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Show News Notes I t It's a Priviltge to Live in I Utah ! - PROVO Since the blast furnace of the Columbia Steel plant at Ironton has been relined and new crushers in stalled at the iron mine, an additional seventy-five tons of iron a day are being be-ing produced, L. F. Rains, president of the company, said on his return from the Pacific coast recently. Mr. Rains visisted both the Torance plant at Los Angeles and the plant at Pittsburg Pitts-burg Calif. He said he was pleased with the condition of both. However, the increased production of the Utah plant is the most important development develop-ment of recent months, Mr. Rains said as increased production lowers the cost of making a ton of pig iron. MYTON 'Under the supervision of T. C. Guyn of Mytoo, resident engineer engin-eer of the Uintah irrigation project, water has been turned into nearly all of the canals on the reservation which are under governmental control. April 16, the date set for tha opening of thd irrigation season, found everything in readiness for the season of 1928. Th payroll of the project has been increased. in-creased. VERNAL To encourage better care of fruit trees in Ashley valley, the Agriculture club of the Uintah high school, under the direction of H. M. Lundell, Smith-Hughes instructor, is giving demonstration in spraying and pruning, and for that purpose has taken over twelve orchards. Last year and pruned. This season the club is more than 1000 trees were sprayed prunning and spraying trees for wool-ley wool-ley aphis and green apple aphis. One of the orchards inspected, out of sixty trees, fifty -were found infected with woolley aphis. LOGAN At a special meeting of directors of the Cache County Fair association as-sociation at the chamber of commerce recently the dates for the fall fair-were fair-were moved up one week. The event will be held September 18, 19 and 20. The following new officers were elected: elect-ed: George Dunbar, Logan, president; John T. Quayle, Logan, first vice president; pres-ident; T. M. Maughan, Welsville second sec-ond vice president; C. C. Harris, Richmond, Rich-mond, third vice president; B. T. Car-don, Car-don, Logan, treasurer, and M. Hovey, Logan, secretary. VERNAL Report made to the Lions club by the state road commission commis-sion of the work to be done on the Gusher-Roosevelt road this summer, a ten-mile federal aid project, brought much favorable comment by members', with the unanimous adoption of a resolution res-olution that Lion President James H. Wallis be instructed to convey to Henry Hen-ry H. Blood, chairman of the commission, commis-sion, the appreciation of the club for its courteous treatment. SALT LAKE Heavy shipments of Utah wool have started to move to the eastern territory, according to railroad rail-road officials. One carload was shipped ship-ped to Boston recently and five cars were moved over the Denver & Rio Grande Western for St. Louis and Boston shortly after. Shearing has begun in practically all the early wool sections of the state, it was announced by James A. Hooper, secretary of the Utah State Woolgrowers' association. Approximately 90,000 pound's of the Jericho wool has been sheared and more than 800,000 pounds are yet to be taken off the sheep's backs he said. PROVO According to members of the Utah county fair board, a new building will be erected at the fair grounds to accommodate livestock on exhibition. Work will begin immediately. immedi-ately. A number of other improvements improve-ments were decided upon by the board, including the leveling of the race track for an athletic field. HEBER Measurements of the snow at the head of Provo river show that it is fully up to normal, and of splendid water content. COALVILLE Progress in March on the various features of the work on the construction of the Echo dam and the building of the new railroad and highway grades around the reservoir reser-voir was handicapped considerably by bad weather conditions, according to the report of Construction Engineer F. F. Smith. VERNAL Sheep shearing at the Watson, Bonanza, Jensen and Rangely shearing plants began Thursday of last week under favorable weather conditions. Each plant employs twenty-five shearers. All these plants are machine operated and the shearers handle from 150 to 200 sheep daily. iIn Uintah county aproximately 125,000 sheep will be sheared, and the total for the Uintah basin will be double that number. COALVILLE Closing up the first year's business with a net profit of $550, the Coalville Poultry Products company starts the coming year with the construction of an additional 100-foot 100-foot unit of crop and the securing of 4500 White Leghorn baby chicks, planning on moving into winter laying lay-ing quarters in the fall with approximately approxi-mately 3000 laying hens and pullets. RICHFIELD Indications point to a larger water supply on the upper Sevier Sev-ier river this year than in. 1927, according ac-cording to data compiled by Brice Mc-Bride, Mc-Bride, water commissioner on the Sevier Se-vier system and submitted to George M. Bacon, state engineer. Mr. Mc-Bride Mc-Bride also calls attention to the fact that last fall was,one the wettest since records of precipitation have been kept in Utah and that the bulk of the water in the snow on the watersheds will not soak into the ground aa it did t year apo. |
