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Show News Notes I Z It 'a a Privilege to Live in I I Utah f LOGAN The proposed budget for 1D2D in Cache county is $2911.99 less than the total appropriation for 192S: According to the tentative budget just prepared by County Auditor Carl V. Mohr, total appropriations in 1929 will be $214,584.75. The county budget for the current year was $217,170.74. EEAVER Five degrees below zero Monday and Tuesday nights has ushered usher-ed in real winter weather. Twenty-four Twenty-four above zero was the high mark for the day Monday. School children in the lower grades were sent home in the middle of the forenoon because the school building did not heat sufficiently suffi-ciently to prevent suffering. OGDEN The determination of the road committee of the Ogden chamber of commerce to use every effort in securing the proposed highway from Himtsville in Ogden canyon to Randolph, Ran-dolph, Rich county, over Monte Cristo mountain, will open up a great sheep, cattle and agricultural territory, according ac-cording to experts. SALT LAKE Continuing its steady descent, the mercury dropped to 9.4 degrees above zero in Salt Lake, only tour-tenths of a degree above the low-mark low-mark of last winter, registered December Decem-ber 18. And, with the barometer pressure pres-sure remaining exceptionally high, the probability is that still colder weather is in store for the city, according to J. Cecil Alter, goverment meterologist. HUNTINGTON Huntington and western Emery county in general are in the throes of rer.l winter weather. The most of last weeks' heavy fall is still on the ground, packed tight, accompanied by snappy weather. For the first time in over a dozen years, according to old-timers here, bobsleighing bob-sleighing is being indulged in and enjoyed. SALT LAKE The position of the United States as one of the leading mining countries of the world is being threatened, A. G. Mackenzie, secretary secre-tary of the Utah chapter of the Amer ican Mining congress, told the members mem-bers of the engineering council recently. re-cently. Encouragement is being given the industry in Canada and South American countries through low taxes which has resulted in a rapid development devel-opment during the past few year. HEBER CITY Prices of farm products pro-ducts continue to decline, the department depart-ment of agriculture stated Tuesday. On November 15 such prices were three points lower than last year and considerably less than during the preceding pre-ceding months. The greatest declines were noted for meat animals, grains and fruits and vegetables. Agricultural Agricul-tural prices, it was predicted, are not apt to recover high September levels during the next few weeks. PROVO The Salt Lake county commission com-mission recently authorsied the purchase pur-chase of a tractor with a snowplow attachment for $4423 for the roads and bridges department. Commissioners, Rulon T. Labrum and William H. Stena.ch.er voted affirmatively, while Commissioner Reuben T. DaUIquist opposed the measure. The latter held that he formerly acted as commissioner commission-er of the roads and bridges department depart-ment without such a vehicle and that the equipment was unnecessary. SALT LAKE A decrease of 2000 acres of fall sown wdieat for 1928 is shown in the repo. t given out Wednesday Wednes-day by FiT.nk Andrews, statistician of the department of agriculture. The 1923 acreage is estimated at 1G3.000, against the 1927 estimate of 165.000. Despite the acreage of the one year, a gain of 11,090 acres is reported since 1925. the statistics show. December 1, 192S, averaged S7 per cent of normal compared with 96 per cent for 1927. A ten-year average of 87 per cent was shown on Dccsmber 1. SALT LAKE Approximately $1,- 700.000 wr.s collected in the first eleven elev-en months of 192S in gasoline taxes, it was announced by the secretary of state recently. November collections amounted to 125,000, as compared with $112,000 in the co-.s'cs-.ponding period of 1927. The total fees collected by the secretan' of stats so far in the current rear amounted to $2,700,000 and includes, besides gasoline taxes, motor vehicle licenses, corporation taxes and miscellaneous fees. COALVILLE Working an aven ge o" eighty-nine men and forty head of slock daily, the Utah Cors!ruct:on company worked through November on the relocation o" the Lincrln h'li-way h'li-way and Union Pacific rr.ilroad aor.nd Echo reservoir. In addition to the 1 ' above forces, three steem shovels, four j dinkies and thirty dump cars were I used on this work, which wrs carried on principally bi the big cct at Grass ' Creole, where tTr r brrnc.li line to the i Grass Creek mines, the Park City I branch line and the I.i.c?In lvc'iwav I all crss Cr?ss Oeek on a big rock and earth fTI. TRICK -i"(.r the f.rst t'n.e in a nam her cC yniirs til ? tvo i ivol football j schools of this region will moet on 1 the hardwood court. A proposed trip of (he Grand county b'.yu fr-m i:nab cr.lls for l!ie:n to play C'irbon here I lv.mii ry 30 ('-rural hich at Cr.stls j Dc!2 Jr.n-,a:ry 11 and Terro!! Irr 1- a' Fe.-vrn J.-::r .-it The only t.ts-n j j from Orbou ii:v:;.'on ni"!;.'n a tr'p into th? refern d'vc"inn. r,:i y-1' scV 'I-ultd, 'I-ultd, is Ferrer, v hh is sk;'e! t ) p: y Gre.r..-: cue;;.- ?:-..-.'. it is w"-: - idea id-ea yet cs to ejci'T nr net Huntl-g-ton will ir.:.t C;c-.r JViver en te.c iaUee's floor. |