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Show A Fews Notes It' a a Privilege to Liv in I Utah i Salt Lake Extermination of rats in the southern part of Salt Lake county will be the object of a campaign to be waged between March 1 and 10, according ac-cording to an announcement of Vere L. Martineaii, county agricultural Hgent. L. Scott Zlmmorman, rodent extermination expert of the United States biological survey, will be in charge of the campaign. Logan Mild weather has continued for the past week throughout the state, according to the report issued by J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist in charge of the local United States weather bureau. bu-reau. The report refers to moderately heavy precipitation over most of the state, as being excellent for grains, range grasses and browse. Lehl Everyone in Lehl Is rejolcin? over the relighting of the streets which have been In darkness since last May, following the discontinuance of the light service of the Utah Power and Light company. The new municipal street lighting plant went into operation. opera-tion. The big dynamo at the power house la operated by a crude oil engine of the Diesel type. The lights are brilliant and steady. While only a Dortlon of the system was put Into op- eration, the test la said to be satisfactory satis-factory as far as the quality of tha norvlco is concerned. Moab Purchase of the Moab lamb pool by the Culp & Sons Livestock company. Salt Lake, was annouced. The Salt Lake firm takos the pool, expected ex-pected to total approximately 10,000 head, at 9 cents. The contract call3 for October delivery. This is one of the important key sales of the season. Last year the Moab pool sold for 10 cents, but the lamb market was somewhat some-what stronger than it is this year. Other lamb contracts for fall delivery have been reported from points in the Uintah basin. Salt Lake Appropriation of $'12,000 to buy a new Are fighting truck was authorized by the city commission Thursday. The amount was set up in the budget for this year, according to Commissioner Charles N. Fehr. The machino is said to be capable of carrying car-rying 150 gallons of chemicals and of pumping 1000 gallons of wator per minute. It will arrive in a week or ten days and will be temporarily placed at central station. Layton Approximately $200,000 will be distributed to sugar beet growers of Utah and Idaho March 1 by the Utah-Idaho, Amalgamated, Springville-Mapleton Springville-Mapleton and Layton Sugar companies its the first subsequent payment on 192G beets under the sliding scale contract con-tract for grower participation, it is announced by officials of those companies. com-panies. Payment is being made on the basis of 50 cents a ton, bringing the total return to date to producers of 1A2G beets to ?G.50 per ton. Logan Although the weather has been too wet to start the proposed poison campaign against field mice, ihe work of Jupiter Pluvius is proving prov-ing almost as effective in the work of destruction, according to County Agent Wrigley, who reports that thousands have been drowned in the lowlying lands of the valley, now covered cov-ered with water. Salt Lake Sumary by the department depart-ment of agriculture of carlot shipments ship-ments of leading agricultural products from Utah to February 13 shows a seasonal sea-sonal movement lower than that for last year. Up to February 13, which accounts for perhaps the entire season's sea-son's movement, Utah shipped 42S car loads of apples against 119S cars moved during the 1925-26 season. Idaho's Ida-ho's apple movement has been 3G59 carloads last year. The lowered export ex-port volume traces to reduced prices resulting from a heavy national production. pro-duction. The commercial apple production produc-tion in 192G was 39.095,000 barrels, approximately ap-proximately 6,000,000 barrels above that of the previous year. Logan Utah fed lambs are going to eastern markets on a greater volume than usual this year, it was reported en Tuesday by George A. Scott, regional region-al livestock statistician with the department de-partment of agriculture, upon his return re-turn from Washington, where he was called three weeks ago to the annual ' confe'-eneo of government livestock statisticians. On his return trip he j visited the Chicago, Omaha and Denver Den-ver livestock markets. He observed , that large numbers of Utah lambs are i moving to Denver and if the rnarkot is i unsatisfactory they are reconsigned to f the middle west and east. J Spvingville More than 100 Salt j Lake county sportsmen visited the I Ftate fish and game hatchery here, tak- j ing advantage of the invitation to bet- ter acquaint themselves with the policies pol-icies and methods of the state organization organ-ization in providing and planting the trout in the various streams throughout through-out the state. Vernal Uintah basin was sealed by a heavy snowfall on Colton Summit. Government mail trucks, stage cars ' and passenger cars are unable to I make the trip over the summit of S000 I feet elevation. Stflgcs and trucks from Price were forced to turn back a few miles from Casllegate on the west and ;ii the east all traffic was stopped at Duchesne. Huge tractors are busy I boring a passage through the snow to i relieve the congested traffic. Early . Tuesday morning a huge snowslidrt ; covered the road with seven feet of j now on the west side of Culton Summit. |