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Show I News Notes j It' a Privilege to Liv in ! Utah I a MOAB Oil and gas have been struck in the Lisbon No. 1 well of the Union Oil company of California, located lo-cated in Lisbon dome, forty miles southeast of Moab. While details of the strike and definite information as to the extent of the oil flow cannot be obtained in Moab, there is no question as to the authenticity of the report. PAROWAN The Sixth annual Southern Utah Rambouillet Sheep show and sale will be held August 19-20. 19-20. The show and sale in former years has been held during the middle part of September, but was changed this year in order that the Rambouillet Rambouil-let breeders of southern Utah might show their animals before taking them to the Salt Lake and other shows. MONROE A severe rain and hailstorm hail-storm passed over this vicinity, filling streets and ditches with streams of mud and water in a very short time. Gardens planted, lucerne and grain were beaten down by the force of the storm and large limbs were broken from trees. SALT LAKE Premium list of 1927 state fair, to be held October 1 to 8, incluisive, has been published and shows that plans have been made to bring the quality of the exhibit even in a hleher nlane than ever. The pre mium list is in booklet form and is comprised of something over 120 pages, including the index to advertisers. adver-tisers. MT. PLEASANT Utah wool production pro-duction for 1927 totaled 19,505,000 pounds, compared with 19,430.000 pounds in 192G. according to the July wool report of George A. Scott, livestock live-stock statistician for the department of agriculture in Utah, Issued this week. The amount of production places Utah as fifth state in the national na-tional wool production. PRICE Plans of the Price River Petroleum company Indicate optimism and faith In the oil-bearing possibilities possibili-ties of the geological structure underlying under-lying Price and vicinity. Drilling at the company's test in northeast Price, which is now down 2205 feet, will proceed pro-ceed to a depth of at least 2700 or 2S00 feet, or until the Salt Wash sands have been penetrated, according to Ed Walsh, driller. It is in the Salt Wash formation that the company hopes to find oil. LOGAN' The mayor and city council, coun-cil, together v.i'h Cache county school hoard members'. Olstn and Hammond, met at the Hyrum city hall to consider consid-er plans and specifications for a sprinkling system for the public ; square. A. II. Palmer of Logan was awarded he contract fur furnishing materials and installing an economy sprinkling system l' cover the entire s iiiare. The work expected to be completed in thirty days. Lawn will then be planted. PRICE---Delay of several hours td trains on the Denver i- Rio Grande Western railroad was caused Wednesday Wednes-day nlcht by washouts at Ciifi. between be-tween Woodside and Green River. A crew of workmen was kept busy all night repairing the section damaged by heavy cloudbursts in that area. SPANISH FOR K A. W. Anderson of Emeiy. president of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Honey Producers' association, was here yesteu!.,y conferring with beekeepers bee-keepers en die marketing of this season sea-son s hom y crop. Mr. Anderson had just completed a trip through Gunnison. Gunni-son. Salina and other southern towns. He risitec. hevkei pers at Springlike. Payso.i. S.wil.iquin and Spanish Fork and Aill complete his business trip in Sail Lake City. Beekeepers in Spring-vllle, Spring-vllle, Provo and other towns were visited Thursday. SALT LAKE -I'tal'. " '.mtu and tomato to-mato fields will ne studied next week by a party of scientists and experts whose life mission is to grapple with the problems of fanners when insects or plant diseases tlfeate:-. crops. The party will be met at Pocatelio. Idaho, next Friday by Dr. H. L. Richards, head of the department of botany and plant pathology of the Utah AKrlcul-I AKrlcul-I tutal colleKe. who will accompany the group (.11 a tour of Idaho's agricultural regions, which will precede the visit (n this state. M AN'TI The first heavy slortn to occur during the past month passed over this city and resulted In an inch of lalnfail. During the storm, linhtn-Ir.c linhtn-Ir.c struck the barn owned by Jens MU kelson In die southern part of this city and caused conshleralicl damage. VEIIN'AL At Its regular inciting the city council ordered closed . contract con-tract whereby a new trlple-c nblna-t"n nblna-t"n motor fire truck will be secured and Installed by October 1. This ma-cb'uc ma-cb'uc will be equipped with chemical apparatus and with pumps to force water from city wafer mains, canals or wells, us occasion requires. The. I motor Is ,,f ililrty horsepower capacity, enabling the lire department to make rapid runs to all parts of the city. I'll, I, MORE -. Although drought Ihronlciieil Millard county's seed alfalfa, al-falfa, crop, rains during d,,, ,,;1,,t week have saved the situation, and as a result re-sult of storms Millard county Is c-peeled c-peeled to he richer (bin f;x ,v . "ihUMMi. The lust ull'.,lf;i cnlting'm Millard counlv was abuudaul. After lh" Initial culling, however, luck or "'Oislure let;,, ,cd crop development I'lid as die drouvbi became more nciile "Poured Unit tile second Clop, which runnels growing for seed rnthcr Ibiiii ror buy. would bo n complete los.,, Thu rainfall has altered Iho Hltuallon! |