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Show News Notes j 1 It's a Privilege to Liu in ! L Vh I MYTOX Enough asphalt to pave most of the city streets in the west liea awaiting development in the Uintah Uin-tah Basin. VEP.NAL Uintah Basin contains 10 per cent of all the horses, cattle and sheep in the state of Utah and the basin is still young in development. MYTON1 Sixty-seven billion dollars worth of gasoline all the world's supply, sup-ply, say federal surveyors, lies in the Uintah basin. DUCHESNE More than half the v.-atr of Utah flows into the Uintah hasin, which expects to have more than half a million acres under cultivation. cul-tivation. HEBER CITY In 1927, the value of es, poultry and turkeys produced in Utah was 8,679,753. Of the egg production, 614 carloads went to outside out-side markets and 567, 924 pounds of turkeys were exported. OGDEN According to an appeal for help made recently to the Weber County Fish and Game Protective association as-sociation of Promontory Point, rabbits rab-bits have descended upon the crops in the locality and are doing damage that is estimated at thousands of dollars. dol-lars. PAROWAN On Auus-t 16, 17 and 18 the Southern Utah Rambouillet association as-sociation will hold its seventh annual show and sale at Parowan. Over 300 head of blooded Rambouillet sheep will be exhibited at the show. These sheep will come mostly from Iron county, but it is expected that other flocks from other counties will be included. in-cluded. ROOSEVELT Roads between Salt Lake and the Uintah hasin are it fairly good condition, according to reports prepared in the offices of the state road commission. In one or two places the road is reported as slow because of construction work under way, but no inconvenience should be suffered by any motorists pasing over these roads, highway officials of-ficials declare. BRIGHAM CITY Peach Day will have the enthusiastic support of all groups and organizations of the community, com-munity, if the widespread organization organiza-tion effected in the chamber of commerce com-merce is any indication. Representatives Representa-tives from civic, social and ecclesiastical ecclesiast-ical units met to outline policies and perfect plans for the Peach festival to be held in the Boxelder county seat Friday and Saturday, September 14 and 15. BRIGHAM CITY City Attorney Lewis Jones announced recently that he had .just been informed by the Utah-Idaho Cement company that this firm had executed a five-year lease on a tract of land near "the cement plant at Brigham City to be used as an airport. The tract is about three-fourths three-fourths of a mile long and half mile wide. Brig-ham City will in turn lease the premises to the department of commerce, after leveling and placing the field in good shape. SALT LAKE Roads through Utah are in good condition generally, although al-though there are some ruts and dust in places', according' to the weekly road report issued by the state road commission. com-mission. The main routes across the state, however, are in good condition. On the desert section of United States highway No. 40; west of Salt Lake, the road is dusty, but good time can be made, the report shows. It is indicated in-dicated by the report that the highways high-ways are in practically the same condition con-dition as they usually are at this time of the year. SALT LAKE Crops and ranges in Utah .are beginning to show the need of rain, according- to the weekly crop report issued Wednesday by J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist in charge of the local government weather bureau. His report is as follows: "Cooler weather has been favorable but there wras not enough rain and crops and ranges are showing the need of general showers. The weather has been fine, however, for ripening spring grain and for the harvest of grain and alfalfa. The higher ranges still afford plenty of feed, but lower ranges are not growing. grow-ing. Sugar beets mostly are doing well, but would be improved by rain. GUNNISON Preston G. Peterson, a member of the state road commission, commis-sion, has investigated the bad curve in the state highway at the Palisade I park junction between Manti and Gunnison Gun-nison and has reported that would soon be improved. He inquired as to J roads' needs in this part of the state. His attention was called to the fact that the state highway between Blanti and Gunnison, which is a road of major ma-jor importance and carries a great deal of traffic, has never received more than passing consideration BURLEY A survey of damage I done by the hailstorm that passed through a section of the Minidoka tract south of Burley recently show3 much less destruction than was at i first reported. The storm extended in a narrow swath for a distance of about three miles. Around 320 acres of crops were pounded into the ground and apparently destroyed. Other crops were but little affected. The line between the hailed section and the .part that escaped wa3 sharply defined. |