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Show I News Notes ! It' a a Privilege to Liva in Utah A OGDEX President James H. De-Vlne De-Vlne of the Ogden chamber of .commerce .com-merce reiterated the decision , of the chamber to seek an equal freight rate on grain through the Ogden gateway to San Francisco, as will obtain under the proposed reduction over the Wells-Gogerson Wells-Gogerson cut-off. This statement was given at a luncheon of shippers held in the chamber of commerce. LOGAN Farm families from every part of Utah continued to arrive throughout the entire day in Logan for the seventh annual Farmers' encampment, en-campment, which opened on the cam-, pus of the Utah Agricultural college and will continue under the direction of the Utah Extension Service for four days. BRIGHAM CITY Utah pioneers of Boxelder county will be honor guests of the Daughters cf the Pioneers at a program, banquet, picture show and auto drive Saturday, July 23. Transportation Trans-portation has been arranged for the veterans, each camp taking care of their pioneers. The festival te for all who came to Utah from July 14, 1S47, to May 10, 1869, inclusive. MYTON Uintah Products company, which was organized in Roosevelt ' few months ago, has rented in Vernul the old meat plant building, and expects ex-pects to open the same August 1. They plan to buy and ship all kinds of farmers' produce. C. E. Johnson and Sterling Collett are managers, and Mayor Clair Johnson of Roosevelt is president of the company. MT. PLEASANT Several Suffolk sheep, mostly rams, have been shipped ship-ped from England to Utah and Canada, and will be used to mate with range ewes, according to word received from the Suffolk Sheep 'society of Ipswich, England. The animals, many of them prize winners in England, are consigned con-signed to E. Patrick, who has sheep ranches in Utah and eastern Canada. The mixture of this breed is expected to do much to improve the meat producing pro-ducing qualities of the western sheep. One of the ra'ms to be shipped to Utah was the champion ram at the Suffolk county show. SALT LAKE: In Utah and southere Idaho the annual per capita kilowatt hour consumption is approximately 1S75, compared with an average of 621 for the United States as a whole. PARK CITY Since 1S68 the metal mines of Utah have produced about two billion dollars of wealth. In that time 86 companies in fifteen districts have paid a total of $300,000,000 in dividends. VERNAL Special trips have been arranged for outside visitors to the Uintah basin industrial convention to be given during the convention to see some of the more interesting parts of the Uintah basin, with transportation furnished without expense and with guides to lead the way and answer questions. Basin residents are welcome wel-come to accompany the caravans. SALT LAKE: According to the last census of the department of agriculture, agricul-ture, Utah stands at the top of all the states in the percentage of farms using us-ing electric power. OGDEN Announcement of rules for the fourth annual Utah intermountain egg laying contest has been made by Byron Adler, station poultryman at the Utah Agricultural college, and superintendent su-perintendent of the contest. The fourth annual contest opens November 1, 1927, and close October 23, 1928. PROVO Twenty-three barrels in one day ! That was the record picking pick-ing for the James H. Clark strawberry farm on Provo bench for the year 1927. Five and one-half tons of strawberries straw-berries in one day. It took a squad of ninety-seven girls to accomplish this feat, which is a new mark in strawberry straw-berry history, by a large margin, for Utah. PARK CITY Taking all the mineral min-eral products from Utah in 1926, they have a value of approximately $119,-270,000. $119,-270,000. This makes Utah the greatest great-est mineral state in the west. MT. PLEASANT The first carload of live poultry, about 4000, spring chickens from north Sanpete county, left Mt. Pleasant for Oakland, Cal. A. W. Willardsen, vice president of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative Cooper-ative Marketing association, has been in Mt Pleasant this week assisting local lo-cal poultrymen with the shipment. MORGAN Work has been speeded up the last ten days to prepare the local lo-cal canning factory for one of the biggest big-gest campaigns yet contemplated. Owing Ow-ing to the fact that it is not necessary to operate the other big plant at Smlthfield, the entire interests of the company are this year centered at Morgan. Superintendent W. R. Ed-dington Ed-dington announces that the machinery machin-ery has been placed in excellent running run-ning order and the entire first floor will this year be operated by new closing clos-ing machines leased by the American Can company to the local factory. PROVO A decided Increase In planted acreage and arop production for 1927 over 1!I2G, 1h indicated In the July Utah crop report, Issued Yiicih-day Yiicih-day by Frank Andrews, agricultural statist Ician for Utah. Acreage planted to spring wheat tills year totals 152.-000 152.-000 compared wilh 149,000 f')f last year. The production forecast for 1927 Is 3, .'179,000 bushels compared with 3,-129,000 3,-129,000 bimhelH last. year. Spring wheat Iiiim been planted on 90,000 acres this year compared with 88,000 In 1926. The production In 192(1 was 2.376,000 bimhelH and the forecast for this year Ih 2,437,000 buiihcl. |