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Show j I News Notes : It's a Privilege to Live in Utah Mt Pleasant. One of the largest shipments of fat lambs thirty-one carloads in all left Mt. Pleasant for the open market at Kansas City, Mo. The lambs were bought by Seth M. Patterson of Kansas City from sheepmen sheep-men of Mt. Pleasant, Fairview and Moroni. Salt Lake City. For the most part the bee colonies of the state came through the winter in excellent condition, condi-tion, reports Dan Hillmon, state bee inspector. On his- last trip out Mr. Hillman observed the bees were commencing com-mencing to stir. He noted many buzzing buzz-ing around the maple trees and pussy willows, gathering pollen. Ogden. A greatly increaser sugar beet acreage is expected in Utah and especially in Davis and Weber counties coun-ties this year, as a result of the decision de-cision of the Utah Canners' associa-' ti(-n to pay no more than $10 for tomatoes to-matoes and peas, in the opinion of Martin H. Brown, president of the Weber County Farm bureau and chairman chair-man of the canning crops committee of the Utah State Farm Bureau federation. fed-eration. Salt Lake. The Utah Canners' association, as-sociation, following an executive session ses-sion at the Newhouse hotel, innoun-ced innoun-ced it would not pay over $10 per ton for tomatoes grown for canning this season. This was in answer to a demand de-mand from the producers of tomatoes that the contract figure remain at $12 per ton. Price E. E. and E. C. Pierce, farmers of Carbon county, shipped the first carload of graded potatoes ever shipped out of Price this week. The potatoes were sold to the Fruits Mercantile company of Pueblo, Colo., for a price of $2.85 per sack f.o.b. Price. The potatoes graded U. S. No. 1, the highest standard. Roosevelt. For the first time in the history of the Uintah basin a shipment ship-ment of potatoes to Salt Lake City left here. Arch Larson is filling a contract of three truckloads which are being hauled direct to Salt Lake via the Strawberry route. Ogden. Purchase of a school site in the southeastern part of the city by the Ogden city board of education will likely be authorized at a meeting of the board. The board considered the matter at their regular meeting and deferred action in order to consider another site than the one now considered. consid-ered. Ogden. Sales of timber from the national forest of Utah amounted to 13,853,000 board feet during 1925, it is announced by the forest officials in the annual timber sale report. The value of this timber is estimated at $27,730. The greater part of the timber tim-ber was disposed of through commercial commer-cial sales, while 669,000 board feet was taken by settlers and ranchers for their own use at cost. Salt Lake City. Fossil fragments of a camel that inhabited the region around ancient Lake Bonneville some 250,000 years ago, have been unearthed unearth-ed in the Jordan narrows, according to Dr. Earl Douglas, who has charge of the dinosaur laboratory at the University Uni-versity of Utah. The fossils were discovered dis-covered by Ed. Southwick in working a limestone quarry on the terraces of I ancient Lake Bonneville, just west of the Jordan Narrows. Salt Lake City. Headings in the railroad and pilot bores of the Moffat tunnel on the east side, are flooded, according to word received from Denver. Den-ver. It is said that the water was pouring from the east portal at the rate of 3200 gallons a minute. The trouble will hold up work only a few hours, according to officials of the Salt Lake & Denver railroad in this city. Vernal. Last fall the Uinta club of Vernal initiated a movement to secure one-day mail service from Salt Lake to Vernal and the success of the movement is assured by a letter re ceived from the fourth assistant postmaster post-master general, provided the expenditures expendi-tures incident to the changed schedule will not prove prohibitive. The new schedule is to be made effective as soon as road conditions between Vernal Ver-nal and Prce are good. As during the past winter no delay whatever has been caused in the delivery of mail from Price to Vernal, the road having been in excellent shape at all times, the new schedule is expected to be operative at once. Ogden. The national forest timber sale in Utah, although not impressive compared with that of the better forested for-ested neighboring states, played a big ! part in the development of the smaller ! communities remote from railroads, forest service officials say in the annual an-nual timber sale report. Ogden. The Ogden Union Railroad and Depot company will spend $70,00 in improvments around the unicn station sta-tion in Ogden this spring, it is announced an-nounced by H. L. Bell, superintendent of the company. Salt Lake City. Salt Lake will this year take care of her tourist visitors as never before if the plans of Commissioner Com-missioner Harry L. Finch materialize. Even more than the 7000 tourists who made the campgrounds their headquarters head-quarters in Salt Lake last year are anticipated by Commissioner Finch |