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Show News Notes j X It' a Privilege to Liv in i Utah j TOOELE With twenty-three -working properties. Tooele county ranks third in the state in number of producing pro-ducing mineral mines. It also ranks high in the livestock industry. VERNAL Uintah county is second In the state in production of alfalfa seed, producing 33,333 bushels in 1927, and third in corn, with a crop of 57,000 bushels in 1927. SALT LAKE Producing 52,099,-257 52,099,-257 pounds in 1927, Utah county ranks second in the state in production ol lead. It is first in alfalfa hay, apples, honey, peaches, pears, spring wheat and cattle. HEBER CITY Wasatch county produced pro-duced $7,650,151 -worth of minerM in 1927. 'It ranks second in volume of ore treated, second in minerals produced, second in gold, silver and zinc, and third in copper and lead. COALVILLE Summit county's eight -working mines in 1927 produced $5,371,264 worth ot minerals and $135,-901 $135,-901 -worth of coal. The county ranks third in tons of ore treater, third in production of zinc and third in production produc-tion of coal. RICHFIELD The beet sugar harvest har-vest of Sevier valley is about half over, according to officials of the Utah-Waho Sugar company's plant at Elsinore. The beet factory will start slicing beets for the vats soon and expects to run continuously for a period of from four to five weeks. OGDEN Dell Adams of I.ayton, Utah, stopped off here on hi way home from a hunting' trip and displayed dis-played a deer, a mountain sheep and a mountain- goat, which he bagged on the middle fork of the Salmon river. His companions on the trip were A. M. Johnson of Avon and Billy Wilson, an Idaho guide. Each of these also shot a deer, a sheep and a goat. PROVO Rats are again overruning Utah county and doing untold damage, while farmers are reluctant to take any measures to eradicate them, according ac-cording to agricultural officials here. W. J. Thayne, county agricultural agent; Grover Clyde and H. V. Swen-son, Swen-son, district agricultural inspectors, all said recently that thousands of the rodents were extant. BOISE Idaho daries increased the output of ever product but casein during dur-ing the first six months of 1928, George N. Tucker, state director of dairying, reports. The production of commercial commer-cial butterfat was 12,397,059 pounds, compared with 11,863,034 pounds during dur-ing the same period last year and brought in $5,502,300, compared with $5,287,468 last year, an increase ol $214,202. PLEASANT GROVE Purchase of 125,000 bushels of apples has been completed by the Pleasant Grove Canning Can-ning company. The company just completed a large run of canned tomatoes toma-toes and shipped 5,000 cases to one eastern purchaser. Good crops of strawberries, cherries, beans, squash, apricots and peaches have also been handled this season. The run on apples started this week and will continue con-tinue until February. SPANISH FORK Comb honey producers pro-ducers of this district recently chipped to Jonesville, N. C, one carload ol 148S cases of comb honey of the fancy and first-class grade. The shipment was made by the Stewart brothers, Arthur and Albert Stewart, and Lew Jones, Selling with them were the Rev. Theodore Lee and a number of small producers. The honey crop was far below average in quantity this year, but of excellent quality. SALT LAKE Twenty federal aid highway projects, costing $1,5S0,000, were in various stages of contruction in Utah on October 20, it is shown by a report issued at the offices of the state road commission recently. Five of these were better than 95 per cent completed, five were more than 80 per cent finished, and only seven were under 50 per cent completed. Of the seven, two have been placed under contract only recently. GUNNISON S h i p m e n t s will amount to 120 carloads of cauliflower and 30 of cabbage, the product coming from the fields in the Westview district dis-trict that has found its way to the markets mar-kets from Gunnison, according to L. E. Hancock, representing Smith and Hancock, wholesale merchants of Salt Lake, handling the products. Seven carloads have been shipped in the last week, making a total of last year at the same time. LOGAN Plans for a big celebration celebra-tion in recognition of the opening of the Western Milk company's new $250,000 condensory at Weilsville are complete, according to F. P. Champ, a director of the plant. The celebration, celebra-tion, which is being sponsored by the Vvellsville chamber of commerce, is expected to attract citizens from prac- Vt"7 eVCTy town in Cache valley-A valley-A half holiday has been declared by the town ot Weilsville for Saturday, November 3. |