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Show J Nevs Notes J It's a Privilege to Live in Utah 1 r. - ; ( ' ' V - . ' v '- . ' ' v t ; .- ,', k : . In the Limciisht, Alex H. Dunn, of Tcoele, 'resident oi' T!te Utah Press Association Kphraiin Of the 25,902 farms in Utah, 7157, or 27 per cent, hold grazing graz-ing permits on national forests, it is reported by the Manti National forest olliee here. Of the 50-1. UGii head of cat-le cat-le on these farms, l !1.2o2 head, or 28 percent, have forest range permits, and of the 2, 1155, 03s sheep owned within with-in the state, 747,:!0!, or 32 per cent, have similar grazing permits. The farms total $,000,724 acres, or 0.55 pel-cent pel-cent of the total land area of the state. Vernal Beekeepers of Utah will Hold their annual meeting in Salt Lake on December 1-1 and 15, according to II. PI Hillinan. state apiarist. Experts from the agricultural department in ii-.. .1.: .;n .. .....l .,-; v v a Sillily i on u in aiieuu u.ivi u m ut; liver short talks on the industry. It is probable that action looking to a move uniform handling of the honey crop in the several western states and the stabilizing sta-bilizing of prices will be taken. Salt Luke Dates for the tenth annual an-nual livestock show were announced Friday at the chamber of commerce. The annual exhibition of prize livestock live-stock will be held at the Salt Lake Union stockyards, North Stilt Lake, March 20 to April 2, 1027. J. H. Man-derlleld Man-derlleld was appointed manager of the show. An appropriation of $15,954 was made by the chamber for the show. Myton Diversified farming is being-urged being-urged by several in the Uintah basin as a necessity on the part of the farmer. farm-er. The J. C. Peppard Seed company, with offices at Duchesne, Roosevelt and Vernal, although engaged in buying buy-ing and raising alfalfa seed, is urging farmers to raise dairy cows. liphraim The Manti nativtal forest for-est service reports the following snowfall snow-fall for November, 192G; Measurements Measure-ments above Ephraim are made at the Oaks. Great Basin experiment station and the Alpine station. A Marvin snow guage is installed at each station, thus making it possible to get very accurate accu-rate measurements of the amount of recipitation for a definite period. Roosevelt The board of governors of the chamber of commerce voted the sum of $100 to the Parent-Teacher association as-sociation playground committee. This committee, which consists of Homer P. Edwards. Mrs. D. P. Whitemore and Leo D. Young, has already raised considerably con-siderably over $100, which, with the chamber's appropriation, assures a good nucleus for furnishing the playground play-ground of Roosevelt's new elementary school building. Salt Lake The men who hunt predatory pred-atory animals in Utah and keep the ranges, used by livestock operators, free from these killers have some of the qualities of the romantic northwest north-west mounted police. When the police take the tiail "to get their man," as the movie subtitles say. they stay on the trail until the villain has been brought to Justice. "as the subtitles further fur-ther read. Similarly, the predatory animal an-imal hunter keeps after the bear, or the lion, or the wolf until it is trapped of poisoned or otherwise sent into the great beyond of departed creatures. Ogden The Lyon Construction rom-pany rom-pany of Ogden has been awarded the contract to constuct four bridges on the Vernal-Fort Duchesne highway by the state read commission, at a cost of J44.955.:17. Contract for the construction construc-tion of the Monticelio-I-Vters Hill highway high-way in San Juan county has bvn approved ap-proved by the commission. The contractor con-tractor is .1. T. Raleigh. Myton Acordnig to A. (1. Xord. supervisor, su-pervisor, of Vernal, final arrangements arrange-ments have been made for tile transfer trans-fer of an area of 2.0.000 acres from the Wasatch to the Ashley forest. The area embraces "no east fork of Smith's fork drainage. Tins is done tor Ik; purpose of facilitating administration of the forest unit. Glenn A. Lambert, ranger, will have charge of the Ashley I forest. |