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Show t News Notes t It's a Frivilege to Live In UTAH ! - MAGNA Within fifty miles of Salt Lake are grouped the smelters, which together comprise the largest nonfer-rous nonfer-rous smelting center in the World. PARK CITY It is estimated Utah has enough coal to supply the entire United States at the present rate of consumption, for 250 years. MORGAN The largest pea packing plant in the world is located in Utah and has packed 24,623 cases in a single day. Utah fruits and vegetables have e national reputation for quality. HEBER Preparations for the annual an-nual Wasatch county livestock show are under way. Final reorganization and committee appointments have been made and dates for the show definitely de-finitely booked for August 22 and 23. UTAH There are 210 known minerals min-erals in Utah, metallic and nonmetal-lic. nonmetal-lic. Only a very small percentage of the state's mineral wealth has been developed to date, but innovations are constantly being made and new wealth discovered. AMERICAN FORK Chicken was "a la king" at American Fork recently recent-ly from daybreak, when salutes ushered usher-ed in the third annual Poultry Founders' Found-ers' day until the last strains of the dance died away near midnight. The lowly hen and the crowing rooiter were personified by almost everyone In town. All visitors were given red ; paper hats resembling the rooster's comb and children, disguised as all sorts of fowl, roamed the streets dur-the dur-the day. SPRINGVILLE Early peas are now being canned under new management ! at the Sprlngville Canning company, i The regular run on late peas starts j next week. Only light runs have been ; made so far. A good crop is expected from the 300 acres contracted, ac-I ac-I cording to Manager W. R. Eddington, I despite heavy raino in this section. ! The run on peas will be followed by - string beans and tomatoes, while I sauerkraut will be canned in the local lo-cal plant for the first time, j RICHFIELD Results of the cam-' cam-' p.-iign conducted by S. R. Koswell, ; county agricultural agent, against tho i use of butter substitutes in Sevier : county are gratifying. Between Feh-I Feh-I rti.iry 13 and May 15, lectures, dem-I dem-I onstratior.s, contests in essays, post-I post-I er3 and slogans were conducted I throughout tho county and in the j schools. Circular letters were sent to ; dairymen. Since the campaign, 23 ! s'ores have pledged not to sell butter substitutes. j OGDEN Canning crops of Weber ; and Davis counties were damaged by ' tho severe wind und hail storms recently re-cently to a much greater extent thn 1 climated, according to uffieers ot three canning companies as they launched the pea-canning season. 11. L. Herrlngton, president and general manager of the Utah Canning company, com-pany, said his concern lost from ii to PO per rent of Its contracted pea crop, about 60 per cent of the contracted con-tracted string bean crop and 40 per cent of the tomato pack. VERNAL Good crops and an abundance of water, w ith sheep In bet-1 bet-1 ter condition that at the early part of the season will Insure a good yoor for the Uintah basin. Harden Bcnnlon, state comlssloner of agriculture, reported re-ported recently upon his return from Duchesne and Uintah counties. Work Is progressing on the roads in that section, sec-tion, the commissioner reports, adding that he thought an excellent highway high-way would bo finished to the stato bounilry on tho Victory highway within with-in a year. MYTON Duty of water of 2.GU acre-feet per nrro for the Irrigation season from May 1 to Septcmcber 50 has been fixed for tli's year by tho water commission named by Judge Tillman 1). Johnson of the United Status district court In Salt Lake ns affecting water rb'.hts on land in the Uintah basin. The schedule has been worked oat by Horace W. Sluley, water commissioner for tho basin; Tom C. Guyn, project engineer for the Uintah Irrigation project, and II. O. Colton. Jr., representing the m cis. SALT LAKE The business of (-.hearing sheep has become such a fine art that there has arisen n feeling that , something should bo done to ascertain ascer-tain who Is the "champion sheep shearer ot the United States." Tho ' Falls. Mont., chamber ot commerce ' has Issued n loud call to the hundreds of men who manipulate tho clippers on the millions of sheep In the west to gather there July 10 and 11 and compete com-pete for this honor, as well as for ' numerous rash awards. Tills will be 'iho first national contest of this kind ' aver I'.taged. OGDEN Utah's two largest cherry producing counties -Davis and Weber ! - will have a crop ranging from 3:1 to 10 per cent less than the noi mal crop. I. E. Hall, manager of Iho Hen I.o-liond I.o-liond orchard, est limited reconlly. Tha terrific, wind and hailstorm which 1 1 in It (ho northern part of the stale I week iii'.ii, did considerable damage, Vliln lidded to the losses suffered by 'ate frosts. It Is oxpet ted the canting can-ting companies will pay 7 or S cenls I pound for tho t top this b ar, slightly slight-ly higher than In prevlors seasons, Tho growers will begin hurvevtiun in iboul ten days. |