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Show TROPHY ATTRACTS OTENTION One of tho things that has been attracting considerable attention In tho lobby of the Cache Valley Banking Bank-ing company is the trophy of tho National Copper Bank Potato Growing Grow-ing Competition, won in 1912 by Merle J. Hyer of Lowlston. Tho cup, which Is of solid silver, lined inside with gold, Is twentyiflve Inches high and sixteen inches in diameter. It is generally conceded to bo the most bandBome cup ever purchased by a Utah concern. Many sketches wero submitted by compet-, compet-, ing firms, and the one that was cho- I sen shows an etching ot a largo io- I tato field, whllo around It, hammer- 1 ed out In bold relief are perfect tu bers, vines, flowers and seed balls, showing the whole life history of tho plant, and Us two methods of reproduction. Tho Meredith Trunk Co., of Salt Lake City were the makers ot tho durable, handsomo case, velvet lined In which tho trophy Is carried and exhibited. This potato competition, organized nnd directed by Louis F. Boyle, is ono of tho very flrBt of its kind ever established in tho United States, In fact It, and tho competition carried on In Cacho Valley Is said to bo tho actual beginning, and is a just credit of Cncho Valley's possibilities possi-bilities for ono of our boys to win It In tho stato wldo competition. Tho officials of tho Cacho Valley Bank- rtfi ,nB company aro greatly Interested in tho agricultural development of tho county nnd state, nnd wero glnd to placo this cup on exhibition In its banking houso whoro It can bo seen by tho citizens of Cacho Valley. Tho yield of potatoes per aero raised by Mr. Hyer was 707 bushels From Logan tho trophy is taken I south, nnd Cacho Valley's famo will j bo spread far and wldo by it. May a Cacho Vnlloy boy win it ngaln. |