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Show I News Notes I 1 It' a PrtviUg to Live in 1 j Utah CEDAR CITY Dr. E. A. Farrow, Pah ate Indian superintendent, received receiv-ed a telegram from Randall Jonen, "who is In Wanhington, D. C, advising blm that the Kalhab road appropriation appropria-tion bill of $10,000 to be available immediately im-mediately had passed the house of representatives. rep-resentatives. Acording to Dr. Farrow, thin road is an 18.3 mile strip on the Kaibab Indian reservation and is an Important link In the all-year-round . deHftrt road between Zion National jxrk and the Grand Canyon. It is ilIho, he says, one of the worst parts of this tourist highway to the Bright ngel Point. PARK CITY Utah's coal companies prixluced more than 4,800,000 tons ol coal during the past year, or about 300,000 tons more than the output of 1926, according to figures compiled by the Utah Coal Producers' association. -The output of seventeen of the large companies aggregated 4,732,873 tons. As emergency rates to Colorado were not renewed by the interstate commerce com-merce commission on January 15, shipments ship-ments of fuel to that state have virtually vir-tually come to an end. VERNAL Following four days of thawing weather, a heavy snow began falling with a slight wind from the north. In the first two hours of the .Btorm two inches of snow fell, and be- ;lated travelers coming into town at that hour Btated that the snow was 'falling in all parts of the valley. An average of four inches of the heavy precipitation of snow which fell here three weeks ago remained on the (ground. SALT LAKE A slight increase in the number of deaths from falling coal In Utah mines is noted for 1927. In 192B there were twenty-one deaths Ifrom this cause and in 1927 there were itwenty-three, according to the state Industrial commission. The safety imovement in the coal mining industry (as a whole is said to have made considerable con-siderable progress. PROVO Plans for the poultry show to be held by the Utah County Poultry Fanciers association during the week of January 23 to 28, inclusive, are fast Hearing completion, according to Ralph G. Smith, secretary of the local association. Rules and regulations governing the show, which will be 'held in the Graham building, 162 West iCenter street, have been drawn up and will be announced in the near future. HEBER CITY United States for-jest for-jest service expects to spend in the neighborhood of $1,300,000 in the in-jtermountain in-jtermountain district this year in the construction of forest highways and roads, J. P. Martin, district engineer, (announced, according to the Associated Associ-ated Press. ' PROVO Melvin J. Wilson, R. W. IMcMullen and Dave Shuler, representing represent-ing citizens of Payson, called on the iUtah county commissioners in regard to the work contemplated on the Ehi-'reka Ehi-'reka to Santaquin road. According to (the commission, $10,000 will be spent Mn bettering this road, besides the reg-'ular reg-'ular amount subscribed for mainten-ance. mainten-ance. Work on the road will begin as jsoon as weather conditions will permit. SALT LAKE Members of the Utah jNational Guard will have a recreational recreation-al hall at the Jordan narrows by the time of the next encampment in June, 'was the belief expressed by officers, I who report that contributions to the (building fund are fast raised by the different units. OODN The Cornish factory of the ! Amalgamated Sugar company will be i removed to Missoula, Mont., it was decided de-cided by the board of directors of the company. The directorate favored movement of the factory in view of the fact that there are five sugar factories fac-tories in Cache valley now, four of which are owned by the Amalgamated company. Movement will begin within ten days, it was stated by Joseph M. Eccles. general manager. ' DUCHESNE Plans for 1927 in Utah highway construction and improvement im-provement call for the expenditure of SJ2.000.000, giving the state at the end of the year many additional miles of better roads. I OGDEN Snow which began falling here at an early hour Monday morning , of last week continued until late Monday Mon-day night. The fall was steady, but not heavy. The railroads reported the same condition as far east as Green ( River, Wyo., and for more than 100 j miles west. The fall was not heavy j enougii, however, to interfere with traffic. During the afternoon the local j street car company used track sweepers sweep-ers in the downtown district. MOAB Starting of drilling of the J. L. Shafer No. 1 "A" well by the 1 Utah Southern Oil company marks ,' the beginning of the first test in Utah ; to determine the correctness of the j salt dome theory. The new well is situated about a half-mile north of the Frank Shafer discovery well on the Cane Creek dome, nine miles southwest south-west of Moab, where a gusher statrum was struck at 2026 feet two years ago. PROVO The county fair board submitted sub-mitted for recommendations to the county commission with the suggestion sugges-tion that the admision to the fair be reduced from 50 cents to 25 cents for adults and from 25 to 15 cents for children. chil-dren. Their figures show the genera financial condition of the 1927 fair is entirely satisfactory. SALT LAKE Air mail planes with Salt Lake as their "home port" flew 1,625,000 miles during 1927, accounting for nearly half the mail by air tonnage fit the entire country. |