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Show I te44 j News Notes '. It't a Privilege to Live in t j Utah UTAH Utah has always striven to maintain good schools and to build good school buildings. Statistics for the year 1927 show that 76.64 per ceflt of all state and stats school taxes collected went for education. HEBER CITY Total production of wheat in Utah In 192S was estimated by crop experts at 6,372,000 bushels, an increase of 694,000 bushels over the crop of 1927. This increase was due partly to better yields and partly to an increase In acreage. CASTLE DALE More than 90 per cent of the coal mined In Utah has come from Carbon county and the northern part of Emery county. The coal from this area is a high-graded bituminous, carrying from over 12,000 to nearly 14,000 British thermal units on an air-dried basis. PROVO Six of Utah's chief fruit crops were worth in 1927 about 52,-600,000; 52,-600,000; they were apples, peaches, pears, cherr'es, grapes and strawberries. strawber-ries. Many peach and cherry trees are being planted and the production of trees in years to come is expected to be much larger than at present. RICHFIELD Forty-five carloads of spring lambs wire shipped out of the Sevier valley recently, destined for Colorado and middle-western feed lots. The lambs were purchased by Oscar Clawson for the Rogers Livestock: company com-pany of Ogden and were loaded at Marysvale, Elsinore, Sigurd, balina and Gunnison. More than 10,000 head were entrained. PRICE District Agricultural Agent J B. Jewkes reports lavcrable analyses anal-yses of the meat samples he took from various meat markets in Carbon eoun-ty eoun-ty and sent to the state chemist, Herman Her-man Harms, at Salt Lake City lor analyses. The meats were found to ba In an excellent state of preservation and fresh, conforming with the law Jn every respect. MILFORD Beacon lights that can be seen forty miles are being placed on fifty-one foot towers, at intervals of three miles, under the direction of C. E. Krause of the department of commerce. Twenty-stx border lights surround the Milford airfield. The first of the beacons will be located one-half mile from the high school building, on the uplands west of Mil-lord. Mil-lord. LEHI In payments for beets delivered de-livered to the factories of the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho company in November, mora than $1,200,000 will be distributed to farmers on December 15, It was announced an-nounced recently by sugar company officials here. With previous payments pay-ments of $3,560,000, this will make a total of $4,800,000 received by sugar beet raisers this year, compared with $4,100,000 in 1927. SALT LAKE In an effort to eliminate eli-minate the overproduction oi potatoes, a reduction in the country's potato acreage next year of between 10 and 20 per cent will be urged by a national nation-al potato committee appointed at tha national potato conference, held re- j cently In Chicago, according to W. J. j Martin, assistant supervisor of agrl-cultura agrl-cultura for the Union Pacific system, who has returned from attending the conference. PROVO The Provo chamber ol commerce committee which is acting as a sort of fact-finding commission to determine a basis for outlining po- ' licy and action with reference to the proposed utility milk products plant for Utah and Wasatch counties, heard ,' the other side of the question recent- ly. Representatives of various cream- j eries, and similar manufacturing rlants at present operating in the I county wore present a hearing at the chamber. j PRICE Price city's history over . the yecrs from the time when there was only one cabin here, until the present time, will be assembled and , preserved, according to a decision ot ; the Price city council at its regular ; meeting recently. Ernest S. Horsley, deputy county clerk, has been chosen to bring the history of Price from 1S7S ! until the present time, and the stu- -dents of the Carbon county high school i will, through a special class, continue with it annually. SALT LAKE Carrying IMS pounds J of mail, 22 pounds of express and three 1 passengers, the trimotorc-d Fokker monoplane of the Western Air Ex- . press lanrlr d at Airport recently from Lon Angeka to set a new load record for that line. Fred Kelly and Jack I Laas piloted the big ship. Other lines i ail handled large loads. The Boeing 1 easlbound i.iail weighted .006 pounds j and required two ot tha smaller, single-motored planes to carry it out. i Henry G. IJoonstra and Norman YV. Potter piloted the ships. I PROVO Eids were opened recent-' ly by the county commissioners for . the furnishing: and installation of' equipni.rt at the new I'lah county j:.il on Wr-H Center street. liep.-s sei.ia- j tives oT five c meeting concerns were j prr?rn:. 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