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Show News Notes! i It's a Privilege to Live In I UTAH t MAGNA Within fifty miles of Salt Lake are grouped the smelters, which together comprise the largest nonfer-rous nonfer-rous smelting center in the world. PARK CITY It is estimated Utah has enough coal to supply the entire United States at the present rate of consumption, for 250 years. MORGAN The largest pea packing plant in the world is located in Utah and has packed 24,623 cases in a single day. Utah fruits and vegetables have a national reputation for quality. HEBER Preparations for the annual an-nual Wasatch county livestock show are under way. Final reorganization and committee appointments have been made and dates for the sIioav definitely de-finitely booked for August 22 and 23. UTAH There are 210 known minerals min-erals in Utah, metallic and nonmetal-lic. nonmetal-lic. Only a very small percentage of the state's mineral wealth has been developed to date, but innovations are constantly being made and new wealth discovered. AMERICAN FORK Chicken was "a la king" at American Fork recently recent-ly from daybreak, when salutes ushered usher-ed in the third annual Poultry Founders' Found-ers' day until the last strains of the dance died away near midnight. The lowly hen and the crowing rooster were personified by almost everyone In town. All visitors were given red paper hats resembling the rooster's comb and children, disguised as all sorts of fowl, roamed the streets dur-the dur-the day. SPRINGVILLE Early peas are now being canned under new management at the Springville Canning company. The regular run on late peas starts next week. Only light runs have been made so far. A good crop is expected from the 300 acres contracted, according ac-cording to Manager W. R. Eddington, despite heavy rainj in thi3 section. The run on peas will be followed by string beans and tomatoes, while sauerkraut will be canned in the local lo-cal plant for the first time. RICHFIELD Results of the campaign cam-paign conducted by S. R. Boswell, county agri-cultural agent, against the use of butter substitutes in Sevier county are gratifying. Between February Feb-ruary 15 and May 15, lectures, demonstrations, dem-onstrations, contests in essays, posters post-ers and slogans were conducted throughout the county and in the schools. Circular letters were sent to dairymen. Since the campaign, 23 stores have pledged not to sell butter substitutes. OGDEN Canning crops of Weber and Davis counties were damaged by the severe wind and hail storms recently re-cently to a much greater extent than estimated, according to officers o three canning companies as they launched the pea-canning season. H. L. Herrington, president and general manager of the Utah Canning company, com-pany, said his concern lost from 75 to 90 per cent of its contracted pea crop, about 50 per cent of the contracted con-tracted string bean crop and 40 per cent of the tomato pack. VERNAL Good crops and an abundance of water, with sheep in better bet-ter condition that at the early part of the season will insure a good year for the Uintah basin, Harden Bennion, state comissioner of agriculture, reported re-ported recently upon his return from Duchesne and Uintah counties. Work is progressing on the roads in that section, sec-tion, the commissioner reports, adding that he thought an excellent highway high-way would be finished to the state boundry on the Victory highway within with-in a year. MYTON Duty of water of 2.611 acre-feet per acre for the irrigation season from May 1 to Septemeber 30 has been fixed for this year by the water commission named by Judge Tillman D. Johnson of the United States district court in Salt Lake as affecting water rights on land in the Uintah basin. The schedule has been worked out by Horace W. Sheley, water commissioner for the basin; Tom C. Guyn, project engineer for the Uintah irrigation project, and B. O. Colton, Jr., representing the users.' SALT LAKE The business of shearing shear-ing sheep has become such a fine art that there has arisen a feeling that something should be done to ascertain ascer-tain who is the "champion sheep shearer of the United States." The Falls, Mont., chamber of commerce has issued a loud call to the hundreds of men who manipulate the clippers on the millions of sheep in the west to gather there July 10 and 11 and compete com-pete for this honor, as well as for numerous cash awards. This will be the first national contest of this kind ever staged. OGDEN Utah's two largest cherry producing counties Davis and Weber will have a crop ranging from 33 to 50 per cent less than the normal crop. I. E. Hall, manager of the Ben Lo-nond Lo-nond orchard, estimated recently. The terrific wind and hailstorm which truck the northern part of the state l week ago, did considerable damage. This added to the losses suffered by late frosts. It is expected the canning can-ning companies will pay 7 or S cents i pound for the crop this lear, slightly slight-ly higher than in previors seasons. The growers will begin harvesting in Ibout ten days. |