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Show Mews Notes j 2 It's a Privilege to Liv in I Utah I i KING U AM Utah silver-lead stocks, notwithstanding proholiday conditions, manifested strength during Wednesday's Wednes-day's sessions of the Salt Luke Stock snd Mining Exchange. Other parts of the market developed an easier tone, particularly medium . priced issues. Jiinghani Metals led speculatives with Hading in nearly 20.000 shares and an advance, from 9 l-4c to 11 l-2c on the utreriglh of the gold discovery in the Bingham property. Alta issues were lirm and buoyant. OGDEN National forests will soon contribute $-10,624 to the Utah school and road funds, according to an ' announcement an-nouncement made by E. C. Shepherd, supervisor of the Wasatch National forest, Wednesday. This amount, he said, represents 25 per cent of the receipts re-ceipts of national forest timber sales and grazing fees during the fiscal year, and is $8000 more than the amount contributed to Utah in 192G. PARK CITY The output of Utah mines grew from 8000 tons in 1870 to 4,434,000 tons in 1926. OGDEN Edward R. Lovewell, geologist geol-ogist of New York City, is sanguine of prospects of oil-finding in Utah, he said in an address before the Ogden liotary club at the luncheon held in Hotel Bigelow. Mr. lovewell said he considers that Utah will be an oil state ranking with California, Oklahoma Okla-homa and Texas in time. He told of a survey he made in the Uintah basin, where he regards prospects for oil location lo-cation good. OGDEN District Engineer B. J. Finch of the United States bureau of public roads, speaking at the Exchange club in the Hotel Bigelow, explained the road building program In Utah. He said that the highway from Brigham City to Mantua may be rebuilt the coming season and that negotiations are under way for the rebuilding of the highway between Evanston and Echo to eliminate all heavy grades. WASHINGTON Exports of merchandise mer-chandise from Utah were valued at ?413,3o8 during the second quarter of corresponding period of 1926, an increase in-crease of $273,063, according to figures made public by the department of commerce. com-merce. PRICE Heavy production is reported re-ported from the coal mines in Carbon county. An average of 900 tons daily has been taken out of the Utah Fuel company mine at Clear Creek. Spring Canyon reports 24,250 tons mined between be-tween December 1 and 15. Hiawatha mined and shipped 54,500 tons during the last half month. OGDEN Weber county commissioners commis-sioners voted to appropriate $15,500 toward to-ward the expenses of conducting the Osden livestock show, January 7 to 12. Of this amount, $500 must go to building build-ing up the seed show department of the annual exhibition and $250 for the poultry show. The three exhibits will be staged at the same time in the Ogden Og-den coliseum. OGDEN The Utah Canners" association associ-ation voted to hold the annual convention conven-tion at the Hotel Bigelow here on March 2 and 3. Thirty-five canners were present, representing all factories. factor-ies. Tom Leslie presided in the absence ab-sence of John L. Pierce of Brigham, v, ho is ill. The canners voted to subscribe sub-scribe the state quota for the observance observ-ance of national canned foods week. VERNAL Glen A. Lambert, forest i anger, has returned from a trip over t'.ie Vernal district of the Ashley national na-tional forest, and reports heavy storms throughout the area during the past ten days. Twenty inches of snow was measured at the Adams saw mill on Dry Fork mountain, forty miles northwest north-west of Vernal, and eighteen inches at the Trout creek ranger station, twenty-seven miles north of Vernal. SALT LAKE There has been an average av-erage of 1500 pounds of mail handled daily av Airport postoffice January 1, this year. Airmail mileage credited to Salt Lake, in and out, for the year so far aggregates more than 2,000,000 miles. BRIGHAM CITY Brigham City's budget for 192S, with a total of $124,-028.09, $124,-028.09, was fixed by the city council at its meeting held this week from the general taxes a total of $44,500 is expected, ex-pected, while $45,890 is expected from the municipal electric plant; $19,000 from water system; $2494.09 from irrigation; ir-rigation; $"350 from licenses, $5000 from the city court, $2500 from the cemetery; $294 from parking district, and $1000 from miscellaneous. PLEASANT GROVE One hundred thousand fleeces, weighing approximately approxi-mately 900.000 pounds, which comprise com-prise the famous Jericho wool pool, were purchased by C. I. Tuttle and J. O. Loughlin of Salt Lake, representatives represen-tatives of Draper & Co. of Boston. A liut price of 35 cents per pound was paid for the wool, with a 1 per cent discount for tags. A cash advance of $1.00 per fleece was made. John Old- ' royd and George Cook of Fountain Green represented the pool as selling agents. PRICE Hearing on the injunction i-sucd by Judge George Christensen of Carbon county to restrain the state read commission and contractors from p.-ocfc d::ig with the construction of j the fct'.eral aid highway project in 1 Price canyon will be held at Price, Dc-cepil). Dc-cepil). r 29, it was announced Thurs- j dr.y at the offices of the state road ! c".iinii."sio.'i. II. S. Kerr, chief engin- vr of the road commission, and V I!::! Far:', dopuiy attorney general, v f 1 J appear for the state at the hearing, hear-ing, and Mr. Kerr expressed eonfi '.ncc the dlliculty coul! be straight- j (.ncd out. . ' |