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Show I ,. k E News Notes l It's a Privilege to Live in X Utah I BRIGHAM CITY Utah potatoes are grown principally in the counties of Bait Lake, Weber, Utah, Cache, Box-elder, Box-elder, Davis and Sanpete. PROVO High quality, exceptional flavor, color and size of fruits and vegetables veg-etables have made Utah agricultural products famous throughout the United Uni-ted States. VERNAL Fishermen angling in the Uintah mountain streams report only fair success, due to somewhat muddy condition of the water. Recent rains in the mountains have caused no abrupt raise in the creeks, but the precipitation pre-cipitation did cause a roiled condition. AIRPORT Several Salt Lake planes will go to Ogden Jui 30 to be used there in the celebration marking the dedication of the Junction City's new municipal airport. The Ogden committee com-mittee is putting on an aerial program and. Salt Lakers will compete for prizes. LOGAN Forty faa-mers from Rich county conducted a dairy tour of the city and Cache county recently, according accord-ing to Robert L. Wrigley, county agricultural agri-cultural agent, who accompanied the party. The purpose of the excursion, Agent Wrigley stated, was to gain additional ad-ditional information on cow testing, breeding and also sweet clover pasture. pas-ture. HEBER Wasatch county was visited vis-ited by a killing frost recently, the mercury dropping to 26 degrees. Potatoes, Po-tatoes, corn and flowers were destroyed, de-stroyed, even where the gardens had been covered with heavy guilts. It was cold enough to freeze ice a quarter of an inch thick. Damage to peas and gram was slight, only the peas that were in bloom and the the grain which was in head being damaged. GUNNISON Fifty-two full grown pheasants have been received and liberated lib-erated in this section by Sidney Baxter Bax-ter and Ernest Baxter, members of the local fish and game commission. The birds were shipped from the state game farm at Springville. The birds were liberated about two miles east of here. The Gunnison commission is also expecting a shipment . of trout from the game farm with whicli to stock the streams near here. Ogden B. J. Finch, district engineer engin-eer for the United States bureau of public roads, anounced that bids would be opened, June 28, in his office in this city, on three contracts for gravel surfacing, sur-facing, as follows: Se7en-mile stretch west of Fruitlacd on the Victory highway; high-way; nine miles from North Fork to Gibsonville on the Salmon, Idaho, to Montana line road, and two and four-tenths four-tenths miles on the Alpine scenic road in Utah county. OGDEN Seventy - five pairs of pheasants, furnished by D. H. Madsen, commissioner of the state fish and game department, have been planted west of Ogden by officers of the Weber County Fish and Game Protective association. as-sociation. Sixty-five pheasants eggs under incubation at the farm of H. H. Hodge, east of Ogden, will be hatched this week. The birds will be turned on the wilds when hatched, which gives promise of an open pheasants season for Ogden hunters. HEBER The Heber tourist camp, owned by the county and improved during the past few years by the joint efforts of the Wasatch chamber of comerce, Heber City, Wasatch county coun-ty and the Wasatch stake of the L. D. S. church, will Eeceive additional im-provements im-provements soon. A fund has been accumulated by charging campers, and this fund is to be spent for the painting paint-ing of the present structures and the Installation of shower Laths and other conveniences. SALT LAKE The low temperature and light frost which touched Salt Lake and other portions of the inter-mountain inter-mountain district Sunday night of last week did not result in any damage to crops, acording to the United States weather bureau and Harden Bennion, state agricultural commissioner. The temperature In the Salt Lake valley dropped as low as 40 degrees. Records of the weather bureau show that this drop in the temperature was not particularly par-ticularly unusual for Salt Lake, inasmuch inas-much as nearly every June on record has shown a cold spell on or about the-middle the-middle of the month, the mercury dropping drop-ping in some cases as low as 32 degrees. de-grees. HEBER Utah's winter wheat crop is estimated by the bureau of agricultural agricul-tural economics of the United States department of agriculture at 3,164,000 bushels this year, as compared with 2,888,000 bushels last year. This increase in-crease of close to 10 per cent in the Utah crop is in the face of a decrease of about 9 per cent in the nation's winter wheat crop, the bureau's figures fig-ures show. The nation crop estimate for 1928 is 512,252,000 bushels, while last year's figures were 552,384,000 bushels. ZION NATIONAL PARK For the season to date, a total of 10.0S9 persons, per-sons, representing thirty-one states, District of Columbia, Hawaii, three provinces of Canada, Sweden, and South Africa, have passed through the gates of Zion National park, it was announced by E. T. Scoyen, park superintendent, su-perintendent, here. This figure is practically prac-tically double last year's total for the 8t.m? period of 5399 Private motor travel, as usual, makes up the greater part of the total with 9199 persons in 2840 autos. The remainder, or 590, lame by stage from tho end of the ralli It Cedar City. |