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Show ! News Notes It's a Privilege to Live in j Utah j x Myton-Many sheepmen are bringing bring-ing in their flocks from the mountains and reserves and are putting them on range south of Myton. The following owners run their sheep on the range in that locality; Smith Brothers, Coleman Cole-man Brothers, Crystal Brothers, Roy Dillman and Paul Hansen. The scarcity scar-city of feed and water in the highei district caused the sheepmen to make the change. The sheep are in fine condition. Salt Lake Sheep raising in the Uintah Uin-tah basin is expanding rapidly. Turkeys Tur-keys are fitting in well with the agricultural agri-cultural scheme in that, territory. Alfalfa Al-falfa seed and honey long have been dependable producers of checks each fall. Soon the basin may be able to finance the-building of its own railroad, rail-road, providing these commodities re turn as basin folk hope they will. Ogden The Twenty-fourth street viaduct vi-aduct extension will be ready for use this week although all of the structure will not have been completed, it Is stated by Ora Bundy, contractor. Completion of the extension adds 1300 feet to the viaduct, which bridges a large system of railroad tracks between be-tween Wall avenue and the West Ogden Og-den hill, the extension has been completed com-pleted at a cost of $225,000, of which Weber county and Ogden city shared approximately $140,000. Ogden Eighteen head of outstanding outstand-ing Holstein cattle are coming to Utah from the national sale held this week at 1 Watertown and Waukesha, 'Wis., according to a telegram received by C. S. Potter, prominent dairyman, from Glibert Thatcher, who made the purchases pur-chases at the sale. Price The last load of sugar beets from the fields around Wellington has been shipped to the factories .of the Holly Sugar company of Colorado. A report of the payment to be made on the beets in addition to the guaran teed price, and also an analysis of the sugar content will be available after the beets are received at the factory. The crop in Carbon county is way below be-low normal this year. Salt Lake There have been more than SI, 000 head of livestock slaughtered slaugh-tered by the meat- packing plants of Salt Lake during the first eight months of 102G, J. II. Manderfield, general manager of the Salt Lake Union stockyards, stock-yards, announces. These figures include in-clude 25.2S9 head of cattle. 24,332 head of hogs and 31,045 head of sheep and lambs. Kaysville Several Davis towns have received their quota of war materials from the office of the state adjutant. In Kaysville and Layton a quantity of German rifles, helmets, machine guns, bayonets, shells of various caliber and other war trophies have been displayed display-ed in windows of local business establishments estab-lishments for several days. Myton Passengers earning into the basin Monday on the stage by way of Provo canyon and Strawberry valley reported a heavy snowfall in both places. Provo The Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe foundry at Ironton, three and one-I one-I half miles south of Provo. will com mence operation Monday, it was formally for-mally announced by officials of the company Thursday. Operations will begin on a small scale and will con tin ue to grow as intermountain and coast demands increase and as equipment equip-ment is added to the already fairly complete and modern plant, it is said. Myton The alfalfa seed harvest In the Uintah basin Is about completed. The crop of this season, according to those who are in a position to know, is "i0 per cent less than that of last j yea;-. Three and one-half million jronmls for 1926. as compared to seven million pounds for 1925. are the fig- 1 uves. j on With beet hauling almost i complied, and with an average of : u.i' tons of beets being handled daily, the ('.ill campaign of the Iayton Sugar eonipi'py is half finished. Sugar av- cr.i'es Ji-ive been running exeeuLiou-i- good, it is reported, and on several c. eu oons it has been necessary to flai.Uan the factory's pace in order that p!-:c- extraction of the sugar could : made. Sugar content in some ex- ; . i. n;.!!-- good batches of beets has .... n as h'tfh as 17Vi per cent. i Pa't I.nk- -Whipped by a 42-mile j sA: :i lev; in-; rainstorm swept over ! ..alt J. a',;- fnd vicinity early Tuesday ! :v...i ai'ic. leavir.;:. according to weath-I weath-I .v 1 - -1 1 ; : n vepov's. a precipitation of . .2 of an inch. The northwsst wind, j v '.ii- ii. reached its maximum intensity . I s'lt-rly after 3 o'clock, ripped the roof I i f ::;? huge east grandstand at the I fail "rounds from the steel structure j .-'id hurled it several feet south of the j stand. The damage is estimated at i S2200. according to Ernest Holmes. 1 -reiieral. manager of the state fair association. as-sociation. ' |