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Show i Fvews Notes j X It' a Privilege to Live in X j Utah LOGAN The proposed budget for 1929 in Cache county is $2911.99 less than the total appropriation for 192S. According to the tentative budget just prepared by County Auditor Carl V. Mohr, total appropriations in 1929 will be $214,584.75. The county budget for the current year was $217,170.74. BEAVER Five degrees below zero Monday and Tuesnay nights has ushered usher-ed in real winter weather. Twenty-four Twenty-four above zero was the high mnrk for the day Monday. School children in the lower grades were sent home in the middle of the forenoon because the school building did not heat sufficiently suffi-ciently to prevent suffering. OGDEN The determination of the road committee of the Ogden chamber j of commerce to use every effort in securing the proposed highway from Huntsvilla in Ogden canyon to Randolph, Ran-dolph, Rich county, over Monte Cristo mountain, will open up a great sheep, cattle and agricultural territory, according ac-cording to experts. SALT LAKE Continuing its steady descent, the mercury dropped to 9.4 degrees above zero in Salt Lake, only four-tenths of a degree above the low mark of last winter, registered December Decem-ber 18. And, with the barometer pressure pres-sure remaining exceptionally high, the probability is that still colder weather is in store for the city, according to J. Cecil Alter, goverment meterologist. HUNTINGTON Huntington and western Emery county in general are in the throes of real winter weather. The most of last weeks' heavy fall is still on the ground, packed tight, accompanied by snappy weather. For the first time in over a dozen years, according to old-timers here, bobsleighing bob-sleighing is being indulged in and enjoyed. SALT LAKE The position of the United States as one of the leading mining countries of the world is being threatened, A. G. Mackenzie, secretary secre-tary of the Utah chapter of. the American Amer-ican Mining congress, told the members mem-bers of the engineering council recently. re-cently. Encouragement is being given the industry in Canada and South American countries through low taxes which has resulted in a rapid development devel-opment during the past few year. HEBER CITY Prices of farm products pro-ducts continue to decline, the department depart-ment of agriculture stated Tuesday. On November 15 such prices were three points lower than last year and considerably less than during the preceding pre-ceding months. The greatest declines were noted for meat animals, grains and fruits and vegetables. Agricultural Agricul-tural prices, it was predicted, are not apt to recover high September levels during the next few weeks, j PROVO The Salt Lake county commission com-mission recently authored the purchase pur-chase of a tractor with a snowplow attachment for $4423 for the roads and bridges department. Commissioners Rulon T. Labrum and William H. Stenacher voted affirmatively, while Commissioner Reuben T. Dahlquist opposed the measure. The latter held that he formerly acted as commissioner commission-er of the roads and bridges department depart-ment without such a vehicle and that the equipment was unnecessary. SALT LAKE A decrease of 2000 acres of fall sown wheat for 1928 is sho-.vn in the repoi t given out Wednesday Wednes-day by Frank Andrews, statistician of the department of agriculture. The 1928 acreage is estimated at 1G3.000, against the 1927 estimate of 1G5.000. Despite the acreage of the one year, a gain of 11,000 acres is reported since 1925, the statist'es show. December 1, 1928, averaged S7 per cent of normal compared with 96 per cent for 1927. A ten-year average of 87 per cent was shown on December 1. SALT LAKE Approximately $1,-700,000 $1,-700,000 was collected in the first eleven elev-en months of 1928 in gasoline taxes, it was announced by the secretary of state recently. November ecliections amounted to 125,000, as compared with $112,000 in the cor-rcspondm? period of 1927. The total fees collected by the secretary of state so far in t!-e current year amounted to $2,700.0f.0 and inclidcs, besides gasoline taxes, i motor vehicle licenses, corporation I taxes and mircell.ineous fees. 1 COALVILLE Working an p.ver.'ge ! o eighty-nine men and forty h"ad of ' stock daily, the Utah Construction i company worked through November ; on the relocation of the Lincrln h:.h- vay and Un'on Pacific railroad around I Echo reservoir. 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