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Show ; News Notes j !i lt'$ a Privilege to Lie in Utah ff Tff f f f f f ff f f Tf Tf WWW WW W SALT LAKE Motorists will be happy hap-py this summer. The federal and state government will spend $3,001),-000 $3,001),-000 for new roads and highway repair. PARK CTY Mining companies ot Utah paid out $1S, 507,975 in dividends in 192S as compared to $15, 403,013 in the preceding year. OGDEN Weber County Dairy as sccation, a cooperative closely allied to the Veber County Farm bureau, Molded in January 79,000 pounds ot btter, as compared with 59,000 pounds In January, 192S, or an increase in this product of about 34 per cent. LOGAN During January, dairy herds in the Central Cache Dairy Herd Improvement association made substantial gains in both milk and butterfat production over the preceding preced-ing month, according to a report just filed with County Agent R. L. Wrigley by J. B. Thatcher, association tester. MYTON According to report, as made at the government office in My- ton, the thermometer registered 17 j below zero, Friday morning, and 24 below Saturday morning. Indications t point to the probability of its Deing I just as cold all over Uintah basin the j same days. ! SALT LAKE Salt Lake stood first among the large cities of the Twelfth federal reserve district for the first month of 1929 in the gaiii of retail trade, according to the report of the federal reserve system received by Oscar Jensen, chairman of the retail trade department of the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce. PRICE Overhanging snow in the dugways of Indian canyon highway between Price and Duchesne, witb the constant thieat of sno'vslides, has caused the United States mail distributing dis-tributing department at Price to pursue pur-sue a course of extreme caution, according ac-cording to Cyril B. Cluff, superintendent superinten-dent of the United States mail garage gar-age at Price. The road has been kept open at all times this season. BR1GHAM CITY Brigham City experienced ex-perienced extremely cold weather during dur-ing the past few days. The mercury dropped to 10 below zero Friday night, 8 degrees below on Saturday night and 5 on Sunday and Monday nights. The weather is now moderating moder-ating slowly. Orchardists are somewhat some-what alarmed over the probable damage dam-age done to fruit trees during the cold snap. DUCHESNE Forty-three inches ot snowfall, with a water content of 9.5 inches, was reported at the head of Daniels canyon as of January 31 by forest rangers. This precedes the storms of early February. The reported re-ported snowfall was nine inches more than at February 1, 1928, and seven Inches more than the average at that date since the series of measurements started. UTAH Providing the business men, the service clubs and the newspapers give their support. Salt Lake will be scene of the 1929 Junior American league baseball tournament between I Utah, Nevada, Arizona and California, i This announcement was made recent-j recent-j ly by Dan sowers, national director j of the American commission, Amen-i Amen-i can Legion, who was in Salt Lake to confer with local Legion heads, repre- sentatives of the service clubs j RICHFIELD A carload of live poultry was shipped out of Richfield j for San Francisco recently by the Utah Poultry Producers' association. The I car contained upwards of 6000 birds, i This is the third carload of poultry i shipped out of this section during i February. A car of dr-ssed turkeys was recently shipped by the same concern from Gunnison and another from Ephraim. A car o" dressed turkeys tur-keys is now being made up at St. George. OGDEN Utah canners in 1929 packed pack-ed 3,218,175 cases of canned goods, j said a report given out here recently ' by the Utah Canners' association, it I was the second largest pack in the j state's history. The canners paid ' farmers ?1, 250, 000 for the season's I raw material and expended $750,000 ' in wages. The year's output included j 1,411,941 cases of tomatoes; 1,040,93. 1 cases of peas; 147,830 cases of beans; ! 75,000 cases of apples and 60,000 cases of cherries. MT, PLEASANT About 14,000 lambs for fall delivery were contracted contract-ed for by the Rogers Livestock company com-pany of Ogden recently by their representative re-presentative from Mt. Pleasant sheepmen. sheep-men. Eleven cents a pound was the contract price, with an advance paid pf ?1 per head. The company also j purchased 500 yearling ewes at ?12 a head and 600 Rambouillet rams ! from Mt. Pleasant and Spring City breeders. Three carloads of rams will j be shipped from Sanpete and Sevier j counties this month. COALVILLE Work on the railroad rail-road and highways about the Kcho reservoir will be resumed as soon as weather conditions permit, according accord-ing to the report of F. F. Smith, con struction engineer of the reclamation bureau. On account of climatic conditions con-ditions and the impossibility of satisfactorily satis-factorily doing the finishing grading on the relocated lines of the railroad and highway around Echo reservoir, the Tork of the "tah. Construction company on their contract with the bureau of reclamation was suspended on January 3. |