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Show News Notes ! ! It's a F rivilege to Live In J UTAH 5 - LOGAN A large representation of the fruit and potato growers of the county met at the Farm Bureau office in Logan recently. The meeting was called to give further consideration to the formation of a fruit and vegetable marketing association. PRICE Coact Vernon Merrill ot the Carbon high school has issued his first call for football candidates, and from the interest shown so far, the Price school will have an aggregation of championship caliber. The problem of eligibility may hold back the team, as several lettermen are on the questionable ques-tionable list. KANAB With the opening of the new road some three miles north of Kanab on the Grand Canyon highway the old "hump" road, a steep, narrow and dangerous dugway, becomes a thing of the past. The new road is up to standard requirements and is one of welcomed improvements with the traveling public en route to Grand canyon. CASTLE DALE A full-grown male mountain lion was captured recently at the head of Straight canyon and south Trail mountain In lower Joe's valley, by Clayton Koflord, a government govern-ment trapper. A front paw was slightly slight-ly injured in the trap. The lion was brought down from the mountains by Mr. Kofford in a car, In which the family also rode. It was taken to the zoo north of Castl" Dale. HEBER CITY One of the largest single shipments of sheep to the eastern east-ern market this year, left Heber recently re-cently consigned to the Kansas City market over the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad, officials announce. The shipment, mostly ms.de up of lambs, totaled nearly 14.000 head pooled pool-ed by six sheepmen in Wasatch county. coun-ty. A solid train of fifty cars was required to handle the shipment. SALT LAKE Utah farmers plan to plant this full 1G5.000 acres of wheat for 1930 summer harvest, declares a report Issued recently by Frank Andrews, An-drews, federal crop statistician. The j figures are not a forecast cf the acre-' acre-' age that will be planted this fall, but I form a statement of intentions as reported re-ported last month, the report explains. Last fall 154. COO acres were planted and plantines In the fall of 1527 amounted to lG3.0cn acres. ZION CANYON An inventory of highway situation in southern Utah recently, shows that all roads are open to travel since the heaviest thunder-I thunder-I storm In recent years swept over por-I por-I tlons of Washington. Kane, Iron and Garfield counties, as well as "Arizona ! strip". Road crews of county, state, and federal government have been working overtimo to repair the damage dam-age to highways and as a result ot this work traffic was moving without delays over all important roads. OGDEN Green tomatoes nnd mid-Fcason mid-Fcason potatoes have reached the shipping ship-ping pear, according to LcRoy Marsh, district agricultural Inspector. Nine cars moved Frliia,- nnd 10 the day before. Picking of early Alberta peaches will start about September 5 with the standard variety to follow Immediately. Peaches nre reported especially es-pecially fine this year. All will bo I shipped under fedi.ral supervision with the grade and the name nnd address of the shipper on each basket. OGDEN President H. P. Ivcrson ot the Ogden Grain exchange nnd resident resi-dent manager of the Spen y Flour c:un-pany, c:un-pany, returned to O'-den n rcntly from a visit to the wheat-growing sections ot southern Idaho. Regarding smut conditions, Mr. Ivcrson raid that county coun-ty farm agents and other agricultural agents In Idaho, together with owners nnd managers of elevators, were eager lo cooperate with the Og.ien Grain exchange In Its fight against smut in wheat. KAN AG The crafty cougar, rrlzo trophy of hurit'-rs. urch enemy ot stockmen and destroyer of deer. Is to become once more king of the Kal-bub Kal-bub forest. According to forest officials, of-ficials, no more permits will bo is-I is-I sued to guides or hunters to hunt cougars In tho Kaibab forest, north rim of the Grand canyon. The reason rea-son given Is Hint the cougars help ' depict the forest deer h"td that has grown to numbers far beyond their food Kiipiily on the Kaibab. COALVILLE The Summit county commissioners at their regular scs-! scs-! slon Monday, voted to Improve and extend the road In Weber canyon from j tho Shingle Mill hill to Commissary i lake, n distance of ; bout S miles. This will make accessible to auto traveler j some of the Bcciiery heretofore roach-! roach-! eil only by pack trail. Tho work Is being done under rooperativo agree, inent wllli Intereslei' landowners nnd others and It Is hoped to obtain the corporal ion of the Forest Service In this work. LOGAN The rain that Cache, valley has had for the last three days has proved a great help to the valley, Dr. Wlllard Gnrdiier of the Utah Slate Agricultural Ag-ricultural college reports a total ot l.KC, Inches at the college station, or about ns much aa fell lu the entire three months previous. Althoiic.h the lain haniireied the opening of Iho new iilrpoil ami to a certain extent delayed j w hnil tlireshlivr. It was welcomed by j (lie fanners. II Is of great value to maturing In i Is, tli" laid crop of hay and will n I no h"U out considerably In ; the. fall plowing. |