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Show News Notes : X It's a Privilege to Live in X Utah ! SALT LAKE Mr. Peters succeeds Major R. Y. Stuart who on May 1 took over his duties as Chief Forester. Mr. Peters has been connected with the public relations work of the Forest Service for many years. He is the principal prin-cipal authority of the Service on State forestry policies, and more than any other man has been instrumental in bringing about the adoption of progressive progres-sive forestry policies and the development develop-ment of forestry activities in the States. It is our aim to lend our aid to a mutual program in cooperation with them looking toward the protection protec-tion and reforestation of all forest lands which are best suited to the production pro-duction of forest crops. Forestry has made notable progress in the States in the past few years. The Forest Service is now cooperating in one or 1 more phases ot forestry activity with forty-five States. OGDEN The county farm bureau predicted recently that Weber county will harvest the heaviest strawberry cop on record here June 1. PANGUITCH Local shearing plant in charge of Thomas Haycock began 'operation recently with a small force of shearers. It is planned to handle, small farm herds until full capacity of the plant is reached. The usual run with the ten clippers being operated op-erated is fifteen days, with 1000 sheep handled each day. TOOELE While stockmen and farmers are grateful for the heavy showers which pevailed over the entire en-tire state recently they now would appreciate a bit of warm weather, according to J. Cecil Alter, local weather wea-ther man. The rains have been beneficial, ben-eficial, but higher mercury readings will heighten the good work of the elements, Meteorologist Alter says. OGDEN Funds in the amount of $42,000 will be used for improvements, administration and protection in 1928 on the Ashley national forest which comprises five ranger districts and totals to-tals approximately 1,000,000 acres. This will include expenditures for the maintenance and construction of roads, trails, buildings, telephone lines and other improvements, for special timber tim-ber and range surveys, general administration admin-istration and fire and insect control. PANGUITCH Bryce canyon, queen of America's fairylands, will welcome tourists formally on June 1. With its same old lure for lovers of form and color, the fact the Bryce is now a national na-tional park will add popularity and important to the canyon proper and include in-clude in the park boundaries many interesting in-teresting and unique side trips for the tourist. SALT LAKE Utah wool production produc-tion this year will total approximately 22,000,000 pounds, an increase of 3,-000,000 3,-000,000 pounds over last year, according accord-ing to government figures received recently by James A. Hooper, secretary secre-tary of the Utah State Wool Growers' association. The increase is due to the retention of ewe lambs in the state and the improvement in the condition of the flocks, Hooper declared. Estimated Esti-mated wool production throughout the United States will be increased about 10 per cent over last year. OGDEN J. D. (Jeddy) Jones oi Jones Brothers' Flouring Mill and Elevator Ele-vator company of Malad, Idaho, was in the city today, the guest of Eugene R. Alton of the Globe mills. Mr. Jones reported that the winter wheat outlook out-look in the Malad district is the brightest in ten years, being even bet ter than last year, which was a banner ban-ner season. It is estimated by . Mr. Jones that this y ears crop will exceed that of last year by one-third. HEBER Distribution of more than a ton of poisoned oats last year seems to have been most effective in destroying destroy-ing of ground squirrels in Wasatch county. From all over in the county come reports that the rodents are less than half as numerous as a year ago, and farmers are evidencing a desire to follow up this advantage by distributing dis-tributing poisoned bait again this year. The Ag. club boys of the high school have accounted for nearly a thousand sqirrels this year with small caliber rifles in their annual hunting contest. MYTON -Myton and this portion of the basin was visited With a good '. rain recently, which land the dust in good shape and will prove very beneficial bene-ficial to growing vegetation. Indications Indi-cations point to the fact that it was quite general all over this part of the state. The outlook is promising for additional moisture. LOGAN W. J. Funk, state road supervisor su-pervisor for Cache county, announced that the Logan canyon road to Bear Lake is now open for traffic. Recent storms, however, have made the road somewhat muddy. The gravel ; and oiling of the canyon road east of j Center street, will commence immedi- I ately, Mr. Funk has announced. TREMONTON The rainfall which fell recently was looked upon as a godsend god-send by sugar been and grain growers of Bear River valley, coming in the nick of time to save the crops, which had been threatened by the long drought. The early sprouting of the sugar beets and grain, up to about three weeks ago, gave promise of bumper crops, but the succeeding dry spell and the devastating dry winds which have swept the valley, aggravated aggra-vated by several days of extremely hot weather, had a tendency to aggravate aggra-vate the aituation. |
