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Show Ogden Road Is To Be Widened Stock Show To Be Held 60 SHEEP KILLED BY DOGS TRAINING SCHOOL STARTED BUILDING IS WRECKED AMKUICAN FORK Powder blasts marked the real start of construction on the $190,000 state training school near here. Ground was loosened with ctmrecs of dynamite, preparatory to the excavation of the foundations for the Ave buildings. A full carload of oiatcrial and building equipment has wen hauled to the site. .SALT LAKE Annual convention of the American Itambouitlet Sheep-breedei-s' association will be held in Salt Lake in August when the national ram sale is held. This will be the first time the Kumhouillet association has held an annual meeting outside of Chicago. Salt Lake was chosen for the convention city because S3 per ceut of the registered Kambouillet sheep are produced in the" west. SALT LAKE Final payment on Sugar beets amounts to approximately .$700,000, aud makes the total payment for beets received during the year approximately ap-proximately $0,000,000. Approximately bOO.OOO tons of beets were received from growers during the year. ST. GEORGE The state road commission com-mission has announced its intention of oiling the stretch of L'. S. 91 high way from the Shcvwits Indian reservation to the Arizona state line to connect with the oiled highway in that state. The road from Anderson's ranch to St. George and from Toqi'orvillo to the LaVeikin junetiou are also included includ-ed In the state's oiling program iu Washington county for 1931. In addition ad-dition to the oiling, the commission has already published a notice to contractors con-tractors for the construction of a section sec-tion of road from Anderson's ranch to Harrishurg, a distance of 7.193 miles. As soon as this is completed, it is expected the state will let the ion-tracts ion-tracts for oiling. SALT LAKE A check for $80,92S has been mailed the state of Utah by the secretary of the treasury, representing repres-enting Utah's share of the receipts of the national forests during the oast fiscal year. GREBN KIVEK Plans for erection of a steel bridge to cost 1? 150,000 across -the Green river is announced by Denver Den-ver and IUo Grande Western railroad. Construction of the span will start In March. The railroad company has an extensive building program for 1931, and .$1,500,900 will he spent ou improvements. im-provements. Inaugurated last year as a side-issue of the Black Hawk encampment the rodeo was such a success it was de elded to make it permanent. The rodec committee has heeu enlarged. Over $8,000 will be spent in improvements at the rodeo grounds this year on new grandstands, new chutes and corrals and increased cur parking spnee, it was stated. ST. GEOUGE Kuzing ou the old Dixie hotel building has begun with a crew of six men. Wrecking of this building will make way for the erection erec-tion of a $20,000 service station, which will he an exact duplicate in architectural archit-ectural design of one in Cedar City. Wrecking of the Dixie hotel removes another historic landmark of St. George. Geo-rge. It was built by President Erastus Snow in 1S07, six years after the pioneers came to St. George. HIUGIIAM CUT Norman Jensen, who won first prize In the state on litter contest, has received a purebred registered Duroc Jersey gilt, valued at $75. The award was made by the Ogdeu State bank. The winning litter consisted of nine pigs, weighing 2,-513 2,-513 pounds. They were 180 days old, und gained 1.55 pounds per pig, per day throughout the feeding period. This is close to u national record. The prize gilt was obtained from the agricultural agri-cultural College of Colorado. SALT LAKE Despite larger expenditures, expend-itures, Salt Lake City finished 1939 on a cash basis, wiih a small balance, according to the final summary of the year. Total revenue of the city took a jump of $110,413.50 giving the corporation cor-poration easli receipts from general taxes license fees lines and tiling fees of $31 (I I.M01.91. OGDKX A $125,000 unit of Sper-ry Sper-ry Flour Company's plant here has just been completed. The new unit is for the manufacture of livestock and poultry feeds aud has a capacity of 5(H) Ions daily. The new unit is 91 by 111 feet and is Ave stories iu height. NEPHI. The county extension service ser-vice program for Juab county outlined by the county agent include a number of interesting phases of agriculture, home and community Improvement and a spring stock show. As planned the spring show will he iu the nature of a breeders show and will feature IIol-sleiu IIol-sleiu d.'try-tilo and club sheep early in MaT L.VTON Application of the Farm ers X uion of Lay ton to offer 2.5iK sin. res of common stock at $10 hai b.eu approved by the state securities commission. The company has capital stock of $."o,noi). lieivipts from the sale of the stock will be used for construction con-struction of additional buililiuc-;. I.E11I I.chi will have a Utah Sugar Peet day it was divided recently. Also throe days of a home comim; celebration celebra-tion will he held to coincide vi;h the second annual rodeo Artist 12. til and 14 |
