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Show f I; News Notes ; It' I a PriviUge to Liv in Utah SALT LAKE Some of tho finest building atone 'n the world Is quarried quar-ried In Utah. Granite, sandstone und varied Hliinhs of marble, alHO onyx and travertine, are found In abiiad-nce. abiiad-nce. RICHFIELD With clouds Htill hanging hang-ing low, Klehllo.ld 1ii;h received about 10 InchoH of allow recently vhlch makes a Jubilant feeling among tho farmers and the people In genera; bh up to date, the whler ban been Very dry. MONROE This vlclnlly is in tho grip of the heaviest snow slurm ol tho seauoa, the roada that hitherto liavo been dry and dusty arc blocked ' with snow no that It Is with difflcut- j ty cars are operated. About 10 Inches has fallen la the valley. PROVO Utah county has refunded f3l',OU0 la bonds, dated May 1, l'JL'O. llonds bearing 4 3 4 Interest were ottered ot-tered la lieu of the hlgle.r Interest bearing h:jniln. Tins transaction will, according to Commissioner J. "W. Clll-I:ian, Clll-I:ian, save the county several thousand dollars. LOGAN Logan and Cache valley citizens were eudeavring to dig themselves out of a heavy snow, which fell recently. School busses throughout through-out the southern part of the coudty were orde cd not to attempt to get the children to school, and the road out of Cache valley was blocked in Sardine Sar-dine canyon. MILFORD Reports received by the weather bureau recently indicate that a record breaking snow storm covered the west desert for two da;.''. Jlodc-na reported total precipitation of 1.10 Indies, Indicating over a foot of fresh Know, and at I.illford unoffical reports said there was a two-foot all of snow. MANTI At the business meeting of the Apex Hatchery officials recently In tho MantI banii building, it was decided de-cided to double the present capacity of the poultry farm which li now 35,-lejO 35,-lejO hens, to 70,000 hens. The chick capacity of tho hatchery Is 2S0.O0O. The hatching season begins tb3 end of this month. ESCALANTE The snowstorm I which completely Inundated thi3 sec- I tion loft a snow blanket estimated at j ' five-feet thick on tne crest of Es- ! calante mountain. For a short time, : and until the road scrapers got busy, ' the 5000-fuot pr.s3 which lcad3 over j ! Kscalante moun'ain from Junction and ! ; Widstoe into this valiey was blockea ; wph heavy snow drifts. PROVO An appropriation of 5oOO was made by the Utah county com- j I missioned recently, to be used for the 1 I L'tah county livestock show, which wt I be held at Spanish Fork, April 2S, fol- j ; lowing a request for such an appropri- 1 j atioa from a committee of Spanish j Fork citizens, composed of James I j Creer and Edward Banks, asking lor help in putting on the show. PROVO Hundreds of members ot the Utah Poultry Producers' association associa-tion recently heard reports on accomplishments ac-complishments of 1923, which had brought their total of business to more than ?C, 000,000. or an Increase of 0 per cent over the totals of 1928. And they set their aim at a similar percentage per-centage of increase in 1929, which means a total for this year ol ?10,-000,000. ?10,-000,000. VERNAL The local headquarters of the Ashley national forest has re-cieved re-cieved the following snow measurements measure-ments from rangers In that torest: Ashley creek drainage, north of Vernal, Vern-al, elevation 9000 feet, 32 inches;' Paradise Para-dise park, twenty miles north ot La-point, La-point, elevation 10,000 feet, 25 Inches; Dry gulch ranger station, fourteen miles north of Altonah, elevation 7,-600 7,-600 feet, 15 inches. OGDEN An addition to the Ogden plant of the Sperry Flour mill Is being be-ing installed with machinery to increase in-crease the capacity of the plant 1,000 barrels daily, bringing the daily output out-put to 2,250 barrels, it is announced' by Manager H. P. Iversou. 'i tie mill is now the largest in the intermountain region. Additional wheat storagi I tanks have also been added to the ! varehouse. A large force cf workmen are employed. UTAH The demand for Utah poultry poul-try products on the eastern markets still greatly surpasses the supply and the indications are tnat the poultry Industry can continue to increase until un-til It is one of the most Important agricultural divisions in TTtah, Benjamin Ben-jamin urown of New -York, former head of the Utah Poultry Producers Coopreafive association, announced recently. re-cently. Mr. Brown came to Utah to attend the annual meeting of the association as-sociation to be held at the B. V. U, at Provo soon. VERNAL The first 1929 wool sale contracts renorted from northwestern Colorado ara a clip of 3100fleeces sold in Craig at 35 cents per pound to a representative cf a Boston buyer and a clip of fleeces sold In the Meeker district for 37 cents per pound. From Grand junction, Colo., a contract sale of 30,000 fleeces of 1S29 wool is reported re-ported : t an average of 37 cents per pound, with 35 cents as low and 39 cents as high. The majority of flock-masters flock-masters In the Craig district have a tendency to hold clips for higher quotations, 39 to 40 cents a pound, l |