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Show ! News Notes : T ft 'a a Privilege to Liv in Utah I EPHRAIM Tho Huntington canyon can-yon road has been opened to automobile automo-bile travel since May 30. The new road in upper Huntington canyon was found to be too low. As a result the creek had cut channels across the road in several places. Two or three snowslides lower down in the canyon also made travel difficult. Until necessary nec-essary repairs are made, people going through the canyon can expect to experience ex-perience more or less trouble in negotiating nego-tiating certain parts of the road. MYTON H. B. Calder and T. G. Alexander of Vernal recently purchased pur-chased several pedigreed Jersey heifers hei-fers from the W. C. Winder herd in Salt Lake. The animals range in age from four months to two years. Mr. Alexander expects to bring into the county another herd of purebred Jerseys Jer-seys for the Uintah County Farm bureau. bu-reau. This organization attends to the distribution of the stock to the farmers. EPHItAIM Manti national forest reports that the feed is extremely short on the high ranges. However, the ground Is in excellent condition for plant growth, and with the present pres-ent warm weather it is hoped that the summer range will be ready for grazing graz-ing July 1. PRICE Excellent progress in the sugar beet thinning project undertaken undertak-en by Carbon county Boy Scouts Is reported. re-ported. About eighty boys, members of the various scout troops of the county, are at work in the beet field near Price. Thirty-five from the troops of the county, are at work in the beet fields near Price. Thirty-five from the troops of Price are working on the farms near Miller creek under the supervision su-pervision of Cyril Vance, making the trip to and from work daily in a large truck. LOGAN Registration at the Utah Agricultural college summer school will easily reach the 500 mark next M mday, according to advices given c.t. Nearly 400 students have registered regis-tered already and another 100 or 150 are expected to complete registration on Monday. JENSEN The bridge on the Victory Vic-tory highway across the Green river near Jensen, Utah, is safe, for ordinary travel, but is unsafe for heavy loads, District Highway Engineer E. R. Simpson wired the state road commission commis-sion Thursday. The condition of the bridge will in no way hamper tourist traffic Into the state from the east, Mr. Simpson advised. SALT LAKE Construction of the second cattle barn at the state fair grounds is being rushed now, it was announced Thursday by Ernest S. Holmes, manager of the state fair association. as-sociation. Work on the building has been delayed for the past six weeks while the hrick for tho outer walls of the building were being burnt. It was desired to have the outside walls of this building constructed of brick of the same coloring as those In the first new barn and It was necessary to wait until theRe could be produced. FROVO--Recognizing a long-felt need In Utah county for better fire protection for districts outside of the croporate limits of cities and towns of the county with Arc-flighting equipment, equip-ment, the board of county commissioners commis-sioners has negotiated contracts with outside cities to give outlying districts the some protection that Is given the respective cities, according to announcement an-nouncement of A. O. Smoot, chairman of the county board. SALT LAKE Lowest bidder for the contract for constructing the steel suspension brhlgo over Grand canyon, about seven miles below Loss Ferry. was the Kansas City Structural Steel compnny, according to a telegram received re-ceived by Secretary Tnttlo of tho Associated As-sociated General Contractors Thursday Thurs-day from l'hocnlx. Ariz., where the bids were opened In the otlicc of the Arizona state highway department. VERNAL The poisoning campaign against prairie dogs in Uintah county 'continues .with undiminished vigor. On June i activities wero shifted to i tho Lapolnt section, twenty miles west of Vernal, 25 men turning out under tho direction of V. L. Johnson, Held man of the biological survey, and County AgVnt. E. Peterson. Morn than eighty square miles of lands on Indian allotments and on tho public donialiy were treated with poisoned oats. 2'20i pounds being used In the operations. DUCHESNE Word Hint the Kiun-as Kiun-as Stoclunoro road into the Uintah basin, which litis been cloned by tl.'o dot p snowdrifts, Is now open, was re. cehed by 11. C. Khopli-ril. Was.-tleli national na-tional fon i t l uperv.sor. from llau;nr It. A. I'.eait-liiiinp. The ro id ban been closed nine'! early winter I y the heavy '.nii'.v and morn fell during April and Mny. I'r;h water throii; h ,ui tli" l)u-elKMi" l)u-elKMi" country will proven; uiy la-foratile la-foratile fl-diing. |