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Show VOL. IV., NO. 45. ROOSEVELT, UTAH, PIETY CENTS PER YEAR JANUARY 1, 1923. M Bounties Reach A Beef Cattle Reach Record Price in 1927 Total of $28,028 in October $4.30 Higher Than at Corresponding Time in Uintah County Gets Her Share of Money Expended., by State ..for Bomnty. Bounties amounting to $28,028 were paid by the state on 5064 predatory animals during 1927, according to statistics compiled by L. E. Iverson, secretary of the state board of agriculture, by which the The bounty law is administered. skins on which the bounties we:e paid were sold for $10,331.75. The animals on which bounties were paid consisted of 4082 coyo'es 922 bobcats, 33 mountain lions, 26 bears and 1 timber wulf. Includes tn this numbtr of skins were those nf 764 c:yotc pups and If. bobcat kittens, which had no market val-tThe net cost to the sire per animal v. s $3.50. Boxelder county led th state in the number of bounties on preda tory animals killed during 1927, there having been 527 coyotes and 112 bobcats slain there during the year. Millard county was second with 481 coyotes and 44 bobcats; Tooele third with. 438 coyotes and 72 bobcais, and Uintah fourth with 412 coyotes and 129 bobcats. e. There is, perhaps, not yet a full realization by farm women that failure to play means that work becomes drudgery and that failure to rest means that work becomes forced and of poor quality. No one needs a vacation away' from home more than does the housewife. The 116th Holstein cow to produce In excess of 1000 pounds in a year is Dutchland Creamelle Mary Girl, a old, owned by Dutchland farm, Mass- but-terf- at achusetts. Her record, recently finished, is 26,842.2 pounds milk, pounds fat (1269.21 pounds of butter.) Uintah Basin grazes 50-00- 0 head of cattle, 200.-00- 0 head of sheep and 15.000 head of other livestock. The Improved farms count ,100,000 550,000 acres, while acres of irrigable land produce a large share of the wests alfalfa seed; 50.000 stands of bees provide honey by the carload. Average 1926. The year 1927 saw great strength develop in the cattig market. A decline in receipts of cattle at markets eaincidently with a heavy demand for be$f, resulted in a situation that was tne most encouraging in ten yeais. With the txception of the war period of 1917 to 1920, cattig prices during the fall of 1927 were the highest on record for all time. In October the supplies of western range cattle were particularly low, with estimates of cattle received in Chicago for that month placed at a total of 2&0.000, as compared with receipts in the same month in 1926 amounting to 330,000. Based on averages of 1921 to 1925, October of 1927 showed a per cent basis of 96 as compared with 109 during October 1926. Naturally this was reflected in an average price of beef steera. tar the last week in October of $14, which was $4.03 higher than, at the like time in 1926. A situation the reverse of that pertaining to cattle was that surrounding hogs. During 1927 the hog market was in the doldrums, uu'eaoed demand and heavy shipments causing a lowering of prices. Hog products in storage in the U. S. were greater than in 1926, frozen pork alone amounting to 76,- 788.000 pounds, as against 49,- 376.000 pounds for the corresponding date of 1926. Running more nearly in accordance with 1926 figures, sheep and lambs maintained a fairly steady price level in 1927. Prices of lambs were about even with the year be-fwhile sheep were but a trifl9 lower. Receipts at markets on the whol were about as equal to 1926 although as usual, during the last Route to Bring Water From The from the point of intake on Yellow- two months, receipts were less in Creek to Uintah stone creek to reach the summit of volume because by that time most Yellowstone of th flocks have been marSide of Dry Gulch System Made the bench which is north and west keted.' large or Ciay Basin. However, it will Shorter. With the storage facilities existeliminate all the rough broken in the United States, the dairy ing and the brakes of Clay The Board of Directors of the country which Industry is helped materially in its have been the most season Basin, of large production. The yeai Dry Gulch Irrigation company met objectionable portion of the former 1927 a most favorable producwas Tuesin the office of the company The report was discussed survey. tion period, with a total butter day at which time they received the at considerable length and accepted. production report of the reconnoissance survey A committee of the Board of Di- season of during the flush of the close to 160,000,000 which has recently been completed rectors was appointed to interview each for pounds water month, an increase of the proposed route to take which of 3 those irrigation companies 4 to cent to per over during the seafrom the Yellowstone creek should be vitally interested in the son. Gulch the Uintah side of the Dry and Moon Lake Reservoir project The production of concentrated system. This work has been com- which can be served by the proposed Moon milk also reflected the favorable ; pleted in connection with the reservoir and from which so far no Lake and a route selected that is report has been received signifying summer condition which prevailed considered much more feasible than their desires to acquire an interest tn dairy sections, the output of: the one surveyed by Engines Woolf in the project. It is desired that as comdenseries during August being about 1924. The route will require approximately 25 per cent greater-thain August of 1926. a ditch six and a half miles long (Continued on page three) pri-mt- yy Moon Lake Project Discussed By Many Big Water Users or, 4 n |