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Show News Notes 2 It' a m Privilege to Lie in ''. Utah j UTAH The price of zinc in Utah w;.s 12.5 per cent higher in January, 1929, than in January, 1928. SALT LAKE Increase in Salt Lake's population is anticipated by an order for 2300 new telephones by the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company. UTAH Utah telephone service will be im. roved to the extent of $1,413,-300 $1,413,-300 this year, Mountain States Telephone Tele-phone & Telegraph company officials report. SALT LAKE Livestock throughout through-out the state has started to show improvement im-provement with the heavy snow leaving leav-ing the ground, J. Cecil Alter, chief of the local weather bureau, announces in his weekly report. The ground is drying up rapidly and the grasses on the ranges have started to appear. IIEBFK Graveling of the road between be-tween Heber and Charleston will begin be-gin soon with the moving of the co:i--tractor's equipment to a gravel pit southeast of Heber. The project is part of federal aid project No. 65 A, and graveling of the Heber-llailstone and the Hailstone-Park City roads has been progressing for some time. LOGAN The snow cover in Cache valley has been deep and continuous and as a result the water supply this summer will probably be considerably above normal, according to Professor George D. Clyde, who has just hied a report of snow conditions of northern north-ern Utah for February. Professor Clyde stated that drifting has been severe. RICHFIELD Spring plowing is the vogue in Sevier valley with the return of mild spring weather conditions. con-ditions. The recent thaw that sent the snow blanket, which covered the entire valley, away in mist, also sesms to have taken the frost with it and to have left the soil in excellent condition con-dition for the plow. In many places the farmers are using tractors. PROVO In competition with some of the largest makers of cast iron pipe in the country, the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company plant was awarded the contract calling for the delivery of 130,000 feet of cast iron pipe to be used by the Utah Gas and Coke company of Salt Lake in its expansion ex-pansion program. This is said to be only the first allotment and further orders are expected. OGDEN The city recently was making a new effort to clear the airport air-port here of ice and snow, which has prevented its use since early in January because no equipment heavy enough to clear it was available. Officials of ! the National Parks airways declared that concern is losing $100 a clay because be-cause of inability to land here. They said Ogden apparently received more snow than any other airport on the Salt Lake-Great Falls route. SALT LAKE Salt Lake should have natural gas by September 1, forecast fore-cast J. D. Roberts, assistant manager of the Utah Gas & Coke company, speaking recently of the progress in j constructing the pipe line to Baxter Basin, Wyoming. Mr. Roberts spoke at the weekly luncheon of the All Engineers club in the chamber of commerce. com-merce. Natural gas development in the Baxter Basin and adjacent fields assures a supply during the present generation at least. GUNNISON Roar of a torrent in the Sanpitch river, followed by a report re-port that two automobiles had been demolished when they fell into a large gap in the highway three and a half miles northeast of Gunnison, was the first indication at about 2 a. m, recently, that the Antelope reservoir, reser-voir, five miles northeast of the town, had broken and was pouring its contents con-tents down the valley toward the Sevier river, passing through Gunnison Gun-nison on its route. SPANISH FORK Plans for the annual Utah county livestock show to be held at Spanish Fork March 27, 28 and 29 are going forward rapidly. rap-idly. Many entries have already been signed up. Springville, neignooring city in the north, has announced the ; purpose of sending a lot of fine ex- hibits. A number of visitors are ex- j pected to be present this year; quite a number of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce have .expressed their n tention to come, as to ha'-e a num. r of state officials. LEWISTON Fresh outbreaks of hemorrhagic septicemia among cattle cat-tle herds of this region were reported, report-ed, but quick action by herdsmen will prevent spread of the disease, veterinarians veter-inarians believed. The major outbreak out-break of this disease was reported recently and was handled successfully by vaccination and innoculation. Eighteen hundred animals have been treated. PLEASANT GROVE Total s of the Pleasant Grove Canning con -pany the past year were around $385,-000, $385,-000, according to Clifford L. '"'right, manager, and expenditures were in the .neighborhood of $375,000, Mr. Wright reports. "The outlook for the canning industry is bright," said Mr. Wright, "particularly in this sec- J tion. We consider Pleasant Grove as ' ideally located for the production of fruits that go inte canning r-oducts, and the possibilities of this region rre great. The cpany plans on ..n-siderable ..n-siderable expansion in the fu'.uie, |