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Show News Notes It ' a Privilege to Live In UTAH i MOAQ Radioactive ores are found la Grand, Sau Juan, Kmory and Wayne counties of Utah. DUCHESNE In the) Ulntuh Basin It is eHtlinatftd that there are !i2, 109.000,000 tons of olI-produclnR bhalu. PLEASANT GROVE The 570,-000 570,-000 bushels of commercial apples produced In Utah In 1928 brought an average revenue to farmers of 7G cents per huHheL BRIGHAM CITY R. V. Call aad A. D. Cooley of Ilrlgham City pucked and loaded 2IJ00 dressed turkeys, recently for shipment to markets In Philadelphia. The birds are of excellent size and In splendid splen-did condition for the Thanksgiving markoL VERNAL After many deUiys construction work on Improvement of the road leading north from the Dsughboy monument has been slarted on the Initial half mile iretch. Vernal city has appropriated appropri-ated $750 fo.- this work, Uintah county an equal Bum, and the state road commission has matched the total, making $.'J000 available. BRIGHAM CITY Farmers living In the vicinity of Brigham City and the eastern part of the county have been bringing In truckloads of dressed turkeys to be shipped to the markets for Thanksgiving by the Utah Egg & Foultry Producers', association, headquarters having boen established In the Dunn building build-ing on North Main street In this city. PROVO The first carls. d of carp from Utah lake to go to New York City markets, was shipped from this city Thursday by George lladsen of Provo. The fish average from three to 15 pounds and bring about 12 cents a pound. The entire en-tire carload, seined from the local lake, will weigh about 12 tons. They are packed in iced boxes and are shipped in a refrigerator car of the American Express company. LEHI Sugar beets and corn are Vtah'3 bumper crop3 for 1929, the production of both exceeding that of last year Ly substantial margins, according to the monthly crop report re-port released by Frank Andrews, t"nited States agricultural statistician statisti-cian at Salt Lake. The sugar beet crop is now estimated at CS2.000 tons, compared with 637,000 tons In 1928, and a five-years average of 75S.000 tons. HEBER CITY Mr. Andrews' report re-port estimates tho corn crop for 1929 at 660.000 bushels, compared with 522,000 a year ago and a five-year average of 490,000. The potato crop Is slightly below that mates, and will total 3,145,000 in 192S, and a five-year average of 2.5SS.000. Mr. Anderson pointed cut that although the total production produc-tion is slightly smaller this year, the per-acre yield is higher. SALT LAKE Gasoline tr collections col-lections for the month of September Septem-ber totaled $190,026.04, an Increase over the corresponding month of last year of $23,533.96, It is shown In the monthly report issued by the secretary of state's office. Collec- tlons from January 1 to September SO this year have amounted to $1,-4SS.0S9.S7, $1,-4SS.0S9.S7, while those for the corresponding cor-responding months in 1928 were $1,2SS,S19.26, or an increase this year of $199,270.61. PRICE Eleven cars of potatoes have been shipped from Price to marketing centers in Pueblo, Denver, Den-ver, St Louis and Des Moines, according ac-cording to J. B. Hawkes, crop inspector in-spector for Carbpu county. Three of the cars contained potatoes grown In Emery county. The entire en-tire shipment carried a rating of United States No. 1, and were graded under the supervision of Mr. Jewkes and H. V. Swenson, district ! agricultural agent at Provo. SAN FRANCISCO Oregon repre-gon, repre-gon, represented by Frank Brown & Sons, Carlton, Ore., took the grand championship with an exhibit exhi-bit of fifty Southdown lambs in the fat Iamb carload competition here today at the second annual California livestock and baby beet show. Second place went to the Wood Livestock company of Spen- j ccr, Idaho, with a load of Hampshire Hamp-shire lambs and third place was won by Metzger & Caughn of Dixon, Calif., with u load of Southdowns. s i Red Cross, America's aid ia every time o need. Your membership mem-bership makes Ked Cross Service Ser-vice possible. Join the Red ' Cross roll call, November 11 to j November 2Sth. i VERNAL Movement of alfalfa seed crop '.. slow in Utah this year, due largely to the fact that Utah growers are unwilling to dispose dis-pose of their produce at prevailing prices, it was announced recently by the United States bureau of agriculture ag-riculture ecconomics. The bureau j also declares that the crop is mov-j mov-j ing rather slowly in all parts of the I country. About 60 per cent of the ! total crop had moved by Octobei ! 13, against 60 pci cent on the same da id in 192S. Prices average $16.75 ! cr average of $18.50 for last year I |