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Show I News Notes : : t It's a Privilege to Live In J UTAH PROVO Daily sprinkling of the Provo canyon Alpin grove road will be instituted by the state road commission com-mission in preparation for the annual Timpa.no.gos hike. Utah county has agreed to furnish a sprinkling outfit for this purpose, following the request of Preston G. Peterson of the state road commission. MORONI Terms for the rental of surplus road equipment owned by the state for use in the construction of the Moroni to Maple canyon road, a part of which is federal forest road and the balance county, were agreed to at a meeting of the Sa-pete county commissioners com-missioners and others and the state road commission, Tuesday. EPHRAIM Six truckloads of fish from the Springville hatchery have already been planted in Sanpete streams and six more truckloads will be planted this week. A part of one truckload was taken up Ephraim canyon, can-yon, where some were placed in ponds and natural lakes, while others were placed in the left-hand fork streams of the canyon. COALVILLE Work of graveling the new location of the Lincoln highway high-way around Echo dam and reservoir was completed this week by the Sum-sion Sum-sion Construction company of Springville, Spring-ville, together with the Echo canyon road, from Echo to Buskin. State road officials announce that the oiling of the latter road and the road from Coalville to Wanship will be started about August 1. LOGAN The rules and regulations of the sixth Utah Intel-mountain Egg-laying Egg-laying contest, which begins on November No-vember 1, and extends for a period oi 51 weeks, are discussed in Utah Ex-periment Ex-periment Station Circular No. 79, just released at Logan. A brief discussion is also given on the general care and management which the birds receive while in the contest. The last date of entry is October 20. PRICE With the placing of thirty cans, or 10,000 fish, in the upper reaches reach-es of Huntington canyon, the number of fish planted in Huntington and Sco-field Sco-field waters approaches the 000,000 mark. The fish ware placed Saturday under the direction of the Carbon county Pish and Game association. Two hundred thousand of the finny fellows were planted in Scofield last week under the direction of John Sta-ley. Sta-ley. ROOSEVELT Cutting of the Dick-erson Dick-erson point of the Blue bench, just east of Duchesne, has been completed, including the filling in of the approaches approach-es to the bridge across Duchesne river at this point. The shovel there has been moved to the gravel pit, vhere gravel -will bs prepared for both the federal aid and the states' portion of about 5.5 miles between Duchesne and Antelope. Grading of this section is a,l)out completed. The state's portion is under the direction of Engineer Verne Gillman. BRIGHAM CITY Thirteen carloads of sweet cherries have been shipped from BrighaJii City during the past ten days by the Anderson Produce company and the Brigham City Fruit Growers' association. The last car went out recently. According to J. W. Peters, manager of the Fruit Growers' Grow-ers' association, the two local companies com-panies arranged to ship their s'.veet cherries together in order to increase the carload shipment and obtain batter bat-ter prices. The growers w-ers paid from 7 to 10 cent per pound. VERNAL O. E. Rhinesmith of the Home Oil company, which is drilling the Spahr well No. 1 on the Dog Valley i structure, ten milas west of Vernal, on land controlled by the Western Venture corporation and the Colorado-Utah Colorado-Utah Oil company, reports that recently, re-cently, at 1115 feet, the drill encountered encoun-tered sand with a definite and favorable favor-able showing of oil. Drilling was discontinued dis-continued to await word from the office in Salt Lake, but the one baiUr of water brought from the well deposited depo-sited a layer of oil along the trench for forty feet. The matarial was of a thick, heavy asphaltic nature. POCATELLO Satisfaction with progress of the Pccatello fish hatchery being built in the vicinity of Jimmy Drinks springs, was reported by William Wil-liam Kiel, state fish commissioner, on a visit here recently. Exhaustive tests mads along the line of backing up the water to ascertain its effect on the flow of the springs has proved satis- factory in every way. The .state fish j and game department proposes to plant the pond with about 50,000 trout of six inches or greater in length, and as the season advances to erect cot-1 cot-1 tages and other buildings to work out ! the purposes of a first class hatchery. j BOISE A sharp reduction in the crop of Idaho peaches was indicated recently in the July report of Julius H. Jacobson, federal crop statistician. This years' crop promises to be "91,-; "91,-; 000 bushels, whereas 335.000 bushels j were harvested in 192S. A like reduc-; reduc-; tion is noted in the pear and prune crops, but the cherry crop, although late, will be about equal to last year's j In a report on the crop of pigs. Ja-l Ja-l cobson estimated a reduction of S.9 ; per cent, compared with last year, al-j al-j though the number of pigs saved was 6.1. compared with 5.8 last year. |