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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Live In UTAH I SALT LAKE Shipments of cabbage cab-bage from Utah this year already have exceeded those for 192S by 30 carloads, and an additional 25 carloads, car-loads, it is expected, will be shipped before the end of the season. HEBER CITY Sheep entering Utah from Colorado for the winter range are looking finer than ever before, according to Harden Ben-nion, Ben-nion, state commissioner of agriculture, agri-culture, who returned from an inspection in-spection of eastern Utah. LYMAN Miss Eunice Poison of Mountain View has been awarded third place in the Wyoming state championship foods contest. Miss Poison is the first Uinta county 4-H club worker to win state recognition rec-ognition for the excellence of her work. OGDEN Approximately a half-million half-million dollars will be spent in 1930 by the Utah road commission on roads radiating from Ogden, Henry H. Blood, state road commission, told the Exchange club recently. Mr. Blood said the estimated cost of road building in Utah for 1930 - was more than $3,000,000. DUCHESNE Approxi m at e I y 100,000 turkeys, reaching a net weight of 816,988 pounds and making mak-ing thirty-seven carloads, were shipped ship-ped out of Utah in the Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing turkey pool, an increase of 300 per cent over 1928, Albertus Willardson, assistant general manager, man-ager, Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative Co-operative association announced. SALT LAKE The state department depart-ment . of agriculture collected fees totaling $40,922.01 from June 1, 1928, to September 30, 1929, it is shown in. the audit of the department depart-ment collections made by Glen James, special auditor, received Wednesday by State Auditor Ivor Ajax. Records of the state department depart-ment are in excellent condition. RICHFIELD Potato growers of Sevier county are taking steps to place their industry on a business basis, and f-lready, with the cooperation coop-eration of a Salt Lake commission house, plans are under way to provide pro-vide a storage cellar, 120x40 feet, convenient to railroad trackage in Richfield. Communities to the south also are interested, j PLEASANT GROVE The board j of directors of the American Fork Canyon Water company met at the weir at the mouth of American Pork canyon recently and accepted the contract vork of A. K. Thornton Thorn-ton company. A new radial gate has been installed for flushing the weir. The present spillway has been widened and a new flume built across the weir to convey the Pleasant Grove water to the canal below the weir. OGDEN Following an annual custom that has meant much to poor children of the city, Firemen Fire-men have announced that the men in their department are eager to repair and remodel all damaged toys that may be sent to them that they may be distributed at Christmas time. In this connection, connec-tion, the chief urges that all persons per-sons having such toys and desiring to make some needy little one happy hap-py send them in at once. SPANISH FORK The Wright planing mill at Springville has ci; a quantity o red cedar in Tie Fork near Soldier Summit for use in making chests and other articles of furniture. This is largely an ex-' ex-' periment but may be developed on a larger scale, as the native cedar has a beautiful color when polished. The timber is dried for a year before using and has already attracted at-tracted attention of one of the larger lar-ger concerns. SPRINGVILLE With the shipment ship-ment of 3500 dressed turkeys by V. C. Mendenhall and 2500 by B. M. Mendenhall, these two men for the second time are reported as the heaviest producers of turkeys in this community. Both men shipped ship-ped to a California market. Others who ranked close with these producers produ-cers this year are E. T. Thorne, Joseph Carnesecca and C. O. Law of Mapleton. PRICE Bids will be received until un-til December 4 for the construction of an I-beam bridge over the Price river at Castlegate. According to present plans, the structure will be one of the biggest and strongest in this section of this state, costing approximately $16,000. Approximately Approxi-mately 51,151 pounds of structural steel will be used in building the I-beam while 133 cubic of concrete will be required in the abutments, which will extend several feet be-iow be-iow the river bed. LOGAN Plans are being developed devel-oped for the registration of students stu-dents at the Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural college for the winter quarter on December 14, according to W. H. Bell, registrar. The fall quarter will close December 13, according to the schedule bulletin, making a quarter of exactly 12 weeks. All students, both those now in attendance attend-ance and the new students entering enter-ing at that time, will register on Saturday, and regular classwork foi the winter quarter will begin on Monday morning, December 16. |