Show news notes its it a a privilege to live in utah salt lake city an increase of 19 per cent in wool consumed in tho the first six elx months of over the amount consumed cono umed timed in the same saino months in 1925 Is reported by the department of commerce in common commenting ting upon this au no F R marshall secretary of tho national association tion stated that tile figures were of especial interest on account of tho the numerous art articles lelos recently appearing in the press in reference crenco to tile the serious decline in wool consumption and tho the rate of increase in the use of substitutes utes for wool brigham city sportsmen sportsman of the state who make a practice of 0 hunting in the marshes west of Brig brigham hain city each year will find the ducks and wild birds in excellent condition at tho the opening of the hunting season this fall by reason of tho the caro care and attention that has boon been given bird life in this section during the summer by deputy game janies james S hull and ills his associates veriver Be nea river ver harvesting Is in full swing owing and threshing will begin within tho the next few days some of the fields of grain are reported to bo be an avor ago age crop while others are not yielding heavy in some iastan instances ces the grain has been threshed out by hall hail storms Drig harn city brigham cites ell EI borta berta poach peach crop Is good this year find and will be on the tha market quite early growers will begin to pick in real earnest in a week from now and the peak of the harvesting will be reached before the end of the month myton storms every day for a week culminated in one of the storms ever experienced in this locality wednesday rain came down in sheets and hall was deposited in some places three inches dop deep the hall covered an area of about five miles long and a mile wile while considerable sid old erable damage Is noted it la Is thought that the seed was not seriously hurt none of it being ripe and as the plant was waa wot wet from previous rains it was not easily damaged salt latte lake city data on the forestry industry in the intermountain sates eates utah and idaho are contained in the annual forestry almanac of the american tree association recently published this almanac Is published in the interest of the lumber conservation movement and contains similar data aada from every state vernal lien tenant J 11 peters of san ban francisco representing the V U 9 geodetic survey was in vernal this week to set up a magnetic compass at the courthouse grounds those these in trump nta are established in north and I 1 south parallel paralle I 1 locations of tho the air mall mail oute aute and eventually in every county seat said mr air peters petera the lieutenant la is working between utah and california salt lake city if a motor truck gives you a dust barrage on the highway between hero and the uintah basin grin ard and boar it that Is if you aro are a doyal citizen of 0 snit salt lako lake you can afford to that motor truck and nineteen others operating between hero anil and th tho albasin basin aro are adding more than a halt half billion dollars a year to tho the prosperity of salt lake salt lako lake city with the object in view of compiling accurate data tor for the manufacturers of the tha state tho the in du department of the chamber of 0 commerce Is conducting two surveys one of which Is to ascertain what products manufactured hero here may be profitably exported and the other to determine to what extent utah coal mines may hope hopa to compote compete with those of the middle west beaver moro rain has fallen since tho the first of august than luring during all tho the previous months of tho the year mondays i rainfall reached six teutha tenths of an inch with a little less lesa tho the pending day A total for the nine alno days in august amount to 16 ol erf an inch haying is being hampered by dally storms pros proa poets tor for a third cutting ot of hay aro are good in the rainy belt washington tho the condition or of tho the utah apple crop on august 1 1926 indicated a production of bushels subject of course to weather and other influences between now and harvest according to tho the bureau ol 01 0 agricultural economics division of crop and livestock estimates of the united states department of agriculture brigham Brig harn city fruit crop with tho the exception ot of apples will bo be considerably larger than the crop of 1925 according to the report issued wednesday by frank andrews federal agricultural statistician tho the peach crop this year Is estimated at bushels as compared agal against ast bushels last iasi year |