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Show News Notes X It's a Privilege to Live in j Utah 1 Salt Lake. Coming at a time when parched crops thirsted for moisture, a vigorous shower, believed to have been general In its scope, followed closely upon the heels of local storms that were accompanied by considerable consider-able damage. Value accruing from the storm, however, more than offset the damage that had been wrought. Wherever rain fell, farmers rejoiced, excepting those whose hay was not in stack. Salt Lake Photograph eight, feet high and eight feet, wide of some of tho watcrpower sites of Utah, made by a camera that weighs thirty tons, may be on exhibition soon at the state capitol and the Salt Lake ehambel of comnmreo, according to Rolf R. Woolley of the water division of the United States geological survey. Mr. Woolley Is now negotiating for the negatives from the department at Washington. Garfield, A cloudburst at che summit sum-mit of (lie Oquirrh range west of this town shortly before midnight Wednesday Wednes-day night caused a torrent to rush down gullies on the hillsides and over the state highway leading from Salt Lake to Tooele county and the west. A short distance from the end of the pavement at the Salt Lake-Tooele county line mud covered the pavement to a depth of eighteen inches or more. It was mixed with boulders said to be as large as two feet in diameter and became impassable for automobiles. Pleasure seekers who had come from Tooele to Saltair were held up here, and some cars that attempted to get through the mud were stuck. Logan. An exceptional amount of rain fell during the storm which hit Cache valley late Thursday evening, according to reports from the experiment experi-ment station at the Utah Agricultural college. The station has about twenty rain gauges located in all parts of the valloy, and telephone reports from nine points showed that the average precipitation for the valley was 1.17 inches. Knysville. Kaysville and the country coun-try to, the south and east were visited by another flood Thursday evening, the first time in the history of the community that two floods have been suffered within three days. The storm which caused the flood broke in Bair's canyon, southeast of Kavsville. about 7:30 o'clock and reached its crest at the mouth of the canyon an hour later. Salt Lake City. An agreement as to sideline rights has been reached between the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining company and the Park-Bingham Mining company, according ac-cording to an announcement made Thursday by President and Manager A. C. Christensen. Consummation of an understanding relating to boundaries, boundar-ies, which will preclude any litigation over apex rights, either with regard to fissures or limestone beds, will facilitate fa-cilitate operations in both properties. Ogden. Northern Utah was drenched drench-ed Thursday night with a rain calculated calcu-lated to benefit argiculture immea-Bureably. immea-Bureably. Reports .reaching Ogden were that the rain extended into adjoining ad-joining counties and was heavy enough to do great good to the parched crop lands. It is believed that the rain was responsible for a landslide in Ogden canyon a short distance west of the Hermitage park and immediately west of the place of the immense slide last year. Dirt covered about twelve feet of the paved highway, but automobiles automo-biles were able to pass. Moab. Twenty rigs, most of them standard, will be drilling for oil on the ' southeastern Utah structures within two months. Ten are already in op eration and others are moved to lo cations just as fast as facilities will permit. Salt Lake City. Farmers, road builders, railroad men and engineers were busy on Tuesday repairing the loss suffered Monday afternoon about 6 o'clock from a flood originating from a cloudburst which came down the various mountain channels east of Kaysville. It followed much the same path of the disastrous deluge of August, 1923, when nine people lost their lives, and a large property loss resulted. Provo. Contrary to reports given out in Provo Saturday concerning the road to Strawberry reservoir through Diamond Fork canyon being impassable impass-able on acount of a bridge being washed wash-ed out, County Commissioner Neil Dahle reports that the road has been repaired and that it is in good condition. condi-tion. It is now possible to make the trip one way and return another, thus affording a delightful drive through some of the state's most picturesque scenery. Salt Lake City. That Utah orchard-ists, orchard-ists, save for a few exceptions, are not keeping their apple and peach orchards or-chards up to a point where they can he depended upon for highgrade and stable crops annually, is the contention conten-tion of Harden Reunion, state commissioner com-missioner of agriculture. "Instead, we re allowing t2m to overbear under favorable conditions, thus glutting the Market with inferior fruit when they tio product and causing them to go bar-len bar-len the succeeding year," he com-Ments. com-Ments. I |