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Show : News Notes I II It'a a Privilege to Liv in I Utah I 9 v" HUNTINGTON' Among the business busi-ness matters transacted at a recent meeting of the board of county commissioners com-missioners were two betterment applications, appli-cations, one for graveling three -and one-half miles of the state road south of Huntington, the state to participate to the sum of $2500 and the county to pay the remainder of $2000. The other was for graveling two miles of the state road north of Emery. The estimated cost is $5000, of which the Btate will pay $2000 and the county the remainder. SALT LAKE Livestock on the western range is in good condition, having gone through the winter in good flesh with light losses, according to the April 1 report of George A. Scott, livestock statistician for the United States department of agriculture, agricul-ture, issed recently. Generous and well distributed precipitation during I March was recorded for Utah, with I seasonal temperatures greatly benefiting bene-fiting the ranges. Prospects now are shown to be very good for spring feed and mostly satisfactory for summer, but with limited storage and reserve water in high areas. PROVO Condition of winter wheat on April 1 was 96 per cent of normal, compared with 95 per cent a year ago, according to the Utah crop report issued is-sued by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician for the United States department de-partment of agriculture. Ten-year average av-erage of wheat at this time was announced an-nounced as 93 per cent. In the United States the winter wheat crop was reported re-ported as 68.8 per cent normal on April 1, compared with 84.6 a year ago, and a ten-year average at this time of 81.9. LOGAN The outlook for poultry owners in Cache county and Utah in general is exceptionally bright according accord-ing to H. A. Campbell, Cache county, director in the Utah Poultry Producers' Pro-ducers' association. At present the Utah egg is holding its own on the eastern markets and is bringing a higher price now than it has for some time, Mr. Campbell said. Eastern extras ex-tras are bringing 30 cents a dozen, and selects and standards 28 cents. SALT LAKE Work of damming Red Butte creek above Fort Douglas and the construction of a $370,000 reservoir res-ervoir for the post is expected to start soon. According to post headquarters, First Lieutenant C. S. Sletter has just been designated quartermaster in charge of construction. The arrival of a hydraulic engineer from Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, is expected soon. Further ' details of the project have not been announced. BRIGHAM CITY An increase of bearing peach trees this season of about 15 per cent more than those of 1927 is expected by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician for Utah in the United States department of agriculture. agri-culture. This estimate is based upon reports from 112 peach growers who have now 63,928 trees of bearing age, compared with 56,451 for the past year. PROVO Utah county's fair will be held in Provo Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 27, 28 and 29, according to President John F. Men-denhall Men-denhall of Springville, who just returned re-turned from a meeting of the Association Associa-tion of Utah Fairs at Salt Lake. Mr. i Mendenhall was also chosen on a legislative legis-lative committee to meet with the next session of the legislature in an effort to obtain a state appropriation for county fairs. E. S. Hinckley, secretary secre-tary of the county fair board, also represented the county at the state meeting. VERNAL The persistent cold winds of the past two weeks are responsible re-sponsible for severe losses in lambs to flockmasters of Ashley valley and other parts of the Uintah basin. While lambing in the large range flocks will not commence until April 15 and perhaps later, lambing has been in progress in the flacks maintained main-tained by farmers and others operating operat-ing sheep on a smaller scale. BRIGHAM CITY City Sanitary Inspector Jesse Owens announced that Brigham City's annual cleanup campaign cam-paign will begin Monday, April 23. Arrangements Ar-rangements are being made by the city board of health to have all citizens citi-zens clean up their premises and pile the rubbish, ashes, cans, etc:', on the sidewalks near the curb. The rubbish will be. hauled off by the city during, clean-up week. DUCHESNE Warants on the treasurer of the United States aggregating aggre-gating $23,318.15 were received by State Treasurer John Walker to be applied ap-plied on three highway propositions in the state. The project and amounts follow: Thompson to Cisco in Grand county, $113,383.83; Duchesne-Fruit-land, $5167.08, and Uintah-Morgan county, $4767.08. FARMINGTON A remodeling program pro-gram which will require an expenditure expendi-ture of several thousand dollars will begin at Lagoon resort in the near future it was announced by Julian M. Bamberger, president of the Bamberger Bam-berger railroad and owner of Lagoon, who just returned from the Pacific coast, where he studied various resorts. re-sorts. PLEASANT GROVE There are 38 canning factories in the state of Utah that put up more than 2,300,00 cases of canned fruits and vegetables each year |
