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Show News Notes It' a Privilege to Liv in Utah j COALVILLE North Summit high school, by its 13 to 0 victory over Wasatch Wa-satch county high recently, won the right to contest the winners of the western half of the division for the state tournament berth. BOISE Idaho shipped to Los Angeles Ange-les last year 894,750 pounds of dressed dress-ed poultry. Utah sent the southern California city 326,845 pounds. The two states together provide Los Angeles An-geles with 20 per cent of the dressed poultry consumed. SALT LAKE Utah shipped to Los Angeles last year 326,845 pounds of dressed poultry. Idaho sent the southern south-ern California city 894,750 pounds. The two states together provide Los Angeles with 20 per cent of the dressed dress-ed poultry consumed . VERNAL About 250,000 sheep are being moved from the summer ranges in Colorado to the winter ranges in Utah, it was announced recently by Thomas Redmond, ' chief state sheep inspector, who has just returned from the border. PROVO "If we had one more pheasant we would have our limit," remarked Bob Bullock to Wit Hoover as they were hunting in the vicinity of Spanish Fork recently. They had already shot three and were returning return-ing to the marshes of Utah lake, near Provo. PAYSON The annual stockholders' stockhold-ers' meeting of the Strawberry Water Users' asociation was held recently at the Nebo stake tabernacle, with President Lee R. Taylor in charge. A levy was made of 30 cents per acre-foot, acre-foot, 10 cents for operation and maintenance main-tenance and 20 cents for a reserve fund. BRIGHAM CITY K. C. Wright assistant as-sistant chief engineer of the state road commission, who returned from the Curlew valley during the week, said recently re-cently that the eight and one-half miles of federal aid highway, designated de-signated as project 109-E, running from the Utah-Idaho line to the Curlew Cur-lew valley junction, is now completed. . "WASHINGTON Mrs. Reed Smoot, wife of the Utah senator, died Tuesday at 7 a. m., after a long illness. She was 65 years old. Mrs. Smoot was the daughter of Horace F. Eldredge, Salt Lake pioneer, and Chloe A. Red-field- Eldredge. She was born in Salt Lake sixty-two years ago and was reared here, receiving her education at the University of Deseret. MANTI A total of 170 deer have been killed by hunters in the Manti forest this year, according to word received by the state fish and game department. This is an increase of about 35 per cent over the same period peri-od last year. Forest rangers In the region anticipate that at least 225 deer will be killed before the season is over. SALT LAKE Moderately cool weather and showers of the last week have improved the grain outlook in Utah and germination of most sowings sow-ings this fall is now expected, according accord-ing to the weekly crop report of J. Cecil Alter, government meteorologist. Winter range forage has improved and large numbers of sheep have been moved to winter range. RICHFIELD R. Scott Zimmermann in charge of rodent control in Utah, is visting Sevier county in a campaign for control of porcupines in national forest areas. It is claimed that this rodent is very destructive of tree life and forage, once it becomes numerous. numer-ous. Reports from forest rangers indicate in-dicate that the poicupine family has materially increased tb's year in the i Fish lake forest. CEDAR CITY Final arrangements have been made for the program for Branch Agricultural college Founders' day, November 16. The two outstanding outstand-ing features of the program will be the addres3 by Charles R. Mabey and the dedicatory ceremonies by Dean Milton Bennion. Mr. Mabey and Mr. Bennion served as members of the Branch Agricultural college faculty in the days when the school was a branch of the University of Utah. LOGAN Proclamation restoring to entry the waters of the Logan river wa3 issued recently by George M Bacon, state engineer. Waters of thif stream were withdrawn from filling on November 24, 1923, to protect them aganist possible appropriations which might Interfere with the proposed Cache valley reclamation projects. The proclamation restoring the stream to entry becomes effective as soon a. notice of it has been published threo successive weeks. LAYTON As set forth In the weekly week-ly vegetable review published by the Kf.nsas City office of the United States bureau unique situation prevails li the onion market this year. Domestic Domes-tic production of late main-crop onions is about one-third lighter than last season, with eastern crops particularly par-ticularly short. Shipments were quite heavy earlier In the fall, but have now begun to slacken. Prices are re 'atively high two or three times hose of last autumn and are at sucl; i level as to attract a large vo'urm t onions from foreign countilcs. |