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Show I Mews Notes i It's a Privilege to Liva in X Utah DUCHESNE A quarter of a nrl-lion nrl-lion dollars worth of honey caaie out of the Uintah basin during 1927. SALT LAKE The total valuation of all Utah crops in 1927, at prices paid to growers, has been estimated conservatively at $39,000,000. The, estimated total of acres planted to ail crops was 1.120,000. PLEASANT GROVE More than 5000 barrels of Utah strawberries wera "cold packed" in 1927 and distributed; throughout the country for use in soc.a fountains and by candy manufacturers. The crop last year totaled 2,5-14,000 quarts, valued at $305,000. TR E M 0 N TO X The bulk of tha wheat grown in this section has neen harvested, there having been shipped from this point in the first month since the first car was loaded, July 11, 101 cars. From Garland during the samo period there was shipped 133 cars, each car averaging about 1200 bushels. The Garland shipments represent the crops from Portage. EUREKA Tintic minos shipped a total of 149 carloads as compared with 115 carloads for the week preceding. The Tintic Standard shipped 42 carloads; car-loads; North Lily, 21; American Smelting Smelt-ing & Refining, dump ore, 15; Empire Mines, 10; Bingham Mines, 10; Colorado, Colo-rado, 9; Mammoth, 4; Dragon, 2; Mountain View, 2; and Gold Chain, 1. Chief Consolidated units: Chief Consolidated, Con-solidated, 7 carloads of ore and 5 of dump ore; Eureka Lily, 10; Plutus, Z. SALT LAKE A total of 3180 acres of land in Utah and Idaho will be open for settlement soon, according to word received by the Associated Press from Washington D. C. The land is scattered scat-tered throughout Custer and Blaina counties in Idaho and in Utah county in Utah. Veterans of the World war will have the first opportunity to fila on the land. The land in Utah will be opened August 31, while the tracts in Idaho can be filed on beginning September Sep-tember 14. HESER Vocational agricultura students of the Wasatch county hi.h school at Heber will be represented at the national ram sale in Salt Lake with two pens of rc.isiered Hinr)-sfhire Hinr)-sfhire rams, including some twsnly head of lambs and fifteen yeavlincs. The boys have set for themselves a nli:iky;um slaudard of 139 pounds for lambs and 200 peurv's for the yearling's. year-ling's. From a quality standpoint, it will bs the best shipment yet mad3 from the students of the school to the national sa'c. .MT. PLEASANT Mt. Pleasant city will soon be protected from the menacing men-acing floods of past years, as a flood control project is under way two miles east of the city. A. F. P.eynold3 of Mt. Pleasant, who is in charge of the construction work, has 20 men End teams on the job. The excavation for the 30-foot, cobble spillway is now completely ready for the masonry work, which will bep.ia at once. The north wing of th? dike is completed and the south wing will be finished within 10 days. MYTON The road that is being improved im-proved through the Pleasant Valley district will be completed in a couple of d?.ys, so W. E. Broome, overseer of construction, reports. The purpose of this activity is to put it in shape for the handling of supplies, material and machinery for the test well for oil, to be started immediately. E. W. Gibson, a representative cf the Litah Southern Oil company, i3 superintendent of the work in this part of Utah, recently workmen bejran making excavations in preparation for the setting up of the cicriek. RICIIFJSLD The Sevier County -Fair association reports that extensive training is con-? on at the fair grounds every day among: owners of the race horses. About ten head cf race horses are already on the ground from southern Utah, reckoned anion.? the fastest in the state. They al.:o have booked six head from Utah county, coun-ty, to arrive next week, promising the most interesting racinir program to be held here in yeai'3. The dairy exhibit ex-hibit is also more promisir.ir that evr before, owing to the fact thr.t a number num-ber of animals from important herds in Wisconsin and the northwest, have been entered. VERNAL Prospects for the 1923 alfalfa seed crop in Utah are 47 per cent of normal compared with GO par cent a year ac;o, Frank Andrews, 2"-ricultural 2"-ricultural statistician for the United States department of agriculture, announced an-nounced Wednesday. Increases or decreases de-creases from this estimate may reu't pending arrival of killing frosts, 1,1 v. Andrews reported. Early fVosts will bring production lower than estimated and higher production will probably result if frost3 are late, the report said. Lack of sufficient moisture hs caused tha crop to lower from Irst year's harvest and reports of stripping of blooms also have been made, Mr. Andrews stated. MYTON The Upalco Flour 1,1 ill in Myton, which is operated by C. P. Watterson, has opened for the fail and winter and recently began receiving new wheat. About 400 bushels were received in one day. some of which wes of a superior o.uality, weighing sixty-four sixty-four pounds to the bushel. Mr. Watterson Wat-terson estimates the crop for thi3 sea- v son in the vicinity of Myton at 20 COO bushels, which is a marked increase over that of previous years. In addition, ad-dition, he expects to purchase considerable consider-able tonnage from other portions ot the bajin, |