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Show i News Notes , X J It ' a Privilege to Live in RICHMOND Approximately 2000 people of Utah and Idaho attended the thirteenth annual black and white day at Richmond, where 190 head of cattle were exhibited and competed for many premiums. The cattle were on the grounds at 9:30 a. m. and the judging conducted by Professors George B. Caine of the Utah Agricultural college col-lege and C. Y. Cannon of the Brigham Young university followed one hour later. OGDEN Representing- that nomadic no-madic bands of sheep are depriving stockmen of their ranges southwest of Ely, Nev., a petition has been received at the Ogden office of the forest service serv-ice requesting that approximately 1,-400,000 1,-400,000 acres be added to the Quinn canyon and White Pine dsitricts of the Nevada national forest. The petition is signed by more than 200 persons comprising stockmen, mining men and business men and also is supported by the White Pine chamber of mines and commerce. ' PRICE Price is the shipping point for the largest shipment of wool from any one railroad station ever sent out of Utah, in the opinion of railroad officials of-ficials here. More than 225,000 fleeces and in the neighborhood of seventy-five seventy-five carloads of wool will be shipped out of this city between now and June 10, according to contracts now on file with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Rail-road company at this place. MYTON C. P. Wallinson, proprietor propri-etor of the Upalco flour mill in Myton, views the outlook relative to the acreage acre-age of wheat planted in this portion of the basin in an optimistic vein. Indications Indi-cations point to the fact that the season sea-son of 1928 will surpass any other in the years gone by in this region. In order to meet local- demands for. flour during the past season, it was necessary neces-sary for Mr. Wattenson to purchase a large quantity of wheat in Ashley valley. val-ley. Barley and oats have also been sown to a considerable extent this year. MANTI Shearing started at the Fayette shearing corral, where most . of the sheep that are owned in this, section are sheared. Small flocks that have wintered in close vicinity are being be-ing shorn on the farms. Sheepmen of this city have been driving their herds in from the west desert lands to the land in the proximity of the shearing corral, preparatory for shearing and for the lambing season. The report that the sheep ae in a thriving conditions, condi-tions, both as to flesh and wool. Losses have been reasonably low during the past winter. PANGUITCH Belief for the congested con-gested condition at the Hatchtown hatchery came when the specially built state truck and two attendants arrived ar-rived and began moving the finger-lings finger-lings to Panguitch lake. The attendants attend-ants spent three days moving the fish they then returned to Richfield as witnesses wit-nesses in a case of pheasant shooting. VERNAL The Utah Private Truckers' Truck-ers' association has been added to the freight and express transportation facilities fa-cilities between Uintah basin points and the railway. The new venture is comprised of 30 members various towns being represented, and the articles ar-ticles of incorporation state that it is organized for mutual benefit, this to include road maintenance, protection of rights and interests of truckers, promotion of legislation favorable to trucking operations and efficiency of service. PROVO Since 1905 the wealth bringing powers of manufactured products in the state of Utah have increased in-creased over 500 per cent. MYTON Farmers of Pleasant Valley Val-ley are rejoicing that water has been available for culinary and irrigation purposes. This is the same project that furnishes water for the south Myton My-ton bench, which the Uintah Basin Construction company completed under un-der the supervision of S. Y. Taylor of Salt Lake. EPHRAIM Ephraim Lions are supporting the city of Moroni in its endeavor to have an appropriation made to build a state highway to the beautiful Maple canyon west of Moroni. Mo-roni. This canyon has been recommended recom-mended by Governor Dem and others for a state park, but no appropriation has been made. BOUNTIFUL Bountiful city has just completed constuction of a tunnel on the city farm east of the city to obtain water for 'culinary purposes at a cost of $4500. The pipe line more than 1000 feet long consisting of 650 feet of tunnel work and 400 feet of drain, starts from the surface and' runs east to the depth of seventy-five feet from the surface, making it so deep that the flow, it is believed, will not be affected by the seasons. The water is the purest mountain water which drains from the mouth of Ward canyon. Farmers on the bench parallel par-allel get their water supply by similar drains. SALT LAKE Utah poultry brought $2,500,000 into the state last year, Clyde C. Edmonds declared at the recent re-cent membership luncheon of the chamber of commerce. Mr. Edmonds, general manager of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative association, spoke on behald of the local observance of National Egg week, which began Tuesday of last week. SALT LAKE With 20,000,000 pounds of wool produced annually Utah has only one woolen mill in op-iration. |