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Show : News Notes I It't a Privilege to Live in Utah j Safe and Sound Stop and let the train go by. 1 It hardly take a minute; : Your car starts off again intact, And better still you're in it- I Boston Transcript. ' Salt Lake Purchase of 50.000 j tYayne county wool fleeces, coinpris- ing the Rabbit valley clip, by Dewey ; Gould & Co. of Boston, was announced. The deal is the first Utah wool contract con-tract to have been executed this year and was handled by Howard Cand-land, Cand-land, local agent for the Boston company. com-pany. The price was 2e3 cents a pound. Monticeilo The closely contested rabbii drive same to a close Wednesday Wednes-day night after all the ammunition in Grand and San Juan counties had been used up. Rabbits were plentiful, the. weather was ideal for tie hunting and only the ammunition was short, so supplies were requisitioned from Grand Junction. Dove Creek, Bland-ing Bland-ing and Mcab. The rabbit ears were counted at Yroung theatre Wednesday evening and the White, under J. W. Hansen, were declared the winners by the small margin of fifty-one rabbits. The final count was: Whites, J. Y Hansen. 1406; Reds, J. E. Weston, captain. cap-tain. 1435. making a total will of fJSSl oi me pests. Salt Lake From 191S to 1924, the proportion of enrollment in average daily attendance in Utah schools increased in-creased from 77.7 per cenut to 91.5 per cent. Price One hundred new steel lockers lock-ers are being purchased for the Carbon Car-bon county high school and will be installed immediately upon their arrival. ar-rival. The cost is approximately $600. Unusually large increases in attendance attend-ance at the. school have made the locker lock-er shortage quite a problem. As many as three students have been using the same locker. Salt Lake Statistics compiled by the bureau of reclamation, department of the interior, show that last year s'.tgar beets were grow-n on 62.407 acres on eleven federal irrigation projects, proj-ects, producing 614, 3S6 tons valued at $4,916,233, or $74 per acre. Salt Lake The Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad purchased, in 1926. 300 per cent more of its supplies sup-plies in Utah than during the previous year, according to W. B. Hall of Denver, Den-ver, chief purchasing agent of the road. Mr. Hall attended the annual conference of the road's storekeepers held in Salt Lake. Wednesday evening eve-ning for Denver. - Price With the recommendation already al-ready made for a new J115.C90 federal building in Price out of a lump sum appropriation ap-propriation of J200.C00.0OO, whicj congress con-gress is expected to make this session, the problem now arises of obtaining a suitable building site at a cost of which will not cripple the erection of an adequate structure with the fund to be made available. Vernal After two weeks of milder weather, during which the mercury of the official weather station's thermometer thermom-eter remained above zero, a change set in on the night of January 21, the mercury again dropping to 30 degrees below zero. Only one light precipitation precipita-tion of snow has occurred, the fall being be-ing less than half an inch, during the past ten days. The ground throughout through-out Ashley valley is stiil covered with snow frwm the storm (if two weeks ago. Delta The coldest weather experienced exper-ienced in Delta for several years prevailed pre-vailed here during the past few days, according to the government bureau at Deseret. which registered 35 .de-Tees below zero Saturday morning. 3 7 below be-low Sunday morning and II below Tuesday morning. Montieelio San Juan county is rejoicing re-joicing over the heavy snowfall which began Fliday afternoon and continued for t wenty-four hours. At Monticeilo a foot of snow of k ich moisture content con-tent fell. This is the heaviest snow fall experience. J this season and farmers farm-ers are jab-hint because they are promised prom-ised an abtmiiane (.f ji ri-'a t ion wat-r Bountiful With fifty feet of their work completed, contractors engaged in 'Irivinr a water lunm-l on the oity farr.i are now progressing at the rate i f six feet a day thruu-n a hard clay formation, it is learned by Erm st Mad-sen. Mad-sen. mayor of P.ontwiful. The work has b'-en going ahead japitlly. It is expected ex-pected that another 10-) feet of tunnel will open a water-bearing sand Bountiful Five protection measures ou IVumiful's newly acquired watershed water-shed wUl be taken by the city, accord- i ir to an announcement made by Erin Er-in si Madsin. mayor. Since an act of i cr.JRrc-RS, passed la-t week, enabled the city of Bountiful to acquire G-10 i am s cf land at (lie bead of Hclbroc k rr.nyon. the city now has 1200 acres ot mountain land, which Insures watershed water-shed protection. ' |
