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Show I News Notes'! J It'm a Privilege to Liva ir Utah j PAROWAX Pouring of concrete in the new $110,000 high school building build-ing at Parowan began recently. Excavating Ex-cavating work is nearly complete and work will progress rapidly during the spring months. The new hig i school building, with its large modern gymnasium, gym-nasium, will fill the long-felt neci for a new school building and a civic center cen-ter for Parowan. NEPHI "Southern California is an open market for all the surplus foodstuffs produced in Utah and surrounding sur-rounding states, but demands quality qual-ity goods," stated A. F. Bracken, su-perintedent su-perintedent of the experimental farm and professor of agronomy at the Utah Agricultural college, in his talk at the Kiwanas club luncheon at the Forrest hotel recently. SPANISH FORK Two teams of heavy horses from Provo each broke the state record recently in the horse-pulling horse-pulling contest at the fifth annual Utah County Livestock show, in progress pro-gress at Spanish Fork. The record was made on the dynamometer owned by the - Utah State fair, which has been used in all official tests in Utah of recent years. . It was in charge of George Henderson of the Utah Agricultural, Agri-cultural, college. ' PANGUITCH Low bid for the contract con-tract to construct 0.79 miles of graded earth highway in Kane county, between be-tween Mt. Carmel Junction and Kanab, was submitted by B. D. Pal-freyman Pal-freyman of Springville. bids were opened at the offices of the state road commission recently. Under this bid the total cost of the project would be $21,405.12, while the engineers of the commission estimated the total cost of approximately $22,814.88. SALT LAKE: The long continued cold weather of the past season has caused heavy winter losses among bee keepers particularly in the Salt Lake basin, according to reports received by D. H. Hillman, state inspector of apiaries. There have been only a few days since the first of the year that have been warm enough for the bees to take a "cleansing flight" and this has resulted in some losses while too light a packing has resulted in adding add-ing to these losses. PARK CITY High silver content ore has been struck in the Park City Consolidated company's property in the Park City district, according to an announcement made recently by J. J. Beeson, vice president and manager. The strike was made 15 feet above the present bottom of the 270-foot shaft and below the Roosevelt tunnel. A 4 -foot vein was exposed. The vein when first cut showed 3 to 4 inches of ore, which gradually widened to 16 inches at the shaft's bottom. BRIGHAM CITY The board of governors of the local chamber of commerce has appointed a special committee com-mittee consisting of Claud Sloey, J. Leo Nelson and George A. Anderson to plan a campaign of encouragement of sugar beet acreage. A sheet of condensed information about the beet and sugar industry has been compiled and distributed to all merchants and business men that they may be advised and discuss the importance of sustaining sustain-ing and maintaining the sugar factory in the community. |