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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Live In j UTAH FILLMORF The state has paid out $5271 in bounty for predatory animals killed in Millard county during 1929, as follows: Eight hundred hun-dred and twenty-nine coyote, $4974; sixty-nint bobcats, $207; fifteen fif-teen lynx, $75; one timber wolf, $15. OGDEN For visitors at the eleventh annual Ogden livestock show, January 11 to 16, a complete program of amusements and entertainment en-tertainment was outlined by the committee in charge in a meeting in the Hotel Bigelow recently. NEHPI Construction of a seven mile project in Salt Creek canyon, completing the canyon work to the Sanpete county line, which is also the final link of the Nephi to Moroni highway, will be completed at a cost of '585,000, the state road commission announces. ST. GEORGE "Washington county grape growers are confronted confront-ed with problems of marketing a heavy surplus of grapes and may enter the business of producing grape juice, according to advices received by Commissioner Harden Bennion of the stale department of agriculture. EPHRAIM At a recent meeting pf the advisory board of the Manti National Forest Woolgrowers association, asso-ciation, held at Ephraim, the date for the annual meeting of the association as-sociation was set lor February 1 at Ephraim. There will be but one meeting held this year. Plans were outlined for a very instructive and interesting meeting. A number of vital matters pertaining to the range will be taken up. PRICE Efforts are being made by citizens of Emery county to se cure a sugar factory. A guarantee of 7000 acres of beets will not only assure a factory, but also a railroad so that the product may be shipped with the minimum of cost, promoters promot-ers assert. Elmo citizens announce that they are prepared to guarantee 1000 acres, and Cleveland and Huntington Hunt-ington are both interested in the proposition. . HEBER J. F. English of the U. S. bureau of public roads, and Henry T. Coleman, local reprenta-tive reprenta-tive of the Utah state road commission, com-mission, accompanied the Wasatch county commissioners on an inspection inspec-tion tour up Daniels canyon to look over some changes in the right of way contemplated in the coming year's improvement program on the lower end of the Heber-Fruit-land project. FILLMORE Following in the wake of one of the most severe wind and dust storms ever known in Millard county, a light snow covered cov-ered the landscape. It is hoped by agriculturists that the present skiff will be a forerunner to a wet season. sea-son. The three inches that fell near hear is measured in monetary values well into the thousands. Indications In-dications are that winter has at last cast her spell over the long protracted pro-tracted fall. CEDAR CITY Following three days of violent winds from the south, and a light snowfall Monday, the weather calmed and . snow started falling in earnest here Tuesday. Livestock owners were pleased, because the situation on the ranges in the -western end of Beaver, Iron and Washington counties had been critical. Water holes there are few, and unless there is snow, large areas of the range cannot be utilized. COALVILLE The Summit county coun-ty commissioners at their January meeting reduced the road budget for the 1930 oiling program from $33,000 to $14,000, it having been decided between the state road commission com-mission ami the county authorities that the Echo canyon road from Baskiu to Emory will not be included includ-ed in the coming season's work. However, the county commission and road commission entered into an agreement for the widening of the Weber river bridge east of Wanship. SALT LAKE Snow which fell generally over the state during the past week has proved hi;:hly beneficial bene-ficial to watersheds, grazing lands and winter grain according to the weekly weather and crop report of J. Cecil Alter, in charge of the local offlcQ of the weather bureau. Sheep and cattle were In poor condition in some sections prior to the storm, and wheat was suffering due to a lack of snow covering. The snowfall snow-fall in the extreme south portion of the state was the first moisture since early fall. PRICE Carbon cornty commls-, commls-, sioners will hold a special meeting soon to decide whether Cwbon . county shall have a fair in 1930. I Citizens met with the board recent- ly, pleading for the continuance of I the exposition. It is understood I that if the board decides to dis-I dis-I continue it will be feu- only one year. Price city has deeded the " property on which the fair grounds - Btanda to Carbon county, and In 'S case two or more years elapse be-; be-; tween exhibitions the county will lose title to the holdings. |