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Show ! jiNews Notes:; I ', It' a Privilege to Lio in ', Utah UTAH The Western Pacific railroad rail-road spent ?1,739,766.41 in Utah for operating expenses during 1928. PARK CITY The intermountain territory produces annually more than $260,000,000 worth of manufactured goods, while the value of minerals is in excess of ?100,000,000. SALT LAKE The population of the intermountain region is 60 per cent rural, while 40 per cent of the people live in cities of more than 2500 persons. per-sons. CEDAR CITY Because of the cold weather this spring, sheepmen fear the approaching lambing season, as many of the lambs will die unless the weather becomes milder. The same applies to the sheep, as shearing has already begun. One sheepman is reported re-ported to have lost about 500 sheep out of hi3 herd of 3000,. an unsually large proportion. JACKSON The stage line between Jackson, Wyo., and Victor, Idaho, the nearest railroad point to this isolated Wyoming town, is experiencing con- . siderable difliculty in making the trip over the 8000-foot pass. In view of the fact that six feet of snow lies on the road going over the Teton pass, it is necessary to transfer the mail and freight, from truck to wagon and from wagon to sled. VERNAL Shearing of range sheep has started at the plant at Jensen, fifteen miles southeast of Vernal, with 16,000 head scheduled to be sheared at this power-operated plant. No sales of wool have been recorded from this plant, although several buyers have been in Vernal durintr trie past few dayB sampling wool. Favorable weather continues to attend the shearing shear-ing operations in Uintah county. ST. GEORGE Washington count? mohair growers received a price of 45 cents and 48 cents for mature hair and 68 cents for kid hair. And two carloads car-loads of fleeces left Cedar City recently, re-cently, consigned to Boston. Local growers two weeks ago refused offers of 46 cents and 56 cents, and since that time approximately 85,000 pounds of mohair has been stored in Cedar City tinder guard awaiting final disposition. AIRPORT Under the favorable weather conditions of the last few days, the city, under direction of Harry L. Finch, commissioner of parks, is making a determined drive to complete laying drainage tile on the center runway. run-way. In conjunction with this phase of field improvement, graders and levelers are engaged in smoothing off the entire acreage. The object is to make the whole field available for landings and takeotTs. At present, the main runways are cinder surfaced. LOGAN Reuben Hansen, tester of the Wcllsvillc-Collcge Ward Dairy Herd Improvement association, has filed his monthly report with County Agent Robert L. Wrigley. The average aver-age milk production per cow during March was 700 pounds, compared with 6G0 pounds for February. The average aver-age buttcrfat production per cow was 27.91 pounds, compared with 21.50 pounds for the previous period. One hundred and twelve animals gave forty pounds of fat or more during the month. MANTI The blacksmith shop at Mayfield has been busy the past several sev-eral days preparing "gopher probes." These rather dangerous looking instruments in-struments nre five or six feet long, with three-quarter inch tubing at one end, and a rake tooth at thv other. The sharp point finds the gopher hole, aiid the tube is used to deposit a nice little breakfast of carrots therein. The mere fart that the carrots carry strychnine in quantities deadly to gophers is in keeping with the general appearance of the probe. RK'IIITFJ.I) Digging through Know from two nnd one-half to twenty feet deep for a distance of four miles, N. li. Cook, chief deputy state fish and game commissioner, nine deputy wardens nnd eight men engaged by the Richfield Lions club nncl the resorts opened tho road to Fish lake for the purpose of planting (ingerlings and obtaining fish eggs, Cook reported recently re-cently on his return. The gang occupied oc-cupied sixteen days In opening the road, digging to earth so that trucks carrying the (ingerlings might get to tho waters. About thirty-five truckloads of these fish are going into Fish lake, and the crowded condition of tho hatcheries made it necessary to get them planted imediately to make room for thoso yet to bo hatched. 1IOIKK Boise had its first touch of spring recently when tho sun remained re-mained out during the entire day nnd tho llieromcter mounted to 67, a temperature tem-perature equaled only once this year, on April 2. SPANISH FORK Utah's poultry industry brought a return of Jli.HSfi,-H',12 Jli.HSfi,-H',12 to the producers of the state duri-ing duri-ing 1!"N, a survey of the ngriculturo booklet committee of the chamber of oonitiM'rro under the direction of J. J, Porter shows. This is an increase of nearly f 2,(100,0(111 over 1!V.!7, when tho returns totaled $:t.(;7!l.7.M!. The production of the stale as reported by t'.vcnty-twn shipping and Marketing agencies follows: Ergs, 'tiit,0S2 cases valued lit T 1. '11-1,00 1; poultry. 1,770,-4'..'H 1,770,-4'..'H pounds vnluod at $100,-111, and Inrkeyn, 1,528, 5!i'J pounds valutcd at fo 12,07',. |