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Show News Notes It 's a Privilege to Live In UTAH r 'i LEHI In 192S a prominent Utah farmer received a check of $18,900 for sugar beets raised en 150 arces. DRAPER In 1928 a total of 690 carloads of eggs, valued at ?3,906,-613. ?3,906,-613. were shipped from Utah points. KAYSVILLE A total of 475 carloads car-loads of Spanish onions were shipped ship-ped out of Utah in 192S, the Extension Ex-tension Division of the University of Utah announces. MANTI Beginning Monday, Oo-tober Oo-tober 21, with three government and state veterinarians at work at Indianola, Mil'ourn and Oak Creek, respectively, the county-wide tubercular tu-bercular test for dairy cattle la Sanpete will begin. WASHINGTON More devastation devasta-tion has been caused by forest fires the last summer than at any time since 1910. Reports from the United States forest service show ?2,G57,-544 ?2,G57,-544 expended on fire control from July 1 to September 20. Weather conditions were largely responsible for the great Increase in -forest fires this year. AMERICAN FORK Sugar beet harvesting commenced recently In Sanpete and Sevier counties, with every prospect that the harvest would total nearly 70,000 ttvas, double the output last year, W. H. Ross, president of the Gunnison Sugar company, Salt Lake, reported. report-ed. The Gunnison factory will commence com-mence operations soon. RICHFIELD With the opening of the deer season, much speculation specula-tion rife among the local sportsmen sports-men as to the prospects of getting "your buck" the first day of the season. The consensus of opinion Is that the present fine weather will find deer well up in ths hills and that quick and early kills are unlikely. DRAPER The Draper Development Develop-ment corporation, formed to subdivide sub-divide Into small chicken ranches a tract of 113 acres near Sandy, filed articles of incorporation in the office of the county clerk recently. Capital stock of the company, which, will have headquarters at Salt Lake, is listed at ?50,000, with 60,-000 60,-000 shares at ?1 a share. UTAH Big game hunters of Utah are cleaning their guns for one of the best shooting seasons yet offered In the state, according to J. Arthur Mecham, state and game commissioner. Licenses wfU be issued to 535 hunters of bull elk, while more than 6000 big mule deer are expected to be shot by sportsmen sports-men in a score of sections throughout through-out the state. PROVO Fruit growers of Utah county, whose orchards are Infested with San Jose scale, are warned by County Inspector H. V. Swenson not to sell or ship any of their fruit to the markets, as all orchards of the county, Infested with this disease, dis-ease, have been placed under quarantine as provided for in the quarantine orders of the state department de-partment of agriculture. GUNNISON The season's shipment ship-ment of turkeys from Utah to eastern east-ern markets will tatal more than 75 carloads, and will bring to the state approximately $1,800,000, Al-bertus Al-bertus Willardson, assistant manager man-ager of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative association, announced recently. The association's Thanksgiving Thanks-giving turkey pool alone will amount to more than 45 carloads. UTAH Failure of duck huntei'3 to observe the rules and regulations governing the shooting on the public shooting grounds near Corinne prompted J. Arthur Mecham, state fish and game commissioner, to again announce that shooting on the grounds is only allowed Sundays Sun-days and Wednesdays. Hunters who have been going to the grounds on other days Have been turned away. DUCHESNE Information by state road officers is that construction construc-tion of two bridges and the reconstruction recon-struction of another will immediately immedi-ately be put under way by the state, on the state road west of Tabiona on the upper Duchesne river. The bridge over Farm creek will be 60 feet long with three spans, and the bridge over Squaw creek will be 50 feet long, of like construction. The present bridge over the north fork of Duchesne on tke Wolfe creek road will be Improved by using us-ing 65-foot stringers, the present bridge not being large enough to take care of high water. SHOSHONE On the grounds that the destructive fires in north central Idaho this summer drove great numbers of game animals out of their safe retreats toward the more open areas which are directly direct-ly traversed by traffic highways, sportsmen of Lemhi and Custer counties and other sections of this part of the state have induced the state game commissioner to close certain sections to hunting this falL ' The petitioners insisted that to permit per-mit hunting under such conditions would annihilate most ot the game animals In the territory |