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Show i News Notes j It' a Privilege to Live in a Utah I DUCHESNE A quarter of a million mil-lion dollars worth of honey came out of the Uintah basin during 1927. SA.LT LAKE The total valuation of all Utah crops in 1927, at prices paid to growers, has been estimated conservatively at $39,000,000. The estimated total of acres planted to all crops was 1,120,000. PLEASANT GROVE More than 5000 barrels of Utah strawberries were "cold packed" in 1927 and distributed throughout the country for use in soda fountains and by candy manufacturers. The crop last year totaled 2,544,000 quarts, valued at ?305,000. TREMONTON -The bulk of the wheat grown in this section has been harvested, there having been shipped from this point in the first month since the first car was loaded, July 11, 101 cars. From Garland during the same period there was shipped 133 cars, each car averaging about 1200 bushels. The Garland shipments represent the crops from Portage. EUREKA Tintic mines shipped a total of 149 carloads as compared with 115 carloads for the week preceding. The Tintic Standard shipped 42 carloads; car-loads; North Lily, 24; American Smelting Smelt-ing & Refining, dump ore, 15; Empire Mines, 10; Bingham Mines, 10; Colorado, Colo-rado, 9; Mammoth, 4; Dragon, 2; Tr; n . 1 r7J rUnl-n 1 lviouiiLa.m view, ttim vjuiu wwuj j.. Chief Consolidated units: Chief Consolidated, Con-solidated, 7 carloads of ore and 5 of dump ore; Eureka Lily, 10; Plutus, 8. SALT LAKE A total of 3180 acres of land in Utah and Idaho will be open for settlement soon, according to word received by the Associated Press from Washington D. C. The land is scattered scat-tered throughout Custer and Blaine counties in Idaho and in Utah county in Utah. Veterans of the World war will have the first opportunity to file on the land. The land in Utah will be opened August 31, while the tracts in Idaho can be filed on beginning September Sep-tember 14. HEBER Vocational agriculture students of the Wasatch county high school at Heber will be represented at the national ram sale in Salt Ike with two pens of registered Hampshire Hamp-shire rams, including some twenty head of lambs and fifteen yearlings. The boys have set for themselves a minimum standard of 130 pounds for lambs and 200 pounds for the yearlings. year-lings. From a quality standpoint, it will be the best shipment yet made from the students of the school to the national sale. MT. PLEASANT Mt. Pleasant city will soon be protected from the menacing men-acing floods of past years, as a flood control project is under way two miles east of the city. A. F. Reynolds of Mt. Pleasant, who is in charge of the construction work, has 20 men and teams on the job. The excavation for the 30-foot, cobble spillway is now completely ready for the masonry work, which will begin at once. The north wing of the dike is completed and the south wing will be finished within 10 days. MYTON The road that Is being improved im-proved through the Pleasant Valley district will be completed in a couple of days, so W. E. Broome, overseer of construction, reports. The purpose of this activity is to put it in shape for the hflnrlllTltr nf cnnnlioo machinery for the test well for oil, to be started immediately. R. W. Gibson, a representative of the Utah Southern Oil company, is superintendent, of the work in this part of Utah, recently workmen began making excavations in preparation for the setting up of the derick. RICHFIELD The Sevier County Fair association reports that extensive training is going on at the fair grounds every day among owners of the race horses. About ten head of race horses are already on the ground from southern Utah, reckoned among the fastest in the state. They also have booked six head from Utah county, coun-ty, to arrive next week, promising the most interesting racing program to be held here in years. The dairy exhibit ex-hibit is also more promising that ever before, owing to the fact that a number num-ber of animals from important herds in Wisconsin and the northwest, have been entered. VERNAL Prospects for the 1928 alfalfa seed crop in Utah are 47 per cent of normal compared with GO per cent a year ago, Frank Andrews, agricultural ag-ricultural statistician for the United States department of agriculture announced an-nounced Wednesday. Increases or decreases de-creases from this estimate may result pending arrival of kiUing frosts, Mr. Andrews reported. Early frosts will bring production ln.m n,o )-: , and higher production will probably result if frosts are late, the report said. Lack of sufficient moisture lus caused the crop to lower from hist year s harvest and reports of stripping of blooms also have been made, Mr. Andrews stated. MYTON The Upalco Flour Mill in Myton, which is operated by C. P. Watterson, has opened for the fall and winter and recently l,efran roceivinl? new wheat. About 400 bushels wore received .n one day, some of which was of a superior quality, weighing sixty-four sixty-four pounds to the bushel. Mr Wat-erson Wat-erson estimates the crop for this SPa. V" the vicinity of Myton at 20 000 bubhe a, which is a ma,.kcd increase over that of previous years. In ad-able ad-able "to 6XPCC-tS t0 Purchase |