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Show 1 Mews Notes j 2 f ' a Privilege to Liv in I Utah I SALT LAKE Air passenger service through Salt Lake has increased to Buch extent that the Western Air Express Ex-press has installed 6 new large passenger pas-senger planes on the route to Los Angeles this year. j HYRUM Retail trade in Utah aud ! southern Idaho is showing substantial increases each month. During Janu- : ary, 1920, the section reported an increase in-crease o 14.4 per c-mt over the same j month in WIS. j ESCALANTE Arrangements are ; bsing completed here for a big rab- j bit and sparrow hunt. The rabbit ! drive is to begin this week and is to j be continued for several days. It is i hoped to cl:ar the district of the rab- j bit pest, which appears to be grow- i ing. A contest has been arranged be- : tween the North and South wards. I SALT LAKE The largest crowd ' yet to witness a skiing event in the j state saw young Kalmar Andreasen j jump SS feet and break the Utah re- i cord of 86 feet recently on Rasmus- I sen's Parley's canyon ranch, in the j Norwegian-American Athletic club's i annual skiing tournament. The old ' record was made eight years ago by . Axel Andreasen. j GUNNISON Dairy farmers of the ! valley, Including several of Sevier 1 county, met at the Gunnison Valley I high school recently to organize a i dairy association. O. L. Malmgren ! was temporary chairman. H. A. ' Matliiesen, federal specialist in cow- ! testing work in the western dairy di- vision; C. O. Stott, Sanpete county I agent, and S. R. Boswell, Sevier coun- I ty were officers in attendance. j LOGAN During the month of Janu- ary, there were 335 cows milking aud j 63 dry in the Richmond-Lewistcn Dairy Herd Improvement association, j according to the report of Le Roi i Kelson, tester. The average milk production pro-duction per cow was 855.1 pounds, as ! compared with 816.2 pound3 for ; December. The average butterfat production pro-duction per coa was 29.03 pounds, compared with 29.46 pounds for the preceding period. PROVO Two committees from i M?rleton and Lehi waited on the ! Ut:.h county commissioners recently j In regard to read matters in their re- apective communities. A petition ask- j ing for the improvement of the road j on the north side of Mapleton was ! presented by the Mapleton delegation. I The matter was taken under advise- j menL The commission appropriated i $100 for the completion of the road at Lake Shore. SALT LAKE Provision for the con- ; Btruction and maintenance of live- -stock high'.vays is contained in a bill introduced in the senata recently by j Senator R. J. Evans. The bill em- powers the state road commission, the . B'ate board of agriculture, county ' commissioners, city commissions, city councils and town beards to design- I ate, survey, build, protect and mam- ; tain these highways, to purchaaa the right of way therefor aud to spend j the necessary money for the carry- ing out of the purpr-es of this but. I DUCHESNE According to prestnt plans of the state road commission, ,' road3 In the Uintah basin will be greatly improved during this coming ' Bummer. Bios have been asked for ; the construction of four bridges. Two of these bridges are over the Duchesne river, east of Duchosne, to connect with the completed project at Antelope, Ante-lope, and the other two are on the Duchesne to Fruitiand roato over llv' creek and wash. The bridge over Red creek will be more than twenty foet above the surface of the vater. RANDOLPH Heavy losses of wiM fowl are beig suffered In the slough area near Laltetown in Rich county, uncording to advices received recent ly by the state fish and game department. depart-ment. This area has never been known to freeze up before as solitih aa It has this yea'. The e::cos:;ivt and continued cold weather, however bas closed up the grounds and Hit ducks are starving to dc-i'.h. Scrm feed wlU be shipped into the district by the department to tide the ducks over until the weather breaks. OGOEN It Is announced from the district forest office here that tnony rnous ca:ih prizes of JIOOO and i'i'ji). respectively will be awarded through ' the Society of American I'orr sters for esr.ayn describing the present forestry . situation in the United ttates, and pro.'.OBlng a m-.tlon-wldn remedy for JU solution. The scope of tin e::::;ys nub nitUd should be to v.uwy.l a plan for the forest situation that will solve i (he problem of a permanent tml v.t-fiol.nt v.t-fiol.nt Kiippiy of forest produclM. Km-n;:y- muBt riot be over 3000 wo.vla In len-:.h and must In l;ned on tin actual ac-tual situation in the United Siuten. CEu-". CITY I'lann are now rapid-ly rapid-ly lal'in': r.hapo for tin I'sUlm: of the i-.;nniliiiiir; contracts! for compbtion or t'n Keetlon of tin X.lon Mt. C.nincl h'-liway In 7.n National park, aooniil-in; aooniil-in; to K. T. Hcoyoti, wiuoriiiloii'lent. ;,,- .';...,; :ii bar Jruit rc.1 iiru'iil from (i -.I-ii, win-re lie ooiirnrn'l with li. J. t'inrli. ittlr!t nii'iri'-er, Cn'ti-d i',l.aten Inie-.'i of pubic roa'l-i, who inforined 1,1-n that plans for tin two lirlil!'-ii, wn an 4 Hi') Virgin river and tin ,'b'-r wi.m I'll!'! creek, ore now pi I'-.ttly complete uii'J ready la aub-Ii, aub-Ii, It for bkU. |
