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Show ! News Notes It's a Privilege to Live in I Utah I Brigham City. The comissioncrs of Boxelder county are arranging for the building of a new $10,000 county jail, to be erected east of the present county jail site in this city. The location lo-cation is just south of the county courthouse and north of thi Mahannah hospital, the ground having been purchased pur-chased from Dr. D. L. Mahannah. Salt Lake City Total assessment valuation of property in the state of Utah in 1923 will probably amount to approximately $30,000,000 more than the minal assessment of 1925, judging by the increase shown in the valua- .,.lrt 1m, flio irnvinns rnunfv aS- LlUUO "mu 'ul- - sessors and by the increase in the net productions of the metal mines of the state during 1925. The mines are assessed as-sessed at three times the net production produc-tion for the preceding year. Ogden. National Commander John R. McQuigg of the American Legion has dispatched congratulations to Department De-partment Commander Arthur Woolley on the showing Utah has made in membership up to this time. Utah is one of the twenty-four states which had, on May 15, surpassed the total membership as of December 31st last. Salt Lake City. Utah cherries have made their appearance on the local market. Forty cases from Davis county coun-ty were on sale on Friday. The growers grow-ers of cherries in Davis county have contracted the greater part of their harvest this year with eastern dealers. Salt Lake City. The alfalfa weevil has caused a lot of trouble in Utah. Many methods have been used in the effort to beat the little pests, But Friday Fri-day a new mode of attack was started when George I. Reeves, chief of the , c enrtt Pnntnins Ulll ea.ll ui eiiLumuiu;,.,, .. A. F. Hsrrold and H. C. French on an aerial offensive. Brigham City. H. S. Kerr, assistant chief engineer of the state road commission; com-mission; B. W. Matteson, senior highway high-way engineer of the bureau of public roads, and District Engineer K. C. Wright left Brigham City to make a route inspection of the Tremonton-Strevell Tremonton-Strevell highway. They expect to return re-turn Saturday night. Salt Lake City. Marcus Harris, vice president of the B. Harris Wool company of St. Louis, purchased from the Southern Utah Wool Marketing association of Cedar City two pools of 6G.S00 fleeces, or about 000.000 pounds, at 2S and 30 cents. This purchase is the second largest pool for 1926, it being be-ing exceeded by the Jericho pool recently re-cently of 90,000 fleeces. Salt Lake City Full ' page colored views of Bryce canyon, Ogden and Provo canyons, Saltair, the Tabernacle block and many other points of scenic interest in Utah are featured In the newest advertising pamnniei pm-msu ed by the Denver & Rio Grande Western West-ern railroad. The photographs were collected from various sources, but the manuscript was written entirely by Arthur Chapman, Western author. Provo. work on the plant to be es tablished here by the Pacitic btates Cast Ivon Pipe company will begin early in June, according to information informa-tion disclosed Friday. J. R. McWane, president of the company, has made preliminary preparations to rush work through during the summer months, and he expects to have the plant in operation by the middle of November. Salt Lake City Utah's cherry crop of 1926 is expected to equal in quantity quanti-ty and value the crop of a year ago, according to Utah state farm bureau officials who commented on the official offi-cial tabulation announced by Frank Andrews, federal crop statistician for Utah, on the 1925 crop. Utah's total commercial crop of cherries in 1925 totalled 5,330.000 pounds, according to the United States Market News service. ser-vice. The value was placed at $500,-000. $500,-000. Ogden. An idea of crop conditions in Weber county was given to members mem-bers of the Rotary club by LeRoy Marsh, district agricultural inspector. He- said that the county would have one of is best agricullural seasons. Logan. Last Saturday directors of the various county farm bureau organizations organ-izations met with Comity Agent R. L. Wrigley and State Commissioner of Agriculture Harden Rennion to dis cuss a campaign which has been begun be-gun against a number of certain weeds in the county. Myton. Ileber J. Webb of Salt Lake City, slate agricultural inspector arrived in the Uintah basin Monday to spend a week in this part of the slate. Mr Webb is here for the purpose of inaugurating a campaign to fight two weeds, the Russian knapweed hoary cress, or white top. |