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Show I News Notes ! X It't a Privilege to Live in i I Utah j ! VERNAL The Uintah basin will add to the wealth of west when rail transportation comes to handle the rare minerals found nowhere else in the country. LEIIi Sugar beet production in Utah fir Rtl'S is forecast at 572.000 toes, according to the report of the .United States department of agricul-tme, agricul-tme, r::i.i.m.Ml Tuesday hy Frank Andrews An-drews at. the local office. BOUNTIFUL One of the f.nn fia-Tored fia-Tored fruits that is making Utah famous fa-mous in world nrtrkets is the Elbnrta pouch. The slate's crop in 1 ft 2 7 was valued at $673,000. Exports tot-ale-7IKI carloads. IM-JBiCIt CITY Utah's wheat crop in 301:7 was valued at .$5, 702,000. Winter .wheat, 85 per cent of wh cli was grown on dry land farms, averaged 19 bushels to the acre. Spring wheat, 80 per cent grown on irrigated land, averaged 31 bushels to the acre. I GUNNISON' Damage possibly running run-ning Into the thousands of dollars, although al-though a accurate estimate is not yet obtainable, was caused by a cloudburst accompanied by hail, which swept over Gunnison Wednesday afternoon. The heavy downpour lasted three hours. SALT LAKE Fourteen federal highway projects, costing a total of approximately $1,500,000, are now under un-der course of construction In Utah, :t Is shown hy a statement prepared in 'the offices of the state road couiuks-flion. couiuks-flion. Some of those projects are now Hearing completion and the majority of them will bo finished before the close of ths present year, it was stated. stat-ed. OC DEN Prediction of a record-hreakhig record-hreakhig onion crop for Utah is made by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician, statis-tician, in his August bulletin. The bulletin says that indications August 1, 132S, are for a probable onion crop for Utah of 403,000 bushels in Aug., 1927. The acreage this year Is estimated at 970, as compared with 900 last year. For the United State as a whole, the total late crop of onions, including the Utah crop, is forecast at 15,17S,000, as compared with 17,773,000 in 1927, showing a considerable reduction. KANAB Ranges throughout southern south-ern Utah from Panguitch and Cedar City southward have received a refreshing re-freshing and much needed rain during the last few days and the skies are etill heavily overcast. This summer has been one of the dryest for some time, and the ranges are burning up, and in some places barren. The forest for-est and park officials in Zion National park and the Kaibab National forest and Grand Canyon National park have bean especially alert and have, in the case of Zion Park, forbidden promiscuous promiscu-ous smoking, allowing it only in certain cer-tain areas, due to the extremely high firo hazard. GUNNISON Sanpete county is receiving re-ceiving a great deal of recognition from the state on the highways througout the countj'. On the federal aid project for cement highway to be built in the northern part of the county, coun-ty, at Fairview, Mt. Pleasant and Spring City, A. G. Youns Construction company of Richfield was let the contract, con-tract, being the lowest bidder. The amount, $35,907.03, was within $21 of the estimated cost of the construction as made by the state department engineers. en-gineers. The second low figure was made by the Sevier Construction company com-pany at $97,051.17. LEIII Sugar beets, grains and hay In some par of Utah are suffering from the excessively dry. weather, according ac-cording to the weekly crop report of J. Cecil Alter, government meteorologist, meteorol-ogist, issued Wednesday. The report follows: "The weather has continued dry, excepting for scattered showers over the southern portion of the state. .Temperatures were also abnormally high, conditions being rather unfavorable unfavor-able for alfalfa seed, irrigated crops not abundantly supplied with water and the grazing ranges generally. Grain cutting is nearly finished and spring grain threshing rapidly. SALT LAKE Registration of freshmen fresh-men students at the University of Utah will take place Thursday, September Sep-tember 27, and former students will register Monday, October 1. Friday and Saturday, September 2S and 29, .will be given over to special instruction instruc-tion periods for the new students. All freshmen will be required to attend. Regular classroom instruction will begin be-gin Tuesday. October 2. High school graduates who are entering the University Uni-versity for the first time should s-nd a copy of their high school credits to the Recorder's office at least one month prior to registration. Last year 11S1 freshmen, the largest number in the history of the institution, entered the University. It is estimated that this fall enrollment of first year students stu-dents will be even larger. New classes more faculty members, and other added add-ed facilities have been provided for the large number of students expected. PROVO H. V. Swenson, Utah county coun-ty agricultural inspector, has been taking tak-ing orchard samples of pears and peaches for chemical analysis to determine deter-mine whether or not they are within the spray residue regulations. Many of the big orchards of the county are beginning to pick for shipment. Some of the fruit will be loaded this week. The fruit is better in size and freer from codling moth worms than it has been for a number of years, according to Mr. Swenson, and the growers ot the section are looking forward to an exceptionally good year. |