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Show iKevs Notes j; It's a Privilege to Lw in 1. . Utah BINGHAM Utah silver-lead stocks, notwithstanding preholiday conditions, manifested strength during Wednesday's Wednes-day's sessions of the Salt Lake Stock and Mining Exchange. Other parts ot the market developed an easier tone, particularly medium priced issues. Bingham Metals led speculatives with trading in nearly 20,000 shares and an advance from 9 l-4c to 11 l-2c on the strength of the gold discovery in the Bingham property. Alta issues were dim and buoyant. OGDEN National forests will soon contribute $46,624 to the Utah school and road funds, according to an announcement an-nouncement made by E. C. Shepherd, supervisor of the Wasatch National forest, Wednesday. This amount, he said, represents 25 per cent of the receipts re-ceipts of national forest timber sales and grazing fees during the fiscal year, and is $8000 more than the amount contributed to Utah in 1926. PARK CITY The output of Utah mines grew from 8000 tons in 1870 to 4,434, 000 tons in 1926. OGDEN Edward R. Love well, geol- -ogist of New York City, is sanguine of prospects of oil-finding in Utah, he said in an address before the Ogden Rotary club at the luncheon held in Hotel Bigelow. Mr. lovewell said he considers that Utah will be an oil state ranking with California, Oklahoma Okla-homa and Texas in time. He told of a survey he made in the Uintah basin, where he. regards prospects for oil location lo-cation good. OGDEN District Engineer B. J. Finch of the United States bureau of public roads, speaking at the Exchange club in the Hotel Bigelow, explained the road building program in Utah. He said that the highway from Brigham City to Mantua may be rebuilt th.3 coming season and that negotiations are under way for the rebuilding of the highway between Evanston and Echo to eliminate all heavy grades. WASHINGTON Exports of merchandise mer-chandise from Utah were valued at $413. 3"S during the second quarter o! corresponding period of 1926. an increase in-crease of $272.0 J3, according to figur:3 made public by the department of commerce. com-merce. BR1CE Heavy production is retorted re-torted from the coal mines in Carbon county. An average of 900 tons daily has been taken out of the Utah Fuel company mine at Clear Creek. Spring Canyon repcrts 24.250 tons mined between be-tween December 1 and 15. Hiawatha mned and shipped 54.500 tons duriej the last half month. OGDEN Weber county comnr's sioners voted to appropriate $15,500 t ward the expenses of conducting th? O ;i!er. livestock show. January 7 to 12. Of this amount, S'.i'O must go to building build-ing up the so. d show department c.' the annual exhibition and $250 for tiu poultry show. The three exh'b'.ts will be stated at the sam? time in Cie Ogden Og-den coliseum. OGFKN The I'tah Canners" association associ-ation voted to hold the annual conven-li.m conven-li.m at the Hotel Bigelow here on March 2 and 3. Thirty-five canners were present, rt presenting all factories. factor-ies. Ti:n Leslie prt sided in th? absence ab-sence cf John L. Fierce of Brighnm. who i? ill. The canners voted to subscribe sub-scribe the stiite quoia for th? observance observ-ance of national canned foods week. i::;NAL liien A. Lambert, forest ranger. h;-.s returned from a trip over the Vernal district of the Ashley national na-tional forest, and reports heavy storms hrouuhout the urea during the past ten days. Twenty inches of snow wns ir.easuied at the Adams saw mill on Dry Fork mountain, forty miles north-hi north-hi ; t of Vernal, and eighteen inches at the Trout creek ranger station, iwentyscven miles n.ith of Vernal. SALT I.AKF - There lu.s been an iiv. crave of 1.100 pounds of mail handl d daily at Airport postotlK'e January 1, tills year. Airmail mileage credited to Salt Lake, in and out. for the year so far aggregates more than 2.000.00 ;1 miles. BiHGHAM CITY Brigham City's budget for 1 HI'S, will: a total of Jl-4.-02S.0!). was fixed by the city council at its meeting held this week from the genet-ill taxes a total of $44,500 is expected, ex-pected, while I.1.S!0 is oxpoctod front the municipal electric plant; Jli'.eO'i from water system; $2114. OH from irrigation ir-rigation : Ji'oiiO from licenses. $mHui from the city court. $2,100 from Urn I cennuery; $L'!M from parking district, and If 1000 from misci lianeons. l'l.KASANT GKOVF One hundred thousand fleeces, weighing approximately approxi-mately '.'00.000 pounds, which comprise com-prise the famous Jericho wool pool, were purchased by C, I. Tnllle ami J. O. Loughl.n of Salt Lake, representatives represen-tatives of Draper Co. of Boston. A tint price of ;.' cents per pound was paid for the woid. with a 1 per cent discount for lags. A cash advance ot fl.00 per fleece was made. John Oal-royd Oal-royd mid George Cook of Founiaiu Green represented the pool as scllins iir.onts. I'Kll'K Heaving on the in.lnnct'oii Issued by Judge George Chrlslcusen of Carbon contiiy to restrain the st.it' read commission and contractors Ironi ptocccding. wlih Ibe com I rue l"n of I he fi i'.ci ill aid lrr.ll w in pvoh ' t tu I'ricc can) on will be h id at Trie,'. eeinber iM. it was ai:n niuccil Thii's I day at the oM'n c ' of I h. si i! c i end I coniiiilsslon II S Kerr, chief eniiiii ecr of tbe l oad onn.ii'-sioii, and W Hal I in '', depot nit i lie, g.cnci in. w 111 uppoiir for Ibe stale ut the bonv-III), bonv-III), and Ml ki'iv cvpri S'iciI colli I den. c Ihc dillienllv lould be slinii.il tucd out |
