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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Live In I UTAH OGDEN Approximately 5000 jackrabbits were slain Sunday afternoon at Promontory, west ot here on the shores ot Great Salt Lake, by 100 hunters, who were directed by the Weber County Fish, and Game Protective association. CEDAR CITY The supervisor of the )Jixie national forest reports that through the cooperation of local sportsmen, organizations and the state and federal game departments, depart-ments, 534,000 fish fry and finger-lings finger-lings were planted in streams and lakes within the forest in 1929. SPRINGVILLE Springville Is assured an egg gradiug plant and work on the new $3000 building will begin next month, according to announcement by President John S. Boyer of the local poultry association, as-sociation, following a meeting and fellowship banquet recently with nearly 250 people in attendance. LOGAN "An Economic Survey of the Dixie Section Washington County, Utah," is tha title of a new booklet, Bulletin 214, which has been issued by the state agricultural agricul-tural college. The bulletin is offered of-fered without cost by the Division of Publications, Utah Experiment Station, Logan, Utah. VERNAL A petition, which it is hoped will have more than 1000 names, is being circulated among Uintah basin residents as the first step in the battle, Mr. Sheley said. The completed. petition will be sent to the interstate commerce commission, com-mission, asking that body to grant the b. L. D. application for building build-ing of 'he line. ST. GEORGE It is estimated that It will take about sixty more days to complete the grading and culvert work on th9 18 miles of road through the Arizona strip, between be-tween Las Vegas and St. George. The big steel bridge across the canyon has been completed and has been inspected by a federal road man. OGDEN Although crop yields will probably be larger in 1930 than last year, the income from farm products is expected to remain about the same, according to the annual forcast of the United States department of agriculture, copies ot which were received recently by Harden Bennion, state commissioner commission-er of agriculture. SALT LAKE Three thousand more freight cars were loaded and shipped from Utah and Idaho over the Oregon Short Line railroad during dur-ing 1929 than in 1928, according to an annual report made recently by T. S. Kinnersley, superintendent of car service, here were a total of 211,985 cars loaded in 1929 on the line, as compared with 208,928 during dur-ing 1928. OGDEN George Shorten, assistant assis-tant secretary of the Utah Canners' association, who arrived home recently re-cently from the National Canners' association convention in Chicago, says that the general sentiment at the meeting, attended by 5000 persons, per-sons, was that 1930 would be a good canning year, provit1 1 that canners can-ners did not overpick and force prices down. PROVO Reports from the local forest supervisor's office show that during the past year an intensive survey has been made of 211 acres of timber lands. From tha data gathered, management plans for these areas will be formulated showing the order of cutting, the amount to be removed, a3 well as the date when a second cut may be expected, SPRINGVILLE Contracts for peas, tomatoes and beans are now being offered by the Springville Canning company by Charles Fry, field manager. Preparations are being made for a bigger and more successful run this season than ever before, it is reported. Last season the total acreage contracted by the company was about 485 acres of peas, 140 acres of tomatoes and 100 acres of beans. PROVO It won't be such a hard winter for the elk and pheasants after all. Apparently the elk and pheasants were determined that it wouldn't be hard under any circumstances, cir-cumstances, because the antlered herd was swarming down in the fields and munching of the choice hay that farmers had stacked on their farms, while the pheasants were making themselves at home in the barnyards with the domesticated domesti-cated flocks. OGDEN Following consideration of research projects to be undertaken under-taken during lu30 in range, forest and watershed problems in the annual meeting of the district committee com-mittee ot the United States forest service came to a close Saturday. The necessary work, as outlined by C. L. Forsling, includes Initiation early in 1930 of studies on spring-fall spring-fall ranges outside the national forests and desert ranges. This will be done to gain more definite Information on the present condition condi-tion ot these classes ot range. |
