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Show ii Ne W8 Notes ' (' Privilage to Lit in ', Utah ... MANTI Heavy morality among livestock followed the wake of a light snowstorm in Sanpete and Sevier counties recently. At Slant! it was reported that several hundred lambs born during the night had died, and stockmen feared that early lambing would be almost a total loss. GUNNISON Fruit is not suffering due to the fact that there has not been warm enought weather for the trees to blossom, and therefore the fruit trees are not endangered by the frost. Onion crops and some other garden crops in the Gunnison valley were damaged by the storm although to what extent Is not known. SALT LAKE Directors of the Utah Woolgrowers' association went on record re-cord as favoring the Colton bill for the regulation in the Vermont building recently. Resolutions were also adopted adopt-ed urging the orderly marketing of wool and offering to make cash advances ad-vances through the Utah Wool Marketing Market-ing association, to local woolgrowers. SPRINGVILLE Another step wa3 taken in the poultry industry here recently when V. Cornell Mendenhall stocked his poultry farm with 3,000 baby turkeys. This 13 the first large Bhipment of the "Thanksgiving Birds'' to be received here. Bern Mendenhall will receive 3,000 more next week, but he will transfer his birds to a farm on the west side of Utah lake. FARMINGTON Delore Nichols, county agent, said that little or no damage would be done to the onion crop of Davis county by the recent snowstorms. Very few acres of onions were planted in the county before March 15. Most of the onion planting was done principally in Farmington and the south end of the county, as the ground in the north end of the county hasn't been ready for planting. EINGHAM Eingham wa3 loaded with 18 inches of new snow recently, and traffic even In the center of town was practically at a standstill. The city was guarding against a snowslide, as the heavy fall of wet snow has provided pro-vided real snowslide weathar. The i highway between Salt Lake and Bing-i Bing-i ham was open to travel in a few hours j but drifting snow sluwed progress con-' con-' Biderably. I SALINA Early completion of the Salina canyon-Fish lake road Is as-' as-' surcd, according to Supervisor C. A. Mattson of the Fish lake forest reserve. re-serve. Sam M. Jorgenson, W. H. Brown, Mar Cohen and former Ranger Ran-ger John Earnhard, representing the Salina Lions club, met with the county coun-ty commissioners of Sevier county Monday to secure fund3 to match government gov-ernment money to complete the highway. HUNTINGTON Eastern Utah continued con-tinued to be favored with dry weather during the early week of April storm3 of central Utah. Favorable, perhaps, from some viewpoints, this spjll of dry weather may seriously hamper the ranges and crops, which the early r.in so favored, this year. It has been three weeks since any moisture fell, with somo hot days Intermingled since then, nnd the plant life Is beginning begin-ning to feel the dryness, which the recent winds have aggravated. SALT LAKE Prospects for spring and summer ranr;e for Utah livestock have been Improved by snows and rains in March, the range and livestock live-stock report for April 1, released recently re-cently by Frank Andrews, federal Eta-tlstlclrn, Eta-tlstlclrn, declares. For the past four months, precipitation hns been above normal, the report explains. Stockmen Stock-men fed. Judging from county reports, that there has been a slight Increase In thi conditl in of ranges now in use ! hut Hint they are st'll very prior on the whole, tho report says. SALT LAKE Complete destruction of tho fruit crop in the vicinity of ! Hurricane, Washington county, lp pre-, pre-, dieted by tlvj fruitgrowers as a result . of tho heavy front which visited that , section recently, according to infor-1 infor-1 inalloii received at tho stnto agricultural agricul-tural d'iartnicnt. The unseasonable 1 frost, tho in-visces said, formed Ico a quarter of an Inch thick, llurrtncauo is located in t':o extreme soulhern part of the state, at a low altitude, and oriliu.trily enjoys Hemitrnplcnl climate. j MYTON Water was turned Info nearly every canal of tho Uintah Irrigation Ir-rigation project, recently muter supervision super-vision of T. ('. duyn of Myton. project riii.inivr. The canals, totalling nearly i'.uO miles In tho system, serve tiO.QlW acres of Indian laud and LTi.ODt) acres of honieiit ead land. With tho opening of tho system, seventeen ditch riders I began work for the ser ion under Water Wa-ter Supervisors Will l'reere of Mylon I ami C. I,. iV.i'ble rt W hile Hacks. C. ! F. Fni;le of J thick font, Idaho, Is Kujier- ! vising engineer of the project. VERNAL Irony iiia.kc.l llni bear j dance of Hi" Indians at White Hock which ended recently. The dance, cel. (ihralltr; the coming of Hpi lag, is sup jinseil la end w hen the myllih al bear typifying spring appears. Instead it railed Willi Fie coining of one of tho wot st snowstorms of the season. Not only that, hut during tho d vice, which began liareh ihl, po s' p uvaietil fob lowed postponement be, an ;e of thn neverily of the nnihi.r. Noerthe. less, nil Ih nu.Mi'iis of the tribe v hn consider .l llo'in t..! oll'-.iV.o foi insnTnr.o aptusiM il in th,i cu.il uin.ii j Whlla rc;,ali,l. |
