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Show News Notes ! I tt'a a Privilege to Live in Utah Ogden Weber county, western Wyoming, Wy-oming, eastern Nevada and northern Utah generally shivered when the temperature tem-perature took a drop well below Saturday's Sat-urday's minimum of 42 degrees. Rain fell intermittently during the day. The precipitation locally for Saturday and Sunday was only .15 of an inch, according accord-ing to Arie Van de Graaf, weather observer. ob-server. Mt. Pleasant Shearing of the Utah 1927 wool clip is practically completed. com-pleted. Indications at this time are that the production for the state will exceed last year's by between 200,000 and 300,000 pounds, bringing the total between 20.000.000 and 21,000,000 pounds. Exact figures on the year's clip will not be known until the regional region-al livestock statistician with the department de-partment of agriculture, G. A. Scott, makes his survey in June, but Mr. Scott believes now that last year's production total will be exceeded. Vernal Twenty-four forest officers were on the job and a total of 205 trees, scattered over a trifle less than a township of laud, were found and treated in the recent campaign against the bark beetle in the Ashley national forest of northeastern Utah. In the drive, approximately 15,000 acres of yellow pine timber susceptible to the destrictiveness of the pest, was examined. exam-ined. All beetle-infested trees were cut, peeled of the bark, and in many instances burned as a protective measure. Ogden During the cruise for bark beetle infested trees on the Ashley beetle infested trees on the Ashley for-National for-National forest several denizens of the forest were aroused from their lairs one mountain lion, three bears and several sev-eral small bunches of deer, says a report re-port by the district forrester. All wild animals seen appeared to have wintered winter-ed excellently. Erigham City Two hundred and forty thousand rainbow trout fry have been planted in the new state fish nursery at Mantua by Deputy Game Commissioner James S. Hull. Myton Uintah basin's new recreational recrea-tional pleasure resort has been named Victory park. The slogan adopted is, "Uintah Easin's Playground." It Is four miles east of Roosevelt in Ward Hollow, on the Victory highway. It was completed under the supervision of Dr. M. C. Campbell of Roosevelt. Utah Salt Lake experienced an unusual un-usual amount of precipitation with Saturday's Sat-urday's and Sunday's storm, according to officials at the local United States weather bureau. Tho total precipitation, precipita-tion, when measured at G o'clock Sunday Sun-day night, showed 1.S4 inches. For the twenty-four-hour period the moisture mois-ture precipitation was 1.81 inches. The average total precipitation for May Is 1.35 inches, so that the city has almost reached the normal mark, with only one week of the month gone. Eureka Wednesday was "good roads" day In the cleanup week. Many men of the district put in the day working on the road between Eureka and Dividend. "Good roads" day has become an annual event sponsored by the local KIwanis club. Provo The Salt Lake & tftah railroad rail-road announced Thursday that its limited lim-ited passenger trains Nob. 3, G, 9 and 10, will stop at Hibbard. Harris, Snow, Spencer, Curtis and Lukeview. According Ac-cording to A. J. Anderson, traffic manager, man-ager, trains have not stopped at these points heretofore. Monticello Property listed by the Juab county assessor this year was valued at a figure more than $125,000 higher than the final assessment on tho same property In 1920, according to returns from the Juab official received re-ceived Wednesday at the oflice of tho state board of equalization und assessment. assess-ment. Report from the Iron county assessor as-sessor received also indicates an Increase In-crease of close to $25,000 In the valuation valu-ation of property in that county. Castle Dale Application has been filed with the utato engineer by L. C. Moore of Rochester, Emery county, to construct a dam and a canal to divert water from Muddy creek In that county coun-ty to irrigate 12,808 acres of land. The proposed canal will be GO. 000 feet long, 22 feet wide at the top and 12 feet at tho bottom. Ho proposes to use an old diverting system which had been abandoned by other Interests. The lauds be proposes to Irrigate are all In township 21. Price Flumes for Ibo Carbon water company canal, whlel: were delayed In shipment several weeks, causiu;: considerable con-siderable anxiety minn;; fannes below be-low (lie rivi.-r, who ccld net -el In I-r;nlion I-r;nlion water for the.ir spring planting arrived thin wel: and urn ri'iw alioul im-lall'il. Farmers r.ru ;.'"inT a!" ail with their planting, wlili the s-isur line-'.' that w.Ver will lie available with in a fi v. day.i. |
