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Show l News Notes It' a Privilege to Live in I Utah I Roosevelt Final arrangements are now under way for the biggest roundup round-up day In the history of the Duchesne county high school, to be held here on April 15. The feature of the entertainment enter-tainment will bo an Invitation to all the eighth grades of tho county to participate par-ticipate in an Interschool meet, held under tho direction of the physical education ed-ucation department of tho high school. These graduating children will also be enabled to watch the intramural track and field meet to be held the name day within the school. Green Itlvor At its meeting Wednesday Wed-nesday the board of county commis-Hioners commis-Hioners of Sweetwater county adopted a cost accounting system In regard to all of its road work, both for construction construc-tion and repairs. This system is partly part-ly copied after what the state highway department is doing and has added to It many features demanded by local conditions worked out by Ellis Hud-man, Hud-man, tho engineer who does the county overseeing here. Salt Lake Salt Lake Is the largest nir mall center In the country. There Is a daily average of 1200 pounds of mail handled here. Vernal Reversing the customary procedure of gradually reducing the public domain of counties in western Htates, Moffat county, Colorado, has increased in-creased its public domain by a total of 7075 acres of land. This situation was brought about by the canceling of homestead, desert and grazing entries of various entrynien who failed to comply com-ply with tho requirements of Uncle Sam in rodor to ultimately have title granted to the land. Price An investigation which may result, in development of another phase of Carbon county agriculture is being made by N. S. Spratt, Utah representative represen-tative of the Independent Fruit and Produce company. It Is Into tho possibility pos-sibility of growing onions, garlic and toma!ocs in this county. The produce concern was advised that Carbon county coun-ty was adapted to these vegetables, and that if a market can be created a large acreage can be obtained. Lincoln, Neb. Quarantine against shipment of alfalfa and its products into Nebraska from the entire state of Utah and a dozen counties In three other states west of Nebraska was ordered or-dered by Secretary of Agriculture II. J. McLaughlin, acting under authority of measure passed by the legislature. Granger Poultry producers . of Granger, Hunter, Pleasant Green and Magna will hold a meeting Wednesday at p. ni nt the Granger ward meeting ! house, for the purpose of completing 1 the organization of a now poultn'-mens' poultn'-mens' association. The organization was started last week at .Pleasant Green with a view to making it a local unit of the Utah Poultry Producers' association, as-sociation, Ogden Prices to be paid Utah growers of peas by the canners of the state during 1927 were amicably agreed upon at a meeting of the canning can-ning crops coramitteo of the Utah State Farm Bureau federation and the committee designated by the Utah Canners' association. Ogden -The annual report of the city waterworks, filed Monday, shows that ownership of the city waterworks system saved Ogden SS9.527.21 during 192G. The report is based on earnings of $73,617.24 for the year and ?15,910, which the city would have paid for water for public parks and fire hydrants. hy-drants. Duchesne On account of the immense im-mense amount of snow piled in the mountains, and in the lowlands iu pro-' portion, the prospects are better than for several years for a good supply of water for irrigation for the lauds iu the Uintah basin. The last storm, beginning be-ginning on February 12 and continuing continu-ing for one week, tho snowfall at Duchesne Du-chesne was twenty inches, with a little lit-tle more than two inches of water contents. con-tents. The snow in the lower country is melting very fast. 1 Gunnison Through a deal which I was closed in Salt Lake last week, the YVestvlew Irrigation company increas- , ed its water right by purchasing nine j second feet of water from the Knight ( Trust company of Provo and E. A. Porter of Salt Lake Ctiy. There are L'000 acres of land under the Westview company. The deal was made possible through the efforts of Junius Metcalf, president, and C. II. Childs, secretary of the company. 1 Salt Lake Extermination of rats in ; the southern part of Salt Lake county j will be the object of a campaign to be 1 waged between March 1 and 10, ac- ! cording to an announcement of Vere L. Martineau, county agricultural agent. L. Scott Zimmerman, rodent j extermination expert of tho United Slates biological survey, will be in charge of the campaign. Salt Lake Sumary by the department depart-ment of agriculture of carlot shipments ship-ments of leading agricultural products from Utah to February 3 3 shows a seu-sonI seu-sonI movement lower than that for hist year. Up to February IS, which accounts for perhaps the entire season's sea-son's movement, Utah shipped 42S car loads of apples against 11 3 S cars moved during the 1925-2IJ season. Idaho's Ida-ho's appl.-f movement has been 3053 carloads last year. TI13 lowered export ex-port volume traces to reduced price?, resulting from a heavy national pro-di'.cti.m. pro-di'.cti.m. The commercial apple production produc-tion in 1920 was 29,095,000 barrels. |