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Show i i I Mews Notes It's a Privilege to Live in ! Utah ! Salt Lake City Heavy snowfall during dur-ing the past week from Cache county to eastern Juab and lighter falls elsewhere else-where were beneficial to ranges, winter win-ter grains and storage supplies, but some canyon roads were closed temporarily tem-porarily and valley roads are muddy, according to the weekly report of J. Cecil Alter, in charge of the local office of-fice of the weather bureau. Ogden. Stressing the Importance to Utah and the intermountain country coun-try of the passage of the Gooding bill in congress and setting forth that this is the crucial time, the finance committee com-mittee of the Ogden zone of the Utah Shippers' Traffic association dispatched dis-patched letters calling for financial assistance as-sistance to carry on the rate fight. Salt Lake City. Funds to he applied ap-plied on federal aid highway projects in Utah amounting to $26,376.01 were received by the state road commission commis-sion from the bureau of public roads, Washnigton, D. C. The funds are to be applied as follows: Thistle-Castel-la project, $1828.17; Anderson's ranch-Toquerville ranch-Toquerville project, $5,336.02; and Toquerville-La Verkln project, $19,-211.82. $19,-211.82. Salt Lake City. Plans have been completed and construction work will begin shortly on a new high school at Grantsville, it was announced by Cannon & Fetzer, architects in charge of the work. Salt Lake City.- Main highways throughout the state are in fair shape according to the weekly survey of the United States weather bureau in Salt Lake, aside frevm a little mud reported in the vicinity of Manti and eighteen inches of snow in Nephi canyon. Ogden. Inspiration to carry on the fight for equitable and just freight rates through the passage of the Gooding bill was given Salt Lake and Ogden business men, chiefly shippers at a luncheon meeting here, by James A. Ford of Spokane, secretary of the Intermediate Rate association, who is j en route to Washington, D. C, to work j for the passage of the Gooding measure. mea-sure. Salt Lake City. The Utah Sugar Beet association and its parent association, asso-ciation, the Utah State Farm bureau, are planning an intensive campaign this year throughout the state to encourage en-courage the consumption of more beet sugar as a means of aiding the sugar beet producers of the state, it was announced an-nounced by Ephraim Bergson of Cornish, Cor-nish, president of both the state farm bureau and the sugar beet producers. With the new three-year contract with the sugar manufacturers, which gives the beetgrowers an increased revenue from sugar extracted. i Provo. Nine stops have brought the Utah seed special, which is being operated through the agricultural districts dis-tricts of Utah by the Union Pacific system, in cooperation with the Utah Agricultural college, state department of agriculture, Utah State Farm bureau bu-reau -and Salt Lake chamber of commerce, com-merce, to the middle of its state tour and approximately 6000 persons have visited the train up to the present time. Myton According to reports recently recent-ly brought to Myton, the snowfall in the mountains the past two weeks has been heavy. This is said to insure in-sure plenty of water for the Uintah basin the coming summer. Salt Lake City. William Lacy, in an article on "Steel" in the Southern California Business Magazine, recently recent-ly issued, says of the Importance of the steel industry in Utah: "Of the major basic industries which within itself and allied lines of manufacturing manufactur-ing hold far r .aching benefits to Los Angeles and southern California, the steel industry stands out." Salt Lake City. Bootlegging of sheep from the western Navajo reservation res-ervation in Arizona into Utah has brought into the state south of Bluff in San Juan county a large number of sheep that are affected with scabies, the larger part of the herds being in Monumental valley, but the disease has become widespread in southern San Juan county, it has become known. Salt Lake City. Representatives ol the Salt Lake Amateur Baseball association asso-ciation appeared before the city commission com-mission Tuesday and urged that various var-ious improvements be made in Athletic Ath-letic fields to encourage and further amateur baseball in the city. The commission referred the matter to the commissioner of parks and the city engineer, to prepare plans and make estimates of cost and report to . the board a definite plan for procedure. Salt Lake City. Dircetly conflicting conflict-ing opinions concerning the proposed building of a railroad into the Uintah basin are expressed by Alexander Ber-ger, Ber-ger, president of the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad company, which plans to build the line, and A. S. Pyeatt, president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad company, which road has withdrawn its application to build a spur into the Uintah country from Soldier Summit. Nephi Celebration of the seventy-fifth seventy-fifth anniversary of the coming of the pioneers into this valley will he held September 16, 17 and 18, according to plans decided upon by the board of directors of the hom-coming and Juab county fair association. Ogden. Mayor George E. Browning requested Senator William H. King to amend senate bill No. 675, which provides pro-vides for the sale of 36,360 acres of public land in the mountains east o! Oden, to the city at $1.25. It was requested that the land be transferred to the city for watershad purpose! |