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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Live In I UTAH I SALT LAKE Utah has 220 miles of concrete highway, 53 miles of hitumin concrete, 1304 miles of gravel gra-vel surfaced roads and 1194 miles of graded roads of the total 3447.92 miles of state highway, it is shown In a report of the state road commission com-mission released recently. MONTICELLO Record breaking balmy weather has obtained in all portions of southeastern Utah during dur-ing the past month. Bees are humming around the hives, birds singing, the hollyhock leaves are peeping forth and the buds are swelling on the trees. EPHRAIM The annual fish and game report for the Manti National forest set forth the following facts: Three hundred and two thousand two hundred fish were planted in the streams in the forest in 1929 as compared with 185,000 in 1928, this includes 77,000 that were planted in the Scofield reservoir. Six hundred and fifty-five deer were killed in 1929, as compared with 460 in 1928. FILLMORII Recently 36,000 trout were planted by the Utah state game department from the mouth of Copley's canyon to the end of the canyon road. Members of the local Rod and Gun club were instrumeutai in securing this planting plant-ing and assisted in doing the work. The fis'n were of good size and should be of legal size for the coming com-ing season. VERNAL That the Indian youths attending the Uintah and Ouray Indian agency school at Whiterocks are competent stock raisers, is shown by the fact that the total weight, dressed, of six Duroc-Jersey hogs slaughtered there last week, was 2585 pounds, an average of 430 pounds. The individual weights, dressed, were respectively, 390, 395, 405, 430, 435 and 530 pounds. PRICE Assurance that Price will be the site for a sugar factory and, in all probability, a canning factory, was given by officials of the Mapleton-Springville sugar factory fac-tory to the board of directors of the Price chamber of commerce. Those who attended the meeting from the Utah county concern were D. R. Jones, president and manager; J. E. Bird, agricultural superintendent, superintend-ent, and C. W. Jorgensen, field director. di-rector. PANGUITCH There was a total of 3761 deer killed in the Kaibab forest on the north rim of the Grand canyon during the season that just closed, it was reported at the office of the Wasatch national forest. Approximately 2372 hunters from all sections of Arizona, California, Cali-fornia, Utah and other western states shoot on the forest. There were 2539 deer killed by 1396 hunters hunt-ers on the west section and 1222 deer killed by 976 hunters on the east slope of the forest. LEHI Beet farmers of Lehi this week participated in the distribution distribu-tion of $91,000, the final installment paid by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company com-pany for the 1929 crop. Including the November payment, beet farmers far-mers in the Lehi district have received re-ceived $203,000. Jesse N. Smith, local representative of the sugar company, reports that a yield above normal was realized, the average per acre being between 12 and 13 tons. A number of farmers raised as much as 25 tons to the acre. LOGAN In his 1929 annual report re-port to the extension service authorities, au-thorities, David Sharp, agricultur- . al agent for Summit county gives an interesting account of the county coun-ty wool pool organization which was effected in 1925. The first year's pool contained 1709 fleeces and the next year this figure was increased to 6000. The three succeeding suc-ceeding years saw the pool grow steadily to 10,500 fleeces in 1927; 13,500 fleeces in 1928, and 25,000 in 1929. COALVILLE Graveling of the Lincoln highway from Kimball's Junction to Wanship, where it will connect with the oil pavement completed com-pleted last summer, 13 under way by forces of the state road commission commis-sion and it is expected that the work will be finished early next month. It is anticipated that this portion of the road will be oiled next season nd with the improvement improve-ment of the road from Kimball's Junction to the summit of Parley's canyon will make a first class oil-surfaced oil-surfaced road of the Summit county coun-ty portion of th's highway. SALT LAKE Classwork for the fall quarter at the University of Utah will end Friday. Examinations Examina-tions have been going on all week. Work in the winter quarter does not commence until January 6. The holiday is the longest Christmas vacation for several years. The opening date was fixed for almost a week after the new year to make the school year end on June 7. Registeration for the fall quarter has been just short of 3000 students. stu-dents. It is expected that nearly 200 more students will enroll for the winter quarter. |