Show I 1 news notes its a fri privilege to liveli live in UTAH PROVO tho total orchard crop la in utah in ID 1928 including email fruits naul bad a valuation of MIDVALE celery growing still is an infant industry in utah but the product la Is recognized as a superior table delicacy the country over LAYTON utah growers have es established tab an enviable reputation in them the production of sweet c cherries berries last rears crop was worth and totaled pounds PRICE i one hundred pheasants have been planted by the abo emery county fish and game asso association clation through the efforts ot of their commissioner fred larson of castle dale larsen was in P price rice last week to receive a shipment of the birds and transfer them to t the he emery df district MYTON gideon basil who la Is farming in pleasant valley south 0 of tA myton lyton and whose land is under the taylor canal has made a good wheat yield tor for the uintah basin on virgin soil on a five acre tract mr basil threshed 40 bushels of wheat to the acre with the price of a wheat at 1 per bushel BINGHAM immense amounts of gravel were carried down to the paved highway one halt half mile east ot of ding ham bam during a cloudburst recently covering the road to a depth of nearly five feet tor for a di distance stanco of feet along the highway no one was vas in the vicinity at the time and traffic was later rerouted over another road VERNAL vennal A delegation from vernal representing the commissioners ot of uintah county and the local llona lions club early this week went to the KII K ranch near the colorado line where they met members ot of the colorado state road commission and discussed with them plans for the improvement of the U 8 40 highway from vernal to craig SPANISH FORK roads in diamond fork canyon were rendered impassable by heavy rains and cloud bursts recently A large number of 0 picnickers and fishermen were caught in the canyon and had I 1 considerable difficulty getting home in some places they had to rebuild the roads where they had been washed out deep gullies were made by the floods A force of men is busy repairing the roads SALT LAKE twenty eight fires alres ag 26 within forest reserve bound boundaries have hav t burned over lands less than 10 deres acres in size in utah since bince beginning of the present fire avison sp ison according to report of the federal forest service issued recently A total of 1527 has been expended exclusive of salaries in fighting the blazes thirteen ot of the fires were vere caused by man and five involved criminal negligence VERNAL A new record in growing w wheat heat on virgin soil in the uintah basin has been achiever achieved by gideon baril a farmer residing south of myton duchesne brunty when he grew an average of bushels of horkoff wheat on five acres touched by a plow tor for the first time early the past spring the wheat is ot of finest quality ot of that variety and mr barll baril plans to seed a far greater acreage to the same wheat next year OGDEN the royal canning company plans to open the tomato canning season in utah tuesday tomatoes grown along the foothills east of lay ton which ripen earlier than other crops of the state will be canned first then the plant will be shut abut down tor far a few days until others crops chopa are ready to be put up the bulk of the seasons pick will start moving next week according to leroy marsh district agricultural inspector EPHRAIM ranger wells thursby of the mantl aland forest reports that a band of elk numbering seventy head has been seen from the skyline drive near the road camp nearly every day during the past i week ranger C williams Wil llama reports that district no 2 has experienced more rain during the present season than tor for any year since 1914 although the showers have been extremely heavy the damage from floods las has been comparatively small farmington davis county growers began harvesting their sweet spanish onion crop recently they will be merely starting however this week only one or two growers reporting that thoy they are ready hut but by the first of 0 ne next at ycek week the harvesting will begin in real earnest lawrence Lawrenc 6 hatch ot of bountiful wallace noble of woods cissa aiosa and L S rice of are amon among 9 the first to start to pull their onions carload shipments will not likely bo be made until the latter part of next week RUPERT three cars carn of tat fat lambs feeders and ewas representing the cleanup tor for the reason of about head were shipped recently by the county lamb pool the shipment in charge of floyd hansen farmer derwent went to st joseph joeph mo alo VERNAL fifty abo thousand usand rainbow trout from the state shiite fish hatcheries hat theries at Whlter whiterocks were trucked to mckees draw on diamond mountain north of vernal and planted in francis creek another truckload was taken 0 t mosby mountain and planted in paradise lake also several hundred thousand will be take takey i on pack animals from mosby mountain to whiterocks lake and other lakes at the headwaters of 0 ashley creek and other trout streams the spawn are being planted ea earlier alier than usual this year owing to the fact that the tanks at the arec are c ceded i |