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Show t News Notes t It's a Privilege to Ltv in t Utah LEHl Sugar bAts ranked third in the list of Utah crops. Farmers were paid $4,3S0,000 for their product during dur-ing the year. HEBER CITY Utah's hay crop for 1928 was valued at $17,380,000, an increase in-crease of more than $3,000,000 over the 1927 production, which totaled 514,311,000. UTAH Wheat production in Utah enriched the farmers $6,73S,000 in 192S. This excels the preceding twelve months, which totaled $5,792,000. The wheat crop ranked second In the H't. CEDAR CITV A total of 700 deer killed in nine days hy five men is the record establiohed hy those appointed to do the job under the direction O' the forest service on the Kaibah forest. DELTA The coldest weather experienced ex-perienced in Delta was felt here recently re-cently when the mercury, according to the government station at Deseret, dropped to 14 degrees below zero. The large number of shoppers in town shivered as they went from p'ace to place making their Christmas selections. SALT LAKE Increase in value of all Utah crops this year over 1927 is given at $3,000,000 in the annual crop summary of Frank Andrews, local statistician for the United States department de-partment of agriculture. Utah crops last year brought the farmers $39,000.-000, $39,000.-000, while the returns this year will total $42,000,000. EPHRAIM Coach Thorpe Isaacson Isaac-son and his polished hoop artists from the Purple and Gold school at Ephraim, will depart soon by automobile automo-bile on a barnstorming tour through the northern part of the state. The Ephraim high school basketball representatives re-presentatives are the strongest ever to represent the school, and have won from Bingham, Murray and Nephi. EPHRAIM Stockmen of Ephraim are paying a bounty of $5 for coyotes and $4 for bobcats caught in the fields and on the ranges adjacent to Ephraim. Eph-raim. It is re'perted to the Manti national na-tional forest office that the Spring City people are paying a similar bounty boun-ty to encourage local trappers to work around home where the losses from predatory animals have been heavy during past summer end fall. HEBER CITY Utah's Christmas turkey pool of 560,000 pounds broke all prev'ous records, selling for $225,-000 $225,-000 cash and filling 23 cars, declared Albert.us Willardson, vice-president of the Utah Poultry Producers' association, associa-tion, recently. The figure was more than doub! that of 1927, which totaled to-taled 250.000 pounds. The pool com-nonded com-nonded the highest unit price of any sold and was the only western pool that sold for cash. LOGAN Under the direction of W. J. Funk, state road supervisor for Cache county, the work of widening various points on the road in Logan canyon is ranidly progressing. Many of the sharpest curves where automobile auto-mobile accidents have prevailed in the past are being removed as much as possible. An attempt is being made to accomplish the project before the summer traffic begins. The work Is being undertaken following authorization authori-zation by K. C. Wright, engineer of the state road commission. OGDEN Members of the Weber county committee of the Utah Tax-papers' Tax-papers' association visited the offices of the Weber county commissioners recently and placed their official O. K. on the budget for 1929 as tentatively tentative-ly fixed by the commissioners. The Weber county budget aggregates $349,-03S, $349,-03S, based on an estimated revenue of 349.S00.13. The estimated revenue from taxes, fees, etc., is as follows: Ceneral fund, $169,748.23; poor fund, $41,306.18; roads, $138,811.70. The budget bud-get as tentatively agreed upon is as follows for the three funds: General fund, $170,223; poor fund, $U,2C5; roads, $137,550. RICHFIELD Testing of dairy cows, heifers and bulls in Sevier county has just been completed by repre- sentat.ives of the state board of agriculture agri-culture and the bureau of animal industry in-dustry of the United States department depart-ment of agriculture. The work was in charge of Dr. I. L. Xebeker, deputy state veterinarian, ani Dr. J. I. Cur tis of nichfieM and Dr. C. L. Jnnes of the bureau ot animal industry of Provo. Reports of the veterinarians submitted to County Agent S. R. P,o--well show a total of 7097 h-ad and have been tested in the county this month and sixty reactors were found. The large number of reactors this year ia a surprise to all who have been interested in-terested in the .est. UTAH Utah h?s marked 50 to 75 per cent of its roads with standard danger and caution signs and route markers, according to the report just m?rie hy the bureau of public roads of the United States department of agriculture. California, Kentucky and C-,I..ra!o have dine the same amount of work, b-it the states of .Arkansas, Orr-l);i. Conriocticut. South Carolina.' I-f.:ti:.;?a;i, D'-'ware, Xeva ia en,j It':;:"-, havt. marked 75 t0 r,9 Fr ror, :o:.'ls. Twpr.ty-ei.7hl of s'.at-s have cjmp.ctcd the T..i-.k ne sy ii-m. |