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Show l News Notes ! It's a Privilege to Live In $ f UTAH SALT LAKE The value of products of Salt Lake manufacturing plants Increased In-creased from $32,5S9,100 In 1925 to 35,114,793 in 1927. LEH I Twenty-five cars will be required re-quired to handle Lehi's bumper crop, j of onions, which is now being har- j vested. One grower is expecting te load five cars. j SALT LAKE The Utah state fair j October 5 to 12, will exhibit livestock I eutrles representative of growers from coast to coast, Ernest S. Holmes, manager of the Utah State Fair association, as-sociation, announced recently. Polntj of shipments now listed range from Jacksonville, Fla., to the Kenwood Farms, California. OGDEN Recent rains have given aid to peach grower, according to crop observers, who assert that the storms have held back ripening and permitted more shipping and canning. Tomatoes, it was said, have been delayed de-layed too much. One canner intimated the tomato crop would be only one-fourth one-fourth what was anticipated at plani lng time. PLEASANT GROVE -The tomato Industry has met many obstacles in this section through this season. Frost nipped the early plants, but the replants bid fair to compensate the loss by their heavy blossoming and bearing. Now the crop is confronted with the late ripening, due to cold weather and rains of tho past week, I which will delay the harvesting until a later date than is considered safe t by the farmers. j ROOSEVELT Achievement day i for the 4-H clubs of Duchesne county was held In connection with the an-: an-: nual Uintah basin dairy show. A dls-. dls-. play was made by the L'mlco, Neola and Roosevelt clubs. Tho Roosevelt ' club won the community prize. The Misses Vera Hanson and Oral Mackay ', won In the contest and will go to Salt Lake City to contest at the Ctah state fair. Oral Mackay won the most prizes for her exhibits. UTAH Utah and Wyoming will both use white numerals on a black I background as the color scheme for j 1930 automobile license plates, ac- j cording to a survey received recently I from American Automobile associa- i tlon In Washington. Colors of plates In other western states are to be: Arizona, black on light gray; Cab I Ifornia, black on orange; Colorado, I deep yellow on black; Idaho, black on orange; Nevada, orange on black; j New Mexico, gold on black. UTAH Receipts from national forests In Utah netted the stale 51.- ' 2S7.05 during the fiscal year ended j June 30, reports received recently from ! the department of agriculture announced. an-nounced. The funds are to be used for roads and school purposes. Thirty ! states will receive more than 1.600,-! 1.600,-! 000 from tha federal government as . their share of the receipts from na- tlonal forests. Tho bulk of money j : earned by the forest Bervice comes 1 from grazing fees and timber Files. I PAYSON By the middle or the week the peach harvest of Payson will I be completed. Seventeen carloads I will have been shipped by that time, I 2300 bushels from the Pago orchard I and about 2000 from the Arthur Daley orchard. The remainder was made up by small growers. One outstanding outstand-ing fcaturo of this year's crop at Pay-; Pay-; son was the size and quality of tho ; peaches. Three carloads of prat lies that were shipped during hist week had a minimum measurement of 2 j 1-1 Inches. ! PROVO Trime shippers of tho ' county are having considerable) trou- bio In bringing their products up to ' tho required shipping rer.uirciiKnts, according to tha suto shipping point I Inspector, L. S. Fcnn, who visit od va-j va-j rlous prune orchards of the county recently. re-cently. The prunes are shin-cling on ! tho end. duo to bid; of sugar, nccoid-j nccoid-j lng to Dr. Fenn. This Is h:oc;.ht about i because of n cold spell Jest before the crop begun to ripen. More than 30 per cent of the crops are being culled In an effort to bring them up to grade. AMERICAN FORK Cauliflower growers of th's district met in tho city hall September 2(1, for the pur-j pur-j pono of forming an organization to aid them In securing the best prices : for their crops and for unity In raring ; for tho harvesting, grading, parking, nnd In taking cara of Hie different problems that may arise. The following fol-lowing officers were elected: Walter Devey, prcr-Meu! ; Hulnn Nlcho'.cs, secretary: James Tuttersol, treasurer, and Pen Brown, a fourth member, to I make a commltleo to form by-laws I to bo prer.enteil at the meeting to bo held next Monday nlht. PAYSON Tho first carload of cold pack Elherta peaches Is being put up by tho II. W. Jacobs company, tho first cold pack peuehe-i ever s'-.i;-;-" 1 front this vicinity. The cold pack j p.oeesM of handling strawberries Is used extendvely by this company. Tho peaches to he shipped to the New York markets for Christmas nro very flue grade, fully ripe, and are being packed : one third sugar to (wotiilnl.l iieaehes, nnd will lui packed In Ml cillon barrels bar-rels nnd fre7.en Into a solid mas:: before be-fore being shipped to tho cantoin nun lielu. |