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Show : News Notes t It's a Privilege to Live In J I UTAH 1 I VERNAL Excellent spring and Bummer ranges atid a good lamb corp are in prospect for Uintah county, cro-respondents cro-respondents of the United States bureau bur-eau of the agriculture report. " MORGAN Prospects for spring and Bummer ranges have never been better in Morgan county, reports of the United State3 department of agriculture agricul-ture declare. COALVILLE Construction work ou the Echo dam during the month of April was greatly handicapped by inclement in-clement wheather, according to the report of F. F. Smith, government construction engineer, and 15 days were lost on that account. PROVO W'it't hot summer days prevailing, huge snowbanks in Rock canyon, directly east of the state fish and game farm on the state highway, between Springville and this city, have betn melting rapidly, causing the strtam which comes from the canyon j and runs directly through the hatchery to overflow. DUCHESNE Commissioner G. V. Billiivgs left Duchesne recently to confer con-fer vith the state road commission in regard to the rebuilding of the i bridge over the Strawbery river on the ro.-id from Indian canyon. The bridge collapsed early this spring and traffic lias been routed around the river and away from Duchesne. LAYTON A shipment of 19,000 tomato plants was received in Layton recently from Moapa, Nev., for the Royal Canning corporation of Ogden. According to H. P. Mathews, district agricultural inspector, these are the first to be shipped into the county this year, and will be used for the purpose of growing canning tomatoes and tomatoes to be shipped soon. RICHFIELD Farmers near Monroe are facing a peculiar problem. For the last week or so deer have been coming down from the hills in large numbers, eating from haystacks and trampling fields. As fences seem to make very little difference to them the farmers have in some cases had to return to their fields at night and herd the animals away. PROVO Plans to the financing and construction of remaining units of the livestock building at the Provo fair grounds were laid at a meeting of the Utah county fair board held recently with J. F. Mendenhall, president, in the chair. It is estimated that an expenditure ex-penditure of $20,000 is required, and it is hoped that the plant will be completed com-pleted and in readiness for the exposition ex-position next fall. RICHFIELD Seeding of the 1929 sugar beet crop is now completed in Sanpete and Sevier counties. More than 5000 acres have been planted in these two, counties and soil and climatic cli-matic conditions are indicative of a successful sugar beet year. With storage stor-age reservoirs well filled and the high watersheds still covered with a mantle of snow, an abundant water supply for this season seems assured. CEDAR CITY About 90,000 domestic do-mestic animals will graze in the Dixie forest this summer, according to the report just issued by the supervisor of the forest. Of these 76,741 will be sheep, 10,594 cattle, 1000 goats and VOii horses. The district office will spenu $180j for range improvement. This will be used to install metal troughs for watering sheep and cattle "where water storage is necessary. ST. GEORGE Dixie stockmen are just emerging from what they claim to have been the hardest winter in 40 years, according to Benjamin Swapp, forest ranger on the Dixie forest. Last season's forage crops were light on the farms, the desert ranges made but scant growth, and these subnormal conditions, combined with the long, cold winter, caused considerable loss among all clases of range stock. COALVILLE Representatives to the Morgan Canning company have been making arrangements for the planting of experimental fields of peas with the view of starting the pea in dustry in this locality. Test fieldc have been planted in the vicinity o: Coalville, Hoytsvil'e and Wanship ant' the company officials state that it sut ficient acreage can be secured for nex: year's crop, viners will be establishec at each of the points named. MYTON S. Y. Taylor of Salt Lake manager of the Tayior canal, is in Myton, looking after business matters relative to the project. This canal furnishes water for the south Myton bench and Pleasant valley district, which is one of the , promising parts of the basin as regards future development. Four thousand acres is under cultivation, and when an additional ad-ditional 800 acres is improved it will mean increased business along man. line . RICHFIELD Work will commenje on the Salina-Fish lake 'road early in June, acordinr; to an announcen nl made by Supervisor C. A. Mattson ol Fish lake national forest. When completed com-pleted the road will be twenty miles in length. All but eight miles has already been completed. Thb new route goes by way of Gooseberry and. the Salina experiment station and will shorten the distance to Fish lake considerably. con-siderably. The total cost of the project pro-ject is about ?:.'S,000, of which the government gov-ernment pays U0 per cent and the county 40 per cent. A two-mile road connecting the road out of Oak City |