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Show I News Notes I 1 It's a Privilege to Live In J j UTAH LOGAN Logan city water is of good quality bacterially find organically, organic-ally, according to work received here from L. H. Male, sanitary engineer of the state board of health. The analysis was made on the request of William Ewer, superintendent of the city water department, who sent samples of city water to Mr. Male. MYTON According to the record of rainfall as compiled at the government govern-ment Btation of the Uintah irrigation project in Myton, the precipitation for July was 1.14 of an inch, while for the same period in 1928 It was .10 of an inch. LOGAN According to Cache County Agricultural Inspector Harry C. Parker, already this season 10,000 pounds of weed destroying chemicals have been placed on noxious weed beds in the county. Six thousand more pounds of chemical will be sprayed on noxious weeds before the close of the year's campaign, Mr. Parker said. RIVERTON A terrific freak windstorm wind-storm played havoc with trees along the paved highway between River-ton River-ton and South Jordan at 2:30 a. m. Wednesday, completely blocking the road for some time. Two poles were also torn down and Indications were that RIverton would be without telephone tele-phone and light connections Wednesday Wednes-day night. KAYSVILLE Utah's onions, tomatoes, toma-toes, cauliflower and green peas were all farther below normal in July than at the same time last year, according to the truck crop report issued by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician. statisti-cian. Onions were reported 71 per cent normal, tomatoes 76 per cent normal, nor-mal, cauliflower 88 per cent normal and green peas 71 per celit normal. VERNAL A decidedly optimistic outlook for the sheep industry as a whole was expressed by R.f H. Rut-mountain Rut-mountain district, in addressing the ledge, district forester for the Inter-Uintah Inter-Uintah Basin Industrial convention, held recently. However, he said that on the. besis of Utah conditions, expansion ex-pansion in range sheep. is not desirable either from the standpoint of the individual in-dividual operator or the industry as a whole. HEBER CITY Utah's production of green p.eas for canning in 1929 Is estimated slightly smaller than last year's crop in a report issued recently by the United States bureau of agriculture. agri-culture. The estimate for 1929 is quoted at 24,367,000 pounds, while that for last year was 26,035,000 pounds. The report also shows Utah's crop is surpassed only by those of Wisconsin Wis-consin and New York, which states supply half the nation's yield annually. PROVO Dr. F. E. Stevens, state inspector of the U. A. C. experiment station, was in Provo recently and in company with A. B. Call and H. V. Swenson asisted in cutting the grain in the different plots of Utah county to be taken back to the experiment Btation and compared with other grains. The plots located in Manila and Mapleton were planted with different diff-erent varieties of wheat, oats and barley bar-ley on April 2, and 3. OGDEN A new state rearing pond in Weber county will be sought of fish and game in Weber county, it was decided by the directors of the Weber County Fish and Game Protective association as-sociation in meeting with J. Arthur Mecham, state commissioner. Me-cham Me-cham and State Hatchery Superin-tendant Superin-tendant William Whitney will survey possible rearing locations, starting next week. The vicinity of Hunts-vine Hunts-vine is mentioned as a possibility. OGDEN The Utah crop of onions, tomatoes, cauliflower and peas are all below normal, according to the July truck crop report released by Frank Andrews, federal agricultural statistician. statisti-cian. The pea crop, which is reported as only 71 per cent normal, is lowest on the list, with a total crop forecast of 12,184 tons, as compared with 13,-018 13,-018 in 1923. Tomatoes, reported at 76 per cent normal; onions at 81 per cent, and a cauliflower crop forecast at 88 per. cent normal, are the chief deficiencies mentioned in the report. SALT LAKE Freshman registration registra-tion at the University of Utah will open September 26, with preliminary instruction for first year students continuing con-tinuing September 27 and 28, it was announced recently by Theron Par-melee, Par-melee, secretary to Dr. George Thomas, Thom-as, president. ; Second, third and fourth year students will register September 30, with regular classes for all students starting October 1. Work on remodeling several of the buildings on the campus to provide additional ad-ditional classrooms for the anticipated anticipa-ted increase in freshman enrollment is progressing tt a rapid rate and is expected to le completed in time for the opening of the fall quarter. VERNAL The Uintah County Fair association has jnnounced September 2G, 27 and 2S as the dates for this year's show at Vernal, and has called I for bids on a nunbcr of improvements j to be made at '.lie fair grounds, including in-cluding the building of SO feet of I bleachers, an addition to the grand-1 grand-1 stand, a poultry exhibit room, 12 ad-I ad-I ditional box stalli for race horses and repairs to the nuin exhibit hall. Ac-1 Ac-1 cording to Presidsnt L. II. Allen, plans ' of the associatioi are well under way i for the fair, wh.ch will be in every ! way the most interesting and attrac-1 attrac-1 tive fair ever hold in Uintah county. |