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Show 4 I News Notes f It's a Privilege to Live in 1 Utah ! A. A Brigham City. The comissioners of Hoxelder county are arranging for the building of a new $40,000 county Jail, to he erected east of the present county jail site in this city. The location lo-cation is just south of the county courthouse and north of the Mahannah hospital, the ground having been purchased pur-chased from Dr. D. L. Mahannah. Salt Lake City. Total assessment valuation of property in the state of Utah in 192G will probably amount to approximately $30,000,000 more than the mlnal assessment of 1925, judging by the Increase shown in the valuations valua-tions made by the various county assessors as-sessors and by the increase in the net productions of the metal mines of the state during 1925. Tho mines are assessed as-sessed at three times the net production produc-tion for the preceding year. Ogden. National Commander John R. McQuigg of the American Legion has dispatched congratulations to Department De-partment Commander Arthur Woolley on the showing Utah has made in membership up to this time. Utah is one of the twenty-four states which had, on May 15, surpassed the total membership as of December 31st last. Salt Lake City. Utah cherries have made their appearance on the local market. Forty cases from Davis county coun-ty were on sale on Friday. The growers grow-ers of cherries in Davis county have contracted the greater part of their harvest this year with eastern dealers. Salt Lake City. The alfalfa weevi has caused a lot of trouble in Utah. Many methods have been used in the effort to beat the little pests, But Friday Fri-day a new mode of attack was started when George I.' Reeves, chief of the bureau of entomology, sent Captains A. F. Herrold and H. C. French on an aerial offensive. Brigham City. H. S. Kerr, assistant chief engineer of the state road commission; com-mission; B. W. Matteson, senior high1 way engineer of the bureau of public roads, and District Engineer K. C. Wright left Brigham City to make a route inspection of the Tremonton-Strevell Tremonton-Strevell highway. They expect to return re-turn Saturday night. Salt Lake City. Marcus Harris, vice president of the B. Harris Wool company of St. Louis, purchased from the Southern Utah Wool Marketing association of Cedar City two pools of 66.S00 fleeces, or about 600,000 pounds, at 28 and 30 cents. This purchase is the second largest pool for 1926, it being be-ing exceeded by the Jericho pool recently re-cently of 90,000 fleeces. Salt Lake City. Full page colored views of Bryce canyon, Ogden and Provo canyons, Saltair, the Tabernacle block and many other points of scenic interest in Utah, are featured in the newest advertising pamphlet published publish-ed by the Denver & Rio Grande Western West-ern railroad. The photographs were collected from various sources, but the manuscript was written entirely by Arthur Chapman, Western author. Provo. work on the plant to be established es-tablished here by the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company will begin early in June, according to information informa-tion disclosed Friday. J. R. McWane, president of the company, has made preliminary preparations to rush work through during the summer months, and he expects to have the plant in operation by the middle of November. Salt Lake City. Utah's cherry crop of 1926 is expected to equal in quantity quanti-ty and value the crop of a year ago, according to Utah state farm bureau officials who commented on the official offi-cial tabulation announced by Frank Andrews, federal crop statistician for Utah, on the 1925 crop. Utah's total commercial crop of cherries in 1925 totalled 5.330.000 pounds, according to the United States Market News service. ser-vice. The value was placed r-t $500,-000. $500,-000. Ogden. xn idea of crop conditions ! in Weber county was given' to mem- j bers of the Rotary club by LeRoy j Marsh, district agricultural inspector j He said that the county would have i one of is best agricultural seasons. j i Logan. Last Saturday directors of ' the various county farm bureau organ- ! izations met with County Agent R. L. j Wrigley and State Commissioner of I Agriculture Harden Bennion to discuss dis-cuss a campaign which has been be- j gun against a number of certain weeds in the county. Myton Heber J. Webb of Sau Lake City, state agricultural inspector arrived in the Uintah basin Monday to spend a week in this part of the state. Mr. Webb is here for the purpose of inaugurating a campaign to fight twe weeds, the Russian knapweed hoary cress, or white top. J Salt Lake City. Good growing j weather prevailed throughout Utah during the past week, though high ' temperatures and strong winds depleted deplet-ed soil moisture making rain badly needed in some sections, says the weekly crop and weather report of J. Cecil Alter, in charge of the local office of-fice of the weather bureau. In detail conditions are given as follows: "Alfalfa "Al-falfa cutting was reported locally, and sugar beet thinning progressing in many districts. Livestock are doing well and ranges are good, though becoming be-coming dry at the lower levels. |