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Show t News Notes f it's a Privilege to Live in I Utah ! PROVO The total valuation of all Utah crops in 1927 at prices paid the growers is estimated at $39,000,000. DUCHESNE With a field seed production pro-duction not equaled by any other northern state, Utah now stands first in the production of alfalfa seed. SALT LAKE-Utah is most fortunately fortun-ately situated in a region where there is almost total absence of severe storms, blizzards, tornadoes, hair and other destructive forces? of nature. NEPHI The eighth annual "Wheat Day" for Juab.yaliey has been set for July 10. This event .has come to be recognized for its educational value, not only to the farmers in and about Nephi, but in addition, has become of benefit to the farmers of a wide area in the central part of the state.. FAItMINGTON Thirteen carloads ot Davis county cherries have been shipped to date to eastern and western markets, according to a report made by H. P. Mathews, district agricultural inspector. The first car was shipped June 15. a date one week in advance of the first cat shipped last year. This ca: weut to Los Angeles. OGDEN George Shorte-n assistant secretary of the Utah Canners' association, associa-tion, announced that ten factories were put into operation to can cherries and will operate until about July 4, when they will start on the apricot crop. Carloads Car-loads of cherries are being shipped to other markets and are plentiful on the local market. - SALT LAKE Utah moved from the position of sixth largest gold producing produc-ing state in the United States to fifth 'place during 1927, according to figures released by the United States mint in coperatioh-"-with the bureau of mines. Gold output of U.tahanio'unted tq $1,-124,400 $1,-124,400 for 1927, as compared -with $3,-986,300 $3,-986,300 for 1926. SALT LAKE There are more than a milliohr-and z. half cords of wood available-f or -paper - making in Uteh, Xheron H. Tracy, industrial engineer, declared recently in discussing the proposed new paper mill. He announced an-nounced that the. company, will commence com-mence tq build a ..plant in Salt Lake within four months. COALVILLE Contract - for -the clearing of the Echo reservoir site of trees and brush has been awarded to the Heiselt Construction company of Salt Lake City for a contract price of $12,000 and the - salvaged timber in the site." Work is to be. started within thirty days and the contractor . has t310 days in which to complete the clearing. MOAB Hopes of Utah oil men were revived on Monday by the report from. Moab that the Boulder Oil and. Gas . company on the W, A. Endter ranch in the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter, section 17-34-25 had struck a strong .flow of gas that threw rocks over the top of the derrick. Depth of the well, situated sixty miles south of Moab and seven, miles ..southeast of Monticello, is, 2640 feet.. .- ... ... SALINA :A. trainload. of 'between 400 and 500 head of yearling Hereford steers was shipped " from' Thompson Springs', Grand -county, to Salina last week: These cattle belong to J. A. Scorup of Provo.. They were raised on Mr. Scorup's ranch at Indian Creek, San Juan county, and were shipped to Salina, where Mr.' Scorup has a summer sum-mer range, to prepare them for market. mar-ket. DUCHESNE -Range conditions in the Duchesne upper Provo and Beaver creek territories are excellent and sheep are moving toward the forest, according to Blaine" Betensoh, assistant assist-ant supervisor of the Wasatch national forest, who returned racently from ! an inspection tour. Betenson said work on the Provo river road is com- pleted and it is now possible to go I by automobile to Mirror and Tyrol lakes, at the head of the Duchesne EPHR AIM Roads - throughout the state are in good condition generally, according to the weekly report issued by the state highway department. In some places where construction work j is under-way there are some rough places, but as a whole the majority of j the roads are reported in good condi-i condi-i tion. The Ephraim-Orangeville road is still closed on account of snow, this being the only one -not open at pres-I pres-I ent. Roads to the best fishing sections i of the state are reported in condition j that ranges from fair to good. , ) VERNAL Construction work on 19 highway. projects, involving the expen- diture of approximately $2,000,000, was under contract in Utah the first part of June, according to data just released by the state road department. Two of those projects had been completed, com-pleted, however, and the contractor released. Those were the Duchesne City and Tremonton-Bhie Creek, roads. Work on the other projects was under ( construction, and six were rearing ( completion. The . report showed 17 projects 40 per cent complete at that time. BRIGIt AM CITY Engineer J. A. Burnett, .of Salt Lake City came tc Brigham City recently and spent several sev-eral hours' 'at the Charles Anderson mine south of Mantua. He expressed himself as well pleased with progress being made at the mine: Development work has been in progress for some time and the main -tunnel is in about 175 feet. Several bodies of ore have been encountered.- The company has a number of carloads of ore on the dump which will average $18 to the ton, or net about $10 per ton at the smelter. |