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Show 4 I News Notes : It's a Privilege to Live in l Utah f X -a Price. Total expenditures of the Carbon county school district for the year 1926-27 are placed at $106,386.54 In the budget passed and approved Wednesday by the board of education. This is an Increase of $11,713.10 over last year. Principals' and. teachers' salaries, amounting to $195,000, constitute consti-tute the chief Item of expense in the operation of schools. Brlgham City The first straight carload of cherries to be shipped from this city went out to the eastern markets. The car was made up of lilng and Windson cherries, and was shipped by tho Prlgham City Fruitgrowers' Fruit-growers' association. Salt Lake City. An announcement by tho Federal Intermediate Credit bank advising the reduction of interest inter-est rates, which will lower Interest charges on advances on wool, will lower all advance made by the Utah Wool Marketing Association on wool to 5V per cent, nccordlng to James A. Hooper, secretary of the Utah Woolgrowers' association, Tuesday. Vernal. Two fairly heavy showers fell In Vernal Sunday afternoon. While the precipitation was a benefit to the fleldH nnd the range, some damage was done to hay on the ground. Very little of the first cutting of alfalfa has been stacked. Indications are that more rain la due to fall In Ashley valley. val-ley. Salt Lako City. Application for permission per-mission to abandon its mixed train Bchodulo between Utah Railway Junction Junc-tion and the Hiawatha mine in Carbon Car-bon comity and between Jacobs and Standardvllle was filed with the Public Pub-lic Utilities commission by the Utah Railway company. The company sets forth the fact that there has been a big shrinkage in the passenger traffic traf-fic on the road and that receipts from this source have dropped from $9,-024.42 $9,-024.42 In 1922 to $3,160.36 in 1925, and to $429.11 in the first three months of 1926. Montlcello. State Engineer H. J. Nlelson, who has the work of surveying survey-ing the federal aid road from Monti-cello Monti-cello to the state line, reports that the center survey line is completed a distance dis-tance of twelve miles, which brings It from the end of project No. 7 to the Utah-Colorado state line. Mr. Nielson reports the route Inexpensive, except ' nbout four miles which runs through heavy timber. Salt Lake City. The completion of the Victory highway will cause unprecedented unpre-cedented automobile travel from California Cali-fornia to Utah, and also will serve to bring the two states into closer industrial indus-trial relationship, the members of the Rotary club were told recently by W. L. Miller, secretary-manager of the Oakland chamber of commerce, who is also an active member of the Rotary club of that city. Salt Lake City. Facts on the canning can-ning tomato industry in Boxelder county for 1925 are contained in a statement issued by R. H. Stewart, county agricultural agent. Because of exceptionally high yields, the tomato toma-to crop of Box Elder county last year ntracted considerable attention. The county agent reports that the total acreage of the Perry Canning company, com-pany, which operates in the county, for the season of 1925 was 173 acres, with a total tomato production of 2S70 tons, or an average of 15.43 tons to the acre. This production brought the growers a total of $31,994.58, an average of $1S5 per acre. Ogden. Receipts in the sheep division divi-sion at the Ogden TJnion stockyards Monday passed the 50,000 mark for the month to date, which presages an unusually heavy traffic in spring lambs, in the opinion of L. F. Whit-lock, Whit-lock, general manager. Ogden. The city board of education has authorized the construction of a new school building to cost $70,000, i the first unit of what will eventually be a large structure. It will have eight classrooms, with a combination auditorium and gymnasium. It will be erected on Park avenue, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty - seventh streets. Salt Lake City With a loud but brief bombardment of thunder, a grateful grate-ful and cooling rainstorm swept over Salt Lake Valley last Thursday. The j storm was the cause of much rejoicing among farmers, whose crops were beginning be-ginning to show a need for moisture. Salt Lake City. In spite of the need j of rain in most localities throughout 1 the sta'.e the crops are reported to be ; In excellent condition according to ' Frank Andrews, federal agricultural . statistician. The winter wheat acre- i age is estimated at 149,999 acres j from which $2,731,000 bushels are ex- j pected to be harvested. The acreage this year is 5000 acres larger Spanish Fork. A heavy electrical storm visited this vicinity Thursday. The rain fell in torrents for a short time, and then the rain turned to hail Wind accompanied the downpour. Considerable damage was done by h?ating down the pea crop, now ready for the harvest. Price. Two more carloads of wool were shipped out of Price this week the Jeremiah-William company of Boston, Bos-ton, Mass. This wool was contracted arly In the season. |