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Show i News Notes It's a Privilege to Live in Utah ! Salt Lake Utah ranks tenth' among the states in the volume of condensed milk manufactured each year. The 1925 production of this commodity amounted to 33.317,000 pounds and means millions of dollars to dairymen throughout the state. Ogden Ton prizes were won by. the Utah Holstein-Friesian dairy herd at the Pacific International Livestock-exposition held at Portland recently, according ac-cording to word received from Gilbert Thatcher of Ogden, former secretary' of the Utah State Holstein Breeders' association, who had charge of exhibiting exhib-iting the herd. . . Farmington What is said to be Davis county's first log cabin, built in pioneer days by D. E, ChafEn, is being reassembled on the southwest corner of the Davis county courthouso grounds to serve as a chapter house for the Davis county Daughters of Pioneers. This pioneer home was origins or-igins lly built on the lane leading to Lagoon. It was a snug two-room cabin. cab-in. Two years ago the old building .vas torn down, but the timbers, which Mr. Chaffin had felled and hewn' on the mountain slopes, were preserved. Manti Reports that mountain lions have been active in the section arotmd Huntington for the last few days have been received from the superintendent of the Manti national forest The-lions have killed several deer recently, and stockmen are dubious regarding the -afety of their stock. Ed Rasmussen, assistant chief of the bureau of the predatory animal section of the. United States biological survey, will leave at once with lion dogs in an effort to kill the lions or chase them out. , . Layton -A towering column of smoke, rising above the Arthur Porter farm, east of this city, gave rise to a report that his farmhouse was on fire. The smoke, however, was from a large acreage of brush which Mr. Porter was burning to clear an area that will later be planted to fall wheat. Bountiful Street cars in Davis county are following the path of Dobbin, Dob-bin, and, as a result of modern motor developments, the Centerville . street car,, line is being torn up. A wrecking wreck-ing crew is at wol'k removing rails and ties, while another crew, following in their wake, is putting the erstwhile roadbed in shape for use as a road for autos. The old car line is being carefully care-fully salvaged. A bus line has replaced re-placed it as a public utility. Ephraim P. C. Peterson, Jr., has sold a. car of Rambouillet rams to sheepmen sheep-men of Price and twenty head of crossbred cross-bred Lincoln and R.ambouillet rams to Salt Lake interests. Mr. Peterson also has shipped a car of Rambouillet to Co'ieville, Wyo. Brigham City An egg-grading plant for this community is practically assured, as-sured, according to members of the committee appointed to wait on the board of directors of the State Poultry Poul-try association at their meeting place in Salt Lake City Saturday . Salt Lake Plans for Utah celery week, which will be observed Novem her 15 to 20, inclusive, for the purpose of promoting the nationwide, as well I as local use of this product, were worked out Tuesday at a meeting of the celery committee of the chamber of commerce of which L. E. Gehan is chairman. Utah Receipts at the sate treasurer's treasur-er's office amounted to, ?1,055,970.10 in October, according to the report for hat period by John Walker, stafe treasurer; Disbursements for the month were $701,395. .Of the total re ::eipts $965,200.91 was listed as true enue, while the balance represented eturned investments at the state land iffice and fees and miscellaneous eceipts. . . Vernal Farmers and stockmen us ng the range are becoming alarmed iver the detrimental effects of the promoted pro-moted dry spell prevailing in Ashley .alley and the Uintah mountains. A itorm threatened Friday, but stiff breezes blew the clouds away. The ra.-jrcivry at .the official weather ob-ierver's ob-ierver's station last Friday night drop-ffl drop-ffl to 12 degrees above zero, the. 'owest record of the season. Myton F. C. Gwyn, project engineer, engin-eer, has notified water users that water wa-ter will be taken out of all government govern-ment canals Saturday, November 6. Water run after October 31 is for cul-niary cul-niary purposes only, and must not be used for irrigation. This action- for the season of 1926 is several weeks ahead oi the season of 1925. Salt Lake It requires but a little glance into history to appreciate what Utah has been doinj: in the poultry industry the last half, dozen years. In 1922 the value of poultry and pou:try products marketed was not much more than $105,000. Last year it had increased in-creased to $3,600,000. Heber City Notice that 11.S22 acres of land in Summit and Wasatch counties coun-ties have been surveyor and will be thrown open for entry to those who had valid rights prior to the time the area was withdrawn for a forest reserve re-serve wa3 isued Tuesday by Eli F. Taylor, register of the local land ollice. The land Involved was placed within the Uintah forest in 1S97, and was later transferred to the jurisdiction of the Wasatch forest. It will be thrown open for entry under the various land laws to those qualified beginning December De-cember 6. |