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Show News Notes I It's a Fr'wilege to Live In UTAH ?? PLEASANT GROVE Utah's strawberry straw-berry crop was worth $336,000 in 1928 and $226,000 in 1924; an increase of $110,000 in four years. UTAH Barley in Utah in 1928 yielded more per acre than in any other state. Utah's average was 4? bushels per acre. The United State3 average was 28.5. HEBER CITT The yield of tame hay per acre in Utah in 1928 was 2.-46 2.-46 tons, being exceeded by the yields In only four other states. The United States average was 1.61 tons. MORGAN Sntp beans in the amount of 2400 tons were sold by Utah farmers to canning factories for a total of $140,000 in 1928. Four years ago only 1000 tons were canned and $50,000 was paid for them. DUCHESNE Seasonable temperatures tempera-tures and dry weather have resulted in great improvement in canyon roads and summit crosings, according to the bulletin of the state road commission issued recently. Heber to Fruitland is open to all traffic. MYTON Lyle Young of Myton, who has supervision of distrib tion of water from the.-Taylor ditch, on the South Myton bench and for Pleasant Valley, reports the canal in good shape and water now running in sufficient suf-ficient cjuantitie3 to meet the demands for culinary .purposes. CASTLE DALE Emery eounty commissioners have appropriated $1875 I for graveling the" Piies Peak-Ocean to Ocean hfghway between Huntington and the Carbon-Emery county line, ;he project now being 60 per cent complete. com-plete. An appropriation of $780 was bridge over a wash, west of Green also made for the construction of a River, on the state road. SALLN'A Salina canyon, famous smong western highways as the only road that crosses a railroad track 17 times in 20 miles of its winding :ourse, is reported to be in fine shape and cars are coming through from Price and Emery counties without any delay. This road Is or.e of the' main connecting links in s mthern Utah's highway system and many travelers are now using this road in their journeys between eastern and louthern Utah points. KAYSVILLE Utah's 1929 onion acreage is expected to load that of 1928 by 100 acres, the late-crop onion acreage report issued recently by Frank Andrew?, federal' agricultural statistician, declare?. It is estimated that 1100 acres will be grown, compared com-pared with 1000 last year. Idaho acreage acre-age Is estimated at 1200, compared with 1000 in 192S, while the entire crop of late onions in the United States is expected to have an acreage of 53,070, compared with 46,470 In 192S, according to the figures. VERNAL Verne Caldwell of Meeker, Meek-er, ColoM professional hunter of big game and predatory animals, who has for two weeks been In the Brown's Park country on Pott creek, thirty miles northeast of Vernal, mnkintr a survey of the mountain lion situation, reports that he has found numerous carcasses of deer killed by marauders.' Mr. Caldwell states that for every caress car-ess found there are a hundred that re never found, because mountain lions very frequently drag their kills Into places positively inaccessible to men. TROVO Extraordinarily heavy snowfall during the past winter has delayed timber work and graiing in Wasatch national forest near Smith Fork, Ranger J. B. nnhn reported recently re-cently to E. C Shepard, forest supervisor. super-visor. Work is expected to be nearly a month late. Ranger H.ihn Mated there was a depth of 55 inches of snow May 1, compared to less than 24 inches inch-es on the same date last year. The water content of the snow is 14 inch-en. inch-en. Timber work started May 6 Ia;t year, but will not begin until June this year. 1IK11F.R CITY Substantial increase in Utah's ryo crop this year over bust but decreases in the winter wheat ami hay crops, are indicated in the May 1 crop forecast issued recently by Frank Andrews, federal statistician. Production of some 31,000 bushels of rye is predicted this year, compared with 24.HOO bushels in U2S; While it Is cslimn'ed that this year's wheat harvests will only reach 2,7t"0.00rt bushels ngninst S, 726, 000 last year. About 60,000 tons of hay are remaining remain-ing on Utah farms, compared with with 102,000 tons last, year. KIC'HI'II'.I.D Tourist travel has Increased In-creased during the past week. The local camp grounds had to fcini some cUslonicrs away recently. Colorado leads all states in westward travelers. California cars had those headed eastward. east-ward. Several cars have crowed the new Ctand Canyon bridr.o nt Fee's Ferry. This new gateway Into south-mi south-mi Utah is expected to increase the numbers of visitor. to tlrand canyon, .ion canyon, I'.ryee and Cedar Freaks. Becnuso of the shorter route, tunny will come that way wlm rue not just pleasure sec'seis of vacationists, it is predicted. |