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Show : News.Notes j It's a Privilege to Live in t Utah PROVO Utah packing houses- turned turn-ed out products last year, valued at $11,603,088. This was on a capital investment of $3,500,000. The industry indus-try is of particular value,, enabling raisers to dispose of their animals without shipping them to other states. PROVO Approximately 15,000 cases of strawberries, properly graded and packed, have been s-ent out from the local receiving station of the Utah Cold Pack Fruit company, located at Orem, during the past week, according to President A. V. Watkins of the corporation. HEBER Decision to purchase a permanent fair grounds and equip it with modern stalls and sheds for the annual Wasatch county Mutton day and stock show was reached at a conference con-ference between representative citizens citi-zens and county commissioners recently. LEHI Eight thousand cockerels were shipped out of Lehi by the Utah Producers' association one day recently. recent-ly. The birds are billed to Omaha, Neb., and are netting the growers here 22 cents per pound, live weight. Four similar carloads have been shipped out of American Fork to San Francisco and other coast points during the past two weeks. OGDEN Approximately 12,000 eastern east-ern brook trout fingerlings were planted plant-ed in Spring creek, Ogden valley, recently re-cently and also by the Weber County Fish and Game Protective association. The shipment was part of those allotted allot-ted by the federal government from the Springville hatchery. Spring creek and other spring streams are used by the Weber association as development waters. PLEASANT GROVE Strawberries had their inning when the residents ol pleasant Grove, as well as thousands of visitors from Utah and other surrounding sur-rounding counties gathered here to el-icitate el-icitate upon the largest supporting industry in-dustry of the section. Strawberries, the first seasonable fruit of Utah, were abundantly in evidence and in the grove of this city aproximately 20,000 servings, garnished with sugar and cream, were passed out to may long lines of men, women and children. VERNAL Ranchers have begun to cut their first alfalfa hay crop. While Uintah country crops, as a whole, have been retarded to some extent by unseasonable un-seasonable spring weather and the normal first alfalfa crop is not ready for cutting until the tenth of June, the Tridell district was favored by exceptionally excep-tionally warm rains, The altitude ol the region is 5330 feet. The secjnd crop of alfalfa is reserved for seed, and this year is assured at least two weeks additional growing season. MORGAN Utah's first shipment ol green peas is now enroute to the eastern east-ern market and it is expected that before be-fore the season is over that more than 25 carloads will be shipped from Sail Lake and Davis counties. Dr. Edgar M. Ledyard, announces. Last year the pea .. jp brought returns to the farmers farm-ers of Utah amounting to nearly $575,-000 $575,-000 with a good share of this being received re-ceived from fresh green peas while the remainder was received from canned peas. KANAB Southern Utah's best rodeo ro-deo is scheduled to take place at Ka-nab Ka-nab July 3, 4 and 5, according to. the committee plans. Arrangements are being be-ing made to insure the best in roping, boxing, wrestling and horse racing. The committees include: Amusement E. C. Persons, Lyle Jepson, D. M. Tietjen and Vern Glazier; rodeo, Jimmy Jim-my Warner, G. W. Findlay, Parvin Church and Merlin Adams; fights, Lyle Jepson, Dee Schumway, Ray Esp-lin Esp-lin and Charles Mace. VERNAL An allotment has been made available by the Ashley National forest service for the building of an auto highway from the Vernal-Manila highway to Fish lake on the north side of the Uintah range, for fire control con-trol purposes. The branch road will be two and one-half miles long and takes off the main road at Cartel Creek. Work will begin on July 1, and ready for travel this season. Fish lake in the Uintahs is considered one of the best fishing waters in this range. COALVILLE Arrangments are being be-ing made this week for the inauguration inaugura-tion of a truck service to take care of the egg production of the upper Weber river valley. H. M. Blackhurst, of Ogden, manager of the central station sta-tion for this territory, has been in this locality for several days completing delivery schedules, etc. At present, in I the neighborhood of 200 cases of eggs are shipped weekly and with truck service it is anticipated that this ! amount will be increased. Plans for a campaign to increase the output ol poultry plants in this vincinity are being be-ing made, and it is hoped that establishment estab-lishment of an egg grading plant in the upper Weber valley may be secured in a year or two. VERNAL, A continuation of the j prairie dog campaign is being conducted con-ducted in Uintah county under the direction of E. Peterson, county farm agent, and S. E. Aldous of Salt Lake. Mr. Aldous is a representative of the U. S. biological survey and is expect- ed to spend the summer here. The -campaign started in Ouray valley recently, re-cently, where retreating of sections treated last year was commenced. Be- i sides the Ouray valley section, work will be done at Ashley ward, Stcinaker Draw, the Bad Lands, Diamond Mountain Moun-tain and Willow creek. |
