 14.4 per cent over the same month in 1928. ESCALANTE Arrangements are being completed here for a big rabbit rab-bit and sparrow hunt. The rabbit drive is to begin this week and is to be continued for several days. It is hoped to clear the district of the rabbit rab-bit pest, which appears to be growing. grow-ing. A contest ha3 been arranged between be-tween the North and South wards. SALT LAKE The largest crowd yet to witness a skiing event in the state saw young Kalmar Andreasen jump 98 feet and break the Utah record re-cord of 86 feet recently on Rasmus-sen's Rasmus-sen's Parley's canyon ranch, in the Norwegian-American Athletic club's annual skiing tournament. The old record was made eight years ago by Axel Andreasen. GUNNISON Dairy farmers of the valley, including several of Sevier county, met at the Gunnison Valley high school recently to organize a dairy association. . O. L. Malmgren was temporary chairman. H. A. Mathiesen, federal specialist in cow-testing cow-testing work in the western dairy division; di-vision; C. O. Stott, Sanpete county agent, and S. R. Boswell, Sevier county coun-ty were officers in attendance. LOGAN During the month of January, Janu-ary, there were 366 cows milking and 68 dry in the Richmond-Lewiston Dairy Herd Improvement association, according to the report of Le Roi Nelson, tester. The E.verage milk production pro-duction per cow was 846.1 pounds, as compared with 816.2 pounds for December. The average butterfat production pro-duction per cow was 29.68 pounds, compared with 29.46 pounds for the preceding period. PROVO Two committees from Maleton and Lehi waited on the Utah county commissioners recently in regard to read matters in their respective re-spective communities. A petition asking ask-ing for the improvement of the road on the north side of Mapleton was presented by the Mapleton delegation. The matter was taken under advisement. advise-ment. The commission appropriated ?100 for the completion of the road at Lake Shore. SALT LAKE Provision for the construction con-struction and maintenance of livestock live-stock highways is contained in a bill introduced in the senate recently by Senator R. J. Evans. The bill empowers em-powers the state road commission, the state board of agriculture, county commissioners, city commissions, city councils and town boards to designate, design-ate, survey, build, protect and maintain main-tain these highways, to purchase the right of way therefor and to spend the necessary money for the carry- ing out of the purpc-es of this bill. DUCHESNE According to present plans of the state road commission, roads in the Uintah basin will be greatly improved during this coming summer. Bids have been asked for the construction of four bridges. Two of these bridges are over the Duchesne river, east of Duchesne, to connect with the completed project at Antelope, Ante-lope, and the other two are on the Duchesne to Fruitland route over Red creek and wash. The bridge over Red creek will be more than twenty feet above the surface of the water. RANDOLPH Heavy losses of wild fowl are belg suffered in the slough area near Laketown In Rich county, according to advices received recently recent-ly by the state fish and game department. depart-ment. This area has never been known to freeze up before as solidly as it has this year. The excessive and continued cold weather, however, has 'closed up the grounds and tho ducks are starving to dei'.h. Some feed will be shipped into the district by the department to tide the ducks over until the weather breaks. OGDEN It Is announced from the district forest office here that anonymous anony-mous cash prizes of ?1000 and 5250, respectively will be awarded through the Society of American Foresters lor essays describing the present forestry situation in tho United States, and proposing a cation-wide remedy for Its solution. The scope of the essays submitted should be to sucrcst a plan for the forest situation that will solve the problem of a psrmancnt and sufficient suf-ficient supply of forest products. Essays Es-says must not be over 3000 words in length and must be based on the ac- j tual situation In the United States. 1 |