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Show I News Notes X ' a Privilege to Live in j I Utah I MURRAY Farmers of this section are now harvesting their 150 acres of string beans which are being handled by the reconstructed Twin Peaks branch of the Rocky Mountain Packing Pack-ing corporation. SALT LAKE Albert Ernest Bowen of the Salt Lake law firm of Clark, Richards & Bowen was elected president presi-dent of the State Bar Association of Utah at the annual meeting at the Hotel Utah. He succeeds Richard W. Young. SALT LAKE Leaving the ground almost as lightly as a bird taking" wing, the huge Fokker plane of the National Parks Airways, Inc., took off from Municipal Airport with 425 lbs. of mail in nine sacks, the first consignment con-signment bound for Great Falls, Mont., and intermediate points. IBAPAH Arrest of four Indians resulted from recent trouble on the Goshute reservation at Deep Creek, near Ibapah, which caused the agent L. E. Brigance, to send a call for help to Salt Lake. The Indians arrested are accused of conspiracy to attack Agent Brigance. SALT LAKE Large crops throughout through-out the country have caused overproduction overpro-duction of fruits and vegetables, according ac-cording to R. R. Mitchell, of Omaha, freight traffic manager of the Union Pacific system, who arrived to confer with local officials and shippers. "The situation is not alarming however, because be-cause I think it will work itself out satisfactorily." he said. OGDEN Franchise for the laying of mains in Weber county for the piping of natural gas to Utah from Wyoming fields, was granted by Weber We-ber county commission, to Ohio Oil Company interests. The voting was unanimous. The franchise is for 60 years and will become effective on Aug. 18, after legal publications. OGDEN A 10,000 gallon high pressure pres-sure steel water tank on top of the three-story Sterling Furniture and Carpet company building burst with a tremendous report and the resulting flood wrought havoc to the building and contents. M"ore than $25,000 worth of new furniture had just been installed preparatory to opening the store in two or three days. LOGAN W. J. Funk, state road supervisor in Cache county reports the work of laying concrete on the state highway, north of Richmond to the Idaho state, line as progressing well. Nearly half of the concrete has been laid with between 700 and 800 feet being placed daily. The paving has been laid from the Idaho line on the north to the brow of the Spring Crek hill. PRO VO Utah ranks fifth in the United States for wool production, according ac-cording to a report issued by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician for the United States department of agriculture. agri-culture. . The 1928 wool clip is estimated esti-mated at 22,072,000 pounds, as compared com-pared with 19,975,000 pounds last year. United States totals indicate 296,114,-000 296,114,-000 pounds of wool for the 1928 season. sea-son. OGDEN Action to be taken with respect to a large number of fish being be-ing killed, supposedly by seepage from the pea viner of the Utah Packing corporation near Huntsville, has been turned over to State Fish and Game Commissioner J. Arthur Meacham, who will make an exhaustive examination, examin-ation, with the aid of W. H. Anderson, warden, and officers of the Weber County Fish and Game Protective association. SAIT LAKE The Salt Lake City tax levy of 5.46 mills for the contingent conting-ent fund is just .46 mills to high, according ac-cording to the decision of the state board of equalization and assessment, and unless it is reduced, action will be instituted in the district court through the county attorney to have the levy set aside. This decision was reached after the board had considered the subject carefully. The city was at once notified that the levy is in excess of the amount permitted by law. LOGAN The Utah Poower and Light company applied to the state public utilities commission for a temporary tem-porary order to put into effect a five-cent five-cent a killowatt hour rate in Logan City to meet the new rate now given by the Logan City municipal power plant. Permission is asked pending the outcome of the rehearing before the supreme court on the controversy between the power company and Logan Lo-gan City over power rates. CEDAR CITY Live stock in Iron county is being hit badly by poisoning and flockmasters and herders herd-ers are alarmed over conditions. The state agricultural department is advised ad-vised by District Agricultural Inspector In-spector John E. Blazzard, that a very serious stock poisoning plant known as the whorled milkweed is rapidly gaining a foothold in that county, particularly par-ticularly in the suothern part of the -ounty, although it has appeared also i thr central and Cedar Bottoms vi- |
