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Show News Notes : It's a Privilege to Live in i Utah i Selt Lake Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Jardine has been asked to have a personal representative at the regional region-al conference on agriculture, sponsored spon-sored at Salt Lake, October 1 and 2 It is related to the secretary that this conference will bring out a cross-s-ec-tion of agriculture in the eight states to be represented, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona. Montana, and New Mexico which the government department should have Logan What is commonly callec "water core" in Utah grown Jonathan Jona-than apples is a serious handicap to the marketing of the crop, asserts T. H. Abell, assistant horticulturist at the Utah Agricultural experiment station. Interstate shipments of water cored fruit have been condemned condem-ned and the orchards producing them have received a commercial black eye. Brigham City All crops figuring in Boxekler county's agricultural program, pro-gram, save the sugar beet, came through the 1926 season with a satisfactory sat-isfactory production, it is indicated in a consensus taken during the county's annual Peach Day celebration here Friday and Saturday. The sugai beet situation is, however, quite serious', ser-ious', for the county counts upon the beet money every fall. Normally Boxelder produced betwee 225,00C and 250,000 tons of beets, and last year the beet fields of the county averaged av-eraged 26.1 tons. This year production produc-tion will do well to hold to one-quarter of the 1925 total, and but one factory, fac-tory, the Garland plant, will operate. Price The big Horsley dam in Pleasant valley, near Scofield, was formally accepted at a meeting of the three directors of the Price Rivei Water Conservation district, promo-tors. promo-tors. Salt Lake Invitation to have one or more representatives at the annua convention of the Western Association Associa-tion of Highway Officials, which will be held in San Francisco, October 7 to 15, has been received by the Utah state land commission. It has no1 been decided yet whether the local commission will be represented there, it was announced. Murray The Murray City fire department's de-partment's new quarters are rapidly tearing completion. The fire department depart-ment occupies a building at the rear of the city hall. Recently an exten-ive exten-ive improvement program, which included in-cluded enlarging the building, was started. The walls have been extended extend-ed several feet higher and a new roof has been constructed. The work will be completed within the next few days. Ogden A fierce forest fire raged Thursday on Causey creekv twenty-five twenty-five miles northeast of Ogden, and a large force of men under W. H. Anderson, An-derson, county game warden, were busy all afternoon fighting the flames. Bait Lake That there will be a railroad rail-road through the Uintah basin within the next few years is the prediction of Senator William H. King, expressed mrsday in an adress to the Board if governors of the chamber of commerce. com-merce. Senator Jving was Invited Dy the board to discuss matters with regard re-gard to the development of the Uintah basin, and the effect upon Utah to the completion of the Moffat tunnel. Ogden The Utah Construction company com-pany Thursday received word that the contract for bulldirg the Gibson dam in Montana had been awarded to the Ogden company. The company received re-ceived word three weeks ago that it was low bidder with a figure of $1,556,000, which was assurance that the contract would be awarded later, j Price That one of the greatest : needs of Price in the way of civic improvement is a public pay camp ground, is the opinion expressed by Dr. H. B. Goetzman in a letter to the ' membership council of the Price chamber cham-ber of commerce, which was organ-; organ-; ized a few days ago for the expres3 , purpose of furthering just such enter-i enter-i prises. Salt Lake "Salt Lake already the 1 'Omaha of the air.' " Colonel Thur-j Thur-j man H. Bane, formerly chaif engineer of the air division of the United States army said when he arrived at Woodward Wood-ward field after flying to Salt Lake from Los Angeles. That Salt Lake cannot fail to become ' one of the most important cen-; cen-; ters of flying activity in the nation ! because of its strategic position and I the enthusiastic cooperation of th i city, was asserted by Colonel Bane. Panguiteh At the last meet;ng of 'he county commissioners it was ile-; ile-; tided to give the voters of Garfield I coiu:ty a chance to vote on a bond is-i is-i me for the purpose of building roads I in this section of the country. |