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Show !News Notes f It' a Privilege to Live in X Utah RICHFIELD Crop outlook for tha present year in Sevier valley i particularly par-ticularly good, It has been related. The precipitation has been greater during the past month than at any other time during the past year. This coupled with the fact that a large run-off Is expected during the next ninety days, indicates an ample supply of water. The crop prospects for the present year appear better than at any time for the past five years. LOGAN The acreage allotted to Ilyrum for the growing of beans has been cut from 100 to 70 acres according ac-cording to an announcement made hy the Morgan Canning Company. The decrease in acreage is due to tha shortage of bean seed, it is said Officials of the canning company report re-port that requests have been sent to all part of the country.but additional seed is not available. RICHFIELD Activity has been started in the potash property in the White hills, five miles east of Marys- :vale. A large tonnage af aluite rock has been located and a mill is being erected on the grounds to treat the I rock .and market it. The mill will have a capacity of twenty-five tons ; each eight hour. j MANT1 Establishment of an egg ; candling and grading plant as Mant) ! which is calculated to increase the ; payroll for producers in Sanpete 'county from $100,000 yearly to $500,-.; $500,-.; 000 viLhin three years 'time, wag 1 announced recently by Albertus Wil-jlardson, Wil-jlardson, assistant manager of the I Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative j association. OGDEN Another large school build-,ing build-,ing approximately eight miles west of I the city was assured Monday nighl 'at a meeting of the Weber county hoard of education. Construction is to begin at once and contracts for the building have been awarded both for I general contracting and the plumbing i and heating apparatus. -I LOGAN Utah's fruit industry is rapidly coming to the .front in the in-: in-: termountain region. It has taken an . added impetus this last year and bids j fair to exceed all state records. Wliila I fruitgrowers and packers are stressing plantings of all kinds, some special j stress has been made of late by the istate for a greater planting of cherries ( especially sour cherries. 'j i SYRACUSE Local farmers visited various farms in Morgan today and I bought three tons of certified potato seed and some certified grain seed. Ilndividnal farmers are planting demon-j demon-j stration plots to help the seed business busi-ness and the community and for test- ing purposes. Farmers are Just beginning be-ginning to plant, according to. L. E. Williams, president of the local farm bureau, but more moisture is needed. HEBER CITY armers of Utah plan to sow more acreage of corn, spring wheat, oats, and barley and slightly less potatoes and tame hay this spring than was sown for the harvest of 1927, according to report of Frank Andrews, Utah statistician for the department of agriculture. SALT LAKE Funds to be spenl for the maintenance and repair ol roads in Utah this year will include $1,700,000 to be furnished the .state from the federal government's road appropriation. CLEARFIELD One thousand acres ' of canning tomatoes will be grown in Clearfield, Utah, this year. They will be sent to seven canneries for packing and marketing. BRIG HAM CITY Elias Jensen manager of the Paramount hatchery j of this city, is errecting a large turkey tur-key brooder on his property on East Third North street, having decided to engage in turkey raising on a large scale. The brooder is of the California Califor-nia type, new to this section. COALVILLE Placing of earth embankment em-bankment in the downstream face ol I Echo dam, being built for the United i States bureau of reclamation by A. i Guthrie & Company, Contractors, was started the past week. Frost conditions which have been adverse to this work, j have improved within the last two , weeks to permit commencement on ! this feature of the dam. Work on the j excavation of the outlet tunnel is being carried on. j EPHRAIM S. S. Van Boskirk, Fred Christensen and Paul Thompson made ! snow reausements at the Experiment j station at Alpine and on the head of i Seely creek recently. They report forty-three inches of snow at the Ex- j periment station, with a water content j : of 10.30 inches. At the Alpine they I found fifty inches of snow, with a j water content of 13.20 inches. GREEN RIVER Keith Smith, coun-1 ty commissioner, merchant and lead-1 ing woolgrower of Daggett county, j Utah, was in Green River recently, j He reports sheep as having done won- j derfully well this past winter all along the north side of the Uinta mountains. 1 Grass was so short last fall, he states, ' that all of the livestock owners bought j hay and field pasturage extensively, but the winter has been so mild and j the browse better than anticipated that much if it will not be used, while only about half of the corn has been required that was anticipated. |