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Show j News Notes i It's a Privilege to Live in Utah MT. PLEASANT Two live beaver, caught east of Fairview by P. A. Poul-sen, Poul-sen, deputy game commissioner, and William Brewer, were sent to the state game farm at Springville. They will be sent to the state fair for exhibition. PANGUITCH County Agricultural Agent M. P. McKay of Piute and Garfield, Gar-field, reports an excellent crop of cer- I tified seed potatoes for the two counties. coun-ties. There are 250 acres to be certified cer-tified in the section and an average yield of 300 bushels per acre is expected. ex-pected. The crop is of two varieties, Irish Cobblers and Russet. While this section of the state has an ideal soil I and climate for potato culture, the crop has not received much attention except for local purposes, until recent years. SALT LAKE Utah's state road sys- j tem on June 30, 1926, was 3S15 miles In length, of which 322S miles was maintained mileage and 87 miles waa ' yet uncontructed, but listed as proposed pro-posed milage in the existing system. LOGAN Good weather conditions throughout the entire county brought thousands of people to the opening of the Cache county fifteenth annual fair held here. With all schools in Logan closed for "school day" at the fair, the large crowds of fair-goers included , hundreds of school children. Even larger crowds are expected Wednesday Wednes-day and Thursday, which will be "merchants' "mer-chants' day" and "Cache valley day," respectively. VERNAL Intermittent rains throughout the Uintah basin are keeping keep-ing highways and roads in a muddy condition. The government mail truck leaving the railway at 11-a. m. Monday arrived in Vernal the same everting, two and a half hours behind schedule. The main cause of delay in arrival of mails the past few days, when tha trucks did not arrive here until the following, is due to obstruction caused by other traffic on the muddy roads, especially in Price canyon. - .LEHI "Seme third crop of alfalfa hay and a little alfalfa seed that was cut were damage by showers, and seed cuting and seed and grain threshing were delayed to a certain extent. Plovr-ing Plovr-ing is beginning generally, except locally, lo-cally, where the ground is too hard; and more or less grain seeding is reported; re-ported; this latter work is well along in some sections, and earlier sowings arc coming up nicely. Most farm soils are now mellow with moisture." PROVO Construction of a $70,000 L. D. S. church building at the corner of First East and Second South streets, Provo, was announced We:l- nesday by Walter P. Whitehead, bish- )op of the Provo First ward. VERNAL Heavy damage was done to highways east of Vernal Monday night by one of the worst storms that has ever struck that section of the state since it was settled, according to. reports received Tuesday at the offices of-fices of the state road commission. While details of the damage done were not available at the road offices late Tuesday, it was understood that briges and parts of the highway between be-tween Vernal and the Colorado line had been washed out. f OGDEN A strike of 2000 sugar beet farmers in the Hooper district has been declared as the result of a report re-port that the Amalgamated Sugar company, which has taken over the personal property of the Interstate' Sugar company, plans to discontinue the use of the factory in the Hooper district and take its beets to another point. PROVO Warrants issued on the road fund of the state by state auditor during the month of September aggregated aggre-gated $312,334.58, the largest expenditure expendi-ture of road funds for any month in 1927. At this rate, the auditor's office believes the expenditures for the current cur-rent year will aggregate nearly $3,-000,000. $3,-000,000. BRIGHTON Fall of ten inches of pnw at Brighton was reported Friday Fri-day morning of last week by Harry Hamond. observer, to H. K. Burton, city superintendent of waterworks. It was still snowing when the report was made. It had snowed four inches during dur-ing the night, and shortly after 5 o'clock o'-clock the second fall occurred, leaving six more inches. The snow had a water wa-ter content of .49 of an Inch. MYTON Growers of alfalfa seed In this portion of the Uintah basin have been greatly handicapped during the past week because of unfavorable weather conditions. For several days they have been delayed In the cutting, Blacking and threshing of alfalfa seed. UTAH It will be eight glorious days glorious because the general economic foundation of the slate wan never in a more substantial condition, In Hi" opinion of stale fair officials:. For many weeks directors, Kii;:rvlnor: '.'''itanis li.-ive labored gathering f.xhiblts. Saturday, the vast ss-rn-, of products of T'lah soil, T.'lah mountain ranges arid Utah fa dor I'M was ready. The gales opener) at, 10 VEItNAL--The find, frost, or (lie sea-lion sea-lion o'-rured in Vernal and Ashley valley val-ley early on Tuesday morning. The official government wealher observer, A. Theodore Johnson, reported thai 1 is I rnorn'-l er reeord':'l 2't decrees Miove zero. In Vernal and oilier narts of the valley ,..onic minor damage was done to carrlen rorliidn. The lad killing froels In lb" spring were on lb night r,t May 2H and 29, the span lr tveei, ih. 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