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Show l News Notes : It 'a a Privilege to Live in f Utah 5 Delta The Sevier Biver Land & Water company, the holdings of which were purchased during the summer by banks, Huntley & Co., of L03 Angeles, has been re-organized under the name of the Central Utah Water company and '-.he principal office has been changed from Salt Lake to Delta. Kaysville Wiilard Ashton of Salt Lake nad his associates have purchased pur-chased the milk cooling station at Syracuse and are now converting the station into a plant for manufacturing chee&e, according to information received re-ceived from J. R. Gailey, cashier of the Barnes Banking company of this city. The milk cooling station is now being enlarged and renovated, and chese making will start within a week, it is reported. An experienced manufacturer manu-facturer of cheese will have charge of the plant. Bountiful Sinking of a test well on the 200-acre Ray farm, purchased by the city of Bountiful as a possible source of future water suppy, will start next week, according to Mayor Ernest M. Madsen. Lay ton The Lay ton Sugar factory, weather permitting will begin its. fall campaign Saturday of Monday, according accord-ing to J. E. Ellison, of the Layton Sugar Su-gar company. Mr. Ellison says that the hauling'- of beets has been under way for the past two or three days. The rainfall w7hieh recently occurred was valuable to beet farmers and softened sof-tened the earth so that beet digging was facilitated. One of the effects of the rain was to start green leaves sprouting from the tops of the beets. This tendency to resume growth reduces re-duces the sugar content of the' beets. Salt Lake Disbursements of road funds amounted to $214,2G4.36 during the month of September, according to figures compiled in the office of John E. Holden, state auditor. Those figures show that $50,812.25 was spent for maintenance, $7307. 4S for administration, administra-tion, and $1845.36 for equipment. The money was distributed between the counties. Ephraim In a fire which broke out in the Ephraim pavilion at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and did damage estimated es-timated at $8500 the business center of the town was seriously menaced until the work of firemen brought the blaze under control. Salt Lake Range conditions in southern Montana, Idaho and Utah are only fair, due to the lack of moisture. George A. Scott, federal livestock statistician stat-istician annunoced on his return Monday. Mon-day. The hay crop in most sections was good, while the cattle and sheep are reported to be fair. Monticello Monticello and vicinity have benefited from recent rains, in some places the best in more than two years. There i.s a heavy sprinkling of snow on the Blue mountains west of Monticello. Previous to the rain the ranges were the driest they had been 'Cor several years. ' Springs have dried up this year that never have been known to be dry before. The cattle and sheep men had begun to worry lest they would be compelled to send their stock out of the county because of the shortage of water. Ephraim Forest Ranger Anderson reports that a heavy snowstorm visited the Manti forest on the evening of September Sep-tember 29, and that six to eight inches of snow fell at the higher elevations. Ogden Cattle receipts at the Og-den Og-den Union stockyards reached the peak for the fall campaign with a heavy run also in sheep and hogs. The cattle receipts were 3408, with sheep receipts reaching 20,554 and hogs 2202. Salt Lake The board of directors of the Utah state fair find themselves confronted with the difficult, though perhaps pleasing, task of building for the future. With the forty-eight exhibitions ex-hibitions entering the last half Wednesday Wed-nesday the board members are noting places where expansions . must be provided between now and the opening open-ing date for the forty-ninth showing next fall. Sandy In an effort to recoup losses occasioned this season by the beet crop failure, farmers of Sandy have completed arrangements for feeding lambs, according to information from the Sandy City bank. This is the first season that feeding has been carried out on a large scale on this side of the valley. Myf.on During the past week at the Uintah Basin Seed Growers' association associa-tion plant 500 sacks of alfalfa seed has been received, making a total cf 1033 Friday evening. William Lowe, manager, man-ager, estimates the crop to be handled by this organization at 1,000,000 pounds. The plant of George Tingloy & Sons is also filling up in a satisfactory satisfac-tory manner. Salt Lake An analysis of Utah roads from a compilation of bureau of public roads and state statistics shows I the following divisions: Grand total mileage, 23.3S1.1 miles; unimproved and earth partially graded, IS, 437.0; earth to establish grade and drained, Itisn.U; total miles of surf-iced road, 253.6. A similar tabulation for Idaho shows this proportion: Grand total mileage, 34.S16.3 miles; unimproved and e'li-th partially graded, 11,217.9; earth to established grade and drained, 12C30; total miles of road surfaced, 10,068.4. |